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  • June22nd

    alyshac

    I told Ummi that she should get Alysha a haircut before she turned into ..

    captaincaveman

    Remember Captainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Caveman ?

  • June15th

    There are 3 things that make * drools :-

     SACOi) Books – I think I visited one of the
    Jarir Book Store  at
    least once a week.
    ii) Computer gadgets – I really miss Imbi Plaza and Lowyatt! Considering to buy
    a mini-itx soon for my 1-wire
    weather station project here.
    iii) DIY stuffs- Hardware hacking? I’ve heard about it (

    SACO

    )
    before but I thought it would be another boring hardware store. But recently
    while having a break with friends in our pantry, I found a SACO
    brochure on the table . Oh my God! What a big list of hardware– I must go
    there now !
    So yesterday after Asr, we drove there to SACO (just a minute away from the Le Mall Carrefour) and  I bought this 2 items
    for myself , along with a ball (who else need another ball in the house other
    than Imran ) and a table fan. The tools in the picture cost only SAR40 and the
    First Alert  SA304
    smoke&fire alarm cost SAR70.

    Diysaco_4

    If you need to start this DIY hobby, try visit Instructables.comliving in

    Riyadh

    you need to keep
    your mind occupied all the time !

  • June3rd

    About Autism

    Posted in: Autism

    Have you heard about autism ? While  autistic person behaviour  varies from one to another it does have similarities -  interesting video above will give you some insights on how the world looks like in the eye of autistic person. It was brilliantly crafted by Amanda Baggs sparked so much attention in Youtube  that Dr. Sanja Gupta came and visit her. Here is the article , and do read the comments underneath it from parents or people who had experience with autistic people.

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    She taught me a lot over the day that I spent with her. She told me that looking into someone’s eyes felt threatening, which is why she looked at me through the corner of her eye. Amanda also told me that, like many people with autism, she wanted to interact with the entire world around her. While she could read Homer, she also wanted to rub the papers across her face and smell the ink. Is she saw a flag blowing in the wind, she might start to wave her hand like a flag. She rides in a wheelchair, she says, because balancing herself while walking takes up too much energy for her to also type and communicate. To an outside observer, the behaviors would seem eccentric, even bizarre. Because Amanda was able to explain them, they all of a sudden made sense. In case you were curious, there is no possible way that I was being fooled. Amanda, herself, was communicating with me through this voice-synthesis technology.


    If you’re in Malaysia, and needed more information about austism some of the websites below might helps :-

    http://nasom.my.diip.net/ -The National Autism Society of Malaysia (NASOM) is a non-profit, non-governmental, welfare organization, established in 1986 by a group of parents, professionals and concerned citizens with a specific mission
    www.pr4a.org – Parents` resource for Autism Malaysia
    http://myspecialchildren.info/  – created by my wife but was not updated for ages .. (I will keep reminding her !)
    http://imc-specialneeds.com – my son Ammar went to this school last year, located in USJ.

    * I have few others will update it later :)

  • June2nd

    The Standby

    Posted in: wOrk

    I have been customer service engineer for 9 years now and the hardest part of the day is always when your colleague  walked on to you (you can feel it from a distance the sound of the footstep..boom! boom! – similar to the Jurassic Park dinasour is coming scene! ) and hand on to you the standby phone. Arghhhhh!! Why me??
    It is an old Nokia model mobile maybe most of us last seen something like 5 years ago.
    First thing what I did when I got it was,  go to the "Call Divert" menu and change it to my number — turned it off and keep it inside my bag – thats why nobody cares to ask for a new phone -the functions used are so limited! 
    So  there it goes, the scary part of job started. STANDBY time!
    Why it is scary? I might be exaggerating but being on standby means that you’re responsible for any emergency case at any time of the hour, day and night , period.You can’t go outside town and have to be close to the phone at all time. Most important is to be mentally prepared if the customer call at 3am telling you the whole system is not working and found out later there was nothing wrong except  his network cable was loose! #$%%%!!

    What can be done? Other than tuning my mind into the "alert mode"    I spent one extra  hour, before leaving home to check our system. All processes are running , no alerting filesystem issue, oracle archive logs are not full, cluster is stable and many others. I just have to make sure everything is perfect (almost!)  so that I can have a descent sleep tonight! God Help me! :)

    p/s Just a minute after completing this posting I have an emergency call and its 5.30am in the morning !