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September 18 Where are you now? and where to go next? Source: Courtesy from a very wise colleague. Something to think about during the long holiday. .....   May 21 [转贴] 人生的七味心药 来源: http://www.5xue.com/modules/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=171088&extra=page%3D1 人生一定要懂的七味心药 人生在世，既短暂又坎坷、既荣幸又无奈、既富裕又贫穷、既辉 煌又落魄、既坚强又脆弱、既开心又难过、既快乐又失落、既亮丽又黯然、既善良又狠心、既热情又冷漠、既神奇又平淡、既美好又苦涩、既博爱又妒嫉、既正直又 小气、既获取又失去等等，总是相辅相成的纠缠着我们的人生圈子。 然而，我们无论如何都必须要懂人生的七味心药：“心善，善乐好施；心宽，宽大为怀；心正，正大光明；心静，静心如水；心怡，怡然自得；心安，安常处顺；心诚，诚心诚意。”这样，我们才能医治自己的“百病”，从而精神焕发、光彩照人！ 心善，善乐好施 心地善良是每个人天生的秉性，无须矫揉造作、故弄玄虚。心善了就应该有自己做人处事的原则，不能总是在坐井观天的摆出一副“事不关己，高高挂起”的肿 态，而是自己应当有所心甘情愿的行动，也就是“日行一善”地收获功德的“丰硕果实。”善乐，是一种自觉的真心付出，是一种自然的真情流露，是一种自序的真 挚施舍。和善地与人相处是十分平易近人的礼尚往来，从善如流是大爱无疆的蔓延，积善成德是让爱充满人间的旖旎动人。 心宽，宽大为怀 俗话说：“心宽体胖。”一个时常都是心宽的人，他（她）每天一定会是满面春风、笑容可鞠的人。苗没有树大，树没有山大，山没有海大，海却没有心大！做 人就要记得经常宽大为怀，不要老是为了一些鸡毛蒜皮而贪小便宜，也不要为了一回绳头小利而斤斤计较，更不要为了一时的升官发财而明争暗斗！假如互不相让地 尔虞我诈，到头来大家还是两败俱伤，给别人坐山观虎斗的“渔翁得利”了呢！因而，不管在何时何地自己都要宽大为怀，有时候“急流勇退、退避三舍、明哲保身 ”一下也为何不可。这是一种以退为进的胆定，是一种足智多谋的恬静，是一种釜底抽薪的深沉。 心正，正大光明 心正是没有任何的私心杂念，比较憨厚耿直的固然凸现。心正不是伺机的铤而走险，而是真诚的虚怀若谷；心正不是狡猾的利诱相逼，而是坦荡的助人为乐；心 正不是阴险的同流合污，而是透明的开诚布公；心正不是故意的弄虚作假，而是有意的查漏补缺；心正不是冲动的偷梁换柱，而是坚定的持重老成。 心静，静心如水 心静是生活时自己平心静气的显现、是自己笑看风云的舒畅、是自己洗心革面的超然。静心如水，不是自己象波澜壮阔似的那样乘风破浪、勇往直前的驾驭风 帆，而是自己犹如纹丝不动的潭水中静谧安详却慢条斯理的涟漪。如此，静心如水的人往往是静水深流的表现出一种博大精深的最高境界！ 心怡，怡然自得 心怡就是心中总怀着一种乐观向上的独特情愫，没有什么芜艾污泽搅混搀杂。记得这样的一句话：“只要自己的心是晴朗的，就没有什么暴风骤雨的时候！”是 的，心怡了就会心悦诚服的珍视，就会心旷神怡的珍惜。怡然自得，是这种风调雨顺时的热切希望，是这种五谷丰登时的热烈期望，是这种满载而归时的热情祈望。 怡然自得，是自己坚持到底的达观与看开，是自己忠贞不渝的淡泊与明智。 心安，安常处顺 心安理得是人有了理想的收获之后的沉稳与欣慰，而处之泰然却是一种风华的敦实。当然随遇而安也是自己知足常乐的最大内涵，只要自己能够习以为常的生活面对一切风云变幻，那么自己将会赢得威信与可靠、将会博取崇尚与高雅。 心诚，诚心诚意 心诚是人最能够表现自己文化、知识、品味、个性、性格、气质、教养、修养、涵养等的一面镜子，没有心诚休想在生活的空间里拥有一席之地。显然，诚心诚 意是人际关系交往的一种最直接的表达方式，同时诚心诚意也是众望所归的一种牢固信赖，诚心诚意更是人们最终必须追逐的一种高风亮节。 有了“人生的七味心药”随身携带在自己的左右，那么自己也将是拥有了灵丹妙药，自己也就是可以时刻施展妙手回春。纵然，自己的一生更是“世上无难事，只怕有心人”的走向康庄大道却一帆风顺！ 转自：飞信迷你首页  May 19 Leaving soon .....Half of May 2009 had gone.... I start counting how many days left from 31st May.... 8 days are all we have before we are officially end. Nov 2007 until May 2009, ........ the amazing pantry where the Pavillon view is the best tension release view. The super cool coffee machine always tempted us to spend more time at the pantry. We saw SpiderMan cleaning Seri Melayu Restaurant roof from the pantry's window. No joke.  We start counting from KLCC tower until Ritz Carlton Hotel, one by one building we analyze their colour, structure and design. We are the traffic reporters. We witnessed the fall of Restaurant Bon Ton, Seafood Restaurant and Choral Cafe, we witnessed the rise of Royale Chulan Hotel. KL Hop On Hop Off is the coolest bus in KL, everyday I see them passing by, bringing tourists from around the world on KL tour. You can laugh at me, but I still think that is the coolest bus in KL, perhaps someday I will take a ride for my own little tour. The toilets here ... fabulously clean ... whenever we want to go toilet, that is the time "Cleaning is in progress".  We learnt multi languages here. English, Malay, Chinese and Italian. We moved around quite a lot with our laptop because we truly reflect our company tag line "Mobile Solution". No other vendors move as much as us. When you can't find us in the room, ask around and anyone will just know where had we traveled to. I know I am going to miss the coffee machine and pantry when I have to go soon.....  April 23 Chicken A La Cartehttp://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1081  While we have the luxury to waste our food .... there is a forgotten portion of the society that 'waiting eagerly' to fill their hunger with our "left over" food . Seeing people eat our left over food collected from restaurants' rubbish bins with broad smile on their faces makes me eye sorrow. I am not sure if they are happy because they have something to eat or because they are thankful that outside "their" world, there are a group of "rich" people who are "kind" enough to "waste" money on food and "provide" them the left-over. Think of these "misfortune" people next time when you want to "donate" your unfinished food. Think deeply we all must. January 09 Coming to an end .... finallyAfter much lengthy waiting for a clear direction, finally we got it during yesterday meeting.
Finally, Bank A told us, "your application does not have market, difficult to use, not user friendly, we already engaging with another vendor to develop a more advance version of the same application and your application will be phased out in 3 months time". <--- Engaging another vendor without our knowledge and for the past 1 year, we had been fulfilling all change requests and enhancement until Sept 2008. Since then, whenever we ask when the project going be rolled out after waiting for 3 years, everyone in the project team keeps on telling us, "we are busy with other projects", "all key person are on leave, we cannot have a meeting with you now". All the lame excuses given to us and made us to make changes everywhere with the reasons of "becoming better".
 3 years since completion and UAT-ed. From year 2006 until 2008, our application gone through 5 times of UAT and all the promises to launch the application were never been realised but keeps on postponing. The fact is the application is NEVER being push to the market to be used. How can it be not having any market? On what justification this statement came out?
 My broken heart break into even smallest pieces with this long waited decision. No laughther, no anger, no more emotional feeling when I heard this news with my own ears. I am not sure if the 'waiting' had 'numbed' my senses or I am gradually turn myself to be 'cruel-er' than previous. Even after 36 hours, I still unable to define my emotional state on this decision.
