Sunday, November 30, 2008

Controversial Song(丘老師ABC時間) & Malay song by Chinese Singer

Yesterday when I was surfing the net to find out more about the Mumbai attack, I was shocked by another news which mentioning about a new controversial song created by Ming Zi 黃明志. He was famous because of his song "Negarakuku", which insulted Malaysia government because he used the national antheme to "rap" about the society fact.

News - http://www.sinchew-i.com/sciWWW/taxonomy/term/230

http://www.sinchew-i.com/sciWWW/node/59096?tid=230



The recent controversial song created by him called 《丘老師ABC時間》,he was sued by his school and many are throwing anger bomb towards this latest production.







Vulgar words and sexual element was the major arguement from the public, as well as using his secondary school as background.

I would like to point out one things is - if you read all the negative comments and news before watching the video, 90% of the people will be influenced by those comments and feel the same way of bombarding him. To find out the true feeling from your inner heart, you need to ignore all the comments first, because different people has different point of view.

To me, the first 2 videos could be boring and nonsense (strickly speaking, the ugly man shouting the "ar ar ar" and the boobs picture covered with bra is not "porn" enough if you are looking for porn video), but it show the reality how chinese people speak today, and the low moral standard in today society, people do not care about content they speak, they just focus on expressing their anger.

But to many people, these videos are not "healthy". (because of the actor face? or because of the vulgar words) I think we dare not scold some one if they speak those vulgar/filthy word in front of you (directly or indirectly to you), but many people seems very mad at this video ? why ? Because he speak vulgar ? Or you think he ruin the name of the chinese?

Frankly speaking, I am not a fan of Ming Zi after all, but indeed I am proud of Ming Zi too, because he dare to voice out his view. Controversy sometimes is good, it makes people think and start to figure out where the problem is, people see him as problem maker, but I do not think so, he is just too provoking and agreasive when making his view known. But the real issue lies in the society whereby no one really go and dig it out and face it.

I am proud of chinese independent school, most of the student from there has great career, and better discipline. This thanks to the education system there. I admited that language is a problem, chinese is the main medium to teach, it is hard for everyone master two language at a time, especially the great difference in chinese and english. One has mentioned that we require different side of brains to study these two languages due to its personality.

After 6 years of study in chinese independent school, most of the students are good at science and math. But without great presentation and communication skill, you can't survive in the society. If we look at the bright side, chinese always has strong fighting spirit, I have my school mates work and stay in different country - US, England, Japan, Australia, Singapore, China, Taiwan ...you name it, this show the great results from the chinese independent school education system. I'd only started to communicate with people in english since my University study here in Singapore, and now I have no problem communicating with my colleague and counterpart from United State (with American slang). So my point is - if you have cultivated the fighting, learning, growing spirit since young, you will not fail to succeed, this is what I have learnt in my 6 yrs Chinese Independent School study.


Karen Kong

Then while I surfing for this song in youtube, another singer was discovered - Karen Kong 龚柯允. She is a pretty chinese singer, I do not know who is she in the first place, but she impress me with her Malay Song Album. After much discovery from the internet and her blog www.karenkong.com/ , I learnt that she is the first chinese singer has her first album debuted in Malay song and she is from labuan (Sabah).

Karen Kong

As a malaysian chinese, we live under the same system, to be frank, there are some unfair treatment need to be resolved. First to mention is the education system, just like what Ming Zi expressed, there is quota for chinese to be accepted in the local University.

But this is not a loss to malaysian chinese, this is a loss to the government. Think about it, every year, there are thousands of great talents and graduates will be outflowed to foreign country to work after they studied in oversea. They are not contributing to the nation GDP but contributing their effort to other countries's GDP (Gross Domestic Product), and after all most of these Malaysians work and live in oversea enjoying their life there, spending money and contributing to the economy oversea too.

