Tak Kebelakang la! ada sikit maju depan

1. Minggu lepas pada tahun baru Cina kami sekeluarge ke Melaka, setelah agak beberapa tahun tak ke pekan Melaka nampak ada la berubahan. Terkejut jugak tengok jumlah kereta yang sampai dari semua arah selepas tol Air keroh, aku tak rasa melaka pernah kena traffic jam yang macam ni sebelum ni.








2. Antara politician Melayu yang aku paling kurang berkenan adalah Ali Rustam, bukan apa masa jadi Timbalan Menteri Pangangkutan dalam satu temuramah RTM dia kata "kenapa la lori-lori kita ni selalu aksiden, tengok kapal terbang berjam jam terbanag tapi jumlah kemalangan boleh kata kan tak de" sejak dia buat kenyataan macam tu terus aku hilang respect kat Mamat ni, boleh ke dia samakan bawak lori dengan bawak kapalterbang...tepuk dahi aku.


3. Tapi kali ni aku puji dia, namapak Melaka di bawah pimpinan Ali Rustam ada la kemajuan terutama dalam bidang pelancungan, nampak keseriusan beliau. Mungkin sebab benda ni kena dengan dia tak perlu fikir banyak-banyak, ataupun idea ni datang dari kontraktor yang create the jobs.


4. Satu benda yang aku suka adalah river cruise dan macam mana dia orang upgrade Sungai Melaka, well done kalau buat betul betul boleh tiru venice. Dah lama aku nak tengok sungai sungai kita walau pun keruh tapi ada proper wall at each side, aku tengok di Banagkok ada malahan sungai di sana dijadikan jalan pengangkutan utama yang murah untuk feri feri.


5. pemandanagan sepanjang Sungai tak lah begitu impresive sebab melalui belakang rumah kedai tapi ada effort untuk cantik kan kedai kedai ni. Perjalanan bermula di Taman Rempah dan melalui kampung melayu melaka dan berpusing di bandar hilir sebelum pulang di Taman Rempah.







6. Banyak tempat sebenarnya kat Melaka ni boleh di lawati, memang rasanya datuk Ali berjaya la jadikan Melaka salah satu tempat pelancongan di Malaysia. Mungkin salah satu sebab lokasi yang terletak kat tengah tengah antara kawasan tengah dan selatan malaysia menjadikan masa perjalanan yang tak terlalu lama. Memang semua tahu kesan sejarah di Malaka yang secara automatik menjadikan Melaka sebuah tempat lawatan yang informatif. Walaupun begitu segala "effort" yang telah ditunjukkan oleh orang Melaka memang patut di beri pujian.








7. Lawatan kali ni bersama famili cuma kami melawat rumah tradisional Melayu Melaka di perigi Hang Tuah. Kami tak ke tempat lain sebab terlalu sesak. Kami akan datang pada hari minggu yan lain bukan masa cuti perayaan seperti ini. Aku suka rumah ni sebab tangga yang memang trademark rumah orang Melaka.
Tahniah orang Melaka kerana mejadikan Melaka tempat yang menarik, tapi kebersihan harus dijaga denagan lebih baik.

Negara Belakang kita @ Country at the back of us

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My Machine in Black

1. Negara belakang kita means Thailand, if we facing south. I pick up this title because last week I drove down there up to Songkhla via Bukit Kayu Hitam checkpoint.

2. The journey take me around 6 hours, departing KL around 4pm. It is worthwhile journey even though it is a long drive north. The weather along the way was good except that the traffic was quite heavy due to long CNY holiday.

3. I am passing the border checkpoints before 8pm, stopping at Changlon to buy car insurance before entering. This is compulsory for all Mlaysian car. Entering using personel car is not that difficult but it is not as sytematic as compared entering into Singapore.

4. Immediately after passing the checkpoint I am taken to a surprise that the road towards Hatyai is wide passig through few towns. I felt like driving in a country far away from Malaysia. What I observed that they celebrated CNY as important as in Malaysia because I can see the road being lite up with red lantern.

5. In Thailand the houses, factories and activities are close to the road, it make rather the road become more lively unlike us the NS highway passing through jungles. There are no toll, interesting, in fact I dont pay any single cents since passing the border. However a small tip from our friend local Changlon guy, always put one ringgit inside the passport, it make the border check become smoother. We followed his advice and he was right no problem or whatsoever encountered.

