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  • February27th

    Nusa Subang AGM

    Posted in: Current Affairs

    It was one of the busiest Saturday of the year!
    We were having Nusa Subang AGM that night and also the Awal Muharram talk by Ustazah Siti Nor Bahyah Mahmood the very next day.
    At around 9.30am I was already at the surau of Nusa Surau with my Karcher pressure washer cleaning the men’s toilet and the wudhu’ area. Ummi was on the other side of the surau + UJ who was the busiest person in the surau running here and there also “helping” me “shooting” the floor and tiles.

    At 12.30pm rushed home to take a bath ( I was all wet with smell of toilet all over!) , while the rest of the people from surau went for “kenduri tahlil” at one of our neighbour’s house. Came back to join the tahlil with Sabrina soon after that.

    For the AGM, Dr. Laurence asked me if I can come up with some presentation about the previous activities of our commitee and also a short demonstration about our website . Hmm internet outside my home?!
    [We went out twice that day in the evening to send Pah to her meeting at Kepong so when I rushed home around 7pm that day, the tent for our AGM was already set up at the badminton’s court.]

    So this was my very last minute setup ready around 7.30pm that day!

    Not enough time to mount the antenna, I hung it on the my IP camera’s casing holder. (yes! the camera wasn’t there. Did I tell you that our home was hit by lightning recently? Added to the list were—my astro decoder, a TV, 1 linksys switch, 2 NICS, 2 motherboards, my streamyx modem )


    Just nice. The antenna was pointing directly to the badminton court where the AGM took place. I got full bar signal strength from there.

    The AGM went quite well that night. It started bit late due to miscommunication between us the NS commitee and the surau. We waited until around 10pm before actually started the meeting so that people from surau who attended ceramah that night can join us. You can read about it here


    It was indeed a big crowd for such AGM.


    That was my Thinkpad (on the chair) showing slides (which was prepared late that day) from our previous activities.

  • February13th

    The Workshop

    Posted in: wOrk

    I was at a company workshop recently, organized for our team – such an event always anticipated for us to get away from work for the day . Anyway, I had “acid indigestion” just before lunch, lucky enough (and weird too) I have this ENO in my pocket which I bought (first time in many years) the day before so the supposed to be “good” food was rather so-so than enjoyable ( I never fanncy hotel food anyway!).

    The topic for the workshop was “How to Delight Customers!”. (Yeah, sounds very much like a hot topic for Sales people). Everybody have their own ideas or definition of delighting customers – Project Managers , technical managers to engineers . The interesting part for me that day was at the end of the session- before leaving, everyone had to write their own version of plan(s) on want to do to delight the customers.

    For me the best answer would be giving all what the customer wants but I am not writing that down! Need to have something better than that -not easy for me to come up with some bombastic words .. So, it took me a while to translate my ideas into words , something that (I have to admit) I was not very good at.
    Finally, I wrote the following.
    i) Listen more to the customers and try help them to achieve their needs (?).
    ii) Help the customers to be more efficient – achieve more by doing less- by automating their work!

    Skip point (i) which obviously something to start with (general ideas) and most importantly I always wanted to highlight issue (ii) to the upper management, I hope they are listening!
    I will elaborate later about things that I have started doing since that day. Its quite a challenging task for me to implement these ideas on Windows environment compared to UNIX/Linux. And I found a good start later the week after, with this simple yet powerful mail tools called Blat – A Win32 Command Line SMTP Mailer

    Soon lah!

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