Bukit Gasing and Karaoke

Just went to Gasing Hill on Christmas Day. Body still
aching after 2 days. A lot of Denais. Can go in from
Jalan Telok, just after the Chinese temple on Jln
Gasing.

Went to the same Karaoke twice on eve and chirstmas
day! 1st time with PF and seconf time with YJH.

I think I am a bit too 'kun-chiong' on PF, as asking her
how come I cannot see her more. Somehow PF likes that :D
I am 'kun-chiong' her.

Time Person of the Year 2006

Bought the Magezine this afternoon. Did not know blogs and youtube got so much impact on us! It's a new kind of revolution, called the Web 2.0 by Sillicon Valley now!


Got to finnish reading that Mag. Long live WebBlog!

Rosetta Stone DVD

Also bought Rosetta Stone DVD yesterday. This morning try to learn Swahilli and Hindi. Found out Swahilli is easier to learn than Hindi! But where in the world going to use Swahilli here, in M'sia? Unless I work in UN or get a job in the consulate.

Just did another TTE and 4 clubs joint meeting last night

2nd time being the TTE last nite! So excited!

Exchanged a gift (a book) from Chris. Nice gift!

L.O.W from maicsa asked me how come I am still a TM, and not CC yet? I am just too lazy...

Plan to do number 9 on Jan 8th 2007.

How I wish PF can show up yesterday... She's down with fever anyway... got to call her later.

Time to leave...

I am piss off when

1. B commented how I answer and make calls during office hour!
2. B wanted us to log in every single little things that we did during office hour!
3. B cursing and making uncomfortable sexual remarks on all of us!

I have decided to leave this company.

PA and wife separated

After last nite TM meeting, bump into PA in MidValley. When ask about wife, he told me wife and him separated!

How can this happen! PA is such a sweet guy!

PA is my team member during my Uni Project, and he's the one who inspire me to continue to go on with myProject!

I cannot forget what he told me that nite, that because of my stubbourness, my persistent in that Uni Project, all the other Uni mates changed thier mind (All the while my Uni Friends thought that I am a stuck-up person.) - and found out that I am actually a very down to earth fella! :)

Pity PA have to suffer...

Humor Master and Table Topic Evaluator

I am both the Humor Master and Table Topic Evaluator last nite! First time being a TTE!

Humor Master I talk about how to make funny faces out of a Teddy Bear, and how to make the Giveaway of the bear to the sweetheart more exciting. I use the TimeKeeper as my 'Sweetheart', because I always like to make fun of the Time Machine :D

It was an enjoyable evening to me :)

wait PF for 1 week

Agree with PF that we should not contact each other for one week, because we feel we're going to fast!

Already invited her to tomorrow's TM meeting, I am the humour master tomorrow. But I still wish she'll show up tomorrow.

Triumph in the Skies and Bill Cosby:Himself

Downloaded a few of the TVB series' 'Triumph in the Skies' clips from YouTube.
Mostly about Sam and Zoe. A lot touching moments between the 2. I should get it in DVD format and see the whole thing again.

Also downloaded some clips on Bill's 'Himself'. He's very funny! :D Cannot stop laughing even after that. Learn a few tips from the clip.

No Flower, buy Choc

After tele conversation with PF last Friday nite, feel like want to buy her flowers on Sat...

Went to the same flower shop where I bought my ex-gf flower but the shop close down already! No choice, short of time too, just go back to TW shop and bought her a bar of Choc.

On Saturday, when to see a movie. She really cheer me up! :)

Surprise she call me when I walk into my bedroom that nite! :)

I want us to know each either slowly first, because I feel like we're going too fast!

I wonder if people who is fated together is like that... going so fast!

Meet PF, Round 2

Met PF again last Sunday. :)

We found out that:

1. she likes to jog in the same place I jog every Sunday 7am.
2. Work in an office just one floor below my first company.
3. Join a Mandarin TM before.
4. Join the same school 20 years ago.

I think our relationship was made in heaven, or she's my long lost twin sister! :)

SQC Workshop

Learn from SQC workshop last Sunday on how to get subsricbers.

1. Emphatize.2. Ask question.3. Resolve.4. Close.

The workshop also teach us how to listen, and I learn a lot from the workshop.

I even do some evaluation on some of the speakers, with TM style! :)

I think I can use what I learn from TM and in TM, I can use what I learned from SQC :)

Speed Dating and PF

Met up with PF in a speed dating 2 weeks ago.

