Welcome to Taiwan… after 2 months…. ^^

Hi  people who reads my blog, I haven’t been writing for a long time because I was super busy with work. There are sometimes when i review back all the movies that I have watched people would  give up everything for their job. At that time, I was still in first year University, still enjoying life and I was thinking if am going to like this I.T course. Sure it was tough for me,  but I just don’t know how to give up. I graduated with a I.T degree and now am in Taiwan working as a programmer in a company where I love working for.

Everyday I woke up wondering how can i spend a fruitful day at my work. For me, it is not really that I like the company or not. Its all about what am doing there. I just love the things that I do. Sure it can be boring and tiring for some people.. but for me, working hard is one thing and be at the top is one thing to make my parents proud.

Before I arrived in Taiwan, I met a Taiwanese guy in the plane. He was very kind to me by showing me the direction at the airport even that I will eventually came out. He even ask me to call him if anything happen to me and he will come and help. And when I first put my foot step out of the Taiwan airport at around 10pm on the 5th March 2012, I was welcomed by 2 lovely Taiwanese girls and a guy, 趙家妤Megan Lu and 蕭智鴻  Thanks to them, I safely went to my accommodation. Starting off with a new adventure…

Kiaochung 24-March-2012

On the night itself, after dinner, I got lost within my area while going back home, after few minutes of going round and round, i finally went home…The second day, when i was walking to meet my friend, Marcus, who is by the way a Brazilian, a funny guy, I was very impressed by the number of scooters there.

Trainee house…

Except for everything else, I have met some really nice friends which made my life here less lonely. Also gave me a great opportunity to learn their cultures and learn how to speak Mandarin which I have been telling myself to learn for 3years already. Now its an opportunity. Its been 2months, Everyone speaks Mandarin, I guess its time for me to catch up on this language at all cost if I wanna live there for another 1.5year.

Every day now is a routine for me… I wake up at 7.30a.m. I eat my breakfast, then I get ready to take the shuttle bus to work which is 30min away. On weekends, its my only way to get out of the routine. On my second weekend in Taiwan, I went to Kiaochung with a bunch of new friends.

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Living a different life

A girl once told me… “We can’t be together because we have different lives”. Its hard to imagine couples with similar lives can have much to share. Communication is one of the essentials in both love and professional relationships. Sharing experiences and cultures can be part of the process.Image

I’m now writing this post at 6am in the morning. I’m having mixed feeling of both excitement and anxiety. At 3.45pm in Malaysia time, I will be heading to Taiwan for my job. I have never been to Taiwan. I believe that a person  need to pursue his dream whatever the risk and sacrifice. Jumping to a professional life does seem exciting but without a goal is useless. Everyone should have a goal in one’s mind to be successful. I have great ambition in life.Yes! That’s me! I’m just the kind of guy who loves what he’s doing.

The company I will be working for the next 1 year is “Axtronics“, an Information Security Innovator, situated in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan. I really have no idea and do not know if am worthy for the company’s standard. But one thing is that I’m confident that once I settle, I will work harder, always aiming for higher, to always do better. Secret of improvement: “A person should NOT do his best but always strive for better result”.

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This is my year… Dragon!!

The Dragon and Love

“Dragons are passionate. They fall in love quickly – and out of love just as quickly. Their charisma and charm is an immense draw to people of the opposite sex whose attention and admiration they crave. Though they have a tendency to treat love like a game, they can settle down when they meet the right partner, someone who’s strong enough not to be bowled over by the Dragon’s flamboyant, independent and stubborn personality.”

This event brought be some nice souvenirs that i had with a friend who is now in China celebrating her new year with her family… Thank you for cooking on this day…

The Key to Success

Many people in the world fails over and over without knowing why… they think they are stupid because they are not able to do as much as others can do. When you are born, you have been given one brain, two hands and two legs by God. Whatever you do with those depends on you.

I believe that there are different ways to react and deal with events happens to you. Believe it or not. Failures happens to everyone. If not in academic, it’s in social life. Wherever it’s in social or academic. Failures always results in depression and regrets. As I already mentioned above “Different people react differently to events”. Some people, mentally weaker than others, tends to be in depression for a long time and never comes out of it until one special person comes and help them.
Learning from Failures and mistakes makes a person stronger and be successful.

The year 2011 may be a fruitful year for some people but it can happen that some people found it a disastrous and painful year of hardship and discouragement. It eventually ended and a new year begins.

I believe that in every people’s life is always like the famous quotes: “After the storm, the sun will come again”. A person who was once in my life, is now enjoying a married life and having a baby. Friends comes and goes away.

With a career prospect that i choose to have, I decided to have my working life other country than my own. I have always enjoy adventures and exploration of new country. Today, I have received 2 invitations from 2 different countries, Taiwan and Canada in Torronto… But I choose to stick to Taiwan as i feel that this is my place where I have to be. Although that Canada’s opportunity may be better in terms of salary, I choose to be where I feel my future will be. Choosing between Money and Happiness has been always a big issue in this world. In this post, I also want to thank a new friend who has been in constantly in contact and help me to get an offer with my company and the Ministry in Taiwan…

And finally…

The Dragon and Wealth

Dragon years are lucky for anyone thinking of starting a business or initiating a new project of any sort because money is easier to come by for everyone, whether it’s earned, borrowed or received as a gift. Consequently we can expect the economic downturn to ease up a bit in the coming year. Fortunes can be made but they can also be lost: Keep in mind like all good things, the Year of the Dragon will come to an end and you will be held accountable for unreasonable extravagances.

Dragons do well in professions that give them the ability to function somewhat autonomously. They make excellent sales people, publicists, political campaigners, lawyers, real estate brokers, actors and politicians.

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How to keep friendship alive?

F.R.E.N.D.S (Tv Series) is a good example of an ideal friendship between people. Despite their bad side, they have shown a great tolerance among them. This is what friendship is really about:

A friend or friends who don’t care about your faulty personally.
A friend who is always there to help you whenever you need.
A friend who will support you for anything you want to achieve
A friend who will stop you if you are doing wrong.
A friend who will never expect anything from you.

But yet, Friendship like those are easy to find but not easy to maintain. In all kind of relationship, both parties needs to cooperate:

A friend is willing to ignore your faulty personality if you ignore his.
A friend will always help you if you let him do. And you help him back in the future
A friend will support you in your achievement if you are not jealous of him
A friend will stop you when you are doing wrong if you are willing to listen.
A friend will never expect anything from you unless you are a good friend

But we also say that “a friend is always there to listen to our problems” which is true at a certain limit. A person who always listen and never be listened will let the friendship dies. It’s just a one-sided relationship where one will be feed up being the listener. Its just a matter of time. Both parties need to understand each other.  Every person, not even one person on earth is spared with problems. If not academic, its social. If not social, its familiar, and if not familiar is money. If not money, its oneself.

I also believe that friendship can be kept by keeping-in-touch. Having many friends doesn’t mean that you share the same level of friendship. It all depends on how you preserve the friendship. How often you share matters and how much you know about each other. Real friendship takes long time to build. As we often say, good basement in every relationship is the best way to let it progress fruitfully.

And finally, its all about trust and again its about Each other. There is no one-sided in a relationship.

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Passion and likes…

People usually asked me what i do for my hobbies… I’ll say “being in front of my computer and doing whatever i feel right”. Well.. this may be because am a geek! No.. its just what I like to do. Its like people like to read books. It doesn’t mean that you are a geek.  From long time, I have decided what i want to achieve and what i want to become. I have a big career plan for the future.. and I believe Technology is our future.

Computers and Softwares are one! Without computer there is no software and without software its like a body without a soul.  I can be on my laptop for more hours without complaining of any sorts than any other normal people. I heard people saying that I hate computers! But why? I believe its all because these people dont know how to use it in an interesting way. For me Web development is one of my hobby and my passion. With design abilities, And I want that one day, i will be able to transform that into hobby into a job interest.

Passions and likes are completely different. Likes are things that you can do for a small amount of time and fed-up and change. But when you are passionate about something, you tend to do the things perfectly and never fed-up with it. Its like time passes very fast when you’re on it.  Its the same idea when you are with the girl of your life. You are so passionate to be with her that you don’t care whatever time to be with her.

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.”  by Napoleon Banaparte

When you fail despite having a big goal its because your goal is not as strong as you believe it is… Everything is possible when you really believe in it… Passion and great ambitions are the ones which enables me to achieve great things today. And it will be too in the future…

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Progressing to a new step in life…

Recently (which was 2months ago) I graduated from University, till then.. I am still thinking if i should get a proper job or just go back to my country as in take over my dad’s business. Although that am in Mauritius (my home country), My family members including my dad told me that i will need more experience in the working field to take over the business. And whats the solution? to go and work for a proper company and get some working experience there. Getting a job seem easy but the proper job is quite tough for me. However having a great preference to go and work abroad like in Malaysia or Singapore or even Australia is very tough.

Getting a Job… Interview for some people is tough and most of the time is very stressful but I had some lectures and guidance with some people in University of Queensland. They had well prepared their student to go into the world of working adults. They provide talks for the interview preparation. The type of questions that the interviewers will most likely asked you during a formal interview. Few weeks ago, I had a phone interview with one of the greatest IT company in my country. I did well but “well” is unfortunately not enough. During this phone interview i was trying hard to remember what answers I prepared 3months ago which is one of my big mistakes.  There should be at least 1hour of preparation analyzing the possible questions and answers they are most likely to ask. Lesson learn: Preparation is absolute for success.

