A Day at the Petronas Dagangan AGM

As Petronas Dagangan Berhad (PDB)was one of the better AGM to attend, I started early by LRT to the KLCC. On registration, I was given a breakfast pack. Great way to have your own packed breakfast without rushing for breakfast like hungry wolves as seen in most AGMs.Tea and coffee was free-flowing.

Took the opportunity to apply for Petronas Maybank Co-branded Visa Card and CIMB-Petronas Co-branded Visa as well. CIMB gave me an umbrella while Maybank gave me a journal and a pen. I also re-registered for my Mesra Petronas Loyalty Card.

It was a good meeting. PDB pays good dividend to its shareholders. It paid 33% for fiscal 2008. One of the Director which refused to agree to a suggestion that they franked out all the retained earnings as dividends to shareholders got a real good tongue-lashing. Poor China man-must have been a great accountant to be hired to sit on the PDB Board.

I also got two squeeze balls from Petronas for both me and Choo Peen. Good to practice palm and finger exercises to avoid rheumatoid attacks and carpal tunnel syndrome.

Lunch was very good. Cukup baik Petronas. Syabas!

AGMs This Week

I attended the AGM for Alliance Financial Group yesterday and TAHPS this afternoon. Alliance was a good meeting with an excellent presentation by Brigitte Lai. Meeting went on well. Breakfast was good but the packed lunch box was dismal.
The TAHPS meeting attracted not many members and proxies. After afternoon tea, the meeting started and ended by 4 pm. High tea was fine with mee-hoon, fried siew kao, cakes and fruits.

Both did not have any door gifts.

So please take note of this next year.

Do not Lie!

This is one great joke; a must read.

LIE DETECTOR!

John was a salesman's delight when it came to any kind of unusual gimmick.
His wife Marsha had long ago given up trying to get him to change.
One day John came home with another one of his unusual purchases.
It was a robot that John claimed was actually a lie detector.

It was about 5:30 that afternoon when Tommy,
their 11 year old son, returned home from school.
Tommy was over 2 hours late.

'Where have you been?
Why are you over 2 hours late getting home?' asked John.

'Several of us went to the library to work on an extra credit project,' said Tommy.

The robot then walked around the table and slapped Tommy,
knocking him completely out of his chair.

'Son,' said John,
'this robot is a lie detector, now tell us where you really were after school.'

'We went to Bobby's house and watched a movie.' said Tommy.

'What did you watch?' asked Marsha.

'The Ten Commandments.' answered Tommy.

The robot went around to Tommy and once again slapped him,
knocking him off his chair once more.

With his lip quivering, Tommy got up,
sat down and said, 'I am sorry I lied.
We really watched a tape called Sex Queen.'

'I am ashamed of you son,' said John.
'When I was your age, I never lied to my parents.'

The robot then walked around to John
and delivered a whack that nearly knocked him out of his chair.

Marsha doubled over in laughter, almost in tears and said,
'Boy, did you ever ask for that one!
You can't be too mad with Tommy.
After all, he is your son!'

With that the robot immediately walked around to Marsha
and knocked her out of her chair.