HALF TIME

Ok, so its July, time check. Its half time!!

For corporate people, this is the time for a Mid year check up on their staff performance. Adjust, recover, start/stop doing something, recalibrate. All while keeping an eye of the goal set at the beginning of the year.

Many people simply goes on the ride without making changes. Some chose to live and say 'its beyond my control anyway'. Others who desire results and achievements in their life, seriously think and consider pruning an area that does not produce fruit and tossing a fertilizer onto one which needs growth - all to keep the organism alive..

After all, life is dynamic, an organism, always breathing, ever changing. The worst thing one can do is just to 'coast along'. Honestly, part of me wants to simply do it! But then I remember one of my early childhood heros (Gabriel Quemado), he said 'to go against the current (of life) takes more effort. Simply going along is the easiest - it doesnt even require any effort!"..

Time check folks! Lets all finish strong!

Lost ATM

These events are the rate events that define a persons routine existence in this country.

A country so bent on keeping order. A country repulsive of major upheavals and change.

Boring in this country is good. Robots not people is whats being minted. An army of good followers. Follow without reasoning. Without thinking.

Micro vs Macro managing

WISDOM from the FRONT:

Know when to go high, and when to go low. Meaning: 

1. Be high when you know youve been there, seen enough details and trusted your instincts

2. Be low when youve not encountered the issue or not having enough details to make a decision.

From our beloved CEO.

K

INVEST not just INVENT!

Why do inventors go broke and investors get rich?!

June long weekend

How did one spend his long weekend?

Saturday: june 24 family bfast at Ikea.

• good breakfast at ikea with the boys
• drive to the city to hunt for stroller for rory and jalan jalan as well
• capping the afternoon by studying his word and rest.
• brought Rory to ktph for dinner.

Sunday: wifeys day out: june 25

• early day and takeaway breakfast with the boys at starbucks.
• church!
• late lunch with rory alone at greenwich
• spend time with a church friend from 5-8 having early dinner of noodles, coffee and brownies at cedele greenwich YCK.

Monday: june 26 family time 

• great 20Km, 1.25 hour bike ride with wifey and a prata bread to break the exercise.
• awesome late bfast with kids at Toastbox 313 then shop at muji
• Sleep, read and rest for a hitting the road again 
• cycled to buy a bike part only to be dismayed the part did not solve the problem
• ended early dinner at ktph

 

 

My trigger points

Everytime I watch or hear or experience something, theres always that something in me that wants to improve.

 Heres what I meant:

1. After coming out of a short business travel, I come home, reflect and observed that I want to apply a certain improvement idea to what Ive seen. 

2. Be it a better designed luggage bag. 

3. A better designed earphone jack.

4. A better designed hotel table and carpentry works

5. A better designed cloths design series

6. Maybe even a better designed business shoes!

Is this the harbinger of my entrepreneural ways??? Or am I simply a keen observer to the world, and my engineer and creative arts training is clashing on my subconcious-waging a war and always constantly looking who will prevail in battle!

I even thought of ways how to improve the reporting of a certain news clip over say BBC or fox haha! 

May Day

May is an unusual month for me. Here's what happened.

After a marathon business meeting in taiwan, came home to catch my sons bday. Since its a loong holiday, I hadnt plan to rest after my trip. So what happened? Arriving friday, I had to rush and spend time with the kids on saturday and drive around town. Sunday is spent crossing the border, driving for 5 hr just to get a good massage!

And lo and behold, on the monday of May 1st, warning bells began to ring. I had elevated BP, felt nauseated and sweating like crazy. I thought I could no longer finish the golf game long planned.

Decided to go home, have a 3 day rest, and at the same time get my wife to do xray and found out about her gallstone problem!

What a time!!! 

 

    

Parents in town

And off the went. They left as fast as they came. Or

So I thought.

In the busyness of my world, I can at least say Ive had the chance to get them to -

1. Visit apples first flagship store in singapore

2. Had to joyride and look for house designs

3. Breakfast of kaya toast

4. Dinner over prata indian food and beehoon!

5. Dinner over vietnamese food!

6. Malling with my sons GF

7. Furniture hunt in ikea and furniture supermall

From the looks of it, seems like the enjoy it to the hilt!

 

    

Perils of travel

Medical issue of my wife and me.

Launch of project at my hometown

Major meetings with the global team

Military graduation of my son

Golf game 

PR application of my son

LTVP renewal of my son

As a result

My road tax payment was delayed

Insurance got delayed

Vehicle inspection delayed

Whats on my mind

Well today is one of those days...

Just had a major project launched at the workplace. Now after all the fanfare Im back down the hill again...

Made time with my loved ones:

• - my older boy is travelling for military assign
• - my middel boy is busy with school related works
• - my youngest : poor him, watching and playing all day long indoors with his mom busy playing pokemon! Pathetic!

The worst part: so many uncertainties in my workplace. And this impacts how my life will revolve in the years to come..

My beloved boss is leaving!!

Why is it that of all the people leaving my company it is the good ones that go!