War Strategies

Peace be upon to you, ladies and gentlemen. What’s up, everybody? I hope you are having good time at whenever, wherever or with whatever. Thanks to my members of the club that participate the Chinese New Year Open House, a great kick start for the club for this year, actually. Ok, let get down to the business, today, meine Damen und Herren, (if you can speak German, it means ladies and gentlemen), I am going to talk something at is long time has been one of my interests since little. One and only, (if nobody speak about it), WAR STRATEGIES!

If you notice, war has been one of the commonest things in mankind history. That’s one thing we learn (or might as well ignore it). But, one particular interest that I observed closely is, how those people can win the war. So, we can define the strategy as “how” or “silent tool” to defeat opponents in the war. I am actually quite amused with all sort of tactics and techniques used in the past to outwit their enemies in the war using intelligence and psychology.

For example, In the dawn of human civilization, Alexander the Great, one of the greatest leader of all time, used to ask his army to knock hard on the shield which at their left hand with their sword to make the enemy feel unconfident to continue with their action. Apart from that, one of the strategists in early-time China, used hot air balloon to bypass a city that heavily guarded. He just used 1,000 out of 10,000 soldiers at that time. Other than that, Khalid al-Walid, which is one of the most brilliant army commanders in Islam, apply the law of psychology of which the enemy thought the reinforcement for Moslem army has arrived and they ran back to their country. All these stories are somehow making me feel ecstatic about the winning of the war in much more honorable way.

So, I started to find Red Alert 3, Rise of Nations and Civilizations as games that become my practice in testing out my analysis skill. Anyway, I can play as a great commander leads its battalion to the victory tag. But, somehow, as our world evolves, science and technology has reduced the capability and creativity of mankind to defeat enemies in war. In lament term, war nowadays simply a “show” to see which country has the most powerful weapon, instead of courage of a soldier and the intelligence of a commander. We can take Israel as the “best example” for this statement, they used the white phosphorus bomb (one of the forbidden weapons listed in UN) to kill innocent women and children mercilessly. In my opinion, I do not consider as a war, I define it as more to ethnic cleansing which Israel wants every single corner of Palestine to be occupied with their own citizen.

So, do you feel interested to know more about these brilliant war strategies and tactics? What say you? I will say that, you can refer Sun Tzu: Art of War as the fundamental understanding of war strategies. Hey, do not forget, you can apply most of the concept from it into daily life routine such as business and studying for your examination. What’s more, you can watch Master and Commander: Far Side of the World, Battle of Wits and Saving Private Ryan. I think that’s all, or not I will talk for pages just to satisfy my heart. Hihi, ok see ya in the next post.

Engineering – Mechatronic

We meet once again, ladies and gentlemen. Oh yeah, another holiday just in time to give me a-seventh-heaven rest out of the hectic life of a college student. Relief, huh? Refering to the title now, all of you must be wondering the details and history of engineering that set the course of human development in applying physics in our daily life (do you?). (Whatever) Actually, I’m writing this because recently, there was a Robo-Fair 2009 held in Cineleisure which kind of interesting in terms of the achievement of university student in mastering that field. Well, let’s get started for our topic!

If I’m not mistaken, engineering comes from the word engine which originates from the Latin word, ingenium that defines as “innate quality, especially mental power, hence a clever invention.” The history of this field set back as early as Archimedes era which he designed a number of inventions that obey the rule of physics. Before him, Imhotep was the first civil engineer who designed the Great Pyramid. Now, as the era of modernization is taking place all over the place, a lot of branches of engineering are made to sustain the need of human being. For instance, there are electrical & electronic engineering (E & E), computer engineering, material engineering, molecular engineering and latest, robotic engineering (my favourite!!!).

Now, I would like to narrow down the scope of engineering to my cup of tea. You see, mechatronic engineering or also known as robotic engineering is the combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and computer engineering. This field is quite new and has the toughest challenge within it because the engineer have to build a machine or the lament term, a robot to somehow adapt to the targeted environment and simultaneously fulfill the objective of its creation. Simple you say? Nah, actually, engineers have to corporate and achieve consensus with others in order to produce the most optimum robot in the most aspects such as material used, programmes, features of the robot and so on.

As for robots, they have to posess 3 things in common; input (sensors), body and output (reaction). Lack of one of these, they can’t categorized themselves as what they are. The word robot was derived to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921. The robots, sooner or later, were heavily used in industrial factory to replace the manpower to increase the efficiency of line production such as automobile installation. In present, the researchers are focused more on constructing humanoid, or simply a robot with human characteristics on it. This is because they can be used in giving out service to human as a maid who can clean, wash or cook. If you can’t get it, it’s just like the I Robot (which at the end, the robots rebel and fought against human for their freedom). To know more about this field, please feel free to surf the net or specifically Wikipedia. Hmm, I think that’s all in my mind. Catch up the next chapter of my discussion, ya? See ya!

