My career started as an assistant golf course superintendent in one of the oldest golf clubs in Kuala Lumpur after graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural and being promoted to Golf Course Superintendent two years later.

 Four years later, I was offered as Golf Course Superintendent at another reputable Golf Course in Kuala Lumpur. I oversaw the golf course construction and eventually to the maintenance stage. 
Curiosity regarding the investment world and financial literacy never thoughts in school made me further my self-study related to the subjects. 

Long story short, 2021 is my 20th Anniversary with Public Mutual Berhad. It has created my perpetual passive income indefinitely and been able to embark on my other interest and study in Chinese metaphysics.

We are looking for like-minded, inspired, and motivated individuals to join our Family in a proven recession, crisis, and pandemic-proof industry.

Phua Kea Tong (Lifestyle planner and Destiny Coach)

Founder, CEO at Twistcode®

Starts with interest in encryption, parallel computing, accelerating tools/apps using CUDA, assembled own GPU cluster, now own & operate the fastest supercomputer in Malaysia & SEA

Nurazam Malim

It's terawikh, not teraflops.

At last, the government is limiting the badminton courts that mushrooming in Malaysia, because these days it's about pickleballs in badminton court than the actual usage to play, and to have badminton academies instead.

But what PMX disclosed the reason (of limiting datacenters) behind it brings another questions for gov to answer - how long we want to concentrate on (producing) semicons but there's becoming less place to powerup these chips?

Sure, we can produce potato chips to eat, but producing semiconductor chips means we need power (and cooling/water) to power it up. Malaysia is not even a nuclear-powered nation, or is this a good reason to start one?

We even don't have enough power to power up the chips we've produced. But we don't care, because for long and forever we will always have the reseller mentality, not as our own user for products we produce.

We hope that those foreign companies exempted from CyberSecurity Act 2024, the news that Indonesia's agreement to handing out all its data to USA, and this limited-DC approval's announcement will somehow make Malaysian's IT policy into somewhat better than it is now. We can't afford to launch many things and hope to repair it afterwards.

But of course, like they always say, you-know-I-know.

*Terawikh is a special prayers being done in Ramadhan. Teraflops is a computing performance metric. Teraflops of terawikh means a speedy gonzales kinda prayers, which most of us (lazy people like me) seek onto at mosques etc.

#malaysia #twistcode #supercomputing #datacenter #semiconductor #chips #ai #artificialintelligence #terawikh #teraflops #lapar

Rendang & batik originally from...

Indonesia is a beautiful country. Few years back, a media asked me which country will lead IT in SEA - I said it'll be Indonesia.

Why Indonesia and not Malaysia?

Because Malaysia have 13 states, 13 different governance and 13 types of state- level contractors. Even National AI Office only can advice Sarawak, just like waking up someone for sahur (eat before fasting) and up to Sarawak whether they want to wake up or not.

So is YB Rafizi's previous move for ARM in Malaysia has been copycated by Indonesia? Yes. Same intention? No. One is without a complete ecosystem (software hardware), one is for specific usage (military) with a complete ecosystem.

Everyone knows Indonesian's president have military background and has been modernizing its military in recent months. More of its local companies doing military stuffs compared to Malaysian counterparts.

Dasar Industri Pertahanan Negara by Malaysian Mindef last month was good, but Twistcode might be the first casualty of such initiatives when the prototype but deliverable gimmick launching of 'erasing' PMX and Mindef's minister during the rehearsals was not welcomed by Mindef itself.

Acceptance of R&D environment in Malaysia is way off. Indonesia? Way better. Do you know Nvidia engaging with their universities and have supercomputers in Indonesia for quite some time?

With USD/MYR against IDR is huge, VCs now can go into Indonesia with advantage. Malaysians might forever fight with Indonesians about rendang, batik, sarongs.

In reality, one of them does not give a kurma (I wanted to say F but its Ramadhan). A dangerous men is when they appears to be dumb, when they're not.

#malaysia #indonesia #chip #arm #supercomputer #nvidia #rendangmalaysiapunya #batikpunmalaysiapunya

Kaya dengan iman, kaya dengan duit, kaya dengan tenteram?

(Wealthy in conviction, wealthy in asset, wealthy in peace?)

I have been forwarded this by a few as it making rounds - someone publicly stated that these 5 will be among the wealthiest Malay IT technoprenuer in Malaysia. "Will/bakal" might be in 10 or 20 years time where our knees might vibrate more than any vibrator around.

