Manusia Mudah Lupa!

As I flip through the newspapers, sometimes I feel I’ve entered a time machine and it’s taken me back, waaaayy back. It’s so damn ridiculous that some idiots are still not learning from mistakes like the Highland Towers episode for one.

It’s really mind boggling how things work here sometime – they seem to forget so easily the lives that have been lost due to bad planning. Everytime a landslide happens, God is blamed, the weather is blamed, everyone is blamed, except for the real morons who should be help 100% responsible. You know who you are.

Then there are the floods. Perhaps Proton should look into making boats not cars at the rate the banjir kilat is happening all over the place. At least then, they might start making a profit.

There is little wonder why the politicians, and supposed powers that be forget. It’s because of a four letter word called D-U-I-T (money). Pay offs are so
frequent that it is discussed so openly. How you sleep at night knowing that that grand house you’ve bought has been paid for by blood money. Wouldn’t be poetic justice if it all goes under a landslide.

Stupid Decisions that Will Mess up your Credit

At a time like this, when jobs and finances are going to hell, the last thing you want is to create a bigger fire to slowly roast yourself alive. These are some things you should definitely think about – and it might just save your skin.

• Cosign for relatives/friends

When you're asked to cosign for someone, the creditor has determined that it does not trust that person to repay the loan. The creditor insists on you putting up your money, your property, your future income and your good name to guarantee that the loan will be repaid.

If your relative does not pay, the creditor will come after you. The creditor does not have to try to collect from the relative. If you do not pay it, and it will looks just as bad on your credit as if it were a loan to you.

• Take out a second mortgage to pay off credit card debt.

If you borrow on you home, you will increase the monthly cost to stay in your home which could result in its loss if your financial circumstances worsen.

In addition, you will be converting short term debt--debt which should be paid off in a matter of months--into long term debt which will take years, or even decades to pay off. Even worse, you may be tempted to again run up the charge cards which you have been paid off so that you have lost your equity in your home for nothing.

A Dream called outLOUD Academy

It has been three years in the making and at I knew what the outLOUD Academy will come to fruition – and it has been well worth the wait. For the record, this has long been a dream of mine – to create and set up Malaysia’s very first Hollywood style talent discovery and development agency.

I can never say enough about discovering and developing people to meet their best and fullest potential – I am passionate about it. With the outLOUD Academy, I get to take this one step further.

One other push factor that led to the outLOUD Academy is what I’ve witnessed personally with regard to how some Malaysian celebrities are managed so badly. A lot of them are dealt with like they are fresh meat, and those that are not are usually cut a deal far less than what they deserve. They say, if you want to get a job done, them do it yourself. Instead of bitching about it, I decided to set up the outLOUD Academy.

I am confident that with this truly exceptional academy, Malaysian talents will be nurtured, developed and enjoy sustainable careers. We will not just do it but do it exceptionally well with an end to end service provided to them from casting, training and management of their career. Watch us make it happen.

The Government That Never Learns

A standard dictionary will define a servant as: A person employed to assist in domestic matters; sometimes living in the employer’s house. The second definition clearly states: “A government worker.” To the best of my recollection, to serve is to prove a service to someone, but of course you do not see this in many of the government offices in Malaysia.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems as if we are the ones who have to behave dutifully whenever we have business at any government agency. We have to smile, nod and be so nice to them because we are afraid that they might just “lose” our application if we so much as frown.

Don’t you also get the feeling that some of them go out of their way to make things difficult for you? We are the midst of applying for a company signage. Each time we propose a name, they contest it and give stupid suggestions that don’t work. And so, what would perhaps take a month to approve, takes half a year.

Can someone enlighten me on the great level of “difficulty” involved in signage approval? Does it take back breaking work and scientific formulas? I don’t think so. If it did, we wouldn’t have the kind of people we do right now working in these departments. What’s really irksome is that they are so non customer-oriented and are oblivious to the fact that we are paying their salaries.

Just wait until the next election comes along. We will rid their lazy behinds and when out of a job, they might then truly understand the meaning of what it is to be a servant. Idiots!