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My friend told me he received a depressing job offer. The company offered him a so-called part-time job (4 days week) with low basic salary. Told him he can make up the difference by earning his commission. When I saw the sales target given to earn the commission, it’s a full time job that requires … Read more

11 April, 2022 Today the U.S. is celebrating National Pet Day. Today, 103 years ago, the International Labour Organization was also founded. Today is 6 days before Easter, making it a Holy Monday. Today in 1970 was also when Apollo 13 was launched to the moon, failed to land & returned 6 days later. Today, … Read more

Recently a friend was telling me, he doesn’t pray to his ancestors. He then said, “We respect them while they are still alive.” I replied, “Well, funerals are always for the living. The dead are dead, they couldn’t be bothered anymore.” It reminded me the time I told another friend why I wanted to have … Read more

Conversation in the car today while we are driving to Alor Setar to visit the in-laws grave. “Do you think I am a drama queen?” “Yes.” “Is that a good thing or a bad thing?” “Why bother? It’s who you are.” “But it bothers people. Isn’t that bad?” “Then it’s their problem. So old already, … Read more

I baked a dark chocolate cake with coffee cream cheese. I baked extra to give to the security guards at my apartment. This morning I packed the cake into a paper bag and my husband asked, Why are there 2 packets of wet tissues in the bag?” That is because when they eat the cake, … Read more

Oh gosh! It’s already Thursday! I thought it was Wednesday. Where did time go, man? I totally forgotten that it’s #HariKhamis. Endemic we are in now. Everything is moving a bit faster already. Do you feel it? Already Ramadhan. Raya is coming. Then Harvest Festival. Merdeka. Deepavali. And soon enough it’s going to be Christmas … Read more

This is Aunty Vijaya & Aunty Doreen who are 2 of our office tea ladies. Irene & myself took them out for lunch to express our gratitude for their services especially during the pandemic. I remember during MCO, CMCO, RMCO cycles, they were always the first ones who came back to office with us to … Read more

This is Caryn from Finance and Irene from HR again. Two very happy jolly people. That is why I love to go out lunch with them. Our lunch is normally longer than the usual, because we laugh so much, we often forget to eat our food hehehe… However, they are not this jolly all the … Read more

This is Jeik. She heads our Accounts team so I nicknamed her the Accountant affectionately. Both of us are people managers for many years. And that day both of us were very stressed out with our own people respectively. So when I saw her messaged me, “Wanna lunch?”, I was like, “God yes, jom!” Many … Read more

This is George. He is the head of our IT Helpdesk. The other day my laptop went amok. Over 10 days, it went blue screen and auto-restarted for freaking 49 times. The team tried whatever they could but it was still restarting, so naturally the next solution was to replace it. Now, the process of … Read more