Good eating habit....

I came across the article in The Star dated Feb 24th, 07 to encourage good eating habits among the people.

Ministry wants to focus on wellness programmes

By AUDREY EDWARDS and KHONG PUI YEE

PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry is not about to go around checking what Malaysians eat in its efforts to curb unhealthy eating habits – instead, it is focusing on a wellness programme.

Its director-general Tan Sri Dr Ismail Merican said: “We are not going to go around checking what people eat. It is impractical. And putting a stop to fast food advertisements is to influence the younger set of Malaysians, the children.

“If we ban the advertisements early, then the children might not pick up the habit. But education of the masses is the key.”

Dr Ismail said that presently, the ministry’s programmes focused on promoting wellness rather than being illness-oriented.

“It is still the people’s choice. The consumer has to decide and for us, it is either scaring them enough into taking care of themselves or giving them enough information.

“We can try anything starting from the schools and we are getting feedback from various people like the NGOs to use new ways in educating people,” he said.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek had earlier proposed that fast food commercials be banned and that he would bring the issue concerning fast food, said to be a “silent killer”, before the Cabinet next week.

Meanwhile, Chan Chin Nam, 42, a father of three young children, is far more worried about the unregulated content of hawker food, noting that the unhealthy points of fast food had long been recognised.

“You don’t know what the chef is doing to your food, what he puts in it,” he said when met at a café during lunch yesterday.

Businessman Lim Siang Boon, 45, said eating kuih, local desserts and junk food was considered “normal” as everyone ate them too when he was growing up.

He, however changed his habits after being diagnosed as a diabetic and now.

A local bank in KL

I've been informed by my relative that whenever my relative went to a local bank to bank in money, the teller will say the money is short of RM100, this is not the first time but many times. Even my relative has calculated enough money before bank into the account. My relative's friend also encounter the same issue, claiming that the money is not enough. Thought my relative calculated wrongly the money notes but why this happen to my relative's friend also?
Beware when you wanted to bank in the money. Be assure that the Teller to use the machine to calculate the money notes for you. This is more accurate.

Bad service of Perodua salesman

I've booked my new Myvi car last month (Jan 9th, 07) in one of the Perodua branches in Cheras (not to mention which branch). And I traded in my old Kenari. Before I signed and paid the booking fee of RM500 to the salesman. I was told that I should be getting the new Myvi in 2 weeks time. Do you think that this is possible in the first place? At first, I thought it should be no problem since the salesman has promised me that. After 2 weeks has passed, I called up the salesman, and was told that I can't get that Myvi yet. He said that the Perodua factory has closed for two weeks for maintainance purposes. If this is the case, why not the salesman tell me earlier? Is it the salesman's strategy to get more car bookings so that he should get more commission for himself on each car? Well, before I signed the booking document, I asked what I should be getting as a gift, and the salesman did not tell what he will give me.
After few weeks of follow-up on my new car, I always complained and asked for the status on my order. At last I spoke to the branch's manager to get an update on my order. This branch manager has spoken to me and promised me that I should be getting my new car before CNY. On 12th Feb, 07, the Salesman called and told me that his boss has allocated a car for me and is ready for registration. Asking me to pay the difference money before my car can get registered. Then I went and paid the difference money. I asked when I can get the car registered and was told that I should be getting on 14th, Feb, 07. I asked why by registering my car taking so long, one to two hours should be ready for the complete process. The salesman then told me that the car is still in the production factory and will be arrived on 14th, Feb, 07. At last, my new car was arrived in the afternoon and has set the appointment before 5pm to collect my new Myvi.
Then I have asked the salesman to set appointment for me to get the tinted glass as a gift for my car. I went to the tinted shop on 16th, Feb, 07 to get the tinted glass for my car. Spoken to the Marketing personnel at the shop. After explanation, she said the salesman only allocated RM200 for me as the gift. She said that quality for the tinted glass is not good, so marketing personnel explained that I should get a better quality one, then I have to top up another RM700 to get a good one. I was so surprised that the tinted caused about RM900...then I decided not to get the tinted glass. I told the marketing personnel that I have to reconsider first before deciding on whether to get the tinted glass or not. For those of you, beware of this strategy of giving you a free tinted glass. You have to ask the salesman before deciding anything. I have received some promotion notice on Myvi that there will be free tinted glass for around RM680, and why this salesman gifted me only with RM200?

Stock Market (Bursa) rises for the past weeks...

In the past weeks, the stock market in Malaysia (Bursa) rises to new high at 1,258.63 last Friday. Would this CI surge indicating that the Malaysian economy is recovering? Will this CI be sustainable after the Chinese New Year? Comments are welcomed.

