Recently, a new technology startup in Malaysia, Fibre@Home introduced their product to consulting engineers here in Perunding PLA Sdn. Bhd. It is actually an electronic device which takes in the information from other Fibers Companies like TIME, Maxis, Celcom, ASTRO IPTV and TMNET Unifi, and delivers to home customers at a speed of not more than 100Mb per second.
Fiber@Home seems like a unique idea, but it is already implemented in Europe 10 years ago, so basically it is a technology-transfer process. But since Fiber@Home is the only company that use the system, it might create a new form of monopoly where every home owners in Malaysia need to use the Fiber-integrated system.
Pros
1) It is very easy to use and convenient as we only need to login out account in Fiber@Home website and subscribes to channels we like.
2) The speed is very fast(at least as promised).
Cons
1) Additional cost will be added to the subcription fees of internet usage.
2) Who to blame when the system breakdown? (Fiber@Home or the Fiber Companies?)
1) When I was in my secondary school, I always came across the word peer pressure. I don't actually get the meaning of it that time.
2) Now I am in University, some of my friends get scholarships, some go to UK for their studies. At some point, I feel left out.
3）It is fun to have a boyfriend or girlfriend, but when you don't have it or never have it, you feel the pressure. You feel alone, just as the word single suggest..
4) Humans' heights are largely depends on gene. But sometimes, people just treat it as personal achievement. Tall people tend to look smarter and at the advantage side...
5) All these is regarded as peer pressure, at least I think so.~
1) If you have ever count the resistors in a circuit board, you will find these components far outnumbered other electronics components such as transistors, Integrated Circuit, and so on.
2) This happens in life too. Everyday, we will face lots of obstacles (analogy to resistor in circuit). But, I am sure all these obstacles happen for a reason. They not only test our ability to move on despite great resistance, they also prevent us from running into big trouble. Just imagine there are no resistor in a electric circuit, the LED will easily get burned. So does our life. We can easily get into trouble if there are no rules and failures.
When you get something without paying anything, it is free. Yet, it is so hard nowadays to get something free.
You go to primary school and secondary school, yeah, it is free education. Yet, we still need to buy textbooks, exercise books and stationery. We then reach University. Here, we have to pay more.
Now, back to the question, What thing in this world is free? The easiest answer is family love and supports. The unconditional help from family since our birth, is the special force that keep this world going. ~
Malaysian Hero, Dato Lee Chong Wei just beat Lin Dan in 3 sets in Korean Open 2012. He won Lin Dan once for every year for 9 consecutive years. Can he surpass his own record in London Olympic 2012?
Last year, Novak Djokovic certainly was the Man of The Year for tennis. He won 3 out of 4 Grand Slams (Australia Open, Wimbledon and US Open) . He also became No 1 in the ATP ranking, dethroned Nadal.
2012 will be an exciting year for tennis. Rafael Nadal, who is seen as the contender for Greatest Tennis of All Time will definitely find a way back to his best. And Djokovic ( Djoker) can only become a more complete player on court. And can Roger Federer bring back his best form in 2012?
We as tennis fans can only wait for big matches to begin. ~
This is my first post in 2012. And it is a comeback post since 2009. I am doing Electrical Engineering degree in HKU. Last but not least, I love tennis so much. ~
All-England
In the All-England Open tournament, Lin Dan defeated Lee Chong Wei again and won his fourth All England title in his six consecutive final of All England Open. Besides that, Lin Dan is also the current world and Olympic champion, which make him the best player in the world. Although Lee Chong Wei, the Malaysian hero lost to Lin Dan, he still can be proud of himself by making it to his first All England final. While China team shows its dominant power in badminton by sweeping all the five champion in All England.
Swiss Open
Chong Wei revenged by beating Lin Dan (21-16,21-16) in Men singles final. This win is important for Chong Wei to regain its confidence. Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong didn't make malaysian fans disappointed by winning the men doubles title. Wang Yihan, the former world junior champion won three titles in three consecutive weeks(German Open, All-England and Swiss Open).
1) The term "renewable energy" is not new to all of us. We know that renewable energy like solar, wind, biomass, and hydroelectric energy are better and more efficient compare to non-renewable energy like coal, petroleum and natural gas.
2) But there is a hard truth when it comes to developing renewable energy, the cost of making those solar panel, wind turbines and building those hydroelectric dam is simply too high.
3) The price of crude oil rose to all-time high last year June (which is $147). This is good because it forced energy companies to switch focus to generate electric power from solar panels and wind turbines. Unfortunately, the price of crude oil fall to around $40 now. This will slow down the development and progress of renewable energy.
