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Mentors, they are important to me

cyza — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:52:20 +0000

We are a human being that started from knowing nothing. We grow older and progressively learn many things along the years. When we are small, our main duty is to study, study and study. Nothing else. Yep, nothing else matter…

But then as we approach adulthood, we began exploring various other areas. We explore new interest, new hobbies, new this and new that. For certain things that we want to establish our expertise, we need somebody to guide, monitor and assist us. Those people, regardless of their field of expertise I regard as my precious mentor. They are like a catalyst, something and somebody that can speed the process of us getting to what we aim for. They will show us which path to take and which to avoid.

My mentors

As some of you know, I’m currently pursuing my Ph.D study in chemical engineering and I have a supervisor (professor) to guide and maneuver me doing research work, writing technical papers and other research related issues. I also have a co-supervisor in Finland which I refer to once in a while.

At the same time, I am also in my quest to be a professional engineer and I have a mentor who is an experienced professional engineer to guide and help me be one. He works in KL (I work in JB) but that does not matter because I will always meet him every quarterly to let him assess my performance and give advice. Currently he is in Uzbekistan, managing some civil project there. I will meet him when he is back here.

When I was working as a process engineer few years back, I have my senior executives as my mentor. They will share their experiences, knowledge and skills with me. Oh, I miss those days in the plant.

Besides my professional career mentioned above, I’m deeply and madly in love with the internet. I’m not really a fan of those social sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. I’m only using them to market my brand and communicate with my networks. I’m more towards blogging (part time blogger) and now slowly learning to try my luck selling some digital product online @ Internet Marketer (IM).

For those 2 co-curricular activities, I also have my own mentor to guide and help when I am in need of their advice. Those are people who have more knowledge and more skills than me. I have few person which I consider mentors when it comes to blogging. We are colleagues but at certain times, they are my blogging mentors.

At the same time, I have another IM mentor who is very kind enough to spend his precious time teaching and guiding me when I’m in need of him. His vast knowledge, experience and success in internet marketing inspires me to be a great IM. I’m making myself to be one. Oh God…please make my journey smooth…

When it comes to gold investment, I have 2 mentors, both who are my younger brothers. They have more comprehension and knowledge in gold related matters. They also have invested massively in gold.

When it comes to financial management and investments, I also have a mentor too. We never went through financial subjects or financial management in school nor university. The most we had is accounting and economics. Hence, it is important to have a financial mentor to help and guide us.

Am I a mentor to others?

Hmmm… I don’t really know how to answer that. There is no official mentorship going on accept for me mentoring my undergraduate student to do research closely related to mine.

I know some people, including my youngest brother, who maybe consider me as their mentor in blogging and internet marketing. Honestly, I don’t consider myself any sort of expert in blogging and Search Engine Optimization (SEO), but when somebody asks about it, I will definitely share. It’s my passion and I love discussing about it. In fact I don’t mind teaching and guiding those who are serious about blogging and SEO with zero charge. No problem at all.

I hope and wish that I’ll be a good mentor to my kids. I want to be a good father and example to them. That’s very important. Every body wants their kids to grow and be good and kind people, responsible and honourable, having good career and so on. We (me and my wife) also wanted that and we need to provide the best education and training for them. No matter how it cost, we will get the money to spend.

You are either a mentee or a mentor

Yes you are. If you are not either a mentee nor a mentor, I’m not sure where do you live and what you are.You might not be chasing for something.You might not have any interest in anything. You might not have a career you want to take care off. Maybe you are have not discovered your passion. Maybe you are not yet establish in what you are doing now.

It’s really something you need to think off.

Yep, think about it.

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When grandfather & grandchild email each other…

cyza — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:01:38 +0000

My father cc the email above to me while replying to Marsya. It was Marsya’s first email to her grandfather after learning about email last week. I love to read this email because it shows the interaction between a 6 year old kid with her 64 year old grandfather. The age gap is 58 years and how amazing technology can connect them both.

Marsya sent the email yesterday and she waited for Tokwan (grandfather) to reply fast. However, we have to inform that Tokwan can only reply tomorrow (today) when he is in office. Today, Tokwan replied and I witness this miracle and I’m very happy.

The sentence highlighted in blue is written by Marsya. In English in sound:

Grandfather, how are you doing? If you are healthy, Marsya will be happy.

Was that cute? My father replied:

I’m good Marsya. Thanks for this email. I’ll pray that you can be clever and grow quickly so that you can go to school. I love it when my grandchildren can often email me.

The reply was equally cute for me…

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Out of routine

cyza — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:21:38 +0000

Currently I’m blogging from my brother in law’s house in Bukit Beruntung, a cowboy town adjacent to Rawang. Luckily he has the streamyx broadband installed in his extended corner lot house.

