“What you sow is what you reap is a poorman living style, applying what you learn in academy to earn a living is already outdated”

I never discourage anyone to stand on our own feet and use our very unique skillset to earn for our living. By doing so, it is not enough to be outstanding… It is becuase everyone is doing the same. All people graduated from university, some even with higher qualification than you are doing the exactly same thing as you are doing. So, do you think by studying more or gaining more certifications will help to boost your career? In some extend, yes, I have to agree. If you are double degree or master holder, I can assure you have the competitive advantage during job interview. If you want to find my view on further study, you can refer to this.

Now, let’s get back to the real topic – My career adventure.

Let’s check my stats!

For 11 years, I worked for 9 companies, 12 job roles, longest serving company is 4 years. Not very impressive, I know. But do leave me a comment what is your first impression when you see this stats. How to relate my stats with the comment I posted on my friend’s facebook update?

When people look into my profile. The first thing that emphasize is my tenure period for each job. Without a single doubts, they start to comment that I am an employee with no loyalty. A few years ago, I still debate with them about what is “loyalty”… is it measurable by years of serving? Or your professionalism and enthusiasm towards the jobs/company/boss? Frankly, none give me any answer. Obviously, everyone carrying different dictionary which wrote different meaning for “loyalty”. If you still want to comment further then the answer will be “If loyalty is a must, hire a dog, please…”. Nuff said.

Second, people tends to focus on the pay scale (rise) on each job change. I am not sure what is the point of looking into what other companies used to offer me. It is more important for the employer to judge how much I worth and how much they are willing to pay as in now. As long as within market price and budget allocated, everything is negotiatable. I dislike company to relate salary with age, it is truly unreasonable and unfair.

You may question me, how come you changes so many companies and still able to get a job?! A job hopper like you, will not be hire for sure…

Ok. If you are an average employer, you definitely do not see what I am going to share in the next paragraph.

For 11 years, I moved into many companies. I gained relationship and knowledges across different industry with different job roles I hold. My path exposed me to different type of environment and dealing with different people. With the exposure to different company, systems and technologies, my expertise is one of my sure-kill weapon in any job hunting. For the recent jobs, I didn’t apply it. I keep my options open and got headhunted. The market needs talented people, I know this is too “thick-face” but I am not shy to admit

So, do you still think 11 years of adventure bring no gain to me except higher pay?

During the adventure, I gain valuable experiences. I understand that some times, what you sow will be reaped by others. For example, you work so hard but someone claim the credits. You may not get to do what they like to do, but that doesn’t mean you are not given any chances to perform your best! We need to stay dynamic and flexible, if anyone cannot advance further then he/she will be obsoleted. These are so called working experiences, if someone claims my credits, I gotta learn on how to not letting it to happen next time. If do not understand what is dynamic and flexible, then start exploring, don’t just sit still by saying no one teach this. We are paid to work and our boss will not donate to us any sympathy points during appraisal.

Most people see I am doing so good… Please do not judge me as in what I am now. Do consider what I have gone through to craft myself into this shape. School never teach you anything about work, you go to school and follow what is written on textbook, so what if the textbook is wrong and no longer applicable? Then where to find answer? School teach you how to find an answer? Google give you answers most of the time, but it will still need you to put in a search term to generate the result. Everything start with your action, your adventure started and have you gain anything by yourself?

Hope you enjoy the reading and share me some comments.

Until the next post, see you!

For years, I manage to make around 10% to 20% return on investment per annum. So I am quite confident on my picks!

With much confidence, I’ve put my savings into share market. Well, with at least 10% return, I couldn’t resist to do that. Life is unpredictable, same goes with the stock market. At the moment that you think that you have control or prepare for the worst to happen, the most dramatic thing could happen to knock you down harshly…

A few months ago, my total investment for my portfolio shrunk 77.5%! Yes, no joke at all! 77.5% of my capital had gone and that is the most real painful experience… Nothing can express the feeling…

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As you can see… It is all negative, and there is no financial crisis at that time (3 months ago)… How lucky I am, how many people can own stocks that can lose more than 90%? I do anything wrong? Yes… there is one thing I done wrong, that is too confident with my selections… For earlier time, I could have cut losses when it is minus 10%… But I didn’t because I trust it will go up to my target price so I wait and wasted the chances to sell… I can only blame myself!