4) According to Infoplease.com, the world's population in the year 1950 is 2.55 billion. As of February 2009, world's population is estimated to be 6.75 billion. The significant increase in world's population is due to several reasons. The advancement in science and technology has saved many life. Besides that, the healthcare system also enabled poor to receive healthcare service. Therefore, the demand for electricity will be overwhelming. People are using electricity in many ways, such as to power Air-Conditioner, light up the light bulb, and using the water heater. If we want to make sure energy production can match energy consumption, we have to commit ourselves to developing clean energy instead of increase our dependence on fossil fuel.
Australian Open Review
Men Singles
- Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer and won the Men' singles Champion.
- This Grand Slam is Nadal's first ever hard court Grand Slam.
- Roger Federer's hope of equaling Pete Sampras record(14 Grand Slam) was again denied by rival Rafael Nadal.
- Djokovic, last year Australian Open winner retired in quarter final, due to injury.
Women Singles
- Serena William hammered Dinara Safina 6-0 and 6-3 in women singles final.
- After retirement of Henin, Serena William is dominating the woman singles world.
- Although she lost to her sister Venus in Wimbledon final last year, she has won two consecutive Grand Slam which is US open last year and Australian Open this year.
- Young female players like Ana Ivanovic and Jankovic seems like still not ready to take the challenge to be world number one.
Women Doubles
- Serena William and Venus William won the final with score 6-3, 6-3.
- They are the Gold Medallist of 2008 Beijing Olympic Women Doubles too.
1) In 2008 Jun, The price of crude oil reached its peak which is $147. At that time, many analyzers thought the price of crude oil would surpass 200 US dollar when year end. But the price of crude oil fall as the temperature fall. At summer, the temperature and the price of crude oil reached its peak. When winter, the price of crude oil and the temperature fell together.
2) Last year 20 March, Taiwanese voted and welcomed their new new leader, Ma Ying-jeou. Although Ma Ying-jeou's pro-China policy won some cheers, his inability to solve economic crisis caused Taiwanese says,"A bad president has gone, but a dumb president has arrived."
3) Barack Obama is surely the man-to-watch this year. He was chosen as the Person of The Year by TIME magazine last year. He will replace George W Bush as the new president of USA on 20 January 2009. His refusal to intervene the conflict between Gaza and Israel has brought some critics against him. Now, many media have compared Barack Obama to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt ran for president in 1933 by promising a "New Deal" and was a hero in US at that time because he led US out from The Great Depression. Will Barack Obama become the second Roosevelt and solve the economic tsunami or bring us disappointment? only time will tell......
1) This morning, I opened my web browser and typed cnn.com. When I reached the website, I read this headline,"Girl killed, 49 burned after Israeli shelling". I knew this is an expected headline.
2) The conflicts and war between Israel and Gaza is no secret. All major newspaper and websites put the news about the war as their headlines.
3) Meanwhile, thousands of demonstrators marched through London, England to protest Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza.
4) War starts because both sides hate each other. Israeli hate people in Gaza and vice versa.
5) I remembered one buddhist told me that only love can stop hate. Hate itself can't stop hate.
6) Although I am not a Christian, I knew Jesus Christ once said,"Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."
7) If everyone in the world can love their enemy, I believe there will be no war and conflicts anymore.
1)For many years, there are many hybrid cars build by automotive industry in a bid to replace the petrol-powered cars. 2)Among those hybrid cars are hydrogen vehicle, solar vehicle and electric vehicle.
3)The concept of hydrogen-powered cars is quite simple. The hydrogen is reacted with oxygen to produce water and electricity. The electricity produced is used to power an electric motor.
a hydrogen vehicle. Picture taken from Wikipedia
4)The future of electric cars is also very promising because electric engine convert 75 percent of available energy into forward motion, compared with the 20 percent energy conversion rate of gasoline engines.
5)For solar cars, I don't believe the future cars can run entirely on sunlight, but the energy generated from photovoltaic cell can provide additional energy for a hybrid car.
In the January 2009 issue of printed edition PC Magazine, the editor-in-chief announced that the January 2009 issue is the last printed edition of the PC Magazine publication.
From February onwards, PC Magazine will become a 100-percent-digital publication. PC Magazine publication will offer PC Magazine Digital Edition to its subscriber.
Besides that, the Wall Street Journal also offer similar Digital Edition to its subscriber to replace the printed edition.
In Malaysia, www.malaysiakini.com which publish articles online offer subscription of RM15 per month for those who want to read its full articles.
In conclusion, I believe in the future,more and more magazines and newspapers will follow the trend. In fact, this is good for the environment because it don't need the paper so it can save trees.
物极则反，器满则倾 is a chinese proverb. I like this proverb because it
represents the very nature of the universe and our daily life.
The translation of this proverb is thing will be developed to the opposite
side when it exceed its limit.
The most simple and obvious example is we have to eat balanced diet.
If we eat too much food, we will become fat(obesity); if we refuse to
eat food, we will become weak and thin(anorexia nervosa).
