上司自嘲的陷阱

有時長輩或上司爲了顯示自己的謙虛或爲了試探下屬對他的態度，會自嘲來看對方的反應。
這個局面不容易應付。因為如果你急忙撇開自嘲的內容而相反地對上司胡亂地讚了一番，他就可以看到了你的膚淺輕浮和攀附權貴的態度。如果你又打從心裡誠實地認同他所說的內容，他又覺得你是真的在嘲笑他，肯定會生氣。如果你避重就輕，不回應那個內容，他又可能覺得你不尊重他對你說過的話。

雖然我還沒有完全掌握回應的技巧，依我看來，我們當然要否認他的自嘲，那是肯定的。接下來就要按照道理和事實得體地指出上司在那方面的優點，說那些可能他已忽略了的正面貢獻或特長。

這完全就要看你的急智和功夫了。表現好的，肯定能得老闆的開心和信任。

伯樂與千里馬

在渴望得到伯樂的欣賞之前，請確保自己是一匹具有潛能的千里馬，而不是別人眼中的草泥馬。

Don't waste food 不浪費食物

I don't waste food. I don't like the idea of wasting food, so I try my best not to.
These are the few things I practise: I don't discard the rice stuck to the rice cooker. Instead i will filter and collect them after they were soften in water and re-cook them tomorrow.
I don't throw away uncooked bones, be it pork, beef or chicken. Vegetables stems too. They are good for cooking soup. Therefore I don't usually buy condensed soup flavouring tablets.
I try my best to plan a reasonable grocery shopping list, so that I try not to buy too much until the food becomes spoilt and has to be discarded in the end. If possible, try to make more trips to local groceries to ensure the food you buy is fresh, and retain most of the nutrients.
Of course, I try not to cook too much if I can not finish, otherwise I should just try to finish later. Same goes to outside food, do not order much more than you can consume.

我不喜歡浪费食物，所以在生活中我盡可能去做到。
我不只不倒掉飯焦，反而收起來明天做飯時放回飯鍋重煮。
我也將去掉的豬骨，雞骨或牛骨冰凍雪藏起來（蔬菜梗我也收，但不冰凍），因為這些可以用作煮湯的材料。所以我不買濃縮湯味精。
我也儘量不一次購買太多的食物，以致食物過期腐爛然後被逼要丟掉。如果時間允許，盡可能去附近的菜市場買最新鮮的蔬菜肉類。這樣我就可以確保食物的營養價值不流失。
當然，如果不吃那麼多就別煮太多，煮了就盡可能吃完別浪費。外面的食物也是一樣，吃不了那麼多就別叫那麼多。

Immediate response to LKY's new book analysis about Malaysian politics

Sorry LKY, you are not correct in your analysis. BN govt sacrifices talents from all Malaysians to keep their power alive. It has nothing to do with race, although on the surface it seems that way (UMNO always use racist rhetorics) but that is not the whole and correct picture. Non-UMNO associated Malay professionals/talents/elites are also victims for sure. These career-aspired Malays migrated to UK and Australia, not in a small number.

In Malaysia, it is never about one race on top, but UMNO on top, not PAS or PKR -- even though they are Malay-led opposition parties. It is always about politics, that the ruling UMNO is using racial card as a scare tactic or a threat.

I always believe that, using racism perspectives to analyse Malaysia is actually also serving the interest to his own party agenda, to constantly remind his citizens (majority chinese) with that distorted analysis with the hidden message (isi tersirat): 'be thankful and grateful that we are not like them'. This is no less a scare tactic also.

政治模式的感想

1）
我的政治理念是由下而上的政治，民主和自由是要素。因为那是一个国民的基本尊严，不是用经济发展可以衡量和满足的。一个国家的人民是否幸福快乐，是建立在政府和人民互信互相尊重的同等地位，即政府就是人民和人民就是政府，而非一个统治集团和被统治的人民阶层关系。

2）
我不能接受一黨獨大的萬年政府，包括我自己國家的。在一個民主國家，多元政黨組成的政府絕對不是壞事反而很可能是好事。為何？人民的聲音應該是多元的，所以才會產生多個有真正代表性的政黨。那是自然不過的事情。

即使民聯政府在雪州和檳州目前的政績還算標清，我還是希望看到不久的將來有強大且有用有意義的在野黨陣線提供我替代選擇。目前的雪州檳州國陣，真的是連當反對黨都不及格。

Hati (Liver) vs Jantung (heart)

My friend asked:
为什么“肝”（Liver）的马来文会是Hati？
Why the Malay word for "Liver" is "Hati"?
(一般理解，Hati=心)



My answer / Jawapan saya:


Orang melayu suka 'hati'
Hati diri, Jantung bergantung.
Hati lebih besar, maka besar hati adalah baik.

Hati berfungsi untuk menapis dan mendetoksifikan bahan mudarat dalam darah, maka ia lebih suci. Jantung ada tekanan besar, tak pernah rilek, maka tak romantik.