So back to the two singers, Karen and Ming Zi, they are both malaysian chinese. Ming Zi sang song to complain about current society issue in malaysia. But Karen has another more effective method, she sing malay song with her amazing voice, it could melt the heart of all malay fellow citizens and feel the love from chinese people too. (When you like some one, you start to learn their culture and language - just like you learn korean and jap when watching their show and listening to their music)

In all the religion, either in buddhism or christianity, all of them proclaim about love. Love can solve everything but not hatred. I would say Ming Zi's way of expressing is nothing wrong, but sharing the love could be a better way to resolve the issue. (Making some one hate you is easy, but making some one like you could be a mission impossible sometimes.)

Instead of always complaining about the unfair treatment, malaysian chinese ought to stand up and penetrate into the lives of other races too. While we are holding on to our cultures, we ought to familiarised with other races' culture and language.

Let's work together for a better tomorrow! Cheers!
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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Paul & Bibi's Wedding Blog is up and running

After a lot of hardwork for a week, finally my wedding blog - Paul & Bibi's Wedding is up and running with all the photo and feature embeded. 

This blog is specially made for my beloved wife - Bibi, to commerate our marriage and wedding. 

I would like to say, wedding is really a lot of work to do, but could be memorable and enjoyable though, since you gonna to do it, so let's enjoy the process ...

This Idea just came to my mind about 1 week ago, and just gotten our wedding photo and MTV, instead of post it to picasa or flikr, I thought of making it special, to make our own blog...

Enjoy ...and remember to sign on the guest book so that we know you have been there ...:) 

http://paulorion.traderwork.com/mywedding/


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Saturday, October 11, 2008

My first TRUE SPA experience !!! It SUCKS!

Spa was regards as an extragavant activity for many people, but in the hectic singapore city life, spa is an activity to relax your mind and soul, in order to get rid of the anger and unhappiness that happen around us. To a normal typical engineer like me, I seldom spend money for spa, but in my birthday month, I am started thinking to pamper myself with a good spa as a birthday present. 

Suddenly, I got a call few days ago from a telemarketter that asked me to try out the free spa service from TRUE SPA located at 16 floor Tower A Ngee Ann city, the telemarketter said it is totally free, it serve as a complimentary promotion for me. I am doubtful about the free spa, but no harm just to try out.Therefore, I made an appointment with the telemarketter.

That day has finally come, I was excited and prepare for the spa treatment. Got up to the 16 floor and realise many people were there like me. I heard one of the customer complaining that there is no more time slot for them, all are fully book, they need to make another appointment, the customer was very unhappy. It certainly gave me a bad impression about True Spa. 

The staff ask me to find a seat and fill up the form. I quickly filled it up and expecting some one will attend me shortly. 15 mins has gone, I was complaining in my mind, what took them so long to attend to me? Probably they are all busy. Okay fine, let's wait for a moment. Half an hour has gone, I have no more patience, I talked to a staff and said I have waited for half an hour. 

Finally, a lady staff come over and chat with me about my pass experience with spa and check my particular and so on, then ask me to wait a while more and she will arrange a therapist to attend to me. Okay, let's wait and prepare to enjoy the spa. 

I have waited another 20 mins, many other people that came later than me seems has gone in and I am still there waiting like a fool. Finally, I lost my patience after total 1 hour waiting, I got up the chair and walk out and no turning back. 

This is utterly nasty experience, if the spa company would like to use promotion as bait for potential customer, please treat them as true customer and show them the best. It is totally wasting my time just for waiting. I mean there are many spa out there provide very good service, service is the most important element, but True Spa is totally disappointed! 



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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

TraderWork up and running


TraderWork screenshot
TraderWork screenshot

After all the hard work of choosing domain name, web hosting and set up the templates and plug in, finally my Traderwork.com is up and running. 

I would say i learn a lot setting up a site all by my own, from nothing to completion. I have zero knowlegde of website design or any coding like HTML, CSS, frontpage, etc. But at least now I able to get my site up. 

Traderwork is a site for options trader, for people who are curious and motivated to learn about options trading. Besides, I would love to share my trading journal as well as market check with my readers. 

One last thing missing, a logo for Trader Work. Erm...I shall hire my lovely wife for this assignment ...the most important part is her design job is free of charge. :P Thanks wife!

