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Big Five Test Results

Extroversion (48%) medium which suggests you average somewhere in between being assertive and social and being withdrawn and solitary. Accommodation (28%) low which suggests you are overly selfish, uncooperative, and difficult at the expense too often of the well being of others. Orderliness (44%) moderately low which suggests you are, at times, overly flexible, random, scattered, and fun seeking at the expense of structure, reliability, work ethic, and long term accomplishment. Emotional Stability (52%) medium which suggests you average somewhere in between being calm and resilient and being anxious and reactive. Inquisitiveness (58%) moderately high which suggests you are intellectual, curious, imaginative but possibly not very practical.

 

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Go takes me to the right?

“I am left-handed, I am left-legged, I was born to be left alone.”

That was how I introduced myself few years back. I believed I was a strong lefty. I had pride in that, thinking that I was more different than others. However, today after another personality test online, i found out I am more right-brained. Shocking !

Brain Lateralization Test Results

Right Brain (52%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain. Left Brain (50%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain

Are You Right or Left Brained?

If I could make my own deduction, I’d say my transition from a chess player to a Go player had transformed me from a left-brain oriented to right-brain oriented. Chess is a game of precise tactical reading and practicality. Go instead is more visual especially in judging the influence of the stones over the whole board. Go is also an intuitive game, more so for experienced players. The game concepts such as invading and securing territory, saving a group and sacrificing are more attributable to human instinct, rather than logical, lateral or whatever L-word thinking. Go is such game.

I want to stay leftie, but I have to admit I use my left too little nowadays. I dont handwrite much anymore, and I practically have stopped playing football or takraw. Maybe I should start studying Chinese characters vigorously and train my left-hand writing them? But Chinese characters are also highly visual, and that would strenghten my right beyond repair.

Why am I getting more nonsensical as exams approaching? Is this pressure?

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Xinwen Goes Online

Xinwen, amateur 2-dan has decided to blog. Yea, more Go stuff to read. 🙂

fellow readers are welcomed to know the go lifestyle of Xinwen and/or fellow go players may allow to learn from Xinwen’s games of go.

Moreover, this wordpress also would provide information regarding Go issues around the world, pictures of any Go activities at which Xinwen may happens to confront.

Checkout Xinwen’s Baduk Life

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Is this me?

Took an online self test which produced rather interesting result.

Your view on yourself:

Other people find you very interesting, but you are really hiding your true self. Your friends love you because you are a good listener. They’ll probably still love you if you learn to be yourself with them.

It’s true that I hide myself, but not “really” hide. 

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:

You like serious, smart and determined people. You don’t judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren’t necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people’s eyes.

Smart and determined girlfriend yes. Serious is ok, but not too serious. Good looking people aren’t my style?. Err.. dont think so.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:

You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.

I prefer to know myself very well before deciding to commit.

The seriousness of your love:

You are very serious about relationships and aren’t interested in wasting time with people you don’t really like. If you meet the right person, you will fall deeply and beautifully in love.

Yes, I am normally very serious.

Your views on education

Education is less important than the real world out there, away from the classroom. Deep inside you want to start working, earning money and living on your own.

Yes, that’s what I feel but not deep inside. Dont think there’s much depth to my feel.

The right job for you:

You’re a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you’ll be set for life.

I want to be a freelance. Do many things for income, work only when I want.

How do you view success:

Success in your career is not the most important thing in life. You are content with what you have and think that being with someone you love is more than spending all of your precious time just working.

I want to be successful in career, but dont want to work so much. How?

What are you most afraid of:

You are afraid of things that you cannot control. Sometimes you show your anger to cover up how you feel.

Correct. Except for the showing anger part.

Who is your true self:

You are full of energy and confidence. You are unpredictable, with moods changing as quickly as an ocean. You might occasionally be calm and still, but never for long.

 Ah, so right. Bravo.

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Isn’t online self-test so nice? You can broadcast to the world the good qualities that you have to the world by publishing the result, without risking being branded boastful, or braggart.

Uh, why am I so negative?

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Computer Forensic Law

A computer forensic investigator must not only be well-equipped with technical knowledge of computing and information technology, but also have good understanding of computer forensic law. This is primarily important to ensure that the evidence collected following an incident will be admissible in court and have enough weightage to support the prosecution of the criminals.

There are several legal principles related to computer-based evidence or digital evidence:

1. Chain of custody
2. Admissibility of evidence
3. Evidential value of evidence
4. Manner of extracting evidence
5. Privacy issues.

Chain of custody

Chain of custody is about maintaining a complete account of the sequence of events that took place following the reporting of the computer incident. This includes how evidence was collected, analyzed and preserved for presentment in court. This chain of custody must be unbroken for the evidence to be trustworthy.

