DOES BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ESPIONAGE HAPPEN IN MALAYSIA?

Yes, but only those “Chinamen-professionals” are not aware of what it is!

By Miss Yellow

   Actually you can still find many of these “IT-illiterates” amongst older generation professionals in Malaysia, they are not entirely “illiterate” as they still learned how to use 3G mobile phone and text with Wechat just because they could interchange those X-rated pictures or short triple-X videos.

   And before they reached home, they also learned how to delete those pictures and videos immediately right after they stopped the car’s engine. But if there were such foxy fathers surely they inherited some foxy teenage kids as well, and these foxier kids would retreat those X-rated pictures and videos, hoohas began.

   And I admitted that’s not my desired lifestyle, I felt my karma being disintegrated by such hoohas of something that every normal person could perform except if you dare enough to sell or display the most primitive acts to public!

   The difference between good cultivated men and uncultivated men is although they both could be highly professional, but the later one obviously has not acquired any good hobby except traditional mahjong game.

   When their pockets are fully loaded, they wouldn’t acquire a good hobby of what they have missed out when they were young and poor, instead they would be more keen to spend money to exhibit their reproductive prowess by having extra wives, mistresses, China dolls, and they felt dam… proud about it, and if the first wife in limbo didn’t ask for a divorce, these “chinawomen” would spend hundreds of thousands for plastic surgery or also compete with their husbands, “Let’s see who can have more lovers!”

   Another significance of these IT-illiterates are they hardly read any books besides newspapers and their text books - but that was happened like 30 years ago, they only believe in experience and they  thought that knowledge could be gained by sitting in kopitiam three times a day listening to their friends’ talking.

   Or if some of them don’t like to go kopitiam, then they would go to Church, a little better – but they would ONLY love to read just a genre of book, i.e. religious associated books.

   Similarly, many female-professionals read only professional-related books and in additional either confined to religious or romance associated books, most female-professionals don’t have habit of sitting in kopitiam three times a day, so they would play computer games instead, why I thought so? All because they kept sending me games invitation over facebook, they thought that as a housewife, I must be very free!

   So, how to cultivate children to develop good hobbies? I should appreciate my parents’ education then, because I never got bored - no matter I was pretty rich and god dammm…. poor like now.

   When I saw many kids spending time to play their computer games in name of improving their dexterity, but soon I heard some of them develop CTS!  Why don’t they go write stories with broken English instead, actually this could help to develop their imagination or  learn piano properly, acquired an elite dexterity, then in life they could type millions over words but they would never develop CTS and still could play piano like 20 year-old when they reach 50s.

   Before kids learned any hard-acquiring hobbies but already learned something with easy ways to derive pleasure, like computer games and sex, sorry they would never like to acquire another skills and hobbies anymore that require high discipline, concentration and time management. That’s why please don’t simply teach your friends’  kids how to use computer or I-pad without their parents’ permission, as some parents are not “talented” mothers and their kids are not obedient kids. Your one hour kindness to teach such kids about computer games could forever develop such kids’ permanent damage in acquiring difficult hobbies that required painstaking years of learning to acquire skills!

   Let’s pull back the main topic, what happened was a Chinaman engineer while enjoying his massage by a China doll in a massage parlor called Red Dolls House, he bragged to his Chinaman friend, “Oh my new boss is so handsome, around my age, I think this is good because I am able to communicate better with someone about my age! Oh yeah! He is so kind-hearted - when I won the contract he also gave me two mobile phones and two laptops.”

   Soon after the Chinaman received another call from his new boss, “Oh hi Datuk, I am in China now, sorry I won’t be able to fly to meow city this week!”

   Stupid Chinaman didn’t know that immediately his Datuk-boss could tell he was in Red China Doll House somewhere actually not far from his residential area in the meow city, “Why the fuck this guy has to tell lies?”

   At the same time, whenever the given laptops by Datuk-boss were turned on, the information of such Chinaman’s financial and work progress situations would be periodically transferred to Datuk’s specially engaged computer technician, or in another word, a hacker called Ah Ho.

   Nobody greedy in this world loves to see any person who works for him earning money except he himself the Datuk boss could earn money, and through this kind of business intelligence espionage, many IT-illiterate Chinamen couldn’t receive money  fully in black and white from their contracted works when jobs were completed and yet they were so scared to make a noise as well, that’s typical Chinamen- they only dared to bully women and men that they thought they could “swallow”, when they face authority, they would tug their tails in between their hind legs!

I HATE CHINESE NEW YEAR IN KUCHING CITY!

It is a girl’s nightmare to marry a wrong husband and an employee’s nightmare to work for a heartless boss!

Written by Miss Yellow

When I write this article, I think I am on the verge of getting crazy, imagine a Chinese new year without any extra dime in your pocket when you husband’s boss didn’t yet release any money, and it only remains three days before Chinese New Year. Worst still I have been jobless for ages!!!!

   For a rich Datuk businessman, everyday is his Chinese New Year, that’s why he wouldn’t understand his poor employees why they insisted to celebrate Chinese New Year and must have bonus released to them only on Chinese New Year.

