Wang Yung Ching 王永慶- 经营之神 Passed away!!

Founder of  Taiwan Formosa Plastics Group, one of the largest plastic manufacturers in the world, Wang Yung Ching, have passed away on October 15 at the age of 91 in New Jersey, America.

He is said to be the God of Management in Taiwan similar to the founder of Panasonic -Matsushita Konosuke. He is also the 2nd richest man in Taiwan according to Forbes.

He has many special characteristic that we can learn from.

Here is the news link.

His wikipedia site – english and traditional chinese.

Below is 8 tips of Success by him in Chinese.

王永庆8大成功秘决

1. 追根究底 绝不罢休

“成本分析，要追根究底，台塑就靠这一点吃饭。”王永庆看到问题，不到水落石出，绝不罢休；他认为，马马虎虎，只会让问题扩大，如何与人竞争？

王永庆计算成本除了问基本的价钱，还要问用什么技术？用多少原料？工资多少？消耗能否控制？生产效率能否提高。

2. 务本精神 全盘了解

王永庆的管理学与企业高阶经营者不管细节论调相反，他认为应该从细微处着手，然后找出问题并设法解决，唯有全盘了解，才能深入要求，这样才符合务本精神。

3. 脚踏实地 基层做起

在台塑，新进人员不论学历、亲疏，一律得参加轮班训练，分派到全台各厂区的生产最前线学习。经六个月训练期满、参加考试，成绩合格才正式任用。

王永庆以为，如果没有利用新进这段期间好好训练，将来升为干部就没有机会再从头来过，对员工，对企业都是一种损失。毕竟成功是没有捷径的，年轻人唯有找份工作，刻苦耐劳，按部就班，从基层做起，才可能自我养成，达到目标。

4. 瘦鹅理论 忍辱负重

王永庆因养鹅经验而发展出一套独特理论。台湾光复初期，农村的鹅只吃野菜野草，四个月养下来只有两斤重；王永庆细心观察，将农家丢在菜园的高丽菜叶、集中采收，加上廉价买回的碎米、稻壳混合，用来喂养，两个月就养成七、八斤重。

王永庆期勉人们学习瘦鹅，面对困境时要更坚毅，随时等待机会来临。

5. 累积经验 强大实力

“ 实力是人家抢不走的。”从实务累积得来的实力，最珍贵。一般人把学问分成理论与实务，王永庆认为这是错误的。一本书是作者的智慧结晶，是经验的累积，问题 在于读者只记下书中所说，没有消化、体验，因此便说这是理论，这也是为何许多吊书袋的人会被评为“空谈”的原因。唯有拉近理论与实务之间的距离，知识的力 量才能发挥。

6. 切身感受 苦心经营

人性都是自私的，只有对自己的事业最有切身感，所以才会苦心经营。对企业主而言，如何让员工有切身感，觉得这是自己的产业，可从奖励或各种制度着手。以南亚国外部为例，即将营业额增加或费用节省所产生的利益，提拔三成给工作人员分享。

7. 价廉物美 双赢共荣

王永庆坚信，只有建立在“价廉物美”的基础上，企业才能蓬勃发展，“提高品质，降低成本”，则是达成一目标的方法。

要降低成本，则必须先做成本分析，王永庆除了独特的“单元成本分析法”，还提出“节省一块钱，等于净赚一块钱”的观念，并运用“三低”：“建厂成本低、生产成本低、营运费用低”，提升企业竞争力。

8. 服务周到 客户至上

王 永庆提出4个满足客户的必要条件：1.价钱公道：配合客户，甚至要压低价格。2.品质要符合水准：而且要保持稳定。3.交货期要准确：有责任感的业务人员 一定要想办法防止这种重大困扰发生。4服务必须周到：基于站在公司和客户之间担任沟通桥梁，业务人员必须全盘了解客户的需求。

Water Fuel Cell?

Just that when we need alternative way as our fuel, a japan company have invent water based fuel with “Water Energy System”. It’s amazing, see extract below, the new source is here.

