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…
I think George RR Martin, the writer of Game of Thrones, said that there are two kinds of writers; there are ‘architects’ who planned the story from the start, and they are ‘gardeners’ who planted the seed for the story and tended it till it grew. I think the writer of the Impossible Times trilogy…
Recently I was walking through the city when an old man in his 60s asked me for directions. At least that what I thought because I didn’t understand what he was saying as he wasn’t speaking in English. I thought of taking my phone and letting him talk to Google Translate but my phone’s battery…
A colleague brought a cake to the office today because it was his birthday , something the British does (in Malaysia it’s the other way around, where the office would buy birthday cake for the one who is celebrating). Anyways, people were wishing him happy birthday, and asked his age (something I heard you should…
I was almost finished with my working hours when I started watching the video below. I was working from home and my wife asked whether the video counts as working hours. https://youtu.be/CsGELduKK1U?si=WwZ90dEc6Mi4H3-Z Well I was almost finished but the video is surprisingly quite related to work. I have a vague idea about toy or model…
These year has been a bit busy year with work and a lot of changes. For example I have been working for 6 projects, albeit small ones. There were also a few goodbyes in my company that I work with, along with a few examination papers that I sat for. So much so, that sometimes…
My father-in-law passed away about two years ago and my mother-in-law passed away not long after. They had been living near/with my brother in law, who recently announced that they are storing or giving away some of the belongings to my late parents-in-laws. I saw some pictures of the belongings and led me to think…
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…
In the railway and signalling standard from CENELEC, i.e. the EN 50126 or 50129, it is mentioned that one of the strategy (if I am not mistaken) for designing a safe system is through the use of Defence in Depth. My understanding of this is that the there are various ways a function can be…
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…
