Relearning

I’m a fan of learning new things and in the same vein, re-learning things that I have learnt before. For example I’ve relearned how to drive when I came to the UK, in order to pass the driving licence test. I’ve also relearned about signalling when I move to the UK, and also learned new…

Spoken vs Written Speech

I think I”ve written this book before but I felt like writing it again, as I recently joined a webinar which was about Railway and Systems Engineering. The presentation was full of interesting points and the slides were well made. There were diagrams drawn or excerpts from papers that explain complex concepts in simple summaries,…

Negotiate Like a Boss

My 4 years old daughter was eating ice cream downstairs when she came running upstairs towards the toilet. As she passed me, she asked how many ice cream can she eat. “How many do you want to eat?” I asked back. “I don’t know. You are the parent. You tell me how many we can…

Professional Membership

I am a member of a few professional organisations, and lately is having trouble to pay for all of them. Fortunately my employer sponsors or allow me to claim for my membership fee, but quite unfortunately, it covers only the fee for one membership. Obviously I try to maximise this by claiming on the most…

Good Enough

I was about to write this post and I felt that I have written this before. Sure enough, there it was, a post I wrote two years ago. Well this shows that human are a creature of habit, and history repeats itself. Life has been a bit hectic recently and it feels a bit overwhelming…

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Career Progression

I talked to a friend whom I worked with in Malaysia. We caught up with what happened and he asked about what’s the best way to show a resource in a project. A graph for project planning essentially. I racked my brain for a while before I truthfully answered that I didn’t know. I haven’t…

Confirming Football

Went to a Malaysian meet-up recently and it ended just before a Premier League game, and naturally most of the attendees stayed to watch the football. One of the attendants needed a lift so I offered one, and we left while people were still watching the game. The guy asked me whether I watched football,…