In loving memory of my beloved wife

Kampar has 8 primary schools, 5 secondary schools, 1 college and 1 university. It also has a Chinese funded private school for secondary forms. They are 3 Chinese national type primary school and 2 Indian national type primary school (SRJK) where all the subjects will be taught in native mother tongues besides English and Bahasa. Six of them are shown here except SRJK(C) Pei Yuan and SK Sentosa.

There are 5 secondary schools (and 1 privately owned) in Kampar with 3 of them had my name engraved as one of the top students for the respective form. However, I had the most wonderful school life in SM Pei Yuan as in those years, Form-4 and Form-5 students were given amble of freedom and a dedicated classroom so the students can virtually spend the whole days in school for studies, activities or "dating"

Kampar marked its name on the national news where the town was selected as the site for the University Tunku Abdul Rahman. I could not remember when was that annouced, but even myself could not believe that there will be a university in the town. The building of the U is still in progress here I included some of the best spots of the Kampar's pride. At the the Uni site is the college. The U is in grey while college in oranged building... color coded?

I am born and grew up in a small town name Kampar. It is a small town with quite a number of housing estates around making a total population of approximately 10,000. I believed 90% are chinese who are mostly speak in cantonese. Kampar is a town where gained its name because of Tin, if I am not wrong. It was once famous of tin mining and everywhere wherenever there was river, you can likely see some ladies will be busy "dulang-ing" Kampar used to have 5 cinemas which could house more than 200 audients. But now, there is none of them still operating. Some years back, Kampar also has one of the highest numbers of banks branches around (almost 15 of them) due to extremely high inflow of foreign currencies. These were all the "jump aeroplane" funds which made Kampar on the top ten list. (Jump Aeroplane = cantonese way of saying illegal work at overseas). There after, Kampar again gets another great name... the old folk town as there isn't jobs for youngsters. All its glory had been gone with the winds.

This is the railway station in Kampar. It used to be a hotspot for morning joggers. But it is now closed. Although it is still maintained but the access road is now full with shoulder-tall weeds. Locals no longer jog here. There was also no train! That is why there is a no entry site at the entrance of the station.

Kampar has added a new work-out facility and had annouced spent over million of ringgit to have this "RAKAN MUDA" sport utility buildings. These will be a great place to visit if you are keen for work out.

I had tried and owned quite a number of phones, be it Nokia (N95, N95-8G, E90, 8800 etc etc..), SonyEricsson (P1i, m600i, P990i,W810,W910,W950, K850 etc etc..), Samsung (U600,I320, I600) and LG (Viewty, Shine etc.) and Motorola (L7, A1200) etc. etc or PDA phones (D810,P800w, 838pro, atom life, ux1000, P525, P535, 818pro etc. etc.) or even the Iphone, but none of these can beat my back up phone in term of its battery life, durability, survivability to drop, throwing etc. etc. Whenever I need, it always function and never fail.

"The death of the National Service trainee on Tuesday was an isolated case, said Perak National Service Supervisory Board Chief Heng Seai Kie..." (reported on Friday 14/4/2008 N36 The star paper)

This is one statement that is extremely irresponsible! How can a person who chair / lead the state level NS quoted such irresponsible statement when there is a lost of precious human life? No matter what are the causes of the death, it is never an isolated case at all! This proven how non sensitive the so called "chief" on the matter. She could have been treating this case as other incident like non functional of some instruments, tools, machines etc. What would you think and say if the loss is indeed your loved one? Will you go on to claim this as another isolated case?

I bet she is only doing her job for the seek of her job to make some quotations as standard replies. This type of character can never be in charged for program where involved human life. It is just like another examples of nurses or doctors who are not ethical and moral in practising their profesion (remember I quote this is profesion but not job) Doctors and nurses are life saver but not just doing job for the sake of job!

What has Heng does except making such irresponsible quotes, visited the camp, "trying to understand" the situation, leave the matter to some hospital folks. I bet she is inside her air conditioned office worrying if she got more pay cut due to such incident rather than worrying how to get extra safety measures, medical program etc for the trainees.

