October 1, 2011

Retired Folks

I live in a community whereby the housing area is mostly populated by Forest Department retirees. I'm sort of knew these people, even some of them I knew them when I was younger, due to the fact that those retirees are mostly my father's colleague during his service with the government.

The close relationship is prolonged through the settlement that we have currently. We had our own surau, even though small but nice enough to accommodate the prayer purpose, and it also serve as the place to gather the people from the whole settlement area.

These people had been serving the people through their service in the government. What touches me is the fact that these people, even though retired, they are still willing to serve people, this time around for nothing to gain.

I just received a note that I found in my letterbox inviting me to a meeting to form something like the committee of the kampung (JKKKK) in this place and also maybe to provide some security service by executing a patrolling service through out the nights.

See, even they have retired, the servicing urge is just so in the blood. They are willing to do so, for nothing, after servicing the people 25-30 years. Exhauted but never tired!

Sadly, before all these were happening, even during our first Raya gathering that was held last Sunday, people started to babble on the effort; by saying the patrolling service won't be as long. Even more sad, that particular guy are not part of the Forestry retirees community, who actually bought the house from one of them.

I would, in my honest opinion to actually praise the effort, no matter how it's going to be. To have such 'worm' to disqualify people is disgusting. As a community, we should step in and voice our support, as this is not for anyone else but us.

You know what? I just felt like to  burn someone's house down!

August 15, 2011

3 defective parts per 10,000 have been separately manufactured....

This speaks a lot about the Japanese quality standards and also cultural misunderstandings.

They're still laughing about this at IBM. Apparently the computer giant decided to have some parts manufactured in Japan as a trial project. In the specifications, they set out that they will accept three defective parts per 10,000 .

When the delivery came in there was an accompanying letter. "We, Japanese people, had a hard time understanding North American business practices. But the three defective parts per 10,000 have been separately manufactured and have been included in the consignment. Hope this pleases you."

Japanese Manufacturing :: 3 defective parts per 10,000 have been separately manufactured....

This speaks a lot about the Japanese quality standards and also cultural misunderstandings.

They're still laughing about this at IBM. Apparently the computer giant decided to have some parts manufactured in Japan as a trial project. In the specifications, they set out that they will accept three defective parts per 10,000 .

When the delivery came in there was an accompanying letter. "We, Japanese people, had a hard time understanding North American business practices. But the three defective parts per 10,000 have been separately manufactured and have been included in the consignment. Hope this pleases you."

July 31, 2011

Sourcing - As in 12 Strategic Principles

Sourcing in the 12 principles means to Put the right sources in the right hands. ITS has always been employing the right people to perform tasks like complex problem solving, incident management and coordinated project implementation and execution, in a way that these people in ITS may carry out the best out of the tasks as desired by customers.

From a pool of subject experts, ITS management places them in an empowered position to execute daily tasks, even though resources may have been over-utilized due to so many reasons, we’ve almost never failed to serve the customers based on the SLA

Since sourcing is one of the major growth factors for most business giants in the market now, it is very important for line managers to start drafting a skill list of their subordinates now, as the company may require their services anytime. It is just like a platoon of soldiers selected from an army battalion and sent out for a critical rescue mission. Start identifying talents in your team now for what they are good at and get ready to groom them to serve the company

July 5, 2011

Happy Birthday Farah!

Hello.

I cannot imagine having another newborn sibling when I was 21 even though I was always having to tell my mom that I wanted another sister. I still remember I had my worst accident when I was 20, when all my good buddies gathered at the end of my hospital bed and cried. Imagine how terrible I was at that time.

That was like, 13 years ago? Then when I was at home resting from my semester, once in a while my mom came and visit me at home and one day I popped this shout!

"Woi! Mak aku pregnant woi!"

On the 4th July, she was born; me and all my friend visited my mom in the hospital, everyone was amusingly excited and surprised that I have a little sister with a 21 years gap.

