Life Bits

I cannot last remember when i went back to participate in UOC activities, but it must have been at least 4-5 years back. This year, i decided to go back and help out a bit since i do not have the burden of night conference calls which i used to have the last few years, i am keeping in touch regularly again with my juniors, and i got friends who are joining this year orientation camp.

S Group has a recce in LCK cemetry for the traditional “Sgroup pre-camp initiation”. Woh, when i was a freshie, we did it in tutorial rooms. And it scared the hell out of me. haha. When i first turned a senior, we continue to do it in tutorial rooms, and we scared the hell out of others. I cannot remember which year onwards our SGroup descendants daringly go to the cemetry. Arranging their own transport and their own manpower, it sure isnt easy.

I aint going to pour cold water over their ideas, eventually is still THEIR camp now. But this is the first time i go into a cemetry.. and i alerady feel my hair all standing up le….

This comes priority over the rest for this year.

I love Drive Thrus, not only Mac Drive Thrus but every drive thrus that you can find. In Singapore , i think only Macdonald has it. But when i was in the US for business or holidays, i always make use of them. Every Fast Food restaurant you can find there has one ( unless they are within the malls ) , Starbucks has it too , and even pharmacies.

I love it because i do not have to park the car to get what i want. I love it because you do not have to stand up to queue and think what you should do while waiting. I love it simply it is convienient.

Lets have more drive thrus in Singapore. * the nearest one to me now is the Mac at the Sengkang Sports Complex, if there is one starbucks there , i will surely go and buy a grande Mocha with no whip every morning! *

Home made Chicken and Egg salad with Japanese Dressing. Mrs chan say is nice!

你开着一辆车。
在一个暴风雨的晚上。
你经过一个车站。
有三个人正在焦急的等公共汽车。
一个是快要临死的老人，他需要马上去医院。
一个是医生，他曾救过你的命，你做梦都想报答他。
还有一个女人/男人，她/他是你做梦都想嫁/娶的人，也许错过就没有了。
但你的车只能在坐下一个人，你会如何选择？
我不知道这是不是一个对你性格的测试, 因为每一个回答都有他自己的原因。
老人快要死了，你首先应该先救他。
你也想让那个医生上车，因为他救过你，这是个好机会报答他。
还有就是你的梦中情人。错过了这个机会。你可能永远不能遇到一个让
你这么心动的人了。

在200个应征者中，只有一个人被雇佣了，他并没有解释他的理由，他只是说了以下的话：

‘给医生车钥匙，让他带着老人去医院，而我则留下来陪我的梦中情人一起等公车!’
每个人都认为以上的回答是最好的，但没有一个人一开始就想到。

小哲理：
是否是因为我们从未想过要放弃我们手中已经拥有的优势（车钥匙）? 有时，如果我们能放弃一些我们的固执，狭隘，和一些优势的话，我们可能会得到更多。

All the people going to the libarary need to hv their details scanned in case they need to be contavcted if swine flu is detected. Seems like this is getting nearer and nearer to us. There is a site that gives up to dates on the areas that are infected. You can find it here . http://www.swineflu.sg/

They even have a map that shows which area is already affected. This is the current outlook

What will you do if you have to be self quarantined for a week at home as part of being socially responsible ? Well if it is me, quaranting at home isnt really a bad thing since

1. I can work from home to get my work done.

2. I can finished up all my tvb series which i have been lacking behind the past few weeks due to Mrs Chan late working schedule ( i usually wait for her to watch the shows unless i cannot resist the temptation )

3. Play my Healmemoto . There are a lot of achievement titles i wanted to get but i didnt have time to do it

4. Finished my books. I am reading the Last Lecture. I still have 2 books in my shelves i havent find time to read ( Both by Sophie Kinsella )

5. Study for my PMP exam. The exam probably going to be in July. Time to get back into the study mood.

6. Work on my business plan. I havent start penning down those thoughts,but self quarantine means i can work on it

Staying at home probably means i need to cook myself or keep callling Macdonald for my meals. Also that will mean i got to think of other ways to continue my AHM training. Maybe round around the house. Haha.