Mr. Lee, what do you say on this? please give a thorough talk to your staffs who are not fit to the profesion at all.
What a shame for such chief!!!

I believed I read this not only in Chinese newspaper but also Malay and English newspaper that ever since BR took over the Perak state, there has been over 100 million of foreign investment rushing in to the states....

Come on, prove it with exact details and figures. Not just with quotations and a "shock-shock" answers during Q&A to please the listeners. We are not dumb! Please do not bullshit and I bet these are the bullshits only happen in Perak state. I will definitely apologize if this is real, but at this moment, I am most skeptical but only believed that this is still a baseless quatation.

Do your job right but not need to showcase in a hurry! Stop the bullshitting but get to works. You do not even has all council and state full in control yet but wanted to show as hero??? I find this is so stupid for some MPs making such "great quotation"

Nonsense is my only reply!

Whenever I am on cars either as driver or passenger, I will always tune to 988. I had been practising this since this radio launched... may be in 1997 or so...

But lately, i felt quite disappointed as it become more like a talk and talk with DJ only with jokes, silly jokes, nonsense games plays etc. which ruined my likes like before. Even worst is that and I hatred the most is the SMS request, where the DJ will simply get some questions and asked for some SMS replies (at a charge) as either yes or no, why or reasons this and that. This is so nonsense but there are even more nonsense always having tens of SMS replies to the stations...This is so ridiculous!

988, you are too overly commercial now and I bet you are making every SMS as your extra earning or either as the DJ bonus. That may be the reasons I can hear this over and over again. every minutes of it if not to be too exaggerated! Please stop it but provide with more music, songs, news that are more meaningful.

You are losing my support now. And it is quite insulting for me hearing your station again!

I believed every salary earners always will make complaints; either their work, their boss, their career leader, gossips etc. And two of the favourite questions some engineers always asked me are "Why I choose to leave Intel?" and "Isn't it Intel pays is always better and with better annual increment?" And most commonly, some even will envy being unable to join this largest chip company in the world.

I provide no answers to these questions. But I always comment that there is no work or work place that no one will not complain off. The grass are always greener else where. I always go on commenting that it is only a brand name effect. Just like girls always enjoy having envy eyes staring on their latest several thousand ringgit LV bags. But little do those envy eyes realize that for the girls to have that LV bags, there are how many struggling days were there with eating magge every days before the save up is enough. Unless the girls have a wealthy BF!

I find there is nothing marvelous about that company even though I had been with it for slightly over seven years. I eyes withnessed at least two times of VSP (voluntary separation program : a term used in Intel) with some friends leaving for no reasons or some reasons. I once joined a HK garment producing firm (which also used to be one of the largest congromolate in the world) for a short period of time but felt the warmest heart touching statements and practises. The company that has never VSP anyone even when there are hard times and the company treasured all its employees by securing their living needs.

Intel, like most semiconductor company will not be mercy to chop its employees whenever there is profit drop (although it is still earning over US$1 billion every quarter) and re-hire again when there is ramping time ahead. It never ashame on doing such practises but yet there are tonnes of people applying and feeling great being Intelliers!

I did not get the VSP as the VSP only announced a few months after I left and this made me lost at least 1 - 2 year pay of "compensation bonus". I am really envy over some of my friends having these bonus of over RM100k or more. I missed this type of fate all the while. First being Western Digital in 1999 announced VSP after three months I submitted my resignation and Intel in 2005.

But I have no regret at all. No doubt Intel did offer some ground works to my career life but I bet you will only see the real world after you come out from it. Only then, you will realize that you are indeed in a world of "simple work" when you are an intellier. Reason being, it is always easy to "nego" with your suppliers etc as being the largest company. People are rushing to offer hands to get business for. You will not learn how to really manage a crisis as there is always a backup already available within the company...

I still remember that I once heard a comment that Intellier is only great with presentations but not really in actual task. It looks good and performs good on paper. Well, may be! Conceptually one who believed and practised every Intel principles and cultures will not survive long enough elsewhere unless one change to adapt. But outsiders to intel will surely survive as the task will get simple after all as there are always at least three guys or more doing the same type of works and just need to be sell great on paper and speak aloud.

