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Updates Time Management, Social events, Sports & PhD.

Time Management Issues. I have this ebook Time management on crack and I've read it before. The little snippet of notes from famous authors is really catchy and relevant to the topics presented. I hope to implement it after this. Activity at KgVicNorth. Well there's badminton Friday Afternoon, followed by ping pong on the night. As always we have Saturday night learning Quran reciting session. And this coming Sunday we have a pot luck BBQ thingy. It's a busy week socially related not work related. Ping pong. Nabil is improving fast. I'm 50-50 with Amir. I need to find out how to return serve better. Maybe the new "court" impacts my performance. Maybe I change bat when playing with nana cause me to not able to play properly. But I did win the last time around. Need to improve. Like the movie: Meet the Robinsons" Keep Moving Forward. OK Zul, yeaa u can do it. :) Update: I've improved after correcting my stand and be aware of the ball location. Quite nic

Nice Exo Skeleton to assist human to lift heavy objects.

Wow this looks nice. A colleague is doing reserach related to this exo skeleton. There's a commercially available one already. I hope they make one which can dance or play soccer like Beckhem or shaolin soccer. lol . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdK2y3lph mE&feature=player_embedded I should buy one for my parents. Mengutip getah sekerap atau buah sawit akan menjadi sangattttt senang. heheheheh. Berkeley Bionics Human Exoskeleton

Why my kids still suck with English?

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It's confirmed by t heir teachers in the parent teacher meeting today. This is not good. My wife speak good English, and I speak great English. The teachers are surprised that our kids speak English so bad when they speak to us, as we can speak really2 well. The kids, for some reason like to speak Malay all the time. When they're playing , singing, quarrelling , etc etc. They go to a school where there's no one else speak Malay. Their friends can be Aussies, Arabs, Indians, Chinese, Maoris but none of them speak Malay. I'm gonna force a full English only or mostly English. I'm gonna rent movies in DVD and ask them to open the English subtitles.

A misconception on myself.

It's kinda funny the experience I have today. Well it's what make us evolve I think. I have this partner who I did all my assignments with. And I'm kinda miss her for this final xm preparation. I'm kinda tired, just wake up and alert by the strong caffeine on the coffee I drink I just now. Oh yea...about that funny experience. I was meeting another set of friends who are preparing for this final xm and they thought that I got this xm covered. Like I'm sort of the with doctor, know it all or resident guru or something similar. An A1 material they said. Funny because all the while I was freaking out with this subjects. Thinking that the lecturer is really just stupid and not be able to properly taught this subject. So what make them think I'm the other person? Maybe my demeanor, my happy smiley face that I wear day in and day out, and my great personality, taught by books suggested by previously joined MLM Network 21 era. Anyway, I feel...well I can't describe

Interesting finding by Gallup about ethnic tension in Malaysia

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I'm learning stats and have some good basic explained by the books Stats for dummies. The author recommends Gallup Organisation at gallup.com. Interestingly I found that they do a lot of studies on Muslim world and I stariaght away search for Malaysia. There are a few surveys that was done and interestingly the resultys vary greatly among ethnics. This surely has great implication in our politics and policies implemented. The government and all political parties should have a long hard look on this results and try to improve the situation based on it. Among the topics: Malaysian Elections Underscore Ethnic Tension Malaysian Bloggers Malaysian Muslims More Likely Than Non-Muslims to Trust Government In Malaysia, Muslims More Bullish on Economy Than Non-Muslims Malaysia Tanah air ku

If people in Malaysia can be more critical in their analysis of events or politics.

I took a test and I put it down below on how important being critical in the academic writing. It has many good things that we as Malaysians especially the educated one ( well almost all Malaysians are educated right). I have been guilty of this. We depend to much on anecdotes and usually even one anecdote and we already have our perception dictated by that anecdote. For example someone told you that this particular guy say A is bad, usually as we heard more supporting evidence from this one person we have formed our judgement on A. Do u remember there's some kind of a psychology test, where they tried to set up so that a normal healthy person will accidentally meet 3 person( the experimenters) in a short time period. Then each of them will say " You look terrible, are you OK mate? You should meet a doctor" When done 3 times, a healthy person will feel that he is actually not well, and feeling headaches, or flu-like symptoms or tired and really need to see a doctor. So be

Planning to write! Reading and Note-taking.

