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 was in a project management meeting today and inevitably the phrase “working in silo” came up. I was then reminded of the book that I read a few years ago, simply titled Silo. I think Amazon or Netflix has turned it into a movie, but I haven’t seen it. I still remember reading the…
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…
Recently I got an email from Spotify saying that I need to update my login for Spotify Podcaster because they’re migrating from another app, Anchor, and I need to do that so I can still have access to my podcast episode. Wait, I have a podcast? Yeah, I remember now, I did do some podcast…
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…
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…
Even though Muhammad Ali says ‘everyone has a plan, until they get hit in the face’, you still need to have a plan. Especially so since life will hit you in the face, many times. And you might want to change your plan(s) every time you get hit, which has nothing wrong at all, as…
A friend suggested that I join a professional course, which seems like a very good one, but requires a substantial amount of payment. Even if it didn’t cost anything, there’s still the time needed to be invested. So any way you see it, there’s always a cost to learn anything. I know I wrote previously…
Someone once asked me what do I, and everyone in the whole world wants. I answered then, happiness. Everyone wants to be happy. I still think the same now, but my definition of happiness is different. In fact I think everyone’s definition of happiness SHOULD be different. If you’re re-using someone else’s definition, most likely…
There’s always the dread of doing something (new) or picking up something that you have been leaving on the floor for a while. This is necessarily more so when you that task has no quick direct consequence but has a considerable long impact; you are more to kid yourself that the long impact wouldn’t suffer…
