Inspirational story

This is a very good and inspirational story of a motivated Chinese man in Malaysia..... 

I was 18 in 1997, I came home  half completed my high school in England because my father was bankrupted. He was a contractor, bankrupted because the licensee, Taib's uncle defaulted on paying royalty to the government.  Pocketed all the money my father gave.

Together with 6 of my friends we went to Komat in Sama Jaya to look for jobs as they only required MCE. To help out the family.

The HR lady was an Iban, on our turn she refused to give us application forms and demanded our qualifications. Without even understanding us, we were turned away. On further enquiry from us, she said, the 250 posts were all filled. It was 10.25am and the application counter just opened at 9.30am. Asked the guard to show us out.

Komat repeated publication for the posts for another week. We went back again and again were rejected. This time she asked us to look for jobs in China.My uncle promptly help the six of us to look for jobs from his contacts. Ironically, we all ended up in Shenzhen China, working in a micro circuitboard plant.

We were trained by some American to be testers as we know English. We did well, so well that within 4 years, we developed a special test using Argon emission from induced current. Testing the board even more thoroughly and 40+ times the efficiency we were doing.

After a few months of trial, the company decided to subcontract all their circuitboard testing to us using the new testing system and they got the test done at a fraction of the cost doing it manually.

Within 3 years, we are testing all the circuit board of all the companies in Shenzhen then.

BELIEVE ME, WE ARE EACH NETTING 2 TO 3 MILLIONS USED A YEAR.

We spread to include contracts in a lot of companies of China, US, Germany and Finland. We now employ 7600 people and 1600 from Sarawak. Bumiputra or non-bumiputra who made the grade we are after.

Why I am writing this?

Today my company has been operating in Penang for 6 months. We are employing 200 people.I was conducting interviews for senior staff for the jobs.

One of the people that came in for the interview was the same Iban lady from Komat 10+ years ago. The lady who turned me away. The lady who told me I was not eligible for the job. The lady who told me the posts were filled when yet to select the first applicant of 250 and the lady who asked me to go to China to look for a job.

I had the satisfaction to tell her all these if I wanted to. Instead I listened to all her talk about how great she had done in her former employment and now she was out on a huge VSS. How well she will do for me with her experience and how much she would like to work for a Chinese boss.

She said she is the daugther of an influential bumiputra man and her husband is doing well in business. I let her rave on with her diatribe.

Finally, when she realised she the one doing all the talking and I was not even asking questions, she stopped.

Finally I said, I know her. She was shocked, for now I was properly suited up and not in T-shirt and jeans like the first time we met.

I simply said I like to thank her for asking me to go back to China to look for work. I did, I made it and what she is seeing today and the brochure I placed in front of her is in fact the SUCCESS from disgust and disappointment of being a Malaysian Chinese!!

She was murmuring to herself. I told her, she will get a job from me but not as the senior HR, not as the assistant HR but as an assistant to the assistant HR. She was shocked, happy and almost cried. Then she confessed that her husband was a bankrupt and her 3 children had to be in the care of her sister.

I told her, she meant nothing to me, her race meant nothing to me and what she had done also meant nothing to me. The insults, the frustrations and the anguish of a young man trying to help his father. I told her she would be  treated like everyone. She must get her job done or she'd be out like anybody. I told her, I do not care for YBs, bumi policies or business opportunities in Malaysia. I do not need Malaysia.

I CAME BECAUSE I AM BEGGED TO COME, BY THE GOVERNMENT OF MALAYSIA.

