This is cool

I want to go Japan.

Why am I still at office?

Today went to KLIA plant on afternoon to check on the electrical and control system. The system still not yet 100% ready, so after checking and discuss with sub-cond, it's 5.30PM.

So I can choose go home have a nice dinner or go back to P1 to continue my write up.

At the end, I go back to P1 to continue my stupid write up.

Maybe you will ask, why don't I go back home and do it at home? OT?

Yes, I can do it at home and I don't bother much on the OT also. But I still choose to do it at office.

I don't bring my job back to home since the first day I work. It's principle and also habit. I watch lot of movies, read lot of story and what I understand is that most of the family problems actually started from work.

Sometime, some work is not fun at all, it's boring and make your day down. Most of the time we are very kind to our friend but we are mean to our family. If you notice, sometime, same words from family member will make us angry but not if it is from our friend's mouth. Therefore, it will be family disaster if you are not able to control your temper while you work at home.

But I'm staying alone?

Yes, I'm staying alone in a big house XD. But it should not be an excuse to bring your work home, because sooner or later you will used to it, and it will become a habit even after you are married.

So, please remember finish your work at office, because that what an office is meant for. Enjoy you day with your family at home.

Home sweet home :)

An ISO 9001 Pencil

This is good XD

In an effort to get registered, an organization had written, rewritten and written again many of it's manuals, procedures, process descriptions and control documentation causing one of the staff to ask "what's the difference between a regular pencil and an ISO 9001 certified pencil? "

Answer: The ISO 9001 pencil has an eraser on both ends.

ISO objective

Today my boss told me his personal ISO objective, and I'm fully agreed with him.

To get rid of ISO in year 2008!

Summer talk

I found out that since last week, I got no "mood" to work. At first I thought it's personal problem, but lately I found that most of the engineering team members are having same problem. Summer is here.

Most of the member in engineering house was sick these few week. And once after recovered from sick, the "no working mood" virus is attacking. Everyone is hoping for a holiday and rest.

I don't know about others, but for me this is symptom of overloaded. It's like Microsoft Windows. Once the OS is overloaded, it become hang and need to be reset. Once it's restarted, it will become hang again if you try to run heavy program. What it actually needs is cooling, a shut down for few hour will actually solve the "hanging" problem.

If you are overload, don't force yourself to work, it will just make the situation worse. Stop and rest, cool down your mind and start back again once you are ready.

Good luck engineers, the war is just begin, it is still long way to go. Victory will with us but we need to keep ourself strong to hold until the end.

Hypothesis

1st hypothesis: If you work too hard, your girl will leave you.
2nd hypothesis: If you are poor, your girl will leave you.

We all know money is alway not enough. Therefore you are poor, you girl will leave you. So, you start to work very hard to earn more money to become a rich man. But your girl will leave because you work too hard.

It's a bad chain reaction. Bad infinite loop. Black hole.

But believe me, you better work hard, so once your girl is leaving you, you can use the money to get another one. If you poor and your girl leaved you, you are dead meat. You got nothing, no girl no money.

The conclusion, work hard and earn more money, like it or not, your girl will leave you. So better keep more money to get a wife from Thailand / Vietnam :)

Voucher

Last week, when I was queuing up at the cashier counter to pay my goods, I saw a lady was paying her goods using two pieces of RM50 shopping voucher, but the amount of her purchase is only RM70++. What she do is, she ask her husband to get something to make it over RM100. So everyone is waiting for this lady to finish her shopping.

I personally don't like the idea of voucher, it's like forcing someone to give you money due to some reason. But the party is so stingy and they force you to use the "money" with lot of conditions and within limited time. And we are also so stingy that we try to fully use the "money" even though we don't know what to buy. For me it's a torturing process.

Voucher should be a award, not burden. So, the first thing to remember is only ask for the voucher if you think you will use it in near future. Second, understand the stupid condition, sometime these people just give you some very stupid condition to use it. Third, never use it on last day.

Hope you enjoy your voucher.

Summer is coming, I'm sick

Summer is coming, it's hot and humid, it's virus and bacterial best growing temperature and RH. That why, I'm sick.

Not able to sleep yesterday night, due to non-stop fewer. This morning have to sick in the meeting room talk about the stupid control sequences. Then go back to stupid site and can't do anything. My production is near zero today :(

Then go see doctor, and I tell doctor what medicine I need and ask him to write a MC for tomorrow just in case the medicine that I request not able to cure my sickness.



It's my dinner, bread with tuna, Milo with oat, and my favorite 1/2 boiled eggs. Here is a tip how to make professional look of 1/2 boiled eggs.

1. Put 2 eggs into a cup.
2. Pour a boiled water into it.
3. Wait for 10 minute before serve.

Then take stupid medicine.

Due to too lonely, SK start to talk to himself

Dinstein: Kesian, you are sick.
SK: Yes :(
Dinstein: Where is your girl friend?
SK: >|
Dinstein: Oh, I think I said something wrong, so she not coming?
SK: :_(
Dinstein: So, I'm right, she is not coming
SK: T_T

I promise myself, if she come and make me a dinner, I will give her my everything including my body XD

Rainbow Song

It's Shunji Iwai's movie. I love his movie. Can't wait to see this :)

If you think Vista is WOW

... wait until you see Ubuntu Beryl

It's holiday

Happy labour day and not forget happy Wesak day.

I think I need to have a vacation :)

Picture of the day

This is suck, and it happen to my car, FUCK!

Lack of idea to write blog?

I hope my boss wouldn't ask me to do this XD

Welcome back Delphi

Finally Delphi 2007 is here, it's now under CodeGear.

It's 2.30AM

Guess how many people are still working in this house?

The answer: 7 engineers!

Maybe Dilbert can explain that :)



Tomorrow I want to eat "bak kut teh", no more curry chicken rice and roti naan!

Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru

I love this movie, Aoi Miyazaki, she just so cute.

The movie is from Ichikawa Takuji's novel, Renai Shashin: Mou Hitotsu no Monogatari, lovely and touching love story. My nose gets sour after watching the movie. I don’t know whether I love the ending or not, but for sure the sad ending make me feel so touching.

You will like this.

This product SUCK!

What wrong with this product?

1. The energy and cumulative energy reading reset randomly, maybe few times a day, maybe once a few months.
2. The meter stalled after running for sometime.
3. The RTD input is too sensitive, spoil without any symptom.
4. The pulse output stalled after running for sometime.

If you are the engineer who design this meter, you are SUCK!
If you know the engineer who design this meter, pass my message to him, "FUCK YOU!".

1 litre of tear

I watched this movie last Saturday and my breath nearly stop when I saw the author writing her diary when she nearly can't control the pen. I wonder how many people can be as strong as her.

Suddenly, I thanks God cause I'm still able to climb up and down at site, make my hand dirty, solving puzzles, ... Thanks to those people laughing at my stupidity, guess what you can continue doing that cause I will continue be stupid.