- Video Recording! -> this will be moderate useful for me. I dont do a lot of video recording , but if there is one available and i need it , it will come in handy. And it allows direct upload to youtube which is a cool feature especially when you want to share it immedately after you have recorded it.

Faster camera startup and image capturing -> Should be useful. Anything fast is good.

Home screen widgets And Live folders -> probably gimmicks and depends on what apps are written for it.

Copy & Paster within the browser -> Never really notice that 1.1 doesnt have this. I guessed i havent found the use for it yet. Haha.

Specific Date & Time stamp in call log – ANOTHER Thank God improvement

Someone posted the following 21km route starting from sengkang to the zoo. Looks like something i can try out. Only thing is , halfway through i want to stop , what should i do ? Maybe i should bring my EZlink card along!

Five things we need to know about Swine Flu

1. It is worst than Sars.
2. It is believed to be originated from Mexico
3. One in three victimes does not show any symptoms.
4. The flu is most contagiuos 24 hours before any signs surface
5. The virus is discharged through saliva, nasal secretions and faeces.

Time for everyone to be socially responsible..

Hi KE,

With regards to our phone conversation earlier this morning, thank you for arranging the change of classroom for today. Room 10 is much much better in terms of environment and furniture compared to Room 11. please continue to arrange Room 10 for our lessons for the remaining 3 weeks.

There are a few incidents which I hope you can work with your team next week because it has given us some very bad impressions on New Horizons

A. Jack Ooi
Being the sales consultant, i would expect Jack to faciliate us even after we “signed” the deal. it has been very disappointing. Jack fits the image of a “insurance agent” who just want to clinch the deal and forget about everything after that. On April 18th, i requested your front desk to contact Jack ( i was told he is out of Town ) anytime during the week to help us make arrangement for a change of class room. To date, i have not heard a single response from him. Jack is forever missing, maybe he is SO BUSY with his clients that I am not too sure. Considering we have signed education courses with New Horizons for about 30 students on an average of 2 courses each , I would expect at least some post-sales follow up. It could be your operations manager. Whichever the case, we are left stranded on our own figuring out what we should do when we are stuck with problems on the facilities.

B. Classroom facilities
Room 11 is not siutable to be a classroom for textbook teaching based on the following reasons
1. The table space is occupied by the CRT monitor and the keyboard and leaves very little space for the file and textbook that we are supposed to use for the lessons

2. The hydraulic chairs are creaking whenever you moved or lean back. This causes everyone to be focusing more on their sitting position rather than the class because the creaking noise is really very distracting to others. Some of the chairs seems like they have been around since 1980 if you look at the condition and the stains on it.

3. Because of the CRT monitors, students sitting at the back of the class has portion of their views blocked. The best way is to stick their neck up high or peak in between 2 CRT monitors.

C. Course Materials
We just got to know the course materials have a few chapters missing. Is this part of Sales Consultant Job Scope or Operations Consultant? Jeffrey Loo promised to fill in the missing parts to us by email today. I have yet to checked.

D. Receptionist on Duty April 25th.
When i got to find out that the classroom this morning is going to be Room 11, i was a little bit annoyed and requested your front desk for assistance. I find a few reasons she give me a little too hard to believe. This is what she has mentioned

1. I was not here last week , i am not sure who follow up with you. ( Am i supposed to remember everyone in the education organisation ? )

2. We dont have name cards of our sales consultants. ( I requested for Jack and Tracy name card, i was told there isnt any name cards on the front desk. I find it surprising. How do you handle walk in sales in that case? )

3. I couldnt get Tracy on the phone . ( But 30 seconds after she tried , i asked for the number and i got her the first time immediately )

All in all, it is a very bad experience. We are seriously considering if we should proceed with ITIL with new horizons or engage another Education provider. Jeffrey Loo is a terrific instructor , if the facilities and your service staff can treat us like REAL customers , I think the overall experience with New Horizon will be an enjoyable one for everyone. We are really expecting better facilitation considering New Horizons is a Nasdaq listed company, has 300 locations in 60 countries and is a world leader in computer training.

This email is sent by me but at least 15 out of the 19 people have the same thoughts.
I await for your response .

Regards,
Andy Chan
A dissatisfied PMP Student