Usually when you pick up medicines from the pharmacy, there’s a verification process where they ask you your address. In other places, sometimes this verification involves asking your birth date. I have always wondered how is this safe? The date is not that secret as most people would announce it either by bringing cakes to…
I used to work with a German guy named Landgraf, and when asked what I could improved, he said that I was not proactive enough. I am paraphrasing this, as this was more than 10 years ago and I don’t remember the exact words. He said that it didn’t seem that I understand or show…
I was trying to optimise my life today, by making a Google sheet that lists all of my children’s school events, and after that I thought it would be great to have a script that could automatically create these as events in a calendar. I already have a calendar allocated for the kids, I just…
A friend and an ex-colleague of mine invited to his house for some pizza yesterday. We talked and he asked how’s life, considering we haven’t met for more than a year after he resigned. It was a simple question, and was responded with simple answers. Basically updates of my life (and also work details) and…
I listened to a podcast recently about a software developer saying yes to every opportunity that comes his way. He said, “How can I say no, right?!” He then related that he is feeling burnt out. I am nowhere at the same level as work life balance in the UK is relatively better than in…
I’ve been reading a lot of technical documents recently and it starts to coagulate in my mind; in some ways I am getting to understand the topic better but in others, I am starting to realise how much I don’t know and need to know. It’s exciting and frustrating at the same time. To add…
In movies, when the bad guys do something bad, I have always felt anger and in certain cases vengeful. I assume others feel too as this is a way that storytellers try to play with your emotions and pull you in, keeping you invested. The difference in movies, normally, there is payback and the heroes…
Recently I sat the IRSE module D and failed. This is the last module in IRSE examination and composed of mostly questions related to signalling applications, i.e. installations, maintenance, operations and the works related to these. As such, these are the areas that I have the least experience with, either in Malaysia or even more…
In most situations, keeping things simple is the best way to get things done. But when you look at great things, they are rarely simple. The modern marvel in your hands for example, the smartphone, is something that is far from simple. It is complex and complicated. But how does it get to that stage?…
The title is a mouthful and I really think it needs better branding, although I can understand the logic when compared to other money/financial book or podcast, since the name is so descriptive, it is hard to mistake what Ramit Sethi is trying to say. I don’t know where I saw him first, but I…
