The Moley Prophet

Today I seem to be reminded of the real world the whole time…
First I heard American Hi-Fi’s The Geeks Get The Girls… And I think they are really right…

Tonight tonight, he’s gonna get it right
Even losers can get lucky sometimes
All the freaks go on a winning streak
In a perfect world, all the geeks get the girls

This is the real world… The nice girls go out with the geeks…

And the smart asses in school normally do not turn out to be successful.. I’m not stereotyping here… It’s the truth… The smartest normally come under the strongest…
Leon Trotsky with his fantastic strategic planning… did not become the leader of the Soviet Union… instead he died… Why? Stalin need not be smarter… But he is good at getting people to support him… Who says the people keeping quiet in the office gets the top job because he is smart and hardworking? Try finding them for me… This kind of nonsense happens only in the movies… So shut the fuck up you producers and script writers! Show the harsh real world to the people…. My own uncle got First Class Honours when he is doing his degree… But he got set up by some small peanuts under him… My grandmother has three children… They enter the university at the same time… My dad didnt do as well as his two younger brothers… He got Second Class Honours… But among the three… He did best in his career… The office politics is not about your level of intelligence… You will go no further if you depend on your cert after you get into the company… The cert only has value before you get the job… You have to take the initiative… and be daring to be successful… Even it means getting someones suggestion forward before the person does… The business world is just like the battlefield… There are no friend out there… Therefore we also have to seperate personal and work matters clearly….

Singapore’s largest annual IT show is back! And I mean the largest. IT shows in Singapore are too small to be of any value. Stuff sold at the shows are still expensive and the shows are still so small with companies not from the tech sector also participating. Compared to those overseas shows- those in Asia included- IT shows in Singapore are still peanuts. Although small, this year’s COMEX has expanded to occupy even more space. In the past, Comex occupies Hall 401-403 and the area around the escalators on the third level at Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre. This year however, the show is held in 401-403 and 601, an improvement. But items on the 6th level, meaning Hall 601, are those which cannot make it to the main exhibition area or are big companies which already had a large booth at the main exhibition area and have enough money to waste to support the show and make it bigger. Companies like the local Creative, Pioneer, Samsung and Panasonic have huge booths at the two exhibition areas. As usual the bigger stalls in Sim Lim Square have also come to give support. A1 and atf multimedia the usual participants at IT shows are present. Gajah international, the local students startup has also grew noticeably larger. Larger signs are seen. Microsoft has shifted its opertaions to the Hall 601. I do not know the reason for this. The IBM logo is not seen anywhere, though their Thinkpad logo is flying high following the buying over of Thinkpads by Lenovo. For IBM, without Thinkpads means something like no commercial products at all, so that may be the reason for the COMEX. The Thinkpad booth is also unusually small. The products are also limited. Only 1 notebook in every series. In this year’s show, I seem to be getting lesser of camera brochures, maybe for the fact that I am not looking for one and not interested to buy one at the moment. But the trend seems to be getting back to notebooks. Notebooks are everywhere. Storage devices too. Anything about storage is everywhere in the show.

COMEX is definitely a more distinct choice for IT shows. But they should try attracting more companies from the tech sector or shops from Sim Lim Square instead of the shops selling furniture and education.