Really happy the way my daughter is progressing with her swimming lessons. I wish I had the same opportunity when I was young. I think the real joy of parenthood is seeing your personal dreams and aspirations fulfilled by your kids.
daddy nox
- My kids make me proud (MKMMP).
Monday, December 31, 2007
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Software is abstract
I hate software developers boastfully saying they had been there, done that.
This idiots doesn't realize that software is and always will be abstract. Most of the time skills has to be learned on the job. I'm tempted to ask, where have you been? and what have you done? and what frakin' relevance does that have to the current job at hand.
Nuff' said...
This idiots doesn't realize that software is and always will be abstract. Most of the time skills has to be learned on the job. I'm tempted to ask, where have you been? and what have you done? and what frakin' relevance does that have to the current job at hand.
Nuff' said...
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Hello Blog!
Long time no write. If feels like ages since I have written something in this blog.
Work has consumed most of my time. Idealistic, goal driven, eternally geeky people like me tend to fall in so easily. Working with the least concern for personal health, and wealth. A few days ago, reality has thankfully settled back in to my brain, I started jogging and took two weeks off to have time for the most important thing in the world, FAMILY.
So many realizations. In any case, the hardest thing about software development is managing the people. Its usually assholes that kills any project. Its all about the people. No process, no fracking 21'st century project management shit is going to fly or succeed if the assholes greatly outnumber the good guys. But either you see this and go along with the tide, or see this as a challenge, is what separates those who can and those who can't.
Work aside, I miss my family, they are here yet I was there in the office. I miss my kids to bits. I miss doing nothing but sit on the couch and talk with my wife, about our dreams, our plans, and about nothing in particular. Priceless.
Yesterday, I was amazed on my daughter's progress with her swimming lessons. She could now swim from one to the other, still pausing in between, but with proper strokes now. I was so proud! Every little bit of accomplishment delights the heart. My boy on the other hand, was only on his second session, hilariously he would lazily kick the water while mounted on the kick board. At 3, he is still our baby.
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! Happy birthday Jesus! My personal wish is that may God be the center of our lives, the center of our family, and hopes everyday is a Happy Christmas for everyone. :)
Work has consumed most of my time. Idealistic, goal driven, eternally geeky people like me tend to fall in so easily. Working with the least concern for personal health, and wealth. A few days ago, reality has thankfully settled back in to my brain, I started jogging and took two weeks off to have time for the most important thing in the world, FAMILY.
So many realizations. In any case, the hardest thing about software development is managing the people. Its usually assholes that kills any project. Its all about the people. No process, no fracking 21'st century project management shit is going to fly or succeed if the assholes greatly outnumber the good guys. But either you see this and go along with the tide, or see this as a challenge, is what separates those who can and those who can't.
Work aside, I miss my family, they are here yet I was there in the office. I miss my kids to bits. I miss doing nothing but sit on the couch and talk with my wife, about our dreams, our plans, and about nothing in particular. Priceless.
Yesterday, I was amazed on my daughter's progress with her swimming lessons. She could now swim from one to the other, still pausing in between, but with proper strokes now. I was so proud! Every little bit of accomplishment delights the heart. My boy on the other hand, was only on his second session, hilariously he would lazily kick the water while mounted on the kick board. At 3, he is still our baby.
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! Happy birthday Jesus! My personal wish is that may God be the center of our lives, the center of our family, and hopes everyday is a Happy Christmas for everyone. :)
Monday, October 22, 2007
Now, thats more like it!
Nokia's n810 web tablet is just too darn sexy.
The bundled GPS will salivate location based services (LBS) dreaming nerds like me.
But actually having a device like that is a distant dream in reality. Need to save, save, and save.
dreamer nox
-Technolusting on a mundane monday afternoon.
The bundled GPS will salivate location based services (LBS) dreaming nerds like me.
But actually having a device like that is a distant dream in reality. Need to save, save, and save.
dreamer nox
-Technolusting on a mundane monday afternoon.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
The Adventure Continues
Wether I have Hemingway's, or Picasso's, or Casanova's touch is another question reserved for mundane Monday morn.
The real question is, can I really produce readable handwriting? This ancient art long forgotten by my keyboard bound fingerlings.
I didn't go for the planner ones, I'm no manager material, am a fracking 21st century software architect. People who don't plan, but dream of how code will change the world on a daily basis.
moleskinned nox
-is $1 enough as a reward for my handwritten twisted ideas?
