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An Incredible Father and Son Story

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An Incredible Father and Son Story

An old Italian gentleman lived alone in New Jersey . He wanted to plant his annual tomato garden, but it was very difficult work, as the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament:

Dear Vincent,
I am feeling pretty sad because it looks like I won’t be able to plant my tomato garden this year. I’m just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. I know if you were here my troubles would be over. I know you would be happy to dig the plot for me, like in the old days.
Love Papa

A few days later he received a letter from his son.

Dear Papa,
Don’t dig up that garden. That’s where the bodies are buried.
Love Vinnie

At 4 a.m. the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son.

Dear Papa,
Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That’s the best I could do under the circumstances.
Love you, Vinnie

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Peace Of Mind

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Peace Of Mind

Once Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers. This was in the initial days. While they were travelling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples, “I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there.”

The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that some people were washing clothes in the water and, right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, “How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink!” So he came back and told Buddha, “The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink.”

After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. The disciple obediently went back to the lake. This time he found that the lake had absolutely clear water in it. The mud had settled down and the water above it looked fit to be had. So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha.

Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said, “See what you did to make the water clean. You let it be … and the mud settled down on its own – and you got clear water… Your mind is also like that. When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down. It will happen. It is effortless.”

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Our Self Confident can Change Everything

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Our Self Confidence Can Change Everything

A Businessman was deep in debt and could not see any way out.

Creditors and Suppliers were demanding payments. He sat in the park, deep in thought, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.

Suddenly an old man appeared before him and asked, “I can see that something is troubling you seriously”.

After listening patiently the old man said, “I believe I can help you”.
He asked the man his name, wrote out a cheque and put it into his hands saying, “Take this money, meet me here exactly one year from today… and you can pay me back at that time”.

Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.

The businessman saw in his hands a cheque for $ 500,000… signed by Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in the world.
“I can erase my worries instantly” he realized.
But instead, the man decided to put the uncashed cheque in his safe, knowing that it might give him the strength to work out to save his business and to use this only in case of dire emergency.

With changed thinking he negotiated better deals, restructured his business and worked rigorously with full zeal and enthusiasm and got several big deals.
Within few months, he was out of debt and started making money once again. Exactly one year later he returned to the park with the uncashed cheque.

As agreed, the old man appeared.

But just as the businessman was about to hand him back the cheque and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.
“I’m so glad I caught him” she cried. “I hope he hasn’t been bothering you much. He always escapes from the mental hospital and tells people that he is Warren Buffet”, saying this she took the old man away.

The surprised man just stood there, stunned!
All year long he had been dealing thinking that he had half a million dollars behind him…

Its not the money, real or imagined that turns our life around.
It is our Self-confidence that gives us the power to achieve anything & everything that we want.

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The Cracked Pot

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The Cracked Pot

A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the master’s house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water in his master’s house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.

But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream.

“I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you.”

“Why?” asked the bearer. “What are you ashamed of?”

“I have been able to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your master’s house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don’t get full value from your efforts,” the pot said.

The water bearer felt sorry for the old cracked pot, and in his compassion he said, “As we return to the master’s house, I want you to specially notice the beautiful flowers along the path.”

Indeed, as they went up the hill, the old cracked pot noticed the sun warming the beautiful wild flowers on the side of the path. But at the end of the trail, it still felt bad because it had leaked out half its load, and so again the pot apologized to the bearer for its failure.

The bearer said to the pot, “Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of your path, but not on the other pot’s side? That’s because I have taken advantage of your flaw . I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back from the stream, you’ve watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate my master’s table. Without you being just the way you are and without your help , he would not have this beauty to grace his house.”

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The Secret Of Happiness

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The Secret Of Happiness

A certain shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happiness from the wisest man in the world. The lad wandered through the desert for 40 days, and finally came upon a beautiful castle, high atop a mountain. It was there that the wise man lived.

Rather than finding a saintly man, though, our hero, on entering the main room of the castle, saw a hive of activity: tradesmen came and went, people were conversing in the corners, a small orchestra was playing soft music, and there was a table covered with platters of the most delicious food in that part of the world. The wise man conversed with everyone, and the boy had to wait for two hours before it was his turn to be given the man’s attention.

The wise man listened attentively to the boy’s explanation of why he had come, but told him that he didn’t have time just then to explain the secret of happiness. He suggested that the boy look around the palace and return in two hours.

“Meanwhile, I want to ask you to do something”, said the wise man, handing the boy a teaspoon that held two drops of oil. “As you wander around, carry this spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill”.

The boy began climbing and descending the many stairways of the palace, keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon. After two hours, he returned to the room where the wise man was.

“Well”, asked the wise man, “Did you see the Persian tapestries that are hanging in my dining hall? Did you see the garden that it took the master gardener ten years to create? Did you notice the beautiful parchments in my library?”

The boy was embarrassed, and confessed that he had observed nothing. His only concern had been not to spill the oil that the wise man had entrusted to him.

“Then go back and observe the marvels of my world”, said the wise man. “You cannot trust a man if you don’t know his house”.

Relieved, the boy picked up the spoon and returned to his exploration of the palace, this time observing all of the works of art on the ceilings and the walls. He saw the gardens, the mountains all around him, the beauty of the flowers, and the taste with which everything had been selected. Upon returning to the wise man, he related in detail everything he had seen.

“But where are the drops of oil I entrusted to you?” asked the wise man. Looking down at the spoon he held, the boy saw that the oil was gone.

“Well, there is only one piece of advice I can give you”, said the wisest of wise men. “The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon”.

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UTM Roles In Strengthening International Industry-Academia-Government Alliance In Japan And Southeast Asia

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On the 7th of December, the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Vice Chancellor Prof. Datuk Ir. Dr. Wahid Omar and the Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT) Dean Prof. Datin Dr. Rubiyah Yusof attended the 2017 Global Technology Initiative (GTI) Consortium Symposium at Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan.

As members of the GTI Advisory Committee, their roles are crucial to assist GTI in improving the quality of education, foster global human resources, drive innovation and enhance industry competitiveness. In addition, their expertise is required in dealing with environmental issues and disaster prevention in the Southeast Asia region.

 

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Source: UTM Roles In Strengthening International Industry-Academia-Government Alliance In Japan And Southeast Asia

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FKE organises The ICEECC 2017

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JOHOR BAHRU, 10 December 2017 – Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FKE), UTM Skudai has organised the 2017 International Conference on Electrical Electronics Communication and Control Engineering (ICEECC 2017) from December 5 to 6, 2017 at the Menara Anjung Razak, UTMKL.

Committee members of ICEECC 2016

The conference chair, Prof. Dr Mohamad Kamal A Rahim said that the successful organization of ICEECC 2017 has required talents, dedication and time of the conference committees, Dean of FKE, many volunteers from IEEE UTM student branch and strong support from sponsors.

The second conference of ICEECC 2017 is held at UTM Kuala Lumpur, mainly to introduce and promoting the Faculty to be recognized as a world class center within the field of Electrical engineering.

The conference is to provide an international platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and developments in Electrical Engineering subject which include control and instrumentation, mechatronics, communication, electronics and power.

IEEE UTM Student committee member ICEECC 2016

Among the participants of the conference are from Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia Thailand, Singapore, Philipines, Vietnam, India, Iraq, Pakistan, South Africa, UK and local institutions in Malaysia such as UM, UKM, UPM, UNIMAP, UNIMAS, UMP, UiTM, UTP, USM, USIM, UTeM, UTHM, UIAM, UNITEN, UniKL, MMU, UTAR, Swinburne University of Technology Malaysia, SEGI Universuty and Curtin University Sarawak Malaysia, to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration.

A total of 215 papers have been submitted to this conference and only 170 papers are accepted for oral presentation after the reviewing process.

The conference will continue to be held annually to ensure continuity in the endeavor for excellence for all the ICEECC participants, the sponsors and all the collaborators involved.

Four keynote speakers have been invited to this conference. The first keynote speaker is DR Mazlan Abbas CEO FAVORIOT Sdn Bhd.

The second keynote speaker is Prof Dr Tharek Abdul Rahman Director of HiCOE Wireless Communication UTM.

The third keynote speaker is Dato’ Ir Dr Ali Askar Sher Mohamad managing director Sher Engineering and Consultancy Sdn Bhd and the last keynote speaker is Assoc Prof Dr Gary Tan from National University of Singapore.

Source: FKE organises The ICEECC 2017

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UTM Student Receives RM30,000 Grant From Toray Science Foundation

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7th December 2017 – Lee Shi Yan, a Ph.D. student at The Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), has been recently awarded an International Science & Technology Research Grant funded by Toray Science Foundation, Japan, worth RM30,000. The Prize Presentation Ceremony was held at the InterContinental Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.

Lee Shi Yan’s Ph.D. research focuses on studying the Metabolomic Characterization and Bioactivity Assays of Momordica charantia (Bitter Melon) Juice. The research duration is one year, from 1st January 2018 through 31st December 2018.

Congratulations Lee Shi Yan and all the best in carrying out the research.

Source: UTM Student Receives RM30,000 Grant From Toray Science Foundation

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MaGICX Appointed As Creative Centre Network Partner for MDEC

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JOHOR BAHRU, Dec 11, 2017 – MaGICX was appointed by Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) as their Creative Centre Network Partner in the southern region.

The Chief Executive Officer of MDEC, Datuk Yasmin Mahmood announced the appointment during her official visit to MaGICX to officiate the memorandum of understanding (MoU) Exchange Ceremony between MaGICX and MDEC.

Datuk Yasmin and Director UTM-IRDA Digital Media Centre Assoc. Prof. Dr Shahrizar Sunar exchanging documents after signing ceremony.

The purpose of the MoU was to leverage on programmes and facilities under the “Creative Content & Technologies Infrastructure Support” banner.

Its objectives are to promote events, facilities, services of the parties related to games/gamification and creative industry and to share annual plans of programmes and events and offer special rates for programmes, events and services to incubation partners and incubatees.

Datuk Yasmin and the deletages from MDEC and UTM capturing a moment at MaGICX.

On the same day, Datuk Yasmin Mahmood was able to experience the Classroom of the Future, which was recently launched by the Minister of Higher Education, Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh, in partnership with Cisco Malaysia.

Also in attendance are the Dean of Faculty Computing, Prof. Dr. Abdul Samad Hj. Ismail and the Director of Centre for Information Communication Technology (CICT), Prof. Dr. Ali Selamat.

Media and Game Innovation Centre of Excellence (MaGICX) is a strategic collaboration between UTM and Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA).

Established in 2013, MaGICX plays an important role and a key driver for the Digital Media Industry and Gamification Technology as well as the first centre in Malaysia that focuses on research, talent development and product commercialization.

Source: MaGICX Appointed As Creative Centre Network Partner for MDEC

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