Saturday, August 19, 2006
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Shoe Kitsch ~Ugly and cute?
It's a common sight to see people of all ages wearing this kind of shoes.
Warning: Do not wear if you got fat calves
PS: My old Nokia 3230 "cured" himself miraclously when i threatened to change to a new Nokia N73.... hmm.. it is a really cool phone where u can have Lifeblog.
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It's a common sight to see people of all ages wearing this kind of shoes.
Warning: Do not wear if you got fat calves
PS: My old Nokia 3230 "cured" himself miraclously when i threatened to change to a new Nokia N73.... hmm.. it is a really cool phone where u can have Lifeblog.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
"Funnie" Director... and the Director who takes MRT
As a newbie, we are invited to have meet-up sessions with the Heads of each Divisons. Other than not remembering their names, I seemed to have forgotten how they looked. Only can remember those with mole on face, receding hairline, round tummies etc....
Anyway, I had a quite a memorable encounter with one of the Directors.
His first question to me was "Is your stationery provided for you on your first day?"
Secondly " How about your wastepaper basket?"
I told him I do not have as I was sharing it with my neighbour, he then related me his first day of work here as a newbie back in the 1990s. Felt ridiculed by carrying his waste-paper-basket and other stationery from the stationery central store to his work-stations, (newbies have to collect their stationery from the central store) he felt the urge to change the old system to a better one.
There came a day when he became the Head of the Division, he asked his staff who their customers were and what should be the service quality like. They answered that their "customers" are the fellow staff who had just joined the association. He questioned back:
"If they are your "customers", why do you let them carry waste-paper baskets around on the first day?"
I guess improving service quality is not just lip-service but action taken to improve things and moving on. He made it work. If it didn't, I'll probably be carrying my waste-paper basket around in the building. If he hasn't been hit by this ugly incident, probably things won't change. He also urged me to be a "spy" to feedback to them that anything that needed to improve on.
I'll probably keep that in view. It is not too right to be so frank and open in the first few weeks.
There are old birds that served the company for more than 15 years, technical staff that came to work early and went back on the dot. Most of them are loafers and you can see them walking around, mingling with aunties & uncles in the other divisions. Who knows, probably they have finished work long time ago and their superiors are too busy to assign them new ones.
There are also alot of meetings with other Stat boards. One of it is with Nparks. We are also asked to fnd out what kind of trees are planted in our area of research during the planning process. I can't even name the vegetables my aunt cooked for dinner, still to ask me to recognise the type of trees Nparks planted..... Siao...
I guess Director are quite well-to-do, driving big cars etc. While I was on my way back home(not on the dot, mind you!), I happened to spot a familiar back, hairstyle, laughter in front of me. Only thing is his work-shirt is kind of yellow and carrying quite a tattered-looking sling bag. Later did I realised I was taking the same train with our Divison's Director. After a casual chit-chat, he told us that he was going to Toa Payoh (he lived in Tanah Merah) and dun usually go straight home before this.
Hmmm.. visiting his mistress??? (heeee...)
As a newbie, we are invited to have meet-up sessions with the Heads of each Divisons. Other than not remembering their names, I seemed to have forgotten how they looked. Only can remember those with mole on face, receding hairline, round tummies etc....
Anyway, I had a quite a memorable encounter with one of the Directors.
His first question to me was "Is your stationery provided for you on your first day?"
Secondly " How about your wastepaper basket?"
I told him I do not have as I was sharing it with my neighbour, he then related me his first day of work here as a newbie back in the 1990s. Felt ridiculed by carrying his waste-paper-basket and other stationery from the stationery central store to his work-stations, (newbies have to collect their stationery from the central store) he felt the urge to change the old system to a better one.
There came a day when he became the Head of the Division, he asked his staff who their customers were and what should be the service quality like. They answered that their "customers" are the fellow staff who had just joined the association. He questioned back:
"If they are your "customers", why do you let them carry waste-paper baskets around on the first day?"
I guess improving service quality is not just lip-service but action taken to improve things and moving on. He made it work. If it didn't, I'll probably be carrying my waste-paper basket around in the building. If he hasn't been hit by this ugly incident, probably things won't change. He also urged me to be a "spy" to feedback to them that anything that needed to improve on.
I'll probably keep that in view. It is not too right to be so frank and open in the first few weeks.
There are old birds that served the company for more than 15 years, technical staff that came to work early and went back on the dot. Most of them are loafers and you can see them walking around, mingling with aunties & uncles in the other divisions. Who knows, probably they have finished work long time ago and their superiors are too busy to assign them new ones.
There are also alot of meetings with other Stat boards. One of it is with Nparks. We are also asked to fnd out what kind of trees are planted in our area of research during the planning process. I can't even name the vegetables my aunt cooked for dinner, still to ask me to recognise the type of trees Nparks planted..... Siao...
