my stroke recovery

apologies for my extended abscence, the thing is i have been preoccupied with my walking and have today reaped the reward, yes this morning i managed to circumvent the house from the front gate to the kitchen, all independently, alhamdulillah, allahuakbar. this was my target for 31st. dec 2008, but nevertheless , better late than never. i can feel the progress in my affected leg. inshaallah , within several months of this continued walking exercise, i should be able to walkabout at a reasonable clip, inshaallah

my stroke recovery

my daily exercise is going swimmingly alhamdulillah, there hasn't been any major improvements, every improvement seems to be microscopic. i guess collectively it will all add up to something one day, insha Allah,i need to persevere and be patient.my daily routine is now almost set in concrete. am really putting most of my hopes on a business proposal to takeover the batik business, if successful, that should keep me occupied and the target is of course to keep me occupied as before but to execute things following islamic tenets and discard off the old modus operandi.

old farts running glc's

i have been reading with interest the activities of sime darby of late, particularly as the ceo is from my alumni. it is very clear from reading the various plans that sime is in desperate need for growth as most of it's traditional activities have either reached a plateau or in dire decline. it's attempt to takeover ijn was definitely a strategic mistake. it would have been better for sime to expand and enhance sjmc ,it definitely has the financial resources and expertise can be hired. the labu airport is another fiasco. if anything, the management rightly stand to be accused of being sterile, not innovative at all. it's about time the management put on their innovative cap and bring sime into the 21st. century. but in all these years since the takeover by pnb, sime is akin to a once pretty lady very much in decline and what most seem to have missed is that the directors are a bunch of old farts who have refused to be put to pasture. their only clain of legitimacy is either being retired civil servants or politicians. this is where the change is most required. what sime needs are innovative and energetic directors who have cut their teeth in the private sector to guide sime into innovative,exciting and sexy new era, maybe someone similar to tan sri hassan merican. then again, is there anyone else out there like tan sri hassan. put out all these old farts to pasture, their time is up.these old farts seems to have no business ideas other than pirating what is already in place and hijacking them from the rakyat, man that's easy, any ahmad, muthu or ah chong can do that.

malaysian rituals

in the last few days i ran smack against 2 malaysian rituals involving schools and children which seems to me preposterous and makes me ask whether these things only happen here. the first one was a prize-giving function for those children who did well in their upsr. i went to the one held for the sepang district, my youngest son, the chestnut, having attended school in cyberjaya , which of course is within the sepang district.travelling there, my dear wife was panicking as mentally to her we were late, the ceremony supposedly starting at 2 p.m. I was surprised at her behaviour, not having seen that side of her before.i was of course, calm as usual, safely ensconced in the knowledge that the dignitary/minister will typically be late as per the norm of all politicians, in malaysia anyway.sure enough, when we reached the hall, the proceedings were yet to start, and so we quietly slipped out and adjourned to the nearest kfc. why do they bother with these ceremonies if it means not starting on time and making the poor children sweat. remind me again, to please not to attend any occasions where politicians are to be the vip. assholes!!!!.

today, being the first day of school in the new year, after going through the motions and having had my breakfast, i withdrew to my room , so as in order to make a few calls to setup appointments for the week. what the hell, nobody seems to be at work. i guessed that all these so-called parents/ especially mothers are somehow held-up at various schools in the klang valley, gnashing their teeth whilst waiting to register their child!!!. has our so called e-government ever calculated how much all these downtime are costing the country. why can't all these registration be done online, so that the first day of school just involves ushering the kid into the car or onto the bus.whats the big deal???, they are going to be in the school for the rest of the year for, goodness sake.!!!!

everything

it's been almost a month since my last posting. the new year 2009 is here already, my walking exercise is going well, one lap now takes 5 minutes compared to seven previously. the traditional theraphy is continuing, i have kept busy formulating the financial proposal for lyanne marketing. all completed now, and i am anxiously waiting for the first meeting with mara, ya allah restukanlah usahaku,kurniakan kepada kami kejayaan dalam usaha kami, kepada MU kami berserah, ingatan dan pengaturanMu kami terima, allahuakbar.