Musical 'Experiencing God'

Trinity Methodist Church, instead of putting up a Christmas cantata this year, (as per past years) will instead be doing a musical entitled 'Experiencing God'. This is part of the church outreach program to the community.

The musical was featured in the Star newspaper on Saturday, Metro section.

The first performance was held to a packed church yesterday morning. I think this was probably the most packed Sunday ever in the church!! There was only 1 service instead of the normal 830AM, 1045AM and 6PM services, which will explain the packed attendance. There were also many visitors.

The most important part of all, there were also many who responded to the altar call..

If you have time, drop by for a repeat performance either on the 5th or the 6th Dec, at 8PM.

To God be the Glory.

Namewee Screws TNB

His language is a bit on the 'adult' side, but I support what he did.

it is absolutely unacceptable that TNB should be so arrogant, so uncaring, and absolutely so despicable. Just because Malaysians have no other choice does not mean we can be taken for granted.

Namewee, I support your action.

guess what building this is....

Took photos of a place i visited recently. A rather posh, well lay out building that provides accommodation.

Have a look...






This was taken at a HOSPITAL..!!

Believe it.

Bugatti Veyron - going for a swim

If you guys know about cars, you would know about the Beyron from Bugatti. It is just about the most powerful production car. In Malaysia, with our incredible duty, my guess is it will cost more than RM15 million.

In this video, you will see a rather spectacular way on how to blow a couple of million RM!!

Enjoy

Finance Minister...??

The toll problem of 'private' highways in Malaysia which are normally built with funds from the public (on at least guaranteed by the public via short fall annual compensation) is a perennial issue that just refuses to go away.

Malaysia must be one of the few countries in the world where there is absolutely zero risk for a 'private' company that is fortunate enough to be given a toll highway concession. In any business, especially where private equity/loan is used to fund a venture, the investor would do unending due diligence and studies to ascertain viability of a project. If the project shows unfavourable return, and there are no alternatives, the project would be abandon.

Not so in Malaysia; all one needs to do is get the concession, and even if the project shows negative return, dont worry, the government will compensate you, annually, if at the end of the day, no one uses the highway because it is too expensive, there is absolutely no difference between using the highway or public road since both are equally jammed up, or your financial projections were so optimistic that you knew there would be shortfall for the next 20 years in terms of utraffic volume, fret not. The government will pay you!!

So, what is there to worry?

And now we have this so called Minister telling the whole world that it will take some RM231 billion to take over the highway because he has factor in 'future incurring cost'. That is the same as saying, tomorrow we will pave the highway with gold, or why even stop at RM231 billion? Why not go all the way and say it will cost us RM450 billion in the future??

This has got to be the most 'stupid' comment from a person who is suppose to be the person in charge of the financial health. Either he is completely devoid of business sense or he is really stupid.

take you pick..

Here is the story....

OSCA Nite 2009

Imagine meeting classmates you have not met for some 28 years; what would be the questions? Would you recognise them? Have they changed? Have you changed? Do they still have hair? Are they more rounded? What do they do now?

The Ex-Sabah Collegians Association (OSCA) held it's reunion dinner at the Pacific Sutera Hotel in Kota Kinabalu on 6th Nov 2009. The guest of honour was the Chief Minister of Sabah, Datuk Musa Aman, who apparently was also an ex collegian.

The event and speeches were more akin to some political gathering since the speeches were constantly punctuated with the current hip phrase of '1this' and '1that'. There were words like '1Malaysia', '1Sabah', '1Osca' and a few other '1's'. It was really getting rather political; i thought reunions of old friends are normally times to remember olden days, naughty events, misdeeds, good deeds, friends gone, friends afar...

Anyway, despite all that, it was a good evening for the form 5 students of year 1981. There were some 30 of us; the single largest year! And it was truly amazing and fun to meet with friends whom we last met after form 5, 28 years ago. Our group was one of the 'younger' group and we had to show our age by being the loudest. The jabbering and laughter constantly punctuated the air despite the on going speech from none other than the CM himself. Heck, we were there as equals, ex collegians of a once great institute of learning, and we were meeting long lost friends; who the heck would have time to listen to political speeches? We were certainly not there to 'bodek' the CM with so called 'spontaneous' claps everytime he made some remarks. We were certainly not in mood to listen...!!

Whether this will be the first and last time we attend this event has yet to be seen. It is probably more enjoyable if we had something to ourselves...

BUT, the fun was in meeting with old friends again.

Bangkok, Thailand

Was in Bangkok last week to attend, of all subject matters, a conference on Hospital Resources and Financial Optimisation. The venue was the Landmark Bangkok, which is quite a nice and swanky hotel.

The event itself was an eye opener. The level of professionalism and capabilities of private hospitals in Thailand was simply amazing. For example, the Bumrungrad Hospital, is more akin to a 5 stars hotel than a hospital!! Compared to what we have as being the best now in Malaysia, presumably the Prince Court Hospital, Bumrungrad is amazing.

The medical staffs at these private hospitals are well recognised experts in their own rights, and a few, quite internationally known as well.

It is time for Malaysians to stop deluding ourselves with what we think we have and be realistic. The Thais have far outpaced us and they are well pulling ahead of us this very moment.

Malaysia's private health care has a long way to go....