Next would be relationship. Although I had been involved in BGR (Boyfriend Girlfriend Relationship) I found that wanting to find someone is harder unless you let the things happen. During my studies in Malaysia, I had become one of the most popular guys in my university: one reason is the university is quite small and my friends are the loudest crying my name. Making contacts are very important. I welcomed all friendships with open arms but most of them are eventually girls. But in Malaysia, I’ve decided to place studies first whatever circumstances. Despite this, I met a girl whose name would not be revealed unless told. I will never ever forget the time I met her.
It was just a normal Saturday evening, my friends and I usually were on our way to Church. As usual, I sit comfortable at the back of the van when I heard someone asking my name. It was her.. i think I’m one of the luckiest guy there to bring attention to her. If she is reading this post, I’m telling you “Yes sweetheart.. am talking about you… I have always thinking of you since then..;)”

Anyway.. After that if you don’t know how to drive. Its time to start learning, am 23years old and am learning now. What a shame! Every 2times a week I’m getting scold by my teacher for mistakes on the road. Eventually I’m learning the hard way as well as the quickest way. A well known quote that I learn “The teacher always apply 40% of their effort but the student need to apply the 60% to achieve success…”

And to finish, with a small clip that I enjoyed quite much… Enjoy! :D

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Can the world create an Iphone like that??

http://www.videozer.com/embed/z8vhBAUq <– check this video on this link.. Unfortunately due to the video source.. i couldn’t use a player to embed into my blog.

I cannot even imagine how cool Iphone could be if this is real… Because of the rapid growth of Technology.. who knows? maybe in one year time, Steve Wozniak, the founder of Apple will be able to invent such Iphone… One of the concept of the Iphone is the Ultra thin design…

Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola and his phone

Thinking back, Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola, made the first US analogue mobile phone call on a Heavy prototype model on April 3, 1973, He, a Motorola researcher and executive, had this genius invention that would change the world. Then first mobile phones created in 1980s where several countries including the UK, Mexico and Canada launched their 1G Network. They were still big and ugly but managable. From Big to Small… from heavy to light…from thick to thin.. Technology is making progress everyday. Who would have thought 40 years ago that Iphone so small with touch screen properties would exist. The fact that today it happens proves that tomorrow the Ultra thin design of the Iphone can eventually exist. Along with the other properties of Iphone shown in the video, the laser keyboard and the holography images. As cool as it seems to be, the laser keyboard already exist in other application.. but not yet within the property of the Iphone. I believe that the Holographic images shown in the video can be also called as a mini video projector integrated on the Iphone platform. But for a normal projector, a solid medium must be present so as the image can be visible to human Eye. Technology is believed to create a projection in thin air which can be visible to the Human Eye.

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Things are sometimes deceiving

My favorites quotes : “Things that are too good to be true are always bound to be fake.” “Things that are too easy to get are the things that will be easily lost” These are the things that make me realise that nothing is easily obtained. We must fight of the things we really want. My dad always told me… If this thing is destined to happen.. do not worry too much.. it will definitely happen.. But I also believe that we need to fight and we can make our own destiny.

Life is very complex.. yes? Everyone would agree with that. Everyone would also agree with me that life is unfair sometimes… but its also a blessing because we are given a choice everyday to live this life fully or not. If one day i want to become Millionaire.. I cannot just sit down and relax! Am i right? Of course you should expect obstacles ahead and you must be ready now to overcome it. The key to success is always “self-motivation” If other people have crossed this obstacle… Why cant you? you have 2hands and 2legs and one brain.. how different are you? Even the handicaps are smarter i believe.

http://libertyskillcenter.com/App_Themes%5CLSCTheme%5CImages%5CHappySad.JPG I’m writing all this because i saw many things that had been deceiving to me and will deceive you one day too. Do not be discourage by them. Think of a solution before acting. Be smart. Be a man! ;)

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Good bye my friends…

Change is something that everyone in the world loves and appreciate. The world together with Technology always make way to new improvements. People who are involved into these changes also has to come with quick adaptation to the surrounding environment. But it is somehow hard to get out of your comfort zone and face the reality.

When i began my journey to the new world, i was very excited and didn’t want to look backward. Saying goodbye have been always a sad thing for me but that’s a way to say Hello to the new life that I’m about to live. That was the spirit to start a new life without parents.

