I'm Busy. Bullshit, You Are Just Not Important Right Now!

I am busy you fool!

How many of use rang up someone and you got a reply back saying "Sorry, I'm busy right now, call back later" or "In a meeting, call back later"? I bet everyone has this moment. 

How about when you invite someone for a function and they say "Sorry, I have another appointment" or "Sorry, I am not too sure whether I will be able to make it"?  I use this all the time. 

How about the time you sent out a meeting invite which you have plan for fews weeks ahead, book the meeting room, prepared the coffee, got the projector working, printed our the handouts and the day come no one shows up. Why? Because the CEO called everyone in your invite list for an urgent meeting.

This got met pondering, it's not people are busy. It's how they prioritize their circles. Take for instance Google+. Once you sign up, the first thing you have to do is create Circles and add your friends in each respective Circle. Here you are actually determining who is important in your life. 

Google Circles

• Close friends, go into the Friend Circle
• People who you just met on the street, Twitter or Facebook, goes into Acquaintance Circle
• People who annoys you go into the Blocked option
• Important client goes into Very Important Person Circle
• so on and on..... 

The Mistress Calling

You see, any part of our life we subject our attention to what is most important to us. If the wife calls during meeting, you say "I'm busy with work, call back". Now, what if the mistress calls? What is responds like? :)

No one is really busy in their life, it's just people responds differently depending on the situation and the people they are interacting with. If the boss calls over the weekend, highly likely you will answer the call because, your job is at stake. If friends call over the weekend, you can decide whether to answer or not. If we do answer, then we still have the option of saying busy or otherwise.

What if your are waiting to close a major deal which your life depends on or a recruiter to your dream job says he/she will call you on Sunday between 9AM - 10PM. I bet the handphone is glued to your face 24 hours right? Because the particular is call is important and nothing else matters during that period. If someone else calls during the period, we would say "I'm waiting for important call" and click Cancel button because our fear that VIP call would not go thru.

We prioritize all the time and most time we make one party important and another less important.  We tend to break promises because of importance as well. Sometimes we make our work more important than anything else. I am guilty of this and I'll write about this in an upcoming blog post soon.

So what constitute busy? If your mother, wife and mistress calls you and you give the same answer, then you are busy.

So, next time someone says I'm busy, just know that he/she is bullshitting. You are just not important at the moment.

In the paper

I got featured in the papers - Sinar Harian for a comment I made on Malaysian football success in the 2012 SEA Games held in Indonesia. I never knew that the reporter will actual publish a picture of me. For a layman like me, getting featured in paper is still a big deal :)

Anyway well done Hariamau Muda / Harimau Malaya!

Thats me!

Divorce - Due to economic reasons in Malaysia?

I read this article about divorce rate and can't help noticing one of the factor was financial issue.

Personally, I can't blame them. Like what is written in the article, today families need double income just to SURVIVE. We are not talking luxury here, just to survive.

If you just graduated, most likely your salary will be in the range of RM 2000 (unless you go work for Petronas or Accenture). Now, typically in Malaysia, you get married when you are about 26-30+. If you choose to get married earlier, great. I am assuming you have a salary of RM 5000 by now.

Fresh out of Uni, you have PTPTN to deal with. That would set you back a few hundred ringgit per month for the next 10 years or so. If you are married, now double that.

I think they have a new system in place, no idea. Let me know.

Next, you will need to get a car because of public transport suxs big time in Msia. But cars in Malaysia is not cheap either. In US, talking about dollar to dollar (no conversion), a brand new spanking Honda is about USD 15K. What can you get for RM 10-20K here? A piece of junk.

We have to sincerely thank Proton and Malaysia's brilliant automotive strategy for this. Say all you want about creating jobs and technology, I say compete in a level playing field instead of ruining the incomes of middle income Malaysian.

Now you are burden with car loan which is easily RM 500-1500 per month for the next 9 years. If you are married, now double that. Ohh yeah, don't forget the loan you took from your dad for the deposit.

Now you need a house. A rental can come about RM 500-1500 for a decent condo. If you plan to buy one it's about RM 200,000-500,000 in KL/PJ. Penang.. any guess?

A house? You're joking right? Prepare to fork out RM 500,000-1,000,000 at least in prime areas. So all in all, it would set you back around RM 1000-5000 per month for the next 30 years of your miserable life.


Of course you have life's little luxury like mobile phone, astro, condo maintenance, fuel, parking, food (yes we do need to eat), grocery, electricity, Internet (can you imagine without it?) and host of things. Lets break it down here:-

Items	Budget (RM)
Car	600
House	1000
Student Loan	200
Electricity	200
Water	100
Internet	199
Condo Maintenance	200
Mobile	200
Fuel	400
Parking	200
Touch n Go	200
Insurance (Car, personal, home & etc)	1000
Food	600
Car maintenance	200
Astro	90
Total	RM 5189

So our expense here has hit more than our income. So where is the savings then? How can one save and live in KL?