For all engineers, technicians, clerks, managers or directors, please don't push your responsibility to others. Take back your responsibility and put it on your own shoulder, start to make decision, be a real man. Please ask God to take back His gift to you if you want to be deadwood.

YUI - Can't buy my love

Can't wait to have one #^_^#

New way to testing and commissioning

Today I'd learned a new way to do T&C. Sit at the chair and look into the monitor for 8 hours and the T&C is completed.

The most idiot task I ever did in my life.

Nice article from Haruki Murakami - If I love you

如果我爱你, 而你正巧的也爱我.....

那你生病的时候, 我会去照顾你, 陪你到好.

你骑车的时候, 我会要你小心点, 还要你到的时候打电话跟我说.

你忘了吃晚餐时, 我会装做很生气, 然后说: 你这样会让我很担心耶!

你头发乱的时候, 我会笑笑的替你拨一拨, 然后手还留恋的在你发上多待几秒...

你想哭, 我会陪你掉泪, 尽管前一刻我的心情是多雀跃 ~

你要笑, 我会陪你笑出声, 不管我上一秒是多么的沮丧...

我在空闲的时候, 会念念你的名字, 想想你的声音.

我在逛街的时候, 会想到 "啊! 你正好也缺了这个.."

我在发现了好东西的时候, 一定马上想到 "一定要你来看看!"

我失眠了之后, 听到你也失了眠, 会在心理偷笑.

我在熬夜时, 接到你只为了说声 : "不要太累! 要早点睡了.... " 的电话, 会甜甜的笑着而乖乖的去睡......

我在想你的时候, 会知道你也在想我.




但是如果我爱你, 而你不巧的不爱我.....

那你生病的时候, 我只会打通电话慰问你, 不敢奢求待在你身边.

你骑车的时候, 我只会暗暗在心中希望你安全.

你忘了吃晚餐, 我也只会笑笑的问: 为什么不吃呢?

你头发乱了, 我只能轻轻告诉你: 头发乱了喔~~

你想哭, 我只能在旁边无奈的轻轻叹气着.

你想笑, 我只能微微地对你笑着...

我在空闲的时候, 还是会念念你的名字, 想想你的声音.

在逛街的时候, 会想到 "是谁帮你买了这个呢? "

我发现好东西的时候, 会无奈的想着会是谁告诉你这个好消息呢?

我失眠之后, 会躲着不让你看见我的黑眼圈.

我在熬夜时, 不敢期待会有电话声响起来.....

我在想你的时候, 会想到这时的你是在想着谁?


如果我不再爱你了.... 那么我一定就不爱你了, 我会去爱上别人....


世上有什么不会失去的东西吗? 我相信有, 你最好也相信!


村上春树 :
鱼说 : 你看不见我眼中的泪,因为我在水中....
水说 : 我能感觉你的泪,因为你在我的心里....

The fish said "You cannot see the tear in my eyes, because I in water..."
The water said "I can feel your tear, because you in my heart...."

Always give 100% at work

What's wrong with this photo?

It's from a live plant. What wrong with it? :)

Does Management really know their Staffs?

On walking into the factory, the MD noticed a young boy leaning against the wall, doing nothing.

He approached the young man and calmly said to him, "How much do you earn?"

The young man was quite amazed that he was asked such a personal question, he replied, none the less, "I earn $ 2 000.00 a month, Sir. Why?"

Without answering, the MD took out his wallet and removed $ 6000.00 cash then gave it to the young man and said: "Around here I pay people for working, not for standing around looking pretty! Here is 3 months 'salary', now GET OUT and don't come back".

The young man turned around and was quickly out of sight. Noticing a few onlookers, the MD said in a very upset manner: "And that applies for everybody in this company".

He approached one of the onlookers and asked him, "Who's the young man that I just fired?"

To which an amazing reply came of, "He was the pizza delivery man, Sir...!!!"

It's 30th

Ok, today is my birthday. It's the 30th one, and as usual

• I'm still not married
• I'm still stupid
• I'm (also my litter Xiao Qiang) still strong XD
• I'm still working for my boss
• I'm still poor
• I'm still dream to be a rich man
• I'm still driving my SEG (sorry no G actually)
• I'm still a super genius
• I'm still like chicken rice
• I'm still have a dream
• I'm still ...

but some how, I'm not young :(

Nothing is changed, just the time is different.
I want to kill myself if I keep on writing this T_T
Wish myself, happy birthday.

Toyota Vios

I promise myself to get one. But before that, I need to end my stupidity.

Motorola phone charging problem. SOLVED!

We all know that Motorola phone always have charging problem after sometime. What actually happen? What went wrong?

My girlfriend family got a Motorola phone, and as usual it stop charging after 1-2 years. So once again as an electronic engineer, I'm going to repair it.

After open the cover, I checked the continuity. Look OK. Then I try to shake the connector. Surprise, the legs are moving.





It's soldering problem! The solder is not secure enough. Therefore after plug and unplug the connection for sometime, the solder will crack and the phone will have charging problem by then.

It's spend me 1/2 hour just to solder these pins. I think I need to get myself a surface mount soldering kit. The phone now back to normal charging function.



I'm not sure about the new Motorola phone, but old model which have this kind of connection will have this design defect. So if your Motorola phone stop charging, you should know what went wrong.

Jan Lam talk show

I like this part.

Conan 11th movie 21/4/2007

When will be shown in Malaysia?

Maxis broadband

If you pissed off with Streamyx, and your are within 3G area, maybe you can try Maxis wireless broadband build on 3.5G HSDPA.

How fast can it go?

Here is the testing done in Subang Jaya. Thank to Jamie lend me the modem for testing.





How much its cost?

Well, basically cheaper than Streamyx if you are not "download monster". A basic 384kbps package is RM50 per month and the modem rental is RM18 or you can buy it with RM299.

By the way, Maxis doesn't give me any commission for advertising its product, I just share an option with you. I think that what blog is meant for.

How much is 100 million?

Previously, I was wonder how much actually 1 million is. How to describe it. But today I start to thinking how much actually is 100 million.

1. Basic description.


• I like eat chicken rice, so how many dishes of chicken rice that need to be sold so that total sales is 100 million. If a chicken rice is $3.50 per dish, then 28,571,428 dishes need to be sold. All Malaysian need to eat at least a dish of the chicken rice to make up to this number.


2. Expensive description


• The gold price per gram is around $73.50. Therefore, 100 million can buy 1,360,544 gram of gold or in other word, 1.36 tonnes of gold. Almost a weight of a Camry.


3. Luxury description


• The size of $100 is 150mm x 69mm, a 100 million can make up to 1,035,000 m2, which is the area of 75.5 football fields.
  

I wonder how much of heat that can be produced by a 100 million of $1 notes. Can use to heat up water for my shower ah?

My organizer

Lot of people nowadays bringing lot of gadgets, phone, PDA, PALM, notebook, MP3, etc. Most of them are happy with the product basic functions.

