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Oct 14, 2007 - So i started blogging.....Perhaps its fun...Haha....

It was pretty hectic yesterday.. Its 630am, nothing much happened today yet, so its about yesterday....

There has been 1 complaint at work from Japan, and it totally sucks (the situation, not Japan)....So the team here had to come up with a solution.
We have made more progress in 1 week then in the last 1 month, the case been handled by another guy...Thank goodness he went off for Eid-Il-Fitri celebrations leaving us to handle things ourselves....The lady taking up the task is doing a fantastic and marvellous job.
Only thing is we landed with a 7am teleconference on a holiday morning between ourselves, Japan & US. Gosh...7am! On a Saturday morning :( that sucks too!
Anyway, it went well, but there are still things to improve. I must have been having my eyes closed as the product & the process of making the product has degenerated into the state its in....
I think a total revamp of this thing needs to be done....

Well, then once that got done, I went off for breakfast with another colleague for Flat Home Made Noodles....Perhaps one day you'll get to see what that is...Hahaha.... :) Not like many people are interested to see it... :P or even this blogspot.....I am really laughing now....

Well, during breakfast, I started expounding on what i have been recently reading. There's this book by Jim Collins. Its called Good to Great and a really wonderful book. It has pointers on how to make a company move from good to great, but i think it also provides good pointers to get a team from good to great. In fact if the team's not good yet, then better be getting it to good. After all, a great company is made of many great teams.

I thought you've gotta have a sense of loyalty somewhere. What the heck...Some of my colleagues have decided to ostracize me. And to what end? Does it make sense to ostracize people especially those you work with? I think that's bad character, that is....Don't know where people pick up such attitudes. Well, sometimes you had better not ostracize your boss though, dunno how the boss will take it....Hahaha....There's this one engineer, i believe, hates my guts, so is getting everyone else corrupted.....Damage Control Time!!!

Once you have worked long enough to know your passion, and mine happens to be my work and my team (oooohh....i manage a team of engineers...i forget to write that), you'll realize that the work is the satisfaction and although the monetary reward is essential, it's not primary. So my heart's totally in it, and what happens? I find my engineers ostracizing me. But no matter....Jesus told us to forgive, so lets forgive. But I gotta set them on the straight road, ostracizing is not leadership character. And i gotta get some correction done, otherwise i can forget having lunch with some of them forever...hahaha...

Anyway, once breakfast was done, i went for some Guitar lessons. Thought i was already making good progress. But my guitar teacher thought that my strumming wasn't up to par as i couldn't change chords in timing with the beats well enough. So i got my homework cut out for me....Hahhaa.....

A real nice guy, my guitar teacher is....He is also my favourite squash partner.


Once dat was done, it was off to Borders...Its been so stressful the last week, i forgot to get a b'day present for my brother....I got him a b'day card but forgot the present...What a dumb a**.
Anyway, as i was scampering around, i saw my brother there too....hmmm.....I still got him a Birthday Gift Card of $50, so he can spend it for whatever books he wants....And i got myself another interesting book (i hope its interesting, its in the bestseller list)...True North by Bill George. You'll see a short review in 2-3 weeks. Hahaha...

I always look forward to home cooked food....My mom's the best. I like all her cooking, though she has experimented on some things and i thought they still tasted ok. But today's lunch was simple with portions of spinach and steamed chicken. There was vegetarian duck too....How do you get vegetarian duck? :P.....

Had a nice hike later in the evening. On the normal step trail, it takes me 16 mins up, but on the tarred road today it took me 24 mins. And on the way down the step trail, i met one of the church pastors. We had a nice chat, though at the end of it, he confessed he had forgotten my name...But that's fine...My chinese name ain't that easy to remember, but once i told him, he remembered the Mandarin version. Hahaha....Now, i have revealed my ethnicity :P

So i have some pointers to make.....Up the step trail and down the tarred trail. - Pastor.

Oh well, the rest of the day past pretty fast, with me ending up with a Quarter Pounder for dinner. Nothing much else happened except seeing me sitting in front of the tele watching Ueki anime. I think that's a pretty cool anime, makes us try to think what powers the different characters have. And as usual i fell asleep on the bed without turning of the power. Darn....

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