Thursday, December 29, 2011

To Forgive and Forget

To forgive a person, the person must first admit that he or she has
made a mistake.
If he or she does not admit that it is a mistake, of course he or she
will never ever ask for forgiveness.

Maybe to you it is a big mistake. Super big. Humongous. But for the
person, it is nothing. It is common and acceptable. Hence, either one
must learn to adapt - either to admit that the action was wrong and
ask for forgiveness or for the other person to learn to accept that
there is nothing wrong at all!!!

People expect different things in life because each of us has
different set of values, principles, obedience to teachings of the
religion, ambition and finally, what you want to bring on to your life
after this life. Not to mention, what legacy you want to leave behind
for your children and their children and their children. Due to this
very differences, Allah has said it in His verse, for us to get to
know each other and recognize that it is one of the signs of the
prowess of the Almighty. Alhamdullillah. Ada sebab kenapa semuanya
berlaku. Kita juga insan yg penuh dosa dan banyak membuat kesalahan.
Kena selalu solat sunat taubat.

Ustaz kata, org pompuan punya memori yg sgt bagus, jauh lebih hebat
dari komputer chip. Kalau file dlm komputer kita delete, dia akan dok
kat Recycle Bin. Then bila kita delete, dia akan delete terus. Unless
you put a hacker to extract back all the deleted files. Tapi org
pompuan, dia akan ingat sampai mati. Sampai bila2 lah. Memori ni akan
tersimpan kemas deep inside the brain, and can be extracted anytime
when the need arises. Inilah kelebihan org pompuan. Tapi ini juga
merupakan kelemahan pada org pompuan. There are certain events where
we want to delete the memories forever, but it can never be deleted.
Ever. Susah wooo....kadang2 rasa aku dah x nak ingat mende ni. Tapi
mende ni mcm piring hitam sentiasa berputar2...esp when we are
frustrated or disappointed. How to delete it? Forever?

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Sentimental Value of the Work Place

People go to work not just for the money.
Money, yes - to priority.
But other than money, people value friendship, recognition, building
up of character and life out of the work place.

Last year, 1 company was terminated. This company had gone through
thick and thin with us for the past 20 over years. The owner cried. My
boss would say, it is all business. Nothing else.

Soon, they may want to terminate some more. Of course there are
reasons. But sometimes the reasons do not reach the root cause, which
may render the decision to terminate to be premature, and then,
damaging. What is the end in mind exactly?

It is hard to be in a business where you have no niche. Nor support
from the government. Nor the interest of the workforce to join your
industry. I have not found any single justification on why we still
hang on to this business. Sentimental value?

In a modern world where money rules over other things, do feelings and
friendships and bond of brotherhood or sisterhood count anymore? Serve
me and I pay you. Make no mistake and I pay you more - what you call
incentives. Serve me and then you make mistake, even though we have
gone through all the turmoil in business for the past umpteenth years,
out you go. The gate is always open.

What they don't realize is, there is no queue outside who want to come
in. When you throw a company out, you expect a much better one will
replace them. For new companies who are manned by YUPPIES, business is
all about easy money. Perhaps in the old school, business was about
friendship, pride and money. But for the YUPPIES, sorry man, money and
only money rules. When you offer me such a low money for such high
risk nature of works, good bye. So what we will be left with?

People say its better to know the devil you know, rather than the
angels you dont know...or something like that....

I am pretty sad when people say I have served through this place for
such a long time, lending helping hands, sweat through with the
clients with you, and yet, for a mistake, where root cause is not yet
determined, I will punish you forever. He was sad. I am too. Pride and
relationships. Recognition and emotional connection. Where have all
those gone to?

Are we all robots now? Capitalism. Karl Marx is still laughing in his grave.