Like father, unlike son

Admit it. You must have some sort of conflict over your father's character and the way he does things. This is even though you could have adopted the same character from your father.

I don't know if it's the nature's way to show who's the real alpha tiger or it's just nature's selection mechanism: to judge someone that you had adopted your character from, so as to strength this character or to abandon it. Someone may say that this is the process of adolescence period. But you know that it still happens to you now. It gets quite frustrating sometimes though. Most of the time he had some strong belief in things that you may have a stake in it as well. But your belief is not as strong as his. This created some sort of difference in the depth of thinking. Maybe this is why arguments sets at this point to clear the haze. It is through arguments that beliefs are made more concrete, or shatter to a pile of dust.

But one thing for sure, it's hard to understand how dearly your father holds his own concept behind things, and yet showed so much leniency when you don't really follow his footsteps.
Maybe because he's old enough to know that people should have their own viewpoint.

Or maybe that's what differ a father from the son.

New year, new acquisitions

Year 2007 was bad for the Western economies. It maybe as bad as Sept 11. But this time round, instead of buildings being destroyed, they were being acquired.

You see, the year 2007 is the year of US subprime market meltdown. Apparently banks are too optimistic about the grown of the economy. Monies are lent to home buyers with poor financial track records. The American dream of each family or a person owns a house seemed like a dream come true.

2008 will be the year of acquisitions. Middle Eastern and Asian countries are beginning to bail out those western economies in dire state. This is the time when companies with huge fundings can strike a good deal with ailing banks and old establishments, without too much concern about bad management. This is because this singular fund crumble could not be an effective judgement of the management of a company. When everyone is cycling round a hillside bend, no one could see what is coming from the other side.

This is the year where companies will change hand and it's not if the management can hold up the companies, but it's up to the new stakeholders to not ruining what they bought.

Evolution of the Muscle Man

Being a Muscular Man is a tough outfit to wear. Across the centuries, Muscle Man had been given different labels. They had been called masochists, gay, hunk, pea brain, narcissist, etc. The interesting thing is that the muscle man do not try to silent the critics. They embraced the labels well and along time, ride high on the waves of labels.

So is it that the labels created the Muscle Man, or the Muscle Man created their own labels? I would think that it worked both ways. In the ancient societies, warrior are depicted as huge tall beasts with scared skins. It is essential for the ancient man to have a galactically proportioned body, since they need to wear all the heavy armour and wield the sword or axe that easier weighed half a damsel. I would say their well built bodies is the by-product of their lifestyle.

For the Muscle Man of the modern days, it's still the lifestyle that changed their physique. Only that this time round, this lifestyle is not essential for their living.

Please help me continue with this argument anyone, as I am having a brain freezing session now.

The Plight of Instant Coffee

"Instant coffee was invented in 1901 by Satori Kato, a Japanese scientist working in. George Constant Louis Washington developed his own instant coffee process shortly thereafter, and first marketed it commercially (~1910). The Nescafé brand, which introduced a more advanced coffee refining process, was launched in 1938. Its popularity soared in post-WWII America and today it can be found all over the world." - Source, The People's favourite free Encyclopedia

I didn't know instant coffee had such long history had i not did some research upon writing this posting. I would have thought that it's a creation of this fast-paced internet driven world. I would love to think that instant coffee sole purpose is to provide enough caffeine to nourish our thirsty brain.

A cup of instant coffee can't have such a long history behind it, I reasoned. If it is, it definitely wasn't an instant hit like a Coca Cola or Earl Grey. If it were, there wouldn't be so make 'Improved' instant coffees. After trying so many times of instant coffee in the market, I am thinking:' how come the guys at Nescafé or Owl don't get frustrated over frequent 'improvement' of their coffee, without really making it more alluring?" It's true, they should get frustrated as I really am.

I am beginning to think that the incompetency of perfecting the art of producing instant coffee may be a message from Mother Nature: Don't think you humans can play Gaud everytime. Coffee is coffee and that is it. It's not some Macdonald's or KFC.

A simple cup of instant coffee, it resonates with the pace of this internet age: fast-paced innovations but most of which failed to impress.

It's the most...wonderful time of the year, cos we all had the same religion. You know what i am saying??

Early in the day on Christmas eve I went for my Industrial Attachment company's X'mas party. Kind of 'nostalgic' to be back to the place where I was formally 'employed' as an 'intern' 'engineer'.

First of all, I wasn't really quite nostalgic in the sense that I had only completed the internship 6 mths ago, and thoughout the last 6mths I was constantly updated about the status of the company. Dont' get me wrong, i wasn't a spy to the company, i was just curious about how a SME function and all the interpersonal relationships with various stakeholders both internal and external.

Secondly, I wasn't quite an intern. Let me quote the definition of an intern in the people's favourite free encyclopedia.

"An intern or stagiaire is one who works in a temporary position with an emphasis on on-the-job training rather than merely employment, making it similar to an apprenticeship" - People's favourite free encyclopedia

The operating words here are 'temporary position', 'on-the-job training' ( aka OJT) and 'apprenticeship'. Ok so apprenticeship may need another quote from a dictionary, but i guess you guys can check the meaning out. The first description is definitely right, but i am not sure about the second and third description. I wasnt on the job that needs much training, so there wasn't really training. As for apprenticeship, I wasnt much under the supervision of anybody...........ANYWAY, THIS WASNT THE MAIN TOPIC.

Phew...Ok, back to the main topic. ( Thank you ZX for the gift 'down the chimney'. Appreciated it.) Well, the main topic is actually,

Merry

Christmas to all of you out there.

Embrace in the new religion, that is, Capitalism.....

Am i seeing things?? I am not, i just felt the sun

It's the most wonderful time of the year. But apparently i only felt the wonder today: the first day i saw a bright sun in a long time.

Thank Gaud i brought along my swimming attire for the meeting in school. ( Doesn't mean that i never wrote about my meeting, it is not important. It's not a topic that would make me famous.) Ok where was I? ya about the swim. Nothing fanciful. Did my usual stuffs: Start with breaststroke if i saw a weak competitor swimming that stroke, or start with very easy freestyle if i saw a strong competitor. That gives the impression that i can beat you any time but i am just taking it easy.

Are we there yet? my friend would complain again if she found out my second entry is as short as the first one. ok just nice. I am outz.

my world view

My world view is very simple: Half the world is in the dark and half the world is enlightened at any point of time. That's wat the BIG BANG theory made us to be ( no offense to any religion but a 10,000 old earth to me sounded like a way off propaganda.).

Anyway, this is my first blog and be prepared that most of my blog will be along this line: sitting on the fence but tendency to jump towards the muddy side.

Enjoy, homosapiens....