Iskandar In Person

Do you know? 10 Social Media Trends in 2022 by Hubspot.

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:55:00 +0000

This time I will write in English.

In 2022, the strategy is to provide more content in form of video and write up in blogs and social media. In previous years, I just write and prepare content on my own sweet time, when and where I want to write.

I am allocating more time to creating content this year and the better way for me to start is to look at the social media trends in 2022.

Understanding the trends and associating it with what I'm doing right now, will also help me with my Digitalization Classes that I'm going to conduct in days to come.

The compilation of trends for 2022 would give some insights on what to look at and focus for those who running their business online and also those who like to venture into content creating business.

All these trends are collected from various sources and I will put my thought and response at the end of the compilation.

Lets start with the hubspot.com. In their blog titled "10 Social Media Trends Marketers Should Watch In 2022 [Data + Expert Tips]" written by Caroline Forsey. Released in December, 2021. There is also a free report that comes with the write up.

So, lets summarized what the article says:

Tik Tok will dominate the social media space.
Reaching new audience will become the number one social media goal for businesses
Companies will make more dedicated social media hires
Augmented Reality will become consumers prefered way to try-on product and interact with brands.
Business in the B2B space will increase their investment in Instagram and Twitter.
Influencer marketing will mature in 2022.
Social Advertising will become more sophisticated.
Business will invest in more long-form and short form content, as well as live audio chat rooms.
Social Selling demands will grow.
Consumer will crave snackable content.

Source : https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/social-media-predictions-2017

From the reading, most data collected from the writer are base on US correspondence and on US-based data collection. As Malaysia based digital practitioner, I will keep this information handy and try to get some Malaysia and Asian associated data-collection.

The lists are good preliminary insight for me to start associating with more insight from various writers. In my next post, I will look into other sources and later will use it as a basis of comparison from one source to another.

Note: I've downloaded the free report and will share with you the content after reading it.

SDARA DINNER 2021 : Serahan Tugas 848 kepada 859

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 04:57:00 +0000

Januari 22, 2022. Putra World Trade Center.

Akhirnya dapat juga SDARA melalui batch 88 ataupun 848 menganjurkan makan malam SDARA setelah tertangguh akibat pandemik COVID.

Penganjuran antara yang terbaik dan nostalgik kerana, pada tahun 2021 inilah, batch 88 telah memula satu inisiatif yang memberi makna kepada SDARIANs di Sungai Gadut. Sebuah bas berharga RM 600,000.00 hasil kutipan dana dari batch 88 dan juga SDARA.

Penyerahan bersejarah berlaku di Sg. Gadut, dimana Sdarians sendiri menyambut ketibaan bas tersebut. Namun ada beberapa perkara lagi yang perlu diselesaikan seperti proses pendaftaran dengan Kementerian Pendidikan untuk kegunaan rasmi sekolah. Proses biasa, cuma menunggu masa sahaja.

Dan gimik penyerahan juga telah dibuat semasa makan malam SDARA. Den menulis macam den terlibat secara langsung pulak dalam pembinaan dan penghantaran bas SDAR ni. Bukan apa, kita tumpang gembira sebab student SDAR dapat bas dan SDARA yang menyumbang menerusi kutipan antara batch.

Den pun ada la gak contribute, tak banyak "sehinggit dua" je .orang kata amik berkat ramai-ramai.

Pada tahun ini, den tak dapat nak join batch den turun ke PWTC bergathering dan bercatch-up, kerana ada tugasan yang perlu diselesaikan pada masa dinner tu. Tak pa la ado wakil. Si Black tu, adik den. Kira darah daging turun tu kira ok la.

Pada malam dinner ni jugak, batch den telah menerima baton dari batch 88, dimana pada tahun 2022, batch kami pula akan menguruskan gathering bagi SDARA. Iyola, dah umur 50an dah.. so kena ambil tanggungjawab la buat gathering sebelum kita handover pulak pada batch 8690 lak... Memandangkan den tak mai, so den tak de la gambar-gambar yang ditangkap pada masa event tersebut.

Jadi den kongsikan gambar-gambar yang dikongsikan oleh kawan-kawan den di #demilencadadidada.

Perkembangan Kemaskini Blog IskandarInPerson

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 05:37:00 +0000

Untuk entry hari ini kita update perkembangan yang berlaku pada blog iskandarinperson. Ruangan utama telahpun diletakkan gambar dan menu kategori telahpun dipaparkan.

Untuk kategori, kita akan menggunakan label sebagai penanda. Antara kategori yang telah dikenalpasti adalah:

Home (Utama)
Stories (Cerita)
Tips and Tricks (Rahsia & Petua)
News & Event (Berita & Aktiviti Semasa)
Online Classes (Kelas Online)
Contact Us (Hubungi Kami)

Semua kategori tersebut belum diaktifkan, kerana perlu dipadankan dengan posting-posting terpilih. Buat masa ini kita baru membuat posting dibawah label Stories dan dibawah stories tersebut kita letakkan pula label "blogging".

Gambar utama tersebut menggunakan canva.com dan saya akan tunjukkan melalui video bagaimana menyediakan gambar tersebut.dalam posting yang seterusnya.

