THE STAR 13 January 2011

Pembinaan BLT plans RM10b sukuk (B1, StarBiz)

Pembinaan BLT Sdn Bhd, an entity under the Ministry of Finance Inc, is raising RM10bil worth of sukuk in order to fund the construction of police quarters and facilities under the “build, lease and transfer” (BLT) model. The BLT model, a form of private finance initiative under the broad umbrella of public-private partnerships, has been used before to fund infrastructure projects in Malaysia.

Getting a head of risk on board (B7, StarBiz)

Appointing a dedicated head of risk to serve the board of an insurer is becoming an increasingly common global practice aimed at providing assurance to the board on the quality of risk management within the firm. This would allow for an independent assessment of a company’s risk exposure without pandering to profit and loss targets, said head of local insurers.

EU weighs aid for Portugal (B8, StarBiz)

European governments are considering aid for Portugal, debt buybacks, lower interest rates on rescue loans and guarantees against excessive debt as part of a package to quell the financial crisis, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks. The plan, which may include a loan to Portugal of about 60 billion euros (US$78bil) and purchases of outstanding Greek debt, would mark an attempt to contain a crisis that has frustrated unprecedented efforts by policy-makers to calm markets and raised questions about the health of the 17-nation euro economy.

SC In the News (THE STAR)

Zarinah: Bigger companies’ CR reporting quality has improved (B4, StarBiz)

The standard and quality of corporate responsibility (CR) reporting by the larger listed companies have improved, according to Securities Commission Chairman Tan Sri Zarinah Anwar. Zarinah, who is also chief judge of the StarBiz-ICR Malaysia Corporate Responsibility Award 2010, said CR reporting had come a long way since the CR awards was introduced in 2008 for listed companies on Bursa Malaysia.

100th post already~

moning dear readers,

what a date to get the 100th post~ i like~

the Royals Debating Championship has just ended. the seniors manage to break. CLAP CLAP.

i really2 envy them for being able to participate but no sweat, i shall join the 2011 Royals~ :D

congratz to the seniors, juniors and everyone for giving their best to the cause of the team!

i am tired right now. although my eyes cant sleep anymore.. getting used to the biological clock maybe.

right now, at my work place, i am seriously thinking back. what have i learn, for the past two years, that are implemented at this place. well, the name is already knowledge management department and i do have a major of the same name but i still not managed to see anything related to what i have studied.

to be frank, it seems like i am part of a committee of an event or club which needs some jobs to be done. that's all! you know, when you join an event or a club, all of your knowledge about academics are not largely used.

maybe later i must think of something technical.. perhaps..

well, for the 100th posts, i shall say that my brother has invited me to join fishing later this evening although i might not be going because i need to kemas2 this room here.. sigh..

haa! i got good news dear not-so-many-readers~~~

i have a car already~ under my name, and it is a viva elite exclusive edition with the colour purple-like-maroon. BLB 3679~

it is a blessing.. i m very2 fortunate to have got this car. alhamdullillah... btw, of course my mama is the one that pays for it. i just need to pay for the toll and fuel. fuh~

although the work at SC is not related to my field, not so much, but the working environment there is awesome~~ i have made many2 friends there. they all are very entertaining~ although they are very old, to my standards, but they behave like people of my age~ or the other way around though..

nonetheless, i shall cherish everything and everyone there. people there are awesome and friendly and never pushed me like i am an intern. to be frank, i dont even being treated like one. it is just that, i am the one that wants to be known as an intern.

well, like everyone always said, there are good times and bad times in life.. i just hope that the bad time is not as bad as it is..

what else? oh ya, today, my best buddy, gowe~ is getting engaged. and i cant go there. i m sorry my brother~ i promise u, your wedding, i shall come lightheartedly~ may your engagement brings happiness to my dear friend. what a date to be engaged~

oh ya, another note, i have been involved in an accident la.. very bad accident that i turned turtle for 360 degrees. the car has been a wreck. however, i am lucky that i managed to escape without any harm.. imagine, being in a car, then the car turn turtle, and managed to get back to its 4 tyres while the engine and radio are still on. i m a very lucky guy. even the doctor at the clinic also said that and i quote "Malaikat selamat kan awak ni".. the car is a total wreck. it is the most unforgettable experience ever in my life. being in an intersection of life and death.

right now, i am resting. i dont want to do heavy2 stuffs. but it is the weekend and most of my friends are longing to enjoy.. sigh.. it is a sacrifice i must made lah..

well, till next time la kot. may your days ahead are happy always.

my god, i think that my english has worsen.. serious problem..