Genepax Co Ltd explained the technologies used in its new fuel cell system “Water Energy System (WES),” which uses water as a fuel and does not emit CO2. The system can generate power just by supplying water and air to the fuel and air electrodes, respectively, the company said at the press conference, which took place June 12, 2008, at the Osaka Assembly Hall.

The basic power generation mechanism of the new system is similar to that of a normal fuel cell, which uses hydrogen as a fuel. According to Genepax, the main feature of the new system is that it uses the company’s membrane electrode assembly (MEA), which contains a material capable of breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen through a chemical reaction. Though the company did not reveal the details, it ‘succeeded in adopting a well-known process to produce hydrogen from water to the MEA,’ said Hirasawa Kiyoshi, the company’s president. This process is allegedly similar to the mechanism that produces hydrogen by a reaction of metal hydride and water. But compared with the existing method, the new process is expected to produce hydrogen from water for longer time, the company said.

With the new process, the cell needs only water and air, eliminating the need for a hydrogen reformer and high-pressure hydrogen tank. Moreover, the MEA requires no special catalysts, and the required amount of rare metals such as platinum is almost the same as that of existing systems, Genepax said. Unlike the direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC), which uses methanol as a fuel, the new system does not emit CO2. In addition, it is expected to have a longer life because catalyst degradation (poisoning) caused by CO does not occur on the fuel electrode side. As it has only been slightly more than a year since the company completed the prototype, it plans to collect more data on the product life.

That said, Tech-On! says Genepax plans to produce a 1-kW generation system for powering electric cars and homes, and it believes it can cut costs to around $4,000 or less if mass production works out. In electric cars, Genepax expects the system will be used “as a generator to charge the secondary battery.”

it’s followed up with the interview with the president of the company – Genepax.

for those who interesting, here is a video for this new fuel cell.

Petrol Price hike – is LNG the solution?

Today is World Environment Day, here I wish everybody read this will start to think a bit about our sick earth, what kind of diseases it has, and what can we do to save the earth…

Petrol price hike in Malaysia

With the international market price of petroleum reach the record high USD139.12 on Friday, Downjones index have drop 394.64 point at the end of the day, causing panic around the world. With the recent announcement of price hike from RM1.92 to Rm2.704 on petrol, RM1.84 to Rm2.84 for diesel on 5th June this week, Malaysia have enter a high petrol price era, which everybody need to cope with it.

Electricity price

Other than that, electricity’s rate also increase up to 11% – rate for first 200kW remain – 21.8sen, rate for 201 to 400kW is change to around 34.5sen gradually, so to simplify this – if your monthly TNB bill is below or same as RM43.60 then you are safe else your bill will be increased up to 11%. See the table below. It’s mainly due to the price increase in liquid natural gas and petrol/diesel price that caused the price of the source to produce electricity to increase. Here is the new tariff from TNB.

Although the price of petrol increase so high, here in our country, there is still an alternative way to cope with petrol price increase which is

Modify car to use liquid natural gas by adding LNG tank to your car

Pro

• Fuel Cost

Current price for the LNG is 68sen

For normal taxi(Proton Iswara), cost of transport is around 12.75sen per km, while normal car using petrol is around 25sen per km(with the old price of petrol RM1.92), now is around 35.2sen – in which petrol price is 7 times of LNG. Your can save 70% of the fuel price by this system.

Price for modification

Different type of car have different charge for modification depends on engine type

Old engine(eg. for normal taxi) – RM2.8k to 3.5k

Mixer type(eg. for 1.3L to 1.6L sedan) – RM4.3k to 4.5k

Direct Inject type(for bigger car and large cc car > 1800cc) – RM6.8k to 7.5k

Time to fix- one to half days

Source: nanyang siang pau

Right now, mixer type system modification is the most popular among three system.

• 25% road tax rebate

Your will need to re-exambine your car at PUSPACOM after fix LNG tank system to your car, after that you can apply the 25% road tax from JPJ.

• Less noise and shaking

Compare to diesel car, car that get modification have less noise and shaking.

