Archive for December, 2007
Brief Timeline Of 2007
Dec 31st
January
Got a new piece of desktop which comes with 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo overclocked till 3.0GHz. This month is also the month where I start using Windows Vista for my computers.
February
Celebrated my room mate’s birthday at Red Box. Eligible for voting in Malaysia huh?
March
High school mates barbecue gathering at Qi Xiang’s house.
And a parcel from The Netherlands.
April
PC fair at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center.
And relative’s wedding.
May
Genting trip with friends.
Eating around with friends.
And primary school mates gathering.
Cleaning up 2 units of house for renting out.
June
UV nation party, still a first with college mates.
And a nice garden my mother took great care of.
July
I lost my collection of pictures for the months after July. I wonder too how do I recover them back as its amounting right up to nearly 25GB. This month is where I celebrated my birthday with friends at the top of Fraser Hill. It’s a nice experience as all I need to do is sleep in the car and we’re on top of the hill in a less than an hour, with the rising moon reflecting its light on us.
August
Test drive Mitsubishi Lancer GT 2.0 which just got launched in Malaysia at a nice price tag for a Completely Built Up unit all the way from Japan.
September
Photos of this month gone missing too. It’s exam season so I’m just cranking up with books and notes.
October
Things got tense up in this months as some friends are having money issues among each other.
November
Up to Genting occasionally to get fresh air after a small relief of the mid-terms which comes to us every week for the the whole 10 weeks.
December
Party up for Christmas at friends place. However, things got worst for the days that follow which I won’t elaborate further.
I hope 2008 will be a better year for me, 2006 and 2007 is almost hellish for me.
Priority
Dec 22nd
You know how life is when you get out of high school and enter the society. There’s many many things for you to do and yet very very few time for you to utilize. Over the times, you are the subject of gossips from old friends where you ditch them aside, some will understand, but most won’t.
This is life. In the process of pursuing success in life, we all move forward, whether it’s a big step, or a small step. But the main point is, we are moving forward. I do not blame them for telling their tales about me, because it’s a fact that I do contact some of them less as time goes on. I’m just a human with 2 legs and cannot be at 2 places at the same time.
However, it would always be nice to get in touch with old friends again and brag about what you have been doing while you are missing in action. You may also realize most of them, like you change, and it’s always a nice feeling to see how much they change.
But it’s also a good plus if we can prioritize our schedule and balance up time allocated for old friends and new friends. This way, we won’t lose them all, and gain more fun, at the cost of your troublesome brain cells to think up the best plan for your time though. I’m bad at this point, as I can hardly find time much for closest friends in high school. But it’s good news I’m prioritizing them right now.
Japanese Hairstyles
Dec 9th
I’ve found these pictures resided in my computer for years and decided to share it. It’s all Japanese hair styles. Which one do you like the most?
Boycott Pizza Hut Email A Hoax
Dec 5th
These few days, mails arriving into my mailbox includes some catchy forward mails, and one of this alarming email is titled, “FW: Boycott Pizza Hut Malaysia”. I’m publishing this forwarded mail unaltered.
The email claimed that Pizza Hut in Sunway Pyramid is practicing price discrimination based on race and asked people to boycott Pizza Hut. I asked Jeff Ooi about this matter and he shed some lights to me on this matter.
First of all, this email is a hoax. This issue of PizzaHut issue is as aged as 2 years old.
Secondly, the Management of PizzaHut had clarified it over one year ago when rumour mails like this flew across the Internet. Most recently, human rights lawyer had also clarified the facts with he PizzaHut management and obtained official replies from them, twice about this issue.
Please go over to here to read the response by Pizza Hut and here on a second response. I’ll publish the first response by Lawrence Ding, Senior General Manager of Pizza Hut Restaurants Malaysia Berhad below:
As discussed earlier, please allow me to give you a little background to the history of Pizza Hut Malaysia and how we arrived to this point of frenzied allegation in very race sensitive Malaysia.
KFC Holdings Berhad bought over Pizza Hut from Cerebos in Dec 1995. It was then a Quick Service Restaurants concept serving buffets and quick meals. It was operated as a fastfood chain concept then.
Over the years to remain relevant to our customers, Pizza Hut continued our journey of innovation to be a Casual Dining Restaurants Concept.
We have invested significantly since then, to change our image from a Fast Food Chain Concept to a Enhanced Dining Restaurant Chain Concept.
About 2 years ago, we began to roll out the new Pizza Hut restaurant image. The assets, image, etc were elevated. We also made significant changes to the Dine-In menu. It is a very significant change to our business strategy.
To make our investment viable in the long term, we conducted some research on all the Customers Touch Points namely, the Restaurant Assets, the Menu, the Uniform etc.
Thus for about 3 months, we had our docket capture our customers’ group size and race. This was done purely to see who or which segment of the population respond positively or negatively to our menu items. It is also very important for our New Product Development Team to develop menu items that will appeal to our customers.
We have had enough learnings from research and the exercise have stopped long ago.
I really hope, En Harris, that you will help promote the truth and publish this truth on your web, so that this lies will stop circulating….one day.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers and God Bless.
Lawrence Ding
Go on over to Hadris Ibrahim’s blog for the second response by Pizza Hut.
Now this is bad for people like us who use internet daily and depend on it as our source of news. These new source of news, be it blogs, emails, feeds or whatever you can think of besides the newspaper can be considered as new world media. We depend on these new world media more than the traditional media to get our news updated. Therefore we are easily influenced when somebody goes around spreading rumors or defaming another person.
Now if we continue to spread this hoax again, Pizza Hut will be the victim of the particular party which intend to defame it, and we just helping these black hats to success if we do not stop these misleading information. So please go on over to Haris Ibrahim’s blog to read on this matter and let’s undo the injustice to Pizza Hut because of our ignorance and the perceived wrong cause.
So if you’d perceive the wrong cause or just follow up what the email says and forward it blindly to your friends, please kindly point them to this post and undo the mistake that you have done. I feel bad for Pizza Hut for being a victim this time. Let us clear up Pizza Hut’s name together.
