Sunday, April 28, 2013

Insanity

Definition of insanity in Oxford dictionary:
noun
the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness; extreme foolishness or irrationality.
Definition of insanity by Einstein:
doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
To all the Boleh1and voter, if you have repeated 55 years of unlimited test and failure, you do not need to repeat the test again this time and I can ensure you the result will be the same. So, please change to other method, it may bring you to the next lever.

Saturday, April 27, 2013

The engineer's principles

Recently I was preparing my very first solar PV system. Since, I, myself is a qualify person, so most of the item I will DIY to reduce my cost. My recently renovation had put my into very tight financial situation.



I had asked my piping sub-cond to do the framework for me since I have knew him for more than 10 years. At first I was thinking to galvanise my c-channel, but after checking the price, I had decided to paint the channel myself. Each length of C-channel is about RM127, but the galvanise cost for each length is RM88, which mean I need to pay about extra 1k for 12 lengths of c-channel. But to paint the channel, I only need around a hundred of good quality paint.

You can said I'm stingy, but I called it thrifty. I willing to pay for extra steel thickness, but I not willing to pay for the galvanisation. 1k is lot of money, it's more than my monthly salary when I get my first job. My principle on spending money, pay for something I need and not something I want. I willing to pay for extract strength cause that is the most important item in the project. I want something that is safe, last longer, and I don't need to worry after I had built it. But for galvanise the channel, if the price is ok, says around RM300, the I will galvanise it. But 1k is way too far from my budget. So I choose to paint it myself.

It's not an easy job to paint the channel under the hot sun, anyway I manage to finish it. Now the frame is up, and I going to do the electrical wiring myself. By 1 more week, my system will be online and hopefully the summer will give me some extra income to cover my investment.

So, if you interested to install solar PV for your house and become one of the FiT holder to sell generated power to TNB with a premium price, please just drop me an email and I will get to you. You can download the following brochure for your reference.

Friday, April 19, 2013

The unfair game

All these years I alway believed that all politicians are same, they will tell you lot of sweet stories and at the end they only take care thier own pocket.

But these few days the news change my believes. What the hell wrong with a Singaporean car fetching Malaysian back to thier home town to vote? Why last minute questioning rocket registration? Why? Are you so kiasu, kiasi and kiabo?

This is the most dirtiest election in Bolehland history, and it is you that show us how dirty you are. Even someone that don't have political preference will feel pissed cause you are playing dirtly. The whole world will look down on you, cause you don't deserve to be respected as a politician. Anyone that still have little of humanity will vote you out as you don't play the game fairly and gentlemanly. The spirit behind democracy is fairness. Without fairness, please don't use the word democracy, and don't waste our time and money for the monkey election show.

To all the politicians, put you guts out, win the game with pride and lose it with respect.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

The Management Story

I found this from FB, very interesting story, but in Chinese.

一天,一只兔子在山洞前写文章,一只狼走了过来,问:“兔子啊,你在干什么?”答曰:“写文章。”问:“什么题目?”答曰:“《浅谈兔子是怎样吃掉狼的》。”狼哈哈大笑,表示不信,于是兔子把狼领进山洞.

过了一会,兔子独自走出山洞,继续写文章。一只野猪走了过来,问:“兔子你在写什么?”答:“文章。”问:“题目是什么?”答:“《浅谈兔子是如何把野猪吃掉的》。”野猪不信,于是同样的事情发生。

最后,在山洞里,一只狮子在一堆白骨之间,满意的剔着牙读着兔子交给它的文章,题目:“《一只动物,能力大小关键要看你的老板是谁》。 ”

评:说的是员工的技巧,其实也可以用在那些初创企业的创业者身上,因为在市场上,相对很多大型企业来说,就是狮子和兔子的关系,如何与他们合作相处或者说不被竞争者吃掉也是一门很深学问。

这只兔子有次不小心告诉了他的一个兔子朋友,这消息逐渐在森林中传播;狮子知道后非常生气,他告诉兔子:“如果这个星期没有食物进洞,我就吃你。”于是兔子继续在洞口写文章。

一只小鹿走过来,“兔子,你在干什么啊?”“写文章!”“什么题目?”“《浅谈兔子是怎样吃掉狼》”! “哈哈,这个事情全森林都知道啊,你别胡弄我了,我是不会进洞的”,兔子曰:“我马上要退休了,狮子说要找个人顶替我,难道你不想这篇文章的兔子变成小鹿么?”小鹿想了想,终于忍不住诱惑,跟随兔子走进洞里。过了一会,兔子独自走出山洞,继续写文章。一只小马走过来,同样是事情发生了。最后,在山洞里,一只狮子在一堆白骨之间,满意的剔着牙读着兔子交给它的文章,题目是:《如何发展下线动物为老板提供食物》。

评:这里其实谈的是一个欺骗手段,并没有讲发展动物下线去提供食物,但是这个题目应该是很有启发的,可以改成《如何发展合作伙伴为企业提供食物》。没有合作伙伴企业是做不大的,现在是竞争协作时代,每个企业不可能把所有的事情做完,必须依靠合作伙伴才能找到企业充足的食物