My university here, the prestigious University of Melbourne has a lot of resources for research students. They really do provide a lot of courses online or small group seminars to disseminate information. This section below is particularly useful to me so I'm going to put it on the cloud( cyberspace) Step 3: Reading and Note-taking You might find it difficult to know where to begin. Start with the set readings for the subject, and any specific readings listed for the essay topic. You may have to find additional references outside the set reading. Library orientation is essential. The   SubjectResources@Library   provides specific resources for each discipline. It is important that you don't get overwhelmed with the amount of material you are faced with. The results of your brainstorming can help you identify your purpose in reading the material that you have found. Your purpose determines how you read. The following table gives you an idea of how to read for your specific purpo

Tongkat Ali Replacement!

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      I'm usually get tired after lunch time. In Malaysia, I'll take a nap about 10-15 minutes then when I wake up, I'll make a glass of Tongkat Ali from Ali Cafe. It'll make me awake and happy till the evening. In Australia, I can't find Tongkat Ali anywhere. Previously Rahmat gave us Kuda Hitam( with black Eyes) drink called Black Fury. But it was like 2 months over due on the best before hahaha. I drink about 2 cans of it and soon forget about it. Now, I'm getting tired again at noon time anmd I was looking for the replacement. I found ZU ( the You'll love Coles range) and V. Personally I like the taste of ZU betetr and it's  a bit cheaper. And ZU got so much more Zinggg into it. Very good for your "S" life I guess. Hey don't get me wrong. It's very good for your Social life. That's what I meant *wink*. It's good for your "F" life too. Oppss don't get me wrong again. It's good for your family life. Well you

Survey of Graduate Engineers Ability in Reading & Interpreting Engineering Drawing.

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well this is partly my research on Spatial Visualisation & mechanical comprehension. So hopefully I'll get good data. Oh yeah, the list given by Jep is a lot but many of those email are outdated. Many got send back with errors. Hmm Ratna has been helping out with sending our the email from gmail. Should I call those companies. Many has telephone numbers and I got my skype unlimited setup. I'll call Jep and mention this to him. BTW here's the details on the survey. You can actually see and try teh survey at http://tinyurl.com/ industrysurvey Someone (HR Director) Some compnaies  Technologies Sdn. Bhd. Plot 18, Lorong Jelawat 4, Kawasan Perindustrian Seberang Jaya, 13700 Perai Pulau Pinang Thank you for accepting our students from Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka(UTeM) to do Industrial Training at your company.   I am in the process of improving our currrent students at UTeM to produce graduates that can serve your company better. I hope that you can spare 5-10 minutes

Thursday 4/6/09. My life.

I met new friends today at new office. Previously I'v e known Manoj, Jayantha, Sunil, Darwin, and Arthur. Now I get to know Mohsin, BJ, and Yagu. At my old place there are Sam, James, Caroline, James(2nd) and Sumon. I'll miss them all. I read PM Maizam's paper to an international journal. Something people do after they finish their PhD thesis. It's at International Education Journal Vol 3, No 1, 2002 with this title "Effect of Instructions on Spatial Visualisation Ability in Civil Engineering Students" Then I improve my typing skill with Stamina the typewriting software. It's difficult to type due to this new keyboard. But I need to practice and make it a habit. where's FF auto spell check? Anyway I'm taking action and progressing. I've a PhD meeting tomorrow. Need to update what I've done especially on the survey.

Thesis Writing: Elements & Features (Research), $50

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I had this course for 2 hours for 5 weeks. I think it sucks big time. Not my style of learning. The teacher start off with almost nothing and just ask teh audiences to give and present. But I do learn something from other participants. It cost $50 too. Wasted my time. I got some value but The ROI is really low, perhaps negative. I have a better experience with a course called Critical Thinking with a different teacher before.

Tools for Collaboration and Networking: Wikis, Blogs and Social Bookmarking

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Just had this course. It talks about web 2.0. I know pretty much all of it. But there's one good thing. There;s a unimelb toolbar that can link directly to papers. So no need to pay for papers on the journals already subscribed by Unimelb. I'll find it after this. There are netvibes. But I'm sticking with igoogle. There's wiki, blogs and folksomania. I like em all and i use em all. My typing on this particular keyboard sucks. Need to re-learn stamin atyping on this keyboard. I'm exporting all my bookmark in unimelb to delicious again. Will have to do that at home compuetrs too. My acer and dell laptop. I see tadalist.com as something really good, but fail to follow along and use it persistently. I really have problems with persistency sometimes. Need to fix that.

Just moved to a new place.

It's less private place but more modern amenities. I like the fact that it has hot and cold water on demand. Kinda like it here. Office Space Trailer Well maybe not. It's quite and pretty cool.