Blog that attitude!

Haha…I came across my tickle account that I registered years ago and never take the time to sign in for such a long time. Due to my absence, the administrator decided to close my account in which I revived in the 11th hour just to check what I’ve done with that account…..and so here goes the several tests that I took last time from answering thier questionnaire: really funny stuff to remember back

       
      
      

This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many
questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to
others.

Your Intellectual Type is Visual Mathematician. This
means you are gifted at spotting patterns — both in pictures and in
numbers. These talents combined with your overall high intelligence
make you good at understanding the big picture, which is why people
trust your instincts and turn to you for direction — especially in the
workplace. And that’s just some of what we know about you from your
test results.  

 
 
 
 

   

   

What’s Your Destiny?

   

Finding Your Purpose in Life

   

   

   
   

   

   
 

       
      
      

Whether you know it or not, this is the role that is most in tune with
who you are at your core. As a Protector, you have an exceptional gift
for guiding and comforting others when no one else is willing or able
because you actually feel their pain as if it were your own. If you
could insulate those you love from all hardship, you would consider
that your greatest accomplishment. You offer caring and thoughtful
advice that helps others heal and move in a positive direction, but you
don’t call attention to yourself, choosing rather to selflessly give to
others in order to make the world a better place. This sense of duty
and exceptional work ethic will get you far in life, however, it can
lead to frustration when you don’t get the appreciation you deserve.
Remember to take care of yourself because if you feel good others will
feel reassured by your steady, prudent, and methodical ways, and the
world really will be a better place!

       
      
      

 
      
       
Your sexual personality is determined by your sexual persona (Omega), 4 sexual scales (Emotional/Physical, Look/Touch, Daring/Modest, Verbal/Non-verbal), and your libido score (9).

As an Omega, you are someone who feels sexy, looks
sexy, and really knows the ropes when it comes to lovemaking. Your sex
appeal is more overt than others and your sexual confidence and
awareness are particularly high.

How do we know this? How do we know that you focus more on the
emotional than the physical connection with your partner while having
sex?

Because while you were taking the test, you answered different kinds of
questions — questions that measured what you’re like in bed as well as
your sex appeal, sexual confidence and sexual awareness.

(hahaha….makes me feel like i’m some kinda pervert with a libido 9!)

       
      
      

This is the area of life that involves being able to trust others
enough to find your ideal romantic partner, make a commitment in your
relationship, and maintain a passionate relationship over time. There
are many variables that can enhance your love feng shui.
One thing you already have going for you is that you don’t have a messy
nightstand overrun with clutter.

While you have some good feng shui, your test answers reveal your energy is most blocked in the area practitioners call 
reputation. Blocked energy in this area of your life can prevent
you from getting credit you deserve, having a good reputation, getting
respect from others, and achieving fame.

(wooohooo……i don’t believe in that! hahahaha)

