After Graduated

It's been almost one and a half year since I graduated from University. I think it's been 3 years since I last blog in World of E-Commerce.

Working life is not as tough as studying in University for me. Maybe because I am naturally borned lazy or I am dumb that University life isn't my cup of tea. I get to earn money using my flesh and hardwork, I gained satisfaction as I don't have to use money from home to support my living. I also get the feelings of accomplishment while finish my daily work without having to postpone my job to the next day.

Working has to be very high EQ, knows how to dealt with people. I think it will be a very long way for me I think maybe I got to learn it from the hard way then I will only understand how to fit in to this cruel reality world.

For me, I don't mind when the pay is low as long as I can learn something which will be useful for my future development. What's more, I was just a fresh grade, and bargaining isn't my priority and my strength. The other important thing for me a work is that my boss can appreciate me for what I had done.

My first job is in I think 6 years ago, that was even before I had enrolled in university. My boss knows how to appreciate me but sadly I wasn't being able to stay for long as for my future, I should go for further study in order to survice in this country.

My second job, one year ago I was recruit by a legal firm. The second boss who hire me is a good person but sadly he has no power over the firm and what he tells the big boss, big boss will just follow his way and make everyone else looked transparent or non-existhen.

My colleagues told me our big boss is very nice before his daughter joined this company. I agreed to her as working in there for a year has make me realize that egoism can make people loss themselves and eventually loss the respect from everyone else. It not that kind of firm that people can work for very long unless our boss or the daughter is fond of them. Yeah, I am not the kind of person who know what the boss want and will go for it. If it's my mistake I will admit and find a solution for it instead of covering up or frame other people. But sadly, my big boss and especially her daughter, loved it.

Knowing that there'll be no future for me in the firm, I decided to move on. It quite sad and nervous after you resign but you haven't found a new job. Now my third job, it's not a large firm as it was only a small subsidiary, but I was happy working for the firm as here, people appreciate me for what I had done, yeah as usual nothing is perfect, there's not much to learn here but out of there appreciated and the gratedute that I had for my manager I won't simply unless if I were ask to.

E-world had really change almost everyone's lifestyle. Now world is all about E and globalisation has bring all of us together that everyday I can speak to people around the world within the same company just with one click away.

Review on AirAsia.com

I'm sure you all know about the AirAsia.com. It is a website of Airasia that provide airline service. From the website, you can straight away book the air ticket online and no need go to the counter to buy the air ticket. It is very convenient and save time to book the air ticket online.

Language and Country Choose
First you come to the website, there are two column for you to choose the your departure country and the language. It ease the work to find the translate version by first giving the customers to choose their familiar language. Beside that, choose the departure country from the first into the website will make sure the customers make the right flight booking.

Search Engine
There is a search engine inside Airasia website. With the help of search engine, you just need to fill up the the place you want to take the flight, the destination, how many people, one way trip or return, and the result will come out with a click on "search". That would be easy and convenient in helping customers to find out the flight they wish to book and take a quick look on the ticket fare that they may wish to compare the difference with other airline company.

Advertisements
If there is any promotion on the ticket fare, an advertisement will be post on the home page of Airasia.com. The customers may easy to notice the advertisement and click on the advertisement to find out what is on promotion. Customers may be attracted by the advertisement and book the air ticket to go on the holidays.

Company Information
In the Airasia.com, it also provides company information. Customers can find out more about the company's background, investor relations and even their blog from the website. Customers may feel more rest assure with more knowledge about the company. Besides that, it also provides a portal for those who has the interest to work in Airasia.

Other Services
There are also some other services in the Airasia.com. For example, customers also can book the hotel with together the air ticket, product and shopping service, travel service and others.

To find out more service in Airasia.com, you should click on the link and take a look now.

A discussion on E-Learning offered in Malaysian universities: Pros and Cons from the students prespective.

E-Learning (or Electronic learning or eLearning), defined in Wikipedia, is a term for all types of technology-enhanced learning (TEL), where technology is used to support the learning process. In Malaysia, E-Learning had been introduced by universities such as UTM (University Technology Malaysia) and MMU (Multimedia University). From the students’ perspective, e-learning provides pros and cons:

Pros:
(a) Convenience and flexibility to learners
E-Learning is self-paced and the learning sessions are available 24x7. Learners are not bound to a specific day/time to physically attend classes. They can also pause learning sessions at their convenience.

(b) Reducing environmental impact
E-Learning allows people to avoid travel expenses. It provides a virtual environment and helpful in reduce the usage of paper. With virtual notes instead of paper notes, eLearning is a more environmentally friendly solution.

(c) Affordable education
E-learning can drastically reduce the costs of higher education, making it much more affordable and accessible to the students. An internet connection, a computer, and a projector would allow an entire classroom in a third world university to benefit from the knowledge of a distant instructor.

Cons:
(a) Technology skill required
The students without technology skill are forced to put more efforts to learn about it. Furthermore, some students may not able to switch to new e-learning environment.

(b) Lack of Human Interaction
Learning is traditionally a process of passing information from one human being to another. However, e-learning has been taken place without face to face communication. Thus, high level understanding may not reach.

(c) Lack of Motivation
E-Learning requires self-discipline for students. Some students may not able to follow the syllabus of E-Learning with poor motivation. Thus, the objective of e-learning has failed to achieve.

Conclusion
E-Learning is a good strategy for all students since its advantages greater than its disadvantages. In my opinion, there are not disadvantages for me as it depends the ways of how we use E-Learning to achieve education goals.

References:
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_learning
(2) http://elearn2.utm.my/09101/file.php/1/response/index.html

E-Government in Malaysia: Its implementation so far and citizen's adoption strategies

Malaysia and various countries are implementing electronic government. The implementation of E-Government was initiated by the introduction of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC).

E-Government is the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to promote more efficient and effective government, facilitate more accessible government services, allow greater public access to information, and make government more accountable to citizens.

E-Government seeks to improve the convenience, accessibility and quality of interactive with citizens and business. The effectiveness and efficiency delivering services provided by government enable the government to become more responsive to the needs of the citizens.

There are 7 pilot projects of the Electronic Government Flagship Application which are as follows:

1. Project monitoring system (SPP II)
2. Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS)
3. General Office Environment (GOE)
4. Electronic Procurement (EP)
5. Electronic Services (E-Services)
6. Electronic Labour Exchange (ELX)
7. E-Syariah

New technologies are forcing governments to abreast to technologies in order to avoid falling behind. Challenges are facing by government to keep up with technologies. Other challenges includes lack of broadband infrastructure, low usage of Mykad beyond identity functions and etc. Not only on the introduction of MSC and ICT, government should focus on continuous technology infrastructure and maintenance and this is the basis of all electronic transactions. Information security must be strengthened as online security is very important.