I need to figure out what I can do to get myself out from this mess… So I took a risk, be a gambler… a real one I mean. I sold all the stocks which losses greater than 60%. The pain of losses, still fresh in my mind…

After this cash out, I quickly look into one stock which has the greater chances to go up in short time, of course it must have a lot of room to go up and limited down side! I show hand invested all my cash into this one counter! Honestly, I know by doing this, Peter Lynch, Warren Buffet and you are laughing out loud on my foolish act which is to put all eggs into one basket. This is a kamikaze act… deadliest! Do not try it yourself… unless you are a strong hearted risk taker like I am.

I invested and waited for a month, and voila! The_one stocks goes up and ring the bell. It hits 300% profit for me! With this gain, I recover 70% – 80% of my previous losses. Overall, I am still losing but at least I have much capital to grow now…  and this is very important. In stock market, it always welcome you but you gotta be cash rich!

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In this 3 to 4 months, I learn many lessons which greatly change my investment style…

1. Cut lost, is not shameful, it is to protect your capital so you can buy the ticket for second or third chance.

2. No matter how, once your stocks reaches your target price, sell it and never go back in again…

3. Do not influence by the market sentiment, in good or bad market, there will be people making money from it. You have to be one of them!

4. Market is heavily manipulated, so be the one who manipulate it or join the group who create the manipulation!

5. Buy low sell high, this means, buy when market is down for a period of time, and sell when it goes up! This is very important! Never chase high sell low… this is fatal!

and many many more…

If you have any good pick, do share with me.

Until then, good luck!

这一面之缘的对话，让我想起了很多往事。我没有反驳他对我说的话，相对的我点头微笑。毕竟，他不清楚我所经历的，我也不知道他是从哪里知道我“太好运”。如果可以比较，我还是觉得有很多人比我得到的更多，也有很多年纪比我轻的人成就更大的事业。

如果真的要以人的年纪和成就做对比，我还是觉得这样是不公平也不妥当的。 毕竟每个人的经历和生活背景也有所不同。。。自然的会形成很多的变数。

虽然看上去年轻，没有太多的伤痕，可是也不见得我遇到的很少的挫折。好运也不是天生的，是要有一双锐利的眼，对机会的渴望和充足的思想准备，才可以当一定的好运促使机会出现的时候而紧紧握着！每个人都会有一定的运气，可不可以好好利用就见仁见智了。。。

人生经验不是以岁数来衡量。运气是成功的一部分，但是不努力的人，还是会被淘汰的。不要因为某些人在你看不到的时间和地点努力而忽视他们，做人做事都不可以太肤浅。

人们常说你可以不成功，但你不可以没有目标。这个，我绝对的赞同。 有目标的人才会不断地前近，为了达到目标而奋斗。

然而，我也发现在迈向目标的同时，我们往往会忽略了身边的种种事物。

当一个人有了目标，他的注意力都会往目标里看。越是靠近目标，视野就越狭窄。 当你开始看不到周围的事物，有很多声音都听不到了例如他人好意的劝告，提醒和批评。

这个致命的弱点，都会出现在每一个人的身上。。。然而，有些人却置之不理的一意孤行，在最关键的时刻却失败了。。。

我也有这个弱点，我知道的，我可以避免的。可是当我越靠近目标，就越有野心的往前走。。。

这一课的代价很大虽然不足以致命，但是也是时候把自己纠正了。往后的日子，真的要步步为营，把视野放大，不要被眼前短暂的错觉而影响了。

It is located at G Tower, a very nice building too.