• Less air and environmental pollution

LNG produces much less pollution compare to petrol, because it’s light and less lead, no causing pollution in container during shipment. Also, engine oil for car using LNG will be last longer, leave the period to exchange engine oil longer.

Con

• Less station

Currently, there are only around 39 Petronas stations in the country provide LNG refuel system. It’s expected additional 200 stations will be functional at the end of the year according to Petronas. Also, for your information, the time to refill around RM8 of LNG is 5 to 10 min, because of the number of stations is less, you will need to wait around 1hour to refuel. If no station, you will need to switch back to petrol when you run out of LNG.

• Big tank space and increase car weight

Your will need to sacrifice some of your car’s luggage space to fix the additional LNG tank to your car, so small car may not be eligible to fit the tank in. Right now, the volume of tank is from 40 to 80 liter, 40 liter of fuel can only run for around 200 km, so people will choose tank more than 55 liter to get around 300km’s mileage. The heavy gas tank also increase the overall weight of car, and reduce the space for passengers eg. those car use luggage space for passenger.

• Lower burning speed

Compare to petrol car, the burning speed of LNG is lower, so the speed of car is lower, it’s told to be 10% lower.

• Bigger car or large cc car need pay more for direct injection system

Mixer system may not suitable with bigger car or large cc car because normally it can’t in sync with the engine due to it’s not electronic control – causing engine blasted and stop in half way.

• Car will need to be re-examine in PUSPACOM every 10 -15 years

Car that is modified with the LNG tank system will need to re-examine after 10 to 15 years to ensure the safety of car and passenger.

It’s down to your decision to choose whether you can want to use the alternative fuel or take the rebate or incentive from the government to survive in this high petrol price era.

Sichuan Earth Quake touching story(continue with miracle)

Now is around 20 days from the day which Sichuan Earthquake happens. Right now it’s causing 5 milion of people left homeless, causing thousand of orphans and last but not least – death of 65000 peoples. Right now, troops of China government is working on draining the ‘quake lake’(Tang Jia Shan lake may possible collapsed by aftershock) which will endanger as much as 1.3 million people and also the mass evacuation of people in the fear of flood. There is lots of difficult barrier faced by china troop like flood causing by raining, water supply and food supply, medical service for surviver to prevent illness from spread.

Here is a video in your tube, dedicated to all the survivor and unsung heroes who help them survivor in this tragedy.

Heroes of Sichuan Earth Quake

And another video – shows lots of picture taken in the tragedy, how the rescuers helping the survivor and others.  They does need your help and love to continue live and growth after the shocking tragedy that kill their family member, friends and significant one.

China Sichuan Earthquake *Because of love

There are a few miracles of people not who survive the earth quake for more than 100 hours.

A man survive after 124 hours in earthquake

头重伤、手骨折腰也伤，一名眼睁睁看着自己的伤口腐烂发臭的男子，奇迹生还，被困124个小时后获救！

前天，距离记者所在处7里外，就有这样的奇迹。获救的男子周志是被困在红白镇金河地区，一个叫木瓜坪的家属区，也就是磷矿的宿舍楼。

据什邡当地煤体称，上午11时，3名在宿舍楼搜救的志愿者发现周志被埋在1楼的楼梯间，双手抱头，相信是地震发生时的本能反应。他当时也已经严重脱水，本来有80多公斤，被发现时只有70多公斤。他说的第一句话就是：“我要喝水。”

志愿者都被他坚强的救生意志感动，立刻找来门板和两床棉被，并不断跟他讲话让他保持清醒。

Another person is save after 179 hours

救援队在映秀湾发电总厂办公楼废墟中将该厂职工马元江成功救出。此时距5月12日14时28分大地震发生，已近179个小时。当时，救援人员正在连续凿洞，力图接近被层层砖瓦压身的映秀湾发电厂另一名职工虞锦华。此时，救援人员发现了被埋在不远处废墟下的马元江。 经过超过30小时的奋力救援，救援队终于在20日凌晨零时50分将马元江从废墟中救出。据了解，地震当晚，马元江的身体没有受伤，躲在一个狭小的空间内，他摸索着将身边的小水泥块和其他杂物清理开，躺下休息。

Another miracle is a 60-year-old madam was saved after 195 hour trapped in earth quake and another is a 80-year-old man was saved after 266 hours.

There is another never-give-up stories from sichuan earthquake on a 18-year-old girl - Xue Xiao. It’s a pretty touching story and we should greet that we are not in their position.

It’s such a miracle and you can see the desire of people to survive is unpredictable and powerful disregard of their age and health.

Via’ Nano (not Ipod Nano)

You will wonder what is nano this time..?

Now this time is a CPU from Via – a company which have move from chiptset design to low power cpu design. They just announce this new CPU based on Via Isaiah micro architecture after their C7 CPU launched in 2005.

Now their CPU provide additional preformance, security feature and lower power compare to it’s predecessor with it’s architecture change. It’s a fully out of order superscalar 64 bit 65nm CPU with up to 2GHz speed, max 25W TDP and feature double performance with the same power envelope as C7. Via also claim it’s new CPU deliver around 1.9x performance per watt compare to the Intel Celeron M with same speed( with 1.6Ghz CPU example).

List of feature

• Superscalr and speculative, out-of-order architecture
• Advanced Branch prediction
• Blu-ray disc playback
• Gaming(The lowest power Crysis-playable cpu ever)
• Adaptive PowerSaver technology
• VIA Pad Lock engine(for encryption security)

Whitepaper of Nano here.

OMG! Is today my birthday??(teambuilding@QBM)

Today is 23th May 2008. Our team have a teambuilding event at Queen’s Bay Mall. We are doing Walk Hunt inside the mall, it’s some sort of treasure hunt game but now we are guess the anwer which is one of the shop’s name in the mall throughout the route given by organizer.

The game last for around 3 hours, from 2.30pm to 5.30pm and we also walk for around 2 1/2 hour to search the shop around. The question is quite interesting and hard to guess for a normal people who seldom join this kind of game and weak at languages, let me give an example.

Q. He keeps the sign of Victory : keyword: keeps

The answer is

Sign of Victory is V (popularized by Churchill after WW2 when he held up 2 fingers as a V sign)

He is DIA in Bahasa.

So We have DI V A (DIA is keeping V)

So, what is your comment here? for the question.

Hehe, the answer in Walkhunt is not straight forward and sometime you need to twist your brain to another side.

After finish walk and guess for around 3 hours, we have our ‘buffet’ dinner in T.G.I. Friday’s and also present giving ceremony there. Due to the reason that we have treasure hunt expert in my team, we are able to get the Third Prize out of the 8 team that have prize – it’s a medium hamper.

We queue up then eat and eat and eat, suddenly the team of waiter and waitress shouting laud in the restaurant, I doesn’t know what is happening, so i continue eat the remaining last piece of chocolate cheese cake.

To my surprise, the team of waiter and waitress come to my table and ask me to stand up on my chair, then i only know i get tricked by friend, so i force to pretend that i am the birthday boy(a good-will liar), since they already think that tonight is my birthday.

The feeling inside me is complex, i don’t want to let the waiters down and i feel i cheat them for the service they provide, i also embarrass as some of my friends who know my birthday also in this buffet. At the end, i pretend to be the birthday boy – a beautiful liar for everybody’s pleasure(i think).

It’s starting like this – the waiter and waitress start shouting near the kitchen – sound like ” there is a boom today in the restaurent”. Then, they come to the birthday guy and ask him to stand on top of the chair, and give him/her a mic(what i receive is a pepper shaver) and ask him/her to sing a song – cannot be birthday song, can be any chinese/english or any language of song(not children song also). My singing is bad  and can’t really remember the lyrics – drag here and drag there- finally sing a bit of ‘Tong Hua’ of Guang Liang with sound that nearly reach the end of the restaurent by the request of the waiter. Really can’t tahan their request..

but after this, they reply me with their RAP version of birthday song- really nice Firstly sing by waiter and then follow by waitress, then back to waiter – everyone in the restaurent include out team member – around 60 people are crapping hand with the rap song. And after the rap birthday song, they end the singing with the rasa sayang in rap version also..hehe it’s pretty fun. They ask me to dance on the chair also, and say i am not dance enough, i just very hard and not moving.. not as happy like a birthday boy.

