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《成功父母教育论坛》

让父母老师学习以现代教育观念教导孩子。机会难得，马来西亚很少有这么大型的父母教育论坛。父母老师们，千万别错过。

《创业奇才》讲座+商业游戏

BFR Class Dec 13 & 14 2008 (2)

BFR Class Dec 13 & 14 2008

改变世界的一句话

举世闻名的发明王爱迪生，在自己的传记中如是回忆着...“我从来不曾有哪一天忘了我母亲。 我的母亲总是体谅我、相信我。 小时候当学校老师说我是笨蛋而予以退学时，我开始恨透了这个世界。但是，唯有我的母亲依然相信我，鼓励我不要失去勇气。”

另外，被学校老师遗弃的爱因斯坦每天都听好多遍他的母亲重复同样的一句话：
“你有世界上别的孩子所没有的伟大长处。所以，在这个世界有件事情是只有你能够胜任的。 你应该找到只有你能胜任的那件事，将来你一定成为了不起的人。”

Rainy Day... Road flooded...My unforgetable experience.

This morning, the rain fall quite heavily, perhaps we receive some blessing from God after the haze period, to feed us more fresh air. However, the sad thing is, heavy rain has caused part of the road that i must pass through flooded around 1 ft high. Before I came to this flooded section, as usual, traffic started to jam. However, the cars are still moving slowly.

I started to feel a bit regret since I have somehow predicted this when i saw the jam around 50m before the jam and there is a choice to do a U-turn for alternative route. Since, I am in the jam now, so I can only follow the traffic through. Following the traffic slowly in the jam, suddenly i saw another alternative road to turn back, hesitating whether to force towards the junction since i'm not in the lane nearest to the junction, then again, I've passed that junction. Oh god... what have i done! "OK, since the cars are moving, maybe the flood ahead is not that bad afterall," that's what i have consoled myself.

Oh shot, it's my turn to cross the 1 ft high flooded session up to around 20m long. "OK, easy, easy" that's what i have told myself seeing 2 cars have run through successfully ahead of me. However, the depth of the water really terrifying. What have i bring myself into, having 2 chance to take alternative route. "Should i wait? should i go?" without much time to hesitate, I shifted my manual gear to "1" and prepare to rush through it.

"1... 2... 3... Go! Go! Go!" Hearing the water outside the door splashing, and surprising the water splash ahead of me run above my bonet, and splash onto my windsheild. "Oh God, that deep! the water, my car is going to die off." Then, my car suddenly slow down, even though my still stepping on the gas pedal really hard, and my car seems like not going anywhere. "Oh God, what have I done....?" :(

Before I released the gas pedal, suddenly, the car started to move forward strongly again. "Thank god, thank god...." Totally confused with the situation, I quickly move out of the flooded session, and wondering what would happen to my car after that disastrous experience. Slowly, I drive while listening to any possible sound caused by just now incident. Hhmm.... seems ok, then I continue to drive to work. Hopefully my car will be alright.

Then I started to think what was happening just now... perhaps, when rushing through the water, the obstructions of the water has caused my front wheels to lift above the ground. When, my wheels fall back to the ground again, it started to rush through the water again.... Whew... what an experience.

What have I learn from this experience? Never hesitate whenever a decision is going to be made. Just go for it. Then, I also learn that, when we working really hard on a job or project and suddenly there is no significant improvement and we are not going anywhere, then we have to evaluate whether is the "wheels" lift from the ground because we are rushing my work, before we look for alternative way or change our strategy or give up. Mmm.... who knows? maybe it just needed more time to show the result. Never give up and Just do it !!!

Mobile Money

I recently encounter a service called Mobile Money. It's a very creative idea that provide alternative to Visa & Master Credit Card platform. As most of us know, we are the first country to implement smart card into our Credit Card and National Identify Card. For Mobile Money, it provide a combine implementation of e-wallet and mobile phone.

Mobile Money is a credit or debit account just like Visa & Master Card. However, instead of issuing you a credit card, it link the account to your mobile phone number. To charge your card, you provide your 16 digits account number to the merchant, and the merchant will charge your card in the system. For verification purpose, the system will send you a sms, and you are required to key in your 4 digits pin number and send an sms back to the system to complete the transaction. Therefore, it just act like a credit or debit card in your mobile phone.

What about the security issue? That's my first question towards this new concept. After studying the implementation, I found out that, it is basically safer than conventional Visa & Master Card.

1. The sim card is never handed over to a stranger to charge the card, therefore it is impossible to duplicate the card like it used to be.

2. If the phone is stolen, just like the Visa & Master Card, we have to report it immediately to to our bank to suspend any further transaction. Plus, with Mobile Money the guy is unable to charge the card even he has your phone unless he knows your pin number.

3. If your pin is stolen, the guy is unable to charge your card unless he got your phone and account number. Even if he is able to duplicate your sim card, the mobile service operator will void the service if it detected two identical sim card in the network.

4. If someone successfully hack into the sms center system to divert the traffic. If this happen, the mobile service operator will be in deep trouble, and you won't be liable for the any amount charged.

Then, it comes the questions "Why do we want to use Mobile Money when we already have Visa & Master?" Perhaps, it offers further security and better options. For the start, it may provide more incentive like cash back or more points/prizes for end user like us. For merchant, it may provide cheaper fee structure plus additional service to customer. For Bank, perhaps cheaper franchise fee, and hence better operationg profit.

However, Mobile Money is yet to be launced, and if the solutions is implemented successfully and bring to world, we'll be very proud to be Malaysian as this Malaysia concept as fas as i know.

Online PC Game turning into Virtual Reality

Read an article today on Virtual Trading today in Star InTech. A player in China kill his friend in real world because the friend sold the "Treasure" he found in the Online Game, which he has lent to him for money value of RM3,300 on an Auction Site.

The Virtual Reality we used to watch on Movie is coming true in todays world. One of my friend called Stanley is having business on Virtual Trade that bring good Revenue and Profit. They source the "Item or Treasure" of some online games like WOW(World of WarCraft), Lineage II, etc from China, and sell them online to main US, Europe players.

Surprisingly, they are a group of people in China called "Farmers" who are hired to play games days and nights to look for the "Item and Treasure". These items are collected and wholesale in bulk to the Reseller mainly in English Speaking country. Stanley sell the items online @ http://www.offgamers.com and oso @ ebay.

Perhaps, players can express themselves more freely in the game with the super power that is impossible to gain in the real world. This will provide players a strong sense of achievement. Stanley told me that, there are even a gang of players team up to protect those area where u can get the powerful weapons or the block the gateway so that u have to pay virtual golds to get pass. Virtual gold has Hard Currency Value as well. You can sell those virtual gold in auction place in exchange for CASH.

Another even more unbelievable thing is, there is a guy called David Storey, bought a virtual land for USD26,500 in a game called Project Entropia. And, of course there is a title for the land just as real land. Guess what? he has some investors behind him to fund his purchase.

He said:" I do believe the purchase has challeged people's perceptions and blurred the border between the real and virtual worlds, and I also believe that this will be reinforced once we have demonstrated that it actually work."

Wow, what a statement, perhaps i should check out the Project Entropia... and Welcome to the Virtual Reality Age... Imagine your children make more money than u in the game when he is just 10 in the future..... hahaha.. that's possible.