Recently a newsletter mentioned that Siemens was awarded to supply 28 new EMUS for Digital Node Stuttgart. LINK. I was intrigued, and wondered why would they need new trains? The article did mention that the digitalization requires retrofitting current trains, hence new trains are needed to support current use. But what is the digitalization about….
We humans are prone to bias. One of it is survivorship bias, where we only see the ones who succeed as the norm. An example would be that we would say “Cars in the olden days are built to last,” while we point our fingers to an (old/classic) Volkswagen Beetle. Of course. If the car…
Caveat: The writer is not well versed in the subject of electrical and electronic, nor has he experience in working in the automotive industry. He just now how to use a keyboard, hence wrote this post. Tesla has been making waves in Malaysia recently. I wonder whether using Tesla (or other Electric Vehicles (EV)) at…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Although it doesn’t seem impressive, the strawberry above is precious to me. It is the first strawberry that I have grown (and insyaAllah more to come) and have just eaten. To be honest, it doesn’t taste sweet at all 🥴. The experience on the other hand, is invaluable.
