My wife and I visited a group of friends recently and we inadvertently talked about future and retirement. One point of interest was that in Malaysia, people are normally forced out of work and into retirement, while in the UK, quite a lot of people, especially knowledge workers, continue to work past their 60s. This…
I remember attending a talk about 10 years ago where this founder said that he tracked everything, from the calories to the duration of his exercise, because he read from a book, that what you tracked, will get better results. I don’t remember the book but I will get AI to find it for me….
I went to Aldi yesterday, on a Sunday, and it was so full that I had to circle round the parking lot twice just to find a parking spot. That is very unusual in this part of UK, if not everywhere in the UK. I went inside, picked up my items and went to the…
I felt a bit slow today while working, in the sense it took me quite a long time to digest certain part of my work. I also joined a study group and by the end of it, I was partially lost. My colleague who conducted the study group blissfully explained points that I was struggling…
I was tidying up my digital desktop when I found videos from my old days, 13 years ago to be exact. I was explaining to my friend how I won a phone, and said he was the umpteenth person I had to relate the story, so he jokingly recorded me explaining it. The video still…
I used to work with a German guy named Landgraf, and when asked what I could improved, he said that I was not proactive enough. I am paraphrasing this, as this was more than 10 years ago and I don’t remember the exact words. He said that it didn’t seem that I understand or show…
I’ve been reading a lot of technical documents recently and it starts to coagulate in my mind; in some ways I am getting to understand the topic better but in others, I am starting to realise how much I don’t know and need to know. It’s exciting and frustrating at the same time. To add…
In most situations, keeping things simple is the best way to get things done. But when you look at great things, they are rarely simple. The modern marvel in your hands for example, the smartphone, is something that is far from simple. It is complex and complicated. But how does it get to that stage?…
I was listening to a song today, some rapper who said, “You die twice; once when you’re not alive and once when you’re forgotten”. I don’t agree with that especially so because in Islam there is life after death, but the phrase got me to think what would happen when I die, in the sense…
A nephew of mine came to visit recently and I had the opportunity to bring him around the places in Manchester. As we traveled a bit, we talked quite a bit too. As common when we visit another country, we complained and thrashed our country, while at the same time saying that Malaysia has the…