Venus VS Mars!!!

Hey! (Sigh) What a relief! I can say it is a blessing to have a week off from the college, (sorry, I don’t mean I hate the classes, but I just need some time to have a break and reorganized myself.) Ok, let see, umm, how about we talk one of the topic which you guys maybe like to talk about when you meet up in the café? (And time to kill, of course!)

It seems that throughout the history of mankind, the society has witnessed remarkable event and undisputedly horror of men’s and women’s ups and downs. So, the one million dollar question is, “Who is the best, men or women?” I bet many of us knew the answer or some knew but still insists that they are more superior to the other gender. Believe me, I have a better explanation that perhaps can satisfy most of you who reads this post.

Ok, let’s see from the biological aspect, men were made stronger than women because their upper abdomen is much bigger than the opposite gender. In contrast, women are considered weak, I mean, they are less capable in terms of physical strength because their lower abdomen are basically stronger than the upper ones. So, indeed, men are brawnier than women. Next, if you observe from the psychological context, men are more playful than women and that’s natural because that’s the way of them to preserve their rationality and far-sightedness. Meanwhile, women are more focused in getting their objective achieved and willing to let their pleasure go to enjoy greater benefit in the future. Oh yeah, now I get it, the other purpose of marriage is simply to balance the way of thinking of the couple. That’s not hard to think about it, isn’t it?

Then, in past, we notice that men are more famous and respected for their wisdom, strength and leadership, such as Prophet Muhammad, Alexander The Great, Hannibal, Khalid al-Walid (if you know him),Napoleon Bonaparte, Mahatma Gandhi and etc. Women are less distinguished but still they make difference in the way of society looking them like Queen Elizabeth I that abolished rules that implied restriction on women in England during her era. In present, women are judged based on their performance in academic and capable in completing men’s job efficiently and vice versa for men. Others changed their genital organ just to be like the opposite ones because they can’t cope their stress and psychology confusion and abuse. So, both had changed the world where we live in and equalize their position as high as the sky and low as the ground. All in all, it doesn’t matter who beats who, but it will be a better thing for both gender to use what they possess and acquire and fulfill their responsibilities toward themselves and people around them rather than you waste your time criticize others without learning any lesson at all. That’s all, my friends for this post. Stay put for the next post, ya?

Science VS Art

Good day, everybody! Now, I had gained more and more confidence in writing this blog already. Indeed, journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. (Ya ya, whatever.) So, to cut it short, I will carry on with my opinion on science and art which quite contradict in general but actually is the same. (Hahaha, weird right?) Here are my reasons to support my stand.
Before we discuss the topic any further, I feel that it is wise to know the background of the topic. Now, why there must be equations or theories in our life? Well, the answer is just simple. It is just to simplify our life? (Huh, what the heck I am talking about?) Yes, it is quite true though, because science helps us to somehow estimate certain values or predict the occurrence of something so that we can anticipate and ready for it as a safety precaution. For example, a forensic scientist needs to calculate the projection angle of a bullet that penetrates the body of a victim and an astronomer needs to estimate when and where will be the next solar eclipse happened. On the other hand, art also seem to be counterfeited the nature of science which it is full of flowery word and quite hard to understand the real meaning behind it. But, I bet the purpose of the poet, author and so on is to release their pent up emotion and express it literally rather than figuratively which Miss Chan called it catharsis.
Now, it is time to reveal my own point. You see, Tony Buzan (the famous Mind-mapping maker in the world) has created the concept of the art of science and the science of art. (Wow, I don’t know we can combine both.) Amazingly, this is the truth and we can use it to simplify our way of life. You must be wondering how, right? Art of science is actually telling us that science is not necessarily boring or complicated. We can use our own imagination to illustrate natural phenomenon well in our mind. Like the greatest scientist of 20th century said, imagination is more important than knowledge. This concept can be applied using the mind mapping, charts and pictures to smoothen the flow of our ideas and knowledge about science generally. In contrast, art is not compulsorily pretty in scattering objects and pattern on big canvasses. Using the right techniques, we can organize the features of our painting such as background, harmony, or what-so-ever. For instance, Albert Einstein used to ask his students to imagine circling around the solar system (which later on points that the universe is actually curvy, not continuously in straight line) and Mozart’s note usually organized; making every concert he conducted into a success which is going to be remembered in the history of music.
Next, problems and solutions, students nowadays have problem in relating and applying their knowledge that they learned into their daily life. Most of them thought reading and memorizing is the only way to study (Wrong thinking!!!). Moreover, they just blindly doing notes in black and white and do not making effort to modify it into any proper form to accommodate the need of using it (for example, during the examination). Now, we have the Tony Buzan’s concept as our solution. The student can make their note as colourful as the rainbow (Do you know the efficiency of using colourful notes is 75 %?). With these, we are not only pass with flying colours but also stimulate our senses (our eyes especially).
All in all, we can lead our life even easier and achieve success in much more meaningful way by using science and art efficiently. There is no such thing as science versus art. It is the matter of using them until certain extent. Please bear in mind that our left brain is controlling area of science and the right brain is mainly on art section in our mind. So, train both of them to boost your intelligence to the maximum. The only person who has the ability to do it in the history of mankind is Leonardo Da Vinci (engineer, architect, scientist, poet, singer etc). That’s all, folks! Until then, bye bye!

