Saturday, May 31, 2008

Watsons You Awards

Hello friends and all the visitor's, please help to vote for my friend above.
Watsons is having the contest until 22 June 2008.

Your vote will counts.

Steps:
Goto this web site by click here (Watsons You Awards).
Find Friendly Face Awards and click to go in.
Vote for Terence, contestant No. C1.

Tips: You can vote daily basis and you also can input your friend/families vote into the count by repeating same steps.

There will be a lucky for the vote that you submitted. So vote daily and invite your friend do the same.

VOTE for C1. Terence

Thank you

tags: Watsons You Award, Watson, Contest

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Happy Birthday Red's - Souled Out, Sri Hartamas

Happy Birthday~

Tags: Souled Out, Sri Hartamas

Penang International Airport

Doing some audit check while waiting boarding...at Coffee Bean, Penang Airport.
Waiting for my housemate to fetch me back home...but end-up we went to One-U and had our dinner at Vietnam Kitchen.
I took the picture at KL Central. So this to remind my friends stop at KL Central (for trip), please recognise this pictures. Normally, I will pass by that area 1st when I reach KL central.
Tags: Penang International Airport, KL Sentral

Steamboat



Pity the arowana fish...looks like inside the sugar cane tank.

You're damn CUTE~!

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Chef Loong





10052008: Night
Tags: Food and Beverages, Desserts, SS2, PJ, Petaling Jaya

Monday, May 12, 2008

Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis

Ooooh, ooh, ooh, haaaa

Closed off from love
I didn't need the pain
Once or twice was enough
And it was all in vain
Time starts to pass
Before you know it you're frozen

But something happened
For the very first time with you
My heart melts into the ground
Found something true
And everyone's looking round
Thinking I'm going crazy

But I don't care what they say
I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

Trying hard not to hear
But they talk so loud
Their piercing sounds fill my ears
Try to fill me with doubt
Yet I know that the goal
Is to keep me from falling

But nothings greater
Than the rush that comes with your embrace
And in this world of loneliness
I see your face
Yet everyone around me
Thinks that I'm going crazy, maybe, maybe

But I don't care what they say
I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

And it's draining all of me
Oh they find it hard to believe
I'll be wearing these scars
For everyone to see

I don't care what they say
I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love

Tags: Lyric, Bleeding love, Leona Lewis

Sunday, May 11, 2008

June: Weekend Plan

24 & 25 May - @KL Study
31 May & 1 June - @KL Work
5 & 6 June - @Langkawi Meeting
7 & 8 June - @KL Study
14 & 15 June or 28 & 29 - Genting
21 & 22 June - Penang

Maro back to Penang

Maro back to Penang on 16th May 2008 until 19th May 2008. 19th May 2008 - Wesak Day.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Management and Leadership - Part I

I have posted "Why Good People Leave?" article on the blog on 26th June 2007.

Why Good People Leaving? And Why Bad People Leaving too?

People are living because of the direct manager/supervisor do not well train and manage the team. Managing the team is as easy as we thought. Human are dynamic and everyone are unique to compliment to fit the organisation. There could be good and bad staff.. that produce more difficult peoples to deal with. Manager roles are not as simple as "look after" your team mate, but knowing well company directions and strategy may influence how you shape your organisation.

Many observations, and as time past we are floating above the sea and follow wind blow and wave flow.

Why company direction important?

If manager not clear about the company direction, you will see how this team heading to perfect storm on the ocean. Bringing risks and disaster...which indirectly caused damage on resources who supporting under the manager. In order to recognise this, we usually will find the manager very indecisive because "not sure" or uncertainty about something. In my opinion, the manager not sure and very indecisive are earlier sign we should immediately identified which I found not too worst compare to the manager who "not sure" and pretended to be very well understanding the company direction. This is wearing mask manager which even worst and usually your effort put in returned out to become nothing. Recognise them as gave super last minutes decision and plan and ask immediate execution.. and when you rush till midnight to submit your deliverables... your manager would said... now not important already, please proceed focus on your own tasks. Exceptional is given to manager who seldom did this once in blue moon because maybe the others upper management given new wind of change. This only apply to repeated cases.


Your work credited goes to manager
This often happened. What we call this manager? Smarts decisions but facts is dump. It proven that manager not capable enough and not confident by letting their own team to presents. Why you want to present on behalf? To take credit or lack of confident of your own staff? If all your staff can present at management level, you will get double credit and how do you got it? Think yourself.

Over-reaction or self-pride
This is another dummy manager. Often did things damn fast and want more than to compare with other cross functionals do. Example, do faster, do more, do better... end up do worst and redo. This really happened in large organisation where one manager super kiasu and want to show-off to others without taking care of their own limitation and staff resources. It would caused unhealthy competition amongst departmental and making used of you staff to achieve your ego. Almost when you found this manager, they always very dominant to intructs staff to perform until they went exhausted. Do it yourself if that you want to put your pride on the table and not causing others problems in what you want to achieve. Mostly is not company wanted to achieve, is your own pride damage most of what staff could achieve more without under your dump ruling.


NATO membership

We do have NATO membership account of manager. This manager only speak more than action. That is another blind salary base manager and get out of nothing. They swing like the wind blow to unknown destination and unpredictable decision you will never expected and think off. The manager can demand you to do something and change and change.... to overcome this manager, write the minutes of what manager's said and send a copy of team if involved everyone else send to the manager directly. If manager change again, that a proof to track more of this "great decision maker" and refer back for justification. Talk always simple and easy.....those operation who work....is like cows.. Anyhow, we usually heard "Action speak louder than words"


one-to-one meeting
1:1 is one of the method you got the feedback directly both side communication and able to get the instant update from the person without second medium. Most cases, both party fail to understand each needs and requirements where this is major gap and barriers. Managers always said, if you have anything, just send me 1:1. 1:1 is not main intiation by staff but manager and it is your responsibility and accountability to make this happen. Staff initiate as ad-hoc basis and when the need require to have 1:1, then only staff intiate. This is partly of management failure relying staff to initiate, but leaving no path to enable bottom-up communication flow.

Organisation Hierarchy
Manager with too many direct report under him/her, often create another gap, by introducing team leaders or supervisor. We knew the major problems of what human have is likely to add salt and sugar, what information staff pass from one hand to another, we could see different tone of music they could play out and end-recipient (top manager) accept wrong information about operation. Apart of that, some division which have problem and to avoid from reporting out, covered up everything. Non of top know what happening down and all this ants continue work like hell.

to be continued.,.

tags: Organisation and behaviour, opinion talk, management