Philip Khor

I just came back from the CASFUMAL leaders summit held in KLIA. It spanned across two days, bringing together leaders from various colleges and universities to “network” with the industry leaders.

One of the sessions, Mr. Richard Thompson of PetrominWork, a Scot who liked British football, gave this presentation about Football Management.

That's Michelle

How Richard Thompson rank Managers

Across the next few days, I will share what I have learnt during this conference.

The food on the last meal was awesome. The night before, it was great too.. had the best seat in the house, right next to the VIP and stage :) Met really nice people and had a blast.

For now, its “Snap back to reality.”

What a night it has been.

We lost. They were the better team, good job Barca. Good bye CR7.

I had Advertising presentation at 10am that day, and we only got started like, 9:15am or something, at the Mezanine floor. It wasn’t 100% great, but we met like.. 80% of the requirements, good enough for a pass, possibly a Credit.

Slept like a pig til 8:30pm and went for gym. The mamak at Carrefour had  a blackout whilst having 20-30 customers. It was interesting to note their “crisis management” and I learnt a thing or two about management.

Tomorrow is bowling day. Also it is Networking Fundamentals assignment due date. Gotta put the pieces together like I always do, add salt and pepper and package it up in a nice envelope. Presentation, and first impressions are super important, so gotta put in more effort on that.

My Chinese Name is Khor Hock Khoon. In Mandarin, its Fu Kun. In Hokkien its Hock Khoon. In Kantonese its Fook Kin. In Angmoh, its Foo Goon. In Arabic, its Fuuuh Hooon.

The first character means: tax; give; endow; army; diffuse
The second character means: descendant; elder brother

So, either I’m:

- Army’s descendent / elder brother

- I deffuse my descendants / elder brother

- I TAX them (?)

- I give them (?)

I think I need to ask you Sifu Cina (yes Yap and Wilson and Darrel, I’m referring to you) to give me a sound and logical explanation.

This weekend I’ll be attending a Students Leadership Summit at Pan Pacific KLIA. Dress code is extremely formal, so I hope I don’t disregard and disrespect any protocol. Deep in my heart I wanna dress up as a Sheikh and a white-on-white robe complete with headgear. What do you think?

I flopped quads. Too bad I had 2000 chips left. Should have reloaded.

Ok, I think the server has switched. A few of my important project websites have scrwed, so I hope you understand :)

Lukas Birthday, Part 1 @ his house

Taylors New Campus @ Puchong ready 2010

Jamie & Lukas & IC End-of-Semester Party @ Puchong Party

Part 2

And here they are: The MAN UTD TIX!

I am so happy today, for myself and for our ALLK representative to Melaka, Lukas *hehehe*

OK, I’m done with Rawanaz Hosting. I’m moving to EasyNet as we speak. So if this post doesn’t show up, then its stuck with Rawanaz. If it shows up at 4pm today, that means the guys at EasyNet are very very good at doing their job! Let the record show that the current time now is 1:50pm, just minutes away from my Advertising & Promotion tutorial.

Here’s something to read while we wait for the server to refresh!

From: Dr. Patrick Zuma

Audit Department

Africa Development Bank

TEL: +27-73-986-3114
EMAIL: patrickzuma2009@gmail.com

ATTN: Sir/Madam

I am Dr. Patrick Zuma, a senior staff of African Development Bank of South Africa {ADB}. I have an urgent and very confidential business proposal for you. An American Gold consultant/contractor with the South African Solid Gold Corporation, Mr. W. Ali. Bryant made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at (Fourteen Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S. dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the South African Solid Gold Corporation that Mr. Bryant died in a plane crash in Alaska Airlines Flight 261 On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. W Ali did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$14,500,000.00 is still sitting in our Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Laws of Republic OF SOUTH AFRICA, at the expiration of 7 (Seven) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the South African Government if nobody applies to claim the fund. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin / business associates to Mr. A. Bryant so that the fruits of this old man’s labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials. This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and address so that the attorney will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits that will put you in place as the next of kin. We shall employ the services of an attorney for drafting and notarization of the WILL and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate/administration in your favor for the transfer.

