BALA SINGAM

New Year anniki sile blogs surf penni partha , angge ingge ellam New Year post than. Seri nambelum inthe New Year perthi post penname irutha nalla va irekkum , so here goes my new year post!

Yesterday was the last day of year 2008, the eve of new year. Year 2008 leave many sweet memories and also few bad memories, lessons to learn , things to improve and positive things to look ahead in year 2009. Last year which is 2008 , i got promoted in workplace and get certified as Microsoft Certified Professional Developer.

But yesterday on the eve I tookGRE exam which went badly for me especially on verbal section. I only managed to score 300. The day itself start badly as I did’t bring my passport to test center which is Prometric Test Center in Kuala Lumpur. My intial thought was as Malaysian MyKad was enough for identification purpose but the administrator insist I must provide ID with signature and my photo. I try to convince her but she said NO ( akka rumba strict ) but lucky enough she gave me 1 hour time to get my passport. I rush back to home at Subang Jaya to get and passport and sharp 10.30 I enter the test center. The GRE test start with anaylitical writing section which i done ok. When i start the verbal section things start to get messy (enna kandravi words ne purile , yengga than inthe mathiri words ellam kandepukeranggene terile).

At nite I went for movie Panchamirtham . This is comedy movie , Nasser gave hillarious performance in dual role. I did’t went to any new year eve celebration cause plan to wake up in early in the morning. As planned i wake early in the morning , i dun remember when was last time i wake up early in the morning. I went to temple , shocked to see the crowd at temple .

Went to carrefour to buy new printer after some survery i choose Desk Jet 2650. This is first time I bought HP printer , Canon was my favourite brand for printer. Recently I noticed the cartridge price for HP went down while cheaper than Canon cartridge. My main concern when buying printer is the cartridge price.

This is the question I hate to hear in interview sessions But dude this is reality they will ask it and most of time i had though time to answer it. The interviewer keep asking what’s special about you? What makes your different from others?

I found a articles on MSN Careers today, help you how to tackle this question.

The writer say

Why is the employer asking why he or she should hire you? Because there are only five areas of interest he or she is concerned with:

1. Your skills
2. Your knowledge about the company
3. Your manageability
4. Your affordability
5. Whether you can go above and beyond your job description.

Click here the read the full article.

Is most of the programmer addicted to coffee? Well i’m one of that species who addicted to coffee, even before i become programmer. After become a programmer i realize most of the programmer drink more coffee than any other professional.

But how many these programmers are good coffee maker? I always hear my CTO complaint about his coffee

every time i make coffee , its either too sweet or too bitter

Well its always happen to me!! Usually there 3 in 1 instant coffee in my company pantry but when these 3 in 1 coffee finish we forced to make our own coffee which means you need mix the right amount of coffee powder , sugar and creamer.

Most of the time i ended up very very sweet coffee , especially in this last few weeks. I was asking myself, is most of the programmer are bad coffee maker ? I have heard and come across many quotes that mention about programmers and their addiction to coffee like this post title. Code Project regard coffee as every developers best friend. There is other quotes that map coders to coffee , below are list of few quotes i came across.

Instant programmer just add coffee

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