Tsunami hits Japan 2011

It was indeed a shocking news that shocked the whole world when Japan was seriously hit by 10m high waves due to undersea earthquakes. The amount of damages, and casualties were unimaginable.

It is rather irritating when you can easily find all sorts of nonsense and sarcastic remarks posted by many internet users circulating around the network. Some were asking for news of the famous Japanese AV stars, while some were just up there to post their brainless remarks. Please, think twice before you think you really wanna jammed the whole communication network into Japan. The families of the those really affected, might need the communication platform more than you do. So, be considerate and mature.

Another notable thing is why everyone is seemingly to be extremely concern about the news when it involves highly developed countries? It's like whenever these catastrophe involves popular countries, the world seems to be so concerning. But no one seems to care when the same thing happens to less developed countries. Let's just examine ourselves. Aren't all of us the same human, regardless of where do we stay or live?

So let's pray for world peace and human may be sincerely loving each other.

'BOMB' threat at LCCT-KLIA

Wow, a very shocking news. Bomb threat is found at Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) at Kuala Lumpur International Aiport (KLIA). More news can be found at <here>.

There are times when we don't really understand what on earth is this people thinking. For whatever revenge stories or purposes behind the action, they shouldn't be threatening to hurt innocent lives.

So, let's pray for world peace and may human learn to love each other.
Cheers~

The word 'PERFECT'

As I grow up, the word 'perfect' seems to be weird. The more you look deeper into a matter, the more imperfect you will find it to be. If there seems nothing in this universe is perfect, then I would conclude that the existence of the word 'perfect' is just for one reason. For it to fill in the im'perfect'.

What is your say?

Speak the 'right' language

I have just come back from a Business Pitching Camp organized by the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) last few weekends from 19 - 20 February 2011, in UNITEN, Kajang. It is a camp, organized for finalist of the MSC Malaysia-IHL Business Plan Competition 2011 (or its facebook). Praise the Lord, that my team is one of the shortlisted.

We were exposed to challenging sessions of talks, hands-on and most importantly, we did lots and lots of business presentation and pitches to panel of judges, and some fellow angel investors. Briefly, 'business pitching' means you present your business idea or plan to the investors, hoping they will invest certain amount of $ into your company. It is the hope of ministry to born young entrepreneurs among university students in Malaysia.

The main point I have realized after sessions of pitching to all these successful businessperson, is to speak 'their language'. Many times, especially when we who come from technical background, such as engineering, manufacturing or IT sciences, tend to speak in our technical way. Getting used to our normal environment around us, we get used to speak words, phrases and sentences which could only be well understood by our colleagues. We may be too overwhelmed by the uniqueness of our products and inventions, which we could talk non-stop about how good the product is. We tend to show how brilliant our ideas are.

All of these, as a matter of fact are irrelevant and the least important to these investors' eyes. Their interest is very simple. What is your product? How does it look like (hardware, software or system)? How is your company going to make money? And how do you stop competitors from entering your market? - That's it. The technical story behind the system, whether how great is your computer programming behind it, or how sophisticated is the whole manufacturing system - these they won't bother to care.

So next time if you have the chance to pitch your business idea or business plan to investors, kindly make sure you 'speak their language'. Below is the video of which I personally regard as one of the best business pitch ever. Steve Jobs presenting his very first iPhone to the world.

(Source: YouTube)

How ten-pin bowling alley works?

I have been to a bowling sports center this morning, located somewhere in JB. After watching for almost an hour of game plays, the thought of how-on-earth does the whole automatic bowling system work? Right from score calculations, to the return of such heavy-balls and most importantly, the collection and rearrangement of all fallen pins. 

Bearing that thought in mind, I searched over the internet for answers right away after getting home. Below are 2 videos which I personally feel do answer my curiosity. 

Video 1 (Source: YouTube)

Video 2 (Source: YouTube)

After watching these videos, I bet next time when you go for any bowling game, you will appreciate how the great mechanical system working behind the scene. 

Self-'Centerism'

The word 'Self-Centerism' just flashed through my minds. Do not bother to look it up in dictionary, because it does not truly exist. I use the phrase 'self-centerism' to describe the human behavior where selfishness has overpowered all other merits.

Very often, we tend to think from our very individual point of views. Needless to say, focused on our own benefits as the main priority at the center. A very good example of myself which I have just realized recently. I often reprimanded a good friend of mine whenever he tends to be concentrating on his work while I am talking to him. I would tell him that this is very impolite. However, I always react the same when someone is talking to me while I am with my work. I never realized that I, too have behaved as what I reprimanded my friend for doing the same fault.

Dear friends, it is extremely easy for us to pin-point 100 mistakes of other people without much effort. But we often failed to notice the 1000 demerits of ourselves until it's too late. So let us be humble, and take some times to examine our own faults before pointing our fingers to people around us. Everyone should play their part in making places around us a better home, before we hope other people to contribute to that.

What is your say?

Experience VS Qualification

I bet this has been a long debated-issue over these years, whether we like it or not. The major change in working environment which threatens experienced-but-less educated employees started in SEA countries back in the late 80s or early 90s. Then is the time when graduates from many overseas universities came back to work in their origin countries. Unless the existing experienced workers go for some sort of upgrading courses, they were forced to resign or to be 'under the new bird'. And very often, the graduates are very arrogant in nature.

But to me, I really agree that education is merely just a piece of paper. Taking for a very simple example. An engineering educated computer science engineer is surely expected to be very capable in the field of computer knowledge. But how about his other soft skills? Will his engineering qualification leading him to solve emergency problems? Will he be knowing what to react should he faced problems not directly related to his area of expertise? I bet he will be at loss. This is where experiences are most needed.

Qualifications are just like 'handbook'. Students nowadays are expecting to work as a robot, every task is expected to be routine. When something broke from the routine chain, we often become hopeless. We have no experience to diagnose the problems, and fixing it back. Paper qualification does not teach us how to live. How to manage our own-self. How should we control our temper, our EQ or our lust. We are expected not to stop learning. Learning not only for exams, but learn from our daily lives. Learn from our mistakes. Learn from other people's stories around us.

So my point of view is that:
1. For educated youngsters, do not be arrogant. Spend our time in listening to the piece of advices (although often very long-winded or sometimes even over-confident) from the experienced elder co-workers or mentors. Chinese proverbs often quoted 'They eat more salt than we eat rice'.
2. For the elder mentors, teach us whatever you feel we would be needing in future. We appreciate that real lot.