Posts for March 2009

The article is based on this article in Wiki and here.
Pre-School (Kindergärten)
Age : 5-6 years old
Mostly operated by NGO like churches, charity organisation, religious group/society and municipalities.
Elementary school  (Grundschüle)
Age : 7-11 years old
Differ from state to state. In Berlin and Brandenburg students start their elementary school at 6 and end it at 10. The curriculum [...]

I cannot call myself a writer, since I have not published anything of note. But reading what passes as “writing” on the Internet: blog entries, websites, editorials, ad copies, even newspaper columns, sometimes make me cringe.
These are ten simple rules to make your writing not suck. Nothing new here, just old wisdom repackaged for the [...]

Sepanjang hujung minggu yang lalu, saya terkena selsema yang agak teruk. Alhamdullilah, pagi ni kurang skit. Bole masuk kerja walaupun belum 100% sihat.
Seperti biasa, pagi Isnin saya akan dipenuhi dengan aktiviti membaca dan membalas email yang tak disentuh sepanjang hujung minggu.
Hari ni, disebabkan kurang sihat, aktiviti membaca dan membalas email ni jadi lagi meletihkan. Saya [...]

ANNOUNCEMENT: MIT Club of Malaysia will organize the annual Undergraduate Admissions Talk on the 21st of March (Saturday) at the Royal Selangor Golf Club. I will be on the panel to talk about the MIT admission process. Newly admitted students will address the audience to share their experience in the admission process.
Details at http://alumweb.mit.edu/clubs/malaysia/events.htm .
Congratulations [...]

There is no alternative to working hard (no, not even working “smart”, whatever that teans)

Recently, I learned that Illusion, a Japanese game production company, launched a new video game called Rapelay. It’s a game in which you need to sexually assault females, or in simpler terms: rape girls. Yes, do it again and again, until you win.

Even since before I was born, there was already controversy with video games.
1970’s
Back [...]

“Maka orang yang beriman kepadanya (Muhammad SAW) memuliakannya, menolongnya dan mengikuti cahaya yang terang yang diturunkan kepadanya (Al-Quran), mereka itulah yang beruntung” Al-‘Araf: 157.

Saya seronok dan teruja menonton babak-babak yang dilakonkan melibatkan keretapi dan stesen keretapi dalam filem Slumdog Millionaire (SM). Seronok kerana teringat kenangan menaiki keretapi dari Nizamudin,Delhi ke Bangalore yang mengambil masa hampir 2 hari. Makan, minum,solat, tidur semuanya dalam keretapi! Best gile!
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India mempunyai jaringan keretapi terbesar di dunia. Bagi mengurus dan mentadbir segala [...]

Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach popular, ada menulis satu artikel yang sangat menarik mengenai kesan kita memberi pandangan terhadap  idea seseorang yang menyebabkan mereka tidak lagi komited dalam merealisasikan idea tersebut.
Petikan asal:
One of the classic interpersonal challenges I see in brilliant, technically gifted people is their desire to “add value,” especially to other people’s ideas.When [...]