Finally...my sofa

Ahahaha...i have been sofa-less since i moved in 6 months ago...finally it (see right) has arrived!!! (Sorrie...stuffed piggy not included)

Dilbert 27-July-2005

Typical management approach...it is always someone else's fault...

"Success has many parents, but failure is a lonely orphan"

My Dimsum Dolly Stint

My lab attendant went to India for holidayz...so i have been arrowed to take over her job of clearing glasswares for this week...another one of management's stupid way of "helping staff discover their fullest potential" and "multi-tasking"...kiss my smelly hairy ass!!!...it is more like tekaning staff with no rewards or incentives what so ever...ptui!!!

So i am off...to do my dimsum dolly stint...pushing my little cart along the labs and collecting dirty (biohazardous i must add) glasswares, sending it to the central washing facility, collecting cleaned (i seriously doubt so) glasswares, drying it in the oven, and distributing it back to the labs...

"discovering my fullest potential (said with deep sarcasm)" ...bullshit!!! a retarded baboon (i dont mean my lab attendant) can do that...

Sigh...underpaid, overworked, zero (those BIG FAT kind) career development...haizzz...the life of a typical NUS graduate who was conned into this biomedical research hogwash...should have gone into installing golden taps and 4-figure toilet bowls...

Dilbert 26-July-2005

Source: http://www.dilbert.com/

Haizzz...the ultimate purpose of staff performance reviews...

Tribute to Xia Xue

(Picture source: http://axiuex.multiply.com/)
XiaXue's blog and gmail account got hacked into...
~ 3,000 of her emails deleted
~ 12 or so blog also gone

This is terrible...worse than getting threatened by some organization's lawyers for comments made on one's own blog.

Can't really help her cos don't know her...but hey Xia Xue...here's a tribute to you...hope you can get your blog on the road again

Fellow Blogger

The Thinkers 50 2003

The original global ranking of business thinkers

Source:http://www.thinkers50.co.uk/?page=2003

1. Peter Drucker
2. Michael Porter
3. Tom Peters
4. Gary Hamel
5. Charles Handy
6. Philip Kotler
7. Henry Mintzberg
8. Jack Welch
9. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
10. Jim Collins
11. Sumantra Ghoshal
12. CK Prahalad
13. Warren Bennis
14. Peter Senge
15. Robert Kaplan & David Norton
16. Stephen Covey
17. Edgar H Schein
18. Chris Argyris
19. Kenichi Ohmae
20. Bill gates
21. Kjell Nordstrom & Jonas Ridderstrale
22. Clayton Christensen
23. John Kotter
24. Nicholas Negroponte
25. Jim Champy
26. Andy Grove
27. Scott Adams
28. Richard Pascale
29. Daniel Goleman
30. Naomi Klein
31. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne
32. Don Tapscott
33. Michael Dell
34. Richard Branson
35. Edward De Bono
36. Ricardo Semler
37. Thomas A Stewart
38. Geoffrey Moore
39. Jeff Bezos
40. Paul Krugman
41. Lynda Gratton
42. Alan Greenspan
43. Manfred Kets De Vries
44. Robert Waterman
45. Watts Wacker
46. Patrick Dixon
47. Geert Hofstede
48. Don Peppers
49. Stan Davis
50. Fons Trompenaars

Feature on Temasek Holdings

Temasek Holdings "key investments & effective shareholdings"
(as at 18 July 2005 from TH website)

~ Telcom & Media
1. SingTel (aka brother-in-law's company) 63%
2. ST Telemedia (controls StarHub, SingTel's competitor) 100%
3. MediaCorp 100%
4. Telekom Malaysia 5%

~ Financial Services
1. DBS (note: DBS' chairman is also TH' chairman) 28%
2. Bank Danamon 56%
3. ICICI Bank 9%
4. Bank Internasional Indonesia 28%
5. Hana Bank 10%
6. Fullerton Fund Management 100%
7. NDLC-IFIC Bank 25%

~ Property
1. CapitalLand 61%
2. Raffles Holdings 36%
3. Ascott Group 42%
4. Keppel Land 17%
5. Mapletree Investments 100%

~ Transportation & Logistics
1. SIA (note: SIA chairman is also on TH's board) 57%
2. PSA International 100%
3. NOL 68%
4. SMRT corp 62%
5. SembCorp Logistics 31%

~ Energy
1. SP 100%
2. Tuas Power 100%
3. Senoko Power 100%
4. PowerSeraya 100%
5. SembCorp Utilities 51%

~ Infrastructure, Engineering & Tech
1. ST Engineering 55%
2. Keppel Corp 32%
3. SembCorp Industries 51%
4. Keppel Offshore & Marine 32%
5. SembCorp Marine 32%
6. Chartered Semicon Mfg 60%
7. STATS ChipPAC 66%

~ Others
1. Wildlife Reserves Singapore (huh???) 88%
2. Aetos Security Mgt 100%
3. Surbana Corp 100%
4. Cisco Security 100%