Frustrated at not being able to complete a certain task today, my thoughts suddenly begin to wander in the middle of the night prompting me to write this down. I was just thinking about the incident that happened about a couple of weeks ago when i was having lunch with my friends and suddenly a friend told me that this girl was having her eyes on me. Was she checking me out?….the question then sparked off a "go for the girl" frenzy thing among my mischievious friends. Well, yea from her looks she seems to be too true of a girl who’d be checkin me out….in other words …she’s way too cute to be in the same league as I am:P! So I’d decided not to be a fooled by my friends or play along with thier little game for all I know i might end up being a laughing stock!….So I decided to just chill and i mentioned one thing to a friend…If she;s interested then i’ll have to frustrate her by not paying her any attention at all….(after all the persuasion to get to know her or get her number…etc)….surprised at what i said….a friend was quick to point out that honestly I don’t look like a Wang Lee Hom to be frustrating a girl!<Pause> So at that moment….i begin to think what does a girl really want in a guy these days?…..Does looks really matter to a girl these days?….well honestly speaking when i check out girls at the mall these days ….i see a lot of pretty faces with voluptious bodies…walking side by side with(u;’d be hoping a prince charming looking kinda guy) but no….hideous looking men….and in general people are quick to judge that she’s after his money implying that maybe that guy is some SuperRiCh sugar daddy or somekind that has gotta do with lots and lots of money, sportscars and bungalows ….then again what does a girl really want in a guy these days?……I’m amazed at how guys can be so easily controlled by a pretty face these days….hey let me get this for u… hey let me get that for u….hey let me buy this for u…hey let me buy that for u… hey let me lick your boots for you….hey let me betray my frens for u…hey let me betray my country for u….and after all is fufilled….he finds out that she’s not interested after all!!! WHOA congratulations….u’re the biggest winner aren’t u or shall I say L***r?….then again what does a girl really want in a guy these days? I’ve seen all these under the sun……girls won’t tell you they’re not interested directly……they will take and take and take and take and take…….single guys…realize this….you have the POWER to stop the unnecessary giving… and you will have the POWER to frustrate!!! So what if she’s not paying any attention to you…just MOVE oN: the ratio of girls to guys in local varsities are 7:3..they outnumber you….u’re sure to get at least one hit in every 15 tries won’t u?  .. You don’t need good looks to attract a beautiful soul….a girl who judges mainly on looks alone are naive and they should go back to live in the 80’s or sumthing like that…..consider this a good looking GUY doesn’t necessarily be a LOYAL guy….for all you know his eyes might lock on to something else more beautiful than you are after a couple of years( well not everyone is like that but just to give an example)….but then again what does a girl really want in a guy these days?….I’ve heard a girl said some time ago….I’d rather go for the looks rather than material things or money…at least i’d be happy looking at him!…..well a year after that…maybe she got wiser….Oh i’d rather go for personality rather than looks or money to…u know sometimes personality overules all that shit about looks and material stuffs….but i think she went on to become a LeS?…common….what does a girl really want in a guy these days?…Good lookings girls…..u need to give the guy who does not care about you on the outside a chance to prove that he cares for you in the inside!!!! It doesn’t matter if he’s physically challenged or wat …u can always fix them with your dieting regime rite?…after all what are u made of?.. He needs the green light than just a mere blinking torchlight that never seems to connect anywhere! Average looking girls-you’re doing just  fine aren’t you?…hehehehe…Below Average looking girl- You are never ugly…. it’s only your mind  that tells you so…and if you think guys hate you….think twice that’s because you’re trying so hard all your lives to overpower them trying to be smarter than them until it becomes the only reason why you exist…there’s a charming handsome guy who notices you….and that guy wil never be ME coz i’m no hunk after all!!!! ADIOS….!!!!

SWOT Analysis is a
comparison of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that helps
executives summarize the major facts and forecasts derived from the external
and internal analyses. Successful strategic management depends on an accurate
and thorough evaluation of the environment. Analyses of the external
environment of an organization include opportunities and threats whereas
analyses of the internal environment include the strength and weaknesses of
major functional areas within the organization. According to the article
“Tenaga battle rising costs, debt” the SWOT analysis suggests that the internal
environment (strength and weakness) lies mainly in the financial analysis and
the external environment (opportunities and strength) consists of macroeconomic
conditions as well as other factors such as social analysis.

Internal analysis
provides strategic decision makers with an inventory of the organization’s
skills and resources as well as its overall and functional performance levels.
From the article it is evident that TNB is facing a massive debt problem where
the company’s debt has almost doubled from RM16.7 billion in 1997 to RM30
billion in the 2005 financial year. This was noted by their chairman Tan Sri
Leo Moggie. From the financial analysis point of view this shows that the
company weakness lies in the massive amount of debt which has doubled in a
period of 8 years.

Operations
analysis also shows that the nature of the industry is largely dependant on
resources such as fuel and metal (raw materials) for power supply equipment. Apart
from gas, prices of materials used to replace equipment parts have also soared
since 1998: Aluminum by 38 percent, copper by 112 percent and steel by 73
percent. This make a total of 75 percent of total operating cost.  This further verifies that indeed the
operational weakness of TNB lays in the dependency on resources that experience
overwhelming price hikes.

From the article,
less is much written on the strength of the company compared to its weakness.
However, from the article the resources that was mentioned which was the two
coal based plants are tangible assets of TNB which serves as a resource to the
company. These resources are good examples of inputs to a system that can
enhance performance. Furthermore, I
would like to deduce the strength of TNB based on my knowledge that TNB holds a
monopoly on electricity generation, transmission and distribution in Peninsular
Malaysia. Since TNB is the sole provider of electricity in Peninsula

Malaysia

,
competitions barely exist or do not exist at all. The article wrote that ‘With
the Ninth Malaysia Plan promoting a “market-based approach” to determining
energy prices, Leo Moggie dismisses the theory that

Malaysia

would not need a
regulator. This further suggests that TNB would continue to be the sole
provider of electric generation in the future within Peninsula

Malaysia

.
Strength lies in the political and regulatory analysis of the company where
indication that the industry itself is strongly backed by the government through
the subsidy or fixed price of fuel cost and also the commissioning of coal
plants under the Eighth Malaysia Plan.

