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Taken from DDO,

This anecdote is an excerpt from the 1991 book In Search of Excess: The Overcompensation of American Executives by Graef Crystal (pgs. 83-84):

Some years ago, I found myself hitching a ride on the corporate jet of one of my clients. A board meeting had just been held, and the jet was flying to Chicago with a group of outside directors. I was busily reading the Wall Street Journal and trying not to eavesdrop on the conversations that were taking place, but I couldn’t help overhearing the following exchange.

Director 1 to Director 2: “Hey, Don, I just read in the paper that you retired as CEO of the XYZ Company. So what are you going to do to keep busy?”

Director 2: “Well, I’m going to be a consultant to my former company.”

Director 1 (with a trace of sarcasm): “What exactly does that mean?”

Director 2: “If you must know, I’m going to be a sexual consultant.”

Director 1: “A sexual consultant! What’s that?”

Director 2: “Well, when my former company signed me up as a consultant, they told me: ‘If we want any of your fucking advice, we’ll call you!’”

which reminds me that of another quote

Do you like sex and traveling?
If yes, FUCK OFF!!!

Whatever you have done in college time, it is going to be good memories especially when we bring it to the reunion time. Thus I believe that I have done something worthwhile to remember about since. The problem is that I can’t really remember what I have done right during my 4 years in TAR College.
One of my college buddies often regards me as a disgrace or an embarrassment to the family. In Chinese it is called “羞家”.
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Love is the answer - but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

Woody Allen

“Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us chance to show how badly we want something.”

- Randy Pausch “The LAST LECTURE”

Brick Wall

After a hectic Friday and Saturday, I can finally laid back and enjoy the books I recently bought. Managed to finished The Alchemist and now just started with the other book, “The Last Lecture”.

I was browsing through MPH the other day and couldn’t help but to get this book. In fact, I was contemplating whether to choose this over the “Mister Pip”. It was a decision to be made there and then before the screening of the movie “Sun also rises, The”

Coming back to the above quote, it just reminds me that I have to consistently and persistently be there. I just need to overcome the brick walls. And only the persistency and consistency will. Even though the brick wall that I have smashed into, it really hurts. Yet having another word of wisdom from Jordan Koh last time was that we need to consistently hitting the brick. The first time, the wall might not break. The second, it might not as well. Even the third or numerous time. It you give up at the 76th times, and then you actually just need the 77th times to break it down wouldn’t it seems that too much wasted?

It is not an easy task. The brick walls are there for a reason. I just couldn’t help it but to borrow another quote from Randy, “And if she does love you, then love will win it out”. Hence, be supportive - this I am telling myself.

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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Muhammad Ali

If today were confidence vote, all roads will be blocked except the route to the Parliament

Since yesterday were no-confidence vote day, all roads was congested due to the roadblock to Parliament.

*note: I was stuck on my way to Parliament around 2.50pm, even was raining but the dedication of the law enforcement to continue operate the roadblock impress me.

and I’m lovin’ it

Theodore Parker described democracy as ‘a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people’. Winston Churchill was perhaps more realistic when he called it ‘the worst system of government except for all the rest’. Whichever definition is preferred (and they are not necessarily contradictory), most of us who have experienced democracy would not want to exchange it for any other system of government. But what kind of economic regime is best suited to real democracy? That question is too often ignored by economists.

Democracy assumes that ordinary people are wise enough to elect a government. If so, surely they are more than capable of deciding how best to spend their own money. And yet in the western European democracies people regularly vote for governments that take between 40 and 50 per cent of their incomes in taxation. In so doing they are saying that fallible politicians know better than they do themselves how to provide the health, education and other services that they need. The Adam Smith Institute has calculated that for the UK Tax Freedom Day falls on 30 May.

Even those on very low incomes are taxed to the hilt. For example workers on the minimum wage of £4.85 an hour start paying income tax after 19 hours work a week. By the time they have worked 27 hours, they are paying 33p in every extra pound in income tax and national insurance. Gordon Brown, with the agreement of the electorate, taxes the poor into greater poverty! How did we arrive at this crazy system?

In short, because we expect the government to do far too much for us. And as that attitude developed during the twentieth century our democracy gradually changed into what Ralph Harris has rightly called a ‘demockery’. To reverse this trend will require radical, new thinking on the part of people and politicians and a very large reduction in taxation and government expenditure. If the government were to stick to its basic roles of defence, maintaining law and order and providing a temporary safety net for those who had fallen on hard times, taxation could be reduced to between 10 and 15 per cent of GDP and Tax Freedom Day would be in February. Many taxes could be abolished and others slashed. The UK would become the world’s most dynamic economy as well as the truest democracy.

taken from Adam Smith Institute Blog

or from Winston Churchill

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

~ Winston Churchill

and everything about Democracy

I still love Malaysia. Let’s go vote today

Yes! I manage to go to the exhibition yesterday. After all, all I have was time since I got another meeting in Puchong in the evening. So, I queued up for nearly 40 minutes before it was my turn.

Finally, I was been given the Cambodia’s version of the story. Narrated from the child’s view, it took me all the way back to Srey Mom younger time. From her birth to her teens, how she overcome struggles and being forced into prostitution.

The exhibit was impressively set up. Simple but good enough for one to see it from the children eyes. How they have endures this kind of life. Putting myself in their shoe, do you want your kids to go through that stages?

Location?

KL - DUMCwas the first to held it (until July 13 - Yesterday) and later Penang, Kuantan and Johor.

For those in KL, no worries. The exhibit will then be back to KL again. So, waste not these precious time and go to have a view of it.

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