If blog still relevant beyond year of 2015 and onward - and how it relevant to the meanings of life?

Blog seems old school to me these days.

Even some of the most successful blogger in our country like Kenny Sia slow down in his blogging. Wonder how many bloggers can still keep moving on. It takes tremendous level of persistence. The endurance is more than marathon, for marathon you persist for 6 hours or more then you done. But blogging takes more than that commitment. We talk about years. 

These days, there are many channels to voice and share your idea, you can FB it, you twit it, those channels are more effective as the readers are the people who care, or anyway, really interest with what you say. 

But one should have ask why he blog at the first place?

Is the same objective still apply when the world changes, events passed and you still remain as the very same person you are. 

5 years and 10 years can make whole lot of difference. You will be more than surprise you have become a person that you never imagine many years back. Let alone your thinking, your mindset, your belief, it all changes. 

At certain age, around the corner you turn 30, 40 - I, and, at least friends of mine usually think we have reached a stage the life is going to be different. What we pursue is going to change. The scale of wealth and health and happiness is tipping to a new equilibrium of balance. 

You look around, you found amid your friends, your acquaintance, and you start asking how do you compare with others. 

A my friend hits me with his words, "Don't compare." 

DON'T COMPARE. Don't compare measure your maturity, measure your self-confidence. You need not other yardstick to tell how well you are doing. I personally feel it at times can be contradict. I think it should be don't compare unhealthily and don't complacent. When you compare, use it properly, it gives you the boost to be better self. It drives you to be more healthy and work your way up to earn more. But if you don't know what you really want, it can turns into a monster and swallow you and that calls GREED. 

At this age, there is simple explanation, it calls "mid-life crisis". The cure for me is to believe stupidly tomorrow always better, it keeps you going, it gives you the illusion life is full of hope. Just like we created Santa Claus. And who dare say this world is something not more magical than that. Your existence is already magical enough. And this blog already is. 

Windows 7 desktop background can be it be as awesome as Mac?

I have to be cheeky to say this that when my colleagues look at my laptop screen, quite often they will surprise and captivated. Then such question will be ask, "what's OS is this?" "How you do it?"

Let me share my screen below:

It's just a normal windows 7!

First you download some amazing windows theme from the Microsoft sites. Then you right click your wallpaper, choose "Personalize" and select your favorite windows theme. 

Right click again, and select "View" - "Show Desktop Icon" and remove all the ugly shortcuts from the wallpapers. For new era IT user, you really don't need those shortcuts. And for someone with some aesthetic taste like me, i really think it worth the sacrifices. Just brush up some IT skills, you will find the icons are redundant. 

Spend some time download a software called "Rainmeter", do a little bit customization, that's where you get it done! You can find the software here http://rainmeter.net/cms/

The desktop is live, because your clock is clicking, your CPU and memory chart is pulsing, you can type command, goggle search, and even type a URL directly from the screen. You can put reminder too. 

When i see the Windows 8 metro, i really still feel prefer my current setup... I'm not sure if i can do keep my favorite. Please let me know if you have better idea.

Again, i think preference for beauty is very subjective, i just provide one additional option here. I really hate the world to be monolithic. That may explain the early days i'm so resistant to iPhone, when Samsung phone was still a much smaller challenger. And with the popularity Samsung going, i feel proud but yet also also feel my little secret pleasure is dwindling ;)

Stunned by the speed

Leadership, and why we heck care?

At the workplace, we are asked to groom our leadership and take ownership or be proactive. Everyone is asked to show progressiveness. Sometimes, i wonder how about someone just want to be himself, working at his own pace, is he still deserve a place at working environment? Can he openly say this out, sure he can, but doing so, he deemed to jeopardize his own career. Yes, it's me. I don't mean i don't like my job, I just hate the feeling of stretching. Life is a marathon, and not a sprint. Just do good work, enjoy yourself, however said, at times I still need to pretend I'm passionate. As I still wish to rise through the rank in the organization, therefore follow the mainstream is important. I just don't know if i'm alone.

Good Read on Time DotCom

curious case of time dotcom berhad assets

The link above is a very good read for Time DotCom. If we can continue to have undergraduates with this mature thinking, the country will be blessed with more shrewd investors in the future. The view presented can reflected the truth or it may not, nevertheless it shows the independent thinking ability.

Keep on reading the comment section to have a complete view of different voices.

Gem or Germ?

China stocks with attractive good earnings and relatively low price. Obviously, the low price is attributed to the fact that market has no confidence with the Chinese stocks.

Shall I in or not in?

The Warren Buffett way

Try to follow Warren Buffett way (of coz based on my own understanding) in managing my portfolio this year onward, let see will it's work.