By looking into the interior and the items display on the shelf. I can tell this is a Italian restaurant. From the menu, the variety of food is not much compare to the others. Interestingly, it offers wide range of wine! Great place for wine lovers, huh?

I am not much into wine and alcohol… but please see the “wine-yard”

Let’s start with our order! First to come it the Social Ice Tea served with homemade sorbet. I choose mango flavor. It taste summer! Really nice drink. Must try!

GreenIt is a refreshing drink with a little bit of sweet and sourness. It open up your appetite for the day.

Yeah! Kid meal for my lovely kids!

We ordered Cod Fish and Salmon pasta.

Look into the food presentation, I would say it score 4 out of 5 stars.

The taste of the Cod Fish is superb, I take a small chunk of cod fish with truffle cream with mash potato and eat… surprise that these flavor goes really well altogether! 4.5 starts, I give! The portion can be bigger so it can feed a big guy like me! :hohoho:

The salmon paste was nicely done but it has no outstanding point or taste that I could really describe here but overall, it is a well done dish!

I almost forgot to tell you, if you bring kids to this restaurant, the friendly waiters/waitress will supply paper and color pencils for your children to spend their own time! At least this is something different from the others which they thinks about family! I like this idea.

I show you my son for ending this post!

Compare to other restaurant, TAO has nothing different in interior design. Semi-jap style… bad lights for photo and not to spacious table for buffet style of dining. Anyway, we were there for food instead of interior design criticism!

The food offer in front of the counter was not much compare to Tenji, Jogoya, Saisaki or Shogun.

If you ask me, for RM58++, is it worth it? I would say “Yeah, worth to try!”. But not repeat for twice or thrice because for the similar price, I still prefer to go for Xenri D’Garden.

There is one thing notably good and I think it is a very good way of serving. They have more items on the menu free for you to order. You only order which you want to eat. This is possibly a better tactic for the restaurant as we know if we eat none stop, we keep eating until our brain receive the signal. So, by having delicious menu items, customers are force to wait for the goodies.

Herewith some dishes from the menu. The abalone slices are just nice~

I must recommend the lamb chop, I never expect a Japanese restaurant can cook this excellent lamb chop. It is so soft, tender and juicy! (It was recommended by the waitress, thanks to her!)

Scallop tastes perfect too!

Below is the variety of food that you can grab on the counter.

Herewith the contact details. Bring me if you going there!

Tao Authentic Asian Cuisine
Sunway Giza Shopping Mall
Block D, S.02A, S.03 & S.05
2nd Floor, No. 2, Jalan PJU 5/14
PJU 5, Kota Damansara
47810 Petaling Jaya

Tel: 03-6148 2826
Fax: 03-6148 5826

这是我还在读小学的事情。。。 我的成绩不算好，也不是对读书很有兴趣。 反正小孩就是要上学求知识，必经的阶段。可是有些小孩也会为了工作而辍学， 就像到熟食摊档当洗碗和打杂之类的工作。我不明白，虽然小学和中学都是不收学费的，为什么他们还要出来工作啊？（这个社会问题，我们以后再大大声的聊。。。）

小时候，每当在外用餐，看到和我同年级的小孩，老爸就会叹气的说:“你看，人家像你这么大，就已经开始赚钱了。你就只会打电动！一点用都没有。。。”。 当我上了中学，老爸不是叹气的说，而是生气地责备: “ 都这么大了，还向家里要钱读书，谁谁谁都已经是哪个熟食档的厨师，每个月赚1300元还给父母$$$元的家用！人家还打算当老板卖面！你为什么都不长进点？” 这些话，我都听在心里。我没有怪老爸，毕竟他也是十多岁就出来工作了，二十岁就已当老板，结婚还生了我和弟弟！一个人养一家人，他是有绝对的资格对我说教。

