Baik Punya Cerita!

I was recently convinced to watch a Malay movie...(those who know me well will vouch for the near impossibleness of that happening...sigh, the things we do for love sometimes...) However i am pleased to report that i was pleasantly surprised and even entertained by the show...It was Afdlin's Baik Punya Cilok and it was actually FUNNY! The movie was a cross betweeen Ocean's Eleven and Twelve and The Bujang Lapok series. There was a comprehensible plotline and the dialogue, (not Monty Phyton stuff, of course) was superb! The characters were played out well and you could actually see the chemistry betwwen the four friends...Hats off to Afdlin and gang for pulling off a good show!
To anyone who has doubts about Malaysian movies, forget Yusof Haslam and the bunch of blithering idiots he hires for scriptwriters...Afdlin Shauki, Harith and the gang are the people to watch in the future!
Oh yeah...there will be a surprise appearance in the movie...you will like it.
Watch it people...worth the time and money...Malaysian Cinema is back!

Business Ethics??

I have just run into a ethical dilemma...can you work for a company and then freelance for a rival company at the same time? Recently been receiving jobs from a different advertising agency and working as a freelance copywriter for them...I am still a bit sceptical as to the ethics that are involved...are you supposed to be working for a rival when you are in the employ of the company? Granted, i do all the work after office hours and in my free time...so no office equipment is actually used to help the rival, but what about the job done itself..what if, because of the work that i have done, the rival starts getting an edge above my company and thus cutting profits from it? A little voice in me is saying that i wouldn't have to do this work in the first place if my company actually paid me better...but there is still that nagging feeling that i am somehow contravening Section 25 of the Universal Declaration of Good Guyness... Sigh...

Life and things that piss me off

Have you wondered sometimes whether you are living your life the way you are supposed to? Is every human being on the planet following a set route in which the person has to follow in order to become who he is? Or is it really a random series of choices which send you down one road or another? What makes a person good or bad? I always thought that a good person is a person who is honest and truthful to everyone and cares for the welfare of the people around him, but why is it that this attitude always goes unrewarded. Its the good guy that always loses out...Its the honest guy that gets betrayed in the end. Its the person that cares that doesn't receive help when he needs it. Why?
Why do you have to be a bastard to succeed? I don't want to blame anyone for being smart (Yes Halian, I know...) But why does it have to be that way. I hate hypocrites and i hate dishonesty for malicious reasons, but why am i surrounded with these people? (Sir Halian, Sir Arik and Lady Raihan, My Queen and those that i have named as friends excluded)
I have personally known someone who deliberately lies and colours the truth so that she could get an advantage...no one is spared, not even her boyfriend. Why? wouldn't life be a little empty when you have no real friends? Why lie?
I am hereby vowing never to be hypocritical (never was) never to be malicious (except in debates) and to strive for success in life by paying as much attention to the people around me and caring for their needs as much as possible, I vow to honestly work for a living and not exploit the talents or the disadvantages of others, I vow to become a better person and make people around me feel better as a result.
So help me i vow to live for the future generations, to prepare them for the world, to give them faith iin themselves and the tools they will need to project that self confidence. I vow to strive to be a better Muslim, to make my Creation worthwhile, to seek to better understand my Creator and His many mysteries. I vow to smile more, to laugh with others or otherwise keep silent, i vow to be the best me i can be.