I had about 40 Indonesian workers at my work section. I know the name of about 80% of them. 95% of them by face. Another 5%, I would probably not recognize them even I pass them by the road. I kept the mobile numbers of about 10% of them. These 10% are those that I can trust to get things done through a phone call.
This morning, one of them called me to inform that there was an accident on site. As they were walking to work, a taxi driver knocked into 3 of them. I was still at home then. I told him to get the ambulance. And I then called my supervisor to follow up. I then got to know that 1 died on the spot, 1 broke his leg and the third has some bruises on the leg. The first one belongs to the 5% group, while the other two is in the 10% group. Later they called me to ask for a day off as a respect for the dead. It seems that this is their culture back home in Java. I checked with the boss, but he insists that the critical earth removal works need to proceed, but other works can have a day off.
I was told they will go the mosque to pray for the dead, and some will make a trip to the hospital to visit the guy who broke his leg. (The third guy need not be hospitalized). Then I saw some guys who were wandering around, not sure what to do. Anyway you can't spend the whole in the mosque.
Life is so unpredictable. You will never know what will happen tomorrow. (An over-rated statement that being said too many times.) I am very sure that the guy who was dead never expected himself not to see the end of today. I asked who this guy was. They told me his name but I can't relate it. Later, when I went back to office, I had a look at his photo, but I can't visualize him on site.
What will happen to the guy who broke his leg? If he had difficulty walking properly, I don't think company will retain him. He has to go back home. What can he do back home? What will happen to him in future? He was only here to work!! I probably have bigger sentiments for this guy. Someone who can work and reliable. He don't talk much. I do hope that he can be well.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Kaspersky / PJ Blogger Carnival Hunt
20 June 2009 - A two hour walk hunt around Jaya33 mall.
Despite being only 2 hours, it was an action packed hunt. 10 hunt questions, 3 spot-the-tagline questions, 5 spot-the-cropped-picture questions, 3 challenges and 2 treasures. The 3 challenges are: Challenge 1 - 5 questions about PJ to be answered within 1 minute, just before flag off; Challenge 2 - strike a pose with the Kaspersky cardboard for the camera; Challenge 3 - 10 online questions on Kaspersky - hunters are given a notebook to search for answer online. Challenges 2 and 3 are to be completed within the 2 hours hunt time.
The team for this hunt - Fong, Angie, Sallehudin (hunt with him for the first time) and myself. To start off, Angie did the picture questions, I tackled the tagline questions and Fong/Din did the hunt question. We answered all questions. But during the answer presentation, found out that we were wronged on 2 hunt questions. We cracked both, but did not write the full answer. We only got half the online questions in Challenge 3 right. Simply because again we did not provide the full answer. Fong googled the question for the answer instead of going into the directed website to look for answer. Our answers were not complete. These probably caused us a top 3 position.
Final result: 4th placing. I think we did pretty well to outplace some of the Masters' team.
Despite being only 2 hours, it was an action packed hunt. 10 hunt questions, 3 spot-the-tagline questions, 5 spot-the-cropped-picture questions, 3 challenges and 2 treasures. The 3 challenges are: Challenge 1 - 5 questions about PJ to be answered within 1 minute, just before flag off; Challenge 2 - strike a pose with the Kaspersky cardboard for the camera; Challenge 3 - 10 online questions on Kaspersky - hunters are given a notebook to search for answer online. Challenges 2 and 3 are to be completed within the 2 hours hunt time.
The team for this hunt - Fong, Angie, Sallehudin (hunt with him for the first time) and myself. To start off, Angie did the picture questions, I tackled the tagline questions and Fong/Din did the hunt question. We answered all questions. But during the answer presentation, found out that we were wronged on 2 hunt questions. We cracked both, but did not write the full answer. We only got half the online questions in Challenge 3 right. Simply because again we did not provide the full answer. Fong googled the question for the answer instead of going into the directed website to look for answer. Our answers were not complete. These probably caused us a top 3 position.
Final result: 4th placing. I think we did pretty well to outplace some of the Masters' team.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Movie 12 - I Corrupt All Cops
30 May 2009 - I Corrupt All Cops
I am not a fan of the Hong Kong gangster movies. In fact, I loathe watching them. This was not my choice when buying ticket at TGV 1-utama (I was there for Terminator), but due to unavailability of other tickets, this seems to be the only choice.
Fortunately, was not too disappointed at the end.
What I liked about this movie?
Tony Leung Kar Fai and Anthony Wong acting. Little wonder that they were Best Actor winners.
The make-up on Alex Fong face after he was hammered by the police, as he was made a scapegoat. That make-up artist should get an award.
That 'woman' who used her body and charm to succeed in the underworld by aligning herself to the police, but still had the power of choosing whom she wants to bed with (She chose Eason Chan over Tony Leung, despite Leung position being higher than Chan). And along the line, fight herself to be the number 1 wife, despite being the number 9. The cat-fight scene in Eason Chan's apartment, amongs his wifes, was crude but classical.
Overall flow of the storyline is OK, although at the end the success of ICAC was fast-forwarded.
I would on most instances avoid a non-comedy Chinese movie, but this was an acceptable exception.
Rating: 3/5
I am not a fan of the Hong Kong gangster movies. In fact, I loathe watching them. This was not my choice when buying ticket at TGV 1-utama (I was there for Terminator), but due to unavailability of other tickets, this seems to be the only choice.
Fortunately, was not too disappointed at the end.
What I liked about this movie?
Tony Leung Kar Fai and Anthony Wong acting. Little wonder that they were Best Actor winners.
The make-up on Alex Fong face after he was hammered by the police, as he was made a scapegoat. That make-up artist should get an award.
That 'woman' who used her body and charm to succeed in the underworld by aligning herself to the police, but still had the power of choosing whom she wants to bed with (She chose Eason Chan over Tony Leung, despite Leung position being higher than Chan). And along the line, fight herself to be the number 1 wife, despite being the number 9. The cat-fight scene in Eason Chan's apartment, amongs his wifes, was crude but classical.
Overall flow of the storyline is OK, although at the end the success of ICAC was fast-forwarded.
I would on most instances avoid a non-comedy Chinese movie, but this was an acceptable exception.
Rating: 3/5
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