I saw the advertisement for the TV show for this book, and I seem to recognize the main actress, so when I saw the book in Kindle, I thought I would give the book a read. Such a superficial reason, right? Yes, lately I seem to choose books to read based on what I see,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I find some people are more critical in others, of course. This is most important when the work being done is important or have a safety impact, but most of the time, they are not. Most of the time too, recognising the effort is more important than looking things through a critical lense. For example…
Occasionally I read forums/facebook groups on transportation(s) in Malaysia. I’ve noticed that the questions most often would be along the line, “Why aren’t we having this ______ in Malaysia, it’s super advanced technology!” I would sometime reply and mention the restrictions and constraints related to the technology proposed. Sometimes people would reply, still pushing and…
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…