The real question is, can I really produce readable handwriting? This ancient art long forgotten by my keyboard bound fingerlings.
I didn't go for the planner ones, I'm no manager material, am a fracking 21st century software architect. People who don't plan, but dream of how code will change the world on a daily basis.
moleskinned nox
-is $1 enough as a reward for my handwritten twisted ideas?
Rojan The Ballerina
Life is but a never ending stream of events...
A few days back, my daughter turned 6. Can you imagine that! The tiny lovable little creature I once held in my hands not too long ago is now 6 years old.
Nothing worries me now at this stage, than failing to become a good parent. Raising two kids, defies all the laws of the algorithmic universe. There is no design pattern to get hold of. No tried and true exception blocks. This is randomness in its truest meaning.
But other than that, nothing beats having a family to be a witness to your life here in middle-earth.
daddy nox
- life in the parental universe...
A few days back, my daughter turned 6. Can you imagine that! The tiny lovable little creature I once held in my hands not too long ago is now 6 years old.
Nothing worries me now at this stage, than failing to become a good parent. Raising two kids, defies all the laws of the algorithmic universe. There is no design pattern to get hold of. No tried and true exception blocks. This is randomness in its truest meaning.
But other than that, nothing beats having a family to be a witness to your life here in middle-earth.
daddy nox
- life in the parental universe...
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Middleware Thoughts
In the ongoing battle with Websphere integration.
JTA seems to work nicely. Although I had only tested connection pool setup and used user transaction config.
Next step is to try XA mode where the JMS guys are hitting a snag.
No luck on running Websphere in OS X . This is where Glassfish rocks, OS X support.
JTA seems to work nicely. Although I had only tested connection pool setup and used user transaction config.
Next step is to try XA mode where the JMS guys are hitting a snag.
No luck on running Websphere in OS X . This is where Glassfish rocks, OS X support.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
OFW quickies
The past few days was terribly disappointing. I should have listened to my instincts and forget about being idealistic.
Trouble is, I believe people could always change for the better.
But the saying goes, in a foreign land, sometimes you have to be most wary NOT of other cultures, but of your own.
Apparently my so called Kababayan, whom I have been helping, whom I have defended, whom I considered a friend, took a point of no return and unleashed his frackin foul mouth on me, in our own language, for no apparent reason. His sorry excuse is that I raised my voice. Which as a matter of fact he assumed, because I did not. But a sorry excuse nevertheless, because if thats the case, then is it justifiable to do the same for the countless of times he raised his voice?
Sometimes I really don't understand people, crab mentality and jealousy really screws them up.
But life goes on, I had enough of his sensitivity and paranoidal shit.
Anyway, good thing I was brought up to be a better person, at the end of the day, that is more important.
Trouble is, I believe people could always change for the better.
But the saying goes, in a foreign land, sometimes you have to be most wary NOT of other cultures, but of your own.
Apparently my so called Kababayan, whom I have been helping, whom I have defended, whom I considered a friend, took a point of no return and unleashed his frackin foul mouth on me, in our own language, for no apparent reason. His sorry excuse is that I raised my voice. Which as a matter of fact he assumed, because I did not. But a sorry excuse nevertheless, because if thats the case, then is it justifiable to do the same for the countless of times he raised his voice?
Sometimes I really don't understand people, crab mentality and jealousy really screws them up.
But life goes on, I had enough of his sensitivity and paranoidal shit.
Anyway, good thing I was brought up to be a better person, at the end of the day, that is more important.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Things that suck.
Websphere + Oracle XA + Hibernate
This buggers are not playing nice, they don't generally get along out of the box.
Some tweaking here and there.
Frack! If you application doesn't require transactions across more than one data source, save yourself the headache and don't bother with XA at all.
dev nox
-having a frackin' bad hair day.
This buggers are not playing nice, they don't generally get along out of the box.
Some tweaking here and there.
Frack! If you application doesn't require transactions across more than one data source, save yourself the headache and don't bother with XA at all.
dev nox
-having a frackin' bad hair day.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Life Quickies
Currently eating at the new Chinese resto outside our condo. Home baked spaghetti with real tomato sauce, bundled with sunny side egg, ham and hotdog. Loving the taste and the low cost of food here. Will be staying for about an hour and pick-up my daughter from Ballet class.
Tomorrow will be my 30th birthday. Taken my first official leave since I joined the current workplace. We are planning to dine out and visit a tourist spot nearby KL. Should be fun!