I have a Sony Ericsson K610 and a ASUS W3A notebook. Since I'm electronic engineer and majoring in communication, I would like to see them talking to each other. How?

I like Sony Ericsson because they are release all their phone information for other to develop application for their phone. You can go here to check on your S.E. phone (that why S.E. phone is for engineer). Personally I don't use software from S.E., it just too huge to install it and delay my notebook startup. So I use MyPhoneExplorer by F.J., very small and free application but it has everything you need.

On the notebook, I installed a organiser called Rainlendar by Rainy. Another small freeware but powerful enough for personal used.

Once you installed both, just select enable the synchronization function in MyPhoneExplorer and you are ready to have same database on PC and your phone.

Is 15th!

Today is 15th of the lunar calender, and it is Chap Goh Meh (actually this phase is come from Hokkien, it mean end of fifteen; Chap Goh is fifteen and Meh is end or tail) or in Chinese it's called Yuan Xiao "元宵". It's also a Chinese Valentine. Today girl will throw orange into the river to wish for a good lover and the man will pick up the orange and become the lover :)

Yesterday, as "usual" I work until today morning, thanks to Nick for helping me this time (he had off his hand phone again to prevent me to call him XD). Anyone watch the lunar eclipse today at 4AM? I slept at 3AM, so don't expect me to wake up at 4AM.


Share with us if you captured any photo.

So today, the Chinese New Year ended :(

...

WAIT!

The new year is just begin, only the festival is ended. So keep all the holiday mood and begin another hardworking year. Who know, maybe next year you can became your own boss.

Teamwork

According to oxford, teamwork mean the combined effective action of a group.

Wikipedia defined it more clearly as a concept of people working together cooperatively, as in a sports team.

As for me, I defined it as a group of people that have same hobby and dream moving towards a same direction.

Case 1:
The company said "Let us fight for a 100 million sales this year, by our teamwork we can do it". The director looking at the 100 million money, but the worker looking at 100 million job. So it will fail and not to mansion about teamwork.

Case 2:
The company said "Let us fight for a 100 million sales this year, by our teamwork we can do it and if we achieve it, I will share 1% of the profit". This time the director looking at the 100 million money, and some worker looking at 1% profit but some still cleaver enough looking at the 100 million job. So it have some changes to success. From here we can see the effect of teamwork.

Case 3:
The company said "Let me be your partner and we fight for a 100 million sales this year, by our teamwork we can do it. We share whatever profit that we make this year". This time, the director and the worker are looking at the 100 million money. So it mostly will success.

Same dream, same direction, that what I call teamwork.

A joke from internet

There were four people named
Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.

There was an important job to be done and
Everybody was asked to do it.

Everybody was sure Somebody would do it,
Anybody could have done it but Nobody did it.

Somebody got angry about that, because it was
Everybody's job.

Everybody thought Anybody could do it but
Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.

It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody
when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

I'm sick

... and I still working.

Please help me!

Angpao

Every year, when Chinese New Year came, we will get angpao from parent, relatives and also elders. Every year, I will keep the angpao until after the end of Chinese New Year then I will open it and keep those money in the bank. Year by year, and I have been doing it for 29 years. It's happy when receiving angpao, it's not about money but it's a festival feeling actually.

As usual, this year I "ask" angpao from my colleagues :p (too bad they have to give me cause I'm still single). It maybe my last year to ask for angpao, next year I promise them I will give angpao to their children. Hopefully.

Anyway, I hope my girl friend will agree with me.

Girl, I'm getting embarrass to ask for angpao already, can we give angpao next year?

It's 4.30Am

... I fetch my girl to airport. Will miss her again for another week.

Stock Market

It's 1278! Finally, after 13 years, we are at high point. Too bad, I don't involve in any stock market games :(

It's a good news?

I start to worry. It's another 10 years from our last economy crisis. From past experience, we all know, the economy crisis repeat every 10 years. Will it be happen this year? When?

I'm not economist but everyone should know I'm Conan's fan, therefore the prediction that I make is just a collection of past evidents and I hope it will be useful to you.

In 27 Oct. 1997, we had a global stock market crash after the economic crisis. It's Monday.

In 19 Oct. 1987, we had the Black Monday where the most famous stock market crash in the history.

In 13 Oct. 1989, we had the Friday the 13th, a mini crash due to fail of Leveraged buyout deal of United Airlines.

And back to 24, 28-29 Oct. 1929, we had the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

So, will we facing another stock market crash on October this year? Only time will tell.

YUI

I love her!



From Taiyou no Uta (A song to the sun)

How to synchronize your clock

There is a simple way to synchronize your computer clock with the atomic clock in Windows XP.

1. Right click on the clock on the task bar and select Adjust Date/Time
2. Select Internet Time tab.
3. Check Automatically synchronize with an Internet time server.



Your PC clock with be synchronized.

Dinstein Astrology Class



The showed picture is called Spring Cow Chart <春牛图> (ha ha, not sure can translate like this or not :). It's used to describe or predict the weather of the year. Mainly used by farmer due to most of them are illiteracy.

How to read this chart? There is a poem showed at the below of the chart.

春牛身高四尺，身長八尺，尾長一尺二寸，牛頭紅色，牛身黑色，牛腰黑色，牛角耳尾黃色，牛膝脛黃色，牛蹄青色，牛尾右繳，牛口合，牛籠頭构子用桑柘木麻繩結青色，牛踏板懸門右肩。

芒神身高三尺六寸五分，面如老人像，黑衣黃腰帶，平梳兩髻在耳後，露耳，綁腿、鞋子、褲子俱全，鞭仗用柳枝，長二尺四寸，五色醮染，用麻結，芒神站在春牛右前方。

There are lot of informations embedded in the poem (please don't ask me to translate, I'm not a Fung Shui master), mainly are on season informations.

Here I show you how to read the chart. But before that, the man is call Mang God <芒神> and the cow is Spring Cow <春牛>.

1. The Mang God is standing at the right of the spring Cow.


• It's mean the beginning of spring is earlier than the new year.



2. The Mang God is wearing slipper.


• It's mean this year will be a less raining year.



3. The poem on the top right - [三冬雨水多，九夏禾無蹤]


• It's mean quantity of rain will be more on winter (month 3rd) and less on summer (month 9th), it is adnormal.



4. The poem on the top left - [人民多瘧瘴，六畜盡遭迍]


• It's mean there will be epidemic happen on humans and animals.

According to NASA, there will be El Nino effect for the year 2007. So whether this year is a summer year or a raining year, only time will tell. I will let you know by next year.

Some how, both also predict a serious pandemic this year, I really hope they all wrongly predict it.

Once again happy Chinese New Year to all.

It's Chinese New Year Eve's Eve!

It's going to be a long holiday (hopefully). Unfortunately, today the bosses is going to have a meeting regarding a new project with client, hence there is no early dismiss like last few year :(

And I still having lot of document have to be done. It's a busy year.