The second example is we have to maintain an optimal amount of sleep
everyday(8 hours per day for teenagers and 7 hours per day for adults).
If we exceed the time we sleep, it will affect our circadian rhythms;
If we don't get enough rest or sleep, it will cause mental, emotional and
physical fatigue.
Therefore, we have to keep everything in balance in order to live healthier
and happier.
The term "crisis" in Chinese is called 危机. 危 means dangerous while 机 means opportunity, that is, whenever there is dangerous situation, there is opportunity in it.
In 21st century, we face many crisis or dangerous situation such as global warming, greenhouse effect, water shortage, and energy crisis.
But there are solutions to fix the problems we faced.
Problem: Water Shartage
Solution: Desalination
Explanation: Desalination is a process which convert seawater to freshwater.
Technology: Reverse Osmosis, Membrane Distillation
Problem: Energy Crisis
Solution: Renewable Energy (examples, solar energy, wind power, hydroelectricity and nuclear energy)
Explanation: For solar energy, energy is obtained from photovoltaic cell and heat engine. While wind power is the conversion of wind energy into electricity by using wind turbines. For hydroelectricity, it is electricity generated by hydropower through use of the gravitational force of flowing water.
Conclusion
Without the existence of problem we face like water shortage and depletion of petroleum, there will be no technology such as desalination system and renewable energy. Therefore, we should invent more technologies instead of worrying and fear.
The term mixed-race refers to people whose ancestries come from different races.
I found out that those mixed-races are more excel in their career compare to those whose ancestries come from the same race.
Example of those mixed-race people are Nicol David, Tiger Woods and Barack Obama.
Nicol David
Nicol David is a Chindian ( a chindian is a person of both chinese and indian ancestry) daughter of Ann Marie David and Desmond David. Her father is an Indian Malaysian engineer, and her mother is a retired Chinese Malaysian school teacher. Nicol David is one of the most successful squash player of all time. She won world champion three times and world junior champion twice.
Tiger Woods
Woods was born to Earl and Kultida (Tida) Woods. Earl, a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran, was of mixed African American (50 percent), Chinese (25 percent) and Native American (25 percent) ancestry. Kultida (nee Punsawad), originally from Thailand, is of mixed Thai (50 percent), Chinese (25 percent), and Dutch (25 percent) ancestry. This makes Woods himself one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-quarter African American, one-eighth Native American, and one-eighth Dutch.
Woods has won fourteen professional major golf championships, the second highest of any male player, and 65 PGA Tour events, third all time. He has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on tour. Tiger Woods is to golf what Sergey Brin and Larry Page is to search engine.
Barack Obama
Barack Obama was born to Ann Dunham, a white American from Wichita, Kansas of mainly English, Irishand smaller amounts of German descent. Obama's father was Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo(The Luo (also called Jaluo and Joluo) are an ethnic group in Kenya, eastern Uganda, and northern Tanzania.)from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Perhaps it is too early to judge the achievement of president-elect Barack Obama, but the fact that he is the first black president is undeniable.
Conclusion
Since we know the advantages of mixed-race, we should respect other races.
This morning, I read an article from Sin Chew Daily called “Ride for a thousand miles, Achieving planting dream". In this article, one man named Mohammad Tajeran ride around the world for 732 days. His mission is every country or place he arrived, he will plant a tree in the school where he go. His website is http://weneedtrees.com.
For me, tree planting is like when driving a car where we go to the wrong path of a journey, now we are making a U-turn and go to the correct path.
Plants more trees will reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and increase the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere.
Besides that, tree planting will also reduce greenhouse gases and thus slowing down the rate of global warming.
About 3 months ago,in the Summer Beijing Olympic Games, Usain Bolt won the 100 meters men event with record-breaking 9.69 seconds. A few days later, Usain Bolt and his team mates Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Asafa Powell broke world and Olympic record with 37.10 seconds.
But there is one interesting fact, that is if you divide the 4x100 meters record 37.10 seconds by four you will get 9.275 seconds. This means each of them ran only 9.275 seconds for 100 meters which is much faster compare to Usain Bolt's 100 meters record (9.69 seconds).
The reason is it take certain time for a sprinter to reach his/her full speed from the starting point.
In the 4x100 meters relay event, the athletes already run for a certain distance before he/her receive the baton and continue to run.
Political change
This year, wind of change had swept many countries.
In Malaysia, on 8th of March, the opposition parties ( now known as Pakatan Rakyat) won five states and Barisan National lost its two third parliamentary majority since 1969.
While in Taipei( or Republic of China) ,on 22nd of March, Kuomintang nominee Ma Ying-jeou won and became the new president of Republic of China.
In United States of Amerika, Barack Obama from Democrat won and will be inaugurated on January 20 next year.
