clash of values and opinions ::

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fri aftter noon u free to meet iguana?
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friday, should be free i guess.
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afternoon.
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ok i might be taking leave
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if you're taking leave..then you go ba.
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ic ok
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cos after the schmuuz thing. i don't really want to get involved with uberture stuff anymore.
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har y?
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yur father business is it?
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yah, its getting busy. just managing the suppliers alone is getting hectic and I realise can be branched out into many sections.. and art was my first love.
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ok i understand
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but still need your technical help la
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maybe our events and stuff u dun need to be involve
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hahaha.. and other various reasons like those i told you that time. the company's philosophy and my values.. not that i have erm super morally good values, but just that uberture's priority/values and my priorities/values are different I guess.
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help, sure.. i will help.. after all, are friends.
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i guess that's fundamentally that's bothering me and ya gong and jewel..
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how come?
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ya gong and jewel?
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yah.. that's why they decided not to help out as often as before.
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icic
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i'll tell gab. after the whole schmuuz thingy.
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ok
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or u want me to tell him?
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but if u are gone im all alone...
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not because im leaving because the company not making money lah..but evidently there's a clash of values. and of course, if i'll return the money for my monitor and harddisk. cos really, after all, it belongs to company.
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i'll tell him myself ba.. only right that i'll do that..
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don't worry...you'll always be my favourite kunye~~!!!!
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^^v
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whats this "clash of values"
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don't worry....Im sure you'll get someone else...plenty of people want to come in to help out in uberture.
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its a promising startup[.
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realy.
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i see a lot of potential in uberture.
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clash of values.. use of manpower, direction, interest, opinions.
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i think we need to understand this problem if not getting new pple in is not the solution....sooner or later the person will go
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its like a couple.. who shares different ideals..eventually they'll part.
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icic
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i desire a company built on God's grace and strength. may sound stodgey which is able to motivate me do what i need to do and do without indignance.
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icic i understand

room for improvement? ::

i think i need to brush up on my letter writing skills. apparently, my email to supplier was rephrased and sent. upon reading the letter a few times, i think i'd really lost touch with writing properly. which is totally bad news. cos i give english tuition! :P zao gao.. hope my student don't see this. hahaa..

video recording ::

hahaa, helped out in a video recording yesterday. felt really weird to be referred as a talent. /me looks at my wushu skills. its erm, non existent. i can't jump properly, do stunts. haiz.. if my seniors had not bang sae-d me, probably wouldn't do it man. all the way was worried i'll jeopardize mr nardo's grades. its really scary having to face 3 cameras.

but it was quite a interesting experience. realised the mc had more takes than me. and i didn't have a proper rehearsal and all the while i was actually feeling quite lost, forgot my lines and did everything rather impromptu. wheeew, i survived it. hahaha..

my goodness.. tp is so vibrant and they have a lot of pretty girls there.. is the air in the east of our tiny island better? their skin is like almost incredible. ö

get my act together!!!! ::

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my new mousey ::

drastic stuff happened at home yesterday. my bro declared that he wanted to stop studying and go and work. i told him straight in the face that's a foolish decision, given that he'll only have o levels to rely on. then gave him a really pessimistic outlook on the society and working world today. which is very true. every bit of it i'm seen in my short stint at work and interviews and papers. i hope the pool factor will not cause him to lose interest in his studies and he had since decided to change his course in school. mom said he's really into pool these days and he's 'gong tao-ed' about it. i quite agree. although i really don't wish to stifle his passion for it... he's good at it. but my family believes that he should at least get a foundational diploma to fall back on. i told him flatly that he should get a course he really has passion in it. hope things will go well for him.

same thing goes for my cousin too. yes, companies are looking for poly graduates now. but hey, in the long run, this is tried, tested and proven [for the longest time], uni graduates are going to earn more and live a better lifestyle. so please don't say that degrees don't matter. people don't pay a fortune to upgrade themselves and get retrenched. degrees don't matter ONLY if you have an entreprenuer mindset and are willing to fight tooth and nail to get into business AND not giving up to a salaried job. ELSE, you better get a degree.

