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    The Destination, Not The Journey

    ByFaris June 4, 2025

    I am rearranging some furniture around the house to accommodate some work arrangements and all these are starting to annoy me. I just want a place to do some extra work, and the challenge of finding an arrangement that – works for me, works for the family, is suitable for both summer and winter, and…

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    Children, Culture and Games

    ByFaris May 31, 2025

    My daughter has a few close friends from school, whom she calls BFFs, and they share similar interests like artsy stuff, reading books and something else which I don’t pretend I know. But sometimes she does relate about how her friends do this or that differently compared to her doing it, so despite their similarities,…

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    Retirement and Romanticism

    ByFaris May 26, 2025May 26, 2025

    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…

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    Track What Matters, But What?

    ByFaris May 22, 2025

    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….

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    Measure of Happiness

    ByFaris May 19, 2025May 19, 2025

    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…

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    AI Use Case – Learning Language

    ByFaris May 15, 2025

    I’ve subscribed to chatGPT premium or whatever it is called that you have to paid, so I am making use of it. I’ve previously asked it to translate and transliterate a Korean song, and it was quite useful. It collected all the notes from websites that do all the lyrics, and put a ‘human’ touch…

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    A Bit Slow

    ByFaris May 12, 2025

    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…

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    Digital Hoarding – Webinar Recording

    ByFaris May 11, 2025May 11, 2025

    A colleague recently asked whether a study group session would be recorded. Two thoughts occurred to me: first was I missed one of the study sessions weeks before, and I haven’t ‘catch up’ on it, and second was this colleague would need to wade through weeks of recording and I think it would be better…

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    The Blind Leading the Blind

    ByFaris May 5, 2025May 5, 2025

    My 5 years old has been playing games on a laptop for a while, and she has also played a few times on a desktop connected to a monitor. On other times, I use this monitor too as an extended monitor, connected to my laptop. The setup is the laptop opened, with its screen extending…

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    The Tradeoff of Age

    ByFaris May 4, 2025May 4, 2025

    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…

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