Re: [ossig] (Fwd) an email from a malaysian chinese from australia.

[Khairil Yusof <kaeru@pd.jaring.my>]

First up, can't we just be Malaysian? 
What next.. this is a reply from a Malaysian mutt?

As for internships, there is also the MDC program.

My answer in a three word sentences about what helps in the real world,
regardless of what field you are in:

"Learn to question"
"Learn to think"

One of the things that I had forced on my by the Malaysian education
system (very much resented) was not to ask the question "Why?" or "Is it
really true? How do you know?"

Thinking and questioning solves a lot of things.

Here's one none IT situation.

Everywhere (except Malaysia), I've seen that it only takes 1 or at most
2 people to deliver a fridge.

When a fridge is delivered in Malaysia, it involves 3-4 guys to carry
that fridge up a flight of stairs. Sometimes dropping it..

"Learn to question" -> "Why do we need 4 people?"
                    -> "Can it be done by less?"
                    -> "Can it be done safer?"

"Learn to think"    -> "Maybe there is a device that can help?"
                    -> "A 2 wheeled trolley could help."
                    -> "How can it help when going up stairs".

There is such a device.. but even with your basic 2 wheel trolley with
some sort of lock mechanism (can be a wood block), 2 people can bring it
up the stairs with much less effort (and safety). One pulls, the other
pushes/stabilises and puts in the wood block. And they can take breaks
while pulling it up. 

If you couldn't think of the solution, the questioning part would at
least guide you to "research". Where you would google or ask others what
they think (hence get more people thinking).

Now if only 2 people were required instead of 4, the 2 left can get
higher wages, company can get higher profits, and 2 more people are
available to be more productive elsewhere.
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