Saturday Stay-In

Today wasnt so bad. Read up a lot online. I have to admit that as a net savvy person, it is considered embarrassing to announce that only today 15/07/06 that I really got to understand the true meaning behind technorati's tag.

Haven't you read sites that usually have techorati tags saying blah blah and all that. Yeap, its supposed to categorise all these posts so they can be tracked for users who want to read news specifically pertaining to that category per se.

I actually have a new blog layout but I'm quite lazy to post it up. A cursory glance on this webby of mine would probably tell you how shoddy looking it is. Yes, you can see its a result of a slipshod work by a very lazy blogger.

But truth be told, I do have better things to do.

1. I'm practicing my ball game on the field with some of the teachers.
2. I'm building and learning php and .net applications.
3. Knowledge is power indeed; a daily routine in the morning at work include tuning into my rss feeds. A grand total of 10 worthy reads excluding sites that do not support rss.
   
4. Preparation for studies with Monash@TMC, guess its good bye SMU.
5. Daydreaming and sleeping.

I wonder why people are so hush hush about their future plans? Its like as if someone like me is going to jump onto the same bandwagon and exploit an anomaly in the system to gain an advantage before you.

I so happened to know one BMT mate who was doing the very same distance learning path as I am. He was very bashful indeed, evading some of my mundane questions like, "so how's the lecturers?" and started being a wet blanket and denouncing how bad IT is, and that he might switch to business instead. Right

He's the kind who believes fervently in Robert T. Kiyosaki, so much so if Robert told him to stay put when mired in a quicksand, there's a high percentage(A percentage higher than 66.6% though) that he would stay put gullibly. That famed fugged book is fundamentally flawed(debatable), google about it if you're interested. Plenty of interesting discursive debates.

IT may be placed in the lower rungs of the work field as depicted by reports but ironically it drives today's world. It is quite saddening to know how the general consensus view IT on the whole. Just because computers are easy to use, it speaks the same for everything else IT. The bigger picture which seems to elude the ignorant crowd is that the backend is very much complicated. Just one simple processing of a page does take up so much lines of codes.

I guess it truely takes one who has been in the know-how to know how exactly it feels like. IT conveniently is equated to "outsourcing", "indians". I guess thats how a noble profession(I would like to think it that way) has degraded to such a state.

It would require the same effort made by leading economist to analyse the economy to write an excellent application by a likewise good programmer. Both can be considered to be in the same intellectual capacity, only to be demarcated by different fields.

People say IT is a sunset industry, and then you start recalling that it drives today's world. And then you realise, the very same people are still doing IT. Which brings forward to this hypothesis - Why do people still get entrapped despite knowing it's a dead end? Its like saying why bother living when you're still going to die at the end of the day?

And I know another interesting fella from poly who is into MLM err I mean networking marketing. That sacred word is taboo to the zealous one whom he can conveniently lump Microsoft into his arguments, drawing along the parallels that his president had a vision akin to bill gates and that those who supported him(bill gates) became millionaires.

I nearly wet my boxers while reading that over msn because I was laughing so hard because to anyone with cow sense, the whole analogy in its entirety is ludicrous.

This poly mate of mine conveniently equates microsoft's vision to pure marketing, which was what brought MS today. Well partially true, but it was the ingenuity of bill gates who created the platform that has evolved today that was the key ingredient. Marketing just acted as the catalyst. Even if it wasn't adopted, it was only a matter of time.

So what does his company have to show for? Running a shoddy e-bay-like portal and providing educational courses as a front masking any sinister policies at work if any, run by a bunch of kids ranging from as early as 16 to 30.

One thing that was synonymous in the 'debate' was that Gates was a dropout and there were people in the company that were dropouts too but the question at large was, "were they in the same intellectual league as Gates?". Gates dropped out because education was impeding his very ambitious ambition back then. These kids dropped out because they really screwed up; no offence.

When you do a wiki on MLM, (I would like to think that the word wiki would too become a verb in the dictionary just as google has become), and that people who have dwelled long enough in the MLM business, they either become oblivious or indoctrinated by the poison by the man who's probably going to have the last laugh aka the chairman which no surprised is worshipped and held in high regard when he folds up the company when he has hit his profit quota.

With that said, I dont think I need to be hush about my future plans because I hope to ace my degree, do honours and work towards a career in the audit industry. So much for the cheap talk, I guess only the transcript will validate everything.

I guess SJI's famous latin motto should be embraced - ora et labora .