All this end with a birthday cake, ice cream cake with one candle.. too bad, to eat it, i need to blow it from 2 meter away. It’s hard to blow that by simly blow from your mouth – it needs to focus your mouth using your hand to the candle direction.

The cake is delicious although i already 90% full, and really worth it by the effort of singing and dancing abit. It’s one of the best cake in TGI Friday. Pretty happy and embarass for myself .

All the people thought i am birthday that night, thanks for all the birthday wishes =P, even big boss KS also come to congrate me for the fake birthday.

Hope everyone enjoy the meal and all these entertainment. If you ever take my picture or video during the buffet dinner, please send to me. It’s a beautiful experience, probably next time when your birthday come, you can try dinner at this shop.

Sichuan Earth Quake Touching story collection

Today marks the starts of three days of mourning for the victims of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province.

Lots of china websites are in gray scale to support this.. see google china site thumbnail below

There are lots of sad and touching stories associate with this shacking earthquake,

Let me collect and share some, the story will be added as time goes on for these three days, so stay tuned.

Love your wife as long as she is …

“老婆，你放心，我帶你上路！”

一名身材黝黑的男子，背妻子，駕電單車在路上奔馳，偶爾停下來，不時回望她；妻子緊緊依偎他，一言不發。不過，夫妻倆正要前往的地方不是他們溫馨的家，而是殯儀館。為了給地震中遇難的亡妻留下最後的尊嚴，男子用繩子把對方緊緊綁在背上，再用電單車將她送到殯儀館火化。

here is the english translation

“My Wife, I walk together with you on the last mile!”

a dark skin man, carry his Wife, riding his bike on the road, sometimes stop down and stare at her; His Wife hold him tie, without saying anything. For your surprise, they are not going to their lovely home, but funeral home. To protect the last pride of his wife who die in the earthquake, this husband tie his wife closely with him on the bike while on the way to the funeral home for burning process…

Love your Mum… Baby

搶救人員在瓦礫堆發現一名母親的時候，她已被垮塌下來的房子壓死了。她生前最後姿勢是雙膝跪著，整個上身向前匍匐著，雙手扶著地面支撐著身體，有如古人行跪拜禮，只是身體被壓得變形了，看上去有些詭異。

救援人員在廢墟中搜索沒有發現生還者，突然，在屍體下發現一名三四個月的小嬰兒。因為有母親身體庇護，嬰兒毫髮無傷。嬰兒包在一個紅色帶黃花的小被子裡，抱出來的時候還安靜的睡著。

隨行的醫生解開嬰兒棉被時發現一手機。手機屏幕開著，上面有留言，“親愛的寶貝，如果你能活著，一定要記住我愛你”。

看慣生離死別的醫生，也忍不住落淚，隨著手機傳遞，現場每個看到留言人也都落淚。但幸運存活的小嬰兒，要長大後才能明白母親的犧牲有多偉大。

When the rescuers have found a Mum, she already buried die under the rubble. Her body shape when she die is strange, like doing ancient praying god ceremony. Rescuer doesn’t find any other survivor nearby the dead mum. Suddenly, one of the rescuer found a three to four month baby underneath the mum, because of the cover and care of mum’s body, the baby doesn’t have anything hurt, still sleeping silently when he is carry out from scene.

When the assciate doctor open out the cotton cover on the baby, a mobile phone is discovered, with the case open – on SMS enter screen is –  

“ My Lovely Baby, if you still live, must remember Mum’s love on you.”

Even though the associate doctor who come through all sort of things also has his tear down when he see this message, through the spreading of sms, the touching story is told to many people. But, the lovely poor baby, only can know the mighty love of mother when he grown up.    

