Thank You.

TEH

I will create another PERSONAL blog using blogspot, may be //cpteh2009.blogspot.com. I still enjoy writing about my work in school, the people around me, events … etc etc. And yes, SONGS.

ALSO, I m advertising MYSELF here : Please let me know if any of your friends doing SPM/STPM needing MATHS tuition. I m taking in new classes.

Rate : SPM RM40 per hour and STPM RM50 per hour, to be shared amongst themselves. One-to-one basis is also available for those can afford.

Merry Christmas and Happy NEW year all.

TEH

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For those who which to LEARN how to be RICH one day, I think my Trading Blog(cpteh.blogspot.com) will be a good start. This is specially for those who know me personally, and also for my students(or ex or ex-ex or ex-ex-ex ..) …

Merry Christmas, and help me to promote SAVE and INVEST awareness amongst us, Malaysians.

May God Bless our country and our family. May God bless you.

TEH

I shared with my students(100+) the writings by S.Dali this morning during my Maths class. It is written direwctly out of my mouth, so to speak. This is my main concern and DISAPPOINTMENT that I m staying with our UN-educated malaysians around me. They don’t understand that their STUPID degrees/masters WILL NOT make them a better person, an intellectual being and contribute to mankind!!

TEH

1) Rich parents - Parents who are rich, please note, generally your children will be assholes if you do nothing right when they were young. That’s because the over mollycoddling, pandering to their whims and fancies, have shaped their character - which is pathetic. I have a few rich kids who have OK degrees, but decided to quit of a couple of months because they wanted to do something else. When asked further, they said they wanted to go further their studies. Geez, that is only an option if your parents are well off. After the years of investment into the child, there is no inclination of the need to be independent or self sufficient. They can have the option because the parents allow them to. What a wonderful bunch of kids.

Some even have the audacity to go for a long holiday after their graduation. You try to follow your Western fellow graduates… well for one, most of them work for at least a year to save up before they embark on their travels (I don’t think we do)… and when they study, they themselves take up student loans which they will pay back when they work (which we don’t).

2) Character - Linking onto the above, the same spoilt brats generally have poor character. When I say character, I meant ability to assume responsibility, respect for corporate culture, ability to apply themselves well, work at something, ability to learn and willingness to learn, and general people skills.

3) English - Now we go to quality of graduates. Most, whether they are local or foreign graduates, cannot speak coherent English. I am appalled that the Chinese schools are now clamouring for Science and Maths to be taught in Chinese for the first 6 years of schooling. Why? English is not a glorification of western culture, it is an essential tool for business and global communications. I am not dissing Chinese, Malay or Tamil language, but if you think you can compete in an increasingly globalised world with just your mother tongue, that is misplaced arrogance of culture. Study English together with whatever other languages you want, not at the expense of English. It is also not enough to just have a working knowledge of English, you need to master it. Education gives a person choices and options, and English broadens that scope even more. Can your child go and work in the US or UK financial firms, if he/she wanted to? If they had the tool, they would be sought after if they were good.

4) Communication skills - Linked to the mastering of English, it is not enough to learn how to do power point presentations or run up figures in excel spreadsheets. A person can greatly add value when they can present them well. Oratory skills are mightily lacking in Malaysian young graduates. The art of persuasion, the ability to project professionalism, and eventually the ability to lead. Just imagine Obama without his oratory skills. I always exhort my friends with kids to forget about the ballet classes, the extra tuition classes… make sure you enroll them in the drama and speech making skills classes, there are a few around.

5) Intellectually not strong - When I come across even those who scored fantastic results or graduated from top foreign universities, I find some of them unable to hold an intellectual argument. If presented with a common question such as why are we now in this global economic crisis. Most I will hear are one or two points: easy credit, excess leveraging… and nothing else. A decent answer would have to include examining the crux factors, there are at least 5, and then ascribing proper blame proportionately. You need to examine a complex issue from a few angles. Our education system is such that there is only one answer per question in the exam papers. Hence after giving one answer, they think they have answered the whole question.

6) Bias - Some will say that local graduates are unfairly discriminated. I don’t buy that. I tend to not look at degrees as that only tells me you can read and write. What most employers are looking for is that one quality - I call it street-smartness or ability to think on his feet. Can you be taught that? I don’t know. It has to do will self assurance and inherent self confidence. These people are problem solvers, they are doers, they take the initiative, they will speak up at the right time, they get the job done by hook or crook. They rise above the crowd because they won’t be the first to say "cannot do". They are achievers when they put their minds to it. They can be persuasive and they apply themselves diligently to master any new tasks. You have that, the degree is just a visa for you to travel further in your career.

We have too many followers, not enough street smart people. I don’t think you can teach that at MBAs. But one thing for sure, you may be able to cultivate "street smartness" when they are young. Always encourage and allow your kids to join the Scouts, Drama Clubs, Leos or Interact clubs. To me, these are breeding grounds for future corporate animals. The interaction, social politics, club politics, camaraderie, application to one’s objectives are all critical to encourage one to develop and establish his own identity and personality, and in many ways help them make sense of how the world operates. Most of the street smarts I know who now do well in corporate world, also did remarkably well in those movements and clubs when they were younger.

Parents nowadays have fewer children, so they can spend more resources on them. Don’t molly-coddle. Some over protective parents do not allow their kids to join any society or clubs even. They get ferried to and from school and then to and from tuition. When home, they do some homework and play computer games or do internet chats the whole time. Time to rethink our influence in our young.

TEH : This writing is taken from one of the TOP Investment Blog in Malaysia, written by someone top in his profession.