Time goes by. Being a bully and being bullied at home is just her. When Farah was smaller, she would hang with nobody except my mom. Even until now, my Father wouldn't be able to hug her, just because of an unknown reason.

I don't remember much about her when she was in the primary school but I knew she was obviously having a deep caring thoughts about me. I don't remember showing a lot of affections towards her as the nature of me being a bully doesn't allow me to do so; and do you think she would ever care, if I do?

At that time, I still remember how I pity her for not having a doll to play with and she was playing with a 1.5 liter mineral water bottle, carrying it around and talking to it like a baby. And she would always talk by herself; either talking to herself or making a phone call to anyone she would miss. As I was among the people who was always being around her compared to all the other siblings except for Izzat, she would always like making an imaginary phone calls to her sisters (Adik and Ina remember this, Farah always miss both of you when she was small). She would just make that imaginary phone call to anyone that she misses


I was having the worst time of my life about 9 years back. I've lost my gf (of which I am so thankful that I did) and I was having my downtime for almost 3 months after. I lost weight, I don't do this, I don't do that. I didn't bully Farah as how I would do normally. All I do was grieving and looking back at the past.

Farah, as how she would normally do, she would never come to me to say anything or do anything. I didn't even knew that she would even knew or understand what was going on until one day, when my mom was busy at the garden while she was playing at the garden and talking to herself as usual. My mom broke into tears when she heard Farah was making her imaginary phone calls to my ex gf asking her to come and play with her and come visit Along (that's me) because Along is always sad. Hahaha!

Having her around sometimes making me look like a father figure. When I was in JB, I was the one who is always sending her to and picking her up from school. Everyone was asking if Farah is my daughter.

When I was having a new gf, she would threat to tell the current gf that she knew. Haha! I don't remember when did I introduce her to my wife but she was happy to know that I finally chosen the right one!

She was doing very well in her Standard 6 exams that now she's accepted into some religious boarding school. Being the most pampered (and still) child in the family, she was having her hard time at school. When she threatened to pull herself out of school, I insisted her to inform me of anyone who is giving her the hard time and I'll slap them in their face; even the teachers!

That was history and I think she survived for almost 6 months now. The last thing I heard from my my father is that she's now in the top 10 list of all her batch.

As a brother, even though sometimes I hate you for being lazy, I'm totally proud of you.

Really proud of you!

Today that it is your birthday, I would want to give you my warmest hugs and tell you that we all do love and care about you. I do love you. What ever it is, you're still my sister and I'm all you've got if you're in trouble sista!

Take care! I'm proud of you!

March 8, 2011

Strange Life Signs on Meteorites

From this research, we can conclude that there's another form of life out there which is not being native to the earth. As an exo-planet apps user on iPhone, I have learnt quite a number of planet that was the earth type or super-earth type of which located within a livable radius from the star.

This study shows that microfossils similar to cyanobacteria - the blue-green algae which the pond scum living happily on the fractured inner of the meteorites surfaces. They contained carbon, which is a marker of the Earth-Type organism. It gives a clear hint that life is not restricted only on Earth.

In 1996, NASA scientist presented a research indicating a 4 billion year old meteorite found in Antarctica carried evidence of fossilized microbial from Mars.

All this made me wonder that how actually Dinosaurs exist in this world. It's weird that Dinosaurs were never found in Malaysia but it's all over the rest of the world. Maybe it's due to the small area of Malaysia.

Might it came through meteorite as well? My idea is that Dinosaurs might have not live in this world but they might have lived somewhere else but happened that their planet was having a big bang that all their corpse was scattered all over the place, including earth.

My idea was, if dinosaurs lived here, we should have been seeing a lot of their fossils around but we were just able to see one or two, not in numbers. Bones are non-biodegradable so we would still be able to see it even how long it was buried in the ground, it will still be there.

The idea of these bones would have degraded into petroleums is quite questionable as some are found but some aren't.

