Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Christmas

I got up!
Made two personalised items for Jp and my dear teacher-- Ce Xiang. Yeah, considered to be Christmas presents. It looked quite nice, too bad i didn't have time to take a picture of that.

I have English tuition after that.
Ended at about 12 noon and out family went to the STAR WAR exhibition at science centre.

rush home and made a great christmas meal for mummy. FIRST TIME. It seems so cool. She was very happy.

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Hi! Haven't been blogging for quite some time. My Dad just said that it is not safe to write my diary on the net, he just had this terrible experiences that the server will be down and everything will be gone. Well, I never thought of that. Will blogspot.com ever shut down? If yes, it would be nightmare to most.

Christmas time was fun.

Christmas Eve -- Went out with some primary schools mates and end up trapped in Orchard Road. We see Singapore snowed for the first time in my life. Everywhere was a chaos. Herlina just went crazy and said that she couldn't even smile. Haha. Before that, we went all the way to Marina Bay for steamboat dinner. My whole shirt smelled like charcoal after that. The whole place were 'flooded' with steam. =)

P.S. and Guo Hong just refused to gel the hair for Gerald in front of us. They argued over the topic for almost half an hour. So, I just took a pic with them.




This is a precious photo that few can actually capture it.
Tsung Wei and Spencer together. Questionable? Anyway, Tsung Wei still think I am a guy. Arr...




TO be continued... ...
Yeah, we went to Marina Bay to have steam boat after that. YT went to meet his eight other goddness. When we left it was quite late. We set off to somerset and walked to Orchard. Everything was in a chaos. We can only squeeze our way through. Policemen were attacked with forms that is supposed to look like snow. We were attacked too. Herlina screamed in silence. I laughed. Kang Yong says that Singaporean are mad. The two other guys--- are they enjoying it? I don't know.

It was also the first time I need to line up to get into a MRT station. Horrible!!!!
The others went to the park for count down and I went home. Mummy slept and Daddy rushed out to show me the SHHHH sign. =)

See the squid!! CUTE!!!

Monday, December 19, 2005

Great Leaders.

Hope we can all learn something from this =)

Teaching, Inspiring and Motivating Leaders

Apply Pressure

There are two kinds of pressure: The kind you feel and the kind you
apply.

John Fox

A very successful colleague of mine commented the other day that,
although his mother and father both had high blood pressure, he did
not. He said he has always wondered why he had not inherited it.
Another colleague quickly responded that it was because he was a "high
blood pressure carrier." "You'll never develop high blood pressure
because you
are so busy giving it to others," he said. Indeed much of my
colleague's tremendous success over his many years of law practice has
been due to his ability to apply so much pressure to those around him,
that he doesn't feel pressured himself.

Great leaders are masters of applying pressure and not feeling
affected by it. They always seem to be one step ahead of others. They
anticipate where things are moving and get there before the
competition. They spend much more time creating change than they do
reacting to it. They give
subordinates plenty of challenging assignments rather than waiting for
them to ask for work. They understand that the best defense is a
strong offense and attack difficulties before they grow out of
control.

Do you feel more pressure than you apply? Are you leading change and
innovation or constantly reacting to the changes and innovation of
others? What could you do differently in your daily schedule to begin
applying pressure and not feeling affected by it?

Plan, prepare and execute your daily plan this week in a way that
enables you to begin spending more time initiating action rather than
reacting to the actions of others. Anticipate where things are going
and work smarter each day to get there before the competition. Begin
applying more pressure while not letting pressure affect you.


Hmm. Things are here for me to learn. A 17 going on 18 little girl. Yan Yan =)

Thursday, December 15, 2005

NCO camp 2005

NCO camp 2005


Loads of things happened after my take over as a corp officer. Things weren't that smooth that I thought it could be. I have learnt and realised quite a lot of things. Conflict among humans, management, and the will power to withstand anger, unfairness and authority.

The waves occurred last week have finally been settled. A little encouragement from Mervyn really does make me happy.

Followed on will the NCO camp 2005 on the 8th of December.
It was memorable! Not to say very happy but the elements of fun, joy, sadness, anger, tiredness and sometimes loniness have made it all so complete.

First day --- it was supposed to be the preparation of the campsite and all the admin stuffs. Well, I was the assisstant admin and was really 'lucky' that it was to be in charge of all the typing, papers and money. No fun at all. Yet, I enjoyed the part where me, Aveline, Wei Lun and Choon Yuan were working together pasting newspaper on the window. That was entertaining! See how bored I am that day.
Later, me and the two guys sat down with the instructors and talked craps. Stuffs about cadets, rich kids and religions. Hmmm.
Sir Angus told me to go out to buy dinner so off i went with a pile of money in my back pocket. I found some joy with the cats on the way and back at the campus. Wei Lun was playing with one of the kittens and when we put him back into the bushes, it just followed him back. Haha. That was cute.

