Programming

When I was in my first job, an Accounts clerk, I was always thinking why should we use calculator to calculate the balance of accounts. It is very tedious and time consuming.

In an occasion, I made a schoolmate who is good in programming. He told me about the programming stuffs and lend me programming books. From that day onward, I plan to switch my career to be a programmer. So, this is the reason why I'm a programmer. :D

My life and my thinking was affected by programming tremendously. This includes changing my bad habits.. to my values... to my principles. Sometimes, people feel that I'm like a robot rather than human.

Well, what so different about human and machine? Human can be viewed as "analog" or something like "no-absolute". But, for machine, things are digital and precise. It has "absolute" right or wrong. Most important, it does not has emotion. It won't angry because of bad weather or being scolded. As for human, most of them tend to allowed themselves do what they want even though they know what is right or wrong.

A friend of mine told me that why couple divorce after few years or even 15 years of marriage. He told me that its because of the conflict of Chinese zodiac. They believe different combination of the "animal" brings different effect and the effect will not show up immediately.

After heard the story from him, I told him that the zodiac might not be the reason. He asked me why not? I told him that its the problem of responsibility. They divorced because they don't want to take the responsibility of being together. They just want to find a good excuse to escape. They will say nothing is absolute right or wrong. It's just happen to be happened.

In programming, we must find out what is the actual cause and all the possible solutions. So, after discussing the above problem, I came out with this conclusion: divorce has nothing to do with the zodiac. But, it has a direct relationship with the following:

- responsibility - just don't care.
- EQ - high EQ should not loss temper easily and divorce was mainly cause by arguing and fighting.
- principles - what they said is not what they do.

Due to the fact that human has "feeling", sometimes, we might have to take care of it seriously. Once it heard someone's feeling, it will be hard to be recovered.

Try not to say the following:
- I was born with bad temper. You know that!
- I thought you know...

Try to say this:
- I will try my best to improve it. (this sounds better, huh?)
- I will take the responsibility on my decision.
- I will fulfill what I have promised/committed.

Run faster

Two guys are walking in the jungle together. Suddenly, there is a tiger came out from nowhere.

As a result, one guy is changing his shoes to sport shoe.

The other guy laugh at the guy who is changing shoe and said that he won't be able to run faster than the tiger even though he wear sport shoe.

"I can survive as long as I can run faster than you".

The moral of the story tells that you should upgrade yourself so that you can run faster.

:D