Life is Beautiful

What's the big bullies said about our research in Malaysia

2008-11-18T01:34:00.001-08:00

I was in a business review meeting with my GM at my principle office last Sat. Five of us (three from my principle; the Country Manager, the Regional Business Director and the Regional Vice President) was discussing what are the strategies in 2009.

In my personal opinion, as a scientific product/ service/ solution provider, we have the responsibility in nurturing our scientific researches. But feel very sad to said this, Mr. Tan, the Regional Vice-President (a Malaysian) commented that our researches have no brain during the meeting. It is useless to emphasize too much on technical/ application knowledge when selling instruments. Just need to buy them good things is more than sufficient to close the deal.

I was shocked with his statement. I hope I will have opportunity to work with a better principle in the future that have the same mission like me -- to nurture our local researches and researchers.

2009 good year to get married?

2008-11-18T01:30:00.000-08:00

Planning to get married in 2009. Hope it will be a good fortune year :)

Bull year coming... Hoping it will be a bullish year in stock market.

P.S. I will be posting my wife-to-be photos soon. Stay tuned!

Going to be 30 lor....

2008-11-18T01:24:00.000-08:00

Looking forward for my 30th Birthday. Need to think a lots more when making decision when reach this critical age.
Hope this economy downtime won't affect too much on my plans..

Cheers!

PGL International Business School

2008-10-22T01:08:00.000-07:00

Customer ranking 101

Below is very useful guideline for sales and marketing staff to plan their visit to customer.
1 - Important and Urgent
2 - Important but Not Urgent
3- Not Important but Urgent
4- Not Important and Not Urgent

Negara Brunei Darul Salam

2008-10-22T00:54:00.001-07:00

Brunei is a good place to visit if you like nature. I got chance to visit Brunei for my business trip there. Fuel is cheap (Brunei Dollar 0.55 cents/ liter) as they are oil producing country. Brunei currency exchange rate is RM 2.4 to B$ 1.0

The link provide very informative for those would like to visit Brunei http://www.tourismbrunei.com/home.html

I stayed at The Empire Hotel during my business trip. Very worth to stay there is you able to get a good price. I am paying B$165 per night inclusive breakfast. More information can be access from http://www.theempirehotel.com/

Some photos taken at The Empire Hotel during night.

Tokyo trip 21 to 25 March 08

2008-03-26T15:31:00.000-07:00

After 6 and half hours on the plane, finally reach Tokyo at 6:30 am (Tokyo local time, GMT + 7 hours). First place to visit is a temple. Weather was cool and windy. 10 degree Celcius.

A lot of shops selling sourviniers, snacks, clothes, electronics and etc. Things are expensive over here. A small keychain can cost from 450 Yen to 850 Yen. 100 Yen is equal to RM 3.15.

Spent about 3 hours over here including lunch before going to next destination, Harajuku.

Sakura flowes blooming at the temple. Its only last for 7 days.

Jokes of March 2008

2008-03-17T06:42:00.000-07:00

Boss: Are you getting ready for the coming Tokyo reward trip?
The Kuli: Not yet.
Boss: I am bringing instant noodle cup to there. Food is expensive at there. RM 30 per instant noodle cup.
The Kuli:............................

Moral of the joke:
Bring one BIG carton of instant noodle there to sell. 200 yen per cup (equivalent to RM 6.30). Good business.

Gong Xi Fa Cai

2008-02-04T19:34:00.000-08:00

May the year of Rat bring happiness, health and weatlth to all of us.

Happy Chinese New Year and Gong Xi Fa Cai.

2007 finally ended... looking forward a better year in 2008

2008-01-11T05:45:00.000-08:00

2007 has finally comes to the end. Nothing much has been achieved althought been working hard. Feel sad about it.....
Been thinking to take a long break to freshen up my mind. How I wish I can materialized it in 2008.
I wish.... I wish.... I wish....

Joke of Jan 2008

2008-01-06T16:39:00.000-08:00

Employee: Hi boss, the goverment will increase the fuel price soon.
Boss: Yes, indeed.
Employee: The current outstation mileage claim is RM 0.35/ km. I think you should revised the rate.
Boss: But, you don't travel outstation a lot ler.
Employee: .................................................

Happy birthday, my dearest Wan Fong

2008-01-06T16:32:00.000-08:00

Happy birtday...

I like this photo very much. :)

Journey to South

2007-10-18T01:41:00.000-07:00

13th Oct 2007
The very first visit to my girlfriend's parents. Smooth sailing to south although it was a long break. Hari Raya holidays for muslims.
It was a nice meeting. Her parents has shared a lot of her growing up stories with me.

Useful link

2007-03-16T19:53:00.000-07:00

http://www.bioinfo.rpi.edu/applications/hybrid/twostate.php
http://frodo.wi.mit.edu/cgi-bin/primer3/primer3_www.cgi
http://www.basic.northwestern.edu/biotools/oligocalc.html
http://www.corbettlifescience.com
http://www.licor.com/bio/

Australia trip 2006

2007-03-16T19:43:00.000-07:00

I was in Australia during Hari Raya for product training.

Spent three days at Sydney, New South Wales for Real-time PCR training and two days at Brisbane, Queensland for automated nucleic acids extraction.