Second day --- boring day. Cadets falling in for first parade and it started raining. I was in charge of carrying all their valuables and sorting out of the admin stuffs and consficated items. Didn't really know what happen after that. Cadets have their lectures and stuffs. Oh yeah... I went for bunk check, this time I was not so strict, just dig out their bags and scolded one and two of them.

SUPPER TIME


Third day --- it was hiking at Pulau Ubin. I didn't go for the hike. I was put as the over- all in charge back in Bedok View. WOW! The school was mine with two others and casualties. I slept for a while, played cards with choon yuan, typed out the minutes for the previous meeting and went out to buy lunch. After lunch, I actually talked rubbish with the cadets and taught them how to make a double star using a rubber band. Amazed they were. Me too! >< At night, I got a chance to move out of the campus in the ambulance. I was told to accompany Siang Yee home. She was sick obviously. That night, I even found out that Sir Angus was my senior of Bedok South Primary. Haha. He was the 1991 badge if I did not remember wrongly. We have meeting until 2 sth midnight after that.

Fourth day --- the most unforgettable moment of my life.
It was my brother's birthday. I booked at around 0920 and went back home for GP tuition. After that me and family went to LONG BENCH to have seafood. GOOD FOOD! Chilli crabs, salad prawns, fish, plus plus plus... I love it.
Went back to campus at around two sth. They were having their team building games.
It was the best part of the whole camp. They need to satisfy us in order to get ROAR CARDS! ROAR CARDS... it makes me high... (those who know me know how horrible i can get) I make the cadets scream, shout and dance. They got entertained as well as me too. SUPERB. i love the centaur group. they were the best. =)

That night was campfire night. And I am the MC of the day. WOW... the campfire rocks because I am in there. But silly me has made a very silly mistake that ruined up my whole emotion. I have mixed up the camp commander and chairman. Sirs and mdms were sort of frustrated. It made me sad. I cried. Though they praised me later for my job well done. I think it was great, I meant real great besides that terrible mistake. A pat on my own shoulder. It has been my first and very best campfire.

Many people cried that day. Mdm Pei Pei got so miserable when Christina told her that she was going to quit. Regina cried beacuse she was too stressed up.
I have meeting till 0300 sth midnight.
I was the DO (duty officer) the next day. I got to plan my timetable. Together with Sir Han Wee, we walked around the whole school -- planning the area cleaning programme next day (that day). Slept at around 0445 and woke up at 0515.
It was the first time I have so little sleep. Terrible.

Asked cadets to fall in the morning and all I remember was that I kept scolding and scolding. I think the course IC of the day was quite stressed up too. haha. The cadets owned about 350 jumping jacks and I have managed to clear 90 that morning. Success.

Everything went smoothly after that. =) Wee...
At least, I was not blur. =)
Break camp! We wrote autographs for eachother.



Me as an officer. Too much of a reponsibility. I might be getting tired but I know that you guys are there to boost me on =)

Monday, December 05, 2005

A real world is a messed up place - maybe i am just experiencing the glimpse of it

A real world is a messed up place - maybe i am just experiencing the glimpse of it

St. John is a messed up place. I am pissed now. Very pissed.
I have planned to scold all of you and here you are giving me more reasons to do so.
One time. Second time. And here is it the third time.
I just think it is funny.
Who on Earth will one inform the (in-charge of the meeting) last on the list?
This is horrible, what if I am not free?

I maybe a goat. Too kind-hearted for some reasons. Yeah. But I am an unhappy goat lately. Thanks to them.
I have gone to NCO course, wasting half of my time.
Then back in my corp, things are just not going straight.
I have been reprimanding them every time I go back.
It is not me. I am going a bit nuts on this shit.
A challenge for me huh?! Well, I am going to accept this challenge.
Me- Corp office in charge. I am not going to see it ruin out. At least, not now.

I am not supposed to thinking about this stuffs. Yet, it is just pouring over me.
Maybe I shall not think too much as Mervyn has said.

My junior just called me at 9 sth to inform me about the change.
Yesterday I was just having some emotional ups and downs due to some Benjamin's theory.

Things are all messed up.
Nothing is right. This is not okay.
Or is it that bad?

Well, I have thought of a good idea. Giving BB a name. A very professional name. One problem solved. Here comes another. Pissed.

But maybe, that's what life is all about.

It's an experience. A true experience.