Where do I start? My name is Mohd Tarmizi Mohd Ali. Most people call me Mizi. This is I think my most successful attempt at blogging and writing. Hope you like my blog design. As I child I have a very active imagination. Being a youngest distant child (my closest sibling is 9 years older than me and most of them are either in boarding school, university or working when I was growing up), this probably is to be expected. Most of my activities were sitting home watching cartoons(being an 80s child, Saturday morning rules!) to the point of I could memorize the dialogs and understand English since I was 4 even though we never speak English in our household. This somehow would become sort of an advantage to me as I would always do well in English at school without much of an effort.
I have always consider myself pretty creative or think-out-of-the-box kind of guy (unless if everybody seems to be obsessed of thinking out of the box, then I prefer to be thinking back into the box). I think this stems out of the fact that I used to do some sketch drawings and tracing. I used to do cartoon characters. I’m with robots and vehicles but not so much on humanoid figure. I am on an average level and I have not practice in more than 10 years already. My hand is stiff already and I think I don’t have the time to be able to focus and concentrate sketching anymore.
But I feel my left brain (the creative side of it or is it right side?) stills dominates my cognitive approach and I do feel the creativity essence of me still burns. It’s need a different outlet for it to resurface. And that’s probably what gets me going in starting this blog(I finally manage to beat procrastination…for now, at least). Instead of lines and colour, I now play with words to paint a picture of views and opinion. At the right time and with the right atmosphere, words seem to flow like a rapid stream of water and I feel the adrenalin rush comparable to white water rafting or surfing in the middle of a Tsunami(OK, a bit over the top there).
Early in my career I started reading more books about motivation, self-help, popular psychology, business strategy. I think this actually expands my horizon, widen my perception and enhance my rationalization and critical thinking attributes. I like to observe social interaction of other individuals and particularly fascinated by the cause of action of few could have tremendous effects and consequences to many i.e The Law of The Few (you can read more of it in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink). On the fiction side, I am more incline to the work of Stephen King. Although he is popular as a horror writer, but I feel some of his best works contains as little or no scary horror elements at all as you can see in movies adaptation such as Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Stand by Me etc. I am particularly amazed on how he tells a story and sometimes how he can scare people with little supernatural elements as possible.
Besides my interest, I would also like to tell my readers as much as I possibly can(without jeopardizing my position by revealing confidential matters), the career life as an engineer in oil and gas industry. I have work with Petronas, SABIC (Saudi Arabia) and currently with Shell in Bintulu, Sarawak. I am a mechanical engineer by trade and have been specializing in static equipment pressure vessel. I also have experience in reliability engineering so I more into asset management of oil and gas facilities. For those interested can follow my adventures and escapades in Me, Myself and Nobody Else Part1,2,3,4,5,6 chronicling my career life for 7 years until now. But be warned though, some of it may contains some harsh criticism on some of my experience. You may not get the true picture reading it but I myself admit that for me to write those is to let go years of pent up frustration and anger in which, thankfully, some part of writing this blog, I feel much better now and ready to take on new challenges with full optimism and confidence once again. I can finally say I have bury the hatchet and laid down my ghost of the past to rest.
I encourage you to post some comments and I would like to know what you think. So enjoy and have fun, may it enlightened you at your darkest hour(sounds like Transformers :The Movie).
