Advice and System Engineering

In Systems Engineering and if you’re reading the standards for railway which is the EN 5012X series, it is mentioned that a product or an equipment in railway has different levels or applications. They are the Generic Product (GP), Generic Application (GA) and Specific Application (SA). GP can be a simple industrial PC, GA can…

Phases of Parents Life

It just occured to me that my children are getting bigger, i.e. growing and becoming teens, that it seems a bit disjointed with my view of my own life. I have been working over a decade now so it seems plausible to imagine how I would work or how my career would be in another…

Genocide and Actions

This report from Amnesty UK highlights that genocide is done on Gaza and Palestine. It is disheartening to read but I applaud the writers. Against the perpetrator, may Allah met justice on you. Hollywood has always been showing the brutality of WW1 and WW2, showing how people did bad things at that time. That time…

Wielding Words

What is the greatest skill that a human can have? I think it’s the speech, i.e. the ability to speak and convey ideas, the skill to wield words and to make people move, which in turn makes the world move. Why do I say that? I believe we human beings can be made to do…

If the shoes fit..

Recently during shopping, my wife passed a shirt for me to try. It said “Extreme Slim Fit”. Now I used to wear slim fit shirts, but it has been ages since I bought any new ones and this shirt even had the word ‘extreme’ on it. I had to try it on. It was a…

Learning by Doing

I joined a very interesting webinar recently, where the speaker is very passionate about his field which is the robotics. I am not too familiar with it but what interested me more was his view on teaching, where most teachers are not actually teaching students with their materials, but they are actually creating references for…

Are We Aliens

After dinner tonight, my son asked me the reason why Allah made us like this. “What do you mean like this?” I asked. “You know, like this,” he said and raised his arm.”You mean five fingers?” ”Yes,” he said. “Allah could have made us like a blob and like an alien, and then if we…

The Pursuit of Worrying

I have just finished IRSE module C and D today, a completion of the IRSE exams. Altogether there are 4 modules, A, B, C and D, and I started taking the exams with module A, in 2022. It has been 3 years constantly preparing for exams, that today I feel a bit ’empty’ after completing…