Photo of the Month

Caption: Molly

Photo : Daniel

Five year old piano genius, and she's blind

This is amazing. You all got to watch this. This little girl who is blind from birth plays the piano very well. Inspiring.

PM Lee on importance of experience

Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong unveiled his new cabinet lineup last Saturday. Today, the Straits Times published an interview with PM Lee and he went into some detail on his comments on the leadership renewal within government.

One of the points which I find particularly relevant to us in this environment where there are many scholars coming in is that we have to hone our skills and can develop our value based on our experience.

Extracted from the Straits Times:

"...You can come in with all the ability in the world but unless you have the background and that experience handling it, you won't have the feel and the understanding overnight. You need years to develop this."

Think different, think positive

Received this via email from a friend. Sharing with everyone the positive moral of the story.

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A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: 'I am blind, please help.' There were only a few coins in the hat.A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, 'Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?'The man said, 'I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.'What he had written was: 'Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.'

Be creative. Be innovative.

Think differently and positively.

Karaoke night

Joined my young colleagues (I am considered uncle-level amongst them) for a karaoke session. Before the song singing, we went for dinner. As it was on the way and we did not want to have fried and hence heaty fast food, we opted for japanese food at Wasabi Tei at Far East Plaza. The food was good and value for money as usual. The service was also, as it has always been, characteristically bad. The owner cum chef, although he looks japanese, his attitude is definitely not japanese. Before the sashimi came.

Me figuring how to use the remote control. It has been years since I stepped into a karaoke joint.

My young colleagues seemed impressed. haha

Mr Qu.
Mr Qu has strong jaws. Like Emil Chau. But not the singing ...keke

Miss Xie forgot to take off her glasses for the photo.
The uncle and the young colleague.

The BIG '4' for Ming

Our dear friend and colleague Ming celebrated his big 4 this week. Dinner was at the Red Dot Brewery at Dempsey. Food was good, booze (for those who drank) was quite good (I gathered) but service was super lousy. Anyway, the birthday party was happy and we were all happy for that for he is a good buddy.

The birthday day giving all he's got.

Proudly declaring his age!

Finally, a chance to go on stage.

I have never won any prizes or competitions in my life so oppotunities to come on stage to receive something is few and far in between. The last instance on stage was during convocation, some eight long years ago. Finally had a chance to go on stage and receive a letter from the big boss.

Shouting

Since the new office follows an open concept, it is not difficult to hear conversations between other colleagues if they happen to be near you. I myself have a tendency to speak loudly too especially over the phone.... but nothing beats the volume of my "neighbour"... some of you know who.... well, that doesn't matter.

But today, it was my first "encounter" when my this neighbour quarrelled with her "supervisor" over some work, at the discussion table nearby.... yes near my cubicle. I was on the phone with an external party when I heard SHOUTING from them. I AM NOT EXAGGERATING.. they were REALLY SHOUTING AT EACH OTHER, AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS. The noise got to a certain point that I have to stop my conversation and ask them to go to the room!!!!!!!!!!!! This is so embarrassing....

Open concept... this is what we all have to put up..... but i just hope people can be more considerate and aware.... I am not asking for whispering but some sense of control.

High up on the Singapore Flyer

Eager Smiles: Group photo before boarding the Flyer.

Booming Singapore? View of the IR in full construction.
Floating platform used for last year's NDP
Keong and me.
Pitlane building for Sep's F1
Lawrence and Keong
A goof view of the Sheares Bridge and eastern Singapore
Group photo at the top of the Flyer
Taking a photo with my boss.

Melvin and Boon Lin's wedding.

Finally, our dear friends BIG DAY has come. Best wishes to them.

This post and the many photos is for Wui Seng so he can see how his colleagues and friends look now!