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Time to Change

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It is sickening everytime when i think about how i am being underpaid by my employer. the fact that there are less than 3 companies in Malaysia that can do what we can do today. still, we are paid just like any other IT company. heck! we are working with radar systems, electronic warfare and such. the cost of each of the equipment is mindboggling but the company treat us as if we are installing desktop computers and servers. It is not just about the amount of work that we give, but it is more about the expertise, knowledge and experience we have. this 3 elements can be easily exported to the competitor (by the means of hiring us with tripple pay!). Our bosses just dont realise this, until one day we would say "au revoir!" and they would say something like "oh, we just eat our own shit! the competitor can do what we always do!". just wait and see ... the pictures below say everything. ordinary company just don't do this. .n.g.

A Trip Back to Kota Bharu

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this will be my first trip back to Kota Bharu for almost 1 year. last time was hari raya puasa 2008. mak oi, what kind of son (SOB may b?) am i? yes, i had my reasons. 1st, after raya, i was tide up with projects until Feb 09. then my wife was finishing her thesis until April. then right afterwards i had 3 proposals to do. now i have to rush back because; puasa is less than a month from now. by raya, my wife's stomach will be bigger, growing and kicking from the inside. i supposed a baby is doing it for fun f rom the inside. probably testing the wall. and then, durian season is a good thing. my sisters have durian trees just behind the house. this will be a good time to go to White House, Sun Too and Ayam Percik Yatie. Wah, can i do all this in a short time? We'll see then! .n.g. p/s: A red Golf GTI would be fun .. hhhmmm .. plus two game boys in hand.

Is there a Theory of Everything? by Dr Michio Kaku

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i came across this article from Dr Michio Kaku, a reknown physicist. i've read a lot of journals, watched so many Discovery Channels and National Geographics programmes on the Theory of Everything, yet i still have not come across a good article to explain it all from A to Z. even wikipedia is not so convincing this time (wikipedia has been my favourite on other topics). i hope this blog eventually can shed some lights on this theory as i gather more articles and journals. for a start, let's read this article from Dr Michio Kaku. Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York, is the author of VISIONS: HOW SCIENCE WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE 21ST CENTURY and the best-seller HYPERSPACE. [begin of article] When I was a child, I used to visit the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco. I would spend hours fascinated by the carp, who lived in a very shallow pond just inches beneath the lily pads, just beneath my fingers, totally o blivious to t

i want this ride!

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i can't help it whenever i see a VW Golf MkV GTI. whether it's red or white. they are just too sexy! awesome! my target is to get one of these in 2 years time. a used one probably. but two things need to be taken into account first; debt and money. these two things always come hand in hand. first i need to make full settlement on my current ride. oh i am too shame to tell my current ride. it is like an 'uncle' kind of ride. with a wife and two boys + one in the making, this ride gives ample space and comfort. but a long drive back to Kota Bharu is just killing me. second, i need somehow to increase my income instead of reducing my expenses. i am already frugal with my expenses. same shoes for the last one and half year tell you everything. looking at the current economy, no chance for promotion. the only way is to "jump ship"! i am impressed with a female friend who takes two jobs, a full time and a part time job. she is a superwoman *wink2*. i might no

Social Obligation

I had promised to a friend, an avid blogger, that i would start putting something significant to my blog. So, here it is, my first "social obligation". As promise is a promise. I had a meeting today. We were hosting to a few "industrial leading" local defence/military solution provider. This meeting was initiated by the Ministry of Defence (Malaysia of course) as a working group to spearhead development of our own products. The bad part, i was appointed as the secretariat of the working group. Yes, a secretary with no skirt is not what people expected. The good part, i was sitting with most of the hot shots, where opportunity to 'jump ship' is even closer whenever big project is secured. When i said big project, it is at least RM50mil and above. Big project means big incentive. The ugly part, i can't stand when someone who has a prefix with 'Dr' would think he knows everything. If you struggle to explain on a terminology, then you still h