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Ms. J-L’s birthday and a night of Acquire

25 Wednesday Nov 2009

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Last Saturday was J-L’s birthday. A great and classy lady with cheerful demeanor.

The birthday was held at Mezze, Damansara Height (behind Victoria Station).

Meze or Mezze also means finger-food / small dishes in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Sort of like Tapas of Spain or h’or d’oeuvres of France.

Appetizer Chulet & OFM tried

1)      Lamb Cutlet – this is really good. Definitely thumbs up

2)      Pancetta and Prawn Tempura – interesting. It was serve with garlic + wasabi sauce.

Main

1)      Barbecued Spatchcock Chicken – Spring chicken. Well marinated. Juicy and not too overly done.

2)      Ballotine of Lamb – Marinated lamb served on cous cous. Love the cous cous. Lamb was ok only.

Right after dinner, some of us proceed to have coffee at Mont Kiara coffee-bean.

Around 1am, everyone decided to crash into A&D’s new pad for a game of Acquire. That was my first time visiting A&D’s new place. It is so beautifully done up.Very stylist and love the colors.. Congrats on the new place !! 🙂

That night was also my first time playing the game Acquire. At first it was super confusing. Since chulet didn’t have her Camera with her, she didn’t manage to get a picture of the board-game. But she found one that looks so cool from http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquire.htm

 

Quick Summary : Max. 6 player. Each player gets about 6 tiles, if combine 2 tiles together, can build hotel. After placing one tiles on the board, you can take another one. You can buy share of the hotel after you place a tile. If you build the hotel, you can get one free share. Each time, you are limited to only 3 shares (from any hotel). The more tiles surround the hotel, the higher the share value to the share holder. Merger of hotels can also happen. So, it is interesting to trade shares, sell or keep (if the player thinks that there’s still opportunity for that hotel to be re-open again). It’s about balancing cash, shares and knowing which hotel to grow and keeping your triumph tiles.

Amazingly, Chulet got the second place. ;P

Yay !!

Daddy’s little girl

04 Wednesday Nov 2009

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After waiting for 9 long months, his princess is finally here.

The moment her little fingers pressed against his palm, she’ll always have the power to twist him around her little finger.

Holding her hand, reassuring her on her first day of school.

Staying with her when she ask you to help her choose colours for her colouring homework.

Trusting her with your car when she finally got her driving license.

Rushing home everyday to catch a glimpse of her before sleeping.

Laughing at all the jokes and silly things she does.

Giving her anything she desires.

 

Watching her go off to Uni. Bringing back her boyfriend to you. Throwing the poor guy the ‘I-am-watching-you’ look.

Worrying for her when she come home late.

Attending her graduation. Feeling proud of her.

Seeing her struggle with the transition to work life.

Up till then, she always know you will always be there for her.

 

Suddenly, things changed.

It is no longer the same. For you have no longer know how to talk to your little girl anymore.

She has different priority in life, perhaps, so have you.

He wonders : Is she still his little girl? Or somebody else’s girl?

She wonders : Am I still important to dad? Does daddy still care?

She stops holding daddy’s hand. perhaps he won’t like it.

He stops holding her hand. She needs to be independent and grow up.

 

Now,

Father and Daughter standing together. Silence. Not knowing how to talk to each other any more.

Once, she would have told him everything. Once, he would have listen with a smile.

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Yes Master…

02 Monday Nov 2009

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Labor law defines emploment as master servant relationship in many countries.

In the older day, employee are loyal and faithful. Many books wrote how servants serve their master even when they receive no pay. However it is commonly observed that employee today no longer display such valued characteristic.

Many are willing to switch Master even with the offer of little increment (sometimes for even as little as USD 1/day). Personally, I have nothing against looking for better opportunity. But, I believe that it should be done with dignity and intregicity. In many cases, some of these employee were offered the better pay due to leaking secret information to their Master’s competitor. OR, in some cases, stealing the company’s client and bringing them to another place.

Some employee took advantage of the labor law (which was there to protect them) to sqeeze their master for more. They are the expert of the law and will find loop holes and use it to force their boss to act. it is common to hear of terms suh as unfairly dismissal or constructive dismissal.

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 When the employee sues the company, many times, they company will just pay them 3 – 6 months salary to settle out of court. I have heard one case where the employee who was the purchaser, start a company to sell goods to his Master’s company. When the company management found out of these, they request he resign in return of not bringing charges to him. What did this guy do? He smartly file for constructive dismissal and was awarded back pay and compensation close to millions !! Sad isn’t it?

And people wonder why some companies are so mean and no longer wants to display any kindness to the employee. Perhaps we (the servant) should ask ourself first if we are taking our job and responsibility seriously. Performing it with intregrity and serving our boss with loyalty.