What a fateful life in this Kuching city? I came here with full of anticipation but in this eve of my stay here I would tell you why I think I don’t belonged to this city Kuching!

    

   I am still not bowing down with my tough life yet, past three years I gained more white hair on my head more than ever, I gained more weight more than ever and I am getting darker in complexion more than ever! You know who I would curse, when my prayers were not heard by my God?!  No woman likes her husband or children being bullied right?!

About three years ago, my husband returned home announced to me happily that he signed up a project with a handsome, young and a professional boss, a lawyer. And three years later he told me that I have a crow mouth. Well I am a modern Cassandra, he didn't take my advice!

   I poured cold water on him, ‘Do you know that a lawyer won’t know anything about your work nature? Does he know that you can’t build road when it is raining? Does he know that every day when you worked on his project, you are involving in lots of capitals? Does he know that you have to pay trucks, mechanics, workers etc and etc.? Will he pay you the full amount of the periodical work done like those established companies like Naim Cendera instead of just 40%? (This kind of bloody contractor really thought that every subcontractors earn more than him!!) Does he know that you have to pay for all those suppliers? Do you know lawyer can “chop you here and there in a ultra unreasonable way and at the end you won’t earn any dime, yet he will show his Buddha face telling you that, “Look, I am always helping you, am I?” Does he know that if he delay paying you but you have to sell off your shop lots and other capital assets?’

    

   So since my husband signed up with this lawyer-contractor boss, my life is in hell for three damn years in Kuching too. It is a girl’s nightmare to marry a wrong husband and an employee’s nightmare to work for a heartless boss! Let me tell you this, I am the victim of this issue, I have a “wrong husband” and he has a “wrong boss”, my luck is betting zero, and yet I am still holding my chin up grinning bravely.

There are many simple-minded sub-contractors (usually engineers) never thought twice when signing up project with a main contractor. I hear a lot of information past three years when I stayed in Kuching of who are the best contractors, who are the mean contractors and who are the worst contractors. I warn you that you have to watch out the following kind of main contractors when you sign up to work as a subcontractor for them.

(1)      Make sure he is not a second generation of a fairly rich businessman’s son, he was probably one of the smartest siblings amongst many others, that mean he would never need to let his finger getting dirty, arrogant in nature, thus he won’t have any compassion for those people who work hard for him under the sun, instead he would think that they are stupid that’s why they work these kind of dirty jobs, or else they would be like him sitting under the cool air signing billions of ringgit projects with the government sectors.

(2)      Make sure he is not a lawyer. The reason is he doesn’t know any shit about construction works, but he knows laws. Unless you have your own corporate lawyers’ team, or else if you are just a little subcontractor, he may “swallow you up” without a single noise, you won’t dare to make any noise, all because he is a lawyer. He thought that his subcontractors could “steal materials” to undercut cost but actually these subcontractors are always under stringent surveying by JKR engineers and consultants. So he thought his subcontractors actually earn more money than him, so he starts to cut here and there very unreasonable. He didn’t know that his subcontractors only were the winners to win contracts from him, when they bet their LOWEST!!! If a person plays dirty to win a contract, he will think the whole world would act like him! So don’t expect his fair treatment to you “employees” (or slaves)

(3)      The contractor-boss hardly accepted even “minimum religious education” (no use if his wife is as holy as a monk!) as a Chinese-Malaysian if he was not taught any Confucianism or Taoism, but if he is purely English educated. So don’t talk about compassionate, love, cherish and patient to him. He would scold the whole office staff yet no one dares to retaliate and challenge him, even if he was so unreasonable and acted like a barbarian. He usually has foul temper, the whole office staffs scared the shits pout of him, especially if he becomes a datuk now!!

(4)      Usually his dad has at least two wives, to show that he was from a problematic background already, lacked of fatherly figure since young day to coach them to behave like other ethical businessmen.

Just few weeks ago, people in Kopitiam kept gossiping a contractor,  this contractor didn't want to pay after a company removed all the heavy equipments out of the scene of a building for its open ceremony. I learned that he was a famous contractor in Kuching city who would not pay his subcontractors but would tell them to continue his next project, if the subcontractors pull out, they would be afraid they would never receive any more money, but if they continue to work for this company which shares a name like Barbie’s best boyfriend, their poor families would be having Chinese New Year like mine, no traveling, no good foods, no good clothing, poor in cash for years.

   The other kind of above mentioned boss would treat his office staff like slaves, one staff has to work for five staff’s works to cut down his employees’ expenses. These staffs were always working overtime, some of them even have to work during Sunday, during Chinese New Year, and the most they could get is RM500. What the staff didn’t know was the accountant was the one who got scolded badly by her boss, “I don’t understand why you all need to get bonus during Chinese New Year, I thought of giving you all during year end!” (Dubs… year end was just a month ago, did you give last year end’s bonus to your staffs?)

   

Bad bosses are like bad husbands, lucky employees need to look for good and kind employers with compassion. When I stay in Northern Sarawak for almost two decades, I know of a good employer, he was an engineering consultant, he and his wife earns a lot of money, yet they would credit those staffs and engineers who worked for them, they would bring the whole company staffs to tour England and Australia, during the trip the staffs would have extra expenses given.

