A friend and an ex-colleague of mine invited to his house for some pizza yesterday. We talked and he asked how’s life, considering we haven’t met for more than a year after he resigned. It was a simple question, and was responded with simple answers. Basically updates of my life (and also work details) and…
I’ve been reading a lot of technical documents recently and it starts to coagulate in my mind; in some ways I am getting to understand the topic better but in others, I am starting to realise how much I don’t know and need to know. It’s exciting and frustrating at the same time. To add…
Recently I sat the IRSE module D and failed. This is the last module in IRSE examination and composed of mostly questions related to signalling applications, i.e. installations, maintenance, operations and the works related to these. As such, these are the areas that I have the least experience with, either in Malaysia or even more…
I am reading the book Supercommunicator from Charles Duhigg, a very excellent writer with his other book, the Power of Habits. In this book I am reading, he talks about people who can communicate easily with other people and good communication is when you are actually finishing each other sentences, at least in the mind….
I think I”ve written this book before but I felt like writing it again, as I recently joined a webinar which was about Railway and Systems Engineering. The presentation was full of interesting points and the slides were well made. There were diagrams drawn or excerpts from papers that explain complex concepts in simple summaries,…
I am a member of a few professional organisations, and lately is having trouble to pay for all of them. Fortunately my employer sponsors or allow me to claim for my membership fee, but quite unfortunately, it covers only the fee for one membership. Obviously I try to maximise this by claiming on the most…
I went to an IRSE conference today and it made me think that there’s a few improvements that is in dire needs in Malaysia. Funny how talking about such a technical subject as ETCS makes you think about the basic things. I guess technology is always about a purpose or serving needs at the end…
I talked to a friend whom I worked with in Malaysia. We caught up with what happened and he asked about what’s the best way to show a resource in a project. A graph for project planning essentially. I racked my brain for a while before I truthfully answered that I didn’t know. I haven’t…
I’m currently or have been listening a lot to Ramit Sethi regarding money management, and he has a few sources for them. I mostly listened to his podcasts coz it’s more dynamic since he invites people that slightly different backgrounds and problems so it makes it more interesting and relatable. I have his book but…
It’s okay to look stupid, while learning. At least that what I tell myself most of the time , especially when the subject is tough. Because you need to start somewhere and when you start doing something, you might do or ask things that might seem stupid to others. Yes, I think there are stupid…
