Haunting Nostalgia of the Early 70s

If you were undergraduate in the early 1970s, you would have sang these songs and danced to them on campus or in the discos.

They were great songs and music and we can swear by our fondness for them each time they come on over the FM radio.

Some of us may associate someone in time past by these songs or have danced in your bell-bottoms with loved ones in courting.

My favourites were Neil Diamond's Shilo and Girl You will be a Woman Soon; The Hollies', Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress and Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water.

Enjoy!

Tell-tale Signs of Aging?

I remembered someone telling me that if you tend to drop things often, that means age has caught up. Your motor nerves are no longer the way they are to promote coordination of movement.

The other thing is losing things accidentally or misplacing them. If these occurrences becomes more frequent, that would not augur well.

Like today, I lost a food coupon given to me on the occasion of a public function. Unless, it was pick-pocketed out of my shirt pocket,the likelihood is that it has fallen out of my pocket and I was unaware of it.

So, the next time, you are given something of some value, keep it in a safe place.

Do not be reckless as it can slip and fell out easily from your pockets.

Bubble Bath Baby!

This is just one photograph I need to post because of the spontaneity of the innocent baby.

No pretensions!

Full Moon for Baby K Jin (17 February 2012)

As usual, after losing our way here and there, we made it to Robert's house in Putra Permai before the dinner time of 7.30 pm.

The crowd was already swelling up by then.

After congratulating the father of the new-born, we lined up for our buffet dinner.

The buffet spread was quite large though there was the distinct absence of fish.

I met some of my long lost relatives.

Met Grace and little K Jin was fast asleep in her arms.

Heard K Jin was delivered in water in a bathtub on 18 February by the father himself.

Way to go, man!

Selling Down YTL Corp

This is one great phenomenon to observe. A classic sell-down.

While it was a darling stock yesterday, today from the word, 'go', it slid down to trade at the mid RM1.70 level to close unchanged at the lunch time to close at RM1.80.

From 4 pm, the sellers emerged and in droves sold down YTL Corp to RM1.73 without any let-up.

From then on, it was anyone's game with gravity taking charge.

Close to 15 million shares were done at RM1.73.

I do not know whether it was force selling or it is just weak holders dumping the stock ahead of the week-end.

So, it looks like the stage is set for YTL Corp to attempt once more to move up and beyond RM1.80.

That will be next week's action, I suppose.

No Maid, No Cry?

No more multi-tasking for Indonesian maids. That is now the order of the day.

Take it or leave it.

As they say, all good things must come to an end.

If those before you have hired Indonesia maids to do chores from A to Z, the new batch of maids will be trained in four household chores but will be employed to carry out only one task for their prospective bosses.

“If a maid is employed as a cook, she will only be tasked with chores related to cooking and will not be doing any other duties, such as baby-sitting or washing clothes,” said Indonesia’s Labour Placement Deve­lopment director-general Dr Reyna Usman.

The batch of 106 Indonesian maids are undergoing four skills training courses for 21 days that started yesterday.

They will be paid at least RM700 a month by their Malaysian employers.

This was concluded at the meeting of the Malaysia-Indonesian joint task force for the deployment, placement and protection of Indonesian maids at the Indonesian Manpower and Transmigration Ministry here yesterday.

Dr Reyna said the task force decided that the maids would be employed to do only one of the four household tasks for which they are being trained – as cooks, babysitters, caretakers of elderly people and housekeepers.

Dr Reyna said the deal concluded by the joint task force was expected to prevent recurrence of problems affecting maids and employers.

“If all this while, maids were not professional as they had to do all sort of duties, causing their employers to get angry, now their skills will be tailored to their jobs,” he added.

Indonesia will eventually send between 4,000 and 5,000 skilled maids a month to Malaysia, he said, adding most of them were currently being trained for specific skills in Surabaya, East Java and Bekasi, West Java.

He said in the initial stages, the maids would be trained by 12 of 176 Indonesian employment agencies while their placement with employers would be taken care of by five of 221 employment agencies in Malay­sia.

The deployment of maids from Indonesia was resumed after the Indonesian government withdrew its moratorium on sending maids to Malaysia on Dec 1 last year.

So sorry, prospective employers. No more abuse!

It is now time to shoulder your share of the household chores along with your well-paid maid.

The maid will now be a specialist and they know their rights.

For you,all other duties awaits you!

Welcome to Maidland,kakak!

Metronic Global-OSK Predicts a Re-rating

After the 4 sen mark, Metronic Global (Metronic) hibernated before going up 100% to 8 sen.

Then today, all hell break lose as the marauding buyers and speculators tossed up the price to 14.5 sen.

Volume is humongous. Much of it I belief is churning of stocks.

Today Bursa KL has just issued an Unusual Market Activity ("UMA") query.

No news is in sight.

Normally, after such a query, there will be posted a standard answer from the company denying any corporate developments.

This will somewhat quell the price upsurge and tamed buying hunger for sometime until the next rumour comes around.

Let us see whether at this price level of 14 sen, there will be some traction.

If not, day traders are going to sell it down to take profit by the end of the day.