6. I arrived Hatyai around 8 pm local time (GMT +7). Straight away check in to Sakura Hotel located at the town centre and ready for business dinner with my client.

7. The next day early morning I checked out the hotel and ready for a short journey to Songkhla, my first destination will be the Pavilion Hotel to hae my breakfast. This is my problem whenever travelling to Thailand, the difficulty to find HALAL food. I know there are many for the fact that so many Thailand's muslim living here, but the problem is we do not have local gus that can tell us which one this is the lesson that I need to learn, get a local contact to give me information about the food.

The Pavilion Hotel Songkhla

8. Along the way, what I can see is generally Thailanders believe in god. So many tamples along the highway.

Buddist Tample along the way to Songkhla

9. Public transport was seen as an important mode of transportation in small town. It is seen in below photo. It is not a normal pick up truck!!

"The Bus"

Pasar Sehari along the way


Cables

Dulu Belakang Sekarang Depan@Last time at the back now infront

1. I saw BHO photos today in THE STAR, he was sitting down listening to his Secretary of state briefed him in standing position. The same sight may not even imagined last time the white standing while the black man sitting on his chair. This is what we call the wheel factor, when you are up not necessary you will not go down some days. Therefore we must be humble and respect each other whether if we are a leader or a follower.

2. What is leader? I would say that there is no correct definition to it. What I believe a good leader is someone that can make a group of people moves as a team to the direction he want to bring them. How they do it is up to them. Some may believe that shouting and pressuring is the best way or some may feel like listening and give instruction firmly is the best method. It all depend on what we believe but there is no one answer to it. But one thing for sure a great leader will not force the others to become like him, I mean the way he ruled. Everyone should have their own ways.

3. In business a great leader maybe judged by the profit that he made. Is it true? it might be true in the eyes of the investors but may not to his staff. In Asia we always judge a good leader is based on the $$$, even to the expense of cutting cost of normal works as well as staff benefits. This is what I like abut European leader, they always think about benefits rather than $$$ alone. They don't care if the profit is less as long as they can give as much as they can to the staff. But lately a lot of them also applying the same yard stick $$$$ to measure a good leader. I never believe in cost cutting of routine works as addtional profit.

4. Am I a good leader? yes and no. Yes, I am gifted with human relation skill. I can convince and motivate another person. No, because I am not taking care of their welfare seriously. I always avoiding conflict. I do know my strength and weakness. To be a great leader I need to concentrate to my strength which automatically eliminate my weakness.

5. What kind of future leader quality should we expect? someone that knowledgeable, good listener , can make decision with minimum errors etc. It is difficult to be the leader of the future. People are more aware and educated, you need to be at all time ahead of them. That is the answers.

Cerita Zaman Belakang@ back time story

1. I been reading few of my post in 2007 and 2008. It really funny how things changes so fast, those things that you thought will last happily ever after does not seem going to the direction anymore. That shows how things changes.

2. In my area of work, the oil price is very sensitive whether my service is required or not. We have seen how the oil price changes and drop to its low level (hopefully already reach the lowest point- which no one knows) just within 3 months. This really effect me, we just buy a new boats and she is not working because of this situation. This situation really put me under pressure...anyway without such storm life will not be interesting!

3. This is also the time that I keep on saying to myself whatever mistake I have done in the past should not be used as an excuse of my current situation. I keep on saying to myself that believe in GOD! we work hard to get things as we wish but he is the one in the end decides whether he want to give it to us or not.

4.Last night I watched the 44th President of US of A taking oath. My interest is in his speech to know whether the current financial crisis will be back to normal based on the steps he will be taken when taking office. Well BHO is not GOD, yes he now lead the most powerful country in the world, but his financial package is not guarantee a success but at least he will done something to correct the economy. One interesting part I noticed American people and during the ceremony are repeatedly saying that BHO is first African American President, and how a son from immigrant family can raise to high office. As far as I know BHO is not a son of an immigrant, his father is a university student that come to America and later on become professors (if I am not mistaken). Why they need to say he is African American?, if they are not racist just say another American. I think he is a good politician, he can really deliver good speech with confident, this is what the world need. Well I still hope the oil price will go up because of him.

5. This year I will write as much as I can about my work, politics, business, marine and my new experience. I want to share my thinking, knowledge and experiece in this blog.