At first I did not recognize her.

She keep on asking questions about my high school, at first, because she was skeptical, trying to figure out if we are from the same class before.

I was annoyed when she keep on asking me about my high school!

Later we all broke into laughter when she mentioned that only after 20 year we met each other again!

I am the TME on Monday 13/11/2006

The theme for coming TM meeting is "Let's make it Big." The theme made makes my hands very itchy because I want to 'make it Big' - make big money! I want to gamble and make big money!

I think giving a speech on stage is like gambling too. We will not know what is the reaction of your audience, wheather they will like your speech or not. But at least we are not loosing any money, when we gamble on stage! :)

In toastmasters, we are all winners! Think of the valuable feedback we will get! It's priceless!

I am proud of my Parents!

They have proved them wrong!

My parents join a choir about a year ago. The turnout for the choir training very bad, every week. The chairman wanted to abandon the choir long time ago.

But my parents and the rest of the members presist that the choir must go on! They manage recruit a lot of new members at the end; about 40, and they did a fantastic performance last Saturday!

From their singing, I can here they had been trained well by the teacher. They sang from the stomach, not from the troat!

I am proud of my parents! Bravo to them! :)

Another 20-30 pages to Freedom

Got to finish the book, a long walk to freedom by Mandela; since I have some free time.

Nice book, even got a lot of sense of humour, etc.

Advice from my Dad

After I work for a few years, I remember my dad advice me to find a company which do business which can supply infinite income to my pay cheque; example, A company which can supply basic necessity for mankind. Basic necessity like food, shelter and clothing.

A company that produce rice, sugar, flour etc. is consider a stable company.

But since the 'layoff' hot period during the early 2000, I don't think joining a company, with stable income is a good idea anymore.

I think we need a tool to get income. Just like what Kiyosaki taught us - our brain! Like what he advice us, we should always use our brain power to get money. His book really change my thinking of how we should handle money. Now I understand.

Rich and Poor Dads

Finished reading Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad; which I have to put Nelson Mandela's Long Walk of freedom on hold for a while. Saki's book remind me of Dal's 'hate' email (written in my blog a few days ago.) She's right when she said, as an employee, we're all spending our time and making money for the employer we served. This is what Kiyosaki called a 'RatRace'. In the book, he want us to break away from this cycle of rat race. Offered a few advice.

I like the part When Dal mentioned how one of her colleague, believe that a certifacate is more important then attending workshops. Maybe her colleague think that it is more marketable, if one move to another company.

If you get a certificate, you only get what you learn in a classroom, learn the theories. However, you don't have real life expereince.

If you attended a workshop, you get the instrctor to simulate the problem, right in front of your eyes, probably you will not understand or understand very little; about the theories, at the moment.

Who should an employer hire? Depends on how much the employer know about the knowldge or expertise of the skill involve.

An Employer can access the candidate by hiring another expert in the field to access the knowledge of the candidate. That's what I did once, for free for one of my friend, looking for an Oracle Forms and Reports.

One should look for a interest group that can both share knowledge and experience together. I think Toastmasters is one of such program.

I wish someone one day can form an Oracle Users Group here.

Mandela and Gandhi

Reading Mandela's autobiography, Long walk to freedom, now.

I really like his usage of English words, I remember the first time I read his writings from the TIME magazine 'Person of the Century" edition, he likes to mix simple and difficult words together ... he wrote something like " constitution and guns " ... something like that.

Can't wait to go back and continue his book. A lot of times about his struggle as a Freedom Fighter, compare to Malcom X autobiography, he's book is 'less hate' sentences or sometimes I don't feel any 'hate' words at all. I see a lot of struggle in his book, and he uses a lot of laymen's term, I think. Easy to understand...

Gandhi inspired him. I quickly go and watch the VCD which I bought since 1999 last Saturday! His story is also very inspiring! How he try to defy the British, The walk to ??? to make salt.
Bapuji Gandhi!

One day I am going to make a speech about them :)

Top-N, Rank() and Partition

To get Top-N, and rank; Can do this:


SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT b.ap_prog_code, b.dealer_code, b.no_of_outlets, b.trans_Date,
rank() OVER
(
PARTITION BY b.ap_prog_code, b.dealer_code
ORDER BY trans_Date DESC
) rank_date
FROM OUTLET b
)
WHERE rank_date = 1