A bank account in any part of the world that you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin. The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 70% for me and 30% for you. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the attorney and my position as a prominent senior official of ADB guarantees the successful execution and immediate conclusion of this transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately via the private email address and telephone number above. Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the transaction. Please send me your confidential telephone and fax numbers for easy communication. Please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country.

Awaiting your urgent reply.

You can contact me at all times.

Best Regards

DR. PATRICK ZUMA

Here are some helpful tip I’ve learnt from my past experience.

Basically, the “Crazy Man trap” is when a shrink (psychologist) traps you and try to classify you as having a mental disorder. A lot of things you say, as well as your body language will help the shrink determine what problem you have. It is only fair that you know how to avoid falling into their trap.

1. The first thing they’ll say is, “Are you depressed?”
Ok. Even if you are NOT, don’t say so. An instant, firm and aggressive “NO!” reply is not exactly an ideal answer. He will interprete it as “Denial”, which is… yupp, you’ve guessed it, “the FIRST sign” of depression, mania, bipolar, ADD or whatever BS they come up with.
How to approach? Change topic. Tell them about your day. Tell them the bad things that happen in the week. Acknowledge that the past few days haven’t been exactly great. Then move on from there.

2. Provocation
During the course of the Interview / Interrogation, the shrink will try to evoke your emotions and gauge for a response.You HAVE to show anger, but make sure its controlled. Like, if your girlfriend left you, you must pretend to cry. No tears also must cry. If you show no emotion, they will interprete it as…. ok, I’m not so clear, but its BAD if you don’t show emotion.

3. Speech
Talk slowly. A simple rule-of-thumb I use is, that once the question is asked, I count one-missisipi-two-m-3 until 5, then I think. Then only I talk. If you try to pre-empt the shrink, not only will he find out you’re too sexcited, he will think you have symtoms of mania, by which you can’t control the energy inside you. Mania is a serious problem because too much energy makes you think of crazy shit, then you think you’re on top of the world, everything also can do, etc. etc.

4. Back to denial.
Do not deny. Do not try to lie to them. Trust me, you WILL phail.
Be honest, and if its too personal, just tell them so.

5. Future appointments
Don’t be shy to approach a shrink. They’re very knowledgable people who knows shitloads about life, how to handle emotions and much much more. Set an appointment for 2 weeks time, then come back, and gauge your mental state of mind. It would be great to keep track of your progress.

An alternative to psychological visits, you can go for Counselling at the hospital. There are many helpful people there who can talk to, and have ALMOST THE WHOLE DAY just talking to you.

Ok, the above tips are just guides, and by no means complete or accurate. Use at your own discretion. If you still don’t feel easy at heart, think GOD is talking to you, hear voices, see visions… its GOOD to double-check with your psychologists first, then your pastors. Just my 2 sen lah :)

;)

Moral of the story: Don’t be fat.

Also there’s news that a pair of newborn twins were born to different dads! ASTONISHED US medics say there’s “an overwhelming 99.999 per cent chance” that a set of 11-month-old Texan twins have been born to different fathers. [link]

A big wuddup to Rachel Chin, an old friend from back from those days ;)

Manchester United are officially the 2008/2009 Barclay English Premier League Champions!

Here’s our little mini celebration at Club 9, Subang Jaya.

Ah good times. Now for the big one – the Champion’s League.

This is an internal e-mail circulating amoung Student Council members of Taylors University College. As usual, I’m the devil’s advocate. Read the story below and see how it goes!

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I got a brochure from this company selling WiMax in Klang Valley.

P1 Wimax, is it REALLY 42 times faster than dialup?