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五樣好東西: 豆漿、水果、綠茶、咖啡、蕃薯

因緣際會下，看到一位名吳 寶芬講師的健康座報導，她贏得滿堂喝采下，是抽絲剝繭地打破一般人根深蒂 固的錯誤飲食觀念。為一改前非，將筆記好好整理一番！五樣好東西是：
 1) 睡前喝豆漿 睡前喝豆漿：豆漿富含100%的優質胺基酸，可製造充分的生長激素， 促進身體的新陳代謝，消耗 體內多餘的醣份和脂肪，所以睡前喝豆漿，有減肥的的效果，這就是「胺基酸 減肥法」，又叫「懶人減肥法」。 此外，大豆富含異黃酮素 （天然的雌激素），可降低血液中的膽固醇，保護心臟，預防心肌梗塞，所以 女生得心血管疾病的機率只有男生的 六分之一，異黃酮素並可抑 制人體鈣質的流失，還可預防! 與基因遺傳有關的乳癌與腸癌，因 此睡前喝上一杯 250c c的豆漿，冷熱甜淡隨意，可讓您有一個好睡 眠、好體質。但是現在市面上的黃豆有80％是基因改造的，目前基因改造的食品對人 體的影響如何還未可知，購買非基因改造豆漿，建議購買無防腐劑喔，睡 前喝比早上喝的效益更大。
2) 吃水果比吃蔬菜好 吃水果比吃蔬菜好：當個 「好色之徒」吧，吃水果要選香的，顏色鮮豔的，含有大量松脂，多吃對身體 有益。且吃水果比吃蔬菜好，松脂成分可抗壓，如芒果要選土芒果，葡萄要吃 紫葡萄，西瓜選無子大紅西瓜，蜜瓜選綠色的，哈蜜瓜要選肉色的，水果中以 榴璉的松脂居第一。然今後別再吃西柚因會抑制肝的解毒！
3) 綠茶效益勝過水 建議喝綠茶來代替水和紅 茶，因水帶不走身上不好的物質，紅茶為已發酵的熟茶，因此綠茶優於紅茶， 多喝綠茶可以降低巴金森，且綠茶含兒茶素，能保護關?軟骨緩解疼痛。另外，泡過後無味的綠茶 包，可用來擦過敏的皮膚跟濕疹唷！
4) 天天來杯咖啡吧
喝咖啡選阿拉伯豆：每 天一杯咖啡，喝咖啡的好處是咖啡可抑制多巴胺L-Dopa，預防老化、巴金森氏症、防癌，咖啡會活 化大腦命令四肢時所需要的傳導物，年老以後身手較為協調，壞處是喝咖 啡會流失鈣與一些維他命。懷孕前三個月禁喝，因易流產。此外，喝咖啡 要選阿拉伯豆，不是爪哇豆，豆子要新鮮，放久了會產生黃麴毒素。
 5) 將癌細胞改邪歸正的蕃薯 蕃薯導正病變細胞：蕃薯含 神經節肝酯，能導正病變細胞；且蕃薯可以減肥，因為其澱粉是水溶性纖維， 不會囤積體內。蕃薯的甜味是多醣，對人體有益，比吃飯更有飽足感，建議一 週可用一餐蕃薯代替飯來吃。蕃薯愈紅愈甜愈好，烤的比水煮和蒸的好，且烤 後連皮一起吃更好。專作放射線之醫師，認為『微波爐』會利用電波少一個正 價電子，運用水分子之震盪使食物變熱，所以食物易變成自由基，就會容易致 癌。所以偶而方便用一下，最好還是少用『微波爐』最好！ 以下文章值得參考 人體內的有毒物質主要來源 於兩個途徑：一是大氣與水源中的污染物、通過呼吸及進餐而侵入人體內， 鉛、鋁、汞等重金屬就是其代表；另一個是食物在體內代謝後的廢物，如自由 基、硫化氫等。時下，清除體內垃圾已成健康時尚。下列方法可幫您及時清除 體內毒素。
1) 主動咳嗽法 自然界中的粉塵、金屬微粒 及廢氣中的毒性物質，通過呼吸進入肺臟，既損害肺臟，又通過血液迴圈而!株連'全身。借助主動咳嗽可以'清掃'肺臟。每天到室外空氣清新處做深呼吸運 動，深吸氣時緩緩抬起雙臂，然後主動咳嗽，使氣流從口、鼻中噴出，咳 出痰液。
2) 飲水沖洗法 定時排便，縮短糞便在腸道 內的停留時間，及時排出糞便中的毒素。 每天清晨空腹喝一杯溫開 水，有利於大便通暢以及毒素從尿液中排出。
3) 運動出汗法 皮膚也是排泄毒素的途徑， 主要通過出汗的方式，讓毒素隨汗液排出體外。
4) 巧用食物法 ●常飲鮮果、 鮮菜汁( 不經炒煮 )，鮮果、鮮菜汁是體內'清潔劑'，牠們能排除體內堆積的毒素和廢物。 ●常吃海帶， 海帶對放射性物質有特別的親和力，海帶膠質能促使體內的放射性物質隨 著大號排出體外，從而減少放射性物質在人體內的積聚，也減少了放射性 疾病的發生率。
●常喝綠豆 湯，綠豆湯能輔助排泄體內的毒素，促進機體的正常代謝。
PS.看完後，請不要吝嗇，盡快分享給你的朋 友。

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《林靜芸專欄》別急著趕路 以免人生提早打烊

最近聽到許多人中風，故事都很嚇 人。 一名35歲男性是某大公司的業務經 理，一個月在歐洲跑28個城市。每天坐飛機住不同的 旅館，與不同的客戶談判簽約，一趟出差得到800多萬美元（合台幣約2億! 4500多萬元）的合約，卻在回到台灣的第二天中風，半身癱瘓！ 另一名39歲的電子新貴去夏威夷探視妻 小，搭星期一清晨的飛機回台灣，從機場直接上班，下了班 打麻將，吃消夜，回家睡不到3小時，星期二清晨5點打高爾夫球，9點上班，下了班，有人約打撞 球，電子新貴趕過去，坐在吧台高腳椅上，? Q人發現頭垂下來，臉色發青！救護 車送去醫院，居然是腦幹中風，變成植物人！
這兩個中風故事的主角正值壯年， 妻子年輕美貌，甚至小孩還沒有滿周歲！人 生殘局該怎麼收拾，令人擔心！ 據說他們的檢查結果不是先天腦血 管異常，也沒有高血壓、高膽固醇、糖尿病等病史，發病的原因 是腦血管內膜剝離形成動脈瘤（動脈的內膜像衣服的襯裡，原本 與管壁密合，如果血液滲進內膜將管壁剝離，形成動脈瘤，容易 破裂出血）。
醫學文獻沒有記載年輕人剝離性動 脈瘤中風的原因，依據推理，可能與步調緊湊、壓力過大有關！ 實驗證實，正常血壓的人過勞或熬夜，血壓會 升高，而升高的數值與勞累的程度成正比，長期生活緊湊，壓力過大，也難怪腦血管發 生剝離性動脈瘤了！
我的父親是開業醫師，在他的時代，醫師的 應診時間是每天早、中、晚加上週日的白天，但父親堅持每天工 作8小時，週日休診，而且50歲之後，逐步減少工作時間， 他安排自己學法語、聽音樂、畫圖、寫作、游泳。母親管理 診所的帳目，對於父親寧願優閒很不高興，經常嘮叨，但父 親說：「醫師看多少病人，是要算總數，不是算年度！」
父親在80歲往生，他當醫師看門診一直 到他躺下來的前一天為止，對於「急著趕路」的年輕人，父 親的話語，值得參考！人生如果提早打烊，年度的成績如何 能與別人的總成績比較呢？

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