by the way, i bought a new mouse. life is so much better.

yaya papaya ::

my bro commented that im a yaya papaya that day. hey. im quite piqued at that idea. although i know i can be a bit over confident of myself in certain aspects, but erm.. well i guess over all its not a very good trait to have. maybe towards my siblings and people im close to, i tend to show more of my bad bits but hey.. these are people close to me you know.. i show every bit of emotional self.

perhaps im just being insecure. being arrogant to justify myself. perhaps. argh. shall stop justifying myself.

look ma, no mouse! ::

its amazing.. this entry is navigated and typed without a help of a mouse. my mouse just bang sae me today. bad mouse! i'll get a cat to eat you up sooner or later.. *humph*

Troy in Singapore ::

got this from bernardosan's blog written by burbur, someone from one of the forum i used to frequent. hahaa.. very funny..quite a bit of expletives though. :P

stretch ::

erm, i don't mean the wushu stretch.. but this time, its the married one's stretch marks.. my goodness. being pregnant is really not easy. it looks like an alien's claw. :P *sweatdrop* i salute her for the courage. not that im selfish and didn't want any kids or whatever, but it looks really painful? what do you want me to say anyway? one look and i feel pain for her already.. and she's not even in labour yet.

married one's husband scolded her for showing yagong, babe, jewel and me her stretch marks. haha.. he said next time we'll be afraid of having kids. erm.. even though, its not exactly his area of governace whether or not, we'll have kids , but we were indeed shocked by it.

stretch marks you know, are probably genetic. so i asked my mom whether did she have any during her pregancy. she was happy to proclaim that even the doctor said she's got the smoothest and whitest tummy ever. im still not convinced you know, though my mom got anyway without any stretch marks.. so i asked her whether she knows my aunts on my father's side.. did they have any stretch marks.. call me kiasi but really what.. you'd never seen, so you never know.. *horror music*

wushu training today ::

im happy. felt really productive today. i did like 30 jumps, around 20 really serious jumps ala analyzing my calfs muscles, thighs quadriceps/hamstring. i finally touched the ceiling!! eh.. hahaa.. no lah.. ceiling is really too high, its around 4-5 stories high. sports hall mind you. okay, i touched this protruding cemented bit near the sliding doors. around 2.5 metres?

im supposed to take a deep breath and jump - transfering energy from thigh, to calf the spring off the floor and touch the ceiling. thanks to bad guy who taught me the technique although he doesn't really know how to explain why he can 'hang' in the air like micheal jordan. he did it like quite effortlessly.. its no wonder that he got gold for nationals. *guru guru*

i timed myself, mainly doing squats to train quadriceps and rhythmatic stances to improve my haywired sense of rhythm. i still can't believe i can clap out of tune during service. argh. that day when bad guy was giving stella-ng-lookey-alike cousin and me impromptu training, they were quite amused at me. haiz... instead of ta-ta, ta-ta.. mine goes tada, plak. ö jiuming..

i think i cannot do xuan zi properly because of my right leg. it can stretch nicely in front, but i can't kick it properly to the back. Shall concentrate on making sure i can do a split with my left leg in front and right leg at the back.

coach asked me to practise my long tassel and finish my sword routine. he's probably going to teach me a quan routine and spear routine. and he'd asked me to learn whatever i can now from all the shi xiongs and whoever, cos he wants me to go get the coaches license end of this year/next year. i was a bit shocked. though sometimes whatever coach says, he doesn't really mean it. but what he said next was even more shocking and i can't really type it here. right now, i think i'll go train on my physique and pretend that he didn't say anything. :P so you people who read my blog and you know coach.. please don't ask.

anyway, i'm surprised he thought of me and do hope he meant what he said and yay..that means i can learn new stuff soon. time to get my act together.

