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… but instead, I’ll post them HERE!!!

For those of you who have been following this blog so far, I thank you for your support and encouragement… this is the end of this blog, but it’s not the end of everything, I’ve decided to take it a step forward by hosting it with my own hosting.

So for future update, please kindly refer to HERE… once again, thank you. =)

It’s been one year, and I never thought it would last til now =P. I mean previously I’ve got two blogs, none which have lasted this long… Well, mainly because of my “hot for 3 minutes” attitude…

Thinking back, my first post was “Hello World !!!“, which was the name of the first example I learned in my C/C++ Programming Language course. I remember that day I was staying in the lab doing my Robocon things, and suddenly it struck me that I have no records on wonderful things happening around me and things I did despite spending so much effort and time on them.

Then the idea of having this blog came in… the rest are history.

For those of you who have followed this blog so far, I sincerely thank you for your support all this while.

I’m currently working on migrating this blog to my own hosting and domain name (It doesn’t look very nice having another word following my name, and I can’t do much with this current free blog hosting…). Hopefully it’ll be ready by next month.

Til then…

Things changed, and never stop changing… yet, something never changed…

Never had I imagine I would return to this state again… just like who I once was…

Unfortunately, I’m still here, in the uni…

Most of them have tried to convince me to join because after two years as a team member, I’ve never go traveling with them, as a team. Deep inside, I really wanted to go. It’ll probably be chance of a life time for me to get to visit foreign universities and have a first hand interaction with them. But somehow, other factors that stopped me from going prevail. Just like usual me, letting chances pass me by…

All the best to the team for the China trip, may you guys have a safe and wonderful journey.

Many may just think, What can I really learn in just a 2 hours short seminar anyway? But to me, these are platforms that keep us updated with things that happen around us, that can affect our lifestyle, and which we never realize…

…until they hit us…

For example, the establishment of East Asia Community (东亚共同体) by ASEAN Plus Three (东盟 10 + 3), a cooperation between ASEAN countries and 3 East Asia giants; China, Korea and Japan. The community aims to broadened and deepened many areas of cooperation among its membership countries, including politic, economy, tourism, agriculture… etc. This idea was proposed by our ex-prime minister during the 90’s, but only then was taken into serious consideration a few years back. The objective is to unify the economy among the membership countries, providing free tax zone, as well as to cultivate cooperation among the countries during financial and economy crisis.

Malaysia has been a target of many foreign countries as our “culture blend” was considered best managed among the ASEAN countries. We have attracted heaps of foreign investors to invest in many projects, such as the Iskandar Project in Johor and the proposed project to build a bridge connecting Malacca and Sumatera.

Sounds great huh…?

But how many of us living in Malaysia will actually consider what are the long term consequences behind the establishment? I mean, is there any free lunch in reality?

Our country has great potential and resources, but we do not have the talent and ability to expand them. All of these projects, which were suppose to be utilized by the locals to increase the country’s income, have all been “sub-contracted” by foreign countries. Our government has directly “outsourced” all these projects, and yet still proudly claiming “Malaysia Boleh!”

We have many projects with great future, but most of them failed after a few years of development. This is mainly because we failed to establish the right system for everything we do. As mentioned by the late W. E. Deming, most of the problems that occurred in an organization, are due to the inefficiency of the system.

If employee under-perform, it’s the fault of the employer who failed to establish a good system.

If underlings misbehave, it’s the fault of the leader who failed to establish a good system.

If co-workers couldn’t meet expectation, it’s the fault of the boss who failed to establish a good system…

… and in our country, we failed to do the same as well.

Imagine, when Asia’s giant such as China’s market begins to take a big step into Malaysia, how would it affect us? Let take Starbuck Coffee for instance, a cup of coffee would normally cost RM10 or so. But China’s investor and entrepreneur can provide the same coffee bean, with same taste and coffee quality, but at less than 40% of Starbuck’s cost. For us consumers, that sounds marvelous. But how would this affect our country’s economy?

In China, franchising is not a matter of how many hundreds of franchises, but they count by how many THOUSANDS across the country! Numbers are just small matters…

How will our local products survive when people can provide the same, but higher quality products at lower cost in Malaysia?