When one still inside this company, one will not understand what I had commented here. Only those that left will echo my thoughts. You will not know it when you are seeing it from outside. Once you are inside, you will realize that it is nothing special but again the same type of complaints you will make like before...

This is only the brand name effect...

I have not been going to the General Hospital at least for more than 12 years, either as visitor or patient (no, i never a patient to any hospital, touch wood!) But whenever I need to be there, that is always something that is unavoidable where I will need to adapt to it. 12 years ago, when I was still in my final year of univercity studies, my girl friend of that time suffered a stroke and was therefore admitted to the General Hospital for monitoring after she re-gained her consciousness after a day later in a town called Grik.
I remembered I used to call her at every evening through her landlord's phone at the sundry shop. (no cell phone yet like today..) and I was then informed that she was admitted to the hospital after they found her inside her room motionless... she was then diagnosed with Mitral Valve failure which required immediate replacement through operation.
12 years later now, she again being diagnosed with possiblity of Mitral Valve failure and was admitted to the GH for monitoring before condition gets worsen. I must be felt lucky that we discovered it earlier now before the disaster stroke her again although she had been complaining illness for two weeks. And I felt so guilty as I did not take her complaints seriously although I am always aware she is in these illness.
The cycle repeats as compare to 12 years ago... I was staying in KL and had a daily travel to IJN before the nights... I am now staying in Ipoh and travel daily to GH before the nights. Only different is she get elder now and weaker.

It is always not an easy journey to hospital...

This week has been really a busy week for me... where I need to split myself to office life tasks, doing household chores, taking cares of the kids etc. It is not an easy week after all.
I had been complaining that I will need to find some tasks that do not require brain power... and so I thought that household chores like floor sweeping, clothes washing (with washing machine) etc will be simple tasks that no one should make noise with. Well, after I went through a week with unavoidable exercising of these tasks, I am announcing that I am quitting!
I salute to all the house wives who do this daily non stop without any "noise" (at least my mum do not complain at all)

Today is the "official day" for "Cheng Meng". Cheng Meng is day where most Chinese will pay a respect to the ancestor by visiting to the cementery with some "offering". Most commonly the offering comes in shape of paper-made "gadgets" which could be in the form of "money, handphone, car, video... etc" which Chinese believed that after burning off these offering, the ancestors will be able to utilize such gadgets as needed at another "world". I always reject the idea of such gadget offering as I find this is a kind of tradition which Chinese needs to abandon with. At maximum, I will only agree that to burn those traditional papers. And that's all.

This year, I brought two of my sons together and my elder son poped up with a statement which I find difficult to answer with. He asked that why our ancestor's cementery is so common appearance look as compare to the two close neighbours of "well built cementery"I find it difficult to answer simply because I find that even youngster like him (in the age of 10) is already embedded with the idea of cosmetic appearance appraisal... I find myself failed in providing my kids the basic understanding of basic.

Is this an indication of materialistic world of present society?
Is this a sight of judging the book by its cover?

We had our 12th General Election on 3/8/2008 and now today is 4/4/2008 which is almost 1 month after the results of GE annouced with formation of new cabinet and new ruling state government from opposition party.

I am indeed a bit disappointed with the so called "Changes" as what shown by the "opposition" who take charge of the state government. I still yet seeing any primary policy or direction to development of the states except...
1) keep digging and exposed of the previous government possible scam or corruption
2) free this and that
3) within party or inter party non calibrated version of comments
4) fight of position as state exco or others

If this is what "opposition government" ambition to gain further popularity among the voters, Well I will be hate to say that, I would not have voted you for these type of "changes" Please show what you really intend to do with annoucing a master grand view rather than offering some pieces and pieces of "short sighted happy news"

The government is not formed with the primary intention to unveil previous government wrong doing. All had past and yet I believed that ok there could be some mis-use of power or even corruption. So what you wanna to do with those people or cases? Are you intend to get back the big sum of money or what? Forget it and please do not waste your energy in forming this and that investigation team. Focus your energy and target on how to build us a better state or country.

Tell me what you really have!