Saturday Star 2015-02-14 – Job Opportunities

February 16, 2015

Happy Happy Week. Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (all 4 books). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me.

  • Nothing this week. I hear that the layoffs from the big umbrella contractors is continuing.

Support your local bookshop!  Bookalicious at The Summit Subang is a good choice. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and other ologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!

Food choice of the week? How if you visit Vietnam, how about visiting and updating GoHalalVietnam! for your food needs. For your other needs, talk to your local tour guide/ concierge / man on the street.

As crude prices are low, you need all the help you can get to nail that elusive 2k job:

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

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Malaysia’s Petronas to Review Spending as Oil Prices Slide

February 15, 2015

Dateline 2014-11-28, WSJ:

Malaysia’s national oil-and-gas company Petroliam Nasional Bhd., or Petronas, said Friday it is reviewing its spending plans for next year after reporting a 14% decline in third-quarter net profit on falling crude prices, even as it increased output.

Petronas, the Southeast Asian country’s sole Fortune 500 company and most profitable enterprise, may cut spending between 15% and 20% of its capital expenditure next year, Chief Executive Shamsul Azhar Abbas told reporters at an earnings briefing. The company typically spends 60 billion ringgit to 80 billion ringgit ($17.9 billion to $23.9 billion) each year in expanding its operations.

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IEM Shout Out – Talk on Essential Soft Skills to be A High Performance Engineer

February 11, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 14th Feb, 2015 by Ir. Low Chew Eow (Rocky). It’ll be at 9:00 am (makan-makan at 8:30) at Wisma IEM.

Very often, we have the perception that technical (hard) skills are the key to become a successful engineer. It is true but the technical skills are not the only ingredient. In fact, soft skills are also essential to become a high performance engineer in the competitive, challenging and dynamic working environment today.

Due to the above mentioned perception, most of the students in university and the engineers in the work place do not pay enough attention to learn the required soft skills.

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Ir. Low Chew Eow (Rocky) graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1990. He has more than 24 years of working experience in various roles.

He is appointed as Industry Advisor of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Faculty of Engineering and Science.

He is currently the Head of Package Equipment Department in Technip Consultant (M) Sdn. Bhd. He is also the Member of Expert Network specializing in Pneumatic Conveying System within the Technip group.

He has presented talks at the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia.

You may register here, and download the form here.

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Saturday Star 2015-02-07 – Job Opportunities

February 9, 2015

Happy Happy Week. Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (all 4 books). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me.

  • Technip wants to move your career forward. There are places in operations, engineering, project services, business support.

Support your local bookshop!  Bookalicious at The Summit Subang is a good choice. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and other ologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!

Food choice of the week? How if you visit Vietnam, how about visiting and updating GoHalalVietnam! for your food needs. For your other needs, talk to your local tour guide/ concierge / man on the street.

As crude prices are low, you need all the help you can get to nail that elusive 2k job:

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

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First batch of Master of Engineering (Oil and Gas) grads receive scrolls

February 6, 2015

Remember Doctor Who? Doctor, Master? Go watch it, it is not your grandfather’s Doctor.

Dateline 2014-10-23, Daily Express:

The first batch of Master of Engineering (Oil and Gas) graduates received their scrolls during the Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) 16th Convocation Ceremony held at its Chancellor Hall, here, Saturday.

One of the graduates, Chung Chen Chong, 63, said by having a Master’s Degree in the field, he hoped to contribute to the Government’s vision in getting more than 20,000 individuals involved in the oil and gas sector in the future.

During an interview, Chung took the opportunity to express his gratitude to all those who had supported him throughout the course of his studies.

“I would like to thank my superior, family members, especially my wife, professors especially my course director, Professor Pogaku Ravindra, and classmate, Mooganamoorthy Ganesan, who had supported and helped me throughout my studies.

“My wife, throughout my studies, had been very understanding as I was seldom at home and often spent my time doing revisions and assignments,” he said.

Chung, who is currently working but decided to take a full time master’s programme, said he had also divided his time well between attending classes and working.

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IEM Shout Out – Talk on Essential Soft Skills to be A High Performance Engineer

February 4, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 14th Feb, 2015 by Ir. Low Chew Eow (Rocky). It’ll be at 9:00 am (makan-makan at 8:30) at Wisma IEM.

Very often, we have the perception that technical (hard) skills are the key to become a successful engineer. It is true but the technical skills are not the only ingredient. In fact, soft skills are also essential to become a high performance engineer in the competitive, challenging and dynamic working environment today.

Due to the above mentioned perception, most of the students in university and the engineers in the work place do not pay enough attention to learn the required soft skills.

…

Ir. Low Chew Eow (Rocky) graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1990. He has more than 24 years of working experience in various roles.

He is appointed as Industry Advisor of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Faculty of Engineering and Science.

He is currently the Head of Package Equipment Department in Technip Consultant (M) Sdn. Bhd. He is also the Member of Expert Network specializing in Pneumatic Conveying System within the Technip group.

He has presented talks at the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia.

You may register here, and download the form here.

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Saturday Star 2015-01-31 – Job Opportunities

February 2, 2015

Happy Happy Week. Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (all 4 books). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me.

  • Nothing this week. Must be the calm before the USD35/barrel oil. Track prices here. Anyone have a spare hypertanker they can spare, that I can park offshore Cape Puchong?

Support your local bookshop!  Bookalicious at The Summit Subang is a good choice. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and other ologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!

Food choice of the week? How if you visit Vietnam, how about visiting and updating GoHalalVietnam! for your food needs. For your other needs, talk to your local tour guide/ concierge / man on the street.

As crude prices are low, you need all the help you can get to nail that elusive 2k job:

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

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Taylor’s Engineering Fair 2014

January 28, 2015

I was honoured to be a judge at Taylor’s for this event.

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Saturday Star 2015-01-24 – Job Opportunities

January 26, 2015

Happy Happy Week. Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (all 4 books). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me.

  • I’m lining up jobs for next quarter, for IGL Services. Whisper to (better yet, carpe jugulum) your boss, and send work my way.
  • Nothing this week. Must be the calm before the USD35/barrel oil. Track prices here. Anyone have a spare hypertanker they can spare, that I can park offshore Cape Puchong?

Support your local bookshop!  Bookalicious at The Summit Subang is a good choice. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and other ologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!

Food choice of the week? How if you visit Vietnam, how about visiting and updating GoHalalVietnam! for your food needs. For your other needs, talk to your local tour guide/ concierge / man on the street.

Extract from my book choice of the week:

“I am impressed by his argument: ‘When you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, how ever improbable, must be -‘

“-wrong,” Soames brusquely completed my sentence.


Professor Stewart’s Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries

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UTP – NACES 2014

January 22, 2015

I was honoured to be appointed a Judge during the event (Stallone voice now, “I AM DELAW!“).

I was a Judge for the Technical Video Competition and Technical Powerpoint Competition. The Videos can be seen on Youtube. Go visit the videos, and say Wata says Hi.

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