当时，我没有辍学。。。可能是我真的没用吧。有一点我是绝对很坚持的是，如果我不完成学业，将来就没有机会了，要工作，有的是时间。

我没有像其他人那么有读书的天分，进不了大学。。。 可是我还是坚持要拿到一个文凭才工作。。。 还好父母亲都没有因为经济的压力而叫我放弃。虽然老爸不断的说我没用，可是他对孩子还是有期望的。出来工作多年，虽然我也当不了老板，但是我可以大大声的说我活得不比其他老板差！

到了现在，我有了自己的家庭。我的太太都会一直的拿我们的孩子跟其他人比较。。。 这让我想起了以上的往事。 做父母的不需要比较，因为孩子的学习能力不是天生的，也不是可以刻意制造出来。 如果现在身为爸爸的我，像老爸当年一样的对孩子说教，如果儿女们接受不了，可能会对他们造成不良的影响。

毕竟我们都知道小时了了，大未必佳。如果有时间比较，不如用多点的时间去了解孩子的潜能，再以适当的方式的培养他们，让将来的他们可以更出色，更有成就！

后记：写完了这篇我开始在想了。如果我当时辍学出来工作，可以肯定的说我已经不会是一位拿着笔电写部落格的上班族了。

This time, we landed into Sen Tsuru in Kota Damansara. Japanese restaurant offer “eat all you can” package. There are more than 70 dishes and it only prepare upon your order!

You can order unlimited dishes throughout the dinner period. The food are delicious and fresh!

We had like 20 servings of sashimi. Even though we keep ordering but the waiter never delay our order.

And you can see… my lovely colleagues let me to have all left over dishes. How good!

It was a fun and satisfying dinner. The environment is nice, food are tasty and staffs are friendly.

If you love Japanese food, you must pay this a visit. The buffet cost RM44.99 ++ !

Address:
B-G 01, Block B, Jalan Persiaran Surian Palm Spring@Damansara,
47810 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor MY

TEL:
+(6)03-7801 5562

The restaurant is serving good quality japanese food. You must be shouting that I am crazy for still eating japanese food after the power plant explosion… …

I have no comment on the environment or interior design for Yuzu.

I’d give very high score for the food served! Although the price tag is a little higher than the usual but it worth the pay!

I ordered a Unagi Gozen set woth Rm48 and look at it. It worth the price, at least it stuffed me well!

The Unagi serves on top of hot stone with sizzling sounds when it arrive in front of it! It definitely sounds very tasty! One thing to note that the fresh wasabi taste sweet!

While I am had unagi, Andy and Shin Shin order saba fish set lunch. It taste good too.

I will bring my wife and visit this restaurant for the unagi~

Here with the details of the restaurant.

Restaurant: Yuzu Japanese Restaurant
Address: Suria KLCC, Ramlee Mall, 4th Floor.
Tel: 603-2161 4176
Fax: 603-2161 4169
Business Hours: 11.30 am to 10.00 pm

New love always tends to be better and more tender at first. Same goes to new job, you get to enjoy the better pay, benefit or perks which ever satisfy your endless desires…

As time goes on, you will start to discover more and more negative elements of your new love. It start with comparing your ex and the new love… later time, we will manage to forget about the history with ex(s) and start to compare with others. Let the time ticks further, here comes the turning point… “why do other has better love than mine?!”

The above, it may not represent all men thoughts but at least mine. Luckily I got married to my lovely wife so I have to stay loyal and I never need a change.

Fortunately, I do not need to marry my job(or the employer). So I still have my chance to change… Personally, I do not like change, it takes way too much of my time to get a chance. But, sometimes, we goes into a difficult situation, it is like my love wants to stay single but I want to get married. We keep buying time for ourselves to convince other to listen to us. Although we knows it won’t work out but we still try our very best… After a long time, we start to realize that changing each other may not be good because they will no longer be themselves. Then it is the time, we learn and consider about let go the love. Because the directions split path, we have no choice to leave and start a new relationship which hopefully can be long term yet satisfying. And the cycle keep going until you are old enough to stop it.

To whom, you have the same thought, I am happy to be your friend because we share this common feeling. Leave me a comment, if you are keen to discuss or share your point of view.