But personally, I want the other 4 will be richer (or at least they are now) the soonest possible, so that when they becomes richer, they can be my client. I know the fact that I'm the most in debt-around waist in that list, because doing supercomputing really involves heavy capital, and more white hairs.

I know the other 4 companies for quite long, and they are very good in things that they do. All of us are nerds, perhaps we know the noodle's cup more than conventional food, and our monitor screens knows us better than any human out there. In Malaysia, we have to fight against GLC/GLICs where their bites are larger than our jaws, but at the same time, we're trying hard not only to be seen publicly despite our shyness, but we're trying hard to stay afloat as much as we could.

Will those 5 in the list making into billionaires' list? For those 4, they will and certainly will. Me? I am amassing huge amount of debts, so that perhaps soon enough, Twistcode have the fastest newest supercomputer in Malaysia for another decade to power up our own services, its employees are millionaires and for myself, I am able to sigh relief just to break-even for myself.

So to all investors, foreigners & local users - do approach those 4 companies. They're good, really good.

*Twistcode finally obtained a permit export license for highest-end servers to Oman and Saudi Arabia from Bureau of Industry Security of Department of Commerce, USA. Dah macam2 happened kat Middle East baru nak bagi.

#malaysia #twistcode #supercomputing #ai #scrut #terato #runcloud #katsana #enterprenuer #kayaraya #hariraya #billiunaire

If you can't pull an ARM, let me pull your shaven legs..

Amidst brouhaha between YB Rafizi and other people related to ARM's dealing (in term of monetary), almost no one else questions the reason why Ministry of Economy/ministries wants to pay USD250 million just to get licensing from ARM just to access the blueprint and to design ARM's chips.

For many, it is known that YB Rafizi blocks me in LinkedIn. For many too, it is known that Twistcode/me "is against the establishment of GLCs/GLICs". So many questioned me - why not support the gov towards ARM?

For many times which we have stated publicly, ARM was in dispute with Qualcomm. Qualcomm is another ARM's licensee which Qualcomm acquired another firm (Nuvia) which also using ARM. So ARM sued Qualcomm for not paying twice/higher. Qualcomm won the court case, as expected.

So if Malaysian gov wants to give the RM1.1 bil 10-years worth of ARM's licensing to Malaysian companies, will ARM sues each one of these companies for using its blueprint if each one of these companies collaborate with each other using the same ARM's architecture (without paying more)? 

Many argued that ARM exists in handphones, Apple's product. But that is a complete ecosystem from hardware to software which we only interested in exporting semicons, further away from the software stacks that runs on it. So how these local companies trying to market these ARMs towards phones, cars, etc that long have been marketing and shaved their bikini-lines to market it?

Now even NVIDIA leaves ARM and joining Intel for a Intel's x86 architecture and NVIDIA GPU. For software developers, that's a huge distinguish between ARM's architecture and Intel's. Like iPhone and Android. Pick one, they say.

So what actually Malaysia should do? By right, supposed use that huge money to setup a company/group just to create custom Linux kernel (for Malaysian market and beyond). Use this kernel to bootup semicons that we die die want to market out. But it's too late already - Malaysian gov doesn't want to invest more on this IT thing as ARM's initiative for surely won't fly off.

Even plethoras of datacenters in Malaysia don't use ARM.

Suka barang keras (hardware) sangat, dilupa terus barang lembut (software).

#malaysia #twistcode #arm #nvidia #supercomputing #intel #hardware #software #barangkeras #baranglembut

If you google Gary Oldman without the R..

We've been judged by the way we look, shoes we're wearing and our eyes when looking (at other people).

Now we (will be) are being judged on what you're looking for, and what you're searching for. We've been told to go and look and search what we want in life - that's always the mantra by guru's or LinkedIn-ers.

The machines we created should be easing things up, but eventually we are being judged too - you are what you eat, and you are what you are searching for.

Of course, currently there's another mantra -  we use AI tools before the tools replacing us, so the one who not using AI tools are being treated like an orthodox doing things, while the ones who using AI tools are being replaced by another ones who use cheaper faster tools and being labelled also as HOMO, FOMO etc.

Our decisions will be dictated by the algos of someone else. For some, when the majority follows on what's best by the algo, these minorities will have bigger hands to do what most can't think of.

And that is why, these minorities will always control other people's world.

Happy Chinese New Year. Gong Xi Fa Chai.

#malaysia #chinesenewyear #cny #ai #supercomputing #mainmercuntalakboleh

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