Telcos should provide better service......

Its better to have a good service that is provided by telcos. I am also experiencing connectivity problem when calling friends from home in Cheras. Do you think Malaysia should be viewed as developed country by 2020 if the telcos don't provide and invest in providing more towers for better connectivity? The Telcos should not just viewed the profits they make as if they are a good company and have good management. But for my thought, good management can mean have all the services good and in place (better connectivity services). The telcos management should know how to plan and invest for the sake of its consumers. Consumers should always have the rights to say out their ideas if they are disagreed with certain things.

The following article is taken from Bernama site:

Keng Yaik Lines Up Four Tasks To Scrutinise Telcos

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 (Bernama) -- Chinese New Year celebration or not, Energy, Water, and Communications Minister Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik is still very much at work as he disclosed the four things the ministry will do to ensure better services for telecommunications consumers.

Admitting that he is yet to be satisfied with the network coverage provided by the telecommunications companies (telcos), Lim said the priority of the mission was to push telcos to increase connectivity, especially in areas where the population is not large.

"I watch the papers, telcos announcing how much profit they make. I am going to knock the profit they make and push them to use this profit to invest on more towers and more transmission units to improve coverage for the people," he told reporters at the Parti Gerakan Chinese New Year "open house" here.

Lim, who is the party president, said it was sad for a country like Malaysia to still experience "dropped calls" (calls getting disconnected) owing to lack of network coverage.

He urged telcos to not only concentrate on the urban areas like the Klang Valley but also to roll out more towers in the other areas to provide better transmission and, therefore, connectivity.

Second on his agenda is the task to ensure that the prepaid registration exercise is made as authentic as posibble.

In doing so, he said, the ministry might consider to have telcos to do some auditing on the registration.

Last year, the ministry had make it compulsary for prepaid customers to register their numbers for security purposes, which had made about 18 million prepaid users to have their numbers registered.

"I want the telcos to do the audit. If I find out that somebody's using some other person's IC (again), I think I will better do something about it," he said.

"We also need to ensure the authencity of the registration exercise, if not we will be make a laughing stock," he added.

The third thing the minister has to do is to make sure that telcos are ready to exercise number portability, to enable consumers to have seamless connection regardless of the numbers they are using.

Number portability allows consumers to maintain the phone number they are using even when they change service providers.

Lastly, Lim said, the ministry is also looking into ways to improve domestic roaming for the sake of consumers, especially in the remote areas.

He said the media should play its role to educate consumers to demand better service, which also means better connectivity.

-- BERNAMA

Chinese New Year (Feb 18th to Mar 4th, 07)

Today is second day of Chinese New Year. The time passes very fast. For Chinese, normally they are not keen to visit friends for the first day of New Year, but they will prefer to stay home with family for a great meal in the morning. The Chinese will prefer to take vegetarian meals in the first day of new year. Chinese will start visiting friends in second day onwards. This is culturally followed by most of the Chinese.
Well, in the past years, there was no rain at all during the few days of Chinese New Year, but this year is different. It already started to rain on the eve of Chinese New Year and also first and second day of new year. Perhaps this may indicate a good sign for the money coming in (my personal thought only), because rain indicates water that meant is money in Chinese.

For me, Chinese New Year is nothing special but the difference is that all the family members get to be together to have meals. It is not like fun having CNY, maybe because I have grown up. Not kids anymore. :-)

Personal Introduction and Message

Well, this is my newly created blog. First and foremost, I would like to introduce myself. I am 33 years old this year and was born in the year of tiger.
Currently I am in the banking line and work in IT field. I work in shifts duty. Initially it was not that easy to be on shifts especially in the night duty. We have to stay alert during the night shifts doing the critical batch system job. Only the head office of the banks required to have its personnel to be on 24 hours rotating shifts. For me, I don't work on weekends, but if there is a requirement to work especially there is project, then I may need to work. My duration of shifts duty is : Morning (from 7am to 4pm), Afternoon (from 3.30pm to 12.15am) and Night (from 11.30pm to 7.15am). There is 3 personnel working on shift duty only that's why there is 3 rotating shifts. It meant that each shift has one personnel, but of course there are other support staff as well. In my dept, there is about 8 personnel. 3 personnel are on shift work, 4 personnel are on support purposes which is on day shift and one personnel who is in charge of security job who is also on day shift. All those 3 shift work personnel also do the support work when they are on day shift. We cover a lot of support, from servers to desktop/laptop issues.
I am talking too much now, if you have any question would like to check with me, you can post any comments here. Your comments are welcomed.