Malaysia Proton Persona Club Online
I’ve been long enough in Malaysia to start thinking of getting a car for my family. Having two kids, younger daughter is 1 year plus and elder 3 year plus, makes traveling quite unpleasant experience. You have to make sure everybody sits in the taxi, the bags, baby things and toys all of it must fit in the booth.
So, I’ve been thinking of a car. Since I don’t have much experience, as a start I am thinking a low cost local car. I end up having to make choice between Proton Persona and Proton Saga(BLM).
So far I like Persona, but it’s slightly more expensive then Saga. Anyways, I still have time to make my mind up(and to get ready some cash) before I can really afford.
Searching in the internet for Proton Persona clubs, I came across this one - http://www.personaclub.net
This club is quite active, although if you aren’t local you might be a little bit lost coz some threads are in Malay language, or Minglish 
If you happened to be a Persona owner, you will be most welcome to join this club.
Pointless and boring presentations
Art Lebedev is a leading design studio based in Russia with many other office worldwide. Artemy Lebedev, he is the founder and the head of the studio write a lot good articles on various topics.
One of the latest article he wrote is about pointless presentations. Note that the article is in Russian, however they will publish in English later. So to cut short, here’s the list of what I understood:
- Be prepared, know your topic - don’t just memorize
- If you are presenting some text on your slide show, make it shorter. Write a few words then talk the rest in your words. Don’t let your audience read your long text.
- If you let your audience read the text, don’t repeat and read it again yourself.
- Don’t mumble/ramble and be confident.
- 99% percent of all presentations are boring, decisions are not made after the presentations.
What’s your opinion about the article and in presenting in general? Please leave in the comments.
System Administrator Appreciation Day
A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks, fixes, pushes, advocates, protects and creates good computer networks, to get you your data, to help you do work — to bring the potential of computing ever closer to reality.
Every year on the last Friday of July, we recognize their contribution and appreciate their contributions.
So if you can do your daily work - send and receive emails, surf internet, print, play your games, access your databases etc, it’s day we say thank you to these geeks!
They even setup a website for this purpose! -> http://www.sysadminday.com/
When is it right time to have a good vacation?
I’ve been working for the past few years without having a proper vacation. I am now resigning and starting my new job. Initially, I was planning to have a break in between but it seems like to be impossible now.
The last get away was more then 6-7 months ago when I visited Cherating with my family. The first night we stayed in a cheap and dirty chalet because it was raining and it was too late. After long hours on the road my kid was just barely standing. The next morning we found Cherating Bay Resort where we rented 3 room apartment.
Wherever possible I like to stay in resorts, condo or rent a house, chalet. This is always cheaper then hotel rooms, more privacy and more convenient for family guys like me.
If you happened to be visiting Maui, Hawaii, consider staying in Wailea condos.
Beautifully designed and having a great view to the beach, Wailea condos has all the comforts you may need from aircond to the fridge, and if you are blogger you may enjoy the high speed internet they provide.
Three bedroom apartment can accomadate maximum 6 guests which is quite attractive, has full kitchen - you can cook in there, 2 bathrooms.
Additional features include shared pool, ocean view, BBQ, Room Service, Business Center, Kids Okay (I guess it means kids are welcome or kids are safe), fitness center and many other features.
So if you have made your dream come true and visiting Hawaii, don’t miss and stay at Wailea condos!
As for me, having a vacation is still a dream to come true.
Change is good
Past few weeks have been very tough for me, I have submitted my resignation letter at my current place without having found a new job, shifted to my sister’s apartment temporarily, had and still have a bad flue, assembled a desktop for myself, had an interview with Innity, job offer and discussions with Phang from Innity.
I still have lots of things to think over, but I strongly believe that the change is always good. A very good real life example which I experienced myself was that I sent my family back home for a holiday. It helped me to think over a lot of things, our relationships, made me more thankful that I have a wonderful wife and a brilliant son and in the meantime I had a daughter. It made me realize a lot of my mistakes which I will try not to repeat again. To be a better father and husband.
Thinking of my children(wow! how’s that?), I believe that each of them came with a blessings that would help their parents in this life. When Arsen, my son, was born I had another chance to come back to Malaysia once again to work, and with my daughter’s, Meleka, birth I am now quiting my current job and joining a new company.
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