Eunoia – beautiful thinking.

29 Oct 2008 :: So much for an interview with new exco recruits.. Out of maybe 4 applicants that’re applying for the IT post, i’m able to identify at least 1 potential successor where as the rest of the applicants seemed that they don’t really know what’s the basic knowledge needed in order to maintain a proper site..

What really has taken me into my consideration to choose a successor is quite simple.. One is expected to show his/her willingness and passion related to this field.. Fast learner? Creative? Knowledgeable? Passive?, How is his/her attitude and action taken if just in case facing/encounter any difficulties in solving bugs/problems? Amongst all the candidates that i’ve asked, no one ever mentioned the usage of the internet and its search engine function as their potential pool of resource to solve problems.. Maybe they haven’t experienced on handling bugs and such.. I didn’t expect much though i’d like to handle it myself…

31 Oct 2008 :: today is my senior colleague’s last day, well I can’t say much because I just know her about 3 weeks.. But what I personally believed about her is that she must be very intelligent and systematic person.. Very good in terms of presenting information to its audience (i learned a lot about my job from her) and uh.. I think she got her own unique characteristic and work attitude that makes her special… My lead’s final comments about her to me is that she has a rather high expectation from everyone.. well.. Since our bank wide dr project was just finished, now most of her pending job are handed over to me and I can see her ways of doing work is just.. Amazing.. : /

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Standing Still!!

Hope dangles on a string..
Like slow spinning redemption…
Winding in and winding out…
The shine of it has caught my eye…
And roped me in..
So, mesmerizing,and so hypnotizing…
I am captivated,I am…

I’m at mom right now queuing for my EP and it looks liek.. i’ll need to go down one more round for final collection. I didn’t read the so called “3 hours” submission processing time (after 2:30pm collection is on next werkin’ day) and the 30 bucks admin fee.. Well if possible I’d rather collect it on sat.. Less disturbance on my reg office hours…

Now i’m getting more and more regular BAU tasks as my other colleague’s moving to other gov. sector soon. The most challenging part is to getting ppl’s cooperation on collecting some of the essentials.. People tend to neglect our demand and as my snr.colleague also points out that some of them may not release/share their specialties/knowledge that’s deemed to be important in order to keep them in charge of the incumbent position.. Well it’s sound like very logical to me and as we can see.. that’s happening in our very real world..

btw i’m getting more and more understanding on so called “office lingo”… BAU, BU, TBD, KIV, IC, TLDR, etc etc..

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Food Festival coming on November 21st TC2

Tues, 22 Oct 2008 :: So i’ve been nominated as an organizer exec for food festival later on nov 21.. (at first i thought it was somekind of a lame joke by colleagues but it comes up true… ) well … the group composed of 4 new ppl to the company’s respective dept.. 2 of ’em are actually AVP so … i think they wouldn’t bother about this.. i called this ppl two times and he said that he’s busy and wanted to be excluded from the event.. well.. the events are just basically for charity’s sake.. (children society if i’m not wrong)..

Hmm it’s been a while now and yesterday I was looking at the organization chart and I thought that higher numbers hold higher ranks and such but it isn’t. The lowest rank is me, which is assoc8, after that am7, m6, avp5, avp4, vp3, vp2 and finally vp1 (HOD) on that respective dept. At least this shows a fairly straight management path and I can’t wait myself to get promoted lol… Well it’ll took at least 2-3 years to get the title assistant manager I guess.. I don’t know whether it’ll also applies for FT contract workers or it’s just perm staff.. I found out that my colleagues that just joined are also a direct contract with the bank. Well maybe they wanted to see how’s the individual performance before they decided to made such a decision (convert to contract)..

2 days ago (monday) I found myself overslept because of some issues that troubles my sleep.. And to wrap it up, it’s my mistake afterall… Subletting etc and such.. Ended up paying much more money than it’s previously supposed. My manager called and I quickly gazed through my alarm and it shows 9:30.. Geez… I wonder how come my alarm didn’t rang.. I quickly sms’d her to apologize and promise her that this is going to be the first and last thing to happen.. and I think she roughly can forgive and understand my situation… : /

24 Oct 2008, Thurs : Oke, today my big boss (HOS) treat our dept member a special lunch.. It’s somekind of a token of appreciation for my dept team members because we’ve accomplished our DR exercise successfully… and interestingly my manager pointed out that I was previously hired to perform some kind of an enterprise batching schedule task.. (control M) and she also personally think and said that it’s kind of a boring and repetitive task.. So they think that for ppl like me, a so called talented speaker and able to converse in 3 diff kinds of language skills will be wasted there, so my manager decided to take me as her young padawan…. she suggested that in this field, presentation skills, negotiation skills, management skills, facilitate skills (idk whats that).. ya btw overall softskills are needed.. and and during that lunch time, my big boss bombarded me with lots of questions… and saying that i’m still young, need to learn alot, experience about the whole banking process and get to know into the framework, and such… bla bla bla..

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a Final Solace

16 Oct 2008…
It shall be remembered as my “official” first working day in ocbc. The EP came out just in time. (i was extremeeeeeely happy and straight away jump’d away from my chair when i saw my monitor and see the green colour word status: “APPROVED.” ) I can’t believe my eyes.. i quickly print out and notify my HR manager about this.. my supervisor also called me and congratulates me as well.. heheh.. there’ll be lots of so called – shaking-hand sessions ahead i guess!!! haha… btw the overall MOM statistics were right.. 80% of apps completed within 7 working days still holds. Normal people would just praise the Mighty Lord, but … i’ll praise Singapore government instead.. Heheh..

17 Oct 2008 morning..
I just turned on my phone and received an sms from my supervisor.. She said that I wouldn’t required to wear office shirts since it’s friday.. But it was too late.. I’m already on my way there.. heheh… tomorrow is a very big day for my department and i see that lots of preparations being made to ensure this event is a successful one. There will be basically lots of observers and visitors hangin around watching us! :D~

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Ode to Joy ?

Excitement.. When I wanted to show my dad of how IT can assist him accomplish lots of manual task, excitement, when it comes to development, nerves just can’t resist to think about what to do next, how to achieve it and sometimes lost sense of direction. Think big it is and I was hoping to try another development approach. But since there’re limited constraints of time and resources here and there, I was just thinking for a full revamp on insim site. The task involved will be very different as it will involves data backup, migration tools and integrating the old and new app versions. Tired it is. I’d rather create a new thing from scratch rather than modifying what’s already been there. I wanted to, but since there’re lots of members profile will be erased as well, i’ll need to think another way to solve this isssue… Well, it’s been a year since i’ve made an adjustment on the either css or template. And since i’m responsible for the whole integrity of the data as well as member profiles, at least i’ll try to look for a migration tools if available..

I’ve decided not to upgrade to J!1.5 since there was little incentive be it monetary as well as recognition. I’ve spent 3 full days on the site, studying what the template has to offer, adding some fantastic modules and eliminating those excessive functions (chat, community interaction, e-comm, and shoutbox). Hoped that it’ll at least attract ppl to visit the site and generates revenue frm small ads. I realised that google has refined their ads algorithm, it now shows public donation banner instead of commercial ads. Idk perhaps I clicked too many on the frontpage and the system somehow realizes it and never going to appear since..

I’ve checked on the employment pass stats this mornin and it still indicates that my case is on pending stats. Well I hope the stats were right, claiming 80% apps completed on 7days.. Seeing so much cases being rejected recently really worries me.. Well if just in case (knock wood 1000x) my app is being rejected.. At least I have LPR application ready by then.. I can’t really think much of other solutions other than appealling.. I really hope everything goes well… I dom’t expect much on career progression for the next 2 years or so.. Global financial crisis is about here …

I used to think that crisis is really a good thing because it burst out the bubbles (esp on friggin sgpore properties), and I personally think there’re a huge opportunities to grab since stocks are mostly undervalued and cheap.. Well there will be risk involved but I think by then I should be ready to take that risk.. Or else my mony won’t grow.. Lol.. After 5-6 years I hope i’ll see myself reaping profits from it..

Well, apparently when the actual crisis is coming, I can’t stop thinking on other ppl, esp. My parents and my bro, sis.. They invested heavy funds on stock market and it went own like a rollercoaster.. What I have learned to prevent this kind of big losses is to diversify one’s portfolio, eg. To commodity, property, etc. So that the impact can be somewhat dampened. But when talking about real application is much much more difficult… to manage such a diversified portfolio one needs to be knowledgeable and experienced.. Well.. somehow all things in this world is not flawless.. So does these investment tools.. Crisis invades and I really just hoped that everyone will have strong resilience and be prosper eventually..

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Silhouette of a woman spinning gracefully

OK, hands up if you can make her change direction. No? Only clockwise? How about making her stop?

This strangely compelling, animated silhouette of a woman spinning gracefully has been doing the rounds via email lately and the New Scientist office was one of many that spent a guiltily non-productive afternoon staring at her.

The Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses logic detail oriented facts rule words and language present and past math and science can comprehend knowing acknowledges order/pattern perception knows object name reality based forms strategies practical safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses feeling “big picture” oriented imagination rules symbols and images present and future philosophy & religion can “get it” (i.e. meaning) believes appreciates spatial perception knows object function fantasy based presents possibilities impetuous risk taking

Why? Because some people see her spinning clockwise, some see her moving counterclockwise, and most, if they stare long enough, see her switch direction. Some can make her change at will. But no-one, it seems, can make her move in two directions at once.