I admit I did learnt a lot in this project from all aspects, but the 'suffering' of unfair treatment all these years really 'hurt' very deeply.
 My ex-team mate Darth Vader told me......"From fail you learn a lot, from success nothing much...this fail is for future R2(ie: me) become super robot."
Thanks Darth Vader & Tripio....for all the encouragement given all the time. R2 will continue to grow stronger and wiser.
Thanks boss for giving me this opportunity and also 'tolerated' with my grumbling all the time. I wouldn't say the nightmare had gone, but I will continue a new life by putting down this 'heavy baggage' immediately.
......"From fail you learn a lot, from success nothing much...this fail is for future R2 become super robot."  December 18 3 years vs 2 hoursLife seems to end pretty good for Dec 2008 except the 'never-ending' Bank A project which had been completed 3 years ago and UAT-ed for 5 times but still no sign of when it is going to roll out. I once joked by predicting the project will not roll out even Deepavali 2008. Guess what.....my prediction came true (Time to consider career change to become astrology expert) and now Santa Clause is coming to townnnn still no sign of anything to everything.
After gone through numerous emails, phone calls, meeting, the client (Bank A) not only unable to provide a clear direction on our project faith, its even blocking the project money payment with the excuse "you still owe us outstanding items". However, when we request for the list of outstanding items to be presented to us, none of them know exactly what are the items but keep vaguely meantion "outstanding items".
Speaking about invoices payment, the person in charge has been pushing around the responsbilities among each other in the department. Not answering phone calls, no reply any emails, seems like she has vaporated through the air.
It take us more than 3 years to request for a clear direction on the project and still we are waiting for the Bank to set an suitable timing appointment for the meeting. Reasons given by the Bank A is "we are busy-ing with other projects, bear in mind...you are not the only vendor we handle, we got a lot of other system that we need to deal with". Such an arrogant excuses had been given to us all the time whenever we request for a clear cut decision.
To me, any project that cannot be roll out even after 3 years of development completion is a total failure and having serious defect along the project management process. 3 years is not a short period of time, 3 years is long enough to complete a part-time MBA.
Yesterday, I attended a meeting for my current project with another (Bank R) of the same system nature and in less than 2 hours, all our questions about our future had been answered. We sorted out a clear direction to proceed and achieving win-win situation.
3 years vs 2 hours => Bank A vs Bank R ==> nothing to compare!
August 03 Nothing MattersWhen nothing matters anymore, how would the feeling be?
Why and How we reached to this "stop"?
How do we continue to move forward?
July 06 The only thing predictable about life is its unpredictabilityMy favourite quote in Ratatouille:
May 25 Coming to an end (Not yet........) - Part 328th Mar 2008 is the date when the project should reach its destination, ie: soft launch.
For the past 2 months, everyday without failed emails flying here and there because of IPs mis-configuration. More than 100 emails related to this matters from the client waiting for help from us. As a Bank, the IT team failed to know what are the correct IPs to be used, they constantly ask us to provide the correct IPs and confirm if the IPs are correct. This is very weird, it is the Bank infrasturcture and we do not have any information on how the structure looks like. What is our justification to confirm whether the given IPs are correct or not?
While the problem is clearly showed that, unless the correct IPs are being configured by the Bank IT team itself, no one on Earth can possibly know which IP to be used. The whole Bank project team members is expecting vendor to take the responsiblities to resolve the problem. In all the emails, the Bank IT department is writing "Pending vendor to revert, kindly resolved this ASAP". We as the vendor had politely asked for more information to assist in this matter, however, the Bank told us, those information are private and confidential and shall not ber released to us. If vendor cannot know the the network structure, how can we possible to know what are the correct IPs to be used? If we do not know the corect IPs to be used, why the Bank constantly ask us to confirm whether their "choice" of IPs setting is correct or not?