Stock entered now - UchiTec & KKB

Next Target - Guan Chong, Coastal, Mudajaya

Bursa Malaysia Stock Web Site

This is a neat web site to check out historic price of stocks in Bursa Malaysia

www.klse.info

Learning to be the parent

There are many types of parent. There is the type who always has not enough time for their children because they are busy with their work. They are bogged down by the work and no energy for their children. There is another type who channel all their energy to groom their children to excel in any area like academic, music, sports, to name a few. They will wish their children to become a better grown-up than themselves, who themselves may once aspires to become an architect, a musician or a business man. They may have ignore that whether the kids truly enjoy it. If you are the type who do care for the kids' feeling, congratulate you.

I'm a careless father too. I leave most of the kids caring to the wife. That day, I was teaching the kids to swim. As in the past, they were afraid and refuse to submerge their head into the water. I am provoked and started my threatening to them. The kids then became more frightened and even more reluctant to attempt.For some unknown reason that suddenly struck me, I change my attitude and spoke softly and closely to them. Gradually they try it, and with more compliments from me, it induces more courage upon them. By the end, all of them are brave enough to submerge themselves into the water. I felt some sense of achievement for such a small matter.

As an Asian parent, i still adopt the philosophy of stern teaching. However, i think the fusion of east and west culture has been beneficial to the Asian. We are less lenient than the west but are more open-mined than our older generation.

At the end, I don't think many of us can claim they are real good parent. Being a parent is a learning process. I will need to remind myself, the kids are not my belongings, I am here just to share my experience with them. I can give advice to them, but they are human being who shall have their own freedom of choices. I think i still have lots of to learn and long way to go, wish me luck.

Peer Pressure

I guess this is not only happen to myself, but to most of the people in the society.

When you grow older, do you feel like avoiding to meet up with you circle of schoolmates, ex-colleagues, ex-bosses etc? If yes, you are probably bored with the measurement that put onto you which you never ask for.

Why there are people interested to probe how well you are doing? Have you married? How many kids you have? How are your kids doing in school? Do you play golf? What car you are driving? Seems those topics are getting more and more common.

Even for good friends who don't ask such questions, some are less willing to share their innermost feelings.

The bright side of it, you will start to make friend with loneliness. Sometimes you don't mind to do things alone. The best part of it, you know who is the one really caring about you and who are the person that you care most. Obviously you spent more time with your family. It has crossed a point whereby last time you prefer to spent time with friends and ignoring your family. Then you start learning to be true to yourself. You no longer beg for favoritism. Just be your own-self who you are comfotable with,

Main computing server companies with names of ascending characters count

Just find out this interesting trivial during customer discussion. The customer told us something about another server hardware company by referring it to the "3 letters company"...

That trigger me to think, the 5 main server companies have name with ascending letters count:
HP - 2 letters
IBM - 3 letters
Dell - 4 letters
Cisco - 5 letters
Oracle - 6 letters

One intriguing points though, not sure if the number of letters has anything to do with their market leadership.

The dream for every man

Seems this guy is really lucky... ahem...

Creative WORLD RECORD 1000 Boobs in Russia

An epitome of Occupy Wall Street

In fact, this post is not going to talk about the recent global uprising against the elite class. I worked for a respectable multinational company. Today, i had lunch with a colleague of mine who is very successful, and highly looked up upon by many people in our company. He had shared some of his friends' success story, who can be viewed as cream of the crop by many regular employees including myself. At the end, he sighed for where he is ending up now. However, in the eyes of mine, he is already quite a high achiever. I dare say he is probably among the top 5% in terms of corporate pyramid in our country.

The old saying that "Greed is a bottomless pit" can't be more true. I have to say my colleague is a smart, good-nature, cheerful and friendly guy, but yet he can't escape from the desire of success. This is how the society is operating now, and we see a accelerated hallowing out of the middle class. The worrying part is that we have reach a juncture that you will make it to the top or slip to the drain.

I can't escape that too.

Tak kenal maka tak cinta

This is the Malay phrase that basically means "You don't know about it so you don't love it". I think that's very true for someone that I start getting working closely in the workplace. The more we interact, the more I start changing my perception towards him.

Why people hate their job?

We all know that we spend more than 50% of our time in work, yet how many of us are really looking forward to come to office? I am sure some of us do, however similarly there are plenty of us, if not hate, but forced to come to work. I figure the reason is very obvious when the job don't give you a sense of achievement. The can be many reasons, among them are lack of job satisfaction or mismatch in job expectation. And due to the mismatch in expectation, the management sometimes set unrealistic goals. When everyone is fighting for their own cause, that creates frictions and conflicts. Especially so in office environment, there are always people who like to bulldoze through their objective by pressure. For me, I come to this situation whereby someone who just always over-interpret my message. For a simple act of asking of information, he misread that i'm challenging the authority. All the aggregation of problem really keep me wonder if i'm in the right job. I love the work i'm doing, but the complication of office interaction with people really tick me off. sigh~