Weekend breakaway to east coast

Together with a university buddhist friends, we headed to Sg. Lembing. The Friday night was young & 300km travel to east was our destination: peaceful town named Sg. Lembing, Pahang: A town formerly known for its tin mining. By the time we reached Sg. Lembing at 1:45am, we were totally exhausted. I'm not young anymore :-(

The guest house that we booked was in tip-top condition. In a blink of seconds, we called it a day. Time past and we woke up at 5:30am to start our day, tasted the infamous Sg. Lembing beancurd. The smooth & fresh beancurd & Sg. Lembing noodles filled up our empty stomach. At 6:30am, we took 4WD to rainbow waterfall, our first destination of the day.

Half way through the bumpy ride to waterfall, we managed to see sea cloud as though we were in heaven. After 1 hour ride, we started our jungle trekking to the waterfall. Walking ups & downs the jungle for about 45 minutes, we reached rainbow waterfall. I will let the pictures do the talking.

We played water with our fellow friends & had maggi instant noodles & milo while enjoying the scenic rainbow waterfall. After 10:30am, we climbed up waterfall to view circle (360 degree) rainbow on the water. Unfortunately, we did not have waterproof camera, hence we were not able to capture the beautiful rainbow.

Coincidentally, Bomba had their rescue practice & we were able to have a shot with the colourful helicopter. (When they practice, many trees fell down as the wind was too strong. Unfortunately, I forgot to captured the devastation.)


In the evening, we went to Teluk Chempedak for beach walk & Pak Su seafood for our dinner. Nothing much to comment about these 2 destinations. Normal seaside & acceptable seafood dinner.

On Sunday, we woke up at 4:30am for Panorama Hill hiking. I could assure you that there were more than 300 hikers today. Unfortunately after our one hour hiking, we were not able to see sea cloud & sunrise. The weather was not in good condition. Luckily we saw it yesterday on the way to rainbow waterfall. This was the weather at Panorama Hill today.

After spending some time at Panorama Hill, we headed down the hill & cleaned up. We visited Sg Lembing Museum, hanging bridge, Charas Cave & had a sip at Kemaman coffee on our way back to complete our journey.

We are back to hustle and bustle city.

Stop Outsourcing and Create American Jobs Act of 2010

Protectionist US moves worry Indian tech firms

New delhi: Indian exporters of software and related services are seeking to tap an expected increase in technology spending in the US, their biggest market, but concerns of protectionist barriers in the world’s largest economy are still rife.

Late last month, Congressmen Gary Peters, Tim Bishop and Jerry McNerney proposed another legislation to curb outsourcing to countries such as India. Called the Stop Outsourcing and Create American Jobs Act of 2010, the Bill aims to discourage US firms from shipping jobs overseas.

“Outsourcing has contributed to unprecedented job losses in my home state of Michigan over the past decade,” Peters said in an email on the rationale for the legislation.

Indian software exporters have been hopeful of receiving a boost from the US recovery from recession that prompted US clients to slash technology spending. Industry body Nasscom has forecast that exports would rise to $57 billion (Rs2.65 trillion) in the year to next March from $49.7 billion in the last fiscal.

If enacted, the legislation proposed by Peters, Bishop and McNerney would allow the US government to give preference to firms not engaged in shipping jobs overseas in awarding contracts. It deters US firms from using tax havens and creating jobs overseas by increasing civil and criminal penalties for illegal transactions involving a tax haven country, such as fraud, false claims and tax evasion.

“I don’t believe that the US government should be rewarding companies that move jobs overseas with contracts funded by American taxpayers,” said Peters, a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives. He referred to two non-partisan studies to back his argument. While the Congressional Research Service says 3.4 million service sector US jobs would be outsourced overseas by 2015, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a 2009 study that around 83 of the 100 biggest public corporations have subsidiaries in tax haven countries.

Nasscom has been lobbying with US senators and policymakers for several years now to stop any such legislation from going through.

“Any kind of Bill which penalizes IT outsourcing would lead to distortion in the globalized marketplace,” said Ameet Nivsarkar, vice-president, global trade development, Nasscom. “There have been quite a few Bills aimed at curbing outsourcing that have been introduced recently. The high unemployment rate in the US—9.5% in June—is a big challenge and the government there is trying various ways to create more jobs. But we have to see how many of such legislations are actually passed and become law,” he said.

