I find some people are more critical in others, of course. This is most important when the work being done is important or have a safety impact, but most of the time, they are not. Most of the time too, recognising the effort is more important than looking things through a critical lense. For example…
Occasionally I read forums/facebook groups on transportation(s) in Malaysia. I’ve noticed that the questions most often would be along the line, “Why aren’t we having this ______ in Malaysia, it’s super advanced technology!” I would sometime reply and mention the restrictions and constraints related to the technology proposed. Sometimes people would reply, still pushing and…
After dinner tonight, my son asked me the reason why Allah made us like this. “What do you mean like this?” I asked. “You know, like this,” he said and raised his arm.”You mean five fingers?” ”Yes,” he said. “Allah could have made us like a blob and like an alien, and then if we…
I have just finished IRSE module C and D today, a completion of the IRSE exams. Altogether there are 4 modules, A, B, C and D, and I started taking the exams with module A, in 2022. It has been 3 years constantly preparing for exams, that today I feel a bit ’empty’ after completing…
As I was growing up, the term adrenaline became popular. Or at least I became more aware of it in writings and shows. “When the adrenaline starts kicking in…” was one of the phrase that I remember. Nowadays, there are more variety of hormones that has ‘become’ mainstream. One of it is the dopamine. Dopamine…
A review of my journey in Productivity After reading, watching and trying all those systems, schemes or hacks, I can generalize that working smart generates result faster, but to have even any result, you have to work hard too. Analogically if you have a supercar, you still have to press the pedal to move, and…
In railway signalling, one of the most problematic or challenging part is, subjectively, the level crossings. It is the part where the road meets the rail, where normal railway operation which is rigid and structured, meets the road operation that in some ways, very loose and has many variables. It’s an interface and interface always…
02/10/2024 – Update: SARS is organizing a ‘repeat’ of this webinar, available for registration here. I joined a webinar yesterday, discussing the rail crash of a high speed train in Spain about 11 years ago. The presenter gave evidence during the court prosecutions, which resulted in the safety director being sentenced to 2.5 years in…
Apparently the news in my home country, in respect to public transport, is that the government and some companies, is planning to introduce an autonomous self-driving bus. Needless to say, this caught people’s attention. But it is still in trial, and it is not clear when the technology will be mature enough to be in…
Life is an exam, or not. All my life, or at least my early years of life, I have been prepping for exams very year. In Malaysia there is the primary school exams (UPSR) that determines whether you can go to a boarding school with better facilities and reputed more experienced teachers. There you prepare…