jamie cullum ::

i'd finally downloaded his songs - All at Sea and the twenty something [!!! *estatic*]. okay. im a pirate. why? cos im poor hor.. and i don't believe in spending so much on a CD with so little value. :P oh well. okay lah, confession, because i don't have a CD player? can? its mono functional. give me a pda anytime.

my sound blasters.. amazing.. im like blasting them now, in the middle of the night at 2 am.

national day rally speech 2004 ::

our current pm, really, i feel is giving me positive vibes about the economy, lifestyle even of sg. my cousin am says she likes sg more and more.. and i so agree with her.

think we're given the option to be heard more, imagine, being able to reach your pm via email! think im going to propose my new sports idea to the feedback committee. :P though it may sound a bit off. but hey.. maybe you know...something will work out. i may not be able to be like my cousin, having a scholarship and serving singapore in near future in that capacity.. but i'll be able have my opinions heard and perhaps, given this chance to 'serve' sg too.

new creative sound blasters ::

just got my new creative sound blasters. though they ain't the top range, but hey!!! they work really fine and utada hikaru still sound as good as ever!! am so happy.. *grin*

nice people with devious sides ::

was reminded of this. one of my insurance agents was bugging me to not to lapse my policy. so i was quite pissed off and i very much wanted to tell him that its my own money and you have no right to tell me what to do. i was pissed, cos i felt very obligated to do what he requested. and later on, he was like using explanations like how unwise it is to do things this way and how he cannot prevent me from wanting to lapse the policy etc, it was for my own good and the load of crap. i was like yah yah..that's becase you wanted to save your own skin and make sure you have your own steady income. and guess what, i was right, cos later on he smsed me like oh, if i lapse within 2 years he'll lose persistency and be terminated by his company. anyway, if 1 customer lapse his policy will not constitute to him losing his job. this clearly doesn't make sense does it?

unless the whole load of them decided simultaneously that he is a lousy insurance agent and want to lapse their policies..then something must be very wrong with him right?

i realise im very wary of people like that. laopa is quite like that sometimes.. very nice on the surface to get what he wants from people. and he'll use reverse psychology on people or whatever.. but laopa is after all good friend and he protects me from people like him too. ain't im glad im on his side.. phew. anyway, much to my dismay, hahaa.. it works on people like me. people like me, who are soft hearted and trusting.. :P ahhahaa..but really what.. im trusting.

they make good marketing and sales people.

girl, remember got such people around.. guard your time and friendship wisely.

national wushu competition 2004 ::

it was a good showing today with weng weng rounding up the day with a bronze in traditional xiang xing quan.

he did well.. so much better 2 years back when he'd first started it.. okay. it was 2 years.. but hey, he did practise you know. im proud of him. and that little boy, he was so evil. he was so happy when others made mistakes and thus gotten their grades lowered. but hey.. when i think about that, okay lah.. it was justified, cos if they'd gotten the full grades given to them, they probably might not have win him also.

sonny had a good showing as well. he got 8.4. very happy for him. though there're others better this time round. haiz.. the guy who got first. he's really this possessive rumour monger. keep saying bad stuff abt sp. never mind.. we all agree that people will know his true colours soon enough. say his marks was lowered because of sonny.. *pui* sonny can hold on his own.

koko did it again! he maxed out his superhuman powers and beat that other national team guy and got first for his category - taiji jian. it was crazy. his kong tui was believably unbelievable!! it looks as if its not his leg. and when i told him that, he was not convinced. haiz.. then he was still thinking of an opening line for the judges to introduce him when he comes out to "play". what a inflated ego! hahaha.. :P

the bad guy did well too. in the compulsory routines of broadsword and crugel, his execution was flawless!!! people are all dropping their jaws in awe.. its no wonder that he's from national team. you go [bad] guy!! Idol!!

DEFINING session ::

haha, had just met up with yagong for a goal defining session. it was quite fun, reaccounting our goals and what we did/accomplished, eating my salmon steak, chicken wings. Galilee has got very good chicken wings! Fresh, hot from the pan/microwave.

realise i don't have the aptitude for subtle messages conveyed via body language or speaking. i have totally no idea why.. but think since young, i don't know anything about it. people have to be very explicit about what they want from me before i know anything. this is bad.. i mean, you get me right? they were angry with me, 'tolerated' me for a while and i still don't get those hints, then they'll flare up. but hey, its not seldom i make people angry. or did i not sense it? :P my goodness.. sometimes i think i'll just shuddup and make my life and everyone elses' life easier.
*good grief*

yagong told me im quite stuck in my own world at times. that is quite true i think. esp when im with large groups. hahaa.. so do not get group dynamics. i feel like some spectator, watching people laugh, crack jokes. is this autism or what? :P

or perhaps people mistook my meaning? being overly nice and friendly hints at me liking them? my goodness..then i'll be liking everyone i know. then i'll be lesbian, homo and bi and everything!

anyway, on the topic of 'like', everyone seemed to be bugging me to get a bf. okay, not really bugging, but asking. right down to the taxi uncle i met while coming back from the married one's place to my mom, wondering how come her younger son got attached first while his 4 years older than him sister is still swinging single.

my juniors asked me.

my aunties asked me. [shit - busy bodies]

my mom's the worst! she went on and on about other people's boyfriends. [shakes head] i think she's dying for a grandkid.

okay.. im deviating... :P

delayed gratification and lowered expectations? ::

i didn't msg him. didn't want him to misunderstand me. didn't want myself to misunderstand him either.

rather, i think as a girl.. its always good to keep your hands to yourself and don't make the first move. delayed gratification and lowered expectations make things easier to manage. it always seemed to be this case.

national wushu competition 2004 ::

koko gave an almost stunning display of his non-humane legs at 'kong tui-ing' just now at the national stadium. [which is an irony because he's a vegan - supposed to be 'humane'] he won the other national team guy.. by ard 0.1 i guess. and its a good thrashing out session. good for him despite not having any medals, he got 1st anyway.

bin bin did a great job too.. though, he lost terribly. but i thought he was better than usual. he told us he forgot a few parts of the routine *gasp* but hey...it was his first time competing in taiji and well.. one's always nervous. good job. really.

up next, leslie's carpet routine, laken's sword and chang quan, xin hao's nan quan and nangun. good to go!

nato-ing - your laziness-bloggeriness ::

you know, i realise i like to talk and give ideas and do nothing.. very NATO right? ahhahaa.. so, i'd concluded that the best job for me in the world is to be a boss. talk, give ideas to staff and do nothing the whole day. i'd just happened to make my name card today at the married one's place. im amazed.. i actually travelled all the way from singapore to malaysia to her place and back again all in one piece. was secretly afraid of people in motorcycles out to shop people's limbs just to get their handbags. what to do? brain-washed by my mom liao.

my card will have a my favourite colour green. looks fresh and cool. can't wait to give everyone.

pay our national athletes well? ::

what bit me, i've no idea. but im quite overwhelmed by this sudden urge to, no no, not to dig my nose, but to be involved in sports affair. not the physical sports part, however, but the administrator part you know. all because singapore isn't exactly well known to pay their national athletes well. so one fine day, i typed this in www.sgwutan.com


I was at Poly Forum last (last?) year and was given the topic of "Sports in Singapore" to discuss..

Being a sports enthusiast, has several contacts with National Team people in wushu and Taekwando and with my coach sometimes lamenting that sportsmen in SG don't get paid enough, it was quite natural to discuss about the salary given to National Sports(wo)men. To be really frank, unless you hold competitions and stuff, I really can't think of any reasons how sports can contribute to the economy of the society.

Correct me if Im wrong. But really, unless you sell merchandise like what ManU did and have World Cup etc to generate advertising revenues, people betting on sports, there is no other way an athlete contributes to the society. Unless the athlete wins something let's say Olympics, yes, (s)he brings glory to the nation, but where did the money come from again? eh? if the Olympic council gives money, the money is most probably sponsored which means its from a advertising source and that brings you back to the advertising cycle (Business) right? If the Government decides to reward you because you win, then the money comes from the taxpayers right?