Sometime, we wish the company can doing well, get lot of project then at the end of the year, everyone will reward with the efforts and hard works that we dump into the company. But some how sometime the input is not equal to the output.

You may ask yourself, do I need to be so hardworking? Why I'm still doing it? Hobby?

From all my previous bogs, the engineer that I described is

1. Hard working
2. A genius
3. Stupid guy
4. Hands on person
5. Very poor in presentation
6. Poor in English/language
7. Do thing quietly

If you having the above "symptoms" then well come to engineering world, else congratulation, you are qualified to promote to manager level.

Back to today topic, as usual I'm not lucky enough in lucky draw.



Ok, everyone, Happy Chinese New Year and Go Xi Fa Cai.

It's Valentine

For those are single and available, today is time for you to promote yourself and you "friend" to become boy/girl friend.

For those are married, it's time for you to make a baby.

For those are single but not available, today you need to spent all your bonus for your love one.

I hope something nice will happen around me, I hope all my friend will get their partner by today.

And I hope, my girl will marry me this year.

Anyway, happy Valentine to all and specially to my lovely lady.

I don't know what you're doing!

Did you ever heard this from your boss? What is your feeling?

None of us like this statement, it's mean

We (the management) think that you are only wasting our company resources and you are not contributed to the company. You took all company profit and yet you are useless to us. Youare suck!

Some people will resign if they heard these words, most will be angry but still quietly continue their works. It's a humiliation to staff who being asked.

There are two situations where the management will make this statement.

1. The management knows what he/she wants and he/she is expecting some contribution from the staff, however the staff can't deliver it.



2. The management does not know what he/she want and he/she expecting the staff reports everything to him/her, but somehow, the staff had failed to deliver it.

Most of the engineering cases are belonging to the 2nd scenario.

Most of the engineers are very lousy reporter. They just don’t know how to make a good and presentable report. Therefore, it’s creating a gap between the management and the staff (engineer).

The engineer is spending most of their time at site to push the job move forward. On the other hand, the management is wondering why the engineer never goes back to office and report to them. What is the engineer doing? Will be the first question come out from the management mind.

Here is my suggestion to the management.

If you don’t know what your staff is doing and you think he/she is extra, then fire him/her. If you found out that the company is running smooth, then you had fired the correct staff and saved company resources for others or for yourself. But if the result is the other way round, then you will know what is that staff is doing in the past.

Is Chinese New Year Coming?

I still remember, last few year, before CNY lots of suppliers and subcontractors come and treat us CNY lunch/dinner until we rather go to eat mix rice. But this year, until today I still haven't had chance to have one.

There are only a week to the CNY, but I'm not filling with the CNY mood.

Why?

1. Are we too busy?
2. Is the increment disappoint us?
3. Is the bonus disappoint us?
4. Is the award disappoint us?
5. Is the supplier/subcond. not getting paid?
6. Is the supplier/subcond. margin too low until no budget for entertainment?
7. Is the company losing money?
8. Is the company having bad debt?
9. Is the increasing toll stopping us to go our have lunch/dinner?
10. Am I having too much overnight?
11. Am I work too hard?
12. Am I too stupid?
13. Is CNY coming?
...

Anyway, I want to wish everyone a very happy Chinese New Year and Gong Xi Fa Cai.

It's war time



It's time for war and I'm ready!

Working overnight again

I think I'm sick. Very tire and sleep today.
Man, I'm getting old.

Maths for the money

I had found out that the maths for money is totally different from maths for engineering.

When doing tender or costing:

Eng. : Boss, this gadget is $1.
Boss : How do you know it's $1?
Eng. : I checked with other suppliers, and here is the other two suppliers quotations. One selling for $1.10 and the other selling for $1.15.
Boss : I want to know how they come up to this figure. You go and check the cost of the raw material, how many workers are needed to produce it, the worker's qualification, how many children they have.
Eng. : ...

When the company report the annual financial:

Boss : This year we have total project value of $100.
Eng. : (Happy) Ye.....
Boss : The profit margin is 20%, thus we loss $50.
Eng. : ??????? ($100 x 20% = -$50?????????)
Boss : However, we (the bosses) still come out with our OWN pocket money and give you all increment and bonus.
Eng. : ...

The government also use their own maths system.

S.V. : We had spent $7000 to repair the bridge.
Peo. : But last time you said, $100 for a piece of the bridge support, and there are only 18 pieces. How come it's become $7000?
S.V. : Actually there are 30 pieces of bridge support need to be repaired.
Peo. : But that only come to $3000, where is the remaining $4000?
S.V. : You see, we use $100 for each of the repair and we had employed consultant to consult us on the repair works.
Peo. : What! The consultant fees is $4000!!!!
S.V. : No! You see, $100 x 30 + consultant = $7000.
Peo. : Then the consultant fees is $4000.
S.V. : No, no, no. I repeat again $100 x 30 + consultant = $7000.
Peo. : ????????????

I think, we (the engineers and the people) need to go back to school and re-study the basic of maths again.

Monopoly

If someone telling you that you are monopoly a section/area/product/technology/service, what is he mean?

Is he mean:

1. I had been forced to use your product/service!
2. You had charged me with sky high price and yet I still need to pay to you.
3. I can't question your product/service quality.
4. I need to look at your face to use your product/service.
5. You had stopped other competitor to enter the market/area that you are in.
6. I need to see your bastard face everyday!
7. I'm losing money cause I had to paid very high price to you.
8. You are suck!
9. All related product/service have to be purchase from you.
10. You had screwed up my plan!
11. ...

I think I need to read more psychology and law books to understand the meaning the meaning behind these words.

Increment

I receive my increment letter yesterday. Somehow it's below the expectation and lower than last few years when the company don't have much job that time.

According to the info is that we loss money for the projects that we had done in the last year. So far I know there are more than 5 projects I had fully commissioned, and most of then are loss money.

I'm wonder, maybe I should told my boss that they can reduce my salary since the company loss money, therefore I also embarrassed to ask more from them.

Maybe I should told my boss about this tomorrow, see I can help them or not.

Xu Wei Lun RIP 1978-2007



News

Astro TV Awards

Busy, busy and busy!

It's a busy year for me. Maybe everyone in my company. Everyone is doing their portion of the works. As usual, the Pareto principle applied here. Some people pretend to be busy, some look very busy, some are screaming cause too busy, some are quietly doing their works, and some try to block everyone from moving forward in order to wait for them. And once again 80% of the job is done by 20% of the worker. Whether you are the 20% stupid genius or the 80% wisely idiot, boss wouldn't know. However, those can talk nicely is a very hardworking staff in boss's eyes, and those take bad words or don't talk at all is the lousy workers.

As usual I always scream to my boss cause I'm overloaded this time. I seldom do writing task cause my English is weak. But this time, I'm floated with documents and documents and documents.

There are two kind of workers in this world, a talker and an implementer.

A talker usually is very good in writing and reporting, e.g lawyer and manager. They usually have ability to "convert" the shit become gold using their mouth.

