Abang Rosli's Farewell

Abang Rosli, after working 34 years in the group, is now retiring in December 2006. Today, we were having a farewell dinner for him at Restaurant Seri Kemuning.

I didn't have much time to mingle around with him during his employment, I respect him for the long services and loyalty to the group.

Talented men leave, dead wood doesn't

WHY EMPLOYEES LEAVE ORGANISATIONS ?
- Azim Premji,CEO- Wipro

Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile.

Early this year, Mark, a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer.

He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary was great. The company had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources (HR) policies, a spanking new office, and the very best technology, even a canteen that served superb food.

Twice Mark was sent abroad for training. "My learning curve is the sharpest it's ever been," he said soon after he joined.

Last week, less than eight months after he joined, Mark walked out of the job.

Why did this talented employee leave?

Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away.

The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called "First Break All The Rules".

It came up with this surprising finding:

If you're losing good people, look to their immediate boss. Immediate boss is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he 's the reason why people leave. When people leave they take knowledge,experience and contacts with them, straight to the competition.

"People leave managers not companies," write the authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

Mostly manager drives people away?

HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave,but a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job.

When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the boss crucial information. Dev says: "If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. You don 't have your heart and soul in the job."

Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by being too controlling, too suspicious,too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a trivial issue.

Talented men leave. Dead wood doesn't.

"Jack Welch of GE once said. A company's value lies "between the ears of its employees".

相处之道

人与人之间的相处，可不可以很简单？好好地相处，就可以很快乐！

(屏)

Ka Fatt's Farewell

"Fatt Ko" (发哥), or well known as old man in the company, we also joked about his name, Kwan Ka Fatt, in mandarin means the Kwan family is prosperous. Today is his last working day for his retirement after 37 years in the group.

Chinese always said, an old man at home, is a precious for you(家有一老，如有一宝). With his great experience, from rank and far till today as General Manager, he had guided me in my work, and I have learnt a lot from him.

Lunch time, also a headache time, we were cracking head as to where to take lunch. He was our lunch partner, and we like to sit in his Toyota Unser, as this can fetch more people. Although we complained he was driving slow, we enjoyed during the journey to lunch.

有时我忙

有时我忙，有时你忙；有时我忘，有时你忘；有时我累，有时你累；有时我懒，有时你懒；但是我会，发个简讯吵你！

(康)

Christmas Midnight-K

This was the first time of my life, went to Red Box Karaoke from 1:00 am to 6:00 am - Midnight-K, together with my colleagues (Jason, Steven, Chong Chye, Evonne and Yee Wei). We were having fun, just that Chong left around 3:30 am without informing us.

Chew Yan was at Pangkor Island having fun, Mango was having function with friends, others like Soh was at Bangla, Ong and Chow were at Singapore.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve With Zhi Heng

快乐

快乐好比一只蝴蝶，你若伸手去捉它，往往会落空。但如果你静静地坐下来，它反而会在你身上停留。人的欲望愈少，烦恼也愈少，快乐也就愈多。祝：快乐！

(康)

加油

在你辛苦工作之余，花点时间看这简讯，因为是我将最真诚的祝福献给你。累了，记得休息；渴了，记得喝水；烦了，记得静下来想想，有个关心你的我在为你加油哟！

(Teck Chuan)

Tomasz's Angels

This is Tomasz's second child, together with the elder sister, Alicia. Tomasz love these two children and treats them as angels.

冬至快乐

让平安搭上冬天的快车道，让快乐与你轻轻拥抱，让烦恼低头悄悄走掉，让吉祥对你格外关照，让幸福对你微笑！祝福你：冬至快乐！

(Eugene)

KSS Treasure Hunt - Lumut

16/12/2006 - 17/12/2006

It was an exciting event! We were struggling to get the answer for the questions, as well as the treasures. The questions were tricky, but when you see the answer, you will wonder why you can't figure it out.

Something very common like Gotham's friend having a pal here, we were wonder who is Gotham? Surprisingly to us, he is a character in Batman. Haha, we only remember Batman, but never remember their names. Co-incidentally, Batman show on TV3 that night!!

(Team Name : TC 50 - Serena, Jazz, Hung and Lucy)

Some of the correct answers

In the Swiss Garden Hotel

祝你天天快乐

爱人是路，朋友是猪。人生只有一条路，一条路上多头猪。有钱时候莫忘路，缺钱时候别卖猪。幸福时候别迷路，休息时候喂喂猪。祝我的猪天天快乐！

(康)

Jazz's Birthday

Tomorrow is Jazz's birthday, we were celebrating for her at Secret Recipe, Sunway Pyramid. Wish her happy birthday abd all the best for every future undertaking.

Believe in people

When you believe in people, they do the impossible.

(Nancy Doman)

Give people your heart

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

(Mother Teresa)

Friendship

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

(M.K. Gandhi)

幸福的一群

我们是幸福的一群，请不要再埋怨，因为世界某个角落有人在乞讨。我们的困难，只是暂时的烦恼，请咬紧牙根好好的活下去，因为世界某个角落，有人不能保证自己能活过下一秒！

(Alexandra)

Only seeds

A woman dreamt she walked into a brand new shop in the market place and, to her surprise, found God behind the counter. "What do you sell here?" she asked. "Everything your heart desires," said God

Hardly daring to believe what she was hearing, the woman decided to asked for the best things a human being could wish for. "I want peace of mind and love and happiness and wisdom and freedom from fear." she said. Then as an after thought, she added "Not just for me, for everyone on earth."

God smiled, "I think you've got me wrong, my dear," He said. "We don't sell fruits here. Only seeds."

(Kenneth)

Forget and forgive

One can not forget, but can forgive

(屏)

Mistake

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

(Theodore Roosevelt)

Gone yourself

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

(Gene Mauch)

Example

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

(Albert Schweitzer)

Heroic makes heroes

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe the heroic makes heroes.

(Benjamin Disraeli)