There is no such thing as a bad student only a bad teacher

 

I have given ad-hoc tution on Java programming at this fast food restaurant A&W at PJ which unfortunately has now closed down.

It's memorable to me because I had 2 students who failed their term exam and were retaking the subject. Students are weak in the subject which is not uncommon and not surprising because it was something very foreign to them. I was surprised when I saw how fast they understood and absorbed the material I gave them. Surprised because from experience, I know such students do not fail subjects. These were A plus calibre students! So the only conclusion was their teacher was really bad. Skipped over teaching some key topics essential for the exam or just presented them poorly.

This experience resonated deeply with the 1984 Karate Kid's powerful quote: "There is no such thing as a bad student, only a bad teacher." I am very average and definitely do not claim to an exceptional teacher or anything but it goes to show a bad teacher can lead students astray.''

Oh, both these students scored A's during their retake exams, something I had not a single doubt would be the result (which is saying a lot since I can't say that for my other students)

 The fastest-growing category of small businesses is the creator economy, where more than 50 million people identify as content creators globally. American children no longer aspire to work in space when they grow up. About 30% of people aspire to get famous on YouTube.

Only about 4% of these material producers are professionals; the majority (about 94%) are amateurs. The following 2M+ full-time content producers:

There are a million users on YouTube.

Instagram has 500,000 users.

Twitch has 300,000 users.

The remaining authors include podcasters, bloggers, musicians, and illustrators who provide content for various platforms.

FIIDO D2s test ride

 

Fixed flat tyre

Tube RM 35. Labor RM 15. Actually could have gone for the regular tube which is cheaper at RM 16. But since I don't know the difference the more expensive one must be better!

Got an electric bike

Happy got the Fiido d2s today. Tested and working fine. Was a pleasure riding smoothly 10-15kmh around my taman for more than 10-20 minutes then suddenly felt the back tyres go flat. Bad luck. Must have hit a nail or something. Luckily bike shop nearby. Dismounted and felt my trousers tear. Big hole. Double bad luck. So cancel repair tyre and pushed the bike all the way home (a good 15 minutes walk). Reach home just before heavy rains hit. Now waiting for the rain to subside so can push it back to the shop to fix the tyres. 

 

Review of Black Adam

This is a friend's review of the movie Black Adam. I have not watched it yet but will be watching it later today. Can't wait..

Missing kitten

GilaStarcraft

 Start of a new blog

Reason: It's a game I play almost everyday so a blog about it seems appropriate.

IniMacam

The purpose is for a question and answer service and it was a good idea at the time :) 

Digital Drawing Tablet

 With more time to spare, I like to go back to my old hobbies like drawing. This pen tablet was way too expensive way back in 2018. Now it's simply very affordable. Just ordered the 12" and should be arriving in a couple of days..

Only DigitalOcean for me

 My first post after 4 years!!! Anyway, after cancelling everything I have under GoDaddy, my web hosting of choice is now DigitalOcean. It's so far the best performance wise as well as price wise. As for domain, my go to is Name.com. I have to say after all these years using them, I have no regrests.

I like DigitalOcean because they are no stickler for payment like Exabytes who starts closing down your website  if your payment is late a day or two. I have been late over a month and the site is still up. Not that it's on purpose but during Covid, I had been absent minded to check. 

Why I am cancelling all I have under GoDaddy.com

I used to be a long time customer of GoDaddy. Over the years I have been cancelling all my hosted websites with them and my domain hosting too.

Finally I only have one domain left with them and I will be transferring that out to Name.com too.

Why?

For one reason. They stopped supporting me via email. You have to make a call to get support which resulted me in not getting the support I needed to reverse a double charge they made on my hosting.

That's just a couple of hundred RM but I am pissed they did not take the effort to reverse it.

Best Weekly Prepaid in Malaysia

This is my personal experience so if you find a better or cheaper alternative please leave a comment.

So far it seems DiGi and Maxis Hotlink are outdoing each other in the prepaid Internet area.

Let's compare just the weekly prepaid plans. (1Gb overall + 1Gb daily bonus for a week - RM 10):

Personally it's pretty close both of them but DiGi edges Maxis Hotlink because although both offer same amount for their weekly internet (1 Gb) but it's their daily 1Gb bonus that is interesting. Hotlink lets you use the 1Gb bonus any time but limits it to only an hour a day and DiGi lets you use that bonus 1GB between 1pm-7pm. For that alone DiGi is most definitely more flexible.

KO'ed by Exabytes

No more GoDaddy for me!

Used to be my office

This place used to be my office!

SJCAM SJ7 from Lazada

Getting this as it is half the price of the best GoPros out there but it can match it in many areas.

Also, this camera consistently earns high praises from different online reviews. Here is one:-

Shah Alam 10th floor

Arundel Sunrise (almost)

128Gb USB thumbdrive @ RM 56 from Lazada

It looked too good to be true and I did have some friends from India raving about how cheap the USB drive they bought on the streets of Masjid India, KL. Something like 128Gb for less than RM 20!! As it turned out the USB drives were rubbish. Windows showed 128Gb space but it was not usable. That was very dishonest of the sellers and I had to show that to my friends right away after testing their too-good be-true purchase.

So when I saw this at Lazada RM 56 for an OTG drive that supports USB 2.0, Lightning interface for iOS and Android devices, it looked too good to be true.

Ordered it online and it arrived two days later.

To read from iOS, I had to download a custom app from the App Store. That worked adequately. I could read from my iPad and transfer files to the OTG thumbdrive.

So is it another fake?

Short answer no.

Initial test shows that 128Gb space is genuine. However performance wise it's quite slow.

Tried copying a DVD sized movie (3.77Gb) over to the OTG drive and the estimated time is 15 minutes. This feels like the old USB 1 speeds. But since I don't really use thumbdrives that often, it is not really an issue.

In conclusion, it's genuine. But I'm probably going to use it just to backup temporary files like my TV shows/movies and temporary transfer medium on my other device like projector or TV. It's okay. You get what you pay for. I needed at least one thumbdrive (I lost all my others) so this will do quite nicely. It's especially useful for clearing up and backing up my limited 16Gb iPad of pictures.