Good food, happy, wacky family, what more could I ask for?
Tomorrow will be my 30th birthday. Taken my first official leave since I joined the current workplace. We are planning to dine out and visit a tourist spot nearby KL. Should be fun!
Good food, happy, wacky family, what more could I ask for?
Saturday, September 01, 2007
PSP still rocking...
Just tried the freeware PSPTube app by a Japanese developer. This is so shiny!
Now I can watch transformer re-runs on the PSP via youtube. My kids are also loving the fact that they can also watch Barney shows hosted on you tube.
This makes the PSP a better value against the iPod. Aside from the awesome games, you can catch up on your RSS feeds (via google reader mobile edition), play music, play movies, and now stream you tube videos directly!
Now if only this thing could also read PDF's.
nostalgic nox
- The old megatron looks so frackin' lame as an oversized pistol.
Now I can watch transformer re-runs on the PSP via youtube. My kids are also loving the fact that they can also watch Barney shows hosted on you tube.
This makes the PSP a better value against the iPod. Aside from the awesome games, you can catch up on your RSS feeds (via google reader mobile edition), play music, play movies, and now stream you tube videos directly!
Now if only this thing could also read PDF's.
nostalgic nox
- The old megatron looks so frackin' lame as an oversized pistol.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Life Quickies
- Some frustrations at work. The frackin' code base needs tons of refactoring love. But the fracking T's (SAT, UAT, etc.) are a few weeks away.
- Still so many books to read. So little time.
- Education here in KL is really expensive. International schools that is. Hope its worth every penny. Need to start saving for the next school year and finally decide where my kids will study here or there back home.
- Still so many books to read. So little time.
- Education here in KL is really expensive. International schools that is. Hope its worth every penny. Need to start saving for the next school year and finally decide where my kids will study here or there back home.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Friday, August 24, 2007
Pastel Balls
And I started clicking the shutter button again. Rediscovering the joys of capturing the beauty in everyday things.
And I am blogging again.
But still the same short burst of words my twisted mind can offer.
And I am blogging again.
But still the same short burst of words my twisted mind can offer.
My love, My life, My joy.
no matter how hard you work,
or how fast you play,
at the end of the day,
when family is there,
life is always ok!
or how fast you play,
at the end of the day,
when family is there,
life is always ok!
And my boy turned 3!
A few weeks ago my boy turned 3. It was a relatively simple celebration with her sister, me and my wife spending the entire day together.
A part of me is happy our baby is turning into a bubbly and irresistibly cute little boy and another part also wishing kids doesn't grow up so fast. Time flies so fast.
daddy nox
- hoping and struggling to be the best dad in the world ;-)
A part of me is happy our baby is turning into a bubbly and irresistibly cute little boy and another part also wishing kids doesn't grow up so fast. Time flies so fast.
daddy nox
- hoping and struggling to be the best dad in the world ;-)
Friday, August 03, 2007
Optimus Prime
Am more like a prime lens person. The fantastic 50mm 1.8 I have really produces bright and sharp pictures. But on the 350D its not as wide as I would like it to be. The 24mm is more like what a normal lens should be on a cropped sensor camera.
So am torn between this and a 430ex flash for my next photography purchase.
shutter nox
- clicking the shutter once again.
So am torn between this and a 430ex flash for my next photography purchase.
shutter nox
- clicking the shutter once again.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Thats why we drink it here.
Developers simply don't quietly snore into the middle of the night.
Not with laptops in our hands and design patterns in our hearts.
nox
- Happy Code == (Beer + Code)
Not with laptops in our hands and design patterns in our hearts.
nox
- Happy Code == (Beer + Code)
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Transformers
Transformers == Nostalgia
I feel nostalgic today.
Lots of things I miss. Some things cannot, and should NOT be forgotten. My ROOTS.
nostalgic nox
- staring on my window pane
I feel nostalgic today.
Lots of things I miss. Some things cannot, and should NOT be forgotten. My ROOTS.
nostalgic nox
- staring on my window pane
Friday, June 01, 2007
Job Post
We are in urgent need of Java Developers 3 years or more experience. We need dynamic individuals willing to go into the Banking domain in one of the largest international banks. Be prepared to be an OFW as this is post requires working abroad.
Email me your CV's or post your email in the comment section. This is urgent and be prepared to leave in a month's time.
Email me your CV's or post your email in the comment section. This is urgent and be prepared to leave in a month's time.
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