It was time for me to grow up.
Time for me to make some new friends.
Time for me to take big responsibility.
Time for me to take care of myself.
There were so much to develop in me in order to survive in this new world.
I was not afraid, instead I head on challenges and overcome them.
I started to build strong friendship.
But things have to change
There is a famous quote saying that “Everyone must goes on their life”
And I am no exception, I have to leave and continue my life elsewhere
When its time to say Goodbye to the things I contributed.
To the things i would love to stay for.
To the people that i care the most.
It’s almost hard to say leave all this behind.
That’s why I would like to open my heart and shout
To all my friends who i care the most….
We will meet again some day.
I’m really blessed to get many friends by my side

Special people always deserves special thanks. Having a whole bunch of friends celebrating birthdays or Farewell really makes you feel special. And not everyone has the opportunity to feel like such. Only thanks for the farewell organized yesterday is really not enough, all of the people concerned have a part to play in my life since I placed a step in Brisbane. I decided to write a small notes for you all. ( I hope i didn’t miss anyway.) There I go…

First, I would like to start from Bryan Tan, a friend of my friend, the funny thing is that we were destined to meet one day in Brisbane. Believe it or not, we kept on encountering each other without noticing. He has a golden heart for his friends around. Very gentle to Girls specially, an example of a gentleman with his own tricks and jokes to impress his friends. Really a big thanks to God who put you on this earth.

Next would be Eugene, a very funny doctor. Everyone would be surprised to see that a professional doctor like him playing games like D.O.T.A. with his friends. Well.. as for all of us, it doesn’t really matter because it is what we called “Bonding session”. This is where we really have the connection and willing to get together. I really enjoying teasing him and have some none-related or no-purpose discussion with him.

Dexter, My shepherd, my mentor, my friend, he is always the one who pull me into the right track when i have issues with friends, family or anything. Also a doctor who play D.O.T.A. He is eventually a good listener and a good leader who just accepted to take over a new group of church people. He has the gift to encourage people around him with words of wisdom and truth. His girlfriend, Joyce is lucky to have him though and vise-versa. Although I do not know his girl very well, I do realize that she is very independent in terms of decisions and that’s what i really admire in a girl’s character.

Esther and Wen Huey. I’m very happy when you both are together. Seriously Esther, she has the heart to listen and care for her friends. Wen huey, a girl of compassion and love, she knows how to appreciate the friendship she has. This two characteristic enables both of them, watch each others back. “Simple is a blessing” I will remember these words, Thanks Wen Huey. There were some people who told me that I’m too simple in terms of fashion-like. But yes, I really do not care as I like to take things easy for I have better things to do than like spending hours in the bathroom styling my hair. I hope that one day we can finally have our mini dinner like you both planned for me.

Gabriel, our great leader, though he looks young, he is very mature physically, mentally and spiritually. Though all I have seen the entire year, I have never seen someone so committed and self sacrificed to the people he loves.

I just know Ming Jun for 6months and that’s enough to say that he is a very nice guy who is always thankful of what he receives and what he has to offer. For anything wrong he is always ready to help and fixed it.

Vivian, Grace, Joyce and Susan , the only girls in UQ8 who are from Taiwan. It is a place that i really want to go and visit one day. Having them as a good friend opens another door for me to travel to. I am very glad to know them and I was at first really impressed by their generosity and the willing to give to people without expecting anything in return.

Chee, I will never forget the night we all spent time together as lifegroup playing “Heart Attack” at Jason’s place. Seriously, you are the only one I’d like to be beside when playing this game… haha. Jiarong, a good friend indeed, I think God has planned we meet in one way or another. If I remember well, when he came to Australia, there was a guy who didn’t have a place to stay, my friend asked me if i can accommodate a guy in my room. Unfortunately I rejected as I didn’t know you and I was scared of my roommate’s reaction. Well.. eventually we met and became good friends. I wish we can spend more time together.

And finally if one day, Chia Huey you get to read this.. I really wish we could spend more time together and know you more. You are very special to me and I will look forward to meet you one day…

Not forgetting other friends such as Cintia,  Jeremy, Venurs, Eugene, Cody, Irene, May yan, Veon and Anh (sorry if I am leaving some names behind, there are so much that I just cannot make a list.) You are the best!;)

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LG introduces 3D mobile

Technology encourages lots of improvement so as to make things more interesting. Like the cinema, at first it was only black and white, then improved to color 2 Dimension, then again improved to High definition still in 2D . the latest is viewing High definition in 3D. Similarly to mobiles, inventors have yet to stop improving and getting richer and richer with their inventions. Eventually everyone knows the quick evolution of mobiles in this world. Starting from normal phones to mobile phones. From big to small. From small and insignificant applications to extraordinary applications and forgetting the size of the application becoming smaller and smaller.

And now LG has made a big step ahead by introducing 3 Dimensional mobile phone. In possession of this phone, the user can switch to either 3D or 2D depending on their preferences. According to information given, pictures which are taken by the 3D camera will be also in 3D pictures which is certainly cool.

I believe that with 3D applications and all, the battery of this mobile would not be able to last very long and that unfortunately cannot be testify until we bought it and try it out.

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