The above table doesn't even include spouses's expenses or even if you have child. That will sky rocket your expense. So naturally you will need double income. However (double income = double expense) as well. But there is a better chance savings with 2 incomes. 

Naturally the topic end of the month would be "We need to pay this, pay that, buy this, buy that, pay interest this, pay interest that!". Doesn't take a genius to figure out why couples breakup.

So dear PM. Stop telling us to change our lifestyle. There isn't any room to change the already pathetic lifestyle that we have! Officially your earning RM 25K. Great! I doubt you feel the pinch. What about the lower and middle income Malaysian? Our inflation is going up and thanks to our loans/debts, we have very little to take back home.

We Malaysian have 2 choice. Either try to reach a RM 20K salary per month or migrate. 

Steve Jobs

I love Steve for his iPhone and his words was revolutionary to me.

To be honest, the video that I watch by Steve Jobs a year or 2 ago, woke me up. It gave me sense of reality of what has happened, what is happening and what I need to look forward. You solved one part of my life puzzle. Thank you Steve. RIP.

"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." - Steve Jobs

Umrah 2011

I just got back from doing my Umrah. I had the most fantastic experience performing Umrah.
For more information on my journey, I have posted it at everlater.com . Check out the link here.

Masjidil Haram in April 2011

Masjid Tuanku Mizan (Masjid Besi) Putrajaya

I was in Cyberjaya last Friday and just had a thought of doing my Friday prayers at Masjid Tuanku Mizan or AKA Masjid Besi.

Main Prayers Hall

Entering to the Main Prayers Hall

I was amazed with the design and architecture of the mosque. It has open air concept where the wind was freely flowing in. No air-con required. It was huge and very modern. It had directory included with floor level indicator! It's the first mosque that I have seen that comes with an escalator!

Just outside the Main Prayers Hall

Over looking the Putrajaya Lake

Nice water features. Windy and breezy.

I would say this is the most beautiful most that I have ever been into. Modern and well planned. The only setback that, although with all the open air concept, it does get stuffy during congregation.

All the above photo taken with Samsung Galaxy S.

World Cup 2010 Winner

I got this in a email but looks pretty real. World Cup winner is predicted by Indian numerology.

This world cup is already determined by the numbers....

1. Brazil won the World Cup in 1994; before that they also won in 1970. Adding 1970 + 1994= 3964

2. Argentina won its last World Cup in 1986; before that they also won in 1978. Adding 1978 + 1986= 3964

3. Germany won its last World Cup in 1990; before that they also won in 1974. Adding 1974 + 1990= 3964

4. Brazil also won the World Cup in 2002; before that they also won in 1962. Adding 1962+ 2002= 3964

5. Therefore if you want to know what nation is going to win the World Cup in 2010, you only have to subtract 2010 from the magic number that we have determined: 3964.

3964 minus 2010 = 1954... In 1954 the World Cup was won by Germany!!!

Probably not scientific... but pretty interesting..

LETS WAIT & WATCH......

The Curse of Twitter

Twitter has slowly taken over my blogging days. I find twitter is super fast, efficient and easy to convey my thoughts. Although 140 chars limits somewhat, but it beats writing long blog post.

My prediction, blog is eventually become a knowledge/content repository and Twitter will take over as number 1 information reference. It's so much easier to follow a person on Twitter and reading content which interest you rather than looking thru blog posts.

So, if you are interested in my ramblings, follow me at @ganee or click the icon below.

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World Cup Poll

I am running a poll here on World Cup, appreciate if you can vote and spread the news. I need more feedback for my research. Thank you very much.
Link to poll as below:-
http://twtpoll.com/lai3f4

Posted via web from Ganee's Biz Point of View

Cerita Benar Dari Mesir

Saya minat betul dgn seorang Ustaz ini, nama beliau adalah Ustaz Zawawi Yusof. Pertama sekali saya dengar dia berceramah di Masjid Tengku Kelana, saya tertarik dengan cara percakapan dan selingan cerita yang dibawa amat memukau perhatian saya.

Apabila saya dapat tahu dia akan berceramah di Masjid, pasti saya akan pergi mendengar. Tetapi topik hari ini adalah salah satu cerita yang diceritakan oleh Ustaz yang saya perlu cerita kembali kepada anda semua.

Cerita ini merupakan sebuah cerita benar. Malah telah gambarkan dalam satu filem di Mesir. Begini ceritanya...

Terdapat sebuah rumah bersebelahan sebuah sekolah. Rumah itu didiami oleh seorang ibu dan anak. Anak tersebut pergi ke sekolah disebelah rumah tersebut. Ibu si anak ini sering ke sekolah waktu rehat untuk memberi makanan kepada si anak. Tetapi si anak sering memarahi ibunya supaya tidak datang ke sekolah kerana malu akan ibunya yang buta sebelah mata. Si anak merasa malu dengan kehodohan ibunya itu. Ibunya tidak endah dan akan setiap hari ke sekolah utk memberi makanan dan tetap di marahi oleh si anak tersebut.

