Who the f***

PECAH RUMAH - LAHABAU BETUL !!

Yesterday morning some f**ker broke into my house when im still in my house in my room sleeping. What missing?


My 3 weeks old laptop were gone - sh**. Why we dont have or i dont have CSI kit at home so i can find whick f**ker broke into my house.

p/s: Sape la ni punya keje, suspek orang antara tingkat 2 hingga tingkat 5 apartment aku sendiri. Damn i miss my laptop already since this is the 1st time i got very high specs laptop to do my job with 1gb memory, duo core processor and 80gb disk- damn i can put 4 os running at same time on VMWare. Kepada pencuri tersebut, aku sumpah otak ko jadi cam hardisk lepas 3 tahun koyak pastu tak leh repair jadi gila la tu.

Where are the young Malays?

Where are the young Malays?

Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad

2006

A few months ago, a human resource manager at an international bank approached me. He wanted my help to find top young Malays for the bank’s fast-track management programme. “Where are the young Malays?” he asked.

One of the major cornerstones of the New Economic Policy (NEP) is the scholarship system. While scholarships existed prior to the NEP, it was only after the NEP in the 1970s that a large-scale government scholarship programme was initiated to send students to the top universities around the world. It had a huge impact not only on the NEP but also on our developmental success as a whole.

These scholars later joined the civil service and government-linked companies (GLCs), and many later left for the private sector as their contract ended and the opportunity beckoned in Malaysia Incorporated. The backbone of the Malay middle class today is largely a product of this system.

This system is still a crucial feature of our public policy. The best Form Five students are identified by their SPM performance, and then selected for preparatory and foundation studies before being sent to the top universities around the world. Upon graduation, they will come back to serve their respective sponsors for about five to 10 years.

But in conversations I had with various people — investment bankers, management consultants, young entrepreneurs, and chief executive officers — there’s a realisation that there needs to be a radical new approach. The current model results in an inefficient use of human resource (predominantly Malay at that), and may not be the most effective way to meet the objective it was originally designed for.

While millions of ringgit of taxpayers’ money have been invested to give the best possible tertiary education to these crème de la crème, many of them end up caged in jobs that do not fully make use of their potential. In business terms, this is a poor return on investment.

At the same time, with the advent of globalisation and liberalisation, job opportunities for young graduates are wider and more competitive these days. But while students who are privately sponsored or scholars who are not bound to their sponsors are able to reap the benefits of this development, sponsored students find themselves at a disadvantage.

That was why a young investment banker lamented that an often overlooked reason for the lack of young Malay graduates in multinationals and private companies is that a large number of them find themselves bound to their respective sponsors. Yes, other reasons are at play, such as the quality of graduates and discrimination, but those have often been discussed.

One might ask: Isn’t their contract of service only for an initial five to 10 years? They can certainly explore other opportunities after the end of their contracts. Two problems arise here: First, they have missed out at the earliest opportunity to do so, and secondly, while they may be free of their contract, they are now in a comfort zone — bound by their financial and personal commitments — and tend to become risk-averse.

But let’s go beyond whining and ranting. For all the limitations of the current set-up, one cannot overlook the fact that the interests of the sponsors — be they the government or GLCs — must be taken into account. It’s unreasonable to expect them to invest so much money every year in human capital, only for them not to reap the returns.

There is a practical way forward, provided we allow ourselves to think outside the box. I have learnt that some sponsors are actually looking into these alternatives as they too realise the problems that I have raised above.

One way is to provide a flexible period for graduates to serve their contract of service. It can still be five to 10 years, but they are allowed to choose to finish their contract terms anytime within, say, 15 to 20 years. Therefore, the graduates have the choice to either serve the sponsors immediately, or to postpone their service while working in a top private firm, either locally or overseas. Even if they choose to start with their sponsors, they should be allowed to take career breaks to gain experience in other private firms or sabbaticals to attend top graduate schools in the course of their employment.

Admittedly, there is a risk that some might land a well-paying job which would allow them or the employer to buy out the contract. This is a real risk, but since part of the purpose of the whole programme was to produce Malay professionals, the government and GLCs should consider this as part of their contribution to the national interest, especially since their financial outlay is being reimbursed.