On the other hand, an implementer is usually equipped with lots of knowledge and skill. They usually can't talk or write in "proper" manner. They usually know how to clean the shit by using their dirty hand.

I think the God is fair. Everyone was awarded with a skill for your to continue live in this world. If you still able to stay in this world, that mean you are still a winner, or else you wouldn't be here anymore.

For all the winner, cheer!

Apprentice

I'm not Donald Trump, therefore this is a nightmare of your life time. However you will be awarded as the most stupid guy in the company.

Requirements:

1. You must have high IQ > 140.
2. You must have dumb look.
3. You must able to work 7x24 a week.
4. You must no off your hand phone after working hour.
5. You must do everything, from photocopy to engineering until clean shit.
6. You must be poor.
7. You may have defect in speaking ability.
8. You must not afraid of height.
9. If you are married, you have to learn to live without your wife.
10. If you got girl friend, you have to prepare to let her go.

If you are interested to be my apprentice, please write in with your resume and photo. Only short listed candidate will be interview.

100 best companies to work for 2007




When will my company can be listed.

Death Note 2: The Last Name

Can't wait to see this movie.

The war has begun

Finally, first bullet has been fired and engineering department is not only facing strong outsider but also internal civil war.



It will be a tough war, but justice will stand on our side.

A joke

A salesman, and engineer, and a technician are driving in a car when, just outside of town, they get a flat tire. The three of them get out of the car and scratch their heads.

The salesman says, "Maybe I should walk into town and get us a new tire. I know that I can bargain with the man at the parts store and get us a great deal."

The engineer stops him, saying, "No, before you do that, we'll have to do some computations, figuring the grade of the road, the asphalt temperature, and the average rate of speed we will be traveling to know what kind of tire you should buy."

The technician laughs and shakes his head. "No, no, no! What's wrong with you guys? Hell, we have a spare tire in the trunk - now all we have to do is start swapping tires until we find the flat one!"

Zzzzzzz

Working overnight yesterday, from 2PM until today 9AM. Two group of peoples working overnight, a pipe work and an electrical work. It’s just not my day.

I overlook again the pipe works. Damn! Sometime I hope my boss will permanent put me at one site so I can be more concentrate. Just feel down when things are not running as plan.

Well, electrical works is fine and simple, but somehow, I have to go back there to fix some control this afternoon (luckily, Cheong is helping me to drive me there and back, cause I only able to sleep for about 4 hours).

It is the first time I working overnight since last year April, after a long rest. Not very tire, but my leg is pain. I think I need to buy a new safety shoe.

Now feel sleepy, I hope the client don't call me at night. Nightmare!

Later go to see my girl :)
I wonder what she look like XD

And not forget my junior, I think this is the first time he working overnight. Young man, practice more cause more will coming.

By the way, this is my 101 posts. Hope I can write more in the near future.

Recruitment

1. Manager

• Scope of works
• To entertain customer
• Responsibility
• Make sure the customer is happy
• Qualification
• Must be graduate from UM, prefer first class student
  
• Working period
• Only need to work for three days a week
• Benefit
  
• Transport allowances and entertainment allowances

2. CAD Engineer

• Scope of works
• To draw CAD drawing and surf net
  
• Responsibility
• Make sure go home at 6PM
  
• Qualification
• None
• Working period
• 5 working days with 32 days of annual leaves.
  
• Benefit
  
• Endless coffee and tea
• Engineers to help on finish the drawing if don't want to do

3. Engineer

• Scope of works
• Everything. From documentation until site coordination
  
• Make CAD drawing
• Photocopy, clean manager's shit
  
• Responsibility
• Make sure everything is working
  
• Qualification
• Must be graduate from university
• Stupid but high IQ
  
• Working period
• 7 x 24 a week
  
• Benefit
  
• May give you bonus if the management is happy with your dumb look

My new toy

I have been using Contrec 212 energy (BTU) meter since the first day and currently I alway receive complain from my client about this meter. I am very disappointed with the service and reply give be the supplier on the meter problems. It's seen that the meter have very serious manufacturer bugs (reseting cumulative energy, unstable in taking pulse input, hang,...). I have try to find replacement for my next project and finally I found this.



I'm still testing it, but from the menu and the feature, I hope this unit will not disappoint me.

Anyway, for new project it will be my selected meter. Will review it in very near future.

I’m getting busy with my works again. Three running projects in hand. I can’t imaging what will happen in near future.

Yesterday I have my lunch around 4.30PM, my stomach feel very uncomfortable for the rest of the day. I think it’s another symptom of getting old. I know this is just the beginning; more will come in very near future.

You must be wondering how much bonus I get for this year. Well, I still haven’t got it, but rumor said not more than a month. I think I must be stupid.

I really think I am.

Last few months ago, my company outsource our office PC and networking to a company. All the while, I was the guy in charge of the office computer and networking since I joined the company. I really want to thanks my company for giving me opportunity to earn some credit card points meanwhile maintain my interest and knowledge in IT. Somehow, my company is caring about my working loads and they finally outsource the company IT to outsider (I hope my assumption is correct).

At first, the IT subcontractor come quite frequent and they solve most of the company IT problem although sometime the solution is expensive (who care about the extra few Ringgits). Somehow, some of my colleagues still prefer to ask me to solve their computer problem. I want to thanks them for believing in me although they are actually wasting company resources.

Lately, I feel like working for the IT subcontractor. They just keep on postpone to come to my office until I have to solve their problems. Sorry to tell you all that, they don’t pay me, not even a thank you.

Actually I don’t mind to help my colleagues to solve their PC problems in urgent case (for free, since I already done that for almost five years), but since the company already outsource the company IT then I think I shall not do these works. If the subcontractor is not performing, I hope I am not the person to bring up the issue to the management. If I really did, the will be rumors flying around.

Hey, I don’t afraid of rumors, but I just want to have some peaceful days.

We are ISO Company; there must be a measurement and comparison system that can be applied in this case. I hope management can start to do that.

I admit I’m stupid, but I know 1+1=2, just I don’t know how to prove it. Do you?

Stupidity Test

Follow the instructions and see until what level of stupidity you are.

Remember, follow the instructions.

Finally, it's end...

I never feel so relax since last 3 months. Finally I submit it will some minor spelling error. Who care!

I really want to thanks Cheong. He's the genius, without him I don't think I can finish it.

At last I can have a nice dream tonight.

Judgment day

Whether I can release my million tonnes burden or not tomorrow?

Wish me good luck.

New year present from our caring government

Today good news, our government has reduced the road tax because they want to reduce our burden. I feel grateful after reading the news. Am I?

In the other hand, the LDP toll has increased RM0.60 to RM1.60. Now, if I use the road everyday once, then I need to pay extra RM1.20 everyday. Every month I need to pay RM36.00 and every year I pay RM432.00. WTF is our government defining the "to reduce the burden"!

This is not yet include the increased petrol, electricity and water.

