Jabba – Malaysian Engineer at its Worst !

In malaysia, houses are normally build in terraces. I always thought that its reasonable way to live. Growing up in one of the satellite towns in Malaysia, my family was not wealthy when I was a kid. We got by, and education for our family was always important.

One of my cousin, which we use to call “boy boy”, who used to play with me and my brother at a young age migrated to Australia as we were growing up (met him last during grandfather’s funeral). Assuming he stayed in a detached/semi-D house told his friend outright describing us as “that’s my cousing living in a slum”. (that’s why we ignore his emails to stay in touch). 

Which makes me think, whether a decent 1500sq ft single storey house in a peaceful neighbourhood in Malaysia qualifies as a slum?

Anyway, kudos, cuz I sold my slum house (located a few blocks to my parents for a quater of a mil).

The question is : Do we actually show our sincere honest side to people?

Jabba is a first class a$$hole, and what-you-see-is-what-you-get. No hypocritic bullshit. How many of you can say that? Food for thought 

Again, Names cannot be mentioned as one of our readers is a friend to my extended/disfunct relatives, which my mom will disown me if she finds out what I am doing.

Its been sometime since Jabba went online due to workload. Slave driving is not easy.

Anyway, taking a departure from my old habit of taking swipe at IEM, i’d thought I wash some dirty linen in public. Its sort of an afterthought.

This story revolves around one of my relative (although I would love not to be related), Peter Soh Sxxx Cxxxx. That’s his real name by the way. He, and many man that I know, can’t be faithful in a relationship.

About 10 yrs back, he divorced his wife and left his two daughters, on the reason he fell in love with a divorcee. That was when he is a GM of some electronic company in Penang. After that, he went to Phillipines, and he dump the divorcee and married a filipino maid. And had a three year old child now. Recently, he tells his daughter he can’t support them because he lost his job.

Looking back at the situation, why would someone go into a relationship, have children, and then dump them for the heck of it. Just to have fun? Don’t they think about the responsibility, and consequences of their action. I guess these people one day will grow old alone, lonely, and looking back regret their actions. and like my mom always say, he’ll be a old beggar someday.

Maybe readers may think about the consequences of their action. I reckon, if you can’t be faithful, don’t commit. If you commit, be a responsible man.

I think there will not be any new comments on IEM (institution of engineers malaysia) new blog because everything would be critisizing the useless organisation.

IEM is a white elephant… sorry, IEM is a dead rotting white elephant. I would suggest engineers boycott them because they cannot do anything for the engineering fratenity.

By the way, after visiting their blog Jabba is planning to sell toilet rolls with IEM logo on it, so we can wipe it on our arse whenever we shit. It matches well.

IEM/BEM is a failure.

As an engineer, I never need to even know what the engineering act is!

Let’s examine what IEM/BEM achieved so far, as quoted from the great Ir HT Wong (member of the great IEM/BEM)

1. To look at the safety of the public

Verdict: Failed miserably. Look at the Kepong overpass. What safety? DOSH have a better process and procedure than IEM/BEM.
2. To emphasis more on the qualification regulation

Verdict: you can’t get a reciprocate Professional Engineer with a Ir title in UK, Europe etc. Example, with a CEng from UK, anyone can get a European PE. With an Ir, people will laugh and walk off. The best is an “ASEAN Engineer title”.

3. To emphasis more on the professional services application

Verdict: What professional services? Like the ones in Jurutera magazine?

4. To emphasis more on the consultancy license

Verdict: what license? license to practice? how many percentage of engineers in Malaysia are registered? Control professional license?

5. Do we need to register the graduate engineers?

Verdict: Yes, without members, you’ll run out of money. Failing to force experienced engineers, they resort to force gullible graduates.
6. Issues of safety and competency CPD requirements; is it necessary?

Verdict: Competence, yeah, i remember, give question out a month before compentence test and let the guys come prepared. After that, award an MOU title (Master of Universe).

Think about why I said that before you talk about engineers act 1967.

Jabba, as a chemical engineer/slavedriver have seen a fairly successful engineering campaign by IChemE in UK. This is called “whynotchemeng?”

Various IChemE branches sends their members to local schools and tell students how engineers help shape our society. I won’t mind if someone visits schools and tell them how engineers help build buildings, make their canned curry chicken, refine crude into petrol etc.

This is what IEM/BEM should do. Start helping students. Give them something to aim for.

The only talk I got in my 15 years in school was a policeman telling us how dangerous playing truant when one of my classmate was caught in a raid on a video arcade. (luckily I manage to sneak out before the raid).

Indonesia have the most exotic of taste. Imagine the following local favourites;

1. Durian juice

2. Avocado juice with liquid chocolate or syrup (taste like malaysian ciku) 

3. Banana and chocolate pastry

4. Banana, chocolate and cheese pastry

5. Banana, chocolate and cheese murtabak (martabak in Indonesia), deep fried in oil.

6. Garlic flavoured peanuts (my favourite)

If this isn’t enough, they even have Sutra Fiesta condoms in Strawberry, Banana and Mint flavour. I guess it last longer than a chewing gum? I’m waiting for the avocado and garlic-peanut flavoured condoms to come out.

 Update : Durian flavour is available. Jabba is too cheapskate to spend RM5 to buy it. I’ll try to sneak into a pharmacy and use my mobile phone to snap a picture of it. Buy in bulk at their website http://www.sutrafiesta.com/sutrafiesta.php

Jabba had a thought. NGV gas is about RM10 per tank. Cooking gas RM20 per tank. 

Jabba is trying to connect a stove to the car, and to cook using gas from the car. If successful, we can save 50% on cooking gas.

Just before Jabba kills himself for the good of mankind, Jabba found out that the NGV uses methane, hence the gas is stored at much higher pressure than cooking gas, which is typically propane + butane. Basically, the gas is coming out at more than 1500psig from the car as oppose to cooking gas cylinders at 250psig.

Now, if Jabba plugs the stove to the car, probably a 5 feet flame will come out of stove due to the much higher pressure drop from the methane gas supply (and inflict 3rd degree burns on Jabba).

Jabba will use it as a flamethrower instead of a cooking stove now.

I will provide a picture of my homemade rig with the 5 ft flame soon.

This is my first post. Being a regular visitor to my fellow engineer, Wata’s blog, I find the IEM Executive Director (another title hungry engineer) implying that he should hand over a place to grumble and ramble back to IEM.

This shows that IEM and BEM is always always trying to limit people in their progress.

Over the last decade, what have BEM and IEM done for the country, apart from awarding “Ir” title? (Remind me of IR Baboon and IM Weasel from the cartoon).

The brain drain in Malaysia is still going on, with advertisement to work oversea appearing in newspaper throughout. Just to make things worst, expatriate engineers are paid more than USD600 – USD800 per day working in Malaysia (oil and gas), without having train Malaysian engineers.

Can someone even tell me how many percentage of engineers are members? I still remember a newspaper article that says a lot of Malaysian Engineers did not bother paying fees for BEM and was threaten to be deregistered. Why is that?

I guess even Jabba, running a saltmine in Tattoine is more active in making sure the welfare of my slaves are being looked after.

I want to use this as a launchpad for underground brotherhood for engineers in Malaysia, and one day, kick IEM and BEM into limbo. (especially all the tie wearing, overweight bureaucrates which does not know anything about engineering and try to dictate how we behave).

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