A bombshell

This is 14th of May 2013. I actually have to review about myself, but the sudden call in the afternoon urges me to write about other stuff today.

I received a call before going to Japanese class. My brother asked me if I am free during June and July, and proceed to tell me he's going to buy engagement ring tomorrow.

He's asking me to be his witness during registration of marriage.

This bombshell literally blown my mind. My brother is 25 years old. Still having a wobbly financially status, has neither a house nor a car yet, and he's telling me he is ready to settle down and get married? Are you kidding me?

Besides, is it too conservative for me to think that an official 2.5 months relationship is not stable? I mean, he might be irrational because this is his first time being in a relationship, but why the hell should he rush? Even though he tells me it is perfectly normal to get married at her age, but why rush yourself for her?

I need direction in handling such situation. But I was forbidden from telling mum. I don't even know what to do now...

P/S: She's not pregnant.

About Me

This post is to fulfill the requirements of SIM4208 E-Commerce assignment. 

In this assignment, I am supposed to write about myself. Although I used to write blogs in the past, I never write a post about myself. This is not because "I want you guys to understand me through my blog, read my lines and see me through your perspective." In fact, this is because I don't even really understand myself. As a mere 23 years old living thing, I do not know the person living in me. I do not know how to handle the soul in me. In short, I am still in a journey of soul seeking.

But to fulfill the assignment, I will briefly list down what I understand about myself so far, based on what others tell me.

1. Youngest in family

Besides having a pair of loving parents, I have only one sibling. My elder brother is only two years older than me, but that didn’t change the fact that I am the youngest in the family. And according to my friends, I do have the ‘spoilt bastard’ behaviour. Well, I will not deny that fact, but not entirely. I’m helpful as hell at home too.

2. AB+

Having this universal recipient blood type made people thought that I am selfish. I will leave this personality for you to judge yourself. But I will not deny the fact that AB+ people are unpredictable. My close friends are mostly AB+ too. It is fun to hang around with them as we understand our behaviour and we always make spontaneous decision. So, if I ever behaved out of your expectation, don’t be surprised. It’s in my blood.

3.    Likes food

Those who are close to me, especially my mum and my coursemates, are the ones who truly understand my love towards food. Despite having allergies that forbid me from having seafood, which I love the most, I have a never-satisfying appetite and craving. You can see that I ain’t lying from my size!

4.   Sleeper

Yes, this is one thing I would like to change. I am a heavy sleeper. I can sleep at anyplace, anytime. I used to miss out stations in buses and KTM due to this habit. My friends will try their best to keep me awake when we’re hanging out, as it is really hard to wake me up. I would blame the weather for that.

5. Conservative in heart

Hailing from Kota Bharu, a humble place where people still worship the higher power and strive to do better with God’s permission, I am brought up with many conservative thoughts. And to be honest I had quite a cultural shock when I first come to UPM, and people around here thinks that I am a weirdo(not because I speak Kelantanese Malay), but the way I think and behave will seem a little bit more traditional. But I am not going to change myself for that.

As I said earlier, I am still searching for myself. Join me, and help me discover myself. I believe you will discover yourself, too.

E-commerce Class Suggestions

In this post, we are required to write about the E-Commerce class, and give suggestions.

Before I write the answer for this question, please allow me to clarify what is meant by e-commerce. E-commerce is not a technical jargon, it is the shortened form of electronic commerce, which means you buy or sell products over the electronic system, such as internet or computer network. I believe it is not bragging when I say everyone nowadays has been directly or indirectly involved in e-commerce. Don’t believe? Ask AirAsia how many customers buy their tickets online. Although many aunties are not computer literate, they are still able to fly themselves to Korea for mad shopping with a cheap flight ticket bought by their children/relatives/neighbors etc. Many old folks never even touch a mouse before, yet able to fly over the Pacific Ocean to pay their relatives a visit. In short, e-commerce is a ubiquitous method used everywhere to purchase items or services.

Now you get a rough picture of what is e-commerce, you can understand what I will discuss about later.

Current:

Our lecturer is currently teaching us about the types of E-commerce and also the history of e-commerce. This is undeniably a good way to build our foundation in understanding e-commerce. As the saying goes “History will repeat itself”, it is important to understand the past, as we will learn from the past mistakes to improve ourselves, and preventing ourselves from making the same mistake, but it should not be the core of the learning. In my opinion, the class should also tell us more about the current industry trends. By understanding current situation, we can start to seek opportunities among current trend and kick start our career. As we step into the society and start to develop the software, we should be able to create something that will fulfill modern society’s need. Lingering on the past will make us a person of lesser mistakes, but it will also restrict us from creativity and revolution. Fresh bloods of the industry are supposed to have splendid ideas and bring us revolutionary technologies.

Future:

We shall bear in mind that e-commerce would affect our lifestyle tremendously. People used to love walking around the mall, shopping for goodies and enjoy the feeling of having shopping bags around their arms. However, people nowadays enjoy hermit-ing at home, clicking on the items that they are interested in, while avoiding the traffic and crowd. They enjoy waiting for the parcels that they ordered without undergoing all the hustles and bustles. There has been a change in human shopping behavior and it hasn’t stop changing.  Hence, besides learning the technical part of e-commerce, we should also learn about modern mankind behavior and transformation, in order to understand what human nowadays think and act. Such information will be helpful in leading us to discover methods that will fulfill modern society’s requirements. Therefore, the faculty should arrange some classes from Faculty of Human Ecology to let us have a glimpse of human nature, so that we will build systems that are more humanized and cater human needs according to actual human behavior.

Class:

It is lucky for us(third year software engineering students) to have a class with the fourth year student of Human Development and Information Technology. They have been friendly to us since the first day of the class. We are having a great time under the lecture of Dr. Salfarina too. I do not want to sound so pretentious but the idea of preparing a short drama about e-commerce not only made me laugh like hell, but also made me aware of all e-commerce possibilities in the future. As a student, I do not have any experience of making loan application with any bank, neither I have made investment via a bank. Having the dramas not only saved us from more boring slides and sleepy morning lectures, they opened our horizon before we step into the society and deal with these adult stuff, and also revealed the funny personalities of the classmates. I am glad that I took the class this semester, it is more lively than what I thought will be, and I am proud to be a part of it.

Pilot

This, is the first post of the blog, and according to traditions, this should be the post that introduce the outline of the blog.

But for the time being, I still don't know what I shall write in this blog.

So, I'll leave this post blank, and we'll see how far will this blog goes.