That how they called "caring" action!

Hey, why don't those cower direct told us that "We, the government, has robbed thousand dollar from you, the stupid resident, and now we return you some sweet.

If someone dare to say this in the parliament, we will all give him our big hand.

Once again, I'm the genius!

I just came back from Ikea. Lots of people there and everyone is celebrating the coming new year. But I go there to buy promotion item, Billy bookshelf, selling RM99 per unit (normal price about RM189, if I not wrong).



Ok, it's 202cm height and 80cm width. O_o Shit!!! But I like that bookshelf.

After measure my car length, I bought 2 units. Guess what, I almost dismantle my car just to put the two damn heavy bookshelf in. How I do that? I show you tomorrow :)

Once again, I'm telling you I'm a genius, wah ha ha ha ....I'm the best of the best of the best....

and My SEG is still the best car ever make, wah ha ha ha ....

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!

It's New Year's eve

2006 just reached it's end. 2007 is coming. Time is moving faster and faster, I think I'm getting old.

What I have done in 2006? What I get from 2006? What is my plan and wish for 2007?

Every year these are the common question everyone will ask themselves.

2006 is a meaningful year for me although I still have some wishes hanging there.

Anyway, writing something personal on New Year's eve is just making the day blue. So I just wish you all Happy New Year, good ending and lucky start. Cheer!

Earthquake!

Today the Internet is slow, very slow. The Taiwan earthquake had destroyed the underwater communication cables. Most of the line are down. We are go back to the dial-up age again :(

Futher news read here

Luckily not many people killed by the earthquake.

Chara with Yen town band - My way

I like this song and also the movie. Enjoy.



... and not forget season greeting, Merry X'mas.

I'm a illegal driver

Today I go to post office to renew my driving license. I went to the big post office in Gombak. Once I reach there, I saw a huge notice that the JPJ is off-line. To bad, I need to go for other branch.

After that I went to Subang Jaya, another big post office. Once again I saw the big notice said that JPJ off-line. Ok, now I can't renew my license. I will drive my car illegally for three days until Tuesday. By then I hope the off-line issue had been solve by our "Malaysia Boleh" engineer.

This is industrial norm, I think. Last time I went to bank I saw off-line problem; post office as usual most of the time is off-line; government payment counter, off-line.

I wonder why it's happen? Is Malaysia lack of IT people? But I heard we have Cyberjaya and also MSC. Or Malaysia is full with lazy worker?

(Notes: Lazy people is not equal to idiot, somehow they can be consider as most intelligent creature on Earth)

I always use bypass road, not because I'm poor, but I just don't want to pay toll to those rich peoples. They are too rich to begging from me. The most famous bypass I used is the Hicom Glenmarie to bypass the Federal Highway toll to go to Klang to see my pretty lady :).

There are two traffic lights, distance less than 100m. Every time after the first traffic light, I need to wait about a minute in front of the second traffic light. I wonder these engineers know something about synchronizations? Do there ever lean about optimization problem? Or do they know the formula to relate the distance, time and speed?

However, this road is not the worst. I think the worst design of traffic light is at Central Market. They are suck!

We do not need to show to people how clever / intelligent we are, but please also don't let people laugh and curse on your stupidity.

Engineer's dilemma

All the while I'm teasing manager in making decision. However, today I facing same problem.

Wireless or fiber optic communication medium?

I'm majoring in computer and communication for my Degree, but communication is my weakest subject. I try to study hard but still the result is bad. Luckily I'm able to graduate :)

After working with wired (copper and fiber optic) communication for five years, I had promise myself to breakthrough this limit. I want to use wireless in my future project.

In end of year 2005, I have a project in hand (this was my most failure project) and I want to experiment with wireless communication. However, because of the cost of these wireless devices, I had abandon my dream.

In end of year 2006, once again, I have a project and I promise myself I will use wireless this time. Due to the cost, I can only choose wireless or fiber optic.

Everyone is choosing fiber optic, because it's "traditional" way of communication. Everyone is thinking that fiber optic is a "safe" choice.

If I choose wireless and at the end if this solution failed, I will in deep shit, but if I success no one will know. I don't mind to take risk, since I already a deadwood in my company :|, another failure to me is just a "norm" again. But because of my personal dream and I let everyone else to take risk with me. Can I do this?

First step is the most difficult step, it may fail but if you don't move your leg, you will alway standing there, forever.

One day I will make my first move. I will not be a hero, no one will notice the move I had make, but by then I'm in front of you :)

Cancel leave

I cancel my leave today not because people ask me, but I'm too boring staying at home facing all these stupid papers.

Another 3 weeks (hopefully) I will free from all these torturing paper.

I will be FREE!!!!!!!!!!!! wah ha ha ha ha ......

Where do I stop just now........

Picture of the day



I captured this photo in front of my high school. I wonder how many person can survive under extreme condition.

She at German

I fetched my girl friend to KLIA yesterday night, and she will be at Germany until next Monday. Start to miss her now.

* I'm VERY FREE this week. Guy remember to call me if you got NICE place to go XD

How to get phone number from girl on the street

Zune

Microsoft lunch Zune last month and what people said about it?

http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/13/installing-the-zune-sucked
http://daringfireball.net/2006/11/did_microsoft_copy_the_wrong_ipod
http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=87848&AFC-HSUIT&ATTR=DIGG

After reading these reviews I just can’t stop myself laugh at these genius who create a nice device but “functionless”, just like Xbox. They should learn more from iPod and Playstation.

But bear in mind Microsoft is very good in long term war. She can terminate anyone larger and dominance at this time slowly and softly.

Prove 1: I wonder where is Lotus 1.2.3?
Prove 2: Palm OS was once dominating the market of PDA, but I just saw Palm Treo 700w using Windows Mobile.
Prove 3: What C/C++ compiler you are using now? Borland C++ Builder no longer with us :(

The lesson today:

Don’t look down on your enemy; if you don’t move forward, you are going to lose your territory.

Although I hope iPod and Playstation can still able to laugh at Microsoft in future but I know sooner or later Zune and Xbox will dominate the consumer market.

Finally...

I had submitted my very first draft of my thesis to my supervisor, after non sleep for few weeks (I wonder my supervisor will read it. Anyway there is still lot of works to do).

I’m not sure whether there are anyone enjoys reading thesis, but as a thesis writer, it’s a torturing process indeed. We create something that no one will read. For me I rather go to the book store and spent RM8 for a NuiYou that have 200++ pages of pretty girls and artists.

I can’t write / talk proficient not only in English, even Chinese, I have limited words in my mind. Once again I respect my company ISO consultant. This bugger can spent 3 hours just to explain my company objective which only contain not more than 30 words. Salute! Anyhow this guy earns money from talking and his “non-stop English words generator” builds inside his head.

He just repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat……. and repeat and all your money go into his pocket. Damn, I regret why I don’t learn my English seriously in school. Now what I have is only equations and formulas.

