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On the 4th of June,2002 I will give a talk on Project Management for PUAS( formerly JBA Selagor) key staff. This is PM awareness talk to encourage project managers to use world class knowledge and methodology. My main reference will be PMBOK.

Now, I am looking at more on using my available softwares to organise my life and work than just enjoying the fun of palm computing technology-be it palm or iPaq.

Yesterday I met the director of management of JKR and managed to convince him to hold a talk on project management at JKR. It will be held at Work Ministry complex on the 8th of June,2002. The guest speaker will be Dr SM Yeoh.

Lately I have installed music files,sms etc on my iPaq. Now I await a mpp file to try.

Last Saturday 6.4.2002 I bought iPaq 3850. I am going to use it mainly as an extension of my pc. Somehow, I feel my Palm111c is better as an organsizer but ipaq has its advantages when come to storing programs,data,multimedia files. After I bought it, I went straight to our BTM at Swenzen at Sg Wang Plaza.

This morning I received a phonecall from a JKR state director. He told me that he had to sack a project manager of a contruction company due to his incompetency to do a PM job. At the same time, he also mentioned that his boss in KL wanted his big projects to be properly planned, monitored and controlled. I advised him to get the contractor to do it and JKR concentrates only on controlling the project. Later this afternoon, my XPROJECT MANAGEMENT team briefed a contractor on how we could assist them in project management.

Cerita Kedaikopi : # 86-31.03.2002 The only way we're going to lose our relevance is if we stop learning.. "I have been reading your 'Cerita Kedaikopi' stories but I still have not finished reading the previous ones",said my friend who happens to be one of my avid readers."Well, I took four years to write 85 stories but please donot try to read them within a month. Take your time and read them at your own pace-otherwise you will have indigestion. By the way, don't forget to read my other weblogs and travel journals as well", I replied. Then he asked," How come I do not receive anything this month? 'Honestly, it is easier to read than to write. What more if one is busy with one's own business and some urgent family matters to attend to. My wife's uncle, a well known writer once told me: You can't do both; either you write or you do business. He is right and spoke from his experience. He started writing and became a publisher and o...