Rebirth of T-rex

As my hair is kind of messy and long, I went for a hair cut. I was surprised that the barber still consider me as MMU student. So happy because I still looks young :P

During the hair cut, we have a great chat as he told me many 'unknown' news. The one that shocked me most is that back in China, someone who would want to apply for a job needs to pay up to a few thousand dollar before he could join the company. If you don't want to pay there, then others who are willing to pay up will get the job. Really a big contrast to what happens here, in which graduates demand for certain amount of salary before they are willing to join the company.

When I mentioned that many fresh graduates still jobless, he commented that many will straight go for KL because more opportunities. He added that we need to 'ride on a cow to look for a horse', can't just always aim for big companies and high salaries. The longer you wait, the tougher you will get because the next cycle of fresh graduate will be released to compete with you.

Besides, he also told me that he has a friend whose cousin just launch a new shopping mall in Acheh during Tsunami attack. The Tsunami attacked on the fifth day after the grand opening, though the mall was not 'swept' by Tsunami, but things in there were gone! (stolen by the victims) And he lost RM 5M. More surpisingly is that he just said that it can be earn with little effort. Thinking back in Malaysia, just wonder how long it will take for us to earn that much, it may not even happen in a life time.

Lastly, the told me that there are some Chinese students here felt a bit reluctant to go back to China because they can no longer able to surf English web sites- they are filtered. Besides, I also read an article recently that says the government closed down a lot of cyber cafes. Personally I felt that this may reduce the 'eyes of scope' to learn more and produce international-standard products, especially in IT.