These skills wouldn’t make money and I have to work like hell. See, the law of work already explain that, time is money and knowledge is power; work = power x time. So the more knowledge you have the lesser money for you if the work is constant. That why we work like hell in order to maintain the salary when more experience and knowledge acquired from day to day. Only one day when we “format” our brain and become boss then money will come into our pocket :)

I’m happy today because since morning until evening no one calls to ask me to cancel my leave. Thanks God, finally I can really rest for a day. But in the afternoon, one of my colleague call me and ask me to do some calculation for one of the stupid company (anyhow, these fuckers [sorry to use this very rude word, but I just can’t stop to calling them like this] are not stupid, they can ask a genius to do work for them. Shit I think I’m the stupid) because we only give them raw data and they want to have processed data. Ok, one day I will teach these fuckers a lesson; they have to know who is their cook.

Working

Once again I had canceled my leave on Monday after keep receiving calls from my colleagues.

Once again I'm not telling you all that I'm important, it rather showed that I'm still useful to my company :) (Thanks God I still able to exchange my time with money).

Everyday, we work 8-9 hours (I stupidly work more that that hour). What I told you is my "working" hour, and work <> production!

If you apply Pareto Law twice, the production rate is only 4% while 96% of time you are actually idle. So say 8 hours of "work" is actually contribute to 1/2 hour of "production".


The picture showed that 6 persons is once again waiting for a bugger to allow us to into their premises. Shit!

Pareto Principle

Everyone know about Pareto principle or more commonly known as 80/20 law. In most of the company 80% job are done by 20% of worker.

But I would like to further the effect of Pareto principle.

80% of the 20%-worker's time is used to wait for 20% of 80%-worker's contribution.

Thus, the actual production rate is only 20% x 20% which is 4%.


It just happen here. We had wasted 1++ hour just to wait for a stupid bugger come and give us a permit to go into their premises. Shit!

Raining day

I wonder where's the rain come from?



...... where's my money go :(

Have you finish your leaves?

Every year end, people are crazily taking leaves. If you are lousy holiday planner like me, this is the most headache todo every year.

I admire those people can finish their leaves, some even use future leave, and some are pretty good in utilize their medical leaves also.

I still have about 10 days leave need to clear this year and this does not include the 18 days leave that can carry forward to next year. I really don't know how am I going to finish it. Anyway, I hope I can plan my leave better next year.

For almost 4 years, I didn't take any MC. Every year, we are entitle for 18 days MC. Thus 4 x 18 = 72 days MC forfeited. I feel thankful because I'm healthy to do my dairy tasks.

Q: Is it too much leave for you?
A: Hey, do you think you are too rich?

Q: Are you sure you are so workaholic?
A: Not sure, but I always work over night, weekend, holiday.

Q: Why someone can finish their leave and MC every year, but you can't?
A: Sorry boss, I'm a failure.

Q: Are you snake on working day?
A: Er.... not sure lah.

Q: Do you think you are so importance to your company until the company can't move without you?
A: Sorry boss, I'm a failure, can I take leave next week?

Ha ha.... remember to plan your leave next year.

Genius or idiot?

One of my friend said he want to quit from his current job and job other company. I think most of the people, me also, will disagree his action. Why?

His company giving him 6-8 month (if I not mistaken) bonus every year and also share. Let say his salary is RM3000 per month, and his bonus is 6 months and he receive 20 lot of share and each share is RM9.50. Therefore, every year he receive extra 6 x 3000 + 20 x 100 x 9.5 = RM37000!

Then his job must be very difficult, you will think. No, 9AM - 5PM office work.

As for myself, the maximum bonus I got is 2 month (there is one year, I only got 1/2 month), and if my salary also RM3000 it will be RM6000!

What is my working time? Basically 8.30AM - 6PM, but it doesn't happen to me. Most of the time I work at night, weekend and holiday. And as for my job I have to make myself dirty and sweated.

Hey, I should quit first not you my friend. Why I still here? I must be stupid.

I think the only reason can explain this is that genius don't work for money and money can't buy genius :)

Genius or idiot? I don't know. Maybe you can tell me.

Management Quotes
Grab from http://humour.200ok.com.au

A magazine recently ran a "Dilbert quotes" contest. They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real-life Dilbert-type managers.

Here are the top ten finalists:

1. "As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks." (This was the winning quote from Fred Dales, Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, WA)
2. "What I need is an exact list of specific unknown problems we might encounter." (Lykes Lines Shipping)
3. "E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or data. It should be used only for company business." (Accounting manager, Electric Boat Company)
4. "This project is so important, we can't let things that are more important interfere with it." (Advertising/Marketing manager, United Parcel Service)
5. "Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule." (Plant manager, Delco Corporation)
6. "No one will believe you solved this problem in one day! We've been working on it for months. Now, go act busy for a few weeks and I'll let you know when it's time to tell them." (R&D supervisor, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing/3M Corp.)
7. Quote from the Boss: "Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say." (Marketing executive, Citrix Corporation)
8. My sister passed away and her funeral was scheduled for Monday. When I told my Boss, he said she died on purpose so that I would have to miss work on the busiest day of the year. He then asked if we could change her burial to Friday. He said, "That would be better for me." (Shipping executive, FTD Florists)
9. "We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with the employees." (Switching supervisor, AT&T Long Lines Division)
10. One day my Boss asked me to submit a status report to him concerning a project I was working on. I asked him if tomorrow would be soon enough. He said, "If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited until tomorrow to ask for it!" (Hallmark Cards executive)

Manager, do you know what you are talking or not! Think before you speech.

Definition...

• Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool on the other.
• Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
• Conference Room : A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.
• Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.
• Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
• Yawn: The only time some people ever get to open their mouth.
• Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.
• Classic: A book which people praise but does not read.
• Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
• Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.
• Experience: The name people give to their mistakes.
• Opportunist: A person who starts taking a bath if he accidentally falls into a river.
• Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.
• Father: A banker provided by nature.
• Criminal: A guy no different from the rest....except that he got caught.
• Boss : Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
• Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.
• Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills and kills you with his bills.

WCG 2006

Korea won again the WCG 2006.


Final WarCraft Game 1


Final WarCraft Game 2

PS3 on the move

PS3 lunched 11-Nov-2006 in Japan for USD420 (RM1600). What new to PS3?

1. 3.2GHz Cell Broadband Engine
2. 2.5" SATA Hard drive included.
3. Blu-ray drive.
4. HDMI port.
5. Bluetooth controller.
6. Chrome trime (Premium version).
7. Wifi (Premium version).
8. Flashcard reader (Premium version).

It will be a new generation of home entertainment.

Report on Linux

If you think installing Linux is difficult, you should try PuppyLinux.

Download the ISO image (about 70M) and burn to CD. Boot from the CD and you are ready to run Linux on your PC without affect your existing OS. If you like it, just install it to harddisk, thumbdrive, flash memory (compact flash, SD card, ...).

Getting into X is just a click on button and the OS do all detection and configuration for you.

