Kuala Lumpur Gets First Symbian Stammtisch | Symbian-Guru.com. Sounds like a cool laid back event.
Our friend Asrial Baker at i-Symbian.com shot us an email to let us know that the first Kuala Lumpur Symbian Stammtisch is happening soon, on February 10, 2010. Stammtisch is German for ‘regular get-together’ and is reportedly something we’ll see often in future Symbian Foundation stuff. It’s basically a meetup. Get the details below:
Where?
Kelantan Delights
1-5, Level 1, Sooka Sentral
Jalan Stesen Sentral
50470 Kuala LumpurWhen?
February 10th 2010 (Wednesday
5.00 to 7.00 PMWho should come?
– Symbian users
– Symbian and other developers
– Symbian Enthusiasts
– If you are in Kuala Lumpur or near Kuala Lumpur
– Just for funWhat is the Agenda?
– Talk
– Eat/Drink
– Have fun!Why I should come?
– Meet cool people
– Talk about Symbian and it’s ecosystem
– Discussing ideas to improve Symbian
– Have fun!They’ve setup a Facebook Event here, too.
Hmmm, should prove to be an interesting get together. Wonder if I should go?
How Dreams Die | I know whats hes driving at, dreams shattered with age & circumstances.
FEB 4 — Hello, fellow readers. Chances are quite high that you are reading this in an office on a lovely working day; thus based on this assumption, I wish you good morning and good day.
Let us take out some of that productive working time of yours to focus upon something other than work or the usual exercise of blaming Barisan Nasional for all of your
woes.
I’m pretty sure the company won’t mind you spending some time using the Internet to read this article, after all it takes only a few minutes and it eats up much less bandwidth (and time) as compare to watching porn or playing Farmville on Facebook.
Dreams by definition is a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep. Or in a simpler explanation, that drama you saw while you were sleeping which are nice or scary while some are rather… wet in nature.
However, it is not that sort of dream that we are going to be discussing today. Indeed it is still the same succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through your mind, but instead of during sleep, it happens when one is wide awake.
The dream that is associated with words like aspirations, goals, yearning and “if only”.
When I was a young boy back in primary school, students would have to fill in their information on a yellow academic card which was the size of an A4 paper.
It was used as a record of our academic achievements throughout the six years in primary school. One of the things that I distinctively remember was that each year we would fill in three answers as to what was your ambition “Cita-Cita Saya”.
Boys being boys, the usual answers you’d get would be “Firemen/Doctor/Soldier/ Fighter” and sometimes things like “Batman/Kesatria Baja Hitam or Ultraman”.
Then these boys would grow up and realise that it is not that easy to be what they wanted to be back then.
For instance they learn that they are not that fit or just too lazy to exercise to be a firemen, or that a Police Officer’s payroll is too low, or that Rangers in brightly coloured costumes with summoned robots fighting aliens do not exist.
After that these boys attend secondary school and a whole new world open.
They realised that life was more than just about cool looking guns, uniforms and killing alien monsters that invade earth on a weekly basis.
They fill up the questionnaire again and answer, “Musician/Lawyer/Inventor/Computer Programmer/Architect”… It’s the romantic thought that they want to create, build, design and do something interesting.
They dream of doing something great, building something big, experiencing something good or producing something beautiful. But as they grow older some of them may come to the conclusion that they are not smart or talented enough; pay was too low or the job market was not that good for that industry and pressure from parents or society.
They attend college and due to the restrictions of their grade, cash and other obstacles, they opt for something more realistic. They study Business Studies, Marketing, Finance, Mechanical Engineering, Statistics, Human Resource, Foreign Language, Psychology, Graphic design, constitutional law and etc…
And still they dream of making something out of life using the path that is beyond them. The dreams stay strong.
They graduate but due to the economy, failed interviews and available vacancies they again re-route their path to something no longer based on their dreams but by necessity to survive in this society. Some become white collar workers, some go into private sector and a small number may decide to be an entrepreneur or inherit their family business. They become production engineers, multi level marketing members, insurance agents per se.
