Being A Child

My eldest daughter was teaching her younger sister to read and was explaining it phoenitically. If you don’t know what phonics is, it is pronouncing the letters the way it sounds, not the way it is pronounced. Yeah my explanation sucks. For example you pronounce the letter ‘s’ not ‘ass’, but instead ‘ssss..’ as in…

Weather and Requirements

The weather was quite nice this past weeks. I would never have understood this before, but I drove around with the windows down last weekend as we went to the beach. Why would I have not understood that? Because in Malaysia, it is blazing hot and you’d be out of your mind (or your air-conditioning…

Missing Shoes

Muslims in Malaysia go to Friday prayers every week normally wearing a pair of slippers. Occasionally some dishonest person would come with a pair of old slippers, and leave a pair of newer ones. Colloquially known as “kena tibai”, which means got nicked. I think there’s two reasons for this bad behaviour. Firstly is the…

I Must Be Getting Old (II)

I used to always try new software, all in the hope of ever increasing productivity and making life a bit easier. It normally doesn’t make life easier, but I enjoyed it. My wife didn’t, at least not as much as every time I migrated my drive or storage system/software, she would be dragged along and…

I Must Be Getting Old (I)

I was imparting my wisdom to my daughter or in Malay, it’s called berleter, when my daughter finished my sentence or rather she said something along the lines of what I was saying. I pivoted and said that she is smart to always understand what I am trying to say, but she replied that it…

Getting Job in the UK

A friend recently asked about getting a job and moving to the UK, and I thought I’d write it down. This is more like a reflection and I would maybe update it in the future when I gain more exposure and experience. First of all, there will be the argument why go to the UK…