  

   Some bosses are just greedy, they only think of if their own pockets and bank accounts are loaded, they didn’t care a shit of what other people suffer, the best is like my husband, sold off his shop lots and capital assets to “pay” for his contractor-boss’s project.

Lastly, I met a woman kept telling me how capable is her relative, but does she know that what is the use of a capable person without any compassion, his standard of kindness is different from the rest of the populations, if he donated less than a 10K he expected a big photo taken posted on newspaper. He didn’t pay his employees well, make them overworked. He didn’t pay his subcontractors fairly and also slowly.. or dragging the payments so that he could use the money to reinvest in European share markets …. yet when he talked to them, he would say, “Oh I always help you, am I?” That’s mean he thought all his subcontractors earned lots of money from his projects, he didn’t know yet now he has become very notorious in the civil contract works that he likes to cut and chop a pig, and the subcontractors at the end not even sharing a pig tail, and I think I heard I cursed, “SHITS”

   

   If you are main-contractors coincidentally fallen the above points that I mentioned but with true generosity, fairness, kindness and high conscience, then I am not talking about you!

BITTERNESS OF A MALAYSIAN CIVIL WORKS SUB-CONTRACTOR’S WIFE

I afraid of dragon years ... and even those people who born and act like a greedy dragon!

Rich insensitive (or selfish) takaus don’t celebrate Chinese New Year because they will go travelling overseas,

they don’t know I don't have money for my Chinese New Year,

 As my husband will receive money from his takaus on the last bank day before Chinese New Year

... but that money just enough for my husband to pay his suppliers and workers so that he won't get slaughtered right on New Year Eve!!!

Written by Money Tai Tai

Few months ago, I was thinking if I should apply for Malaysians’ low income welfare subsidize as I am now jobless and my husband’s income was never steady and sounded as good as he once tried to impress me!

Last year, when he engaged a new sub-contract civil project with a new contractor, I began to worry when I heard all those negative remarks of his new contractor although Mr. Money thought highly of his new boss.

Chinese New Year is coming soon, and it will be next Monday, and this morning I heard Mr. Money was arguing through the telephone with someone.

“If you release the cheque for me on Thursday, you won’t be able to see me after Chinese New Year, because I will be chopped into pieces!”

After a long pause, then I heard him argued, “Look, I don’t use the money to go overseas playing and partying but I have to use it to pay all those workers and suppliers!”

And then he would argue that he has been working for few months without any pay, and yet why he was not able to get the full amount of job done. In short, he would be paid half of his work done, probably the amount of one and the half month.

What kind of life is that for a Malaysian civil works sub-contractors kids and wives?

I could only see my husband once a month, like this trip to visit Kuching he could only stay up a night, and juggling to get his business done and rushing back to the civil site in a small Rejang town.

I was told a Malaysian civil contract project is like a pig being shared: The four big legs of meats you know I know where they went to, and if those sub-contractors know how to wave their tails, some bones would be threw out to them. So often, I imagined that I was chewing bones with my kids after Mr. Money brought those pitiful bones hardly stuck with meats back home!

Happened that last week, another of my close female friend who is also a subcontractor who only dared to open her mouth to ask a best friend not even her own relative to borrow just a two hundred ringgit to meet her weekend due. I was more than happy to help her and she knew that was the only amount I left in my wallet too. She came just now returning the money immediately to me, she is lucky enough to receive Chinese New Year project money faster than most sub-contractor in town.

And this amount of RM200 will be good enough for me to sustain next few days before flying off on New Year eve to hide in my parents’ house with my kids without Mr. Money. Imagine the scene of those rich contractors who don’t want to pay generously to the poor subcontractors who will be bringing their whole family for overseas trips, having big feasts and family reunion. I called this the business world of survival of fittest!

My good friend lucky enough happened to work for an almost extinct species of sensitive rich Datuk-contractor, who would realize that she is a subcontractor, she needs the money to pay workers and suppliers who need to return their respective distance away villages for their Chinese New Year. By the way, city boys and men won’t work tough civil jobs, only poor families’ kids work for hard laboring job.

I almost wanted to chop Mr. Money to pieces when he left Kuching just now without leaving any Ang Bow for me and the children for the Chinese New Year, luckily my good friend was on scene to prevent me from out lashed my foul temper to add in another notorious murder case in Sarawak state!!

Up to today, three bank working days remained, if Mr. Money wires me any money to my account on Friday, as I don’t have any ATM card, I sure will not wait in the bank for 3 to 4 hours to get my the limited amount of cash he gives to the family to welcome dragon Chinese New Year.

I don’t like to buy new shoes, new dresses and foods for Chinese New Year with a credit card a day before New Year Eve, the Chinese New Year will become meaningless and hectic in this case.