All pretty spooky since she is an unchanging animation of only 34 frames in a constant loop. What seems to be happening is that the two-dimensional image does not contain enough three-dimensional information to tell the brain which way she is spinning. So your brain helpfully fills this in, as brains do in many optical illusions. Only, in this case the brain can do it one of two ways.

How about the stopping? Well, perception of time is pretty subjective, and our experience of inertia is that when things make a 180-degree change in direction, they have to slow and stop first. What this animation does not involve is different sides of the brain, as the initial post claims. What you see is purely due to your perceptual and cognitive flexibility.

What is a little scary is how threatened by this some people clearly feel. The blogosphere is rife with arguments and ingenious explanations of the lady, with some people simply refusing to believe it isn’t an animation tick that really changes direction every few minutes. Even more common are the people who are sure they know how to make her change direction. According to them, the trick is to hold your head or hands in certain ways, tilt the screen or look at her out of the corner of one eye. It was what they were doing when they saw her change – so it must work. Right?

Debora Mackenzie, New Scientist contributor

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无需编程知识

今日我聆聽辦公室傳來的消息，同事自己跟我說過她要離開，她說要轉其他部門去了。我部門就只剩下我監督還有一個新人咯，他也說我是他的接班人，所以要差不多懂得表面上和銀行全體系統如何運作。然後我大老板就問我，因為我剛畢業，有何方面能用電腦來改善什么的，然后我就愣了一下，不懂怎么答。（可是我有动脑筋去想了啦。。）看來這份工也不需要什麼編程知識。。

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It’s a JOB!

我正式上班的第一天.

一听到鬧鐘就醒过来咯，昨晚差一點不睡覺，想閉上眼睛五分鐘都不行，有可能是因為我太興奮了? 我倒覺得不會呢。應該還是我早睡不慣原因吧。連外面傳來的洗衣机嗶嗶嗶聲，床底的摩擦聲，鬼鳥叫聲，反正各種各樣的聲音都能听的出來。。數過很多小綿羊才不知不覺昏迷于夢中。上班的第一天，不知道能碰到什麼樣的人，我必定要好好表現就是了。

下班了，之間開會滿久有關接下來要辦的事。我部門只有四個人在管制(包括我啦)，其中三個是年紀較老的大姐們，他們也跟我說差不多一月后也會再請一個女性的同事來加入這部門。說實話我蠻喜歡那裡的工作環境，我只擔心而後工作前途的發展空間可能會有受到些限制。當今我就只能接受一切，好好幹這份工并且全力地吸收有關銀行系統功能與操作方式

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大学毕业后是先成家后立业还是先立业后成家?

甲方：先立业后成家
立业是指确立事业的基础，有稳定的收入来源。经济基础是家作为一个单位实现其功 能的基础，维系着衣食、住房、医疗以及其他各种消费，在我国社会保障体系还不十分完善的今天，成家还意味着对双方父母的供养，对孩子的抚养和教育。先立业 才能有实力成家,才能为今后的生活奠定良好的基础,让后辈有好的生活环境。（朝鲜语言文学系06级 高莲丹）
我觉得这个问题因人而异， 如何选择都无可厚非，但就个人而言，我更倾向于先立业后成家。立业并不意味着实现理想，通常只是追逐梦想的资本积累，是梦想的起步，在此过程中，我们可以 变得更加成熟稳重，找到一些志同道合的朋友，甚至可以发现相伴一生的伴侣。当然，我们还可以获得一定的经济基础，使自己更加从容地面对竞争激烈的社会。年 轻时的恋情是美好的，但它很多时候无关成家与立业。（数计学院06级 陶从文）
没有物质基础怎么成家，事业有成也能找到更好的伴侣。大学刚毕业，心理还不是很成熟，应该多锻炼一下，增加社会阅历，才有承担责任的能力，否则过早就组建家庭容易产生诸多问题。（法学05级 陈鑫)

乙方：先成家后立业
从 古代传统来看，立业的前提是必须成家，这是从生命个体意识的责任感而言的。一个人的责任有多方面，只有对家庭负有责任感才能担负起对社会的责任。再说，是 否立业的衡量标准不是个人的功成名就，而是能否实现对社会责任、社会义务的履行。人在成家后的思维方式和处事态度与成家前是完全不同的，先成家后立业才能 脱离幼稚，与社会同步。（文传学院05级 刘川）
我觉得先成家后立业比较好，因为毕业生出来一个人奋斗，要面对许多的困难，如果两个人一起互相鼓励、互相安慰，就更能承受压力、承担责任，积极向上地去创立自己的事业。一起吃苦、经历过风风雨雨的感情会更牢固、更可靠。（文传学院04级 李婷婷）
成 家之后可以给人归属感和成就感，不再觉得自己是孤身一人，从而让人稳定下来，进而促进事业发展。成家之后就有一份家庭的责任鞭策自己努力工作和赚钱，从情 感和责任方面督促其在事业上努力。如果事业上遇到挫折，可以在家庭的温暖中重新振作，并再次努力，可以防止受挫后极端事件的发生。一般情况下，一个人事业 有成在40岁左右，而成家年龄在25-30岁之间的占绝大多数。因此，从实际情况来看，也是先成家后立业。（法学院05级 李怡）