So now dreams are no longer about being someone, making something, doing or experiencing. Dreams now merely focussed on getting promoted to becoming an assistant manager before 30; getting 3 months bonus by the end of the year; achieving this month’s sales target, looking cool at Zouk this weekend, buying a new LV bag, going home by 5.30; gathering enough money to get married next year or simply getting new rims for the car.
And before you know it, that eight year old who once dreamed of becoming an astronaut now sits in a cubicle, facing a computer screen, clicking the mouse and reading an online news portal cursing at some Doctor who gets into space on a Russian rocket.
And that is how folks, most dreams die. A slow and quiet death. Written on its tombstone is the excuses for its death.
Good day folks. And have a great productive day at work.
Reading this article does make me look back and relive all my regrets and sadness. The latter especially when I realized that my dreams can never be achieved, not here anyway. However I will endeavor to make the best out of what I have and have a new more achievable dream. In the end that is what we have to do rather than wallow in self pity and regret.
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Fire in ones belly burns one out if the fire is not tempered with a good dose of moderation. Thank god for the weekend.
I guess that sense of insecurity is causing me to me chew on huge loads of things. I have taken it upon myself to do podcasts, start my own open source project, learn all sorts of technologies and also participating in some home brew products with friends which may or may not end up as a product for a start-up.
I am however starting to wonder if I have spread myself too thin too fast. I noticed that my work rate has been slowing in all areas, I have been feeling very exhausted practically everyday and I have trouble focusing on things.
Perhaps I should take this weekend to think things over and perhaps it is time I scale back my personal projects and start living. Perhaps it is about time I do what brings me piece of mind rather than whats going on now which is dividing my mind into several areas and giving each sections huge headaches that when combined is perhaps whats caused me to be in the state I am in.
Perhaps I should start slinging my axe and be a bed room Rockstar with my good friend Teko and basically start living again.
Woman and Man – ReflectionOf.Me | How true !! Women size each other up while men couldn’t care less !!
As much as I hate stereotyping genders, this comic not only has a grain of truth in it but can be considered fact in most cases.
A desktop Facebook app that is mind blowing and makes any iPhone or AIR app look bad. Do check it out.
Cross-platform Silverlight out-of-browser Facebook client finally launches
Back in April 2009, Microsoft demonstrated a pure-Silverlight Facebook application called Silverface. Everyone thought it had vanished into thin air, especially with Fishbowl’s release. It seems, however, they’ve been working on a Silverlight client the entire time: ladies and gentlemen, the beta Silverlight 4 Client for Facebook!
And boy was it worth the wait.
I won’t bore you with a laborious review with lots of screenshots — Think Different has pictures, if you want — I’ll just tell you that this thing works, and it works really well. It’s black and swish and shiny and silver. The entire gamut of Facebook functionality has been brought over to the Silverlight client. Status updates, photo browsing, mail — even a neat photo uploader tool.
Plus it has notifications, ala TweetDeck or Growl. You can just forget most of the apps I listed in last week’s Five Facebook Desktop Apps feature — this bad boy does it all.
Except chat. It doesn’t frackin’ do chat. Anyway, give it a go — you’ll need to install the new version developer version of Silverlight, but it’s worth it, I promise. Microsoft Silverlight > Adobe Air?!
Damn, and I thought the Fishbowl WPF based desktop application was cool. Looks like Adobe is going to get stiff competition from M$ for the cross platform RIA app arena.
Off The Cuff Podcast Episode 1 : Feminism & Chauvinism, different side of the same coin?
This is the first official podcast from the Off The Cuff crew. As usual it is random stuff recorded as it comes and unmoderated. This podcast segue-ed beyond the title and into materialism and the need for socialism. Special guest speakers are Valerie and Cher Hao. Hope you enjoy the podcast as much as we enjoyed making it.
Off The Cuff Podcast Episode 1 : Feminism & Chauvinism, different side of the same coin?
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This is the first official podcast from the Off The Cuff crew. As usual it is random stuff recorded as it comes and unmoderated. This podcast segue-ed beyond the title and into materialism and the need for socialism. Special guest speakers are Valerie and Cher Hao. Hope you enjoy the podcast as much as we enjoyed making it.
Off The Cuff Podcast Episode 1 : Feminism & Chauvinism, different side of the same coin?
