...of HR people, broken rubber and lembaga hitam?

YB Datuk Dr Siva, Minister of Human Resource (in beige suit) officiating

and giving out 2008 HRD awards this morning...

YBhg Datuk Sharifah, President of IMM...

yours truly with Dr Teh Choong Hee of Edible Oils and Jong Tse Kiat of Practical Advanced Technology...

Laurence Yap & Malar Ramalingam of Carsem Inc...

I promised Tom Hagen to update my blog last nite about lembaga hitam (black figure). Sowee bro, penat ah..dizzy climbing up genting, took another hour to check-in, register for the national HRD (PSMB) conference 2008 and when you get into the room...OMG, dahlah the room without a view, kecik, stuffy, no cupboard, bloody basic and claustrophobic too. and you can sort of imagine lar what it would normally be used for...let alone sleep on the bedsheets...yucks. Well, whatdaya expect from a 3-star mass tourism hotel neway, kan? (wink). Ya ya, complain lagiek! I almost wanted to go back home sweet home. I think my humble bedroom is a helluva lot cosier..hehe. Yes, the black figure scare? It seems that COCM (you know who I meant lar...wink) had been directed not to wonder around Klang Valley at night, until the the so-called mystery is sorted out...

Oh ok, this morning was the opening ceremony of PSMB 2008 'Re-engineering Human Capital for Competitive Advantage' conference at the Genting Convention Centre. With a record-breaking attendance of 1300 delegates...hurmmm considering the global financial meltdown and the seemingly continuing crisis hehe. Re-engineering is an old management mumbo-jumbo propogated by Jim Champy about 10 years ago and Competitive Advantage was a has-been trademark of management Guru Michael Porter (the 5 diamond theory popular with MBA students of the 90s) hehe. It seems to me, non-HR people continue to contaminate the HR profession (engineers, lawyers, accountants, IT buggers et al), and continuously trying to turn this 'grey area subjective people orientation discipline' into rocket science (wink). I said this more than 10 years ago...everyone thinks they can be HR chappies too. Anyway, if you can't beat them, join themlah kan?...hahaha...the poor HR Ministry Sec-gen was trying to pump so much theory into his keynote presentation...but many agreed with me that he became lost in his macro and micro approach ...hahaha. Good for the novice HR wannabes though....hehe. My good fren Datuk Sharifah, President of Institute of Marketing Malaysia presented her paper on using marketing to make HR more effective going forward. She was ok, but I detected she was a bit disoriented with the rostrum, PA system and that she cud not see her slides...so many oso noticed that she became a bit nervous addressing a huge crowd...and the fact that she confessed to me awhile ago here at the starbucks that HR was defintiely not her forte...hahaha. Ok, we shall pardon her. Bumped into alot of old long lost frens from the HRD fraternity too...

And broken rubber? Its an old joke, which I am sure most of you must have heard...hahaha. I shall not repeat it hehe. Just a polite reminder, I have said this in my earlier blogpost, that should anyone make any comments anonymously, I reserve the right whether to respond or not,to them ok? Jangan mare..hihi...