Happy Merdeka ,Boleh land

Living on a routine life is indeed very very boring. I've experimented and it only last about 1 month. I was easily agitated.

The long weekend is my chance to do some house keeping. Apparently the program that I wrote for my routine is just isn't efficient and fulfilling enough. I just don't see any desired growth. I was rather disappointed with how currently things are working.

Comfort is my main enemy. The more comfortable it gets, the more difficult it gets to change. When we wait for the perfect timing to execute something, it seems that perfect time just did not arrive.

"God only help those who help themselves" ..is a phrase my friend told me in a conversation we had . I didn't expect it coming. Least from him. But it was amusing to hear that. How would other people know that we are not helping ourselves? Something hidden that we are not aware of? A blind spot does exist and we sometimes depend on other people to pin point it out.

Ok. It passed midnight and I heard some loud fireworks outside.Happy Merdeka Boleh Land. Boleh lagi ke?

thoughts for end-of-aug-08

A minute in my head:

End of Aug-08 in about 48 hrs. Olympics in Beijing is also over. China champions the overall medal tally. A round applause to the Chinese.

I manage to get back online. A new laptop. It's just a decent laptop unlike my previous PC which cost me a fortune. Just adequate to surf the Net and do some paperwork, programing and business.

I learned a few things this week. Firstly, is the word called pride. Yes, competent engineers need to have pride in what they do. Or else they won't grow. Pride challenges a person to perform better. There is also a downside of being proud but let's just stick with the positive.

The 2nd thing would be drawing conclusions appropriately and accurately. A very important skill to groom. Sometimes, it's difficult to decide based on facts and figures. We are still bound to emotional rational because we are still human.

Are you still reading this? You must be damned bored ..LMAO.

Installation:

I will not use Windows Vista unless this is my LAST RESORT! I smell Paparoach somewhere. The thought of spending another RM300++ don't seem logical to me. I don't have anything against you Bill. Microsoft is great, the pirated ones . But, if every Tom,Dick and Harry uses Vista, wouldn't there be any room for free source development. Free stuff on the Net. Instead, I tried Hardy Heron V7.1as an alternative and it works well too. Initial installation may a little longer because of the bare naked system.

A note to myself. Lupus Linux is somewhat..HORRIBLE. It's just my opinion.So, I strongly recommends Ubuntu as an alternative OS to Windows and Mac. Just create an account here and get the live cd below shipped to your doorstep for free if you happen to get bored with Vista. Or simply download the image file if you are in a hurry.

Free live cd.Picture sourced from bubub.org

I'm reading the newspapers. It's a personal achievement because I hardly browse through the Star for months. Too many craps lately. Sitting on the breakfast table at 7am every morning sifting through the national headlines seems like a good habit to begin with.

"Our country hero Chong Wei has returned with a silver in Olympics" and "10% quota for non-bumis in UITM " was a few headlines that I can remember. And also " fuel prices 'hopefully ' to be reduced by next month." How much? I have no idea. I'm sceptical. There 's too many dramas going on that doubt the credibility of the mainstream media. Too many political games, manipulations and lack of transperancy. I won't eloborate because I admit I don't know much about the recent development. But the feeling of trust to digest this news is just isn't there. This is the crap that I'm living in :)

I think instead of believing, read and analyze. Make the choice.

The olympic weekend

It's the mid of August. I'm just writing to keep my brain running and tweaking. I seldom think these days. Or was it the opposite?

Is being simple minded a good thing or the opposite? Thinking too much does not help. Thinking too much about the future and ignoring the present isn't such a good deal either. For some reasons, I'm paralyzed as I watched every single thing passed by. Does thinking too much widens the chances of distraction? I guess it does. Everything written here is strictly my opinion and may not be agreed by others.

Why can't people just go and do what they are suppose to do? Instead, they stopped along the way due to criticism, cold water , influences, impulsees and second thoughts? Why do I need to give way everytime? Don't think too much. Just do it. There goes the Olympic weekend.

my PC obituary

My PC died. Post mortem indicates a bad hard-drive, a going to be- bad CPU and mother board.

It won't install neither Windows XP , Vista or Linux. It restarts everytime I attempt to install the OS. Typical hardware problem. :-/ So, what's the solution? I've already did what I can. I can also scream out aloud cursing everyone or just simply send it to the computer shop across the road for some repair assessment. Use the leverage of money and time. Let other people do the thinking and waiting for the PC to reboot and install itself..and restarts again. :p

Is convocation a new beginning or an untold farewell?

Yesterday was like the 4th convocation that I attended to. It was in UTEM Melaka. Yes, many may not heard of it, but can assure you that it does exist in Melaka :)

This is probably the last time I will see few faces ,few acquaintance and a few hi bye friends. I'm not being pessimistic, but this is apparently one of the facts of reality.

Sadly, the amount of people / friends that we know may not be something to be proud of. I do see it in Facebook and Friendster. It's the quality friendships that we develop is more important. I don't mind telling that I have few good friends but I always know that I can always count on them at good times or bad. It's sometimes a shame to always claim that you have many friends but deep down inside you know that it isn't true.

Lastly, is convocation a new beginning or an untold farewell? In my case, both context may be true. How about others?

my ranting voice

Office rants ;

I'm in the office waiting to go home. After this long hiatus , I'm back to blogging. It's more like a hobby now. A rant.. yes I rant. Finally after 100 articles and I started to rant my mind out.

This past few weeks was a no life week. It's all about work, an hour on the idiot box, a few short conversations , a dozen of pages of Meatball Sundae and sleep. There's no balance in it. I remembered Robert Kiyosaki saying " Being unbalanced brings you somewhere, being balanced takes you nowhere" or something like that. There is some truth in those words though. I'm getting quite good at work but I'm loosing out in other self developing areas. I'm slowly morphing to a near mind-less workoholic.

While waiting, I'm starting to loose my patience. Patience with people is one of my million dollar assets. I was thinking to myself, is there any gain in getting angry at other people over trivial things? .It takes time to build friendship but it takes a second to break one with an un -supervise tongue. yes, its like a necessity to think before speaking.

It's cold and its..cold. When can I go home? :(