Ah Long

Around one week ago, a hometown friend called me up when I was still working. This friend usually never contacts me or even looks me up to catch up on old times. So when I heard his voice over the phone, I could sense that he would need some favor. It turned out that I was right, he wanted to borrow some money. He asked for RM1500, but I only offered RM500. He eventually accepted.

My dad has always taught us to put our heart into helping people, so that was why I didn’t ask for reason or even terms and conditions.

After that I found out from friends that he owed loan shark (we refer them as “Ah Long”) some gambling debts; and he had been looking for favor among all his friends. I was truly disappointed because all the while I thought a person who gambles regularly would know how to control oneself and never get carried away. When I gamble, I always know my limit, I would not get frustrated or angry when I lost because I always set my budget to not affect my life.

Lately I realized that “Ah Long” has become smarter in advertising their illegal “business”.

They used English word to fool authorities into believing their advertisement as just for home tuition; but the Chinese words are saying otherwise.

They even have a city license printed at the bottom.

I’m wondering for those who don’t understand mandarin and are desperate for tuition, will they be calling this number and being convinced to take some debt? Who knows Ah Long might be the best person to teach Maths, Finance, and no doubt Risk Management!

Anyway, do you know that in India, they have a sophisticated way of calling loan shark – Recovery Agent! I guess if “Ah Long” has such a name why not others? So I was thinking…

Begger = Street Warming Specialist / Financial Dependent Agent
Thief = Stealth Assets Extraction Experts
Con-man = Illusion Artist
Murderer = Life Diminishing Engineer

Me and My Current Worklife

I’m very sorry for not updating my blog for the last 2-3 weeks. Life has been fully overloaded with tasks lately. For the past 2 months, since I came back from Bangalore, you could see me in my workplace everyday including weekends. I am so busy that except from going home to sleep, the rest of the time I spend it in my workplace.

Anyway, I still have time to enjoy my “business”. Not as busy as this person…

Have a look at my calendar; I am still working on Public Holidays!

My job is about validating electronic stuff, making sure a microchip is functioning well. So, whenever we are suspecting any bug (computer term of calling a problem or flaw) in our hardware, we would need to do lots of experiment by using highly advance technology to analyze the hardware just to make sure that it is a bug before routing it Design Engineer for fixing.

When a new hardware is out, usually there will be lots of bugs. So everyone in my team would be working like crazy. When a test for the hardware fails, you know someone will be spending a lot of energy and time to work on a suspected bug.

In other words, we are very afraid of bugs. So if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend who works same field as I am; don’t ever and ever try to bring him or her to the movie below. It would scare the hell out of him and her……

Just kidding….