That's why I was thinking these Dinosaurs might have came through meteorites. And that's the reason why they are buried in the ground since meteorites that crashes to the earth will create a deep hole and causing these dinosaurs to be buried in as well.

The worse was then, I started to think that Ultraman might exist too.

Strange life signs found on meteorites

From this research, we can conclude that there's another form of life out there which is not being native to the earth. As an exo-planet apps user on iPhone, I have learnt quite a number of planet that was the earth type or super-earth type of which located within a livable radius from the star.

This study shows that microfossils similar to cyanobacteria - the blue-green algae which the pond scum living happily on the fractured inner of the meteorites surfaces. They contained carbon, which is a marker of the Earth-Type organism. It gives a clear hint that life is not restricted only on Earth.

In 1996, NASA scientist presented a research indicating a 4 billion year old meteorite found in Antarctica carried evidence of fossilized microbial from Mars.

All this made me wonder that how actually Dinosaurs exist in this world. It's weird that Dinosaurs were never found in Malaysia but it's all over the rest of the world. Maybe it's due to the small area of Malaysia.

Might it came through meteorite as well? My idea is that Dinosaurs might have not live in this world but they might have lived somewhere else but happened that their planet was having a big bang that all their corpse was scattered all over the place, including earth.

My idea was, if dinosaurs lived here, we should have been seeing a lot of their fossils around but we were just able to see one or two, not in numbers. Bones are non-biodegradable so we would still be able to see it even how long it was buried in the ground, it will still be there.

The idea of these bones would have degraded into petroleums is quite questionable as some are found but some aren't.

That's why I was thinking these Dinosaurs might have came through meteorites. And that's the reason why they are buried in the ground since meteorites that crashes to the earth will create a deep hole and causing these dinosaurs to be buried in as well.

The worse was then, I started to think that Ultraman might exist too.

February 2, 2011

Perfecting my Hackintosh Build

I have just upgraded my Snow Leopard to from 10.6.0 to 10.6.6 successfully yesterday. It begins with the upgrade for iTunes. I was holding the Mac OS update due to the fact that I will lose all my sound settings.

As expected, after upgrading to 10.6.6, I lost my sound. My Hackintosh is muted.

The reason why I'm scared to upgrade is due to the fact that I might have lost the sound kext for my hackintosh. I have also forgotten what sound card that I'm using. Thanks to my previous post of the Hackintosh which stated my Sound Card was actually ALC 1200. I thought it was ALC888 or ALC889.

The main resource for ALC 1200 is at http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=161430. There are 2 kind of fix provided in the page. Last time I did use the fix without having to edit DSDT from this page as well. As I didn't understand a thing in DSDT, I opted for HDAEnabler and no DSDT editing as I didn't know anything about DSDT.

All this while I didn't understand DSDT editing at all. All the guide over the Internet did not properly state what exactly needs to be done after compiling the DSDT. It was quite simple actually. Heck to those saying that DSDT editing is hard and confusing. Reading it that way made me think that it's hard.

It was known that by using the HDAEnabler, once the OS is upgraded, you will have to do the sound all over again. So this time, I'm opting for the DSDT editing. I have a few things to fix as well; eg. CMOS reset problem.

Actually DSDT editing is easy. After compiling, what do you really need to do is just to compy it to root folder and restart. As easy as that :)

DSDT Editing:

The easiest way to do DSDT editing is by using DSDTSE, which can be downloaded from http://www.osx86.es/FArchivos/FDSDTSE.zip.
  1. Extract and install DSDTSE package
  2. Once installed, browse through "/" folder and double click on dsdt.aml. A new window will be opened with an extract from the DSDT file. 
  3. HDEF fix
  4. insert this code to dsdt file
  5. Device (HDEF)
                {
                    Name (_ADR, 0x001B0000)
                    Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                    {
                        Store (Package (0x0A)
                            {
                                "built-in",
                                Buffer (One)
                                {
                                    0x01
                                },

