Foreign Stranger

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…

View of Years

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…

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Learning from Toys

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…

Which Year Wast That?

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…

Life Legacy

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…

Advice and System Engineering

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…

Phases of Parents Life

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…

Genocide and Actions

This report from Amnesty UK highlights that genocide is done on Gaza and Palestine. It is disheartening to read but I applaud the writers. Against the perpetrator, may Allah met justice on you. Hollywood has always been showing the brutality of WW1 and WW2, showing how people did bad things at that time. That time…