Earlier, after Ikhwan school session ended on a brisk Friday afternoon, we headed up north to Cemor, a small town north of Ipoh to attend a cousin’s wedding. The wedding was held on Saturday afternoon but the preparation took place 2-3 days earlier.

We arrived at the house in Cemor at 2.00 am. We relaxed and then slept at the living hall. The next day, I spared my physical energy to assist the cooking process. I helped to do some “kenduri” activity stuffs. It was really tiring but well, I rather help than just sit and see. However, the most interesting thing is my kids also helped and that was very nice to see. I’ll upload some photos about that soon after I arrive back to my home in JB.

Later the same day, we move down south to Bukit Beruntung. There were all together 9 people in my white Proton Exora,which include my mother, father and sister in law.

We arrived at Bukit Beruntung and landed safely in the house at 9 pm. All of us relaxed, watched some malay drama and later end the night – sleeping zzzzzzzz…..

We are going to continue our journey to Kuantan later this afternoon and stay in Kuantan until Wednesday.

Hence, within that time, I maybe not connected to the internet. I’ll use the time to do my offline work…. hehe…

OK, that’ s it…a little update from me… Have a nice prosperous holiday.

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Sorry this is not productive…

cyza — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:50:06 +0000

As the title says… this is not a productive entry at all. I’m just sharing my thoughts at this moment. To be honest, I’m sleepy although it is 4.37pm now… A little exhausted, not sure from what…

Well, here are 5 things that I’m thinking right now:

1. When will I published my first ebook? I have drafted it but it is not yet completed… I got both Malay and English ebook to publish and I’m going to let it go very cheap. I want to spread some piece of my knowledge.

2. When will I get my professional engineer status? It’s killing me. I need to complete all my job records and reports as well as prepare a project paper for the final interview.

3. When will my supervisor check my technical literature review paper. I have given the draft 3 weeks ago. My co-supervisor in Finland has already given his correction and comments. I need to publish this paper as soon as possible to boost up my motivation.

4. When will I complete writing my first malay book? This should be an easy one but the job is not done yet! Oh God?

5. When will I have my forums launched? I want to have a forum for my chemical engineering niche and also town niche. But, I’m still thinking the methodology of it. I already found somebody i can hire to set up the forum for me at a decent price. But I can’t yet trust him to do it for me as I have to reveal all my cpanel and ftp username and password. That’s really danngerous. I’ve tried setting up the forum but it is not easy. It’s not via fantastico.

6. When can I drive a nice car? This is really driving me crazy. I wanted this car very bad but I need to learn how to relax and calm myself. I will when I have reached my financial target.

7. Can I maintain myself to be good and prepare for haj? I need to do that. For sure. I have registered with Tabung Haji with my wife and last Thursday, we were informed that our turn is at 2013. That’s 3 years from now. Really need to prepare physically, spiritually and mentally.

8. When will I arrange my table at home nicely? The table is in complete in mess and I don’t like to look at it. Who made the mess? Me… Need to spend some time for some cleaning and arrangement.

9. When I’m going to switch to my new hosting? Maybe next week. This is very important for my online wealth!!!

10. When will I get my pH.D? Haha….need to do this very very fast… I just want to complete it on time. I have until June 2012 to complete my final official study. Pray for me please…

That’s it. That’s my nasty out of the mind rambling this Friday afternoon…

Take care…

Tomorrow, we’re are going to Kuantan. My wife will be meeting her supervisor for final check of her ph.D thesis.

6 Reasons why we love having Macdonald’s breakfast

cyza — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:41:52 +0000

We now have a new place for breakfast. It has been 3 days back to back that we had our breakfast in Macdonald’s. It is indeed a nice new place to enjoy a peaceful and pleasant breakfast. Our choice is the 24 hours Macdonald’s beside Shell near UTM.

Here are 6 reasons why I love breakfast at Mcdonalds:

1. I can read free newspaper. They serve News Straight Times, The Sun, Harian Metro and Berita Harian. There is one or two Chinese news paper that I could not read…

2. They provide wireless internet. So, after reading newspaper, I can browse check my emails there.

3. The place is cozy , comfortable and relaxing. No doubt with that. We tend to spend extra hours there, eating , chatting, reading newspaper and internet without any interruption.

4. The breakfast options/menu is good and the price is reasonable. I don’t have to buy 2 portions of breakfast for me and my wife. We share it, not because we are stingy, but both of us eat less. Even we share food, sometimes, we have to force ourselves to finish them.

5. Free coffee refill. This is very good for us. A set of breakfast will have a cup of coffee. So, when the coffee is not enough, we can just refill them. The coffee is also tasty and delicious…

6. Free car park and easy accessibility. This is important. If the car park is not there, it’s going to trouble the customers. The car park is abundantly available and it is just a few steps from the restaurant.

So far, those are the six points I can think off. If any of you can add more on to it, please feel free to say it…

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