How many Datuk and Tan Seri class Contractors in Malaysia are sensitive enough to know that just because they have money to bring the whole family to tour Japan Disney, staying in the 6th stars hotels during Chinese New Year holiday overseas, but how many of those suffered subcontractors who work for them, their families and spouses will be suffering from no Ang Bow, little Ang Bow or late Ang Bow. It is completely meaningless when Ang Bow comes to my pocket too late, now I understand why there are so many people have to squeeze in the supermarkets for last minutes shopping, all because they are poor people. Rich people will do advance Chinese New Year shopping.

And often many people don't realized why in a big corporation/company the QS and the FC or accountant don’t want to release full amount of money of work done to their subcontractors, since this kind of Chinese New Year budget decision of a big corporation/company was usually done by the FC or chief accountant, usually Datuk and Tan Seri class bosses will not look into details for this kind of small figures paid to their staff and outsiders, the truth is always because if they release too much cash money for other outsiders, they wouldn’t get as much Ang Bow from the remaining budget. As the BIG DATUK TAKAU seldom bother to release an extra proceeds saved in their Swiss bank for this kind of Chinese New Year Ang Bow affairs!!!

I just wish that my middle fingers are long enough to point to the air, oh God oh king of ETs, the world is not fair, except we all have to die one day! Especially in Malaysia now, the rich one got richer, the poor ones got subsidize from government, worst are those who are in the middle class, square brain, HONEST and hard working folks once from low and middle background who work for the richest group whose gross in billions per yearly. I told Mr. Money what for he has to go to USA to get a civil engineer degree and what for I travelled few continents around the world to get a liberal art degree, back in Malaysia I feel that I don’t get appreciated, especially staying in a cat city where eggs can’t grow inside my kind of nest, where solely I have to depend on Mr. Money’s nest of limited eggs!

But Chinaman Mr. Money would try to convince me from the day 1 I married him, “Kuching is still the best, not overseas!” I think all because he can speak Foo Chow or Mandarine to run his business here in Kuching!

Yes, Chinese New Year, Chinamen like Mr. Money has money to buy firecrackers to burn in the air but I didn’t wear any new Chinese New Year dress or shoes since Year 1 I married him to this 10th year!

THERE WAS SUCH A YOUNG MAN WHO CAME ACROSS MY LIFE BEFORE

He played me as it a little rabbit in his foxy hands

Written by Mrs. Money

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Many years ago in an oil city, I was involved in a community service by working as a newly formed pro tem charitable organization committee president, then one day my friend brought along a potential colleague of hers to join in one of its activities. He is quite a talented guy and without checking much on his personality and background, I directly promoted him to a certain designation just because he told me his mom was from my hometown and also because I always treasured talents and potential youngsters.

I still remember his name as Aphi Then, actually I was never too close to him (not even having coffee once with him) but he was one of the most ingratitude young men that I came across in my life, may be due to he was employed and trained in an aggressive oil and gas Company made him such a subtle unharmed outlook.

For at least three years, no matter how much I tried to promote him, the arrogant young man acted as he was just somebody greater than me, but never realizing that I was trying to help and promote him silently. However in return to me, he was so cruel and unreasonable. He secretly cooperated with his old friend whom he respected, his plan was if his deal got success, my organized society would be a history and his friend would fly in town periodically to share a piece of the cake. With his friend to counterate my professionalism, immediately Alphi leaded another exact similar activity group with the help and backup from his oil & gas company.

Very soon, our pro tem committee was invited by Aphi's oil and gas company to a brain-storming session between his top managing bosses and my pro tem committee and as a president, I was continuously questioned by his top bosses of my abilities to succeed in registering such a charitable society. They kept emphasizing that they got so many elites, talents and the cream of the cake in their company that they could probably do a better job. In short a scene plotted by Alphi to convincing the oil town general public, his bosses and my pro tem committee members that I was simply not elite enough, not smart enough, not talented enough and not good enough to work as a president of such activity organization and smoothly, things got his ways.

But very soon everything cooled down, I found out later that Alphi never succeeded his ways when his bosses who supported him got transferred. However Alphi never gave up kicking me out from my pro tem committee, he befriended with a staff whom I trusted the most and her uncle was a YB, and as before I left the town for my maternity leave in overseas, I appointed this most trusted staff to be the acting president of such non profitable organization to take over my works. With backup from my betrayed staff, Aplhi was on his ways for another plot again, especially they went to mass together every weekly. So more than four years no news charity organization from registrar office, it suddenly got approved after four months I left my duty temporary. I still didn’t know their games behind me, I immediately wrote a recommendation letter to let this trusted staff by then as a president of the newly approved non-profitable organization.


After few months, this trusted staff suddenly left my businesses with another staff, who also became a good friend of Aphi, they took more than 70% of my business resources to open their own business and they put out such an arrogant altitude to me that, "You know who is my uncle?" Due to such crisis, I rushed back from overseas to the oil city, with such a sudden return, my ex-staff puts up such story, “She wants to the president back again!” Which I never thought of in my brain, as I already successful gave up my responsibilities, all the while in my mind I just wanted to help the oil town youngsters and I knew that I wouldn't stay in the oil town forever as I already long got my PR to leave the town once all my duties done.

