I am a bit stingy with money and when buying things I try to make the most of things. In the UK where it is compulsory to show the price per kilogram, this is quite easy because you just choose the ones that cost the least for the same weight. But things get a bit…
I came upon this term at work, or its abbreviation BNF, that sent me on a search of trying to understand it. So here’s a post to solidify my understanding. Here’s a youtube post that summarizes it quite nicely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cEhCx8pwio What is BNF? It is a way to describe how software language can be written,…
I saw a post on LinkedIn today telling how a person who got a 45% increase in salary and a lot of benefits such as working remotely, left the company, after being called useless and exposed to toxic environment and management. The post then went on to say that people left not because of the…
Recently I’ve been working on a few projects that requires understanding some very wide and deep topics, particularly EULYNX and SSI. I don’t know about other people but I find them very hard to understand, and I can see people making careers by just explaining them to people. So when I am required to design…
Life is an exam, or not. All my life, or at least my early years of life, I have been prepping for exams very year. In Malaysia there is the primary school exams (UPSR) that determines whether you can go to a boarding school with better facilities and reputed more experienced teachers. There you prepare…
I’ve just finished reading the first book from the Wheel of Time and it was a disappointment. I went to read the reviews to find a confirmation bias, and sure enough when I filtered the one star reviews, I found some that agreed my view, that the book was too bogged down in details. There…
I am writing this ‘in conjuction’ to the closing date for the registration of the exam, which is tomorrow, but if you are reading it later than that, please take whatever you can from this. If you have been working in the railway industry for some time, I strongly suggest taking the IRSE Exam Module…
I’ve been doing work recently and felt that the time allocated to me has been too short. It felt like there was not enough time to read all the background material and produce a result from it. But since the work was required soon, I changed my mindset and just set on producing a document,…
This is a question series where I list down questions that I have now or things that I am still in the midst of understanding. The reason is mostly personal so that when I read it in the future (where I hopefully understand all the complexity), I will look back and be grateful for how…
I had the fortunate opportunity of joining a ‘hands-on’ study session last weekend. It was organised by IRSE Younger Members, and graciously hosted by Signet Solutions in Derby. Was it useful? Yes. What did I learn? Other than how to use the word boffins (clue: it is the antonym to buffoons and normally accorded to…