Furthermore, many GLCs have diverse subsidiaries and associated companies, and they should allow their scholars to gain different experiences and perspectives through these different companies. This will expose these graduates to the best practices locally and internationally in order for them to develop professionally and contribute to their respective sponsors.

Another way is to provide a fast-track system in the public sector and GLCs for their scholars. This will be an important motivational factor for the scholars, while at the same time allowing the sponsors to leverage on their investment. Combined with the first suggestion, the GLCs will also be able to benefit from the experience, perspective and skills gained by the scholars in various top-class firms and organisations.

This will solve two burning issues that plague the current set-up — a dearth of top young Malay graduates in the private sector, as well as the low return on investment for the government and GLCs on the scholarship programme.

Then, when someone asks where the young Malays are, we can confidently say they are working in the top multinational and private firms around the world, as well in the public sector and GLCs with a competitive and forward-looking career path. And definitely, not becoming Mat Rempits! Isn’t that the true spirit of the NEP?

source : www.niknazmi.com and was published in The Edge newspaper on October 2006 where i read this for the first time.

p/s: This is very true, u can ask the Petronas Scholar that are not in engineering - they were put anywhere in the organization and for me this is waste. Bright students were given a full scholar to continue their study and after that have to serve with their organization and working in the area that are totally different from their studies - they can't do what have been thought in the University err for me this is ridicilous.
Nik Nazmi said "While millions of ringgit of taxpayers’ money have been invested to give the best possible tertiary education to these crème de la crème, many of them end up caged in jobs that do not fully make use of their potential. In business terms, this is a poor return on investment."

Singapore

First Impression

Last time i went to Singapore around 12 years ago when im still in primary school with my parents to Sentosa Island. Last 2 days in Singapore for Training is a good one for me, Orchard road is happening for Christmas Preparation. And one more things i spotted was so many 'mat saleh' there they all working there i guess.

Frm Left : S'pore guy, Indonesia Sun Eng, Me, Trainer (mark), Indonesia Eng and Philippine Sun Eng.

p/s: Its damn hard to get a Taxi after office hour here but their road don't have traffic jam like KL dats a good thing :)

Mac OS/Linux/Windows Single Sign-On

Mac OS/Linux/Windows Single Sign-On

Centralized authentication greatly simplifies network administration. This post teaches how to log in to a Mac or Linux computer using centrally managed user accounts from a Windows Active Directory domain controller. With this configuration, the same Windows user accounts can be used to log in to any of the three operating systems, Mac OS, Linux, or Windows, with the same user network folder auto-mounted.

Source: http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=6

DECISION MAKING

DECISION MAKING

Decision making is the cognitive process leading to the selection of a course of action among alternatives. Every decision making process produces a final choice. It can be an action or an opinion. It begins when we need to do something but we do not know what. Therefore, decision-making is a reasoning process which can be rational or irrational, and can be based on explicit assumptions or tacit assumptions.
Common examples include
shopping, deciding what to eat, when to sleep, and deciding whom or what to vote for in an election or referendum.
Decision making is said to be a psychological construct. This means that although we can never "see" a decision, we can infer from observable behaviour that a decision has been made. Therefore, we conclude that a psychological event that we call "decision making" has occurred. It is a construction that imputes commitment to action. That is, based on observable actions, we assume that people have made a commitment to affect the action.
Structured rational decision making is an important part of all science-based professions, where specialists apply their
knowledge in a given area to making informed decisions. For example, medical decision making often involves making a diagnosis and selecting an appropriate treatment. Some research using naturalistic methods shows, however, that in situations with higher time pressure, higher stakes, or increased ambiguities, experts use intuitive decision making rather than structured approaches, following a recognition primed decision approach to fit a set of indicators into the expert's experience and immediately arrive at a satisfactory course of action without weighing alternatives.
Due to the large number of considerations involved in many decisions, computer-based
decision support systems have been developed to assist decision makers in considering the implications of various courses of thinking. They can help reduce the risk of human errors. The systems which try to realize some human/cognitive decision making functions are called Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSS), see for ex. "An Approach to the Intelligent Decision Advisor (IDA) for Emergency Managers, 1999".

MY post:
God please help me in making this decision hopefully this is the best for me and my future. This is so difficult, between money and interest which one would you take.