Admissibility and Evidential Value of Evidence

To support their case, lawyers need to not only bring evidence to court, but also ensure its value. High value or weightage of the evidence will strengthen a case, whereas low weightage weakens.

Manner of Extracting Evidence and Privacy

The way the evidence is collected must comply with local laws. Evidence collected under duress, or by breaching other laws such as privacy laws can be challenged on legal ground.

 

Reference :  E-Security Law & Strategy

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Yuki Shigeno and Me

Oh, so nostalgic. I finally found the entry by Yuki Shigeno after losing the link for years,  about our meeting during London Open in December 2004. Yuki Shigeno was then based in Milan, working as Go professional to promote Go in the Europe. Now she’s the Secretary General of IGF.

My Go was improving rather steadily that time, so a Japanese friend from Central London Go Club (CLGC), Tomahaku Urascoe thought I could be featured in Yuki’s blog. Nearly a 1 dan at that time, I couldn’t feel more proud being interviewed by a Go professional.

From her then blog,

Zaid Waqiyddin, who came to look at the tournament, is a Malaysian student studying in England. He learnt go in April last year and is absorbed in the game. In no time at all, he has reached his current strength of 1-kyu. Originally he was a chess player who competed in the National League, so perhaps this experience has helped him with go. ‘Go is freer and has more variations. It’s much more interesting than chess.’ said Zaid. He’s a great fan of Cho Chikun and downloads his games from the Net for study. ‘I like territory and fighting’ – his style also seems to resemble Cho Chikun. During his two years in England, he wants to become UK champion, then go home and challenge the Malaysian champion. Good luck, Zaid!

P.S. Don’t you think Zaid and I resemble each other? Just like brother and sister!

Anyway I was never a UK champion. I thought I could have at least tried for British Go championship as a 3-dan in my final year, but my status as a non-citizen and not in UK for at least 5 years disallowed me for entering the championship.

And challenge Malaysian champion? Haha, I had so scary ambition even as a 1-kyu back then.

I met Yuki the second time after 4 years during SEA Games in Korat, Thailand. I recognized her instantly, and she recognized me as someone she met somewhere. Haha… Since then I’ve been meeting her quite a lot, during WAGC and WMSG.

Oh ok, need to stop being so nostalgic. I am just that glad I found the link once again.

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Preparing for Exams

I was just told yesterday that I would not be sent to Wifi and Wimax training in Ghaziabad, India from 3-7 Nov, as someone misplaced my form. It’s too late to reapply. Looking from positive angle, I will have the time to study for my Masters exam which will begin on 8th Nov and I already applied leave for that.

I haven’t been studying at all lately. Too much Go. Yesterday I went to Japan Club and had 7 games. All super fighting games especially the one with Hock Doong where I really had to struggle to save a group. The 5-game series against Mr Lee Choon Huat was especially entertaining, as we opened up with 5-5, 6-4, 3-3 and Tengen. I lost one game, the one where I gave him large moyo and I invaded later. But as always, I died in opponent’s moyo. 😦

Mr Lee is leaving for Thailand today as manager to Malaysian team to Thai University Go comprising of Suzanne, Shuwen and Jimmy. Let’s wish all of them best of luck.

I decided not to play log on KGS until my exam which is on 8th November. I spend too much time there. It’s sad as I am having so much momentum for progress from recent tournament, but it’s time to have some sense and be more responsible to myself.

 

8 Nov – Information Security Management System

16 Nov – Physical Security and Operational

24 Nov – Law, Ethics and Investigation

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Looking forward to San Guo Sai

New Kid on the Blog !

Another Malaysian go player decided to blog. Philip, who was also in Malaysian team to Beijing World Mind Sport Games is going to blog about go, anime and daily life. Check out Philip’s Life.

By the way, believe it or not, I am already looking forward to next go tournament. For me, it will be Tri-country tournament which will involve Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. I was informed that Singaporean selection for the tournament will be held this weekend, so I wish all of them best of luck. I do not know about Thailand much, but I hope their strong player Ruechagorn Trairatananusorn will be able to participate. Last time I heard, he might skip this tournament if it coincides with Thailand National Sport Carnival, or something like that.

During last year SEA Games, Ruechagorn lost to our player, Teng Boon Ping but since then he had been improving rapidly. If I am not mistaken, Ruechagorn is now ranked at 7d on Cyberoro. He also did very well during recent WAGC and even beat a 6d Taiwanese player. So a rematch between Boon Ping and Ruechagorn will be most anticipated.

I do not know any other Thailand players, and this tournament will be an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with them and learn about Go development in Thailand.

From past format, there will be no male, female categories, only low and high dan. It’s good to have no gender segregation, but I really hope our Suzanne, Thai’s Saenson Apaporn and Singapore’s whoever will clash to find the strongest female in the region. I can’t name Singapore’s strongest female, as many could fit the title.

Uh-oh I dont know what am I doing here. Am I a Go journalist already? Time to do some work.

