Advices for a son...

Well, it's father's day today! (",)

Since my father is not physically around, he still remain in my heart and constantly asking Allah to show me the right path in life. I've really learned LOTS of things from him, he is a Do-It-Yourself type of person, getting his hands dirty on some cool stuff at least once a week is something interesting for me as well, from setting up Buglar Alarm system, CCTV systems, fixing electrical distibution boards, setting up backup electical generators, writing computer programs until fixing those water pipes around a premise.... he is really my guru in every discipline.

Performing one of his technical task...

However the most important is the lessons of life, the experiences that a father has gone through. Hence, I was just thinking about what are the best way that a father may teach the lessons of life to his son... So what crossed my mind was one of the best artwork ever produced, the poem "IF" by Rudyard Kipling.

I sincerely feel that my father has thougt all the things mentioned in this wonderful poem as I've said, he is my greatest hero.

Therefore, what I did was I edited the poem and prepared a printable version of it. Then, printed it, make a photocopy to enlarge on an A3 paper, then laminated it. So, I would like to suggest that you should do the same and stick it in your room or office.

Click here to download the poem which I have prepared.

Happy Father's Day...

Please try to SPEND LOTS of TIME with your father, the lessons that you may learn from him is INVALUABLE and not always you can get back the moment...

Welcome to Malaysia!

Again, my computer has some problem in connecting to the internet. I think that the previous installation of Zone Alarm still cause some troubles in my machine! :(
Therefore, I couldn't update my blog. However, I believe that it is not too late though.


So, to all my Muslim friends, Eid-Ul-Azha mubarak. Insyallah, I hope that you would really understand the true meaning of Eid-Ul-Azha that you have to sacrifice something to achieve something else.



Btw, let me come to another important topic that I wanted to highlight.
The sentence "Welcome to Malaysia!" is a favorite sentence of my previous English teacher in PTK (Mr. Murugan). Since we are in year 2007 now, if you remember this is another official "Visit Malaysia" year after 1990 (if I'm not mistaken).

Well, I couldn't deny that Malaysia is a beautiful country however I notice that some people always look at the negative values in our society. Even though it is normal for human to find mistakes, I hope that our Malaysians will still prefer to go for domestic vocations rather that overseas.

What I wanted to highlight is, please feel free to explore this great country.

One of my favorite place in this beautiful country is the Tioman Island. Rated as one of the best ten islands in the world, you will find it like a heaven with it's crystal-clear beaches. Sad to say that the my last trip to Tioman Island was nearly 10 years ago. :(

Hopefully I will be able to go Tioman this year. :D

Btw, please feel free to find out some official travel packages from the Tourism Ministry itself:
http://www.tourism.gov.my/

INFOSEC.my Knowledge Sharing Session

Wow... once again a FREE seminar knowledge sharing session.

This session is mainly focused on Information Security.

I can't say much. However, you may find more information from here:
http://niser.org.my/infosec-my/index.html

At the same time I would like to introduce a VERY interesting website where you can find the up-to-date info on national ICT security. The National ICT Security and Emergency Response Center (NISER). There are LOTS of published research papers and statistics here.
http://www.niser.org.my

Most probably, I might not be attending this event. :(
If you are going, PLEASE share with me what they've said.

Is Palm OS dying...?

(Image from Palm Treo 750v's Official Website)

I've been a great fan of Palm OS for the past five years. I successfully bought my first Palm PDA, m100 in 2001 when I was in form 2. It was a great discovery for me at that time because I don't have any close friends, relatives or contacts using PDAs at that time. Controlling TV/VCR using PDA, keeping contact details and retrieve them within seconds, reading e-Books and playing games on board was nice excitement.

After two years, in 2003, my father bought a Palm Tungsten T as a reward for my achievement in PMR examination. Since then, I spent most of my time using Tungsten. Obviously, same as other Palm users I also wanted to keep my self updated with the latest Palmtop, but I decided to take a break because there is no concrete reason for me to use a Palmtop.

Anyway, I still keep my self updated with the usual Tech News by reading In-Tech and Computimes. Recently a shocking news gave me an earthquake, for the first time in the history of PDAs, Palm launched a PDA running Microsoft's Windows Mobile. But, I wonder why on earth Palm need to use Microsoft's OS....? May be due to the demand, I think... :(

Well, I hope that they will use Windows Mobile for Treo series only. Who knows, may be they use Windows Mobile OS for Treo because it gives greater support for SmartPhones...?

Btw, I've some links here for those who are interested on PDAs.
Malaysian PalmX Group (Full of HOW-TOs)
My PDA Cafe (Including Pocket PC and Symbian User Groups)
The Independent Malaysia's Symbian Usergroup

Long live Palm!
Oops, I mean long live Palm OS