Education

Hello there, hmm, actually, I still feel quite awkward in writing blog. The reason is I hate to influence other people’s mind and worse still, it may make other people feel uneasy on me. So, just forgive for any inconvenience that I caused. (No hard feeling ya?). But, for Miss Chan and academic purposes, I will give my best in expressing my point of view.

You see, my family and I always think that education will be forever our main priority in our life. Hence, I will start with education. First, I would like to question,” What is the definition of education?” Well, the answer could be subjective, but from my point of view, education can be defined as the process of learning or teaching or simply obtain and pass knowledge around us or in bigger context, around the world. Nevertheless, education has been around since the dawn of human civilization. This has placed a great deal of importance in education that eventually becomes a universal yardstick in almost aspect of our life.

In past, humans are mostly known for his physical strength and the number of land he conquered throughout the world. Moreover, the wealth that possessed by a person would make him to be recognized in the pages of history. But, all that are about to change. In era of globalization, people are now analyzed from the level of his or her education. Apart from that, education will give the weaker gender an equal opportunity to succeed and thrive for success. Besides that, education is now a necessity for people in present as it will be one of the requirements to further studies and job interviews. Automatically, education is now becoming stepping stone for most people to succeed in this world.

In terms of society and country, education is one of the most important features to reflect ones country’s image. For instance, in Europe itself, about 90% of citizens there managed to get themselves into higher institutions and graduate at the end. This shows they really value knowledge throughout their life which useful to be applied even after their graduation. Furthermore, they use the concept of life learning that emphasize the practicality on applying the knowledge ones learnt before. In my opinion, education is not passing your exams and tests with flying colors or places you as being no. 1 in your class but, education is imperative in gaining knowledge from the day you were born and use it in order to make our life easier.

Of course, there are plenty of ways to execute education in life such as reading, discussion, seminars and so on but, it will be wise to start at the very young age. I’m not saying that old people can’t learn or we should stop educate ourselves when we are old. What I’m trying to say here is to have a greater impact of education, we must sow the seed first rather than plant the tree later. Simply, I can say that the young minds should be easier to be educated than the old ones as they are quite ‘fragile’ and still looking for their identities. This is quite common in everywhere which kids are turned into ‘long-term investments’ as parents would spend every single penny in their pocket and utilize every ‘connections’ they have just to make sure their children get themselves into the best school.

In short, education is one of the things that we should have in life. Undeniably, it benefits us in many ways. One of my friends told me, “What’s the point of having Ferrari car if you don’t have brain at all?” (Well, she’s right) This only proves one thing, ladies and gentlemen; indeed, knowledge is power. Until then, see you next time in the next post.

Hello everybody!!!

Greetings to everyone, there is no need formalities. I believe most people recognize me as Amin (More details on 'About Me'). So, talking about myself, I am the eldest among my siblings. My dad works as free lance consultant (believe me, he has multiple talents which quite amusing), whereas my mum is a public relation officer at PERKESO (She is the greatest mum in the whole wide world).
I am actually quite optimistic and flexible person (No, I am not a contorist) that really helps me to adapt in any environment (I think). Maybe I'm not that handsome compared to Brad Pitt or The Jonas Brothers, but hey, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Oh yeah, I am family man. I put my family as my priority. Another thing is, I got the feeling which I can change the world with my own bare hands in the future. I don't know how, but it is just a matter of time. Before I forget, guardian is the definition of my name (Muhaimin). I always believe that "It's not what I am underneath but, what I do that defines me". By this I mean, action speaks louder than word. Until then, you will have more than meets the eyes later. See ya!