I’ve applied for an MBA and also MSC in Information Security. I have the urge to pursue something new like an MBA but at the same time I like what I’m doing now and want to dive deeper into information security so that I could become a subject matter expert on Information Security. On the other hand, I could just do self learning and get IT security certified and become a subject matter expert at a shorter time and at much lesser cost. Whereas an MBA there is no other route (ahh too much networking jargon) that I can take but paying the expensive tuition fees, slogging it out with business and financial books for one and a half to two years. Classes starts in September after the Raya. Eager to back to the books. Wish me good luck…. cheers.
16
Aug
11
MBA or MSC
30
Jun
11
New kid on the block
I didn’t blog about the New kid on the block. Yup my newborn. My wife gave birth to our new son on the 6 of July (6/6/2011) in Pusrawi Jalan Tun Razak. She was supposed to deliver on the 4th but I guess the Baby preferred the 6the haha. Anway… Welcome to the world baby Muhammad Aqil.
30
Jun
11
Singapore here we come….
Im going off to Singapore in July. My wife, kids and I.. yes the NEW KID ON THE BLOCK as well (Baby Muhammad Aqil). Have’nt made his passport yet, but if everything is fine, the baby will join us as well. We will be staying in the Malaysian government Rest House. My younger sister booked it for us. They had went there previously and it look very nice, a small modern bungalow in between tall buildings in Singapore. Singapore here we come….!
An Australian firm Lynas corporation plans to invest RM700 million in Kuantan. Sounds great for the people of Kuantan, sounds great that the government of Pahang is bringing in foreign investments and creating jobs for locals. BUT….. what is rare earth? WTH is it? Does the people in Pahang know what it is? Rare earth is a group of minerals used in making high technology electronics gadgets like mobile phones, televisions, and energy saving light bulbs. High tech…. would most people in Pahang know what it is? It is good that high tech gadgets use it…. but what most psople in Pahang dont know is that it is radioactive and this industry produces waste which are radioactive. RADIOACTIVE? Like the nuclear plants….. no in a much smaller scale. HARMLESS RADIOACTIVE? Is there such a thing? Why does the Australian company want to produce it in Pahang? Its because the Australians don’t want it down under. Australians are health conscious people…. they know that its bad for them and their environment. So is Kuantan the right place? Why is it so….. when we dont have any rare earth in Pahang? The rare earth are mined in China, will be shipped to Kuantan and processed using Western Intellect Property processing technology and Kuantan, Pahang will be the radioactive dumping ground. OMG! IAEA the International Atomic… what the heck…. is coming to analyze the effects of this industry to Kuantan. Is this the first kind of foreign investment in Malaysia? Noo…. There was a plant in Bukit Merah, Perak which is now closed down due to radiation cases. It took years and millions for the cleanup exercise. What kind of investment spillover effect did it bring to Perak? Besides radiation and unlivable conditions to Bukit Merah for years. Think twice, think of the people of Pahang first. That should be priority, not only just money coming in from foreign investors. Show proof of the technology used is better than in Bukit Merah and there is no pose of threat. Better still, have the waste by products be shipped off back to the originated country. Then only should the people of Pahang and the government say yes to these types of investment.
15
Mar
11
Tsunami and Polycarbonate
It was so heartfelt seeing recordings and photos of the recent Tsunami in Japan. Reminded me of the Tsunami that flattened Indonesian Acheh. A country with technology that other countries can only dream of. A country of people with such high imagination and creativity, such hard working culture faces the inevitable Tsunami created by the ALLMIGHTY. A land where its people did not receive a prophet to guide them unlike the Muslims. Their lives are based on the belief of respect, hard work and discipline. Nuclear reactor plant built on land that receives frequent quakes and in a country which lies on one of the most active tectonic plates in the world, community were promised that the plant will be able to withstand earthquakes and that it would not endanger the community. However, the inevitable happened, radioactive leaks happened and could not be avoided, they now can only contain the radioactive. We could only pray that the radioactive can be contained from spreading and hope that the people of Japan would live through this. Japan came out strong after the WWII, the economic and technological breakthrough that they have now is proof of it. I believe Japan will come out of this even stronger and maybe they will come out with better and greener technologies. So why would a country like Malaysia still consider of a Nuclear Power plant? Malaysia is blessed oil, hydro power, the sun, biomass and so much more, yet we would want to consider Nuclear as an alternative to generating power. True enough, that we are not affected by earthquake, but our neighbor is close to an active tectonic plate as well. Remember the Tsunami that hit Acheh, Malaysia was not spared as well. My advice is, just consider other sources of energy to tap into. Be creative and innovative like the Japanese. Put ourselves in the shoes of the Japanese, how would we go ahead in the future. Shocked by the Tsunami, even more shocking locally was the news of Polycarbonate infant feeding bottles being very hazardous to health. What! This is the future generation of Malaysia we’re talking about. Whats this polycarbonate (PC), what I understand is that it is the clear type of infant feeding bottles, very clear and shiny. They add some kind of chemical for it to look clear and shiny. This chemical that they add is found to have bad effects to the infant in the long run. My god, now only they tell. Is there not any security/health standard for making infant feeding bottles? I can only pray that my children are not affected. They watch the news last night and both my eldest and second son insisted on drinking their milo at night with cups…. God save them. Even a small thing such as an infant feeding bottle could not be guaranteed safe in Malaysia, yet a nuclear power plant?
