This year's Christmas has been unusually eventful for me. I have all my lunches and dinners filled up from 22nd to X'mas day. Its the first time I had bought so many presents for people and in turn received quite a few as well.
Maybe I might have started to understand the true spirit of giving. Giving is not just about buying something within the stated budget of the party and throw it into the lot for a "lucky draw". The joy of Giving is in fact... the process of finding a gift that you think your intended recipient would need or would be happy to receive and to see the real joy and/or appreciation in their face when they open up the gift.
Then again.. finding THE gift is not that easy...
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Reviews! Reviews!
Yup! Its performance review season again... to be exact, its mid-year review where everyone take stock on how they are on their performance they committed to their boss at the start of the work year.
Not surprisingly mine is pretty off....
No excuses.. but priorities do change with the business climate. What was important early this year now becomes....well... not so important... It will be kind of a lousy feeling when your boss sits down with you for a 1-on-1 and review through the scorecard. Can you say "Boss, your priorities changed and the focus were not what we set out to be?" without giving him or her the wrong idea that you meant he or she has not been ernestly following the objectives set out earlier in the year?? Can you blame the boss for that? If not... then the boss cannot blame you too... right?
Goal setting has been around since day 1 of my working life, but I have yet to see the flexibility of really changing goals when the business priorities changes.... well.. the actual work changed but on paper, the commitment remains as the old one... and by year end, you are stuck with what to fill in on this and that.. and how come other stuff that came along the way were not "measured"???
Should I take it up and challenge or just sit in a corner and suck thumb? I don't know yet....
Not surprisingly mine is pretty off....
No excuses.. but priorities do change with the business climate. What was important early this year now becomes....well... not so important... It will be kind of a lousy feeling when your boss sits down with you for a 1-on-1 and review through the scorecard. Can you say "Boss, your priorities changed and the focus were not what we set out to be?" without giving him or her the wrong idea that you meant he or she has not been ernestly following the objectives set out earlier in the year?? Can you blame the boss for that? If not... then the boss cannot blame you too... right?
Goal setting has been around since day 1 of my working life, but I have yet to see the flexibility of really changing goals when the business priorities changes.... well.. the actual work changed but on paper, the commitment remains as the old one... and by year end, you are stuck with what to fill in on this and that.. and how come other stuff that came along the way were not "measured"???
Should I take it up and challenge or just sit in a corner and suck thumb? I don't know yet....
Monday, May 26, 2008
A brush with Death....
Yea Yea... I might be over exaggerating but last night was pretty bad...
For those who know me.. I have a little medical history and I rely very much on a medicine that will keep me from harms way... well.. that is until last night... I nearly went into overdose and its not WORKING!! So finally I got out of bed and hit the road to the nearby private hospital ALONE...
Upon reaching there.. I was no. 3 and apparently no. 1 has been waiting for quite awhile as the doc was most likely doing his rounds... I hope.... When the doc arrive... no 1 went in follow by no 2... and its within minutes that I reached my turn...
My consultation took only ... say... 3 minutes tops? the young doc has absolute no sense of empathy for his patients.. we were like, to describe at best, part of his production line. And guess what... that 3 minute consultation costs $70!!! and thats before the treatment and meds i got from the duty nurse later....
Kind of pissed by such a attitude ... education system gone wrong again??? I wonder.....
For those who know me.. I have a little medical history and I rely very much on a medicine that will keep me from harms way... well.. that is until last night... I nearly went into overdose and its not WORKING!! So finally I got out of bed and hit the road to the nearby private hospital ALONE...
Upon reaching there.. I was no. 3 and apparently no. 1 has been waiting for quite awhile as the doc was most likely doing his rounds... I hope.... When the doc arrive... no 1 went in follow by no 2... and its within minutes that I reached my turn...
My consultation took only ... say... 3 minutes tops? the young doc has absolute no sense of empathy for his patients.. we were like, to describe at best, part of his production line. And guess what... that 3 minute consultation costs $70!!! and thats before the treatment and meds i got from the duty nurse later....
Kind of pissed by such a attitude ... education system gone wrong again??? I wonder.....
Monday, May 19, 2008
A Little Part of History - Memory of 512
I was part of the world's history today by participating in the 3 mins of silence for the earthquake victims in SiChuan. The sense of belonging lingers........
At the Bund.. got to witness the people's march to cheer the country on.... weird thing is that I feel the teenies are taking it like a game... kind of weird... alternate side to the tears and solemn-ness of mourning.... to cheer everyone in the country on...
At the Bund.. got to witness the people's march to cheer the country on.... weird thing is that I feel the teenies are taking it like a game... kind of weird... alternate side to the tears and solemn-ness of mourning.... to cheer everyone in the country on...
Friday, May 2, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Courage
A friend shared this with me today.....
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Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you,
you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising,
which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to the end,
requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them.
_____________
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you,
you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising,
which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to the end,
requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them.
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