                                "codec-id",
                                Buffer (0x04)
                                {
                                    0x88, 0x08, 0xEC, 0x10
                                },

                                "layout-id",
                                Buffer (0x04)
                                {
                                    0x0C, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                                },

                                "device-type",
                                Buffer (0x11)
                                {
                                    "Realtek ALC1200"
                                },

                                "PinConfigurations",
                                Buffer (One)
                                {
                                }
                            }, Local0)
                        DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                        Return (Local0)
                    }
                }
  6. Some board may have DTGP error while compiling. Please insert this code at the beginning of the file after the first {
  7. Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerialized)
        {
            If (LEqual (Arg0, Buffer (0x10)
                    {
                        /* 0000 */    0xC6, 0xB7, 0xB5, 0xA0, 0x18, 0x13, 0x1C, 0x44,
                        /* 0008 */    0xB0, 0xC9, 0xFE, 0x69, 0x5E, 0xAF, 0x94, 0x9B
                    }))
            {
                If (LEqual (Arg1, One))
                {
                    If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero))
                    {
                        Store (Buffer (One)
                            {
                                0x03
                            }, Arg4)
                        Return (One)
                    }

                    If (LEqual (Arg2, One))
                    {
                        Return (One)
                    }
                }
            }

            Store (Buffer (One)
                {
                    0x00
                }, Arg4)
            Return (Zero)
        }
  8. To fix my CMOS reset, I used this fix. The one in bold Red value was 4 before. So I changed it to 2.
  9.                 Device (RTC)
                    {
                        Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0B00"))
                        Name (ATT0, ResourceTemplate ()
                        {
                            IO (Decode16,
                                0x0070,             // Range Minimum
                                0x0070,             // Range Maximum
                                0x00,               // Alignment
                                0x02,               // Length
                                )
                        })
  10. I keep recompiling after every fix to ensure no error in the codes. After all this fixes, the compile successful with a warning. It was the _WAK warning which was fixed using this code at the end of _WAK paragraph.
  11. Method (_WAK, 1, NotSerialized)
        {       
            ............................
            Return (Package (0x02)
            {
                Zero,
                Zero
            })
        }
  12. Then my compile was successful without error and warning at all.
  13. Backup the old dsdt.aml in "/" folder and replace with the one you just compile. Normally after compiling, DSDTSE will open a new finder window with direction to the compiled DSDT.aml
AppleHDA fix:
    I downloaded the AppleHDA fix with DSDT patch file from http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=80281. You mus register before you are able to download this file. Extract this file and install.

    Final thing to do is, RESTART. After restart, I have no more CMOS reset and the most important thing is, I got my sound back!

    My Hackintosh is nearly perfect

    I have just upgraded my Snow Leopard to from 10.6.0 to 10.6.6 successfully yesterday. It begins with the upgrade for iTunes. I was holding the Mac OS update due to the fact that I will lose all my sound settings.

    As expected, after upgrading to 10.6.6, I lost my sound. My Hackintosh is muted.

    The reason why I'm scared to upgrade is due to the fact that I might have lost the sound kext for my hackintosh. I have also forgotten what sound card that I'm using. Thanks to my previous post of the Hackintosh which stated my Sound Card was actually ALC 1200. I thought it was ALC888 or ALC889.

    The main resource for ALC 1200 is at http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=161430. There are 2 kind of fix provided in the page. Last time I did use the fix without having to edit DSDT from this page as well. As I didn't understand a thing in DSDT, I opted for HDAEnabler and no DSDT editing as I didn't know anything about DSDT.

    All this while I didn't understand DSDT editing at all. All the guide over the Internet did not properly state what exactly needs to be done after compiling the DSDT. It was quite simple actually. Heck to those saying that DSDT editing is hard and confusing. Reading it that way made me think that it's hard.

    It was known that by using the HDAEnabler, once the OS is upgraded, you will have to do the sound all over again. So this time, I'm opting for the DSDT editing. I have a few things to fix as well; eg. CMOS reset problem.