Very soon, the secretary of the approved society called, “Are you still interested to become the president?” In such an old age having the crying baby, I would be an idiot if I agreed. Immediately upon my return from what I heard the gossips here and there, I figured out very soon of what had happened. I wanted to confirm my doubts of who was one of my greatest enemies that planned to bar me from having anything to do with such a non-profitable society, in short I wanted to find out who was behind the whole scene.

I replied the secretary, “Sure, but in a condition that …………. unless 100% of the committee members agreed to let me becoming the president then I will take the post again.” She didn’t know I just wanted to set a trap to let the enemy fallen into it.

On the next day, few people called me up, “Last night, when we were asked who opposed you to be the society president again, only Aphi making his excuses to bar you.”

“Very good, that’s what the answer I wanted. Thank you very much for informing me!”

“BINGO!”

When I returned, I learned that just a few months before, one of the committee members requested to quit her position as a treasurer due to when she was asked by such approved non-profitable society president to approve a bill of RM50, but with a 1 added ahead, which got claimed as RM150. Less than a year later, my ex-staff quitted her presidentship probably she found there was not much kan tou in such non-profitable organization, but her presidentship had already landed and created her extra jobs and contracts in her uncle’s political party.

I always wondered if that Aphi really had shallow eye sight, he trusted his church dishonest friend more than the honest me who once treasured and cherished him. When I was the president for such pro tem society, I had to dump in so much of my own and family money to let the necessary activities ran, in realistic neither YBs nor any oil and gas company willing to help an not yet approved society.

I still ran my business soundly after such crises of facing bankruptcy done by my ex-staff. I always told myself, “If I could start out from nothing to something in my career, I am not afraid of any crisis; but for those ex-staff who tried to steal my resources to start out their new business establishments, they probably thought that what they did to me would get me to hell. As they only knew how to ‘steal’ and ‘rob’ openly without any guilt after they walked out from their churches.” Only God knew that how well I treated them, so they got no face to do bad things when I was in town.

Any social activities by then became a history to me in the oil town. Alphi never knew that I knew what he did to me, very soon he came in the scene again with a thick face, who knew that he was not happy again I was doing well again in my business! Well, I thought he should be unharmed to act silly by then, I always wondering why he was not just against my positioning in the pro tem society but seemingly he also didn’t like to see that I was living soundly and happily. Very soon after he visited me, he called me wanted to order something, but when the thing arrived, his handphone was not active, so I called his office, one of his colleague replied, “Sorry he is in Holland now!”
“How about the FFFF that he ordered from me? He knew today the thing is coming as I already told him the date, and the things will get rotten soon if he doesn’t come to collect it!”
“Sorry, I don’t think he will be in town tonight or tomorrow.”

A week later Alphi called me, “Where is my FFFF?” he never apologized.
Customer is always right, I didn’t scold him or telling him off and I tried to get rid of him politely. Who knew this Aphi was still not happy of not toying me enough, few months later he wanted to order a big item from me that probably would cost like RM30000.00 to 50000.00++, and again he played me up after I spent so much phone bills to ask information he required from my supplier. I told myself, “Enough is enough! Aphi the sinking boat, you go under water!” Soon, he got posted by his oil and gas company to work in Holland, what a bless for a young man like him if God got eyes but his bosses in his oil and gas company probably were blind like me!

I really don’t like this young man Alphi, now you must be wondering why a character like me hated a young man who was at least 10 years younger than me in reverse of a normal days I would have promoted his interest to give him a lift whenever I could like a teacher.

Alphi became one of the “regrets” in my career life, the "drowned corpse" or siew rein got hidden by me since long ago in a closet, but whenever I licked my old wounds, I would always wonder why he got such a bad heart of never gave up haunting and playing games with me!

What is forgiveness?

God also conditioned us that if we want to be saved, we have to believe that he is the only God

Written by Mrs. Money

A poor weak lady was bullied by a group of business rivals and their gangsters' relative; the "parley" actually was a "threat" and the poor lady was demanded to close down the business within 24 hours or put up a newspaper to apologize on the front page, block letters in red for a week and together with 10 tables feasts to invite all their listed friends.

Then the poor lady handled the insults, humiliation and wrongful accusations all by herself, she never gave up her job for the first fifteen years, but eventually the prolonged malady caused her dropping her job.

So during a sunny Sunday a preacher told the poor lady, you should forgive what they did to you, then you will get out of the blue.

The poor lady went back home, but found out her credit card was overdue, all bills not yet paid and the bank account was insufficient enough to settle the overwhelming bills bills bills. She grumbled, "How could I forgive someone who used dirty ways, distort and twisting my professional image, they acted exactly like “professional murders” and yet they are still live like winners, rich and richer, those bloody business rivals still go around cheating, telling lies, threatening to demand cash from poor victims etc?"

Then in an unexpected morning, the poor lady learned that her lotto ticket won many million dollars, she became wealthier than all those people who bullied her before, she cried to God, "Thank you God! I know what is called forgiven now and now I can forgive those people who once wrongly accused, humiliated and insulted me with their distorted stories to damage my professional image and murder my career!"