100th post~

oh sh*t

my biggest fear is served on a plate.

after just 5 days of working in office, i am confronted with a fever, flu and headache a bit.

well, that is not my biggest fear. as of yesterday, i almost dozed off while driving back home. at a traffic light. and i am tad lucky that yesterday, the traffic is not as horrible as it used to be. i cant imagine myself in an accident because i am having an accidental nap in the car.

how to curb this? i tried putting the radio on as loud as it can and i try to wiggle myself in the chair with the rhythm of the music. it failed. i tried my best to eat something. it failed. i even dozed off while trying to dance myself at the driver seat. that is horrible!

i am not quite sure what is the source of this epidemic. i guess that it is the by-product of fever + flu + not enough sleep. today, i am wearing sweater all day long until now. i kept on drinking hot plain water = air kosong, xkn zero water kot..

i do hope that yesterday's disease is a yesterday's disease and not a plague that will haunt me for the next 8 months.

to cheer things up, i had had lunch with Tan Sri Zarinah Anwar. the chairman of SC! there was this end of year party being held for my business group (within the business group, there are numerous other dept including mine) and almost all of the executive director was there. despite those bad remarks about her and her husband, i do believe that SC would not just choose a bad person to be a chairman.

that is all for now, and FYI syahmi, i do my updates here cause when i got back home, i want to rest and not to dwell on any mental activities. lol.

till next time~

:D

The Start of Something Brilliant! I guess

12 hours of the day, maybe 13 hours, spent by doing this:

6.30 am, wake up from my routine sleep.

6.50 am, start the journey to Mont Kiara

7.45 am, arrive at SC

12.30 pm, go lunch

2.00 pm, go back to the (workdesk 1 and 1/2 hour lunch time! :D)

2.30 pm, zohor (tetap gune waktu len utk solat kan!)

4.45 pm, asar

5.15 pm, start the journey back home

7.00 pm, arrive home. (notice the time difference here?)

noteworthy statements: KL is full of cranes and lorries and bulldozers that is also using the road during peak hours. how menacing.. why dont you go to your workplace or from your workplace to your home using something else. something must be done to curb this.. sigh..

in irony, i got to listen to those morning crews from various radios more often now. they are kinda funny and always do funny stuffs.

oh ya, instead of hoping for a better internet connection, i guess i should have not expect more out of it.

thats all, gotta go back to work..

till we meet again~

if we ever meet again fellas.

well, that is not what i wanted to write here. after today, i would not be seeing most of my frens again. well, my coursemates, i would definitely see you guys again. but those debaters, best friends of mine, most of them, i would not see them again, in UTP that is.

well, why did i make such a fuss about this? because i truly appreciate the connection that i managed to get here. most of the time, i would be a lone ranger with one or two close friends. however, here, i have many many close friends. all of those i share most of my joys and laughter together. not to mention those tears that accompany us always.

it is not easy to find a close friend. i am glad that i managed to get those during my three years tenure in UTP so far. the coming years, i do hope that it would be better than this. i've learnt a lot of new things, gather valuable experiences. most of it all, i get to taste the true meaning of friendship.

we are separated, but we shall never let our bond disappears away.

to recap, this semester starts well. with me spending my time with syahmi and azmidi. but in the middle, drama starts to unfold. lack of sleep, tears flying here and there, sadness creeps in. but we managed it through nonetheless. there were the tiny fights between syafiq and wadi and rahman. and not to forget the quarrels with maria as well. birthdays that we celebrated. tambun with debaters and the late ahmed. i just sometimes cant believe myself. how could so many things happen in a very short time.

