Climbing Gunung Ledang with STMicroelectronic buddies

The legendary beauty of Mount Ophir (Gunung Ledang) has made it one of Johor's most popular attractions for hikers and birdwatchers. There two known ways of reaching the summit. One is from Sagil, a town in Johor, the other is through Asahan, Melaka. The shorter route is from Asahan. Gunung Ledang ( or Mount Ophir as it is otherwise better known ) is the most visited mountain in Malaysia. It is not peculiar to find people who has climb the mountain more than 10 times.

Iam working at STMicroelectronic around 3 months. This is the first time I do activity together with STMicroelectronic buddies - climbing Gunung Ledang. I think everybody sure hear the story about "Puteri Gunung Ledang", therefore our mission is go to find the Puteri Gunung Ledang this time. Photo above is the road that we need to passby to reach the summit.

We start to climb the mountain around 10 am and very soon all of us reach the check point number 1. There are 17 person in the trip and all of us successfully reached the check point number 1.

Walking around half an hour, we reached the check point 2. However this time, there are 2 person climb down to the mountain due to the leg pin.

Start from the check point 3, some of people's leg start pain and tired. However I still feel energetic and without looking any tired in my face.... hee hee .... VICTORY.

This animal although you can see in anywhere but Iam sure you cant see this so big one in anywhere unless you come to Gunung Ledang.

In check point 6, the name of the check point is quite weird - Gua Kambing. According tour guide, he tell us that there are a lot of "kambing" in the gua here in the long long time ago. The is the name it come from.....

Our handsome "CHIAM" inside the Gua Kambing.....

The beauty of the forest in the Gunung Ledang......

The most difficult part of the Gunug that we need to face now..... We might die at here too.... Really quite dangerous....

See how dangerous we are ...... If we do not enough energy we might fall down ....and say bye bye to the world....

Finally I reached the summit of Gunung Ledang and plug the "Jalur Gemilang " at the summit.
The most nicest photo I feel at the trip. Do you think so?

Our group photo at the summit of Gunung Ledang.

I have a very nice and very memorable climbing experience at Gunung Ledang. Hopefully One day I can be the "Putera Gunung Ledang".

Story of Appreciation

One young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial position in a big company.He passed the first interview, the director did the last interview, made the last decision.

The director discovered from the CV, that the youth's academic result is excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate research, never has a year he did not score.

The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarship in school?" and the youth answered "none".

The director asked, " Is it your father pay for your school fees?" the youth answered, my father passed away when I was one year old, it is my mother who paid for my school fees.

The director asked, " Where did your mother worked?" the youth answered, my mother worked as cloth cleaner. The director requested the youth to show his hand, the youth showed a pair of hand that is smooth and perfect to the director.

The director asked, " Did you ever help your mother washed the cloth before?" The youth answered, never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books, furthermore, my mother can wash cloths faster than me.

The director said, I had a request, when you go back today, go and help to clean your mother's hand, and then see me tomorrow morning.

The youth felt that its chance of landing the job is high, when he went back, he happily wanted to clean his mother's hand, his mother feel strange, happy but mixed with fear, she showed her hand to the kid.

The youth cleaned his mother's hand slowly, his tear drop down as he did that. It is first time he found his mother's hand is so wrinkled, and there are so many bruises in her hand. Some bruises incites pains so strong that shiver her mother's body when cleaned with water.

This is the first time the youth realized and experienced that it is this pair of hand that washed the cloth everyday to earn him the school fees, the bruises in the mother's hand is the price that the mother paid for his graduation and academic excellence and probably his future.

After finishing the cleaning of his mother hand, the youth quietly cleaned all remaining clothes for his mother.

That night, mother and sons talked for a very long time.

Next morning, the youth went to the director's office

The director noticed the tear in the youth's eye, asked: " Can you tell you what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?"

The youth answered, " I cleaned my mother's hand, and also finished cleaning all the remaining clothes'

The director asked, " please tell me your feeling."

The youth said, Number 1, I knew what is appreciation, without my mother, there would not the successful me today. Number 2, I knew how to work together with my mother, then only I can realize how difficult and tough to get something done. Number 3, I knew the importance and value of family relationship.

The director said, " This is what I am asking, I want to recruit a person that can appreciate the help of other, a person that knew the suffering of others to get thing done, and a person that would not put money as his only goal in life to be my manager. You are hired.

Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect of his subordinates, every employees worked diligently and in a team, the company's result improved tremendously.

A child who has been protected and habitually given whatever he did, he developed "entitlement mentality" and always put himself first. He is ignorance of his parent's effort. When he started work, he assumed every people must listen to him, and when he became a manager, he would never know how suffering his employee and always blame others. For this kind of people, he can have good result, may be successful for a while, but eventually would not feel sense of achievement, he will grumble and full of hatred and fight for more. If we are this kind of protective parent, did we love the kid or destroy the kid?

You can let your kid lived in a big house, eat a good meal, learn piano, watch a big screen TV. But when you are cutting grass, please let them experienced it. After a meal, let them washed their plate and bowl together with their brothers and sisters. It is not because you do not have money to hire a maid, but it is because you want to love them in a right way. You want them to understand, no matter how rich their parent are, one day their hair will grow gray, same as the mother of that young person. The most important thing is your kid learn how to appreciate the effort and experience the difficulty and learn the ability to work with others to get thing done.

After I read this story it really touch through my heart. How many 10 years people can have? Please do not regret to so something in our lives.