It’s almost the end of Syawal, but for Malaysian, this doesn’t stop us from celebrating Eid, or Hari Raya, through having ‘open house’. I had a problem to describe this to a Chinese neighbour, I simply said it’s a Malaysian party. What I find best about these gatherings is they make me feel grateful of…
Usually when you pick up medicines from the pharmacy, there’s a verification process where they ask you your address. In other places, sometimes this verification involves asking your birth date. I have always wondered how is this safe? The date is not that secret as most people would announce it either by bringing cakes to…
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…
I was trying to optimise my life today, by making a Google sheet that lists all of my children’s school events, and after that I thought it would be great to have a script that could automatically create these as events in a calendar. I already have a calendar allocated for the kids, I just…
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 listened to a podcast recently about a software developer saying yes to every opportunity that comes his way. He said, “How can I say no, right?!” He then related that he is feeling burnt out. I am nowhere at the same level as work life balance in the UK is relatively better than in…
In movies, when the bad guys do something bad, I have always felt anger and in certain cases vengeful. I assume others feel too as this is a way that storytellers try to play with your emotions and pull you in, keeping you invested. The difference in movies, normally, there is payback and the heroes…
In most situations, keeping things simple is the best way to get things done. But when you look at great things, they are rarely simple. The modern marvel in your hands for example, the smartphone, is something that is far from simple. It is complex and complicated. But how does it get to that stage?…
My kids like to play this game: If you can only choose two types of gummy in your life that you can eat, what would you choose? Who would be eating only on gummies their whole life? And why would you need to choose? What put you in this saccharine situation? I was reading the…
I was listening to a song today, some rapper who said, “You die twice; once when you’re not alive and once when you’re forgotten”. I don’t agree with that especially so because in Islam there is life after death, but the phrase got me to think what would happen when I die, in the sense…
