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I had just read this piece by RPK on local government elections. I have to say that I am in disagreement with him on several matters. I have some really strong views on this matter and I have mentioned it many times on this and the older blog. Finally, Pakatan Rakyat could not delay any longer. [ READ MORE ]
I like but damn, they replaced the black dude! [ READ MORE ]
I recently stumbled upon a new book-store near my place. It is called Gramedia Bookstores and they are already in my good books. I can rarely find my regular authors in our normal book-stores such as MPH, Times and Popular. Typically, I would have to get my fix of books from Kino and there is [ READ MORE ]
Mesmerising – “Human beings with super-human strength and abilities” – indeed. [ READ MORE ]
Just so you know, I decided to divorce my technology posts from this blog and move them onto another blog. I will keep this blog to personal postings on whatever random stuff amuses me from time to time. You may still find some technology posts on this blog from time to time but they will [ READ MORE ]
I have just recently been informed that as part of the cost-cutting efforts at work, I will no longer be entitled to business cards. !!! Well, it is not that I have a great need for business cards. However, I do sometimes wonder how the management goes about selecting things to cut. A set of business cards [ READ MORE ]
As the letter says, I have been recently appointed as a judge for our local LEGO robot competition league! It is something like the Integrated Design Project that we had at Cambridge, where students worked together to build a robot to accomplish a certain task within a certain time frame. However, these are students between [ READ MORE ]
I have recently come across a couple of situations where people have expressed their frustrations at the lack of expertise and skilled workers in Malaysia. I have some thoughts about this issue and I would like to put them down here. Mismatch of Skills In one case, I visited a semiconductor foundry (those places that manufacture the [ READ MORE ]
I had dinner with a bunch of Cambridge friends this evening – three of whom were economists and one a biologist. This is the second time that we were meeting up in a week. Some time during dinner, a thought occurred to me – I am mixing with an odd bunch. Odd because I don’t [ READ MORE ]
You know what, I did not realise that anything untoward was happening within our opposition coalition. In fact, even after everyone started making a big fuss about MPs quitting and aligning themselves with the ruling coalition, I still did not feel like anything special was happening. Then it dawned on me – I have become [ READ MORE ]