Just completed by German Test. It’s just getting harder and harder for me to memorize what I have learned. Yesterday, I had made a big mistake by damaging the hardware configuration word stored in the flash memory. Thinking of burning my own operational firmware to handle the E1 ports, I simply flashed the 1st EEPROM of the board and the board is straight away out of service. Since the boot firmware is resided in the 2nd EEPROM, I assumed that I can safely flash the 1st EEPROM and ooppsss… all the hardware configurations required by the Boot firmware had gone. There is one JTAG port in the board but I could not find any suitable tool in my lab to reprogram it. Sending back to the vendor is the only solution.
Read a cover feature on Bizweek regarding Tony Fernandes, the CEO of AirAsia. AirAsia just has its new low cost carrier terminal under operation beside our former PM mega project, KLIA. It is interesting to find out that all the 53 routes of AirAsia are all profitable or at least breaking even. Low cost budget flight is a new concept in Malaysia. It’s not easy for normal people like me to travel by air since it is such a luxury expense. I have had my first flight at the age of 22 and during that time, there was no AirAsia. I still remember that the route was from Penang to KL. How much I pay for that? Forgot already, since I was not the one who paid for the ticket. So, AirAsia is providing the alternative for the peoples in this region. Is there any alternative for our political situation?
Ninth Malaysia Plan, some of my concerns:
“The Government targets to have 60 percent of academics in Malaysia with PhDs by the year 2010. In order to strengthen research capacity at local institutions, cooperation networks with leading international institutions will be created.”
- 60% of Academics with PhDs, not too bad! Who should we cooperate?
“The public sector budget allocated for R&D activities is RM3.9 billion - twice the amount that was allocated under the Eighth Malaysia Plan.”
- Where the outcomes from the funding allocated under 8th MP?
“we target to have 50 RSEs for every 10,000 members of the labour force by 2010.”
- Alright, just 0.5%!
“Brain Gain Programme - a programme directed at involving or attracting outstanding researchers, scientists and engineers, including Malaysians abroad“
- If I am doing well in oversea, do I need to take a risk returning home? Unless I am patriotic and work for nation pride....
Let’s wait and see! We can always come out with a good proposal but how about the implementation…..
“A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.”
Herb Kelleher, founder of low fares aireline
5 comments:
Ha... careful with the firmware. Back it up before burning. :)
Anyway, Malaysia has all the nice sounding plans but really hard to execute. If you are a researcher overseas and get paid well and have a good chance of leading a team or lab, will you come back where you know you'll always be 2nd class? What are the main attractions of Malaysia except for family? I think most foreigners would prefer China, Japan or Korea. Maybe some will say I'm not patriotic but if you've been a step-child to the country your whole life you'll feel the same. It's totally different here and in Japan where people are really patriotic and work to benefit the country. In Malaysia, everyone works to benefit themselves and I'm not talking about just the non-Malays.
Maybe some of them just don't feel that they are Malaysian....
Maybe the government doesn't treat them like Malaysian.
According to my roommate's company survey, 60% of the Chinese feel that they are treated as 2nd class citizen. The previous survey was 30%....
Oh? 40% feels it's ok? I'm surprised. Did he interview crony-linked businessmen?
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