Moral of this story: Forgiven is subjected to a certain conditions! Unconditioned forgiven also is subjected to a certain conditions.

God wants us to forgive people so he would forgive us in order to gain access to his heaven, but how many people could do it if without a certain conditions happened to them?!!!!

MONKEY STORY

Written by Mrs. Money




My Hong Konger friend told me a monkey’s story a decade ago while we both resided in Brunei: She said there were so many monkeys at her backyards during mangoes season, she noticed especially that there was a grey fat female monkey never wanted to eat any mango from it own family’s territory trees, instead it would always jump to other monkeys' trees to pluck and enjoy others' mangoes, eventually when all others’ mangoes "finished", only his family’s trees still got remaining mangoes!!! My friend told me this fat monkey’s fur is most grossy shinny comparing to the rest, she wondered if we should be nasty, unethical, greedy and immoral like this sly monkey so we can survive in this dog eats dog business world as a winner!

One of my friends like this story very much because he told me once there was such a monkey working in his IT office, when a barely 23 years old young man came for interview, he even brought along a church minister friend of his. He said that once he was working as a minister in a church and got a diploma in IT and also he got two years working experience in KL but he quitted his job when he didn’t get paid for several months by his KL ex-employer.


So my Christian friend employed him immediately, my friend asked him to bring the resume later, but he took my friend’s busyness as an advantage never submitted his resume. Then my friend soon got informed that this new employee was not loyal and reliable:


The new employee would always introduce his boss’s (my friend) potential customers to buy computers from his own relatives’ IT shops and also would always inform his boss’s (my friend) customers he could service their computers privately as well, "I also work part time at home!"

After two years, the new employee decided to resign, but he got such a thick face came asked my friend for permission if he could still work for my friend but only as part timer, his reason was as he just began to open his own new business, he didn't want his income became less, he could be so thoughtless, how about his boss's (my friend) income also became less due to his sem-resignation?! My friend even kindly gave him 30 over old clients for his newly opened business, so he probably thought that my friend must be a very stupid person. As there were another 30 over remaining clients serviced under him which his boss (my friend) kept. But he asked for part time job again from his boss (my friend) after he opens his own business, it was just an excuse for him to take his boss’s (my friend) remaining clients literally either using crook or hook to his new business. He came to an extend telling lies to his boss’s (my friend) clients, “My boss is not an IT technician, I am the only one in the company who can fix the computer and now I work here part time only, please come by my new office to visit!”

Then one after another to his boss (my friend) remaining clients, he distributed his new business name card, but very soon my friend’s wife came in the picture fired such a terrible part-time employee to prevent him for further defamation on her husband.

My friend actually got a degree in IT, but he was busy writing his program and designing software most of the time, servicing computer is a piece of cake for him eventhough he was not trained as a IT technician, since he hired a technician to repair computer for him thus he never need to reveal his “talents”. Soon my friend visited Bintulu found out from an old church friend that his hired employee never was a theological school graduated diploma holder, in an actual fact he didn’t even pass his form 5, yet he began to tell lies since old days, he explained to his church friends that his failure of form 5 was due to he forgot to enter his “written name” to his exam papers. Everyone knows that during exam we entered numbers not names!Think this matter in a lateral angle:


Why this compulsive liar cum smart monkey didn't want to work in his relatives’ computer shops instead of went to his relative's chief rival company? If he worked for his relative, would he be so daring enough to take his relatives' clients as he did literally to his boss's clients? And why he still has such a thick face asking to work for part time after he set up his own new business (under the situation when his ex-boss even kindly and thoughtfully gave him half of the old clients as a gift, he even twisted the fact by telling his relatives that his ex-boss's clients all wanted to follow him to his new business and now his ex-boss hardly have any remained clients and staff) when he was never being a loyal and honest staff for two years of his work!?
In an actual fact, right before he married he resigned his job, and his father-in-law helped him opened a new computer shop. He even told my friend that his father-in-law forced him to open a computer shop thus he had to resign, he even made a scene cried like a baby when my friend was out of town receiving his call,
“Hey, I never bully you, why you cry so loud… where are you now?”
“In the office.”
“Any client?”
“Yes.”
“You better stop crying now!”

After that incident, my friend didn’t feel earning that kind of little profit margin business and often he heard maliciously gossips put out by his ex-staff and also nasty threats by his ex-staff’s father-in-law who is a triad member. My friend eventually closed down his business and moved out of such oil town.

Not A Single Gift Received
Depend on what profession you are in

Written by Mrs. Money





This is a true story happened in between two brothers’ conversation, one of the brothers is a doctor by profession and another one is merely a civil engineer cum third class sub-contractor. One day the doctor brother tongue-in-cheek questioned his younger brother, “I don’t understand why you have to spend so much money on monthly telephone bills to call up people and spend so much money to buy gifts for people during Chinese New Year for people! Look at me; I was the one patients would keep calling and looking up for me and they would shower me with gifts during Chinese New Year!”


