Letter to my son: Delay Gratification

Dear Son,

Firstly my apologies to take a stern stance without even understanding or listening to you. I thought I understand. Maybe I should have ask for your opinion first but I was a little to anxious to dish out the punishment, my bad but I guess that is what fathers do when they wanted their children to grow up right.

Anyway I do understand that you wanted very much the Addidas shoes. Those are not cheap shoes that anyone can afford... not even a working adult. You probably think that you deserve it and I agree... you have done well but buying those shoes without having enough money and owing money to your friends sounded a little unresponsible, don't you think so?

I do not really want to go on ranting about what you should have done but rather you understand this, life is full of temptations, you need to be resilient to them... first only spend what you can afford... second you safe first before you spend... third, spend wisely. Not everyone can do that perfectly but if you practice enough you know the saying... you make progress.

You may not be able to comprehend the current situation and advice now but I know you will, as you journey on life's passage. Think before you act. Do the right things.

Your loving father.

Decibel

Today my wife brought my niece back home from work. Her name is Jin Nee and she is 5 years old. We went out for late lunch together with my son's friend. The boys obviously were not used to having a little girl around them and the 5 years old was very curious and talkative. After having lunch we went to do some banking and went home. In the car, my niece start talking a bit and my son was annoyed so he asked his mum to ask his cousin to keep quiet but somehow my wife was angry with my son because she said he was loud and disrespectful whereas I thought it was his normal level tone and I intervened. Some how what I heard is different level of noise for my wife. This is interesting as I realised when we said we are all different, it literally means that and down to the perceive noise level which can impact our emotions. Of course later on I got my ears full from my wife via Whatsapp which sounded even louder than sound wave thru the air :)

PS: I did had a talk with my so about respect and understanding the behavior of younger children when we reach home one on one. After all we were all young once upon a time and we learn from our experiences which my friend said were mistakes in a much nicer way.

AWS IoT, Raspberry Pi & Arduino Yún

AWS is rolling out an interesting service called AWS IoT http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/what-is-aws-iot.html? I know that technology has been moving really fast but the current progress of things on the Internet is just staggering. As I start to explore Raspberry Pi I also find more and more accesories linking to it... and also learn about Arduino Yún https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardYun... it's getting so interesting with all these devices... I have miss out so much and it's time to catch up and get some inspiration to rekindle the passion to create...

An interesting book... & an online article

Went to Subang Parade for breakfast today and later went to MPH. My son was looking for a book by a "Youtuber" name Pewdiepie who just published a book called "This Book Loves You". This is the first time I heard of the name Pewdiepie, apparently he is one famous guy who made his money from creating videos and posting them on Youtube. The book is full of quirky quotes that are mostly common sense according to my son. I saw one from the quote which stuck, the quote was "running away from our problems wouldn't make us skinny", it's funny yet resonate a deep meaning to me because it so happened the past few years I seem to be running away from a lot of things and it's not making me any better. I will change that. I need to change. People keep telling me I am smart and I know a lot but I kept repeating the mistake of being able to open mouth and speak my mind in front of bigger crowd with people who seems to have more experience then me. It seems my confidence has strung to next to nothingness. What happened? Did I not able to deliver my promises lately? Was I afraid of failing so much that I keep tripping over myself? I need to change this. I need to build up the nerve to own up to my own voice and opinion. I do not need to care what people think or their opinion as long as I am clear of my own direction and thoughts. I need to rekindle with my passion when I started out on my own as an entrepreneur?

Confidence account - that's something interesting that I learned today. Definitely what I lack and it's what I will change.

Wake-up call for me

I was connected to the Internet as usual going thru Facebook & LinkedIn without much of a idea of what I want to achieve but consuming content from all over the world, updates from friends & families until I saw this article: Louis D. Lo Praeste writes 1,500 words every day - this is a wake-up call for me, I will try... no, I will start a blog and start writing what comes to my mind... I will start today, this will be my stage to communicate my thoughts to the world! I will do this whenever I have something to say...instead of telling others to do it, I am doing this for myself, by me :) this feels good!