Due to the extremely slow connectivity I’ve been experiencing over the last few weeks, I’ve decided to suspend my blogging activity momentarily. I don’t know why but for some reason it takes me forever to even enter my blog, let alone publish it. I suspect it’s because of the ongoing cable links issue problem which I’ve heard will be rectified sometime this week. It sucks to have to do this...
Blogging suspended temporarily / Quick Update
One Giant Leap
This year has been quite an experience for me. I never would have thought that I would be involved in so many different things, some painful, some exhilarating, some pure adventurous. I’ve gone from coping with a loved one who was diagnosed with cancer and passed away as a result of it, to exploring a new hobby (photography); from jumping careers and landing in a job that is different from my...
Too much to write; too much to do
I have been on radio silence for quite sometime for a good reason. Yes it is indeed the holiday season and I was on leave for the entire last week. Despite the 1 week “holiday”, I have been pretty much busy being a tour guide and a driver to my relatives who have come down from Canada. In fact I have been quite busy for the whole of last week I didn’t even get time to do my own...
Of Weights and Gymming
“Seventeen…eighteeen” I clenched my teeth as I counted the number of times my biceps were flexing. I could feel the tension on both my biceps as I lifted those 10kg weights on each hand. Straight ahead was a wall-like mirror where I was observing my progress. “Twenty!” I exclaimed as I brought the weights back down. Yes, ladies and gentleman, like many of the typical...
Why Does “Management Crap” Happen? Part III
Pride is the mask of one own’s faults Jewish Proverb In my last entry, I mentioned that politics is one of the culprits behind management crap. Too often time politics get in the way, and we often see the “fruits” of it within a short period of time : unqualified executives warming the seats of important poisitions and making poor decision choices. Now as humans, granted one of...
