Luck is not in your hands but work .....

Luck is not in your hands but work is in your hands. Your work can make your luck but your luck can't make your work - Shasha Fadiella Othman

As usual, this was taken from a post on Facebook from a friend. I kind of like it very much and would like to paraphrase it according to my version. Luck is not within your control but work is. Your work can make you become lucky when opportunity comes but luck itself can't make you work better. It takes hard work to achieve greater things instead of luck. You will realize later that working harder can make you get the job done but luck itself will bring you nowhere. That also applies to study where a student that study hard enough will get the desired results instead of merely depending on luck alone.

Soccer - Midweek matches review

This midweek matches saw the elimination of two strong teams in Cup competition - Liverpool in English FA Cup and Barcelona in Spanish Kings Cup. While Barcelona elimination should not be of concern cause they cannot win everything every year after winning six trophies last year. As for Liverpool, this would spell an end of their season as they are already out of Carling Cup and winning the League is almost impossible. More so with both their match winner Gerrard and Torres got injured in the midweek match against Reading. Their only consolation for this season is to win the Europa Cup (EUFA second tier cup competition) Nonetheless, probably it is time up for their coach Benitez as he may be facing the axe soon.

First visit to Bank panel doctor this year

When a person visits a doctor, he/she would expect to be treated and bring home medicine but my case was different. What I got was only one piece of envelope without any medicine. It is not the Medical Certificate that I am bringing home but a referral letter to see a specialist. Felt that the fever, throat infection and rashes was not too serious but she is of the opinion that it is not normal and need to go private hospital for admission, taking a blood test and possible x-ray, etc. No doubt it is the Bank that will be paying the bill but what the panel doctor should do is to treat first instead of direct referral to specialist. Nonetheless, the doctor only treats but Jesus heals.

Welcome to Mount Kinabalu Sabah

If you want to find out what your friend, future spouse, children, etc really are, then climb the mountain together. It is probably the best way to discover the character both yours and theirs more than sitting through a movie or drinking coffee together. The above was written in Ps Philip Lyn blog this week. How I fully agree with what he says. Indeed it is better spending time with another party with outdoor activity to test the caracter of another person compared to doing common things in the indoor. Other activity that I can think of testing each others' out is going through White Water Rafting together. It is an exercise that can make you discover the other party more. It is satisfying to have conquered White Water Rafting in Kiulu River and Padas River in Sabah within the same year of 2008.

HSBC Staffs Appraisal 2009

It is the beginning of the year and once again it is staffs appraisal time. It feels good to have four staffs that support you all the year but the headache begins when you have high performers in your team. This is where you need to crack your head and think back what each staffs has done throughout the whole year. Indeed their positive actions need to be commented and their negative reaction need to be minimize. Nonetheless, whatever that is given should be a true reflection of the staffs performance throughout the year without having any fear and favor to anybody.

Signing off RM10.0m in Five minutes

It is a challenging day today to sign off Islamic drawdown of RM10.0m in five minutes. It is no joke when you get the relevant approval at 3.55pm and the cut off time for the next department is 4.00pm. It has to be drawndown the same because the account manager has booked the rates with Treasury. Nonetheless, Payment services need to play their part to ensure that the Inter Bank transfer can proceed the same. Hopefully, such situation will be kept to minimum in the future as the stress that we are going through is no laughing matter. If it is a daily affair, the blood pressure will definitely goes up and will die in short period of time.

English Premier League this weekend

Most of the matches was cancelled due to snow. After all it is winter time over there. They cancel not because the pitch is not playable but for the interest of the supporters. Only two matches was played and both ended in draw on yesterday. Looks like Chelsea will be up there laughing even though they are not playing cause their genuine title contenders Man United only drew with Birmingham while Arsenal also drew with Everton. Liverpool also can close the gap on the leaders as they continue to fight for the fourth Champions League spot. Hopefully the weather will be better next weekend for the games to be on