Your obsessions with Dr. M seems to border on fetishm man! :P Eric
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:45 AM, red1 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dr. M is a freak. He is obsessed with becoming No.1. Do not argue with > this fact because he did become no.1. And he did made Malaysia No.1 in > few categories. Question is do the rest share his obsession? > > When i was born in Singapore, my dad was in the army frmo Penang, and my > mum from Singapore. When Singapore separated few years later, my dad > choose the upper side of the causeway. Been kiasu, he thinks more land > means better survival. When he puts me into primary school, he choose > SRJK(Inggeris) Jalan Kuantan, where i met Razak Bagnda as my senior. > Oops, digressed. Back to main code. He choosed English telling me that > it has more chance of survival than Malay or Chinese. > > Moral of my childhood is that in the army i grew up in Wardieburn Camp, > surrounded by mostly Malays and Ibans (agi idup agi ngelaban) away from > Chinese. I realised that my dad made the wrong decisions for the right > reasons. I learnt from my environment that locals are very nice, but > too nice as in not caring to be no.1. They do not have the killer > instinct. They let ppl shove them back. They take things lying down. It > was heavenly life i tell you in the barracks of no chinese around, but i > got the point later in life about me still chinese blood in malay clothing. > > But i improvised on those wrong decisions. I learnt about becoming No.1 > too. I choose Islam after learning it is the right at the top of truth. > I choose IT in 1981 as it was starting to breed. > > To cut a long story short, 25 years later, i finally scored a No.1 > myself. But i owe it to Dr. M because on a fateful day up in the gallery > in 1993, in Parliament i saw and hear him speak for the first time. It > converted me from Islamic fanaticism to Mahathirism - a witty mix of > self-humility and, you guessed it, becoming No.1. > > FOSS gave me that big break. But it was uncanny. What is FOSS? How do we > take it? How do we exploit it? It needs a rethink of the chess board. > This is a new weapon of the 21st century. It has gaps. At least for us > here. > > I remembered when i first struck on Compiere in 2004, how i was so > hopeful to be in the developer's list there. I was willing to be Jorg > Janke (owner of Compiere) khadam just to be in the 50 member list. > Ironically 2 years later i not only got something better as the leader > of my own list in ADempiere fork of Compiere, but beats the crap out of > it. And then within a month in October 2006, a SAP blogger mentioned > ADempiere as a threat! > > I was delirous. What a sudden spike in luck. Today if you take a look at > www.adempiere.com you can see what is brooding in the background. It can > and shall take on the No.1 ERP player in the world of 60B USD ocean. > > But just imagine from a small 8 yr old boy playing guli and layang in > Warieburn Camp after May 13, 1969, i get to reach such height. And i > only owe it not to money from my poor alcoholic and gambling dad, or > strict Confucian mum, but from someone i hardly met but whose grace and > temparment has unleashed a rare feeling in my bones. Dr. Mahathir has > told us that "Yes, we can" without the exclamation mark of Obama years > after him. Mahathir said "Malaysia Boleh" when we never and still cannot > keep our head above water. He was blamed for every failure and forgotten > for every success. > > But Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohammad need not do more for me. He dropped onto > my head one basic idea, "What is stopping you?". Poverty and failures > may numb my skull. But it cannot prevent an idea whose time has come. > > It is time to take our position as No.1 > > You lead, and if you cannot lead, then you follow. And if you cannot > follow, then get out of my way. > > red1 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