随着时间的推移,狮子越长越大,兔子的食物已远远不能填饱肚子。一日,他告诉兔子:“我的食物量要加倍,例如:原来4天一只小鹿,现在要2天一只,如果一周之内改变不了局面我就吃你。于是,兔子离开洞口,跑进森林深处,他见到一只狼:“你相信兔子能轻松吃掉狼吗? ”狼哈哈大笑,表示不信,于是兔子把狼领进山洞。过了一会,兔子独自走出山洞,继续进入森林深处,这回他碰到一只野猪----“你相信兔子能轻松吃掉野猪吗? ”野猪不信,于是同样的事情发生了。原来森林深处的动物并不知道兔子和狮子的故事!最后,在山洞里,一只狮子在一堆白骨之间,满意的剔着牙读着兔子交给它的文章,题目是:《如何实现由坐商到行商的转型为老板提供更多的食物》。

评:这里的启示是寻找自己的客户资源在哪里

时间飞快,转眼之间,兔子在森林里的名气越来越大,因为大家都知道它有一个很历害的老板。这只小兔开始横行霸道,欺上欺下,没有动物敢惹。它时时想起和乌龟赛跑的羞辱,它找到乌龟说:“三天之内,见我老板!”扬长而去。乌龟难过的哭了,这时却碰到了一位猎人,乌龟把这事告诉了他。猎人哈哈大笑,于是森林里发生了一件重大事情,猎人披着狮子皮和乌龟一起在吃兔子火锅,地下丢了半张纸片歪歪扭扭的写着:山外青山楼外楼,强中还有强中手啊! ! !

评:如果做企业猖狂到自己都不知道自己是谁的时候,离死亡也就不远了,我们的企业还是“兔子”不是“狮子”的时候,不管你的靠山再强大,你都不能把自己太当回事情了,居安思危。

在很长一段时间里森林里恢复了往日的宁静,兔子吃狼的故事似乎快要被大家忘记了。不过一只年轻的老虎在听说了这个故事后,被激发了灵感,于是他抓住了一只羚羊,对羚羊说,如果你可以像以前的兔子那样为我带来食物那我就不吃你。于是,羚羊无奈的答应了老虎,而老虎也悠然自得的进了山洞。可是三天过去了,也没有见羚羊领一只动物进洞。他实在憋不住了,想出来看看情况。羚羊早已不在了,他异常愤怒。正在他暴跳如雷的时候突然发现了羚羊写的一篇文章题目是:《想要做好老板先要懂得怎样留住员工》!

评:企业再好,待遇在高,也不能忽视员工,也要善待员工,再伟大的理想、再好的项目,你一个人不可能做大的,想做大事的老板和只想赚钱的老板,那是不同的;想做大事的员工和只想求生活的员工也是不同的;如何吃人而不被别人吃,如何帮人吃人而不被别人吃-。社会就是这么现实!


Saturday, April 13, 2013

Inception

The word inception mean start or beginning of something but according to the movie Inception, it means planting an idea into someone's mind through his/her dream. I love that movie, one of the best movie I ever watch. I don't know what is the correct word to use that means planting an idea, but inception sound professional to me.

The Boleh1and will going to have the general election soon. This time will be one of the most critical election moment in the history, whether the old government continue its power or the new blood is replacing them. No matter who you support, please remember to use your vote to tell the world, that is the only chance you can have what you wish to have if majority people agreed with your dream. If you watch TV news or newspaper, you will notice that the police and the government told us that the opposition is preparing to sabotage the election. I never heard about this before this election, so why this time opposition want to sabotage? If you think deeply, I believe you know the answer, to scare everyone, to tell everyone opposition is an evil party, a dirty player. It's an inception, planting an idea in everyone mind that if you don't want riot, then choose back the old government, else there will be riot.

Lets do a logic analysis. First of all, lets say existing party win the election, will it be riot? Basically, no, because all these years the opposition has lost so many time and nothing happen, so it wouldn't be any riot. Now, let say the new party win, will it be riot? Well, definitely no. Since they win, they should celebrate not riot. But will the loser make riot? Maybe, but since the new government has taken the control, it is very unwise to riot cause the new opposition will be in trouble. So, don't worry about the riot. As a resident, do what our duty is.

You will see lots of people like to use the inception technique to reach their target. A water filter salesman will told you how dirty is the pipe water, and they like to show the chlorine test demonstration and tell you how dangerous is the chlorine in the water. But we all know, chlorine is one of the solution for disinfection and EPA has limit to 4mg/l and WHO has lower limit of 0.2-1.0mg/l. I personally didn't do the chlorine residual test so I didn't know what is the limit of our drinking water. Will do it someday. Anyway, lots of people spending few thousand dollar for a filter that use to filter chlorine, which for me is extremely expensive. To remove chlorine, we only need active carbon, a hundred plus water filter will do the job. So, stay calm, our drinking water is safe to consume. Anyway, get a good filter that have been tested by NSF, not "Balakong mali" kind of expensive filter.

So, when you listen to someone talking, think about the real meaning and motive behind those wordings. Once they successfully planting their idea in your mind, you are doomed.

Monday, April 08, 2013

Gwiyomi


Another wave of Korean storm.

P.S. I'm not pervert.