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27 julio

A Humble Muggle Comment

Every beginning has its ending.............Harry Potter 7 marked the last ending of Harry Potter series.  Finished reading it and sense some characters and story lines reflected upon reality of life. 
 
Feeling sad on professor Severus Snape "tragic" death. He was a good man but being misunderstood for his whole life because he acted "weird" during his teenage life and shown the tendency towards Dark Magic. Professor Dumbledore was selfish person during his teenager life. How James humiliated Snape during their Hogwart school life and James possesion of Invisibility Cloak explained much of his undetected wrongdoing at school. 
 
Maybe what Snape had said is correct ............"They're not as wonderful as everyone seems to think they are." However, society favour upon Good Force rather than Dark Force and hence made James & Dumbledore great men in Hogwart.
 
So.........What is the definition of good person and bad person?
15 julio

Another Check Point Meeting

Last Thursday,my project partner informed me to attend a checkpoint meeting on Friday morning 10am at client office. As usual, I had a cup of Nescafe at the front stall opposite the client office. My project partner reached at 9.30am, and we had breakfast at the food court. (Luckily we did that). At 10am sharp, both of us, grabbed the chairs and sat on the second row of the meeting room table, because the front row occupied by the chairman, the speakers, and the vendors who are going to do presentation.
 
Meeting started around 10.30am after everything setup to begin our Friday. There were 5 vendors in the meeting room waiting for their turn to present their security implementation on their respective system to the "Mighty Judge of Data Security Unit". Vendor A, which developed the biggest part of the system started their presentation, and this is where his nightmare begun.  As he went through his system against the Central Bank guideline checklist, which I saw was filled up with details and complied to all the applicable items in the listing with the word "Yes".
 
The show began here....
 
Judge      : Where is my Central Bank guideline checklist? Why no one prepare the checklist and we just go through the list?
 
After 10 minutes of photostating process...........
 
Checklist  :  All login IDs must have an expiry day and set to inactive after a period of inacivity set in the policy.
Judge       :  Do your system have that?
Vendor A  :  Yes.
Judge       :  However, my department may not need to login into the system if no user complaining for a very long time. So, my department's IDs shouldn't have expiry date.
Vendor A  :  Err.....(he is starting to scratch his head -- exceptional case?).
 
Checklist  :  All system should have system log files.
Judge       :  Do your system have that?
Vendor A  :  Yes. For process A, log file store in location A. Process B which is in another system, log file stores in location B.....etc.
Judge       :  Is your system log file easy to understand? Can you make it understandable by non-IT savvy?
Vendor A  :  Hmm.....(he is lost in the space of confusion. System log file to be read by non-IT savvy? After the system finished development?)
Judge       :  (Turned her head to the chairman) In our organization, who is responsible to read the system log file?
Chairman :  Currently, there is no such person exist.
Judge       :  I think your department should assign someone to read the log file.
Chairman :  You must be joking, your department is an IT department, why not your department just take over the job?
Judge       :  Nope. That shouldn't be. Auditor, isn't your department to review the log file to scrutinize if there is any abuse to the system?
Auditor     :  Ha?
(And this finger pointing continue for 10 minutes without any conclusion except Vendor A still confuse in his world)
 
This "integerrogation" process continue for more than 2 hours just for Vendor A system because of Judge's new requirements and questions branches out from the Central Bank checklist. Vendor A did complied to all the checklist items but what he not aware of are those "exceptional cases" and he needs to make additional changes. This happened to us last time, we encountered the same problems and we were having the thoughest time to make last minutes changes without any extension of dateline. When we requested for the "exceptional cases" checklist from the Bank, the Bank answered "NON existing item found".  Today, we see our fellow vendors encounter the same problems, we saw our "past".
 
Human never learn from their mistakes and past experiences. All new vendors faced the "exceptional cases" incident with the "Judge", not that we never comply to Central Bank ruling, but we are not inform of such "exceptional cases" and we are forced to make changes within shortest time. "Judge" always attend the project meeting just before the UAT begins and vendors will struggle before UAT begin.
 
If "exceptional cases" is such crucial to our system development, why no one in the Bank have the initiative to create a checklist and give to all vendors to develop accordingly? If this exceptional cases checklist exist, we can save a lot of time, human effort, transportaion, parking fees, electricity, saliva, brain cells....etc on this unnecessary process. (A watse of tax payers money)
 
If the Bank willing to pay me few thousand RM to prepare the checklist, I would accept with great pleasure for the benefits of we, ie: vendors' mental health.
 
01 julio

安静的位置

作者:周国平   

前些时候,有一阵听说我的书卖得挺好。一个人写书当然希望爱读的人越多越好,我也不例外,所以心里是高兴的。但是,接踵而来的热闹,诸如记者采访、电视亮相、大学讲座之类,我就非常不习惯了。我尽量推辞,有时盛情难却答应了,结果多半是后悔。人各有志,我不反对别人追求和享受所谓文化的社会效应,只是觉得这种热闹与我的天性太不合。我的性格决定我不能做一个公众人物。做公众人物一要自信,相信自己真是一个人物,二要有表演欲,一到台上就来情绪。我偏偏既自卑又怯场,面对摄像机和麦克风没有一次不感到是在受难。因此我想,万事不可勉强,就让我顺应天性过我的安静日子吧。如果确实有人喜欢我的书,他们喜欢的也一定不是这种表面的热闹,就让我们的心灵在各自的安静中相遇吧。   

世上从来不缺少热闹,因为一旦缺少,便必定会有不甘心的人去把它制造出来。不过,大约只是到了今日的商业时代,文化似乎才必须成为一种热闹,不热闹就不成其为文化。譬如说,从前,一个人不爱读书就老老实实不读,如果爱读,必是自己来选择要读的书籍,在选择中贯彻了他的个性乃至怪癖。现在,媒体担起了指导公众读书的职责,畅销书推出一轮又一轮,书目不断在变,不变的是全国热心读者同一时期仿佛全在读相同的书。与此相映成趣的是,这些年来,学界总有一两个当红的热门话题,话题不断在变,不变的是不同学科的学者同一时期仿佛全在研究相同的课题。我不怀疑仍有认真的研究者,但更多的却只是凭着新闻记者式的嗅觉和喉咙,用以代替学者的眼光和头脑,正是他们的起哄把任何学术问题都变成 了热门话题,亦即变成了过眼烟云的新闻。   

在这个热闹的世界上,我尝自问:我的位置究竟在哪里?我不属于任何主流的、非主流的和反主流的圈子。我也不是现在有些人很喜欢标榜的所谓另类,因为这个名称也太热闹,使我想起了集市上的叫卖声。那么,我根本不属于这个热闹的世界吗?可是,我绝不是一个出世者。对此我只能这样解释:不管世界多么热闹,热闹永远只占据世界的一小部分,热闹之外的世界无边无际,那里有着我的位置,一个安静的位置。这就好像在海边,有人弄潮,有人嬉水,有人拾贝壳,有人聚在一起高谈阔论,而我不妨找一个安静的角落独自坐着。是的,一个角落--在无边无际的大海边,哪里找不到这样一个角落呢--但我看到的却是整个大 海,也许比那些热闹地聚玩的人看得更加完整。   

在一个安静的位置上,去看世界的热闹,去看热闹背后的无限广袤的世界,这也许是最适合 我的性情的一种活法吧。