ERM....

oh well

"....Nor Mohamed Yakcop came to power on the back of advising former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in imposing capital controls and a Ringgit peg as a cure to the Asian financial crisis of 1997. Previously allied to Anwar Ibrahim protégé Wan Hasni as advisor to the Abrar group of companies, Nor Mohamed had also worked as a Bank Negara officer, a role where he lost RM15 billion on bad foreign currency trading bets. It was said that Nor Mohamed made so much money from the foreign exchange foray that he bought a racehorse for the Melbourne Cup race and named it after Bank Negara....

....So Sarvananthan was quickly made Director of Investments in Khazanah. At the age of 29, Sarvananthan, who had no business experience at all in Malaysia, was put in charge of restructuring Khazanah’s businesses and most importantly its equity investments. In spite of his apparent qualifications, Sarvananthan knew nothing about Khazanah’s agenda, nor was he knowledgeable about the Malaysian financial and business environments. This seemed no obstacle though as he was made the most important decision-maker in the so-called Khazanah revamp. ...."

http://www.malaysia-today.net/Blog-e/2005/09/khairy-chronicles.htm

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_mukherjee&sid=alqJwwuG2Vu4

http://www.malaysia-today.net/Blog-s/2006/01/mas-chronicles.htm

http://maverickysm.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_maverickysm_archive.html

http://www.khazanah.com.my/docs/mc200411-FinanceAsia.pdf

Anyone

http://www.macbattle.com/topranked.php

any one of these please.

patriotic songs

Malaysian patriotic songs, provided by a link thru think.com.my

still like demi negara.. yang tercinta.. the most. oh, that day was talking about "lagenda" by sheila majid, with my roomate, i asked him whether he remember this very old sony (hifi or TV) commercial where there is this malay song (or was it indonesian?) but the beginning of the song sounded like lagenda, however the ending sounds different.

anybody remember?

anyway, what makes you proud to be Malaysian? (if you are...) Apparently famous people mostly agree on one thing, which has to do with being born into the diversity and the society/people.

can't disagree much.

Spainish

Latino here i come. where the sun is bright and the girls are pretty.

I want to learn spanish.

oh well, told you

From The Sunday Times
March 18, 2007

‘Microsoft sucks’, says top bloggerPaul Durman
MICROSOFT’s formerly tame blogger has bitten the software company that made his name when it employed him as a “technology evangelist”.

Robert Scoble writes the Scobleizer web log, one of the most-read sources of technology commentary on the internet.

He owes his status to the three years he spent at Microsoft, where he was given free rein to comment on the company’s affairs from the inside. The Economist magazine has credited Scoble with playing a significant role in softening the software giant’s former reputation for monopolistic bullying.

In the past, Scoble has tended to be sympathetic about Microsoft’s failings. However, he was provoked into stinging criticism last week after a series of triumphalist remarks, including some disparaging comments about Google made by Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive.

At a “global summit” of its most-valued software developers, Microsoft repeatedly declared that it would “win” in search and other parts of its Windows Live internet strategy.

“The words are empty,” Scoble responded. “Microsoft’s internet execution sucks (on the whole). Its search sucks. Its advertising sucks. If that’s ‘in it to win’, then I don’t get it.”

He continued: “Microsoft isn’t going away. Don’t get me wrong. They have record profits, record sales, all that. But on the inter-net? Come on.

“Microsoft: stop the talk. Ship a better search, a better advertising system than Google, a better hosting service than Amazon, a better cross-platform web development ecosystem than Adobe, and get some services out there that are innovative.”

Scoble’s comments reflect wider concerns — shared by some Microsoft insiders — that the poorly understood Windows Live initiative is failing to make the impact expected when it was unveiled 18 months ago.

Windows Live was pitched as the centrepiece of Microsoft’s response to Google and other companies offering web-based services. It was seen to be a key focus for Ray Ozzie, who has replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft’s chief software architect.

Talking to Stanford University business school students in California, Ballmer said Google had built only one good business and “everything else is sort of cute” — in other words largely irrelevant.

This also provoked Scoble’s ire. “You’re up against a formidable competitor and one you’ve never seen before that has some real, significant weapons that you can’t deal with.”

LiveSide, a website that tracks the development of Windows Live, is among those who are unimpressed. “Windows Live isn’t making much of a dent in the marketplace,” it says on its Our View page. “It’s a nontopic. Market research shows Live Search to be losing share if anything, and certainly not gaining.

“What Windows Live lacks, specifically, is an identity. No one can describe it, no one from Microsoft has even tried.”

the kind of

the most often talked about, but yet the most difficult to agree on:

1. passion in life // normally known as: what do you want to do when you grow up/what would you do if you have lots of money and no need to work/did you work for the money or the interest/get a life
2. Love // normally known as:what kind of girl you like/would you marry someone like that/was it by choice or was this what you really wanted
3. war // normally known as:it belonged to me/i need to fight for it/Im gonna kick his ass/why should we be discriminated/is this fair?

XXX XXX XXX

Did you ever remember those times when you were sitting at the backseat of your parents car when they drive you home in a cool night, while the radio plays sentimental soft nice songs that gives you that feeling?

the kind of songs that once you hear it, you know its a song to be listened on the road

the kind of songs that makes you enter into that mood straight away, anyway, anyhow

have you every wished that you were just a child sitting at that backseat?

Babylon

Babylon

Friday night Im going nowhereAll the lights are changing green to redTurning over tv stationsSituations running through my headWell looking back through timeYou know its clear that Ive been blindIve been a foolTo ever open up my heartTo all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridiculeSaturday Im running wildAnd all the lights are changing red to greenMoving through the crowd Im pushingChemicals all rushing through my bloodstreamOnly wish that you were hereYou know Im seeing it so clearIve been afraidTo tell you how I really feelAdmit to some of those bad mistakes Ive madeIf you want itCome and get itCrying out loudThe love that I wasGiving you wasNever in doubtLet go your heartLet go your headAnd feel it nowBabylon, babylonSunday all the lights of londonShining , sky is fading red to blueIm kicking through the autumn leavesAnd wondering where it is you might be going toTurning back for homeYou know Im feeling so aloneI cant believeClimbing on the stairI turn around to see you smiling thereIn front of meIf you want itCome and get itCrying out loudThe love that I wasGiving you wasNever in doubtAnd feel it nowLet go your heartLet go your headAnd feel it nowLet go your heartLet go your headAnd feel it nowLet go your heartLet go your headAnd feel it nowLet go your heartLet go your headAnd feel it nowBabylon, babylon, babylon