Marathon, An Analogy

I’ve never run a marathon. In fact, I barely run. But I have friends who run, and I am pretty sure you would do. If not, you can probably see from various social media posts about strangers who run marathons. I notice that from pictures of runners, that no one ever look good while running…

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Thank You, MRTC

MRTC stands for Mass Rapid Transit Corporation, a government linked company in Malaysia which I used to work since 2013 until 2021. Today marks the day that I started working there (and a decade of working there, if I had stayed). I spent 8 years working there, and although I have left the place for…

How to Keep Going

In doing work and completing a project, that is. Sometimes it gets hard and things don’t seem to progress, that you start to let things slide. You would then lose the momentum, making it even harder to start again. So it is very important to keep going and not stopping. The question is, how to…

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Rail Report Discussion: Penkridge Track Workers Near Miss

Read the report here. There were 6 people involved, but somehow two was ‘separated’ from the group. The group separated with different understanding: As in the report, there are a few practices that is I think easily common, but not safe: During some of the track possessions I’ve seen, all of these happened. Fortunately no…

Under promise

There’s a saying in project management, or even the corporate world, that you should under promise but overdeliver, i.e. you say you can do something by the end of the week but you try to finish it even earlier, for example by the middle of the week, or even earlier, like the end of the…

Dreams

Sometimes dreams are just that, dreams. There are times in life that you have to sacrifice your time and effort towards your dream, in order to help others in need, or to further their dream. Does your dream live in theirs then? Most likely not. I remember the song ‘Numb’ from Linkin Park, where it…

Rail Report Discussion: Freight Collision, Doncaster 2022

The RAIB Report can be referred here. All rights reserved to Crown copyright 2023. R082023_230803_Loversall_Carr_Junction The cause of the accident is that the driver failed to break, most likely due to micro-sleep (my guess). Previously he only had to drive to work for six minutes, but ‘new’ work arrangement needed him to drive for one…