Bukit Orang... secret hiking place in Kepong

It's considered scarce to have place to find leisure in hiking any hill around the whole Klang Valley area..

For myself, i'm lucky to have one small hill nearby my resident.

I go there twice, add on to thrice if possible every week. Not bad, no a reserve forest though, and day by day it is facing threats of being scraped off to flat ground, a nature sacrification to make way for the gradual housing development in the nearby area..

And the name of the hill? Bukit Monkey. Haha, it's named by the communities there. The folks said many monkeys inhabilit there. And it's true-lah.

And I was eager to take them some photos, and that particular day, i told one of my acquintainces from the MSN chatbox that hopefully I would manage to carry my camera and take a few snaps.

Personally, I reckon it's supposingly to be named Bukit Orang. Why? Simple, coz from the eyes of these long-tailed creatures, they are as astonished as you are to see so many monkeys, and vice-versa. Hehe. Imagining them having capability of uttering words, they will put a question mark of why so many human-beings visited the hill every days, several round daily....haha! So, these dearly 'homo'sapiens might spontaneously answer you the name of the hill as Buki Orang, if you would to query in front of them. lollll..

Almost around 5:45pm will be the dinning time, and everyone will gather round near the entrance before you proceed to the man-made staircases up the hill....

Tadaa..... below are the masterpieces... Hey, I quoted out some of the dialogues by these mammals (huh.. dun asked why... unbelievably, I was granted the super power of understanding their language !! Alas, this miracle ceased once I reached home, and such sacred force never befall on me anymore, not in my later life either, of course.

"...rock-a-baby, oh my little baby..."

"Why am I here? Huh! Following my lord, he's the donor and supplier for the
gorillas' dinner.. S@##, why do I not receive such good treat from my lord?? I
jealous loh, with these gorrilas!!"

"..Grrr....I'll be back, for more fruits, grrr..."

Oh, no no, dun be mistaken, the tree doesn't speak.. This is our Malaysia's property, Getah De Pokok.


Still got rubber collector meh, nowadays?? Poor little tree, dunno which 'Antie' dropping her big signature on it?

"... Huh..huh... yayaya.. papaya, need more VitB12 to cure my thyroid.. huh huh...."

This cap belonged to a Japanese soldier who lost his way in the then jungle
during WW II.

"And, I'm the winner of the day...!!!! Got the biggest pack-of-the-day dinner for myself, yeah."

"Eh... dun try to snatch it from me, ah.. "









End liao.... :)

GM shares plunge on bankruptcy fears

The company faces so many problems, a Merrill Lynch analyst says, that bankruptcy isn't out of the question. Here's why it also may be unlikely.

The plunge is an astonishing moment in the history of the nation's largest automaker -- once so powerful that many people believed that, as the late GM president Charles Wilson was incorrectly quoted as saying in 1953: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country."

GM's slump helped the Dow Jones industrials fall nearly 167 points today and the overall stock market dip into bear-market territory after crude oil hit a new closing high of $143.57, up $2.60 from Tuesday.

Merrill Lynch analyst John Murphy said GM needed to raise up to $15 billion in new capital to get through 2008 and 2009. The company insisted it had enough to cash to get through 2008 and could sell assets and make other moves in 2009.

GM closed down 15.1% to $9.98. Shares of all automakers plus automobile parts makers and tire makers also fell.

Bankruptcy is "not impossible" if the U.S. auto market continues to slump, Murphy wrote. A GM bankruptcy would put all labor contracts at risk and take years to resolve and could cause problems for thousands of suppliers.

IS GM too big?There was extreme skepticism that bankruptcy would ever happen. The company is too big and important to the domestic economy, and investors, management and, ultimately, the federal government would probably get involved first.

GM has about 280,000 employees worldwide, with 140,000 in the United States.
Murphy cut GM to "underperform" from "buy" and lowered his price target for the largest U.S. automaker to $7 a share.

He also lowered his forecast for 2008 U.S. industrywide light vehicle sales for the third time this year and said the recent drastic decline in sales would likely to continue through 2009. He expects 14.3 million U.S. auto sales this year and 14 million units for next year, down from 16.15 million units in 2007.

Murphy lauded GM's vast restructuring strides but said three factors have combined to dwarf the company's best efforts:
GM needs for more capital to cope with slumping sales. Every drop of 1 million units in U.S. auto sales on an annualized basis means a loss of $3 billion in revenue for GM. "The financing necessary for the next two years is likely to be larger and more expensive than recognized," he wrote.

Weak sales will continue through 2009. The industry faces "a more severe downturn than even the most bearish industry observers expected," he wrote. Murphy lowered his earlier target of 14.8 million light vehicle sales in 2008 by half a million units.

GM's sport-utility-vehicle segment is on the verge of becoming obsolete, eating away at the company's profit potential, he said.

On Tuesday, GM surprised investors with a June sales report that wasn't nearly as bad as feared and sparked a dramatic recovery for the U.S. stock market. The stock was up more than 15% at one point before fading to a 2.3% gain.

Reported in US on July2, 2008

"出來"社會工作 (三)

呼…..無可否認 ， 這猶如人生的賭局 ! 自己很明白, 這可能是賭了大些．可是，也因為不想永遠都過著一樣的身活，做著一樣的循環性的工作，所以就下了這不太可能回轉的賭局　（說到有如不歸路似的）．


我一生當中，只（特別注重，哈哈）換了三分工作．很奇妙的，也只有這最後一次是不帶著依依不捨心情離開的（別笑我儍啦，這麼忠實的職員，ｍａｎａ　ｍａｕ　ｃａｒｉ？絕種囉．．），而是憧憬著展望光明的未來！！　唬．．．好刺激喔（後來真的夠繽紛色彩，而且對我來說．．．果然刺激，一下（ｍａｌａｙｓｉａ　ｓｔｙｌｅ　ｏｆ‘蠻’的意思，哈！）

以下是我希望和大家分享的一點點的心聲回響．．


ｅｒ．．先待續，好嗎？別罵人啦．．刺激的東西是要充分準備來寫才可以囉．



ｓｏ，待續haa．．　：）