Ok, as we know, dialup is 56kbit/s, that is theoretically 8KB/s maximum. But lets put it at a real world 6KB/s performance. How does P1 WiMax stack up against good ol’ dialup!

Test A: Loading Google

Google is about 15KBytes of data. Simple maths would stipulate dial up can download it in under 3 seconds. Can P1 do it in 0.07seconds? Even to ping to google (malaysia) it would take about 0.07 seconds already, thats excluding downloading anything at all. I think we’re looking closer to 1.5 seconds. In which case, P1 is only 2 times faster than Dialup.

Test B: Loading CNN.com

CNN do not have local servers, but MIGHT have mirrors in Hong Kong. But lets say we’re connect to their server in the United States. And the site is 100 KB worth of images and media.

Dialup would take 17 seconds. Can P1 load it in 0.4 seconds as claimed by their brochure? Again, ping to USA would take 0.2 seconds, just to “find” the server.

Test C: MSN test

To send a message to a friend via MSN, it takes dialup exactly 1 second from pressing enter to appearing on a friend’s PC. Can P1 wimax make it 0.023 seconds? Faster than the speed of thought?

Test D: The 100 MB test

Downloading a 100MB file from a fast server. Ok, here, P1 might excel. My calculations show dialup will take about 5 hours. If P1 Wimax is able to deliver 2.4mbit full speed then it will only take 7 minutes. And yes, that makes it 42 times faster than dialup.

Ok, the speed tests are estimates but it does give a good idea on how fast the actual performance gains you will see.

In summary, P1 is not lying. They’re bloody fast.

But what does the number mean to you? Well, the above will really explain the TRUE picture.

On another note, I am designing and maintaining www.petroleo-services.com .. too bad my energi.my domain is not used. Any takers?

Although my prediction is still abit off, (regarding United to win the Premiership by now).. we just need 1 point from 2 games. The bad news is we’re facing Arsenal. The good news is the last game would be at Hull City. We WILL be crowned in Kingston Communications Stadium. But I feel we deserve to reward the Old Trafford faithfuls by putting on a good show in the Theatre of Dreams by beating Arsenal.

Meh.

My Telephone line is fixed and I got a tone. But my Streamyx is not yet up. They need to physically “jump the port” at the box near my house. Looks like its another 1-2 days. Damn inefficient lah.

Oh, I received my MSI motherboard, socket 775, support latest Core 2 Duo and Quad Core, basic functions. Bought at RM 220, Retails now for RM 180, I sell you RM 140 best price.

On 12th, it was Teachers’ Day in Taylors UC. The response for “write a note” didn’t go out that well, so the Council had to “compromise”. I still stand by my Twitter / micro-blogging idea which can be carried out in all computer labs / laptops around campus simultaneously. That way, people are interested in technology, and it would be easy, fast, indexable, searchable and printable.

This is Mr. Ho Ree Chan, our Internet Commerce lecturer.

I went to Segambut for Seafood Noodle Lunch Ai Yu. From Segambut KTM station, it is about 600 metres, but it was damn hot.

Luckily we shared taxi with a lady from Melaka. I told her, “hey, its only 600m, lets walk lah!”. She said, “I cannot walk”; as if she’s lame. I walked 200 metres, and a taxi pulled up. She called me to go in. The fare was RM 3, she only offered to pay RM 1.

For the next big event, I don’t want to take part at all. I will instead be the analyst. I will look for problems throughout the organisation of the event, so that the event I’m planning in the future will go smoothly. Of course I’m not self-fish. I will publish the report on my blog of the shortcomings and what else could be done better lah.

Went to lookout point yesterday. Had Gasoline, and went to Taman Connaught Pasar Malam to meet Patrick’s “friend” :)

Today is Thursday. It is Advertising day! One of my favourite subjects; where it is relevant, and useful in business. The assignment is due Friday, so I guess no outing for me today. Pat is suppose to come meet me for breakfast at around 7am? See if he makes it.

Live long and prosper. @thepippo