Sometimes, some days, you feel a bit slow or unmotivated to do things. Some days, some people are very opposed to an instruction, that they question everything. Both of these situations are the extremes, and are different aspects of approaching things, but both do not get the job done. I think it is important to…
My wife and I visited a group of friends recently and we inadvertently talked about future and retirement. One point of interest was that in Malaysia, people are normally forced out of work and into retirement, while in the UK, quite a lot of people, especially knowledge workers, continue to work past their 60s. This…
I remember attending a talk about 10 years ago where this founder said that he tracked everything, from the calories to the duration of his exercise, because he read from a book, that what you tracked, will get better results. I don’t remember the book but I will get AI to find it for me….
I used to work with a German guy named Landgraf, and when asked what I could improved, he said that I was not proactive enough. I am paraphrasing this, as this was more than 10 years ago and I don’t remember the exact words. He said that it didn’t seem that I understand or show…
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…
