I read in Daily Express today that Mawi could eclipse both Rosyam Nor and Ning Baizura in the acting salary stakes.

Apparently, in his upcoming debut in the film Aduh Saliha, he would be paid RM300,000 plus a share of the box office, meaning it could well go up to RM1 million. Read the rest of this entry »

I got this story, in Bahasa Malaysia, via email.

Ku Seorang CEO…. & kue tiaw goreng

Assalamualaikum. Ingin aku ceritakan sedikit tentang kisah hidup aku. Aku dilahirkan didalam sebuah keluarga yang sederhana. Kedua ibubapa ku ialah guru. Alhamdulillah.. aku dianugerahkan oleh Allah akal yang cerdik. Dalam usia 18 tahun aku telah mendapat biasiswa untuk melanjutkan pelajaran ke luar negara iaitu di negara matahari terbit, Jepun. Aku mengambil jurusan Kejuruteraan… dalam masa beberapa tahun disana aku fasih bertutur dalam bahasa Jepun.

Selepas bertungkus-lumus hampir 5 tahun akhirnya aku berjaya mendapat segulung Ijazah. Aku tidak terus balik ke tanah air.. sebaliknya aku mengambil keputusan untuk terus menetap disini dan bekerja untuk mengambil sedikit pengalaman. Dalam usia semuda 23 tahun aku bekerja sebagai Eksekutif di sebuah firma terkemuka Jepun. Aku cepat menyerap segala ilmu yang dipelajari semasa bekerja disini. 3 tahun lebih bekerja akhirnya aku mendapat kepercayaan pihak pengurusan dan dinaikkan pangkat dari Eksekutif ke penolong pengurus dan seterusnya menjadi Pengurus termuda didalam Firma tersebut.

Hampir 6 tahun bekerja disana akhirnya aku diarahkan oleh majikan aku untuk pulang ke Malaysia. Mereka telah melakukan pelaburan di Malaysia dan telah membuka sebuah Firma baru disini dan akulah orang yang paling layak untuk mengendalikan firma mereka disini.

Alahamdulillah… aku dilantik sebagai Pengarah Urusan. Aku bekerja siang dan malam… bertungkus lumus… dunia aku hanyalah di pejabat. Dalam keadaan kelam-kabut sempat juga aku mendirikan rumahtangga. Sekarang aku mempunyai 3 orang cahaya mata anugerah tak ternilai dari Allah SWT.

Tahun demi tahun aku semakin sibuk dengan urusan kerja. Firma yang aku kendalikan telah bertambah maju d! an akhirya disenaraikan di papan kedua bursa saham Kuala Lumpur. Tidak sampai 7 tahun beroperasi sekali lagi kami telah disenaraikan ke papan utama BSKL. Hasil penat lelah selama ini ahkirnya berbaloi…. aku dilantik sebagai CEO tempatan pertama di firma ini dengan bergaji sebanyak RM38 ribu bersih sebulan beserta 3 buah kereta mewah… Syukur Alhamdulillah. Read the rest of this entry »

Blog entry at pearsonified.com in April 2006 invites you to be your own boss:

Does the idea of a corporate gig give you that warm, fuzzy feeling? Is a raise of 6% per year until you retire to a $20 storebought cake and a Rolex your idea of financial well-being? Did you know that health insurance really isn’t all that expensive? Hey, college boy, do you run around campus to hit up interviews each spring? Read the rest of this entry »

A controversial statement by Malaysian Human Resources Minister, Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn on the main reason why ICT grads in the country are still jobless.

The statement was published in national papers, like The Star on 6th July.

He said:

• The majority of the 20,000+ registered unemployed graduates in the country are those who took ICT courses in local institutions of higher learning (public and private).  
• They are jobless because what they had learnt had become obsolete. 
• The courses they studied were not the latest because the institutions had not kept up with changing technology and job market requirements. The govt is in talks with the relevant bodies to sort this out.

The graduates:

• have to be proactive and upgrade themselves to meet current demands.
• must know how to get information on job vacancies advertised in the ministry’s electronic labour exchange. 

Potential employers are looking for graduates, in hundreds at a time, who took certified professional software development courses - this would be stuff like asp, VB, php.

The scheme offered ICT courses that were in accordance with what ICT-based companies wanted, he added.  

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Tags: education, malaysia, IT, ICT, career

There are so many ICT professional certifications (think CISSP, MCSE, CCSE, CCIE blah blah blah) from so many companies that it all seems to be one convoluted mass of confusion. It seems to me that any company or “educational instutution” could come up with their certifications, give it a spunky name and add it to the ever-increasing certification mass.

Here’s an interesting article over at certmag.com that attempts to make things a little clearer.

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A few days ago, I talked to a masseuse from the Philippines who’s been in Sabah for 15 years. She was initially employed as a nurse at QEH, then as a private nurse in Ranau for 5 years. Then she opened a massage parlour (the proper kind, not the other kind) in Ranau for about 2 years, earning about RM30 per session. Read the rest of this entry »

UK Executive Council for Malaysian Students chairman Wan Mohd Firdaus Wan Mohd Fuaad’s rebuts Higher Education Minister Datuk Mustapa Mohamed’s “return to Malaysia, money is not everything.”

He says: money is only 30% of the reasons why Malaysian professionals and students choose to remain in Britain.  Other factors includes work culture, environment, exposure, job challenges and prospects.

While MCA Club Australia president Chan Wei Ming is more blunt. He says the Datuk’s speech is like baiting sharks with worms. Datuk, you need a bigger bait lah! Read the rest of this entry »

Someone sent me an email about it, apparently a forum posting by a guy with nick reginaldho. This was in response to complaints about the 30 sen increase in petrol prices earlier this year. Dr Reginald Ho I presume?

Interesting read and sometimes thought-provoking. Your 2 cents?

The posting is here reproduced verbatim. Read the rest of this entry »