I guess Director are quite well-to-do, driving big cars etc. While I was on my way back home(not on the dot, mind you!), I happened to spot a familiar back, hairstyle, laughter in front of me. Only thing is his work-shirt is kind of yellow and carrying quite a tattered-looking sling bag. Later did I realised I was taking the same train with our Divison's Director. After a casual chit-chat, he told us that he was going to Toa Payoh (he lived in Tanah Merah) and dun usually go straight home before this.
Hmmm.. visiting his mistress??? (heeee...)
Saturday, August 05, 2006
MUAAAHHAHAAAHAAA... the GYM is all mine now!!!!!!!!
It's 6pm and most of the staff have gone home. The place is usually more crowded during lunch. The gym at level 5 is such a splendid place well-equipped with the latest threadmills, cross-trainer machines.
No need to slurge on expensive branded fitness clubs!!!
Honestly speaking, you won't sweat that much in an aircon room. The temperature here is even cooler than in the office. But toning up your muscles is fine enough.
School will be starting soon on 14 Aug, as usual, I'll be taking 4 modules. Can't really afford the 5th one because of money and time. Getting ready to kick-start my Year 2...
*ps: I dropped my hp onto the floor during lunch and water from my bottle seemed to have leaked into it. Time for service or change of phone... :(
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It's 6pm and most of the staff have gone home. The place is usually more crowded during lunch. The gym at level 5 is such a splendid place well-equipped with the latest threadmills, cross-trainer machines.
No need to slurge on expensive branded fitness clubs!!!
Honestly speaking, you won't sweat that much in an aircon room. The temperature here is even cooler than in the office. But toning up your muscles is fine enough.
School will be starting soon on 14 Aug, as usual, I'll be taking 4 modules. Can't really afford the 5th one because of money and time. Getting ready to kick-start my Year 2...
*ps: I dropped my hp onto the floor during lunch and water from my bottle seemed to have leaked into it. Time for service or change of phone... :(
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Please pardon me if I kicked you out of msn...
I've been using meebo.com recently. It is certainly a more useful online messaging, merging msn and yahoo messenger into 1 window. But the company's server's firewall is too strong to detect such a useful program and I find myself offline suddenly when receive messages from friends.
Ever heard of the story of "putting your eggs in different baskets" so you won't cry when you one of the baskets got crushed? You can do it in stocks and shares, properties and other non-living things but relationships... no no no... I have this friend whom I think I have a slight liking on. I think he is doing the same thing (putting eggs in different baskets) which appears really insincere to me. Thus I decided to let go.
I am not really a greedy girl. If he has to be my guy, he must be thinking of me all times and not certainly thinking of other people. You may call unreasonable but that's all gals are. If there is a slight unpleasantness I feel about him, it means that he can't be my guy at all.
So next time when this friend comes back and ask me out for a date, I think it is going to be a waste of time, I'll probably kindly reject him then. Because I really can't stand his emailing system... I can't really describe how "despicable" it is.. he actually "bcc" to his friends so none of his friends know who he is sending to, reminds me alot of my ex-boss's fishy doings.
I name it "despicable".
I also felt he msned me because his other friends were no online, I was the only person whom he could complain to like a "punch-bag".
Sometimes I really cannot understand what he is thinking of... or treating me as.
I guess the answers are clear and I've decided not to ponder over what he is thinking of now.
I've been using meebo.com recently. It is certainly a more useful online messaging, merging msn and yahoo messenger into 1 window. But the company's server's firewall is too strong to detect such a useful program and I find myself offline suddenly when receive messages from friends.
Ever heard of the story of "putting your eggs in different baskets" so you won't cry when you one of the baskets got crushed? You can do it in stocks and shares, properties and other non-living things but relationships... no no no... I have this friend whom I think I have a slight liking on. I think he is doing the same thing (putting eggs in different baskets) which appears really insincere to me. Thus I decided to let go.
I am not really a greedy girl. If he has to be my guy, he must be thinking of me all times and not certainly thinking of other people. You may call unreasonable but that's all gals are. If there is a slight unpleasantness I feel about him, it means that he can't be my guy at all.
So next time when this friend comes back and ask me out for a date, I think it is going to be a waste of time, I'll probably kindly reject him then. Because I really can't stand his emailing system... I can't really describe how "despicable" it is.. he actually "bcc" to his friends so none of his friends know who he is sending to, reminds me alot of my ex-boss's fishy doings.
I name it "despicable".
I also felt he msned me because his other friends were no online, I was the only person whom he could complain to like a "punch-bag".
Sometimes I really cannot understand what he is thinking of... or treating me as.
I guess the answers are clear and I've decided not to ponder over what he is thinking of now.
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