Love Your Mum.. Baby 2

在週二（13日）下午，都江堰河邊一處坍塌的民宅，數十救援人員在奮力挖掘，尋找存活的傷者。救援人員突發現，一名年輕的媽媽雙手懷抱著一個三四個月大的嬰兒蜷縮在廢墟中，她低著頭，上衣向上掀起，已經沒有了呼吸，懷裡的女嬰依然愜意地含著母親的乳頭吮吸著，紅潤的小臉與母親粘滿灰塵的雙乳形成了鮮明的對比。

救援者說：“我們小心地將女嬰抱起，離開母親的乳頭時，她立刻哭鬧起來。”看到女嬰的反應，在場者無不掩面。

“我無法想象，一個死去的媽媽還在為自己的孩子餵奶，從母親抱孩子的姿勢可以看出，她是很刻意地在保護自己的孩子，或許就是在臨死前，她把乳頭放進了女兒的嘴裡。”

Sichuan Earth Quake May 12th – death toll may reach 50,000

You may already heard about the earth quake with richter scale of 7.9 happens at Sichuan on Monday. The devastating quake was centered in Wenchuan County, 159 kilometers northwest of Chengdu, Sichuan’s capital.

According to recent news, due to the rescuers may not able to reach the site earlier, many people can’t be save in time and it’s believe the death toll may increase to 50,000.

From the news, lots of small town is covered by landslide, out of 20,000 people in the town only 2000 of people is survive- you can see how serious is this earthquake- and some of the town is flooded with the highest building with ’7 floor’ get flooded as well.

Sichuan’s survivor may also facing danger of flood due to damage of dam nearby. Two-thousands of soldier are fighting to fix the modern Zipingpu dam upriver from the earthquake-stricken town of Dujiangyan to prevent the burst. While local news talks about the sending of lots of helicopter to the scene to drop emergency supplies, digging and  help find the survivor buried beneath the rubble. Main traffic to the site already been broken by landslide, telecommunication have been cut off, the survivor only able to help themself of wait for the help from soldier. A team of professional emergency relief team from Japan left for Chengdu, Sichuan’s provincial capital, to provide medical help to the survivor.

Aiyo!… Run Papa Run faster lah…

It’s Wednesday night again, a cheap movie day which attract all the movie lover who want to save money to watch whatever movie they like. So, because of this, and because i like this movie’s story told by media very much so i go to watch this ‘Run Papa Run’.

The story is pretty touching – A black society boss featured by ‘Louis Koo’ want to become a good father after he has his family accidentally. Although as a gang boss, he really shows the love when he become father of his child and husband to his wife featured by ‘Rene Liu’.

The movie is one of the most worth to watch Chinese/Cantonese “healthy” movie with limited violent(HK gangster), lots of love(Father’s love) and mix with some comedy(you know when you watch it), the story line is very rich and full of surprise, although it’s a bit like Taiwan movie. I highly recommended this Sylvia Chang movie although it gets 5.4 out of 10 in IMDB. Please check out this movie in nearby cinema, it’s in * mode now(means it’s nearly out of showing already).

I nearly cry when the gang boss said ‘He only cry two times in his life, one is when he was birth and he doesn’t know, and someone told him he cry. The second time he cry is when he know he cries, he can’t told the someone’.

What is (HTC Touch) Diamond? ‘an ipod killer’?

A new gadget is coming to town… from windows mobile platform, feature exciting new beautiful Touch FLO 3D interface from HTC that would be able to fight with Iphone face to face.

All the feature below is packed into a small form factor which fit into your pocket easily.

• large 2.8 inch VGA display (640×480 pixel resolution)
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• Quadband GSM/GPRS/Edge and UMTS/HSDPA
• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0
• 3.2megapixel camera with autofocus
• extra VGA camera in the front for video telephony
• QWERTY keyboard
• Qualcomm 528 Mhz CPU
• 4 GB of internal memory plus a MicroSD slot
• FM Radio
• an accelerometer sensor (like the iPhone’s)

Check out the basic review here.

A video is better than all the words.