I spend 1/2 hour to install the OS to harddisk, and my Linux box start to rock.

Q: I want to use bit torrent!
A: Yes, it come with a very small torrent client. Can you see it from my captured picture?

Q: I want to read Chinese!
A: You just need to download the Chinese fonts and reconfigure the fonts script and you can read Chinese. Check my capture.

Q: How about network neighborhood?
A: Just use LinNeighborhood.

Q: USB drive, can read meh?
A: No problem at all. And it can read some hidden drive that Windows can't read :)

Q: File explorer?
A: No problem also, like using Windows Explorer.

Q: What else you don't have?
A: Everything is there. I don't need to install network card driver, sound card driver, graphic card driver, ... the OS have everything you need to run a OS.

It's happy to see an old PC can perform like a Windows desktop. Just try (all you need is a blank CD) and you will like it.

Another corporate lesson

In the beginning was the Plan.

And then came the Assumptions.

And the Assumptions were without form.

And darkness was upon the face of the Workers.

And they spoke among themselves, saying, "It is a crock of shit, and it stinketh."

And the workers went unto their Supervisors and said, "It is a pail of dung, and none may abide the odour thereof."

And the Supervisors went unto their Managers, saying, "It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide by it."

And the Managers went unto their Directors, saying, "It is a vessel of fertiliser, and none may abide it's strength."

And the Directors spoke amongst themselves, saying one to another, "It contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very strong."

And the Directors then went onto the Vice Presidents, saying unto them, "It promotes growth and is very powerful."

And the Vice Presidents went unto the President, saying unto him, "This new plan will actively promote the growth and vigour of the company; with powerful effects."

And the President looked upon the Plan, and saw that it was good.

And the Plan became Policy.

This is How Shit Happens.

Another simple question

Is 0.999999(with infinite 9) equal to 1?

Friend's wedding

My friend end his bachelor last Friday. Lot of "jealous" people, e.g me XD, will say this stupid guy end his beautiful life stupidly. He give up the whole jungle because of one tree. I will "never" do that!

SK: This guy stupid-lah, end his life so early!
Wisely: Ya loh, he is damn idiot. Play enough first mah. Because of 1 tree, he let go the whole beautiful jungle.
SK: I will never do that.
Wisely: Me too!
Disntein: Hey, you guy, he got 1 tree belong to him. You two got the jungle, but any tree belong to you? You are lost inside the jungle.

Ha ha, happy wedding MR. Voon.

I wish I can do some "stupid" thing one day :)

I'm a genius, but......

I think I'm a genius (hey, don't blame me for so cocky, because I am XD).

I know how to break people software; I know how to put virus on other's computer (although people may found it); I know how to open a lock with wire; I know how to cheat my boss; I know how to make the whole company have internet access or only me got access; I know how to do lot of legal and illegal things.

But today I found out that I don't know how to open a door O_o.

Yes, I had try to open a door but can't then I had been waiting for almost an hour to ask people to open the door for me. Guess what, the door is unlock, you just need to push the door, but stupid me pulling the door.

Shit, I'm a genius but I'm stupid. I going to end my life today for the stupidity. And someone please submit my case for Darwin Award.

Thank you.

P.S. To 2 young engineers, please go back to school and learn how to open the door. Don't make same mistake like me :_|

Windows Vista

Microsoft is giving free upgrade for your Windows XP to Vista if you purchase any PC between 26-Oct 2006 and 15-Mar 2007.

Are you happy with Windows XP? Or you prefer Windows 2000 or even older like Windows 98, Windows 3.1 or MSDOS 6.22 O_o.

When 80286-age, we use 10% of the CPU power for UI, 90% for application and now we use 90% got the GUI and 10% for the application. In order to let you feel the same speed or faster speed, we need to boost up the CPU power so you wouldn't feel the burden of running applications.

I admire Linux, although I still using Windows for daily application. An old PC (PII type) can perform like Windows XP using Linux.

We can't deny that installing Linux and bring up the X is a challenging task, but sooner this will not be a problem when more and more support form hardware manufacturers and more and more programmers / communities help to engineer the Linux core.

Linux are customizable, while for Windows, you can't even can choose to install or not to install IE. But customizable also lead a problem - too much of distribution choices. I'm not sure about you, but choosing a suitable distribution is just as difficult as choosing a wife from bunch of girl friends :).

A joke
(Courtesy of Syid Arif)

Three male programmers were in the bathroom standing at the urinals.

The first programmer finishes, walks over to the sink to wash his hands.
He then proceeds to dry his hands very carefully. He uses paper towel after paper towel and ensures that every single spot of water on his hands is dried.
Turning to the other two, he says, "At Microsoft, we are trained to be extremely thorough."

The second programmer finishes his task at the urinal and he proceeds to wash his hands. He uses a single paper towel and makes sure that he dries his hands using every available portion of the paper towel.
He turns and says, "At Intel not only are we trained to be extremely thorough but we are also trained to be extremely efficient."

The third programmer finished and walks straight for the door, shouting over his shoulder, "At Sun, we don`t piss on our hands."

Some quotes

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for.

Microsoft gives you Windows... Linux gives you the whole house.

The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog.

Computers are like air conditioners -- they stop working properly if you open WINDOWS.

Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows.

Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

Linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste.

The box said "Windows 98 or better" - so I installed Linux.

Linux

I had spend 3 days just to make the Linux box up.

1st day: try install using Xubuntu and hang at the partition stage until 2nd day.

2nd day: abort Xubuntu and install Ubuntu Lite. Installation only took 1/2 hour but I had to spend the remaining day to bring me into the Xwindows. If you facing same problem, you may use the following command to start the reconfiguration of you graphic card, mouse and keyboard.

# sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

The password is "none".
To switch between resolution just press Ctrl+Alt++ or Ctrl+Alt+-.

3rd day: Setup network card. The first impression for me about Linux is that this OS is natively networked. Thus, it should recognize any network card attached to it. After some search, I add the 8139too to etc/modules. And I'm on the LAN!

The following commands are very useful with you deal with network

to list all the network/dial up:
# ifconfig -a

to enable the network card:
# ifconfig eth0 up

to restart the network configuration
# /etc/init.d/networking restart

Once the Internet is up, I had update the Firefox to 2.0 and install flash plugin since I will visit YouTube alot.

Todo:
1. Enable Firefox to show Chinese character.
2. Install multimedia player, especially real player.
3. Bit torrent :p
4. Install gcc.
5. Mounting of USB hard disk drive (that using FAT32 and NTFS).
6. Network neighborhood.
7. Printer.
8. ...

Still lot of works need to be done.

Why Linux? You can install a Windows within an hour. You only need to use mouse and forgot about the command.

There are few reason. First, Linux is free. Second, there are somethings that Windows can't give. Third, I'm a engineer, engineer always make himself into trouble :)

Will continue report the status of the Linux box.

Alone again

Ok, I'm alone again, I think :)