教师点评：
学 生处思想政治科刘涛老师：成家和立业是人生中同等重要的两个方面，任何一个方面都不能偏废。这不是鱼和熊掌不可兼得的问题，而是成家与立业先后顺序的问 题。对于年轻人来说，成家和立业哪一个在前，哪一个在后是见仁见智的。这涉及到两个方面的问题，一是与个人的主观意向和追求有关，二是与客观条件是否成熟 有关。
有的人想法比较传统，传统思想是把成家放在立业之前的，如“修身、齐家、治国、平天下”这句话，成家先于立业。成家可以给人一份心 灵的安宁，家可以作为事业避风的港湾。当人在建立事业的过程中遭遇失败、挫折和磨难时，非常需要家庭的心灵慰藉。如果先成家就必须肩负责任，家可以让个人 产生更强的动力，树立更远大的目标。
有的同学认为自己还年轻，涉世未深，可能很少有精力顾及事业以外的东西。好男儿四海为家，不会拘泥于 某一个位置。成家之后会带来更多年轻的心无法承担的责任，涉及到许多家庭琐事，甚至还会被孩子占用大量精力。自己的肩膀还很稚嫩，无法承担来自事业和家庭 的双重压力。大学生刚毕业，心理承受能力也不够强，先工作才有可能承担更多的责任。每个人考虑的方面不同，有不同的选择，因而成家与立业孰先孰后是因人而 异的。以上是主观动向方面的问题。

先成家后立业还是先立业后成家也是因客观条件而异的，客观条件成熟与否也是一个需要考虑的重要方面。就 比如说先吃饭还是先喝水，不能仅仅是饿了就吃饭，渴了就喝水，还要看面前有没有饭，有没有水。客观条件也可理解为：事业的发展需要机遇，感情需要缘分。在 现实生活中每个人都会有自己的机遇，也会遇到自己的缘分，不要拘泥于一定顺序，应结合自己的实际情况选择自己应该走的路。

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Nephew.. 外甥的搞笑故事

二十年前，我三岁；
二十年后，我外甥三岁。

二十年前，我和我爸出了西门，我跟老爸说：“爸，我去田里掰个玉米给你吃吧！”
二十年后，我和外甥出了西门，外甥跟我说：“舅舅，给我五块钱，我去对面歌厅给你叫个小姐！”

二十年前，我和老爸出门，我跟老爸说：“咱们骑自行车吧，我累了！”
二十年后，我和外甥出门，外甥跟我说：“舅舅，我去门口叫TAXI！”

二十年前，我在十四寸黑白电视机前面跟着电视里头喊：“勇敢的阿童木！”
二十年后，我外甥在二十九寸彩色电视机前面跟着喊：“动感超人！”

二十年前，我在湖滨街的土坑边（没有道砖）以便撒尿一边唱：“生产队里养了一群小鸭子。。。”
二十年后，我外甥在收费两毛的厝所里一边撒尿一边唱：“大象，大象，你鼻子为什么这么长。。。”

二十年前，我和老妈出门，苦苦哀求老妈：“给我两毛钱我买块巧克力吧！”
二十年后，我和外甥出门，外甥得意洋洋的跟我说：“旺旺仙贝，五元一包！”

二十年前，我在人群前面怎么也挤不过去，大喊：“叔叔阿姨你们怎么在这亲嘴啊！”人群涌来，我乘机过去了；
二十年后，我外甥在门口被一堆小贩挡住去路，就大喊：“城管来了！”小贩大乱，我外甥扬长而去。

二十年前，我逃学了没地儿去，背着书包在街上溜哒，一群居委会的老太太看着我交头接耳：“这孩子怎么不上学呢？”
二十年后，我在门口一网吧里逮住我逃学的外甥，他正和一群一样大的逃学小孩儿聚精会神的打反恐精英。

二十年前，我在街上见着一个穿一步裙的姑娘就跟妈说：这个阿姨好时髦啊！
二十年后，外甥在街上见了一个穿着小肚兜和小短裤的金发小太妹就跟我说：“这个美眉好酷！”

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