The External
environment of an organization usually consists of opportunities and threats
that are based on the important activities in an environmental analysis. In my
opinion TNB external environment is largely affected by macroeconomic conditions. Macroeconomic conditions are economic
factors that affect supply, demand, growth and profitability within the power
utility industry itself. From the article, the cost of fuel and metals used for
power supply equipment has gone through the roof since Tenaga Nasional Bhd last
raised its tariffs in 1997 by 8.3 percent indicates that even though Tenaga has
taken measures to increase thier revenue, the increase of fuel and metal is
something external that the company has no control of. Although gas accounts
for only 24.7 percent of the power sector’s fuel cost, 75 percent of total
operating costs have been hit hard by price hikes further proves that
macroeconomic conditions which Tenaga has no control of is indeed a main threat
to the organization that largely depends on global price of fuel and metals.

Apart from that,
stakeholders also affect the external environment of Tenaga Nasional. Stakeholders
are groups and individuals who affect and are affected by the achievement of
the organization’s mission, goals and strategies. When the chairman of TNB
stated that there were occasions where the gas supply was not available for
whatever reason, example due to maintenance of the Petronas pipeline it was
evident that Petronas is an organization that plays an influential stakeholder
role to them because moving further on in the article, it stated that during
those periods of maintenance TNB had to substitute medium fuel oil and
distillate – which shot up by 244 per cent and 250 percent respectively between
1997 and 2005 which cost them a substantial amount of RM90million.

Moving into the
social analysis of the external environment, the article also stated that increased
freight charges are partly due to higher insurance premiums after the September
11 2001 terrorist attacks in the

US

. This further suggests that
international terrorist group and their activities is a current and potential
social issue which makes up the social analysis that threatens TNB’s battle on
rising cost and debts.

Importantly,
opportunities are still wide for TNB when Leo Moggie, said that the government
is introducing more and more coal into the system, noting the commissioning of
two coal-based plants in the

Peninsula

during
the Eighth-Malaysia Plan. This
suggests that, the organization has a strong backing from the government to further
expand its power generating capabilities and to be less dependant on fuel based
power generation such as gas operated plants. Besides, the fixed price of
RM6.40 per mmbtu since May 1997 should be seen as an opportunity given by the
government to the organization to cushion the price hikes. However, when coal
prices have increased by 69 percent between 1998 and 2005, again macroeconomic
conditions are there to affect the opportunity itself.

“If there is no
change in revenue coming in, we will have to continue borrowing,” says the
chairman of TNB, which has submitted a proposal for higher electricity tariffs.
This statement in the article suggests that it is a threat to TNB if they
continue to borrow as it may result in more and deeper debts. However, the
opportunity is that the proposal for higher electricity tariffs may result in
the opposite. Based on TNB affiliations with the government discussed earlier,
sooner or later higher electricity tariffs will have to be imposed and although
this is bad news for most consumers, it presents an opportunity for TNB to
reduce their debt in the future.

Finally, strategy
formulation builds on SWOT analysis to utilize the strength of an organization
in order to capitalize on opportunities, counteract threats and alleviate
internal weaknesses. Since macroeconomic conditions such as price hikes in
non-renewable energy resources such as gas and coal are threatening to TNB, the
organization should consider focusing their research and development on
renewable energy sources such as hydroelectric, solar or wind powered
technology that might just provide a solution to their battle of rising costs
and debts.

