12 more hours before 2006 is history

12 more hours before 2006 will be history. The place to witness the passing of the year will be Vivocity. Spectacular waterfront view of the Sentosa harbour, will be a beautiful picture when the night stars fight complements with the brief bright colorful fireworks lights bursting overhead.

For me, 2006 is a year of pain, happiness, confusion and accomplishments. A year with many frustration at work which I realised now is caused by the wrong match of role which I attempted to take on. A year where my love life blossomed after many dry and empty years. A meaningful year because I have smile, laugh, worried and cried in it.

Is your year meaningful?

Eurythmics - 17 again

Targets for January 2007

For the month of Jan 2007, I target to

1. Exercise once a day to lose weight, either by swimming 10 laps or working out in the gym.
2. Blog one entry a day to improve my sentence construction.
3. Finish one chapter per book, at least 2 chapters per day.

:)

Internet down

I did not realised how being connected is so much part of my life until the Taiwan earthquake broke the undersea cables. According to the news report, repairs may take up to a few weeks. It is obvious the alternate routes are not coping well. Sites hosted outside Singapore are difficult to reach and not reliable. Browser response in displaying these pages are slow.

I wonders how much it will cost SingTel to repairs the undersea cables. I wonders if someone out there will start to plan and devise to lay more cables and any investors will trust him to build a viable business.

Rie Tanaka (Lacus Clyne) - Fields of hope

Lose weight to help my knees

This week, I wanted to lose 1 kg per week by swimming everyday. I suffered from knee cap injuries from my NS and losing weight will helps in taking out stress on them. However, the past week raining weather is not helping much. There is not even an one hour slot between the rains to go the swimming pool.

I did not choose running because of the impact on the knees during the run. Hence, that eliminated any activities that incur impact to the knees. Leaving swimming as the best way to work out.

I hope the weather in the coming weeks will allows me to accomplish my weight losing plan.

Industrial Espionage

After been to a few interviews, I realized some of the interviewers will attempt to seek confidential information from you. Informational that can be classified as industrial secret.

One asked me to revel the cost price of the projects I performed estimation with. The query came from a government official that should know that the cost price from my company is sensitive information. It was a gamble that failed.

Another asked to revel my last drawn salary. On reflection, I should answer only if he have the authority to perform salary negotiation. It will be a strategic mistake if I discover that he does not have the authority after I joined the company. To me, it will be an unfair advantage for him to know my personal salary.

So I am be careful. I now know that interviewers will attempt to perform commercial espionage and spying in the guise of checking your qualification. So any questions that does not relate to me and the position will be politely pointed out on the relevancy of the question to the post.

I'm No Angel - Dido

A brisk fas pace

With a loud metallic shriek, my chair was pushed back as I stood up. Confused with hurt, clouded with anger, neck full with frustration, I just wanted to be away from her. So I walked, a brisk fast pace, past the food stalls, down the escalator, into vivocity.......

The above was written about 2 years ago, safe in my list of draft until now. It is until today, I finally mastered the lesson from it. I am ashamed by my own action. Not in my defence, I did what I did mainly due to a dare that it is either me or she first doing what I did. Knowing her, she will not remember this dare nor ever acknowledges it.

Then, I thought I find my answer if I hunt ask for her feelings which she never truthfully shared. Then, never did I consider there a more sinister reason behind her reluctant to answer. Now, today, I understand why, for she had something to hide, a agenda that could not be shared with me. And it set the stage for the future events.

Even in a court of law, judges advises to infer negative implication for silence.

Written this down marks is a liberating move that helped me to craft out exactly what happened and who is the victim and villain.

And more importantly, to think of the other extreme when a close trusted person is reluctant to answer your questions, for it means the person knows the answer will do much damage.

And for me to remember not to do this to a friend. Always preferring to be as candour as possible as the friend can take it.