Visit TraderWork.com Here http://www.traderwork.com/


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Sunday, September 28, 2008

F1 Singapore is here tonight









3 hours later will be the first Singapore F1 night race, Singapore is making history for the first time hosting F1 race and even more, the first night race! I will be celebrate it together with Singapore, by not going to the actual scene (to create more space for my fovereigner friend, what an excuse??) , but I would rather watching the better screen, my own TV at home, and having beer at home with friends to cheer for Hamilton. :) 

I have the first encounter with F1 few years back in Milan, visiting the ferrari shop near the Duomo di Milan.Everything inside the shop are to be expensive, even a cup or a keychain, I do not think it is worth to buy at all, don't even talk about T-shirt or a jacket (which cost few hundred Euro). So be frankly, to be a truely Ferrari fan, it could be quite costly. :P  That time, I only know it is one of the famous motor race, and the famous driver Michael Schumacher. Besides, my Italian friends are very proud of their Italian technology - Ferrari, of course. 

Tonight, Hamilton and Massa will be competing for the crown first time in the foreign place here in Singapore. Find out more here from the official Singapore GP website.


Please visit my own hosted blog @ Paul Orion's Blog .
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Thursday, September 11, 2008

First encounter with Internet Marketing

book to start your internet marketing journeyI am sure many of you heard about Internet marketing, advertisement like "you can earn $30K within 2 weeks" or "be a millionaire by making money at home". Is it a scam, I wonder? I have the same reaction as many of you do when I heard about internet marketing, "this must be a scam".

All of us now are capitalist, 9 out 10 people will tell you that they want financial freedom in their life. The last one may be still struggling to understand the power of financial freedom. Anyway, hoping to be financially free definitely is not a sin. It is your right! Therefore, it becomes the greatest bail that many will like to attend courses that can help them create extra wealth.

This goes to my wife and I, both of us wish to be financial free as well. Few months ago, my wife has read a book written by Stuart tan about internet marketing. She was convinced that she want to throw her mind and strength into it as she see that this is something feasible. To me, this must be a scam.

Afterward, we attended the preview seminar hosted by Stuart's colleague (could not remember his name). My wife was convinced to sign up, I have no choice but to follow. I told her that if I felt asleep in the class, please do not blame me.

The first day has finally begun, finally we saw the real Stuart. He is kind of cute, funny and full of humor. And my wife said he has a little bit charm of the Stuart little in the animation, as they both have the same name. Stuart is definitely a very good speaker, you can sense his sincerity by teaching you the technique of internet marketing.

Two days lesson has passed, it turns out to be fruitful, eye and mind opening for me. Although I am still doubtful about the internet marketing, but at least it open a door for me. Let me think out the box, that internet marketing is still feasible.

Something strikes me is that, the world has changed so much, many people can just earn money from home nowadays, and made a purchase without stepping out the door. With that, how is the world be like in the future, who will be really doing all the hands on job? Probably robot? Just a thought. Haa.

To find out more, please visit Internet Marketer Journal
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Trading Rules

my investment hero - Warren BuffetIf you ask me what is the major difference between a novice and a professional trader, the difference is whether he or she set the trading rules and follow the rules. There are thousands set of trading rules that you can create or follow, what I recommend is that you do not need to create a certain of trading rules, you can just follow them which came from the famous investor and traders.

One of the famous investor that I admire and respect a lot is Warren Buffet. In his world, rules are more important than anything. His famous quote is as follow:
Rule 1: never lose money
Rule 2: never forget rule no 1
Funny enough? But the fact is, many people understand the importance of setting rules but never learn to follow the rules.

For part 1, I would like to share the rules that I follow before I enter the market.

Rule 1 - Always do market research before market open:

Open your CNBC or any finance website to get the latest update, understand what’s happening in the market right now. Either is it oil price drop, or some where having a war, focus on news that may be making any impact to the US market and the stock you are trading. After learning the news, try to figure out the market sentiment, for example, is oil inventory going lower a good thing to the market? Certainly not! With the latest news in hand, it will help you to make a better decision when entering the trade.

Rule 2 - Limit your trading size:

Do not over trade, always make sure you have enough money to play for the next game. Thumb of rule is always using 1/20 of your total money for each trade. If you have $5000, each trade is $250, in that case you can have 20 games to play.

Learn more from TraderWork.com

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