How will most of our local entrepreneurs react when the foreign investors bring in this competition?

Are we going to put ourselves into the price slashing war, and end up drowning in the Red Ocean?

Some may procrastinate, saying that we would look for QUALITY than QUANTITY, but let’s be frank… how many of us have always preferred Malaysian Made Product than China Made Product?

As you can see, other countries are advancing in fast pace due to this “economy war”. Everyone are implementing innovation, thinking hard of how to further improve their business as well as the country’s future economy. Unfortunately in our country, the most popular topic we can listen everyday would be “political war”. All parties fighting among each other over who should be in “business“… but when there’s a problem, it’ll turn into “It’s none of my business“.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are at war… economically of course, and yet most of us are still unaware of it. In two months time (beginning of year 2010), we are going to battle with these people (foreign investors and entrepreneurs).

So how well are we prepared for it?

This end semester period is totally a disaster, having more assignments and projects to rush. All the lecturers don’t seem to bother bout our FYP. All they think can of is just, “You are in final year now, so it’s normal that you should be suffering!”… |||-_-

This morning just had a test on Robotics, another disaster… a few days ago tried to do some questions, one question already took me 3 FREAKING HOURS to complete! And this morning we’re required to answer 2 questions in 1 hour… ended up wahaha. =S

Well nothing much to report, just a random post to show that I’m still alive… more precisely, half dead…

Yesterday was one of the most hectic day for all the final years. Everyone was rushing to prepare to give their very best to impress the panels in 8 minutes. That was the most precious yet most suffocating 8 minutes…

I was lucky to be judged by a few good ones. No killing questions, no full-powered-blast comments, just took a few small “bullets”… but some of my friends was not that lucky. Anyway, just let bygones be bygones…

After watching a few friends’ presentation, I realized that there are still so many things that I yet to learn. So many advanced technologies have been available in the market that we’re unaware of.

Ya, most of you might say, “Of course Calvin, you’re a nerd!” or “Dun be so kiasu!“.

Well, I do agree with that partially. But after being in the engineering field for years, I somehow feel that the outside world has much more to offer, provided we take the initiative to go for them, taking step by step to approach them, appreciate them.

Somehow I suddenly realized that I have been wasting so much time in the past. Instead of doing the right thing, I just complaint that I have a boring life.

Life is never boring if we know what we want, and take action to achieve it. Human’s needs are endless, but how many are willing to sacrifice, to work hard to achieve them? Work delayed is work undone, so how many of us are actually aware of it whenever we give excuse such as “Can I do it later?”.

Well, I think all these depend on how much we weight our needs. If we don’t apply a certain “weighting” to our targets, we would never achieve them. Instead of advancing, we would just sit back and procrastinate.

My job is stil undone, and I’m now looking forward to my FYP2, where the interesting things will begin…

Anyway, this is one of the most interesting month for me so far in this year.To cut short, pictures speak more than words.

[09-09-2009] 999 Dinner at El-Miego, Sutera Mall JB

The after-math and the dead pig…

The perfect timing – 09/09/09/09/09

[12-09-2009] FKSG Fac Nite

H.S.Tee gonna kill me for this…

[12-09-2009] Gathering with CKS (my primary school) mates class of 1998 at Pasta Zanmai, MV and dinner at Fong Lye, The Gardens

Dun’s ask why Im the only male there… anyway it’s a nice gathering, hopefully next time more people will attend.

This was the 2nd time I was here, 1st time failed due to long queue… this time also the same, but we insisted to wait for the queue.

Food not too special, but not too bad either… I then realize the reason for the long queue – this is probably the so-called “cheapest” restaurant in The Gardens

[23-09-2009] Green Box with old buddies

[25-09-2009] Outing at SoHoKL, Solaris Mont Kiara

Ok I admit this is not a place for poor people like me, most of the food are for the above average…nevertheless, the night scene is cool!

They say they provide the best coffee around the world… no comment…

End of enjoyment moment, tomorrow will be my “death penalty” – final year project 1 presentation… Just hope those panels won’t kill me with their words.

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