For my STUDENTS, please help to share with your friends, tell them about OUR pathetic un-educated society, and DO NOT be one of them!! You may copy and paste this into you blog, or forward through e-mails, but DO NOT start that irritating chain-mail. We have enough of STUPID ‘friends’ forwarding us many STUPID pictures/stories … enough said. Hehe.

It is more on Economics, Finances and Investments. It is generally about my ADVENTURE … and if i m going to succeed in my GOAL in 4 years time is left to be seen.

Once I done well with my trading, I might only teach Maths part-time(as I still love teaching Maths) while teaching trading in a more professional and serious manner.

So, I m going to promote my Trading Blog to my students … they know me personally, so … ONE DAY, I could be their financial consultant that they could trust!! And for those who wish to learn TRADING/INVESTMENT, they are welcome to attend my ‘easy to learn’ classes. We are takliing bout EARNING HUGE money here, by yourself.

So, visit me at //cpteh.blogspot.com …. and you might be impressed! Haha

TEH

Need to re-arrange my time for new/existing classes for Jan. Some bookings have not confiirmed. As I will be monitoring global markets, besides tuition classes, I still hv my full-time job … teaching at Sinaran.

So, I shall be busy … and migrating to a NEW blog using blogspot. I find blogspot more convinience. Hehe.

TEH

I wanted to upload songs and also embed youtube but I dont know HOW with blogsome. I like blogspot much better. So, I will MIGRATE to blogspot for NEXT YEAR blog.

Yes, I m busy with my trading blog, but I still want to write in my personal blog, especially about our clowns in Parliment. We are talking about FINANCIAL CRISIS, these jokers(HIGLY PAID with a lot of $$ masuk pockets) talking about trivial race issues, YOGA(what is fatwa), and some still more interested who will sodomise who next. Laughing stocks, man. Embarassing to know SUCH a mentality in our LEADERS? Haha … some dont even know ANYTHING, except how to talk-cock. You may ask them to suck my cock!! REally frustrated to mention about these CLOWNS!! Buuu-huuu

NEGATIVE WORDS INSIDE US

If our parents can set a lifetime of programming with one wrong statement, imagine the kind of programming you are doing on a daily basis with your own internal dialogue. Here is a list of Toxic Vocabulary words.

Notice when you or other people use them.
?But: Negates any words that are stated before it.

TEH

TEH

Last night I played quite badly in the 3-6-9 bowling tournament. Well, lack of match practices and missed so many simple spares. Hmm … luckily I do enough to recover the game fees.

Arsenal won!! Wow … MU won too. So, can Liverpool beat the BOTTOM team WHU tmr morning to go to top? They lost to BOTTOM team Spurs, remember? And of coz they cant score against Stoke or Fulham. Torres is injured again … who is going to score the goal? Gerrard? Or perhaps Reina? Hmm …

TEH

Bowling

Last night I played three games — league, for SHADOW’s team. Just for the fun and friendship sake, I m back into the CPS league. I helped the team to win against Nora’s team. I beat Nora(2nd best female player in Sabah!!) 3-1. Hehe.

TEH

Putting that at the back of my mind, I m very disappointed with Liverpool’s performance ..,. they lost to Spurs twice!! Playing against WestBrom is not counted and if tmr they cant win, they can forget about the top two spot, yet again(before x’mas). So, no good news from Liverpool, just yet.

As for my tuitions, I m taking a break as students are having exams. I m so used to be busy with classes, and currently I m so ‘free’ that I spend my hours monitoring markets!! KLSE, STI or HSI.

Last Sat was a little interesting as I accompanied Mag to Le Meridian(yes, we hv one in KK but …. err … it looks like 3-star hotel, in the midst of markets, busy narrow Sinsuarn area … congested, dirty place) for a parenting talk organised by Mead-Johnson. My son surely enjoy it the most, and I enjoyed the view into the see … not forgetting the nice food. Hehe

At the school front, not much happening as A-level and SAM exams is still going-on. I need to complete my proposal for the new campus’s International Student Unit. I wont be in charge next year, and i do hope to pull out of Rotaract club too(like the community service part but dislike the overly socialising part). Until I decide if i m taking my Master in UMS, i shall be ‘free’ …

Bowling — I played the 9-pin tap final, but I played so badly(tho being one of the top seeds) that I m not even in top 10(of 48 bowlers). Never mind … my mind was on trading, actually. There is an up-coming 3-6-9 tournament at the end of the month and most probably I will give it a skip.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4AC4QA20081113

CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian holiday resort will hold a month-long, nude "anything goes" party to combat an expected economic downturn, media reports said on Thursday.

"Tough economic times call for stiff measures," Tony Fox, the owner of the White Cockatoo resort in Mossman, in tropical Queensland state, told the Courier-Mail newspaper.

"It will be a hedonism resort, where anything goes for a month. It doesn’t take rocket science to work out what it means," Fox said, naming March as the risque party month.

The controversial "clothes optional" resort made headlines three years ago when police were called to end partner-swapping parties after a swathe of public complaints.

"You’ve got to wonder what sort of people go and why. Where is the moral code of behavior and how do you stop jealousies and fights?" Cairns Catholic Bishop James Foley said after Fox’s announcement.

But local regional Mayor Val Schier said she was not opposed to the event as long as no laws were broken.

"People in tropical north Queensland are extraordinarily creative," Schier said. "It is tough economic times and as long as it is with consenting adults, then there is no problem."

Australia’s tourism in industry is being hit hard by global economic turmoil with official figures showing a 7.6 percent decline in overseas visitors in September.

Industry leaders expect holiday bookings may drop by up to a third in early 2009 and are planning a new international advertising campaign to coincide with the movie "Australia" starring Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman.

Fox said his resort was almost fully booked for the month-long rainforest party.

(Reporting by Rob Taylor, editing by Miral Fahmy)