This morning, I opened my son’s wardrobe and I found out most of them are getting too small as for two years I didn’t add on any new shirt for my son since I have quitted my job two years ago. When I worked in an oil town, some grateful friends would always buy shirts and toys for my kids, when I become full time jobless Mrs. Money since I move to Kuching city, needless saying there was not a single gift for the poor kids bringing back home by Mr. Money for past seven years.

I worked for almost 30 years in this Malaysian business world; I have seem how cold and realistic human beings acted. Professions like doctors, general managers and politicians are the ones whom people keep showered them with luxury gifts; these are the best professions with status, money and gifts.

I met a car dealer who told me every year he has to ribbon so many imported cars given by timber tycoons so and so to give to so and so big shots.

Big tycoons always have to bride their big shots, the big shots would in return giving him lots of kan tou, but for small third class sub-contractors is the worst profession amongst all dogs eat dogs professions. To win a contract from a contractor … mostly the big companies, the sub-contractor is in such a position that he has to bride, “pay” and “please” used the pennies and smooth talking to path his ways through, from a big tycoon’s employed general manager to QC in order to win a project, then each monthly payments may not be on time, worst as a third class sub- contractor, along facing the sudden inflation raised of diesels, so how much at the end of the day you think a sub-contractor could earn?

A year ago, I overheard a ED of a big company talked to Mr. Money so rudely, I had a shock of how difficult Mr. Money earned his little pennies, besides sharing some of his hard earned pennies with all along from the top to the bottom, he still has to tolerate those big companies’ management staff abusive words and unreasonable ‘new contracts sanctions’ from time to time, yet still have to bow his head said, “Yes sir, yes sir!” Worst incident was once I overheard a company executive director insulted to Mr. Money this way, “I told you lah, Datuk didn’t want to see you! ……… ” The incident was Mr. Money’s car got stolen on that particular day while waiting in a datuk’s office, when the ED learned probably from Datuk’s secretary that Mr.Money didn’t manage make it to see datuk, he could twist his story maliciously.

When I learned that someone could ‘bark’ to Mr. Money in such disrespect and very rude manner, as a wife, what do you feel when you find out your husband is a nobody in somebody’s eye and while you yourself were fully respected in your past profession?

When I noticed how little Mr. Money is in those QC and ED’s eyes, for six months last year end, I was very sick, hurt and down for a while, in this society, a wife’s face is based on her husband’s face. Most of the time, our Chinese women chose not to talk and share in order to hide their problems and agonies, because they are lots of gossips sucking women friends surrounded them anytime ready to hurt the poor victims.

Luckily, only the ability to evoke on my brain to bring such new awakenings to get me out of blues, imagine if the evolution cells of some people’s brains are already crippled! Who on earth don’t want to get married to a husband full of financial secure, respects and dignities? But in another way round, that a look of how hopelessness and desperation could turn some women's life to a better one .... Estee Lauder and Mary Kay could create and build their own empires and rights, when their men unable giving them their needs, dignity, respect and prestige, thus such legends created. Worst are those women with their evolution cells crippled yet their wagging tongue still active!

Just for an example, Foo Chow ladies after married, their status would drop a rank immediately, as their title siew chea would turn to jiung nyu neng (adopted woman), expression in a dialect can foretell how a married woman is being demoted in such clan. So to stay as Mrs.Money, I was demoted as jobless jiung nyu neng with no gift received in all four seasons ….. There is a voice telling me to crawl on ground like a millipede, when there is something touchy and I just need to roll myself like a circle.

I told the two little moneys, “Hey, when you grow up, look out for a job or create a profession which you can earn a lot, don’t need to bride people and people don’t need to bride you, yet in your position can help and benefit a lot of people.” Really got that kind of fantastic profession in this world? May be in a robotic era in year 2222 or in other star!

Acute Sense Developed

To prevent conned by con-men or con-women

Written by Mrs Money




Case Study 2



My friend sold her long established out-of-town business to a new buyer, the Sly couple:

One day she received a SMS from her buyer, Mdm.Sly, “I just paid the SESCO deposit of RM6000, electric got cut off yesterday. I was told that you have asked them to cut it off. SESCO is going to deduct your deposit because you want to collect your deposit from Kch instead of from in-town SESCO office here.”

So how reliable is this Mdm. Sly’s SMS?

The truths are as followed:

As requested by Sly couple, my friend kindly gave sometimes for the Sly couple to register their new SESCO account upon their newly acquired business before terminating her old registered SESCO account, since the Sly couple verbally agreed would refund any icurred outstanding bills to my friend if during future termination.

In between, my friends at least SMS five to six times to both Sly couple to expedite their own new SESCO account, my friend would always get the answer, “OK, OK!”

After three months, my friend sent a legal document to SESCO regarding the termination and requesting deposit refund for her account, and the Sly couple both received my friend's CC emails and telephone verbal notification regarding the SESCO termination. My friend even kindly reminded the out-of-town SESCO officer to remind the buyer regarding the electricity termination before taking action.

On a particular day, my friend received an out-of-town call from a SESCO officer regarding the termination, my friend even asked her, “Have you notice the new owner regarding the termination?”
“Yes, twice we have informed them.”