When I finally burst my patient and inform the whole team that, the ball is now at the Bank court, it seems that non of the Bank team members know the IPs to use, we as the vendor cannot proceed from here. Stop pushing the blame on us and the Bank should buck up to investigate what is the Bank network infra and get the correct IPs to be configured.
End of the day, I got a "compliment" email from the Bank asking me to stop giving comments and tell my boss that I did not show my support in this matter.
Hello.............anybody there? are you all still asleep or what?
April 17 Have you experince this?Have you ever expeirnce this scenario?
You start doing a task with no fear, because you do not know what are the 'danger' lies in front of the road. As you travel along the task, road blocks and challenges comes along. You fight with 2 swords in both arms and 'destroyed' all of them one by one. You think you achieve something that you never think you will do yesterday without taking up this task. Somehow, the task is still unable to reach its 'final destination' because of external factors which beyond your control. Will you begin to doubt your capability in this task? What is your next course of action? Is quitting the best solution?
 April 06 Initiative - Carry the Message to GarciaInitiative March 28 Coming to an end (Hopefully) - Part 2Finally, after many struggles, our product finally being deployed into the prodcution server today. However, the "journey" to complete the migration was not that smooth but the migration did completed before 6pm today. Due to the delay, the real live test can only be done on next Monday.
This is the longest waiting that I ever had for a project to go live. I was once desperately eagerly wish for smooth roll out since long long time ago. But, today, the roll out does not create any sense of emotional moment to me. Feeling good? Not really. Feeling bad? Not true.
There is still the live test to be conducted next week. Challenges are anticipate.
But why I do not have any exicted at all, afterall, I had been waiting for today since one and half year ago? I should have feel very happy but I am not.
Furthermore, today I had attended the biggest farewell party in my life. People come and go, project on time and delay.........etc, all are parts and puzzle of life? A norm of life which does not really need to be emotional about? March 26 Coming to the end? (Hopefully)Much has been said and much had been heard.......it is time to calm down and start a new journey.
Finally, UAT had been signed off since last Friday and everyone is now in the progress for migration to production roll out this coming Friday. 2 years of waiting will soon end by this Friday(hopefully). I should have feel very happy but I am not. There is no emotion description for me on UAT singoff this round. Too many of disappointment for the past 2 years make me timid to put any hope and any joy with the UAT signoff.
For the past 1 month, I had acted a bit "harsh" and "tough" on every matters regarding UAT processes by client. No more Shakesphere English but straight to the point comments and replies to show my dissatisfication on the messy UAT processes.
When I first joined this project, there were 5 of us(the Star Wars members) steering the "ship". 1 of them left after 1st UAT, 2 of them left after the 2nd UAT, another 1 left after the 3rd UAT, since then, I am alone to finish the journey. Guys, this is really a hard and 'evil' journey, you guys are smart enough to abandon the "wreckED ship" earlier.
The project had dragged too long and never come to an end with repeating UAT on the same modules, the only reason for me to continue the 'evil' journey is all because of my pride and sense of achievement. If I am not greedy with "pride", I too will abandon the "wreckED ship" much earlier. I do not know how much my pride and sense of achievement worth from what I gained in this project. I don't even know if it is worth to continue the battle alone for so long. I really don't know. Many time, I questioned myself:- what is pride? what is sense of achievement? what is sense of responsibility? how much all these "invisible" items worth? What can I do with all these "invisible" items? I have been thinking very hard on all the questions but I cannot find a answer that can convince myself.
Star Wars members, it is really my wish to inform you all first hand from Data Center on this coming Friday itself that, we finally make it to the end when the final product really put into production server.
Do pray for me and I too will pray hard so that I can fulfill my wish to deliver the good news to you all.
Praying........&..........waiting.............praying.......praying......praying.......... March 16 UATHave anyone heard of this?