Whose the Boss?.... hehehe
Today was Qaid’s school open day. Qaid and Rizq had their usual Iqra with their ustazah early in the morning. My wife and I sent them off to their ustazah and went to the school. We saw piles of cars outside the school. I have great respects for the school principal and the school teachers for holding the open day on a weekends (Saturday). They had to sacrifice their weekends to attend to us. Such dedication towards the country’s future generation. We met Qaid’s class teacher, Pn Yang, a friendly and loud spoken person. She complained about my kid being very soft spoken, hmm guess where he got it from… haha. Overall she said that Qaid had no problems in his studies, she was very surprised that he did so well in his bahasa arab. We told her that we send him to Sekolah Agama and she said she was not surprised. It was quite short and brief talk. We then bought Qaid some practice books and new sports attire. As it was a Pasar Tani day, we stopped over at the Pasar Tani to buy groceries. I bought some crabs (RM22 per kilo wow). Told my wife to cook ‘Ketam Masak Cili’ yum yum…. The photo I posted is the photo Qaid took of me and my wife. Boss…. and Big Boss…. hahahaa…. when we saw the t-shirt we both laughed and said we got to buy the t-shirt.
03
Jul
10
My Family Blog
I decided once and for all that I will dedicate my blog site to blogging about my family. By this way I will provide time spending with my family everyday and at the end of the day sit down and retrieve back what we did and share them on my blog. This will be one of my goals in life now.
My goals as a Father and Husband
- Spend more quality time with my kids
- Pray berjemaah with them
- Teach them Iqra’
- Teach them to speak English
- Plan something special on our anniversary
11
Mar
10
Equine vs Talam
We recently got our keys for our Cahaya Permai apartment in Taman Equine. All I can say is that we were very pleased with the work done by the developer Equine Bhd. We are currently staying in Ukay Perdana which was developed by Talam Bhd. In terms of workmanship, Equine beats Talam by miles, and the after sales service such as handing over of keys, inspection and reporting was better. Equine even provided the buyers with users manual… “thats something new to us”, we never received any user manual from Talam. In the user manual, It states all the products used, eg. Tiles used brand and product code, paints brand and code, the floorplan, the electrical wiring diagram. A month before the key hand over, the apartment was completed on schedule as when we purchased the apartment. The place was already clean of any work debris, grass planted, tree planted and swimming pool was filled and water was clean and well maintained. The key was handed over to us and we were shown to the apartment by the equine supervisor. We inspected the apartment with the supervisor, he counted all the plugs, electrical wiring, telephone ports and confirmed with us. He went through and explained to us in detail the users manual. Generally we were very satisfied with the apartment and the after sales service provided. We plan to rent the apartment and I have put an advertisement in www.mudah.my, somebody by the name of Aris used the photo that I took and copied the description that I gave and requested rent at a higher price… what a creep! Anyway the renting price is still fixed at RM700 per month and I request a 2 + 1 initial payment. 2 months deposit plus the starting month rent. No legal or stamping fees for the agreement will be charged. “Wow!…. Great sofiyan… tell me more”… I hear. Well the maintenance fee of 100 per month… dont worry we will pay it. So what now… call me… I’ve already received enquiries and no firm tennant yet…. but confirmation is on 1st come first serve. I’ll keep to my word. You can view the video I made of the apartment when we went there for the inspection. The link is in the previous post. Enjoy
view the youtube video of the apartment:
