TimLaw83_Life and thoughts

Went to Midvalley Megamall right after the BNM workshop last Tuesday. The initial idea was to have personal time with my wife but end up spending RM22++ to buy DJI Mavic Mini Drone (plus a memory card). 😊 That is my first drone and I have tried to learn how to use that drone as good as I can. I read the manual, tried to calibrate the drone as instructed and took a few short videos using the quick shot function. I also injured myself when tried to catch my drone when it flew toward the wall and plants. Obviously, that drone was affected by the magnetic field near my house. Lesson learned. Next target is to learn how to edit the video and hopefully can share videos in this platform. Just after having dinner today, I turned moody and start to feel miserable. I think that negative feeling is because I was trying to get a scapegoat to explain my miserable feeling. Somehow, I have realised that my unhappiness is due to my ego. Ego have prevented me to admit I am wrong. Perhaps se...

Presented my paper in the 4th BNM-TIAC monetary policy workshop on 19/11/2019 at Sasana Kijang, Kuala Lumpur. The presentation is part of the requirement for the recipients of 2018/2019 TIAC research grant.  In general, that was a great opportunity to meet other scholars. I am glad to meet a Japanese scholar who is working in Universiti Malaya as visiting scholar and Prof. Dr Mansor, my econometrics lecturer when I did my master in UPM. Next important job is to make sure my research can be accepted by a ISI-ranked paper.

This blog also serves as a place to share my travelling experience. Shamefully, even though I have visited a few countries, I haven't shared anything about those trips in Blogspot, not even in previous blogs that I created but abandoned. Let me list down the countries that I have visited: 1) Thailand (Chiang Mai) 2) Singapore 3) New Zealand (I spent nearly 3 and a half years over there to get my PhD Done) 4) Korea (Busan, Jeju) 5) Indonesia (Bandung) 6) France (Montpellier) 7) Luxembourg 8) Belgium (Brussel, Ghent, Brugges) 9) Netherlands (Amsterdam, Rotterdam) 10) Germany (Hamburg) 11) Denmark (Copenhagen) 12) Japan (Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Kobe) Of course, I travel within my country as well. I have visited some cities and small towns. The latest visit is to Bentong, a small township in Pahang Malaysia. It could be too late to write a detailed travelogue here. So, I am looking forward to sharing any information about my future trips, either the preparation stage, cos...

I am teaching monetary economics at University. One of the topics that I have covered is the bitcoin and its implication to the monetary policy. Since the bitcoin is not an ideal tool to replace the money as the tool to store the value, I don't think it could challenge the traditional role of fiat money. What is stablecoin? Now, with the introduction of stablecoin, things can be a little more interesting. Compared to the bitcoin, the value of stablecoin is backed by commodities, bitcoins and fiat money. This characteristic causes the stablecoin to be more stable. However, instead of decentralised, the stablecoin is categorised as a centralised system. This might undermine its popularity among the proponents of cryptocurrencies.  Will it challenge the dominance of fiat money? It is hard to say. But it seems to attract the attention of international organisation such as the Bank for International Settlement. In fact, Facebook cryptocurrency, Libra, is thinking of using the ide...

What are the differences between being alone and feeling lonely? To me, being alone can be comfortable as I am an introvert person. At the same time, I rarely feel lonely, perhaps because I like to think when I am alone. However, not everyone enjoys being alone. My student seems to be troubled by this issue. She is unemployed and has lost two of her best friends recently. Afraid of being lonely, she has been rushing to get a life companion. To make things worse, she has family conflicts as well. It is sad to see she is lost in searching way out and suffer from depression. I am sympathetic to her, and I have tried to help her to get out from miserable. However, there is an invisible "line" that I shouldn't cross when I am trying to help her as what she needs more is a professional psychologist or counsellor.  Her condition prompts me to take a closer look at the need for mental strength, especially when we are in a difficult time. I might share more about how to sta...

This blog is created with a simple objective: to record my thoughts, interesting knowledge and some exciting events in my life. Various topics could be discussed, either it is serious or not. By the way, I will try to keep my posting short. It is not my intention to have a length report here. In this first blog, I would like to share my thought on the massive defeat of Pakatan Harapan in the latest by-election in Tanjung Piai. The loss is disheartening but expected. Everyone in the ruling coalition should do soul-searching and do the best for the nation before they are voted out by the people. News Link I would like to highlight that this is not a political blog. It is more like a record of my life and thoughts, and anyone interesting can just leave a message here. I will reply from time to time. Until we meet again in the next blog, bye for now.