December 2007
11 posts
Back home
*clicks slippers three times*There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.
Onshore Luck
Inside joke that for every Christmas raffle in the company, it is the resources who are assigned onshore who gets a better chance of winning. I have been with the company for more than 4 years and I haven’t won anything. Until this year. Since I am onshore, Lady Luck must have been drunk since she smiled at my direction. I won a consolation price, a GC for an artistic franchise. There are...
Ayam who ayam...
Sometimes I cannot help being analytical which, tongue-in-cheek, means I am being anal most of those times. Its the drawback of having the following factors: being able to analyze trivial things, having a twisted sense of humor, and lack of necessary tact. Nobody is perfect, but some are more imperfect than others. :) ciao!
“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.”
– Max DePree, in The Art of Leadership
State of mind
Everything is a state of mind. Happiness, sadness, anger, love. These can be controlled, or if not at least channeled. Some can even suppress them but that can be dangerous in the long run. My state of mind is not perfect. I can still feel, but I can mask and to some degree dissipate the feelings through rationalization and passiveness. There would be times wherein feelings can overcome the...
Menu
Some of the stuff we ate last night.. Appetizer: Fish balls . Barbequed pork strips in thin skewers. Spring roll dipped in a spicy sauce Soup: Seafood stock with basil and other herbs with two drops of chili oil. Chicken and seafood in green curry with fried beets on the side. Together with scallops with herbs and orchid petals. Braised pork in fresh pumpkin brulee. Pad thai missing the main...
“It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well...”
– Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford
“When will the hurting stop?”
– Caveman Bill (“Eek the Cat: The Terrible ThunderLizards”)
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to...”
– Peter Drucker (filched from iGoogle QotD)
I will not be intimidated.
I just received an email with all the top-dogs in the recipient list. Am I working for an organization that will resort to intimidation to get things done? Reality check, intimidation does not work for me if I have done nothing wrong. It only pisses me off but at the same time I find it funny in some way. I think I should transfer to a kindergarten school. :P
Head hurts like h3ll. Aspirin not yet working. *arggghhhh*