Saying no has been a resolution of mine that I still feel bad doing. Yet, this ability frees people up and allows the requestor to look for alternatives. In fact, I think I should say No more often, for any of the following reasons: 1. I don’t know the requestor well 2. I don’t know…
Just got back from a work trip and learned many things that were mainly ‘soft skills’ that cannot be taught in school or textbooks. You come to realise that being a technical expert or specialist may be the baseline, but on top of this, other aspects come into play when discussing issues at international or…
My grandfather, Peter ES Tan, passed away sometime in the morning of Friday, 10 September 2010, surrounded by loved ones. He was just over a month short of his 84th birthday, and we will miss him dearly. As the oldest grandchild, I probably had the most exposure with Ah Kong, as we called him. Love…
I have always been amused at how misleading the word ‘[Minutes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minutes)’ is. After all, good Minutes usually take hours to write, if not days.
It has been a hectic month. You can tell from the number of recent posts (i.e. very few) on this blog. But today, something happened and it made all the effort worth it. A few weeks after a ‘project’ was over, I received news that a letter of commendation had been sent, from one overseas…
Ron, my boyfriend, booked tickets to watch the closing ceremony of the Youth Olympics. He went to the counter and mentioned he wanted to collect the tickets he booked for the “Youth Olympics”. The girl at the counter looked at him, initially in bafflement, then said, “YOG?” Singaporeans have a habit of turning many things…
Two things may change in the near future: 1. How this blog is run. Despite my many years of patronage I am seriously contemplating leaving Movable Type for WordPress. The biggest effort would be setting aside time to make the switch and clearing out the thousands of static pages published since this blog was born….
I’m rethinking how I want to live my life. Who i give my time to. What I will work for. Perhaps this holiday will help clear my mind. In a way it is the first real holiday with the same people I befriended before we set out on our respective career paths. It is like…
This month has been so crazy that even thinking of what to blog about has become a chore. I am preparing for events both for work and family, while also endeavoring to apply whatever ‘strategic planning’ I’ve learned on the job, to my own life. This month I learned: How people at the top cover…
My mum, sis and I had lunch at Magma, the German restaurant. While we were deciding what to eat, my mother looked around and commented that this would be a nice place to bring the Tan clan. We asked how many tables the restaurant could seat, and noted that it could accommodate all 30 of…