Goal oriented and plan oriented

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I am a goal oriented person, my wife is a plan oriented person. So we crash quite a lot, I complain for things happen to be not flexible enough and she complain I am too rush to get to the goal and not detail enough.

Plan oriental

After long arguing about plan and goal, I think I get some conclusion from that. It is best to combine both, we can’t be just goal or plan oriented, we need both, more plan than goal.

Goal oriental

Plan oriented person will plan a whole timeline and steps to do in order to get to the goal. A goal oriented person will look only on the goal. Combine them: Set goal on each step of the plan.

See solution, not problem

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I spend a lot of time thinking alone while smoking. That is what I enjoy most of the time when I get too busy with my task. Not only it will relax my mind from current situation, it also help refresh my mind when I get back to work.

Puzzle

After year of working my own and listening to some nagging (Or just a pessimistic talk), I get used to change my perspective when shit hit the fan – Look for solutions, not into the problem and the why.

A lot of people, my wife included, always look into a problem or even, analyse why the problem occur. Panic is the emotion. While they are questioning why, I will start my lighter and start going into a solution instead. Doesn’t matter what happen, it happened. Thinking about how it had happen the first place, doesn’t help much, it only give lesson for next time, same situation.

Essential jQuery plugins

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As a newbie to the Javascript World, it is important to get some very very simple jQuery plugins. I pick and find a few that are so simple and yet works well in all browsers.

NivoSlider

NivoSlider
One of the slider that can do all the other slider can do, combined. While it already started to sell commercial support, but you can pretty much get some support by just Google it. Yes, it works perfectly fine with WordPress, either by the plugin provided or you can get your hand dirty on it too.

Uniform

Uniform
Spice up your form easily with this form beautifying plugin. You can either set to style all the inputs or by adding class to any of them. Best of all, it can easily change theme just by editing some images sprite and/or CSS.

jQuery Slide Menu

jQuery Slide Menu
A very simple multi-level menu jQuery plugin. All you need is to style the menu to enable at least 2 level of dropdown and add this little plugin to it. Simple enough? It works well even with 5 level!

MediaQueries

MediaQueries
We cannot deny the existing of mobile browser. This plugin basically help older browser (Especially IE6) to enable media querie, so you can set different screen resolution to different stylesheet. Best of all, you don’t need to do anything beside adding the script line.

HTML5shim

html5shim
Let’s face it, we are all living at tomorrow today. Although HTML5 and CSS3 are still on development stage, but it has been widely used. Well, only the few tags. But it is more than enough to make one headache with older browser (IE, duh!). This little plugin helps on enabling the common tagslike header, aside, footer and etc to work well. Some suggest Modernizr, which both works pretty much the same just more support on HTML5 tags.

Proton Service my foot!

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Just came back from Proton service, believe me, that is the last time I’m going there. If not because of warranty, I wouldn’t be going there at all. Only until now I realise, I actually don’t care about warranty.

Proton Saga

Puchong Proton service center, the one located at Jalan Serindit. The sticker was nice saying 60 minutes and the copy is even nicer, “… Because we don’t like to see you wait” and all the fancy many thing. Great I thought, the last 2 times I was there, it was around 2 hours in order to have my car “fully” (mind the double quote, it was meant as partly) serviced.

However, to my disappointment, it became 3 hours of waiting, and the story doesn’t even end there. The alarm was a bit crazy nowadays, I prefer to have sound when lockin g and unlocking my car, just to confirm I locked my car before leaving. So I note them about this issue when inspecting my car.

Until I was handed my car keys back and check, it is still the same – no sound. Despite it written in the quotation to check my alarm. The technician was called out and inspect my car again.

Mechanic: Tak mungkin ni…
Me: … Impatient, as I know there will be more time wasted
Mechanic: Keep pressing the buttons, open boot, and finally… Oh, ni dah rosak!
Me: Raise eye brows

So my car isn’t really serviced don’t it? It was written in his task about this issue, and ended up didn’t check that? Fine! I thought it will be quick too… Erm… Actually I have no choice, the technician just took my car keys and asked me to wait for a while.

Waited 15 minutes, my car still there, my car keys is somewhere, the technician is gone. So I walked to the garage area and ask for my car key.

Mechanic: Ya, apa?
Me: Mana kunci?
Mechanic: Kat dia tu, job collector.
Me: Okey, apa macam dengan kereta saya? Bila boleh habis?
Mechanic: Oh, tu, tu sekarang takde stock lah…
Me: Jadi?
Mechanic: Tunggu la…
Me: Takpe, mana kunci? Dengan siapa?
Mechanic: Tu orang tu.

Fuck that, I just walk in and get my key and walk off.

Just because you have a job, and you will be happily sit there for 3 hours doing nothing doesn’t mean I am the same. You are lazy doesn’t mean I must be lazy as well. I don’t like waiting for too long for something, anything, even packing wholesale dental supplies, unlike you guys there who are not really want to work.

I rather spend some money to get real fix to my problems now. Proton service technician or anyone in there is not there to solve anybody’s problem, they are there to solve their problem – How to put food on table.