Infosys Technologies Ltd, India’s second largest software maker, is not feeling the heat of anti-outsourcing sentiment in the US, but is keeping a close watch on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill which yet to be introduced, CEO S. Gopalakrishnan said on Tuesday.

The Bill, being initiated by Senator Charles Schumer, is expected to focus on H-1B and L1 visas given to IT and other professionals and could possibly impose some restrictions on them. Infosys plans to apply for 3,000 visas this fiscal.

“The success of such Bills depends on (the) length to which people would go to stop outsourcing. Barring companies from participating in government contracts could be one of the ways to punish them for outsourcing,” Bala Rajaraman, a partner at consultancy Deloitte, said.

Another cause of worry for the software industry is the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act, which is on similar lines as the Stop Outsourcing and Create American Jobs Act. While the former has been passed by the House of Representatives, it is yet to be cleared by the US Senate.

“With the elections to the US Senate scheduled to be held in November, the protectionism sentiment will only rise in the months to come,” said the CEO of a leading business process outsourcing firm, who did not want to be identified.
surabhi.a@livemint.com

What is your thought?

沒那麼簡單

沒那麼簡單
詞Lyrisict： 姚若龍
曲Composer：蕭煌奇


沒那麼簡單 就能找到 聊得來的伴
尤其是在 看過了那麼多的背叛
總是不安 只好強悍
誰謀殺了我的浪漫

沒那麼簡單 就能去愛 別的全不看
變得實際 也許好也許壞各一半
不愛孤單 一久也習慣
不用擔心誰 也不用被誰管

感覺快樂就忙東忙西
感覺累了就放空自己
別人說的話 隨便聽一聽 自己作決定
不想擁有太多情緒
一杯紅酒配電影
在周末晚上 關上了手機 舒服窩在沙發裡

相愛沒有那麼容易 每個人有他的脾氣
過了愛作夢的年紀 轟轟烈烈不如平靜
幸福沒有那麼容易 才會特別讓人著迷
什麼都不懂的年紀
曾經最掏心 所以最開心 曾經

想念最傷心 但卻最動心 的記憶

喜欢这歌曲,
尤其是
"相愛沒有那麼容易 每個人有他的脾氣......幸福沒有那麼容易 才會特別讓人著迷......."
"感覺快樂就忙東忙西....感覺累了就放空自己......"

Good bye TRW-HCL

When you see photo above, you will notice that I have a "Nike" on me. No idea on what I'm talking about? Click here.

I have found a good harbour & have officially tendered my resignation from company. I was engaged with TRW since Oct 2007 & HCL since Feb 2010. It was a long journey with good & bad memories. Throughout this period, I have crossed path with many colleagues & all of us shared happiness & sadness together. Now, I'm blessed with an offer & thanks for the prayer from my friends. I hope everything will be better in new company. Oh yeah, I'm still around Cyberjaya. Let's breakfast & lunch together for any occasions like Birthday, Cultural celebration like Chinese New Year, Christmas.

Lastly, I sincerely pray for my other TRW-rebadged colleagues will get a good offer in future.

Nokia 6020

Today I've accidentally dropped you & it was not my intention to abandon you. I believe you have a new master now. I hope he will treat you well.

For the past few years, you have never fail to accompany me. You store friends contact, SMS, MMS, play nice songs, snap photos, store to-do list (reminders) & notes & many more. Your main contribution is keep in touch with my friends. Today, I bid farewell to you, Nokia 6020. I will always miss you.

MyLove vs MyVi

The first photo is original MyVi Limited Edition aim at ladies. Click here to read about comments. While 2nd to 4th photos are modified car. Pooling start. Which is nicer?

Back to reality 2

Just realized previous post Back to Reality was accidentally uploaded with wrong image. TRW Automotive Services (TAS) was no longer in existence since 1st Feb 2010 & the sign board above should be changed to TRW-Rebadged. Below is our new identity.

Employee First, Customer Second

TAS gave me a comfortable working environment & learning. The exposure has helped me go further. I met up many friendly & easy-going colleagues & friends here. Time past & most of TAS-ian lunch gang have left as you can see in the image.

Today, I'm still on a rough sea with 3 other lunch gangs, looking forward for a good harbour to dock. Hopefully TRW-rebadged will be on another good ship & harbour soon. Pray hard!!!