on being full of myself ;)

from my almost-a-decade-long exposure to copy writing, proof-reading & editing other people's work, i think i should be able to give trainings on effective business communications ;p

1) ever heard of the term K-I-S-S? Keep It Simple Stupid. yes, do just that. dont be flowery. there's no glory in adding flowers to business letters/proposals/reports/presentations. go be a gardener. or a florist.

2) dont be long winded. theres no law against having a few separate sentences to make a point. too many people think cramming everything into a single sentence that spans 4-5 lines is impressive. it's not.

3) dont assume that your audience is stupid. stop making the same point again & again. over-kill tau. you already kill me, you kill me again. hohumm... boringggg...

4) enough with the quotable quotes already. i can buy my own self-development books or reader's digest or sun tzu's art of war or whatever. quoting famous people too often will make the audience feel like you're a wannabe self-help guru.

5) dont perasan yourself to be great at creating brand-y terms. get feedback. if the feedback is negative, for goodness sake, listen. dont be bullheaded and syok sendiri. note: you'll be surprised just how syok sendiri some people can be.

lots more lessons learnt to impart here but it's time for this wannabe trainer to go to sleep. good night world!!

note to self

a very de-motivating start to the week.

i really should get cracking on that resume. any volunteers to help me? usually, people outsource their resume writing to me ;p but somehow i just cant do my own.

but for me to keep my sanity intact, not to mention my pressure from sky-rocketing, i'm gonna get to it some time this week.

this must sound like a broken record, but i have had it with this job.

heres to new horizons!

and the camel's ass continues to spew bigotry

latest comment in yet another official company meeting:

camel's ass: now i masuk tandas i dah bau kari dah!

what has going to the loo situated on another level got to do with the smells in the loo situated in another level, huh ass? you exaggerate far too much that it is waaaayyyy beyond logic.

those who are sitting with this particular race/nationality of people that you claim to stink of curry dont get any smell pun. so how is it that you, who sit on another level altogether, in a room of your own, can smell curry?

have you ever thought that maybe, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO STINKS?

i wish you were an ant to i could squish you. unfortunately you're a camel (its backside) --too big for me to squish.

i hate bigots

i just came out of a meeting and i am so friggin pissed off at my ex-ceo who is a real shit. here are some things that he said at the close of the meeting (saving the best for last or just being a friggin chicken shit so he can run out of the door as soon as he makes discriminating comments???)

stupid comment no.1

"lets not hire any more indians. i masuk office i dah bau dah..." (wtf... i dont smell anything. no one else complains about any smell either. only he does. and from his past actions/comments, we all know hes got something against indians. mtf.)

stupid comment no.2

"let's do something about female smokers in the company. they shouldnt be smoking in public." (arghhhh!!!! dont you just feel like slapping the back of his head?? maybe if you do it hard enough, the cells responsible for his stupidity will jump out of his mouth. bastard.)

i hope karma comes and kicks you in the balls. i hope you get a daughter-in-law who's indian and smokes. padan muka you. and if you do really get such a daughter-in-law then heres my message to her: put your father-in-law in his place please i.e. in a locked room with the keys thrown far-far-away. he shouldnt be allowed out in public.

i hate stupid racist discriminating bigots --shame on you.

to my ex-ceo, wtf are you still doing here? orang dah tak nak you dah... thats why you're an EX. paham tak?? and from your actions today, we know why lah. so why dont you just leave. just because the new ceo is nice enough to appoint you as an advisor (which doesnt mean jackshit cos its just out of pity and respect for old people --not sure why you deserve ANY respect though), doesnt mean that you should over-stay your welcome.

please dont come in tomorrow, cos if you do, then you'll trouble me with looking for another table to sit at. i dont think i can stomach sitting in front of a bigot the whole day.

checking in with the world

i have been a busy bee of late.

painfully, this year-end is a busy time at work. no thanks to an exiting boss who doesnt seem to realize that when the big boss says you're leaving, it means you're leaving. it doesnt mean go into denial & pretend you're still staying. how blur can some people be? you'd be surprised.

i've taken on a side-project which will hopefully give me lots of money using my God-given talents. no, it has nothing to do with my body the wonderland (muahaha...). i'm finding it a bit difficult to juggle everything though and am somewhat regretting i agreed to it in the first place. but it could just be a case of cranking the old machine up & finding my rhythm i suppose. wish me luck, & bless me friends, that i'll do a good job but not kill myself in the process.

its also christmas-time & although i havent really been busy with christmassy stuff (cos actually i havent completed my shopping yet. so unlike me ok). but i need to finish up all my work (official & non-official) before i go on leave on the 23rd (woohooo!!!).

my exiting-but-in-denial boss wouldnt let me take my customary 2-weeks christmas leave cos well, cos hes just so dengki i think. no reason to dengki also. hes got 40 days leave to clear. he shouldve just told the big boss "big boss, since im no longer wanted in the company, then let me just take my 40 days leave as part of my notice". but noooo... he wants to be in the office to make life miserable for the rest of us. ishkk... this old man...

ok back to work people. its almost midnight. i got selingan to update my blog pula instead of finishing my mountain of work. blech...

grievances

i should be finishing up my never-ending minutes, but since the minutes are never-ending, i dont think think i'll ever finish them up. by the time the current batch is completed, the new batch comes in.

i cannot believe why people need to talk so much during meetings. why they need to have so many meetings to talk about the same thing especially. geez.

can you tell i'm a disgruntled employee?

i know, get a new job. ok ok... i will... i hope... here comes the excuses --> but its already almost the end of the year and that means my bonus will also be coming hopefully in the 1st quarter of 2010. so, i should wait for that shouldnt i?

sigh.