Bagaimana Meletakkan Logo Pada Blog Template

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:11:00 +0000

Pada blog yang lepas, saya berkongsi cara memasang template blog baru untuk menggantikan template yang lama.

Pada kali ini saya ingin berkongsi pula cara meletakkan logo pada template yang kita installkan pada video sebelum ini.

Agak mudah bila kita menggunakan tutorial yang diberikan oleh pembina template ini.

Kenapa saya menulis blog kembali. Ini adalah kerana, pada tahun 2022, Labeyla meneroka bidang pendidikan lebih dari apa yang dibuat pada tahun-tahun sebelum ini.

Berada di Perlis, walaupun terkekang dengan rangkaian "network" yang agak terhad, tidak menghalang kami untuk berkarya. Jika membuat LIVE itu agak terkekang, rakaman video selama 3 minit dapat membantu mengubat hati yang gundah gelana akibat line internet yang teruk.

So itu saja penulisan untuk kali ini. Kita akan bersiaran lagi pada blog yang seterusnya. Jumpa lagi ya. Dan "enjoy" video yang saya kongsikan.

#iskandarinperson

#labeyla

Bagaimana Menukar Template Baru Pada Blogger.com

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 15:40:00 +0000

Kali ini saya akan menulis dalam Bahasa Malaysia, khas untuk mereka yang mengikuti kelas Media Sosial dan E-Commerce saya.

Untuk itu saya buatkan satu video tutorial bagi anda semua. Saya kepilkan skrip video saya pada bawah video ini, supaya anda tidak termiss apa yang saya cakap dalam video tersebut.

Assalamualaikum,

Dalam IskandarInperson kali ini saya akan tunjukkan cara untuk memasang atau install template pada akaun blogger anda. Saya mempunyai blog di iskandarinperson.blogspot.com. Templatenya lama dan perlu diupdate dengan template baru.

Di google saya masukkan keyword “Blogger Template Free” dan kita akan pilih btemplates.com. Untuk tahun ini saya akan memilih LMS Education Template. Template ini ada yang berbayar dan ada yang PERCUMA. Pilih yang PERCUMA dan downloadkan zip filenya dahulu.

LMS Education Template ini mempunyai dokumentation, saya cadangkan pilih template yang ada "dokumentation" untuk kemudahan anda nanti. Sekarang kita di blogger.com. Dan Blog IskandarInPerson disitu, kita akan mula tukarkan template lama.

Ini adalah ruangan posting kita. Kita check di layout sekejap dan next adalah dengan menekan menu Theme atau tema. Kita mulakan dengan downloadkan template lama. Mana tahu kita nak guna balik nanti.

Seterusnya, template baru yang kita download tadi dalam bentuk zip fail. Kita kena extractkan dulu. Ada 3 fail disitu, pilih fail yang belakangnya tulis xml. Sekarang kita upload template baru. Dengan menekan restore.

Dan lama blog saya sekarang telah ditukar dengan template baru. Sekejap je.

Nantikan video seterusnya, dan jangan lupa melayari www.labeyla.com dan membuat belian disana. Dengan belian anda kami boleh terus menyumbang kandungkan di iskandarinperson.blogspot.com untuk manfaat semua yang membaca.

Answer to Readers Request for Blogger Templates.

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:35:00 +0000

I got a request from fellow readers that asked me how to install and configure the blogger templates. So what I am going to do is to do two methods of installing and configuring the templates.

Number 1:

Using free templates. I will go to some websites offering free blogger templates and download them. Then I will configure using blogger's tools according to the instructions mentioned by the template provider.

Number 2:

I will reengineer the templates by using the installed templates and making changes from the source code section of the blogger. I will share the basic skill of code reading where you don't need to know the whole structure of the template codes. Just the important lines that are required to change the menu and the picture.

In the next post, I will make it in video form showing step by step guide on how to install and modify your favorite blogger templates.

Just do it once, and then you'll just continue to write your favorite topics.

Starts Simple

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 15:02:00 +0000

The reason is, I just want to use simple features offered by mobirise, drag and drop web builder that, well just drag and drop stuff. It will be a bit challenging though because I will not have SEO support from google.

Hey! It's my digital journey. I've created the journey back in 2010 and its end up building a brand name called Labeyla. I'm happy with the growth of Labeyla today, thus I'm just to enter into a new challenge, which is in education where I can share what I've experienced and learned in the last 10 years and deliver the story in a unique way.

New decades demand a new norm.

The 2020-2021 pandemic had taught lots of entrepreneurs, especially me the value of being tough. Lots of challenges happened beyond our control, when we made a workaround, other challenges appeared. I'm seeing the new norm as the new birth of new Labeyla. We still maintain the core competency of selling hijab using our own configured technology, and we expand the business into a new domain, which is education.

Since 2015, Labeyla had entered bit by bit into the education segments, the peak of the effort comes when Labeyla's founder has been appointed by the Minister of Higher Education as CEO@Polycc, collaborating with the industry connection of Polytechnic Malaysia. Followed by the appointment of the London Examination Board Entrepreneur Lecturer at Kuala Lumpur International Education Consortium, collaborating with UTMSpace Sdn. Bhd. and University Utara Malaysia.

Lots of things can be done in the next 10 years with a new enhanced business model.

As per my quote at the International Conference of E-Commerce at UUM in November 2020, "A combination of simple things, made up a complex structure of things".

We kept our motto "In Labeyla, we're not only selling hijab. We share technology", and the motto had become to take shape this year.

May God Bless Science and Technology.

Digital Marketing Labeyla : Email Marketing

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:06:00 +0000

Writing Again

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:40:00 +0000

In 2013, no post been uploaded. Too occupied with projects until I realized this year, you need time for yourself even for 15-30 minutes a day.

This morning, I cross check the web and smiled. The In Person branding had evolve to my wife through her blog linainperson.blogspot.com, my eldest daugther through her blog kamaliainpersonii.blogspot.com and the second daughter, with her blog khalisainperson.blogspot.com.

Interestingly is my daugthers blog. Enjoy reading the minds on 12 years old and 13 years old kids. And they are too obsessed with K-Pop. Hmm... rhythm of the new generation probably.

In my years, while at their age, the rhythm of the generation was Boy George, Lionel Ricthie, Micheal Jackson... hmmm imagine how time pass so fast.

When Malacca was Occupied....

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:44:00 +0000

In last three years, I've been travelling within middle east, Europe and Africa. It has been a while since I put my thought and observation throughout my travel. In 2012, it is the year where, I decided to go on my own way.. i.e. being self-employed. After, 9 grueling months of planning, building rapport, presentations after presentation .. I landed myself on a project in Malacca, Malaysia.

A joyful feeling of closing my own project and running it all by own way .. well except there's some discipline that I had to follow with this PMI thingy.

This is a story of Malacca, been occupied by Iskandar .. huhu. like this is a big thing huh...

Lets starts with the entrance through the toll gate, where I have to drive 1 hour from my home sweet home aka my office in Bangi.

I took this picture when I'm approaching the toll gate at 30 km/hour ... huhu ... not much traffic at this time so I can drive as slow as I want.

There's lots of things to tell and share, but first let me clear out my 249 page documents to be presented to client tomorrow, get a good night sleep since it is 3:46 a.m ... and I'm alone at the site office ...

Night-night .. catch up with you tomorrow.

Istanbul ... Asia and Avrupa ...from the Blackberry

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Again this is about Istanbul but author tries to present the story in a different way. In this article, author will share a visual story of what he saw during travel and at work. This is a new approach of presentation that author wants to explore ... so enjoy the picture taken from Blackberry Curve Javelin ... :)

Late October 2010: Assignment in Istanbul was a short one. Just one week and full of meetings. So I am able to snap some pictures during the break, after work and also during my route to the Airport.

At Work During Break

I went up to the roof top to look at the view of Maltepe area. The building I worked is sandwiched by highway and a military camp. I'm more interested on the area living so I took some picture of the highway ....

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After Work

October is quite cold in Istanbul. We're talking about 10 Degree C plus some windchill factor ... so not much exploring I did during the working days. But after work ... with cold weather outside ... nothing match the Turkish Tea or "Cay" they call it and a pool session at the bar ...

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Travelling Home

I took different route from normal. Usual route I that took was taking a taxi from the hotel in Kartal and straight to Ataturk airport. This time, I took a taxi to Kadikoy, then a boat ride to Karakoy. From there, I took Tunel Train to the edge to Istikal Street and finally to a tram to Taksim Square. Why I did that? My flight was at night so I took opportunity to spend time at Istikal Street and Taksim Square in this visit.

I spend some time with my friend Zikri and Murat, enjoying the lunch and some dessert before taking a taxi to Ataturk Airport.... I would not recommend this type of travel if you're travelling with your bulking baggage. I travelled light at that time so it was a fun walk. :)

Something that shock me when I arrive home. The Taksim square where I hanged out on Saturday, was bombed on Sunday ... Felt relieved that I'm at home at that time ...

Being bachelor in Alor Setar..

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:00:00 +0000

I would like to recall my early involvement in my career adventure in Alor Setar. Some are sweet and some are not ... anyway its an adventure it the blend of both stories.

I just reached 25 years old when I started my career in IT industry. Alor Setar, Kedah was the first state in Malaysia that welcomed me in IT project management world. I was recruited in Kuala Lumpur by TIME Systems Integrator and within one month, my first assignment was Alor Star.

Government was my first client. To be exact, the Land Administration Office. It was a unique experience which exposed me to the meaning of tough negotiation, office politics and bureaucracy.

At the same time, I was exposed to the northern lifestyle of Malaysia.

New Year Resolution ...

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Well, it is almost end of January. I guess it is not too late to bring up the topic on New Year Resolution. Year 2010 has been a very good year for me. Lots of things been achieved in my career and family life.

There are also some hick ups here and there through out last year but it doesn't give a high weight to me to say that year 2010 is not a good year. Let's recap what did I achieve last year and what's my resolution for year 2011.

Highlights on things that happened last year:

Delivered 6 projects in Istanbul.
Helping the company to get selected as finalist for IT Supplier of the Year award by the BCS (British Computing Society) & Computing UK IT Industry award 2010 in Organizational Excellence Category.
Helping the company to get selected as finalist in CCR Credit Excellence Award.
Appeared in the IT Roundtable Talk organized by ZDNET and CBS Interactive.
Able to accomplished 2 family vacations which makes the family happy.
Helping my wife to set up her on-line business.
Enrolled to graduate school.
My two cute little daughter got an excellence award at their school.
The elder daughter got drafted into the school orchestra.
Enjoying first day at nursery for by 4 years old boy.
Running in 2 marathon (21km and 10 km respectively) in 2 countries. Putrajaya, Malaysia and Antalya, Turkey.

Some of the unforgettable event happened last year:

Loss few colleague due to VSS happened in office.
Car accident ... no one injured just the car ... thank God for that.
Daughter been affected by Dengue fever ... thank God again .. she recovered.
Son put some unidentified object in his nose ... have to pay visits to clinics ... 3 TIMES ...

Places that I went:

Singapore
Istanbul, Turkey
Antalya, Turkey
Nairobi, Kenya
Dubai, UAE

And the most important event of the year ... Writing up in this blog ...

Well looking at what been achieved .. I'm pretty satisfy with what happened last year and the 2011 resolution would be ... to make it better. Nothing specific yet on what to achieve as I would rather enjoy the process than getting straight to the end result. The learning comes from the process and not the end result ... well that's is what I feel right now ...

That is what I can share with you on my experience in 2010 and sharing some idea on what I going to do in 2011. Enjoy the reading ...

This Year Entry

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:00:00 +0000

Photo by Helico

Hi all,

After three month of quietness, it is time for me to be active back on blog writing. My initial plan in November 2010 was to have a periodic entry on the blog, however, being me ... I like to explore and learned new things.

November through December were a hectic month for me where I've traveled to few countries and also going back to school. So it is quiet a hustle for me to juggle on the first stage. Now, in January, I seems to got the hang on this new schedule and able to slot in some time for blogging.

Hope to see you in the next entry. Happy new year .. if is not too late to wish.

The Fallings

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:03:00 +0000

This is the last article about P.Ramlee for this year. In this article, author will explore the challenges and the hurdles faced by P.Ramlee throughout his life until his death. Again author will try to extract some lesson that we can learn and apply in our worklife.

Source : HistoryAsia.com

31 October 2010, 10:00 pm. I was waiting in front of the TV to watch, History Channel Biography about P.Ramlee. It was a long awaiting program as I meant to use the information from the documentary for my blog. It took me another week to search relevant information to support facts shown in that documentary. It was a good documentary and I learned a lot from it. Congratulation to Suhaimi Baba for a good compilation and research.

My review and lesson learned from this documentary will be based from the observation during the show and connect those information with the previous articles sources.

All in previous articles, I've shown with you the golden era of P.Ramlee. Now I'll list down some of the challenges he faced until his death. My insight from this documentary was there were two turning points in his life.

One in 1948 where his talent was spotted and he grew to be a big name in the industry. Another was 1964, where we would see his career starts to drop drastically and (this is my personal opinion) lead to his death.

Observing the duration between 1948 and 1964, I managed to identify series of tell tale signs of his fallings below.

The move to Merdeka Film Production in Kuala Lumpur was based from his trust with the management of Merdeka Film Production that he will get "What he want..." if he migrate from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur.
While in Singapore, he worked with experience and well trained film crew and state-of-the-art equipments. Thus, that is why he manage to produce quality and award winning film during his days in Singapore.
Arriving to Kuala Lumpur, he had to faced in-experience crew and out-of-date film equipment. Which, cause him some problem producing a quality film and it seems that he didn't get what been promise. Given, an incompetent crew and inadequate equipment, the expectation given to him was so high just because he was a big name .... plus when the production was release, the blame was put on him ... (This is a very interesting case to look at .. an example of daydreaming management)
Series of unexpected event such as termination of contract with EMI Singapore and Shaw Brothers in 1968 and 1972 respectively.
Unsuccessful business venture with PERFIMA or "Malaysian Film Industries" where he and his counterpart was fired from the board even before the core business starts operating.
Being jeered by local fans simply because of the new trends in music industries where that where new pop culture starts gaining popularity in late 60s.
Lack of resource support in terms of financial from the financial institutions and governing body related to the music and film industries, simply because his popularity when down and no longer a money making machine to several organization.

It was sad to hear, for a such a legendary person, he had to end his life like that and based from the documentary, his family didn't even have any money for the funeral.

So what can we learned as a human, a member of society and member of organization? Lets list it down here ...

We will not always be at the top. There will be a time where we may stumble into some hurdle that would lead to personal failure. So it is wise to prepare some safety net while on top. Such example, looking from career person perspective is to have some kind of personal investment or some kind of back-up business venture or entity. Like what Forrest Gump said "Life is like box of chocolate, you never know what you're going to get ... "
In business, do not trust people completely. Do some preliminary background check first before making decision to follow or jumping to the next territory.
Beware of "daydreaming management". Daydreaming management here means ... having a ambitious goal but the available resource, knowledge and effort does not support the achievable of that goal.
Blend with the current trend. Any thought process that produce something, sometimes sink over time. Place some new energy into it .. get it blend with the time.
I took the quote of our great Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir ... "Step down at the time people likes you ..." At the time we're liked, we will be asked to contribute this and that, we are popular and will be heard ... as our being getting low ... we become someone's liability ... before that happens ... move on to other territory or new way of doing things when the time comes. Some example, if you're very good in managing computing system ... there will be a time when the method and tools that we use may get outdated overtime ... one of the example that you can do while you're at the top is by going into training new faces with your style and let the new faces evolve your style with the trend. Or another idea is by being in a consultation domain where people will refer you as the contemporary expert and you can start talking about your thought on the new trends through speaking in a conference, book or article writing and etc.

In addition to that, what been done previous people is not something for us to use it for pointing fingers and blaming game ... it is for us to seek what are the things that we can pick and improve.

My insight stops here .. :) see ya in next article... stay tune with Iskandarinperson blog....

Follow The Clues

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:58:00 +0000

In entry this time, the author will be following the clues that can be learned from various award winning film directed and/or played by P.Ramlee. These clues will then be articulated to workplace adaptation. Let play follow the clue and see what we can get from this article. Enjoy the reading...

Starting with a list of award winning film directed/contributed by him. I'll be selecting a few below (not in particular order):

Film # 1 : Hang Tuah

Source : AsianTorrentZ

It was a story of Malay Legendary Warrior back somewhere between 1400 through 1500. The story re-lived and directed by Phani Majumdar and placed it to the silver screen. P. Ramlee was the main cast in this film and been doing the musical score. The uniqueness of this film was it the only film made in color among films he produced or worked in his career. The film was released in Jan 1956 and in May 1956 it got the "Best Music Score" in the 3rd Asian Film Festival in Hong Kong. In 1957, the film was shown in the Berlin International Film Festival. It was the first Malayan entry at that time.

Collaborations with international director was already a trend adapted by P.Ramlee. This collaboration produced a very positive result even though the film did not win anything in Berlin International Film Festival.

Film # 2 : Madu Tiga

Source : Wikipedia

This was a comedy film directed by him. A story of how a husband managed his three wives. This film won the "Best Comedy Award" in the 11th Asian Film Festival in Taipei. It was recorded that this film was an adaptation of a Chinese Film. Which Chinese Film is unknown at the point this article was written. The "Madu Tiga" song written in this film became an evergreen song among the mens in Malaysia :) even now and the last re-production of this song was made by Ahmad Dhani, a singer and composer from Indonesia.

Even though the film was an adaptation of some other movie, the re-presentation of this movie was unique that I did not realize at the first place that this film was an adaptation movie. One unique feature of this film of how he blended the music into the film where just by listening to the song, people (in Malaysia especially) will remember the film by heart.

The keyword that I can capture from this movie were:

Adaptation and re-creation of idea.
Anchor element, which I define it as what are the things that would make people remember.

Learning points

From this write up, I manage to extract some key point which we can apply it in our workplace, and I'll place it below in point form.

Collaboration with people outside of your domain or culture. There are lots of learning and experience that you can get when you work with people especially those from outside of your country. They bring in different ideas which was nurtured through their culture. When you collaborate ... some simple idea that you have can be enhance to something amazing even radical. Some management likes radical ideas but make sure that the radical idea are inline with the organizational objective.
Solving problem using ideas based from your territorial knowledge sometimes make workplace life very mundane. Try to adapt some idea outside the box, get out to the wild for some ideas and adapt the idea to our domain, and re-engineer it to make it yours.
And finally in what ever you do, keep searching for the masterpiece, something people could remember over and over again. It may take some time but when the masterpiece come, I'm sure you'll never regret doing it.

From Zero to Legend II

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:24:00 +0000

This article is a continuation of From Zero to Legend I. In previous article, author was discussing about P.Ramlee's historical path from starting his musical career until he was found in 1948 and sharing some clues that we can learn from that historical path. In this article, again author will be continuing P.Ramlee's historical path from 1948 until 1973 and how his historical path can build some significant clue towards our workplace and/or daily work. This article is currently been written while author is in Istanbul, so you might find an odd hours release of this article.

From 1948 through 1973

Starting from 1948, author will be focusing on P.Ramlee's new role in film industry. Between this period, we will see how P.Ramlee evolved his works from acting to directing film and share the result of his works below. His work is now a household name and been played continuously until now.

It has been recorded that P.Ramlee had acted in 60 films and directed about 37 film.[3] That's within 25 years ... what an amazing productivity we can see from him. Looking at this we could see he produced/worked on 3-4 films in year.

Source : P-Ramlee Cyber Museum

Let see the result of his work. I'll select a few:

Hang Tuah film won the Best Musical Score in 3rd Asian Film Festival Hong Kong in 1956.
The same film went for Official Screening at the 7th Berlin International Festival in 1957.
Anak ku Sazali won Best Male Actor in 4th Asian Film Festival in Tokyo in 1957.
Sumpah Orang Minyak won the Best Black and White Photography, in 5th Asian Film Festival in Manila in 1958.
In 1959, Pendekar Bujang Lapok won the Best Comedy Award in 6th Asian Film Festival in Kuala Lumpur.
1960, Nujum Pak Belalang won the Best Comedy Award in 7th Asian Film Festival in Tokyo.
1962, Seniman Bujang Lapok was nominated for Best Comedy Award in 9th Asian Film Festival in Seoul.
1963, He won Best Comedy for film called "Love Parade" and won Most Versatile Talent and Best Black and White Photography for his Ibu Mertuaku Film in the 10th Asian Film Festival in Tokyo.
And the list goes on... for a list of awards achieved by him kindly refer to this page for further details.
Further list of his 66 movies and award can be found in this page.

Observations

From these success story I made my observations from his works and awards that he took:

He continued to produce and act at least 3 to 4 film consistently in a year.
He starts producing award winning film starting 1956 through 1964 and before reaching his peak he had been working on 25 film before it start producing award winning film.
His movies covers multiple genre from comedy, thriller, love & hate and patriotic to name a few.

Clues Learned

From here, we learned a clue from this blog that:

Consistent efforts pays. We should keep producing and improving our work no matter how many times it takes before reaching THE MASTERPIECE work.
Keep trying in different angle of work and again keep it consistent.
Success didn't come overnight, continuous efforts, continuous improvisation and eagerness to explore are the keys to for achieve successful result. Overnight success, would be something that we can find in our dreams. :).

As you see, talent does not totally create Legend. It is about work, focus and consistency that made up a Legend.

Hope this blog would inspire you.

Notes from a friend.

By the way, thanks to Pak Tam who reminded me that History Channel will be screening a special P.Ramlee documentary on 31 October 2010. If I manage to get some points from this screening, I will be sharing with the readers here probably on November 1, 2010.

Source:

Diary of P.Ramlee, http://www.p-ramlee.com/p-ramlee/history.htm
P.Ramlee Documentary, http://thestaronline.tv/default.aspx?vid=6263
http://www.penang-vacations.com/story-of-p-ramlee.html
P-Ramlee Cyber Museum, http://www.p-ramlee.com/

On Travel

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 06:33:00 +0000

I'm currently on travel mode and the slot for making entry was limited since Friday. So I'm making a bit of adjustment for entry this week.

The P.Ramlee Campaign will be extended until 31 Oct.
Additional entry on travel will be place.
Number of entry this week is expected to be around 3 or 4.

Sorry readers for the inconvenient.

From Zero to Legend I

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:20:00 +0000

Source: p-ramlee.com

Going through P.Ramlee's biography through various medium (listed at the end of this article), I found lot of interesting facts about him, which if I were to blog the whole thing in this article, it is going to be a very long one. So I'm going to break this blog entry into two segments. "From Zero to Legend I" and "From Zero to Legend II". In "From Zero to Legend I", I will be blogging about his family, his teen life and the day he was discovered by a film director, B. S. Rajhans from Malay Film Production. While in "From Zero to Legend II", I will be blogging about his path to become a legend. This blog is not just a story, it will highlight what are some lesson that we can learn from his biography and what clues that we can use to build our own success.

So the story begins here …

In The Beginning

It was 1925, Teuku Nyak Puteh, migrated from Lhokseumawe, Acheh and married a maiden Che Mah Hussein from Kubang Buaya, Butterworth, Malaya[1] (During those years Malaysia was Malaya, a British Occupied Land). Not until 1929, March 22, a baby was born and given a name Teuku Zakaria bin Teuku Nyak Putih @ Ramli Bin Puteh. I believe, during those days nobody realize that the baby would later become a legend and idol to various generation in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

Schooling

Source : Penang-TravelTips

He went through a normal life just like any kids during those year where he started his early education at Sekolah Melayu Kampung Jawa, then Francis Light English School in 1939 through 1941. Later during Japanese occupation (1942-1945) in order to earn a living at the age around 13 years old he worked as an office boy at a tin production company before enrolling himself to Japanese Navy School "Kaigun Heigakkō"[2]. After the war he resume his education at Penang Free School from 1945 through 1947.

The Music

Source : Kith Kin

His fond on music started as early at the age of 13 (Based from available information), where he learnt Ukelele and Violin as his first instrument and it is said that he learned a formal music lesson from a gentlemen called Tuan Kamarudin[2].

Going through his musical historical track, I would summarized it as below:

Around 1942 or 43

At the age of 13, he learned musical art with Ukulele and Violin as his early instrument.[5]

1945

Won third place in Radio Malaya Singing Contest.[3]

1946

Source: p-ramlee.com

This is where, he was seen experiencing with various musical groups.
Performed with Orkes Mutiara.[3]
Performed with Pancaragam Bintang Sore.[3]
Performed with Sinaran Bintang Sore.[3]
Won Second Place in Radio Malaya Singing Contest.[3]
First Place in Penang Keronchong Singing Contest while performing with Pemuda Indonesia Keronchong Party. [3]

1947

Performed with Coronation Amateur Party.[3]
Performed with Teruna Sekampung.[3]
At this year he adopted the name P.Ramlee, a reversed from this @ name which is Ramlee bin Puteh. The P means Puteh.[3]
Finally after 3 years of trying he gained First Place in Radio Malaya Singing Contest.[3]

1948

He played with Pancaragam Mustika.
This year was the turning point of his musical career where he was discovered by B.S. Rajhan from Malay Film Production while doing a performance at the Malay Agricultural Show in Butterworth. What happened after that … would be the track of the Legend where I'm going to blogged it in my next entry title "From Zero to Legend II".

Between 1942 through 1948, that's about 6 years of toil and experiments that he endure before converging to his turning point of his musical career. There are clues from this story that I would like to share with the readers here which are:

It took lots of attempt, focus and consistency to achieve some result in our life. It was shown in P.Ramlee's attempt to get the First Place in the Radio Malaya Singing Contest in 1947. We can try to apply it to our career or our workplace. Three keywords that I could extract for sharing here which are tries, focus and consistency.
There always a turning point in our life ... if we consistently build our success track, hold the dream and sustain the effort. We seen his efforts at certain point after 6 years of work, been discovered by a film director from Malay Film Production. In our career or workplace, there will be a point where we will be discovered by someone, whether within the organization or outside organization. The keyword here is, again, consistency. We never know when the day will come. So it is important for us to sustain the effort.
Never stop experimenting in a new environment or new things that relates to our works or career. We seen from this blog, that P.Ramlee performed with various musical groups. Which suggested that, we should keep trying in various area of our career or workplace. For example, in our career, if for so long you been doing server installation, probably you might want to move into grid computing installation or probably IT project management … (this sample is what I can think of at this moment). Another example, if in your organization, you may want to try to experience with different department, say if previously you're working on IT Operation, you may want to try Network Operation or Project Operation … which have somewhat similarity with what you do. You never know by doing those shift you may found your most strength or someone may discover you for a better opportunity?

Hope the clues that I share with you may help you or inspire you to do something big … Have a thought to share? Feel free to drop a comment below … Keep tuning to my next entry ..

Cheers.

Sources:

Puteh Ramlee, http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puteh_Ramlee
P.Ramlee, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13357930551&v=info
P-Ramlee, http://www.p-ramlee.com/p-ramlee/bio.htm
Imperal Japanese Naval Academy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Naval_Academy
P-Ramlee, http://p-ramlee.com.my/Biography.php

A Very Special Tribute to A Legend ....

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:30:00 +0000

Source : ninotazizquotes

P.Ramlee, a name that very synonym to any Malaysian. Let trigger a keyword here.... P.Ramlee .. movie.. The first few things that came acrosss each of Malaysian mind were "Bujang Lapok", "Ali Baba Bujang Lapok", "Tiga Abdul" and the list continues.

Now lets try it on youtube ... type "p.ramlee movie" and see how many movies appear on the screen. Then try to google this keyword "P.Ramlee"... and see how's the result looks like.

Local television station ASTRO is currently paying a tribute to this legendary name for a month with "Di mana kan ku cari ganti" campaign. I’m triggered to contribute my part by writing few articles about him. I was born one year before he died in 1973, ever since his works through songs and films were continuously played consistently until now.

Impact that he brought to the film and music industry in Malaysia is massive, however, until now we haven't found any unique musician, composer or film maker that can create such masterpiece on his work. His works been studied by many and inspires more even those who are not in the film and music industry.

I am amazed by his road to fame and how he build his film & music empire. In this blog I'll be sharing some clues that I found from this legend and how we can use his trail and learn how he did it.

Sharing in this blog will be divided into 3 :

His life from nobody to a legend. What are the clues we can get from his life journey.
His works on the box-office movie, how did his work become so ever green that even my 9 year old kid loves his movie.
What are the hurdles that he faced and how can we learn from it.

Enough of the intro ... in next article about P.Ramlee, I'll be blogging on his life ... "From 0 to Legend"

Keep tuning to this blog.

Source: http://www.astro.com.my/pramlee/

Pledge from South China Sea

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:23:00 +0000

Source : Stuck in Customs

The world is talking about “Water” today. From this side of the world, next to South China Sea, Malaysia is blessed with abundance of freshwater resources. With 22,000 cubic meters of water available to each person annually, Malaysia is not considered water stressed. [Asia Society]
No matter how blessed Malaysia with the amount of freshwater she got, the global water crisis does not choose side and she is not exempted.

The global weather change, rapid economic development and the growing population in the urban area are creating a new challenge to the authority to manage the trend of water usage. In certain state, local analyst had pre-empted the public of potential clean water crisis in 2012.

This blog post is one of the initiatives to start conserving this precious gift. It started with awareness and then translated into action. While the government are working to mitigate this issue, as a citizen, a prudent usage of clean water would be a good start not only will help the nation but also be part of the world citizen to conserve and mitigate the world water crisis.

Writing for the Blog Action Day 2010 on Water event .... this is the voice from Malaysia ...

WATER: How much we know ...

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:19:00 +0000

In supporting The Blog Action Day 2010, today’s posting will be discussing about “Water”. Tomorrow, 3811 blogs from 126 countries and anticipated 28,779,085 readers will be converging into one topic ... and this article is another contribution from Iskandar In Person after signing a petition to “support UN’s effort to bring clean, safe water to millions globally.” Presenting to you .. from a laymen’s perspective “WATER: How much we know ... “

Such a simple word ... WATER but it plays a great impact in our life. We all know and aware the importance of water level in our body and you can feel it yourselves if there’s a drop of water level in the body. Some questions for you and me to ponder...

How much we know about the water we consume?

I’ll bring these questions into my plate to answer on my part and probably you can take these questions to your side and answer it to your own perspective. Feel free to use it. You can place your thought in the comment section or even place yours in your own blog ... either way will work for me.

Water we consume

Source : Feng Shui Newsletter

I’m talking from a laymen’s perspective as I’m not an expert in this area. We consume the water for our daily life from dawn to night. It can be for replenishing it into our body for our daily routine chores like driving to work, playing with children, enjoying some casual jog at the lake or even sleep .. that are part of the examples.

Other than for our body, we consume it for cleaning the dishes, clothes, car or even ourselves in the morning.

Well .. that water need to come from some source isn’t it ... I would say river and lake. It was processed and flowed to us for daily consumption. How much water is enough? Thats depend on our appreciation of the water source which we sometime take it for granted ... (me too sometimes took it for granted.)

Source : BlogActionDay '10 Water

I received a tweet this morning from @blogactionday, showing a photo and a very interesting tag line “The polluted water in this glass is what this woman in Ethiopia drinks every day” [click here for source] ... looking at that visual, I felt blessed to be in this part of this world where I’m still able to get a clear water from the tap. (Even though need to put filter in order to ensure the cleanliness).

So .. Lessons for me after learning from that picture.

While other people in other part of the world struggling to get a clean glass of water, we should appreciate what we have here in Malaysia and not to waste it. Someone next door may also need it so let not be too self-centred on water usage ...
Teach the young generation (I’ll start with my kids) to appreciate the water and not to take it for granted. I'll take in the idea from Mashable on board.
To my Malaysian politicians, water is a human right. Choose your word correctly when talking about water in order to get your votes. The water is not for your party only it’s for the people, the country and the world.

Talk Water on 15 October 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:17:00 +0000

Source : Feng Shui Newsletter

Between today until October 15, Iskandar In Person's entries will be focusing on water. I came across "Blog Action Day 2010" from reading Problogger today. What's about Blog Action Day 2010?

It is an annual event that unites bloggers of the world posting about the same issue on the same day, which is Oct 15. Looking at the one who behind this initiative, is a team from Blogactionday.Change.org who are promoting blog network for social issue.

I found this event is interesting and decided to participate. You can do the same by going to this link ... Blog Action Day 2010. Register and lets talk about "Water" on that day ... it is going to be fun.

If you need more information about this day, visit their blog here.

Review on Father and Son : Homemade Spacecraft

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:27:00 +0000

Source : JunkBlogger

I landed on an article titled “Father and Son Launched Their Homemade Spacecraft into Space” yesterday. The father, Luke Geissbuhler made a homemade video to capture these historic father and son activity which I believe going to make some impact to readers around the world. I’ve seen this article has been shared several time in my Facebook wall and I’m not surprised if they hit the news in next few week or even days.

There’s some values that I can shared from this entry by Hedy in www.junksblogger.com, which is the father and son relationship. I would say Max will remember this for the rest of his life. He can proudly say “My father and me did this”.

Other than the values captured here, another lesson that we can learn together is that, some people see space project requires a complex and a very high comprehension and detail on the subject. This two gentlemen prove it wrong, all you need are an IPhone, Weather balloon and a video camera to make it happen. Simple thought which make things happen.

I’ve also came across some criticism on what are the benefits of space exploration? Despite all the argument to defense the initiative, I would like to add this example as another reason on the benefits of space exploration. This example shows some direct benefits to the family. It brings father and son together.

Kudos to Luke and Max Geissbuhler, for able to think out of the box and at the same time making things simple.

To follow the story click on the blog link below or the video link I place it here.

Click Here to go to JunkBlogger page

Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.

Source: JunkBlogger

Coloring the Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Iskandar Hussein) — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Source: Young Germany

This article is somewhat a log on what I am doing with this blog. I have been exploring this blog writing for nearly three months now.

Recalling what I did with this blog was:

Focus on article writing within the category that been set.
Adding categories as more articles been created/compile.
Placing adsense and ad banner to start monetize the blog.
Installing some codes to track visits and pageviews.
Subscribing to some blog forum and blog sharing sites.
Integrating the blog with twitters and facebook fan page.
Subscribing to feedburner.
Subscribing to Google analytics
Building up followers, reviewing and commenting other blogs.
Placing blogspot tools such as Blog List, Blog Roll, Email forms and counters.
Playing with banners.

Source: jinwei-diabolo.blogspot.com

So, what should I do to balance back my life in office and home?Looks like I've been busy for last 3 months. I'm experiencing a build-up of an efforts from 15-20 minutes a day to about 2-3 hours a day ... and this blog writing activities really addicting.

I'm thinking of bringing in project management methodology into this blog building efforts. Set some realistic goal and try to achieve it. I'll come back next week on how to make this blog more colorful.