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S.W.O.T

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 |12:25 AM

had shepherding with joel last wednesday and we did a list of our Strengths, weakness, opportunity and threats.

My Strengths:

1) Fast learner

2) Independent

3) Being very real and not wear a mask in front of others

4) Fairly good general knowledge

5) Joyful

Weakness:

1) Selfishness

2) Procrastinate

3) Too straight forward

4) Impatient

5) Talk too much

6) Fickle minded

7) Skeptical

Opportunity:

1) Can learn skills/ abilities fast without wasting people's time

2) Can explore other countries without people going with me

3) Can connect with people who can speak anything under the sun

4) Can brighten up someone day

5) Can strike a conversation with people

6) Be myself to people not close to me as well

Threats:

1) Think highly of myself

2) care too much for myself

3) drag/sit on things for a long time

4) offend people without knowing

5) makes me get irritated with people who are slow learners

6) talk too much, listen too little

7) not persistent in things

sweetness amid toughness

Monday, July 28, 2008 |10:53 PM

last week was a real tough week @ work. in fact i really had this urge to just resign @ one point and that was how bad it was. the whole issue started on monday with a meeting with my CFO, CEO and another functional head and 1 ex accountant (now in another dept) over a RMB 23k issue which has dragged since last year Dec'07 and that amount was a "due from" this third party. anyway to cut the story short..the whole issue happened on friday whereby i actually spoke up. During the meeting on friday, my CEO actually shouted and scolded my CFO by using very terrible words and not respecting her which somehow i really felt he shouldn't have done that. i don't mean to say it was wrong of him to scold but not in front of people of a different hierachy. The way he shouted @ her was literally like a recruit kena scolded by his senior in camp!! and the worst this is...my cfo and the ex accountant has some bad blood and when my cfo was scolded by my ceo..i saw the ex accountant grinning away and smiling so wickedly. somehow a thought crossed my mind..so wat if this lady there is wearing the nicest/sexiest/most expensive clothes when her heart is utterly wicked?? when my ceo continued screaming like a mad man..i was really pissed and i stood up and said:

me:" actually i read through the file and i noted that the amount that we are talking about is only RMB 23k approximately SGD4k. however i noted that we sent countless emails held countless meetings, its not even worth all the time cost of all of us sitting here. why are we so persistent about it. just pay whatever/get back whatever the cfo says and case closed! why are we ending up fighting so much and now end up with a calculation that we have to pay people RMB 800k??"

my ceo was hoping mad when i said this and i walked out with my cfo..soon after i went to my cfo room and i told her:

me:" mag, sorry i don't understand how can you tolerate this kind of treatment? what kind of respect is he giving to us? if this is going to continue i don't think i will last long here."

and i walked out...today my cfo got me into her room and talked to me..

mag:" meiming..i am very encouraged by you. you are right..i've been tolerating all these while these kind of shouting..and i am so glad you can feel for me. where did you get this kind of courage from to speak up?"

me:" well..maybe its my character of being very straight forward @ times too straight forward. but if he's not right even if he is the ceo i also will speak up coz i dun like to see injustice and i dun like this kind of disrespect."

mag:" thanks meiming..are you a christian?

me:" yes.." and i walked out

as i looked back i am so amazed that my christian value stood up...jaw dropped..i can be so influential @ my work place :)

on friday night..i was upset i decided to make some brownies to cheer myself up..anyway this is the first time making brownies and tata....success!!! it tastes even nicer with ice cream and i mean Ben and jerry..yum yum

"sara lee" cake look alike..

drooling?

on sat i went for this inter-unit durian trip @ johor...i would say it was very enjoyable as i got to know alot of brothers and sisters except for somethings that happened. tell you all what happen you all will faint-:

1) met the rest @ newton @ 745am as we were about to set out..i saw bee yan took out her passport and i was like..."andrew!!! i forgot my passport!!!!" took a cab rushed home and met up with the rest @ woodlands checkpoint.

2) while taking a photo for 2 brothers using sharmaine's camera..i dropped her camera and its spoilt!!! boo..sway..i felt very guilty the whole day even till now..sharmaine was very nice and didn't ask me to pay for it..i learnt a very important lesson - graciousness. sharmaine showed me so much grace and i must really learn from her..anyway i decided if it can't be repaired i'll get her a new camera..and guess wat yesterday i got a $60 angbao..:)

updates

Sunday, July 20, 2008 |6:07 PM

realised i haven't been blogging for some time..its been 1 mth since i started work in my new organisation and 2 mths after the breakup. in fact i dun really enjoy my work @ my workplace because the group that i am in don't have an accounting system. all their books are kept using excel which is really terrible and i do alot of data entry plus dun really have good support from my assistants. to add to these misery its construction and property development accounts...argh...in fact i am looking @ better environment..

a few weeks ago i went for interview @ Marina Bay Sands for a position of an Accountant. However, the job requires to be posted to Macau. I got the offer but after much consideration i am going to decline it. Frankly i was really tempted to go over. well it has always been my desire to work overseas especially Hong Kong region so this was like a dream come true. Have a mixed response with various people whether i should go anot but finally made the decision of not going well one of the main reason is because the package is really not worth me going. i get about SGD5000+ but SGD1000k+ is use to pay for rental. another reason is because no peace..coz my mum never give me her blessing. even though she say go but it was so unwilling.. the decision is really painful..:(

During the past few weeks, i did many things to my car and bought some new "pets"...

added led light strips to the side doors only the 2 front doors because reckon nobody sits behind doors seldom used also.

spotted this car @ the junction of esplanade @ a traffic light..its a LAMBO!!!!

a new bag to my collection. the last bag i bought was my LV bag like duno how many months ago.

one of my big bags..can put A4 size paper nice right...and there's a 10% discount.

my new "pet"

the above is a show that i am chasing now..being in construction and property development business of coz i have to watching related shows..