Never Say Never

Switched on the radio in my car this morning and heard the phrase "Never Say Never". Forgot about what the DJ said. Straight away I was thinking about my favorite football club since my childhood time - Manchester United. David Beckham, a golden boy in Manchester football history once answered the question from a journalist regarding the possibility of joining Real Madrid. For those who are not a football mania, Real Madrid is actually another famous football club in Spain but not so popular compared to Manchester United. Not before Beckham joined the club! Beckham’s answer was rather simple. “Never say never in your life”. After all, we all know that he is now playing for this Spanish club. His performance is well bellow par but his popularity has helped this Spanish club to sell its merchandises. The financial income for this Spanish club looks healthier than before. Thanks to Beckham! Thanks to ManU! He is a famous football icon in the world, especially in East Asia. Anyway, not in United State which football is known as soccer. Just to let you all know, Real Madrid has not won any trophy after Beckham joined the team. But it hardly matters at all, the club is making money. Real Madrid is going nowhere after watching the match between them and Barcelona. Ronaldinho could not help you to sell the merchandises but he wins you the match. Sorry, talking too much about football. I just wonder “when and where” to use this phrase. Time will tell!

Attended two training sessions on 3GPP stack last two days. The previous training session using web conferencing was not good enough due to the voice quality and the damned slow power point presentation in Netspoke. I don’t have any idea on how the mechanism of the conference call works. But, you really frustrated with the voice quality when various echo and noise coming from all the parties. The Internet connectivity was also too slow and not able to support the Netspoke’s features. The switching of one slide to another took more than one minute and worse if the slide contains a lot of pictures. Perhaps, the only way to solve this problem is asking for specific amount of bandwidth allocation prior to web conferencing. Recently, I have experienced that a technical support web page took almost 10~15 seconds to access. I think that this is because the security features have been put onto the server. I was not patient enough to wait for this and showed my unsatisfaction in the recent survey form. If I want to complaint next time, I mind as well complaint to the internet service provider…..

Alright, till now. It's time to back to my work…