Everyday I pray to myself to have healthy stamina and brain with good memory to continue the battle with all the above items. Everyday, I digged my memory and emails to look for evidence of what had transpired since the last 2 years to guard the "fortress" of our system. I cannot afford the client to simply blame on the system when they themselves are actually do not know anything because of "no proper handover" by their ex-colleagues. "No proper handover" is the lame-st excuse given to us, which I don't even bother to believe it 0.001% at all. High endurance to temperature and blood pressure fluctuation is needed for this battle. May the Force be with Me!! February 29 29th Feb 2008It will be another 4 years to wait before 29th Feb come again......haha.......trying to write down my life today.
It is a normal day today, but twice I heard from radio, this is the 1 time in 4 years cycle, so i think I might write a short blog and wait for another 4 years to have the same date to blog again. Speaking of the number "4". Today is the 4th day of the 4th UAT of my previous project on the same modules and we had received problem log number 4 today. Deep inside my heart, I wish this 4th UAT will be the last UAT and the project really can roll out by the "fourth" month of 2008. However, looking at the situation now, I do not have any confidence and the "mess" of the client internal management really boiled my temperature until real fever "attack" me 2 days ago. Anyway, health is back to normal......and it is just another Friday but this is 29th Feb 2008. A date which only will repeat in 4 years once. Happy March 2008 to everyone!!! December 18 The Power of BrandingLately, I had the privileges to have my lunch at Pavilion Bukit Bintang. I been to its food court the first time on October 2007 which is a month after Pavillion official launch date. Nothing really impress me, it is just another shopping heavan for shopholics. However, something which I still cannot comprehen until today is the long queue of JCo Donut fans since the first time I saw them last 2 months until today.
The first time I saw the long queue and crowd was on a Saturday afternoon during my first visit. My friend and I staring at the queue and wondering if there is any lucky draw or discount offered from JCo Donut that drives people crazy by queueing so long. We thought, ok......maybe it is a new brand in Malaysia, everyone has the temptation to try new food, so everyone queue for the new JCo Donut......Well.....Looks normal to us.
Second time I saw the queue was during lunch time early Dec 2007. The queue is even longer during this time.....Well, we think.....lunch time...long queue....that is normal as well.
The third time of visits, we saw the queue was not as long as before, so we decided to buy ourselves the donut for a try and see if we can know what is the secret attraction of the donut. Well.....we queue for 1 hour
 and brought back 2 dozen of our 'hardworked queueing' donuts. We can't believe we really waited 1 hour for the donut and we promised ourselves....no one can ever persude us to queue again just for donuts. We produly walked back with our victory donuts and this time, people looking at us with envy. While we are waiting for our donuts, a Malay lady came to me and asked, "Why so many people queue here ?" I smiled with big grin and narrow eyes answered to her politely that, "I also not know and I am also wondering why". Then both of us, laugh with the answer.
Today, we went for lunch at almost 3pm. Same food court and we thought the queue at JCo Donut shouldn't be long because it 3pm is tea time and not lunch time. However, to our suprise, the queue is even longer than before and JCo Donut fans are queueing patiently waiting for their donuts again. WOW!!! ....this is seriously NOT normal anymore. What is so attractive about the donuts? Why all these people want to make use of their precious time and queue for hours for a donut? This is really unbelievable and I wonder how long can this situation persists.
I ate the donuts twice.........hmm..........I am not a food lover or tester or whatever the name you call it for people who are good at food tasting. I failed to appreciate the uniqueness of the donuts as compare to the other donut brands in the market, and I seriously still unable to understand why people queue for hours just for the donuts. Maybe those of you who not yet experince the taste of JCo Donuts before will think I had wasted the opportunities of eating the donuts by failing to feel its uniqueness.
However, I am still very very blur with the motivation behind the long queue of JCo Donut fans. My boss said.......this is the power of branding. Hmm...... 冷静 ， 智慧虽然近两个月的天气较冷，可是发觉自己的冷静度却大幅的下降。。。。
智慧的增加也随着冷静度的下降而凝结，而且没有任何提升的显示。。。
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