Erm, so with that, I kinda concluded that that's why our sports(wo)men are paid so little in comparision to their counterparts in maybe financial, education, media industry. And because of this, there is not much support from parents who probably desire their kid to become a doctor than a sportsperson. Okay, that's the problem now. So Im going to offer solutions...

Being in the advertsing line, I think that with the right marketing guy around, wuzong might want to try getting a few giants like Nike, some banks, McDonalds to sponsor cold hard cash ala salary to 1 athlete. As in 1 giant to 1 athelete and the athlete will probably have to like do promotional stuff for the company.

Like let's say McDonalds sponsor ****, then **** will eat McDonalds everytime reporters interview him and pose with Ronald McDonalds every time after a sporting event and openly declares that he loves McDonalds and his biao yan fu will have a M for McDonalds at the back besides the Singapore flag you see at the front. Anyway, their pay will probably commensurate with the duration of their routine. Like Chang Chuan is around 1 minute plus right? so athletes doing chang chuan will probably get less wheras Taiji is like super long, so athletes doing taiji will earn more money. Haha..

Or is Nike is willing to sponsor then they'll wear Nike dri-fi biao yan fu which comes in bright pink or neon yellow with the Nike logo and latest nike wushu shoes...(they'll have to start developing one) Then you can see our athletes in those Nothing-is-Impossible posters le.. eh, oops, that's addidas I think. Nevertheless, quite suitable for Nan Quan athletes.

Okay okay, I digressed, then their pay will be in accordance to how many times they promote/endorse the goods and how many times they win. So if they win right? Then they get extra money. So they get from government, sponsor plus their wu guan and sports council. Isn't it a WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN situation.

1. Government win cos they brought glory to nation and they reduce the number of people dying from lack of exercise but lesser revenue to extrim and thus, no more scandalous friendship breaking dramas like Slim 10 case.

2. Sponsor win cos they rake in money from people who are crazy about those athletes enough to buy the goods they endorse and other people who were brain washed by the advertisements and the 'free' airtime commercials they got while TV stations film the athletes when they're doing their routine and the brand will be prominently displayed. If it hits 'evening news' that's even better. Almost the whole Singapore population can see their brand. Also, they will be associated with athletes, means they'll have a healthy image..which I think now after Super Size me, McDonalds will seriously need.

3. Wuguan win, cos its their student mah..and if their student do well.. other people will come and join and that means more money for them.

4. Sports Council got their 'ambassadors' who are the athletes indirectly promoting sports to the people and thus, they'll fulfil the aim of reducing kids in trim and fit clubs because the kids will dream of flying around like Jet Li and thus sign up for wushu classes.

5. Athletes win cos they get the monthly salary which is competitive to the 'private sector' and they can train FULL time and WIN more medals and have enough to indulge in a 5 room flat or even condo and that will reflect well on sports cos these will mean that parents will encourage their children to do sports because they will now be able to stay in at least a 5 rm flat if they perform well in the sports arena. Now..isn't this a vicious cycle?

See what I mean.. They must run themselves like a business to grow money in order to sustain themselves in the society, able to train full time and to make everyone elses' life easier (the marketing executives of McDonalds and their parents and civil servants in Sports Council) hahhaa... hey guys, despite starting off in a quite a serious tone, but the above is said in jest though.. just a thought bounced off from talking to one of the shi xiongs the other day. But really, wuzong should try running themselves like ManU. hehee.. to be able to maintain a pool of quality athletes and sustain themselves on the long run.

am quite glad many had responded to it and i do hope we're finally you know, promoting a real sporting culture in singapore really soon. gao jiao lian said someone at the top is reading. i sure do hope the person will find this relevant and stuff.

orh well.. maybe i should just go consider be a sports administrator. more fun than programming anytime or is it?