so many things happen through the years. i just can say it all here. i just want to show how much i really appreciate every single thing about it and how i will always cherish it. for the rest of my life.

there will always be someone that i would rather look forward to meet in the next 10 months. that would be you-know-who. i will try my best to come regularly to UTP. i want to show to her that those glimpses are only a glitch that bears no significant issue. i want to give her what she deserve after all of the things that she had done for me. i will be putting you in my top lists. dont you worry about that my dear. i will.

to all my batch mates jan 08, we will always be friends. no matter what.

with that, i hereby end the UTP session of this blog for the next 10 months.

thank you.

the aftermath

in less than 9 hours, i would be sitting in my last examination paper for the semester.

to glimpse into the future, in one week time, i would be sitting in my office desk. for the first time ever in my life, i would be granted my own office cubicle (that is if my company do uses cubicle).

in more or less than a month time, we would be ending the year 2010 already. in more or less than a month, christmast.

now, i am being bugged by a minor probs in my pc. i cant seem to play longer than 10 minutes or else, the pc would shut down by itself. that i believe delivers a major blow to my life! how can i play games for 10 minutes? the screen would just go blank, the sounds would be turned off and there would be no more control to it. ctrl+alt+del isnt helping. without the blue screen warning as well. but the irony is, all the fans would still be spinning around, mocking me.

my solution, wait till my examinations are over, i am going to bring home my precious and discover the problems there. there is nothing that i can do now. face it, my pc is one of my most precious assets due to its data that resides within it and the amount of time and effort that i have put into it to just bring it to my life. hence, i must to something to protect it from harm.

pc problems aside, it would be daunting to be sitting in an office cubicle. i just cant imagine it. like the first time that i enrol in UTP or i enrol in my SMAPK. there are a lot of emotions going through me at this time. the sadness of leaving the comfort zone in the name of utpians and to venture out to a company alone, all by myself. i do hope that i would found someone better there as i always do so~ :P

maybe, i might be able to update my blog daily. that is one possibility~ although i doubt that the amount of readers would increase drastically or even increase. i mean, to be frank, i seriously dont think that someone or something is even reading this blog. well, dont be offended. i know the status of a miscellaneous blogger that feels his stories are worth it to be spent on.

nonetheless, i would still be writing here, i told you before, the blog is one of my assets to deliver my feelings to the public (the internet is huge people~). i will strive to do so.

btw, for my pc probs, if anyone have any suggestions about how to fix it, feel free to share it with me via any means possible. i would seriously appreciate it~

till then guys, i need to study. one last push for glory~

persevere

perseverance is one of the most toughest things to do.

to be motivated through out. the whole idea itself is something daunting to do.

admit it, one always be motivated, hyped, pumped, in it, whatever you want to call it, in the beginning stages only. you have your goals, your aim, your target. everything is there. in the middle of it all, just falters down as time wears one out. it is the same routine over and over again is what exactly makes one feels demotivated and bored.

well, basically, i am kinda demotivated for two things now, fitness and also my studies (obviously). the whole idea of doing the same thing over and over again with very little effect is so damn tedious. i mean, face it, especially during my workouts, i can only see very little visible effect. my stomach is still flabby. nothing almost changes and that sucks.

for my studies, sometimes i do feel so damn tired of all of this. i want to play games, watch movies, not sitting under constant pressure all the time. not being able to procastinate whenever i wanted. not being feel like there is one chain tying my freedom. that is stress my dear readers. i am totally stressed out with it.

but, in the end, i know what i want. i know how i am going to get it. i know why i want it. i want a shaped body cause i want to prove to myself that i will never ever stay flabby all the time. i can get atleast a lean stomach. i want to get good grades cause i know the benefits of it in the future. the current cgpa is totally not enough to land me a decent job. i need to do more as i want to get a salary.

i have my targets and at times, i feel that it is unreachable but i want it and i never feel that i want it badly. hope that i can lasts that for a while. two more days. two more days to 10 care free months from assignments, tests and final exams. i must make an impact in these two days.

to all of those who have finished their exams, this might be a time to get me a merchandise or whatever cause probably, i wont be seeing you guys ever again!

with that, see you guys later~