Si anak nekad untuk belajar kuat untuk mendapatkan sekolah asrama supaya ibunya tidak dapat datang melawatnya. Dengan izin Allah, si anak pun dapat sekolah asrama dan ibunya tidak datang melawatnya lagi.

Si anak kemudian nekad itu mendapatkan biasiswa untuk belajar di luar negara. Si anak pun berjaya mendapatkan biasiswa dan belajar di luar negara. Sejak itu, terputuslah hubungan si anak dengan ibunya. Si anak pun berjaya belajar tinggi dan kahwin dengan seorang perempuan Mesir di luar negara. Si anak kembali ke Mesir tetapi tidak balik melihat ibunya. Si anak terus berjaya dalam hidup dan menjadi orang besar di dalam daerah tersebut.

Ibunya bangga melihat kejayaan anaknya melalui surat khabar ingin benar menjumpa anaknya, maka sekolah lama si anak mengadakan alumni dan menjemput si anak tersebut. Orang kampung berjanji kepada ibunya yang mereka akan membawa anaknya selepas perjumpaan alumni itu ke rumah untuk berjumpa dengan ibunya.

Si anak pun datang ke sekolah tersebut menaiki kereta mewah dan terus meninggalkan tempat itu selepas habisnya upacara tersebut tanpa melawati ibunya. Ibunya yang bersedih akan perkara tersebut nekad itu menjumpa anaknya. Ibu berjaya mendapat alamat rumah anaknya dan berangkat menaiki keretapi dan melalui satu perjalanan yang jauh yang memakan berhari.

Akhirnya sampai jua, ibunya ke rumah si anak tersebut. Ibu mengetuk pintu dan cucu ibu tersebut membuka pintu. Si cucu menjerit kepada ayahnya "Ayah, ada nenek miskin nak mintak sedekah". Si ayah tersebut pun datang melihat dan terkejut melihat ibunya. Si anak tersebut memarahi ibunya lagi. "Saya tidak ingin melihat ibu kerana ibu hodoh! Saya malu melihat ibu! Jangan kembali lagi ke sini, saya tidak ingin melihat ibu lagi!"

Ibunya yang berpatah hati kembali ke kampungnya selepas mendengar kata-kata anaknya yang cukup memilukan hatinya. Sekembali ibu tersebut ke kampung, ibu menulis beberapa surat kepada anaknya tetapi tidak di balas. Si ibu kini tenat dan sakit. Si ibu ingin melihat anaknya dan berutus surat tetapi tidak juga diendahkan oleh si anak.

Akhirnya si ibu meninggal dunia tetapi sebelum itu meninggalkan wasiat supaya seutus surat yang ditulisnya di berikan kepada si anak.

Surat itu pun sampai kepada tangan si anak. Si anak membuka dan membacanya "Wahai anakku, ibu bangga dengan percapaian kamu dan ibu tetap sayang kepada kamu. Ibu sudah tiada lagi tapi ibu masih gembira kerana ibu masih dengan kamu. Ibu ingin menceritakan sebuah kisah, kamu selalu memanggil ibu hodoh dan buta satu mata, ini adalah kerana semasa kamu kecil, kamu mengalami satu kemalangan dan buta sebelah mata. Ibu tidak ingin kamu dicaci nanti oleh kawan kawan kamu, maka ibu sanggup memberi mata ibu kepada kamu. Ibu gembira sekarang, kerana ibu masih dapat melihat menerusi kamu"

Si anak yang kini sedar akan cerita sebenar meraung kesedihan dan kini sedar akan betapa besarnya kasih sayang ibunya dan betapa besar kesilapannya. Dengan takdir Allah S.W.T, si anak yang berpangkat besar kini menghadapi masalah. Masalah keluarga. bercerai dan masalah kerja. Sehingga satu tahap, dia menjadi miskin dan kembali ke kampungnya dan duduk di rumah asalnya. Sesungguhnya Allah Maha Adil.

Setelah sekian lama berada dlm keadaan tersebut, si anak tersebut dengan perlahan-lahan kembali ke status asalnya.

Terdapat 3 cara Allah memberi pahala dengan seponton iaitu apabila melihat Kaabah, melihat Al-Quran dan melihat muka ibu bapa.

Sesungguhnya orang yang paling rugi adalah orang yang mempunyai ibu-bapa yang masih hidup dan tidak membuat sebarang kebajikan bagi mereka.

Semoga kisah benar di atas memberi pengajaran kepada kita akan betapa besarnya pengorbanan ibu bapa terhadap kita.