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…
My father-in-law passed away about two years ago and my mother-in-law passed away not long after. They had been living near/with my brother in law, who recently announced that they are storing or giving away some of the belongings to my late parents-in-laws. I saw some pictures of the belongings and led me to think…
In Systems Engineering and if you’re reading the standards for railway which is the EN 5012X series, it is mentioned that a product or an equipment in railway has different levels or applications. They are the Generic Product (GP), Generic Application (GA) and Specific Application (SA). GP can be a simple industrial PC, GA can…
In the railway and signalling standard from CENELEC, i.e. the EN 50126 or 50129, it is mentioned that one of the strategy (if I am not mistaken) for designing a safe system is through the use of Defence in Depth. My understanding of this is that the there are various ways a function can be…
It just occured to me that my children are getting bigger, i.e. growing and becoming teens, that it seems a bit disjointed with my view of my own life. I have been working over a decade now so it seems plausible to imagine how I would work or how my career would be in another…
This report from Amnesty UK highlights that genocide is done on Gaza and Palestine. It is disheartening to read but I applaud the writers. Against the perpetrator, may Allah met justice on you. Hollywood has always been showing the brutality of WW1 and WW2, showing how people did bad things at that time. That time…
Someone asked recently on Linkedin, why aren’t railways using GPS for their train positioning. Here’s my answer below: 1. GPS is limited by infrastructure and obstruction2. GPS has lower accuracy, say for example, a norming point/balise. Quick google and saw it says around 1 – 5 meter accuracy. Based on this two points, it’s not…
I am a bit stingy with money and when buying things I try to make the most of things. In the UK where it is compulsory to show the price per kilogram, this is quite easy because you just choose the ones that cost the least for the same weight. But things get a bit…
I saw the advertisement for the TV show for this book, and I seem to recognize the main actress, so when I saw the book in Kindle, I thought I would give the book a read. Such a superficial reason, right? Yes, lately I seem to choose books to read based on what I see,…
What is the greatest skill that a human can have? I think it’s the speech, i.e. the ability to speak and convey ideas, the skill to wield words and to make people move, which in turn makes the world move. Why do I say that? I believe we human beings can be made to do…
I came upon this term at work, or its abbreviation BNF, that sent me on a search of trying to understand it. So here’s a post to solidify my understanding. Here’s a youtube post that summarizes it quite nicely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cEhCx8pwio What is BNF? It is a way to describe how software language can be written,…
