Quote THEM!

“You can have great graphics, but if you don’t have a fulfillment system on the back-end to live up to the customer’s expectations, you’re not going to get the bookmark.” – Jon Ricker

Doing Too Many Things At Once

I’ve always had this problem of trying to do many things at once and then I feel so demoralised because I can’t achieve completely any of the tasks. Which explains why I give up half way of attempting tasks.

The solution however to this problem is to do some proper planning. But even though I know the solution, most of the time I have a hard time focusing myself to achieve tasks on hand. To list them into priorities and act upon it. Perhaps I don’t feel motivated to complete it or it’s simply because I am just plain lazy that it is always a half completed idea that never gets followed through.

Sometimes I can’t help but feel like my happiness is based on things I have completed. Is that why I feel so out of it?

Designing Information Systems Easy As Pie?

In designing an information system for some work process, it has to be done in phases whereby there is one centralise portal linking all these information systems together. The backend database is ideally one database whereby all information systems are updating particular sections of tables in it. These tables are connected to each other in some way where you have primary keys and foreign keys.

Funny thing is, users don’t really comprehend a programmer’s perspective in designing an information system. “How hard can it be!” is what they usually say. But users don’t comprehend what programmers go through when there are add ons from the original design.

It’s like having built a big round metal container for an oil refinery. A crane of 100 tons comes in and places the container at the site. A few years later there seems to be holes in the container, so the maintenance team comes in and patches it by just cutting a piece of metal and cover the hole by welding to the original structure. After doing that for so many years, then one day they decide to scrap the structure. So the maintenance team comes in with the 100 ton and lifts the structure. However the crane and structure topples. Why does it topple? It topples because all the metals covering the holes of the original structure makes the structure heavier than it originally was. The centre of mass of the structure is no longer the same due to the constant patches and add ons.

The same goes with implementing databases. If the database design originally did not consider including the idea in the original design and patches of add ons over the years are put in place, the database gets more heavier and it will be slower for people to access. This is invisible to the users and so users don’t understand the pain system analyts have to go through when users cannot decide what they really need.

Quote THEM!

“Not a day passed me by, not a day passed me by
When I don’t think about you
And there’s no moving on, ’cause I know you’re the one
And I can’t be without you”
-Sugarbabes singing About You Now

Everything Happens for A Reason

They say everything in this world happens for a reason. Although one may not see it now, there is a lesson to be learned. I have been thinking of my past… To tell you the truth I don’t think it’s very healthy for one to think of the past. It was depressing for me. To think of all the regrets, all things that I should have acted upon and never did. Everything that people have said to me about me that I had never let go. The things I said thinking it was best at the time that now I wished I had never said. But the reason doesn’t seem to matter anymore is that right? Excuses and apologies are too late? Life keeps going. Time keeps moving forward…

HTC Sense and Hero

The social butterfly? HTC has taken a step up and introduced the social superphones HTC Hero running on HTC Sense!

Everything coming together making it a “one stop for all”. It can personalise the phone to different views depending if it’s for work, personal life, holiday, etc. Good job HTC, the UI is amazing.

Definately I would research further about in the future about UIs.

Check it out!

I Am Waiting

I am waiting for the day to play this song to you…

“You looked right through me
When there was no one else
I sat beside you and became myself.”

- Jason Radin in “Today”

The Purpose of Writing

“You will learn to write in order to think, to encourage thought, to tease thought out of chaos or out of fright. You will write constantly, and continuously, at every stage, to name your topic and to find your way into it. You will learn to write past certainty, past prejudice, through contradiction, and into complexity. You will come to write out of your own self, and eventually even though you may ne afraid of what your reader will say,  you will learn to write in a way thatwill allow you to be heard.”

- Joan Bolker, ED.D
Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day

It’s All In My Head – Katie Melua

Drowsy, drinking,
I keep thinking,
We’re not far apart.
Scared of waking,
Lonely, aching,
Just me and my hopeless heart.

I Closed My Eyes…

And I wished that night didn’t end…

Listening to Aviation’s You Were My Everything didn’t help my mood.

I haven’t been able to concentrate with work. Pretty stressed last night that I ended up jogging for 3 hours which I totally regret now because I was sore the whole day today.

Been thinking a lot of choices I have yet to make and made. Same old questions have been going through my mind. For a moment closing everything off from me, just seemed surreal enough to think I could put everything on hold. What am I trying to delay? I don’t even know.