Soon, my friend received phone call from a SESCO officer regarding the deduction of her deposit, “Your two accounts due to the most recent monthly bills are not settled yet (by the new owner), the outstanding will be deducted to your deposit. Do you agree that?”

My friend agreed it, as she calculated that she would just lost few hundred ringgit for her SESCO deposit, but if she didn’t terminate her account as soon as possible, one day she might not even get a single cent back.

So can you believe it right after the SESCO terminated my friend’s account, the new buyer could SMS her in this way:

"I just paid the SESCO deposit of RM6000, electric got cut off yesterday. I was told that you have asked them to cut it off. SESCO is going to deduct your deposit because you want to collect your deposit from Kch instead of from in-town SESCO office here”

My friend sighed that these days it’s so difficult to act as a kind and helpful person, besides settling that a hundred over ringgit under buyer’s most recent outstanding bills during SESCO termination, the buyer could still SMS to blame my friend, my friend instantly becomes a notorious, heartless and thoughtless person instead!

My friend even double-confirmed from Kuching SESCO officers, she was told, "During Termination, SESCO doesn't charge out-of-town service fees for any SESCO deposit refund."

Advice:

If you register a new sole-proprietorship company, it is wiser for you to register your SESCO account under your own name instead of your new business name. Once you close down your business, imagine the hassle if you receive your SESCO deposit later bearing your business name but you have already closed down your business account! OR if once you sell off your old business to a buyer, SESCO will refund your deposit cheque according to your registered name. Legal documents will be required if you want SESCO deposit money registered under your company name to be refunded under your personal name. But if you already registered SESCO account under your company name, during sales you must through legal concern to collect your SESCO deposit from new buyer directly and you don’t need to hassle wasting your time dashing in and out of SESCO office.

WISDOM GAINED FROM TALES

Written by Mrs. Money



In a jungle of Borneo, Mr. Tiger Forest and Mr. Star Fish were very close friends. One day Mr. Star Fish wanted to build the biggest castle in the jungle, Mr. Tiger Forest immediately kindly offered his help, “I will send my most experience engineer Mr. Fox to your site to help you to build it!”

“Roughly how much I have to pay your engineer Mr. Fox?” Mr. Star Fish enquired.
“Aye! No need lah, ka ki lang lah!” Mr. Tiger Forest replied.

Once Mr. Fox reached the site, chicken flew and dog hopped off the construction site. The project thus dragged and seemingly never could get a completion.

Mr. Tiger Forest by then laughing cunningly, “My good Fox, everyone informed me that you always stole 10% of my hunting but I still kept you under my wings because I knew it one day you would be a useful fox for me!”

Moral:

(1) In the business world, friendships are never real if without mutual benefits
(2) If the “smaller fish” wanted to build a “bigger castle” than the “bigger tiger”, the “bigger tiger” sure won’t be kind hearted enough to help, so when “the bigger tiger” “kindly” offered any assistance, be careful!
(3) Some employers kept bad employees in their business, in this case used a bad employee to jeopardize a rival's new project.

Acute Common Sense Developed

To prevent conned by con-Men or con-Women

Written by Mrs Money

Case Study 1

My friend received a SMS from an associate Ms. Sly who now rented the shop lot that once my friend used to rent from a landlord.

My friend was informed "kindly" by this associate Ms. Sly that the landlord's clerk has informed her that my friend still owe my landlord RM700 legal fee to a legal firm.

So my friend called her lawyer asking for details if a decade old expired agreement has to be cancelled through a lawyer or once an old agreement is expired, any continuing rental with mutual understanding will terminate automatically but in such case my friend already kindly slotted in a new tenant (Ms. Sly) immediately to rent the ex-landlord's shop lot without even a single day break.

In this case, my friend didn't ask the ex-landlord for a month's commission fee for introducing a new tenant but how could the landlord asked for any tenancy termination legal fees if such thing really existed?


So my friend sent few messages to question the associate Ms. Sly.

"First, I signed tenancy agreement more than 10 years ago and I already paid the legal firm 10 years ago too. Now what kind of legal fees that I still owe to the ex-landlord?"

"Second, how can my ex-landlord's clerk ask for the money after almost 6 months after I terminated the rental (with proper advanced notice and notify the landlord of a comfirmed new tenant too), but why not asking from me directly as they all got my PH but instead of telling you that I owe them money?"

"Thirdly, anyway how could my ex-landlord if signing agreement or any termination agreement when they engaged in a lawyer if on my behalf but how could they never contact me or ask for my consent and agreement?"

"Fourthly, if I never consulted or engaged in any lawyer asking for any service or sign on any pertinent document why I have to pay fee to a legal firm?"
At the end, you know what my friend have found out?

Ms. Sly made up a story bluffing and informing to my friend that the landlord's clerk had informed her!

Actually Ms. Sly undervalued my friend, she expected my friend would be absently minded, trusted her and stupid enough without probing details. I suspected it was a dirty trick deliberately plotted by Ms. Sly to my friend, so my friend would settle the legal fees for Ms. Sly's New Tenancy Agreement without any question!