Retrain Jobless Graduates?
Dec 19, 2008 Malaysia, Stupid Stuffs
Good job government! RM70millions to RETRAIN JOBLESS GRADUATE, especially their English. So how about those current undergraduates? Let them be, then 2, 3 years later, after they graduate and find no jobs, government approve another RM70millions grand to RETRAIN them again? In other countries, RETRAIN is normally for those lowly skilled workers or those with very low education. Retraining jobless graduates? Another Malaysia Boleh.
SHAH ALAM: The Government has approved a RM70mil grant to retrain 10,000 unemployed graduates, said Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam.
He said the grant would be used to train them in skills like communication, language and creative thinking.
“Some have good qualifications but their hurdle is language. So, we want to train them in English,” he said.
Annoying Creditcard Sellers
Dec 16, 2008 Ranting, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs
Yesterday lunch time, colleague and I went to an indoor foodcourt nearby my office. We were a bit late, so the lunch hour crowd was actually over.
I went for my favourite yong taufu while colleague bought economic rice. He got his food earlier than me, so he just grabbed a seat at one of the many empty tables.
When I was done and bringing my food over to the table, I saw someone, in rather smart attire, was actually sitting in front of my colleague. I thought that guy was a friend of my colleague. Only when I reached the table, then I realized that the guy was making sales pitch to my colleague, to sell Stxxxxxx Chaxxxxxx creditcard. I could sense that he enjoyed his sales pitch a lot. He was so enjoyed that he could not feel the unwillingness from my colleague’s eyes, and his voice. After talking all the benefits, it came the main point. The guy said my colleague could just register there and then 1st. Yeah, he sounded like we, or at least my colleague, Tang, was so desperate to own his card that Tang would actually sign it there and then. Come on, we were just there for LUNCH.
After a few “Nos” from Tang, the guy retreated, left our table. But, that was not the end. When we were having our food, the other salespersons kept coming over to our table. And, their first sentence was always “I’m not selling anything”. Hey look, use your brain, my yong taufu was in my mouth, while Tang was chewing his luncheon meat, you think we would fuck care you? Why chose such stupid timing to approach people? And yet keep telling people that “I’m not selling anything”. Yeah right, you are not, you are just asking people to sign up, register for a creditcard. I even heard the lady sitting beside us (who was with her boyfriend I suppose) told one of the salesguy that he was the 4th one (approaching them).
Maybe, today, if i go over there for lunch again, I shall bring along a piece of paper written “I don’t need creditcard” on it. Or I should just make it “Fuck off!”, easier for me.
Of cause, I suppose the situation would be different, if those who approached us were SYT. Though, just slightly.
Tags: creditcard
TaiGor No More
Dec 14, 2008 Ranting
I just came back from Bangkok 2 days ago. I am not going to write about how my trip was because I doubt anyone would be interested.
I went on 9th Dec. Despite all the rumours, protests, negative news reports on TV, Bangkok is surprisingly peaceful, and normal, relaxed. To the people there, life goes on. What affected most should be their tourism industry.
By the way, why I went there? I should say, I have no choice. Tickets had been booked 3 months back during the TaiGor Airway promotion, kind of cheap compared to premium airlines. Yes, I am being cheapo to choose TaiGor Airway, because this was my 1st time with them and I did not know the service is so cheapo until things happened.
Honestly, the protests in Bangkok was never my concern, until they went on to take over their international airport, and hundreds of thousands of tourists were stuck. During that few days, flights were cancelled. I started to worry. My concern was not about safety, but trip delay, being stuck there like many of the others. So girlfriend and I started to call the VERY HOT HOTLINE of TaiGor Airway. We wanted to hear the voice of their very helpful customer service officers. We wanted to check if we could delay or trip, or cancel or trip and get full refund. For more than 3 days, we tried in the morning, in the early afternoon, late afternoon, in the evening. We tried as early as 9am when they start operation, until 9pm when they close operation. Amazingly, we were totally not able to talk to any real human on the line. We either got “line busy” response, or our calls would ring until being auto rejected, and we were even being hold for more than 1 and a half hours, just no one bother to answer our call.
Are they being too budget with their call centre operation, though they are budget airline?
From the day the airport was closed, until the day it was open for commercial flight again, we speak to no one from TaiGor. What’s best is there are no other form of communications to reach them, other than their HOTLINE, or fax. No emails available, nothing. I only received an email, after the airport was open again, telling me that my flights were AS SCHEDULED, and stating that only those passengers of cancelled flights can change the date, destination for free or request for full refund. But, what about people like me whose flights were not affected YET but was concerned about the situation in Bangkok, who may choose to delay the trip or change destination? There was no information, no way to check as well. I am surprised that, being a subsidiary company of the top airlines in the world, TaiGor is so insensitive regarding this issue.
We finally decided to carry on with our trip, after we personally went down to Budget Terminal, TaiGor Airways service counter, talked to the REAL HUMAN there. Thanks to the Malay lady who checked and told us that we had to top up close to SGD200 to change our date to our desired period. No point changing it, in our point of view.
TaiGor again? Sorry, no more. Air Asia or JetStar anytime for me.
Tags: Bangkok, TaiGor Airways
Don’t Fuck And Sleep In Car
Dec 14, 2008 Malaysia, Stupid Stuffs
Never do that. Don’t be lazy. Just get out of your car after you car-fuck (I understand the thrill of it). Or else you risk end up like this.
Oh my, the girl is just 13 years old. Poor little girl.
Tags: sex
Is That A Bug With Ping.sg?
Dec 14, 2008 Blogosphere
This is the 2nd time I saw something like this:
Wondering if this is normal?
Tags: Ping.sg
Harvey Norman Sales Ad Mistake
Dec 13, 2008 Singapore
This is taken from today’s local (Singapore) newspaper, Straits Times, page B5. I never know that Intel Atom N270 processor speed can reach 4.6GHz. Can someone enlighten me? (Click to enlarge)
Tags: Harvey Norman, sales, Singapore
