脱氧核糖核酸

一天在翻阅报纸，刚好看到关于脱氧核糖核酸的部分，标题是XXX(一堆汉字)DNA XX（一堆汉字）等等。一旁的印度友人也看到了，问我为什么标题这么奇怪，中英参杂，我当场哑口无言。

DNA这英语词汇虽简单方便,但既然有了“脱氧核糖核酸”这中文译名，为何弃之不用，这令人费解。情况就如同弃“国民生产总值”而用GDP、采GPS而非“全球定位系统”一般，有违当初努力翻译相关外来词汇的人士的苦心。

真正的原因应该是在于那些译名都不够方便好用。我建议相关单位重新检讨那些不受欢迎之译名。其中一个可行的方法可能是再简化诸如“国民生产总值”之类的词汇，比如用“国值”代替“国民生产总值”。两个字数的词汇对媒体及公众来说都来得方便多了。

总好过让英语词汇泛滥于汉语世界中！

英语崇拜风

欧阳文风发表在星洲日报的文章抨击了许许多多带有不正确心态来学习英语的人。

不禁感慨，想不到还有这么多人活在当初殖民霸权的阴影下，以只懂前宗主国语言为荣，抱有阶级心态，想要在同族内高高在上。这种英语至上心态已如欧阳先生所说是一种扭曲的价值观了。

英殖民霸权的文化战略还真成功！竟影响至今，当然这跟美国的崛起乃大有关联。

陳天然老師病逝

得悉本地华语语音界泰斗陈天然老师于2009年8月10日逝世，令我感到惋惜。

以前常在电台节目听到他的声音。尤记得他是新闻广播员，同时也制作并主持有关华语发音的节目（不太记得）。他似乎也在电视台亮相过，没记错的话乃新闻主播。

一天不知从何处知道他的汉学功力在马来西亚是数一数二的，他在本地华语发音界更是个泰斗！另一个值得一提的泰斗是蒙润龙老师。

马来西亚又损失了一个人才了，陈老师请走好！

Gross Domestic Product - GDP

I came across this joke about GDP from today's Nanyang Siang Pau. (Nanyang Business Journal, 南洋商报). The story is roughly like below:

Two economists A & B were paying a visit to their sensei/master who is a well known economist.

On their way, they saw a pile of dogshit on the road. A told B that he was willing to offer B 50 million bucks if B eats the dogshit. Ok B really ate the dogshit and took the 50 million bucks. Then they continued their journey.

After a while, they saw another pile of dogshit again. This time B told A if A eats the dogshit B will return the 50 million bucks to A. A actually a bit regretted giving out his 50 million bucks to B early on and so he took this chance to get back his 50 million bucks by finishing up the dogshit.

Then they continued their journey. After several thoughts they started to realize they actually gained nothing but dogshit in their stomach. They were crying loud, and at that time they had already reached their master's house.

After listening to their stories their master was screaming with excitement: "100 million! 100 million! You two have ust contributed 100 million to our nation's GDP!!! "

Here is the formula of GDP which is taken from Wikipedia:

GDP = private consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports − imports)

So i think the 100 million bucks from the above story is referring to "private consumption". Hahaha.

I once read about an economist from the United States said that(I could not remember that well) "to grow a nation's GDP (or to boost up a nation's economy), give money to someone to dig a hole on the road, and then offer money to another person to patch the hole up". Hahaha.

Frankly speaking, i think GDP's should be quite reliable else it will not be a universal key indicator to a nation's economic strength.

Year 2012 again

Finally a movie about year 2012 is made. The movie talks about year 2012 is the end of the world.

There is a saying that in year 2012 Sun's magnetic pole will swap and hence affects earth's magnetic pole. Some more Earth's magnetic pole is changing all the time. Also Sun will be aligned with Earth in year 2012. Sun's sunspot will be very active at that moment and may cause some impact to the Earth. This was mentioned in the movie "Knowing".

The most famous prediction about year 2012 is the end of the world is coming from Maya civilization. Besides that Isaac Newton also predicted that year 2012 is going to be the end of the world.

Why do we need to trust Maya so much? It is because many evidences showing that they might actually be some advanced civilization race migrated to earth from another planet which position is in between Earth and Venus.

If year 2012 is really the end of the world. Let's start enjoying now. Do not work so hard, do not pursue money. Just try to spend more time with the one you love.

One year already!!

Time flies. It has been one year already since i joined this company in KL. Also it is my 1 year in KL.

I have been working on ESB/SOA stuff since day 1. Back then i was really blur of all these queue/web services/broker/adapter stuff as i was from web development background. I am glad that i was given the chance to get exposed to this area. Thanks to the support from my colleagues. They are really great!

Since i am doing integration job, i often have to liaise with a few parties. Hence the interaction between me and them is quite important. The communication between me and them has to be effective to ensure that i am able to deliver the right solution as according to what business users need. This part has troubled me a lot. I think i still have much space for improvement in this area. Perhaps i need to take some psychology course. Hahaha.

I am quite lucky to witness the outsourcing process. My client - a telco company has outsourced its IT department to my company some time back. Things have turned quite messy at the first few months after the outsourcing. For example my project manager has changed 4 times in 3,4 months time and the process is no longer as clear as the one before the outsourcing. Fortunately i can see things are getting stable now.

Just looking forward to learn more things as long as i have not left this company. I hope can get high pay with minimum workload. Hahaha.

Statistic - The decline in Malaysia's economic from year 1960 - 2000

Below shows the statistic of GDP per capita which is a very good indicator to a nation's economic strength.
Year 1960, Msia ranked 4th after Singapore, Hong Kong and The Philippines.
Year 1970, S.Korea had caught up and pushed Msia to 5th place. However The Philippines lagi teruk(from 3rd - 6th).
Year 1980, Msia showed some improvement by pulling S.Korea down one place. Guess it was due to the discovery of crude oil in the 70's.
Year 1990, this time S.Korea caught up again and broadened the gap to 9591-6924 = 2667 !!!
Year 2000, the gap between S.Korea and Msia went bigger to 15702-11405 = 4297!!!
Can't wait to see how is it for year 2010.
In summary, from year 1960 until 2000, The Philippines ranking dropped the most. The accusation could go for its then incomplete politic system especially during reign of the notorious Marcos.
It's sad to see the gap between Malaysia and S.Korea to get bigger & bigger. It has been 9 years from year 2000 and i am quite negative that Malaysia could overtake S.Korea's place once again as what it did in year 1980.


1960

country	year	gdp per capita	gdp per capita2
Singapore	1960	4211.01	4219.14
Hong Kong	1960	3264.24	3321.62
Philippines	1960	2037.33	2038.72
Malaysia	1960	1829.30	1800.74
Korea, Republic of	1960	1544.15	1458.35
Taiwan	1960	1490.94	1443.61
Indonesia	1960	1098.52	1071.28
Thailand	1960	1085.84	1059.09
Vietnam	1960	na	na

1970

country	year	gdp per capita	gdp per capita2
Hong Kong	1970	6988.34	6967.22
Singapore	1970	6843.57	6837.95
Taiwan	1970	2872.19	2846.37
Korea, Republic of	1970	2621.31	2551.89
Malaysia	1970	2571.76	2529.36
Philippines	1970	2427.13	2430.59
Thailand	1970	1748.07	1733.87
Indonesia	1970	1279.19	1272.85
Vietnam	1970	na	na

1980

country	year	gdp per capita	gdp per capita2
Hong Kong	1980	13326.40	13410.37
Singapore	1980	13001.41	13032.17
Taiwan	1980	5944.63	5962.89
Malaysia	1980	5009.63	4950.16
Korea, Republic of	1980	4556.59	4496.54
Philippines	1980	3293.29	3313.71
Thailand	1980	2741.71	2708.16
Indonesia	1980	2082.79	2083.55
Vietnam	1980	na	na

1990

country	year	gdp per capita	gdp per capita2
Hong Kong	1990	22003.35	21963.40
Singapore	1990	19472.46	19465.91
Taiwan	1990	11283.90	11248.17
Korea, Republic of	1990	9591.27	9592.83
Malaysia	1990	6924.16	6889.75
Thailand	1990	4844.58	4863.76
Philippines	1990	3208.79	3213.57
Vietnam	1990	1441.61	1433.65

2000

country	year	gdp per capita	gdp per capita2
Singapore	2000	29433.77	29433.77
Hong Kong	2000	27236.15	27236.15
Taiwan	2000	19183.93	19183.93
Korea, Republic of	2000	15702.27	15702.27
Malaysia	2000	11405.50	11405.50
Thailand	2000	6473.60	6473.60
Philippines	2000	3825.62	3825.62
Indonesia	2000	3771.86	3771.86
Vietnam	2000	2189.41	2189.41