Sony Malaysia

This is worth documenting and will monitor how far the company honours its official statement.....amidst the worsening recession that is going on globally now. And not forgetting workers losing their jobs everywhere.

From the Star................

Monday March 2, 2009

Sony cuts cost in Japan, Malaysian staff keep their jobs
By PAUL GABRIEL

KUALA LUMPUR: At least 15,000 locals have had their jobs “certified safe” – thanks to a turn of events in Japan.

Sony Corp in Tokyo, hard hit by the global crunch, has decided to downsize and move part of its operations here to save costs.

Japanese Ambassador to Malaysia Masahiko Horie said that with this development, up to 15,000 Sony em- ployees in the company’s four plants in Malaysia could keep their jobs.

The envoy said Sony EMCS (M) Sdn Bhd managing director Satoshi Okawa relayed the good news to him at a recent briefing.

“Besides cutting costs, Sony Japan’s shift here is also in recognition of the excellent infrastructure and facilities available in Malaysia.
“Sony Malaysia is one of Sony Corp’s top branches in the world in terms of human resource development, on-the-job training and also product variety and quality,” Horie told The Star.

The Sony plants here make 1,500 products, including the cutting-edge Bravia LCD TVs and laptop computers, with an annual output of 35 million units.
Malaysia’s affiliation with Sony, a leading manufacturer of electronic goods, started way back in 1973.

Sony Corp has branches all over the world, including in Europe, the Middle East, North America, Latin America and Africa.

Horie said Japan was pleased with the progress and advancement achieved by Sony in Malaysia.
“Malaysian personnel trained at Sony’s plants here have been posted around the world to take up managerial and other key posts, and have been playing a very important role.

“Their skill level is very high and this is another reason why Sony Japan picked Malaysia to move part of its operations.”

He said Sony Japan had favoured Malaysia over China because of rising wages and costs there.

Horie said he had also been briefed by other Japanese firms operating here such as Renesas, Taiyo Yuden, Fuji Electric, Rohm-wako Electronics and Konica Minolta, and was told that Malaysia remained one of the best countries to invest in

PNB schemes

Self notation on investments made:

ASD (launched in April 2001) dividend rate records:
financial year ending 30 June:

2002 8.00%
2003 6.80%
2004 7.00%
2005 7.20%
2006 6.80%
2007 7.00%
2008 7.00%

ASB (launced in January 1990) historical dividend rates and bonus rates for previous years:
financial year ending: 31st December

Year Dividend(%) Bonus(%)
1990 8.0 6.0
1991 8.5 4.0
1992 7.5 5.0
1993 9.0 4.5
1994 9.5 4.5
1995 10.0 3.0
1996 10.25 3.0
1997 10.25 1.25
1998 8.0 2.5
1999 10.50 1.5
2000 9.75 2.0
2001 7.0 3.0
2002 7.0 2.0
2003 7.25 2.0
2004 7.25 2.0
2005 7.25 2.0
2006 7.20 1.5
2007 7.30 1.25
2008 7.00 1.75


ASW 2020 (launched in 1996) dividend rate records:
financial year ending 31st August. Investment every 1st day of the month

1997 10.10%
1998 9.80%
1999 10.2%
2000 8.8%
2001 7.25%
2002 7.25%
2003 6.60%
2004 7.00%
2005 7.10%
2006 6.80%
2007 8.0%
2008 7.0%

SMS Spam

I hate it when you check on incoming sms messages and they turn out to be spam.

Latest spam text:

+60104673184 ...received on Feb. 20 @ 5.09 p.m.

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Do these bastards really think I am that desperate to reply to the message?!?!!! Geez.........there must be some laws or authorities that we can report so the owners of these numbers can be traced, trashed and their ass get kicked!! Not merely to report...but they must act too!!

The Best Divorce Letter, everrrr!!!

Dear wife:

I'm writing you this letter to tell you that I'm leaving you forever. I've been a good man to you for 7 years & I have nothing to show for it. These last 2 weeks have been hell. Your boss called to tell me that you quit your job today & that was the last straw.

Last week, you came home & didn't even notice I had a new haircut, had cooked your favorite meal & even wore a brand new pair of silk boxers. You ate in 2 minutes, & went straight to sleep after watching all of your soaps. You don't tell me you love me anymore; you don't want sex or anything that connects us as husband & wife.

Either you're cheating on me or you don't love me anymore; whatever the case, I'm gone.

Your EX-Husband

P.S. don't try to find me. Your SISTER & I are moving away to West Virginia together!

Have a great life!

+++++++++++++++++++++++++

Dear Ex-Husband

Nothing has made my day more than receiving your letter. It's true you & I have been married for 7 years, although a good man is a far cry from what you've been. I watch my soaps so much because they drown out your constant whining & griping. Too bad that doesn't work.

I DID notice when you got a hair cut last week, but the 1st thing that came to mind was 'You look just like a girl!' Since my mother raised me not to say anything if you can't say something nice, I didn't comment. And when you cooked my favorite meal, you must have gotten me confused with MY SISTER, because I stopped eating pork 7 years ago.

About those new silk boxers: I turned away from you because the $49.99 price tag was still on them, & I prayed it was a coincidence that my sister had just borrowed $50 from me that morning. After all of this, I still loved you & felt we could work it out.

So when I hit the lotto for 10 million dollars, I quit my job & bought us 2 tickets t o Jamaica But when I got home you were gone. Everything happens for a reason, I guess.

I hope you have the fulfilling life you always wanted. My lawyer said that the letter you wrote ensures you won't get a dime from me.So take care.

Signed,

Your Ex-Wife,
Rich As Hell & Free!

P.S. I don't know if I ever told you this, but my sister Carla was born Carl.

I hope that's not a problem.

Unfair and outraged!!

On the 10th February 2009, our company organized a 1/2 day session on "City survival for women". Only female workers can attend this course.

A very fruitful and very informative session for us urbanites ladies....the talk was given by Capt K Balasupramaniam from MVFRA, site here.

It was really an eye-opening and shocking to see gory pictures of women and children who were raped, sodomized and killed. Most of the cases and pictures shown were those we read in the newspapers. Especially so ...children.

We were told of a pending case where the rapist suspect was given a bail (yes, the sickening law in this country allows bail for non-convicted rapist suspects!!) and since he is now out, he has been terrorizing his child victims. Capt Bala was asking from us ladies to sign his petition to get the Attorney General to put this guy back to jail pending his trials to prevent further interferences and disturbing the child victims. Of course, we all did not hesitate to sign up the petition. Hell, even if he had asked us to do a demonstration, I would gladly go!! His target was over 1000 signatures...only women signatures.

How comforting it was to read the news article in the Star that he managed to collect 1,279 signatures. Well, let's hope the AG is serious in honouring his words......

The Star's article dated 17 February 2009:
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A-G shocked over claims in memo

PUTRAJAYA: Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail has directed his officers to look into allegations in a memorandum that an investigating officer failed to attend a rape trial and that the accused, who is out on bail, is harassing his underage victims.

“The A-G has expressed shock over the claims in the memorandum, especially those involving the Investigating Officer (IO) and promises to look into the matter as well as ensure that the trial runs smoothly after this,” said Mohamad Amsyari Mohamad Suhaimi, the chambers’ public relations officer.
Mohamad Amsyari, who took the memorandum up to Abdul Gani at 10.40am yesterday, returned 30 minutes later.

He said Abdul Gani had to leave for another engagement but had read the memorandum and told the prosecution division to look into the matter.
The memorandum carried the signatures of 1,279 women. It was submitted by K. Balasupramaniam, a social safety activist who is helping the victims’ parents, Com­munity Care Network representatives Michael Chang and Anita Lim and the parents of the two sisters and a cousin – aged 10, 12 and 13.

Balasupramaniam said the 2006 case had been postponed in January last year because the IO and interpreter were absent; in August because the medical report was not ready and the IO was absent, and in December as the IO was absent.

“The parents lodged a police report after they managed to record a telephone conversation between the suspect and the eldest victim,” he told reporters at the Chambers lobby.

Balasupramaniam said the man had asked the girl to say “I have forgotten” to any question asked of her in court, as well as to coax her sister to do the same for “ rewards".

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On the issue of children as rape victims, Capt Bala told us this true incident. He said alot of parents have this tendency of telling their children to call their genitals as ~ pipi, winie, bird, kuku, etc etc. One child rape victim aged 5 years old gave her testimony in court saying "ular masuk dalam weewee adik". She was relating the penetration incident. She knew the rapist. He was the uncle. The court found this testimony as inadmissible in court. Yes, indeed it was cruel but the court wanted to hear facts, not fairy tale stories.

Fortunately, after going through some innovative ways and not forgetting court time delays, it was later evidenced out in court the detailed descriptions based on the poor child's understanding on what ular and weewee meant to her interpretation.

Morale of this case study: DO NOT teach your children to call their genital parts using fancy names. They have to be taught the exact words...no matter how young they are.

Please spread this little film

Credit goes to Yasmin ~ go to her blog for stories on how this film is made by clicking on above title.

A simple ad for the SPCA org.

A very meaningful story of an austistic Malay child and a dog that caught his attention.

Too bad if this ad is shown on tv, the child and his parents look Chinese.

People will not know the message behind this ad.

It is simple....Islam never says touching and rearing a dog is haram. Search in the Quran and you will never find any verse that says a dog is haram. In fact, in Surah 5:4 and Surah 18:18, neither mentions that dogs are unclean or nasty. The first states that animals captured by hunting dogs are halal to eat. The second describes a group of exemplary young men who happened to have a guard dog.

It has always been the misconception amongst the Malays who were brought up to think a dog is haram. It is najis and cannot be touched.

But if it is najis....handling a cat or any animal is also najis.

A dog is a man's best friend. A dog is the guardian, the protector.

Christine Collins and her missing son

I always love real life stories movies. Most times, after watching them, I go online wanting to read more about these stories. The real people who were portrayed in the movies.

The movie ~ Changeling is portrayed based on the real life story of a single mother whose 9 year old son went missing. The frantic search for her son, her fights against the LA Police Department who goofed up on her case and her lawsuits after. One thing for sure, at 78 Clint Eastwood is still on a roll, still making and directing movies.

Anyway, above 2 pictures are the real Christine Collins and her son, Walter Collins. At the end of the movie, Mrs Collins still had hope to find her missing son. She died at the age of 94 in 1985, never finding him.

By now, if Walter is still alive, he is 90 years old. Imagine the power of the internet and the publicity of this movie, somewhere out there....someone, some family members of his (if he got married and has children of his own or his grandkids), or his friends who can come forward to tell us, the world, yes, Walter survived the gruesome serial killings of children then.....he escaped. what a closure to Mrs Collin's tragic life.

Was also interesting to read articles on the real serial killer of children portrayed in the movie ~ Gordon Stewart Northcott. It was real satisfying watching the hanging scene of this killer.......!!!!

Angelina Joline ~ deservedly nominated for this year's Oscar Best Actress category. Although I think Meryl Streep deserves to win this award as Sister Aloysius Beauvier in "Doubt".