Thank Goodness…..Mission Impossible III is probably the most awaited action movie for me so far in this year (2006). Before this, other films like Inside Man which was fine to me hasn’t quite make it to my list of ‘Awesome Show of the Year’. As a matter of fact I know I just couldn’t wait to catch it so my impatience really made me gave up watching it with some company for a later time :p….yea so practically i jumped into an earlier show alone! It was pretty fuLL house edition as expected but managed to get a seat about six rows from the screen… Phew!…I actually missed my online booking ticket time but still was compensated for another solo seat cutting the really long que of the normal ticketing booth!Or else it would have been better but anyways it’s still a magnificent view. I wonder how many of you have ever done this?….but catching a quick lunch at Mc Dees like exactly 10 mintues before a movie?…whoa!…never knew i could eked out that time for lunch but I still managed! My mentality was telling me my stomach needs comfort before my brain engages in some kinda high adrenalin rush movie. So the movie was just superb…. at the end of it,  I would really like to applause J.J Abrams for succesfully blending the movie with suspense, action, comedy and drama.I wonder why Tom Cruise never seem to get old?.. 25 years in the film industry and besides he just looks better everytime this time along side with young and rising star Michelle Monaghan! Maggie Q made her American film debut here and was pretty good! Liked the way she spoke cantonese to the villian of the movie actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman at one part! I guess the best thing about this movie is that it failed my intuition of the master of the plot at the start…well not saying much about it incase any of you haven’t catch the movie yet…oh and one more thing this film has got one thing to do with Malaysia….Our Malaysian Airlines signboard can be noticed backwards in one part of the movie…whoa…is that a publicity tactic by the MAS company?..after all their management did say something about doing everything necessary to challenge SIA early this year….way to to go ….Malaysia Boleh!…Finally ,it’s a day well spent at the theatres today..last but not least….this piece of blog will self destruct in 10 seconds….!!!

 Setting the example
may not be sufficient for a leader to motivate their staff into creative ideas
and decisions. To motivate, a leader should promote creative freedom in the
workplace since creative decisions are about making decisions without too many
constraints or to some cases without constraints at all. Identifying these
constraints and assessing them is an early process in providing a creative
environment for the staff at all levels. Sometimes these constraints are rules,
regulations or even procedures that hinder the creative environment in the
organization. For example, in the manufacturing sector protecting engineers
from managers who might block the creative process of coming up with the idea
to enhance production output from an unconventional method. Although the
decision might be a risk-taking one sometimes it may be proven that
unconventional methods reaps results especially when conventional methods are
not producing enough.

    Following that, a
successful creative idea or decision should be rewarded as this would further

harness the worker to be more creative in the future. Rewards that come in
forms such as

recognition, salary increment, extra bonuses or even promotion
should be considered by the leader

of the organization. Creative individuals consider recognition for their contributions very

important. An example is Kary Mullis, who was a chemist at Cetus, a
small biotechnology company

in the United States who came up with the
original idea of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for

quickly growing
batches of DNA. Mullis, however, felt that he had been robbed by Cetus of the

credit due him and eventually left the company. However, in 1993, Mullis
received the Nobel Prize

for the discovery of PCR. He felt that his role
in discovering PCR was finally vindicated.

However, when a
creative decision does not produce the desired results a leader should not
punish the workers for it as it would discourage them from making better
creative ideas and decisions in the future because the next time such decision
is required, workers would fear the same situation rather than be bold and
willing to take the risk. In short, to harness creative ideas and decision, a
leader must avoid criticizing their workers creative ideas or decision
destructively.

Using brainstorming is one of the most popular
techniques for generating creative ideas. In brainstorming, group members
generate as many ideas about a problem as they can. As the ideas are presented,
they are posted so that everyone can read them and people can use the ideas as
building blocks  Brainstorming gathers
together a set of experts with diverse skills, preferably including client
representatives. Main rules to be followed during the idea generation phase are
defer judgments; build on the ideas of
others; one conversation at one
time; stay focused on the topic ,and think outside
the box to encourage wild ideas. By the time people have exhausted
their ideas, a long list of alternatives has been generated. Only then does the
group turn to the evaluation stage. At that point, many different ideas can be
considered, modified or combined into creative, custom-made solution to the
problem. Although brainstorming is a common practice, some research has shown
that face-to-face groups generate fewer independent ideas than the same number
of people working alone. However the potential benefits of good brainstorming
are clear.

Creative staffs in an organization
tend to be more motivated
because they’ve achieved something. They’ve discovered a better way of doing
things or they’ve solved a problem by thinking outside the box. By successfully
finding solutions, they’re more motivated to work. And the more motivated they
are, the more productive they are. And the more productive they are, the more
satisfied and motivated they are. The cycle endlessly recreates itself.