    Actually DSDT editing is easy. After compiling, what do you really need to do is just to compy it to root folder and restart. As easy as that :)

    DSDT Editing:

    The easiest way to do DSDT editing is by using DSDTSE, which can be downloaded from http://www.osx86.es/FArchivos/FDSDTSE.zip.
    1. Extract and install DSDTSE package
    2. Once installed, browse through "/" folder and double click on dsdt.aml. A new window will be opened with an extract from the DSDT file. 
    3. HDEF fix
    4. insert this code to dsdt file
    5. Device (HDEF)
                  {
                      Name (_ADR, 0x001B0000)
                      Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                      {
                          Store (Package (0x0A)
                              {
                                  "built-in",
                                  Buffer (One)
                                  {
                                      0x01
                                  },

                                  "codec-id",
                                  Buffer (0x04)
                                  {
                                      0x88, 0x08, 0xEC, 0x10
                                  },

                                  "layout-id",
                                  Buffer (0x04)
                                  {
                                      0x0C, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                                  },

                                  "device-type",
                                  Buffer (0x11)
                                  {
                                      "Realtek ALC1200"
                                  },

                                  "PinConfigurations",
                                  Buffer (One)
                                  {
                                  }
                              }, Local0)
                          DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                          Return (Local0)
                      }
                  }
    6. Some board may have DTGP error while compiling. Please insert this code at the beginning of the file after the first {
    7. Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerialized)
          {
              If (LEqual (Arg0, Buffer (0x10)
                      {
                          /* 0000 */    0xC6, 0xB7, 0xB5, 0xA0, 0x18, 0x13, 0x1C, 0x44,
                          /* 0008 */    0xB0, 0xC9, 0xFE, 0x69, 0x5E, 0xAF, 0x94, 0x9B
                      }))
              {
                  If (LEqual (Arg1, One))
                  {
                      If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero))
                      {
                          Store (Buffer (One)
                              {
                                  0x03
                              }, Arg4)
                          Return (One)
                      }

                      If (LEqual (Arg2, One))
                      {
                          Return (One)
                      }
                  }
              }

              Store (Buffer (One)
                  {
                      0x00
                  }, Arg4)
              Return (Zero)
          }
    8. To fix my CMOS reset, I used this fix. The one in bold Red value was 4 before. So I changed it to 2.
    9.                 Device (RTC)
                      {
                          Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0B00"))
                          Name (ATT0, ResourceTemplate ()
                          {
                              IO (Decode16,
                                  0x0070,             // Range Minimum
                                  0x0070,             // Range Maximum
                                  0x00,               // Alignment
                                  0x02,               // Length
                                  )
                          })
    10. I keep recompiling after every fix to ensure no error in the codes. After all this fixes, the compile successful with a warning. It was the _WAK warning which was fixed using this code at the end of _WAK paragraph.
    11. Method (_WAK, 1, NotSerialized)
          {       
              ............................
              Return (Package (0x02)
              {
                  Zero,
                  Zero
              })
          }
    12. Then my compile was successful without error and warning at all.
    13. Backup the old dsdt.aml in "/" folder and replace with the one you just compile. Normally after compiling, DSDTSE will open a new finder window with direction to the compiled DSDT.aml
    AppleHDA fix:
      I downloaded the AppleHDA fix with DSDT patch file from http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=80281. You mus register before you are able to download this file. Extract this file and install.

      Final thing to do is, RESTART. After restart, I have no more CMOS reset and the most important thing is, I got my sound back!

      January 3, 2011

      Kids playing at a dangerous unknown water reservoir in the middle of KL

      This is near to Times Square. You can see the traffic jams. Look at the abandoned building at the right hand side of the image.
      Can see a bunch of kids playing by the water.
      This is way dangerous. Please visit http://www.izham-miyake.com/archives/travel/straykids/ for more images.

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