weekend and stuff
Slept too much over the weekend. On Saturday evening, took mom to Mines to attend a Dharma talk by Ven Master Chin Kung, then watched The Simpsons Movie at the cinema next door while waiting for the talk to end. Spiderpig, spiderpig bwahahahaha!!!!!
Exiting Mines after the talk was a horror — imagine more than a thousand cars trying to go out at the same time! But it was ok.. mom really enjoyed the talk.
“So what did he talk about?” me asked.
“Filial piety…”
-_-”. Cute 
I also watched 200 Pounds Beauty yesterday. The beginning and middle parts were really funny, but I thought the ending was too rushed and a bit blah. Still miles better than a lot of stuff made locally *coughs*. I think all local actors/actresses should be made to star in TV series before they could go over to the big screen. Some of my favourite local actors/actresses do not headline the movies, but most of the time they’d stand out, thanks to all the ‘Cerekarama’, which I’d consider damn good training.
But maybe this rule also applies. The G&G folks are doing a good job, the Datin Diaries not so much (except for Norkhiriah), the Senario stuff are only good for slapstick that does not equal good acting on the big screen. Hmmm…
Thankfully our music scene far supersedes our movie scene. Paul let me listen to some really good local songs yesterday (one was Estranged’s Itu Kamu), they were rather awesome.
I was telling Paul that it seems a bit of a waste that local music only caters to the Malaysian and Indonesian market. Big lah the market (considering Indonesia’s size but they have their own awesome singers and bands), but who else in the world speaks/ understands this language? I’m talking about (almost) everyday usage. In comparison, the Chinese market is much, much bigger than the Malay market and also more profitable (for the artists concerned).
But also good lah, at least saves us the embarrassment of unleashing mawisux to the world.
Another (selfish) reason I like Malay songs is, I like listening to something that no one else except my countrymen and women understands. Dunno, it’s like a secret handshake or something. Plus like Paul says, there are some stuff in BM that just sound better. I have to agree. One of my favourite word is ’sayang’, and I still can’t properly translate it to the exact sentiment of how we feel about that word. Takpe…
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This is me, taken with le Paul’s new MacBook Pro… via the built-in webcam, that is.
I think it’s awesome 
With the country’s 50th Merdeka Day approaching, we’ve been overloaded with news and articles of trips down memory lane, how terrible this country suffered, repetitious ‘keungkitan’ of May 13 and how grateful we all should be, you know the drill. I don’t feel anything leh. Does it make me less Malaysian? But I am not even excited over my own birthday anymore. What are you going to do on Merdeka? BTW it’s a Friday.
I think it was two years ago when a bunch of us ‘celebrated’ Merdeka Day at Rum Jungle. It was rather fun — at the stroke of midnight, there were cheers and stuff, and the DJ played Sudirman’s Tanggal 31 Ogos and the crowd went nuts and started singing along. If there ever is a definition of feeling like a Malaysian, that was it.
I think I’ll sleep in…
Okay, quick question before I end this post: How did you land your previous/ current job? Through referrals takpe lah, but I’m talking about recruitment agencies and platforms, like Jobstreet, TheStar etc. Which one do you think is more effective? Mind sharing ar? Kthx!
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Big market for music? Nope, I think it is huge piracy market. Nevertheless, I think they are charging too much for the CD, which cost much lower than cassette.
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Job? I still remember my first job from aency, once upon a time, the pay is RM250. Later I get better prospect, all come from my “cronies”. Well, it is also due to the profiles cumulate for years.
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BTW, I am looking for a job for me to “snake” around the job, errr, like the company that Kimberly rant the incompetent admin.
the star classifieds is a good place to start
200 Pounds Beauty is awesome! I’m gonna buy the original DVD cos I think it’s worth forking out for.
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Previous and first ever job was through Jobstreet.
Ever since then referrals and recommendations lo
Suanie Photo somehow looks like Suaku Suan – jangan naik angin, ‘k?
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Last Two Jobs – I sort of asked for them, and sort of got them. No interviews. First job ever – blind application, turns out the firm just happened to have advertised right before I wrote in. One job was through friend’s referral, another via an ad in the papers. Grand total of five (yes, I know you asked for just the previous job, but I think it’s so much more interesting to share that only one of them was via the “conventional” ad-write in..)
Try both lah Suan. It’s better to try via newspapers coz when applying online they use “keywords” search.. or something liddat.
post in the Fireangel blog site.. hahahaha
It pays to have a strong network of friends in all fields. I personally think that word-of-mouth is sometimes the most effective. We may write in online or snail mail but when one gets recommended by other friends, the chances of landing at least a F2F interview is much, much higher.
As for my personal experience, I got my current job at a walk-in interview in KL for a job in Penang…and I hail from Penang. I just went down to KL for a shopping weekend and chanced upon the interview. Was totally unprepared for it but thought, what the heck! Just go for it lahhh.. who knows, I might get it. Which I did!
spiderpig, spiderpig
paultan’s new macbook i want T_T
i got all my job offers through people who met me and recognised me from my blog…
Arr… I am not looking for a new job.. my company is looking for people, and I just wanted suggestions as to which agencies works better… ‘cos the end results of the last time when we recruited kurang memberangsangkan
I have only ever recruited one person, and that was via jobstreet. She was a good find, although the real bad guy was me – I left my job and left her to take over my work hahahaha…
There are many recruitment agencies out there today. While Jobstreet is the household name amongst them, a few of them are quite reliable. You can start with Jobstreet (they have supplied me with some really good candidates in the past), and go on to Zenith, Manpower, MCSB or Kelly Services.
You can always use a few agencies at the same time. Kinda like shopping around (may-the-best-agency-win! kinda thing). You only need to pay them once you give their candidates the job anyway…so shop till you drop, girl!
Jobstreet is the pits, the quantity of candidates is there, but the quality is close to 0 especially in technical fields.
JobsDB is better slightly.
Even better is using agencies like Kelly Services or Manpower and only paying when you hire – it’s a bit more expensive but at least you get good staff.