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More pics from WMSG

I am quite sick today. Perhaps recent Go tournament is finally taking its toll on me. Or perhaps the sudden change of weather. Or maybe it’s the thought of going back to work dampening my spirit so much that my health is affected.

I will change my lifestyle soon enough. Less computer, more gym. But for now, I am still in WMSG mode. More pics for today’s post.

My super long Chinese name. I think I will stick with 大卫

Chile players are really nice people, for reason that is not suitable to be broadcasted here. Private message me if you want to know.

Yoda Norimoto in his coolest appearance on the first day. This was why I wanted to play him so much. Actually I am more of Keigo’s fan, and Hock Doong is Yoda’s fan, but he played Keigo and I played Yoda.

A short visit to Bridge tournament. Not my type of game though. I dont like card games.

Malaysian team at Wang Fujing. The single fact that we managed to play Japan professionals kept us happy till the end.

Me against Ondrej Silt, a strong ex-Japanese insei from Czech. Three or four years ago, I was only a game recorder of his game against Cornel Burzo during London Open final, and now I was playing him. 🙂 It’s a personal achievement, although I lost the game. One day though, I will win. 🙂

Sorry guys, I am too used to reading books during dinner. Not anti-social, I assure you.

A game I played against a local Beijing club player. Oops, I am caught drinking Coke. Not good, not good.

We walked around Beijing every night, which I believe to be the reason I felt so healthy during the trip. Now I am back to surfing the internet every night.

Ah ok, 1 a.m. already. Tomorrow I need to attend Strategic Management training. But even if I sleep early now, I will still yawn big big time tomorrow, so I might as well enjoy the TV for a bit …  Haha, I hope my boss does not read this blog.

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Back from WMSG

Last one week, I was in Beijing, China to participate in World Mind Sport Games in Go event as part of Malaysia Men’s Team. Overall, we did OK by winning 3 out of 7 in preliminary rounds, beating Chile, Mexico and Azerbaijan, and losing to Finland, Czech, Slovakia and Japan.

Yes… Japan !!!

Haha, I dont know how come we got so lucky to play against Japan. After losing to Finland in the second round, we thought it was impossible to meet them. We all wanted badly to play Japan , because their team was simply awesome. The team was made of Yoda Norimoto, Hane Naoki, Takao Shinji, Yamashita Keigo and Kono Rin.

And I played Yoda Norimoto ! I lost by 16.5 moku 😦 I must say Yoda Norimoto is a man of great character. On the first day, he wore traditional Japanese costume and I could already feel his strong aura. At that time, I wanted to play him and three rounds later, I really did. Heh, dream come true rather effortlessly.

I did not ask for signatures from any of the professionals. I was happy enough to be able to play against them. Besides, I am very bad at keeping souvenirs.

Uh, I jumped to the best part too early.

Malaysian Men’s Team for 1st World Mind Sport Games

Malaysia vs Chile. We won 4-1.

World Mind Sport Games was not just for Go, but also Chess, Chinese Chess, Draught and Bridge. I left chess five years ago, but I still felt excited to see chess stars such as Alexandra Kosteniuk and prodigy Hou Yifan.

There was also a promotion of a new board game, called Aigo which is actually a hybrid of chess and Chinese Chess. They advertised it as “West meets East” game. Basically, it’s the same as normal chess, but with addition of two pieces of cannon for each side. Cannon is a piece from Chinese chess which moves like a rook, but to capture, it must jump over any one and only one piece. For example, a cannon can capture opponent’s piece if there is something i.e. bishop, rook, pawn between them.

Pictures above was me playing Aigo against Yi Zheng at the demonstration area.

 

Throughout the one week, I felt extremely healthy. Perhaps because we walked a lot and also drank a lot of green tea or Chinese tea. Above pic was me and my Mexican opponent enjoying tea together.

I have been to Beijing three times now, and every time I visited Wang Fujing, a famous shopping area and eating area. Usually I buy green tea from here. I bought 100 gram of Tenfu Oolong tea for RMB400.

On Thursday, we only had one game in the morning against Azerbaijan. So, after lunch, we went to the World of Weiqi which was situated in Ciqikou area to look at some go equipment. There, I played two games against some of the club players.

For Friday, we had the whole day to ourselves as we did not qualify to the quarter final. Many of us went to Forbidden City, but I chose to meet a friend who I got to know from Internet in Communication University of China. It was almost one and half hour away from where we stayed by subway.

We were supposed to be language partner, where she would help me with Mandarin and I her with English. But I had been so lazy with my studying that I couldn’t utter the slightest Mandarin when we met. Ugh, embarrassing.

There was much more to the whole trip, but I just dont have the energy to spew it all here. Life’s back to normal once I reach home. Back to work, to studying, back to watching Slam Dunk on Astro. Ah, when is the next go trip, I wonder.

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