Fakta: Bahasa Melayu Bahasa Utama Dunia

Bahasa Melayu Bahasa Utama Dunia
(diolah daripada Dewan Masyarakat Januari 2006)


Fakta 1 -Anggaran oleh David Crystal dalam The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (1987) ada 3000 hingga 10,000 jumlah bahasa di dunia. Terdapat 6000 daripadanya masih digunakan sebagai bahasa pertuturan harian

Fakta 2 -Daripada jumlah itu,hanya 20 bahasa sahaja bertaraf rasmi yang penuturnya berjumlah lebih daripada50 juta orang. Bahasa Melayu termasuk dalam senarai 20 bahasa utama dunia ini.

Fakta 3 -Jumlah penutur bahasa Melayu di pelbagai peringkat penguasaan di seluruh dunia adalah lebih daripada 280 juta orang.


Fakta 4 -Berdasarkan anggaran in i, bahasa Melayu diiktiraf sebagai bahasa ke5 terbesar di dunia selepas;
1.Bahasa Inggeris(1.4 bilion penutur)
2.Bahasa Cina(lebih 1 bilion penutur)
3.Bahasa Hindi(700 juta penutur)
4.Bahasa Sepanyol(300 juta penutur)
5.Bahasa Melayu(280 juta penutur)
Mendahului bahasa-bahasa penting lain seperti Perancis,Jepun, Jerman, Korea dan Itali.

Fakta 5 -Hanya 8 bahasa sahaja penyebarannya merentasi sempadan menjadi bahasa rasmi ataupun salah satu bahasa rasmi di beberapa buah negara lain. Iaitu bahasa Melayu,Inggeris, Perancis, Sepanyol, Arab, Rusia, Portugis dan
cina.

Fakta 6 -Daripada 8 bahasa hanya bahasa Melayu sahaja menjadi
bahasa rasmi di Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapura dan diiktiraf sebagai bahasa kebangsaan tunggal dalam perlembagaan negara-negara itu.

Fakta 7 -Empat kriteria ukuran bahasa itu bahasa utama dunia ataupun
tidak.1,jumlah penutur bahasa itu besar. 2,taraf bahasa itu sebagai
bahasa rasmi di beberapa buah negara ataupun di negara yang bukan
tempat asal bahasa.3,status atau pentingny a bahasa itu sebagai alat
perhubungan antarabangsa.4,setakat manakah majunyanegara yang
menggunakan bahasa itu sebagai bahasa rasmi.Bahasa Melayu memenuhi
semua kriteria itu.

Fakta 8 -HANYA Bahasa Melayu sahaja tidak tersebar merentasi sempadan
negara asalnya melalui PENJAJAHAN. Ia berkembang menjadi lingua-franca
kerana kedudukan geografiknya yang strategik di Selat Melaka.
Bahasa Melayu dipilih sebagai bahasa penyatuan di Indonesia sejak
1928 dan diisytihar sebagai bahasa rasmi pada 1945. Mengatasi
bahasa Jawa yang lebih ramai penuturnya.

Fakta 9 -Di seluruh dunia, ada lebih kurang 129 pusat pengajian bahasa Melayu- di Eropah, Amerika Syarikat, Cina, Jepun, Rusia, Korea, Australia, New Zealand dan lain lain.

Fakta 10 -Kekuatan bangsa Melayu terletak pada bahasa ini. Orang Melayu akan lebih maju dan lebih kreatif akalnya apabila mereka berfikir dalam bahasa ini- bahasa ibundanya-seperti bangsa lain yang maju kerana mereka berfikir, mengarang, mencipta ilmu, sains dan teknologi dalam bahasa mereka sendiri.

sumber:
Petikan Kaca Di Jendela oleh Datuk Dr. Hassan Ahmad,Dewan Masyarakat Januari 2006

p/s: kita akan lebih percaya kerana faktanya daripada bangsa asing. bukankan begitu?

The Best Place to Learn Volume Manager

This is the place i mention above :

http://www.unixway.com/vm/solarisvm.html

This site cover the volume manager using the Solaris Disk Suite and also using the Veritas Volume Manager really great site to who are wanna start learn those two Volume Manager in Solaris.


p/s: I've tender from CSA

The Philosophy of Friendly



UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are