Reality Slap

Within the past 2 months along, Malaysians have been presented with 2 great local movies, Jagat and Ola Bola. In recent years, we have seen local production teams getting better and better at tackling serious topics, and it is something we can be proud of. I was thrilled by the prospect of watching both films with a bunch of good friends who could appreciate films of such genre. Last week, I went back to hometown for Chinese New Year celebration and was convinced by my friends to watch Ola Bola there despite my intention to watch the movie at a Dolby Atmos cinema back in KL....

February 21, 2016 · 3 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Karma

In a multi-cultural country like Malaysia, misunderstanding among different culture is common. However, recently there are too many incidents of such to a point of being ridiculous. With halal episodes and other hiatus, it is easy to come out with conspiracy theories based on race and religion. I believe with a little bit of basic culture understanding, those bad events can be avoided. In this post, I would like to talk about Karma a terms where many of the non-Abrahamic followers believe on it especially to the Chinese and Indians here....

February 1, 2016 · 2 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Reimagine the Conflict of Israel Palestine at Malaysia

Introduction Born in the 90s, a handful of conflicts and wars started and ended. However, the conflict between Israelis and Palestinian over the ownership of the land is still yet to resolve, wars restarting over and over again resulting the life of many civilians as the collateral damage. The purpose of this article is to help Malaysian to get a clearer picture amid all the bias opinion given in social media by reimagining if the conflict had happened to us since our Hari Kemerdekaan on 1957....

July 26, 2014 · 5 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Human's Nature: Vegetarianism is the new Monogamous

Introduction Defying the law of nature maybe one of the differences between human and other creatures on the Earth. Our ability to adapt to these dynamic environment not only prevented the human to go extinct but also making us stronger. Being culturally monogamous in recent times is one of the feature where human has demonstrated our ability to defy the natures. The hypothesis here is if human has changed from polygamous to monogamous in order to survive then we have a chance to be culturally vegetarian in the coming years to prevent us from going extinct....

March 6, 2014 · 5 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Programmers' Negativity

Recently I came across an article touching on the impact of being too involved into a profession. Through my observation, I found out that my profession (programmer) has a major negative impact. I called it Programmers' Negativity. Programmers' Negativity (PN) is commonly found on a person after too many years engaging on coding, debugging or going through multiple SDLCs. A programmer has a habit to find bug and debug it. Everyday, we need to crush bug for our program to work flawlessly....

October 10, 2012 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan