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2011
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2012
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Naturally maximising productivity and efficiency is something every Singaporean business needs to do, especially in the uncertain economic climate of today; thus waste elimination is crucial. The biggest opportunity lies in unused human talent.

Too many organisations allow employees to ‘hang their brain on the gate post’ when they come to work, providing little encouragement or in some cases even discouraging their people from getting involved in contributing ideas that will improve the business.

A company’s single most powerful competitive lever is its people.

How the organisation harnesses that ‘brainpower’ will significantly influence its success. But how do you go about getting individuals to contribute their ideas?

From my experience over the last 20 years I have identified some key dos and don’ts

• Do ask frontline staff. Often the people closest to where the work gets done are the ones who best understand what is not working well, and given appropriate encouragement and opportunity are the ones who can provide solutions.
• Don’t make it too hard to submit an idea. I once worked with an organisation that asked employees to complete a four-page document and submit a business case just to raise a suggestion. If it is too hard people won’t bother!
• Do encourage employees to submit ideas for small improvements. It is far easier to make lots of 1% improvements than it is to find that one magic 100% improvement. 
• Don’t ask for ideas if you are not ready to implement some of them. Simply generating large volumes of ideas and suggestions but not executing them is pointless. Plus employees can find it disheartening being asked to contribute and then seeing nothing happen. It is vital to allocate people and resources to implementation.
• Do provide feedback to everyone who provides ideas. Seeing an idea disappear into a black hole never to emerge is not something that will motivate an employee to submit another idea.
• Don’t take too long to evaluate ideas. Make decisions at the front line as much as possible. This will result in better decisions, speed up implementation and prevent the suggestion process from becoming a bureaucracy.
• Do ask employees to contribute ideas and suggestions about a particular issue or opportunity. Ideally the improvement process should be aligned with the company strategy, so this should provide a focus. Concentrating on a particular theme or area may reduce the number of submitted ideas but it’s all about quality not quantity. This approach should result in more being used, as it is easier to focus implementation resources on one area.
• Don’t invent elaborate reward schemes for suggestions. Keep it simple or it will create cost and remember that the simplest - and often most appreciated - form of recognition is to say thank you.
• Do make time for employees to spend on improvement. Reduce the time spent on ‘firefighting’ by fixing core business processes and making ‘the routine things happen routinely’.

Most organisations only scratch the surface of the potential of their employees. Can you afford to leave all that brainpower untapped?

Stuart Harman, Partner, Oliver Wight  

there used to be a time when writing out the whole day's episodes gave me peace and gave me a better notion of who i am

it would prob be a combination of being more at ease with myself, already knowing better who i am, and having less time to waste on reflecting the same ol' everyday, that I'd stopped recounting my daily blessings and blessures

today, sunday, at the end of a week, and at a midpoint of my life where i find the need to take stock again.

i'll be 30 in less than a month. i'll be a proud joint-owner of a renovated apartment in less than 3 months. i'll be married in less than 6 months to the one i love.

i've closed the 14 year gap that my brother led in front of me in 5 years. i can live without him around. he can't. he can't do what i can do. from being the so called 'helper' to him at day 1, i am now indispensable to the company. everyone reports to me and comes to ask me why he is doing this/that here and there. i had to talk to him like i'm his father. i look at his face and i see a child's synapses flowing thru his head. being forced into that role is not fun at all. i abhor being that person.

i can't fully accept how the older adults in my family run their lives and mine, but i'm slowly beginning to let go in order to accept who they are. unfortunately, given the responsibility already, and being the strong one, no one looks out for me. i am the only one looking out for myself. i can trust no one.

unfortunate as it sounds, i have to find joy in what i still can do and have achieved, even in the short 1 week that just past. my live is going as planned actually.

- confirmed my house reno contractor

- chose my 5 awesome wedding dresses. balance 1 tea dress TBA.

- stayed a night at the marriott exec room!

- nursed a bleeding bad ulcer the whole week bcz i bit my tongue really badly...

- fixed my bloody BB9810 myself because it gave me the white screen of death and Error 507

- met an 'unorthodox' christian who said "when you become a christian, one of the hardest problems to grapple with is the other christians". i agree, yet i scoff at it. because it really is the thing that revolves around my life.

- hunted for HM's favourite caramel ice cream on orchard incl around a bustling orchard towers at 2359L. (small matter but i would like to be able to read this for myself in future)

- a 747's arrival and departure: full coordination. not without glitch, but all resolved quickly.

- a few other regular customers' arrivals and departures. pretty smooth. some of it delegated out without fear because I now trust my new guy of 3 years!

- managed a few new deals who came to me. why are they coming to me like they are falling out of the sky? it's all new to me. i wish i knew better how to deal with them.

is it God's blessings? i don't deserve to be given any mercy, grace or blessing. i'm just a nobody. i need money now that I am going to start my next stage of life, yet all this business is pouring in. not say money is pouring in because cash flow still needs to be managed. but as long as i manage ok, the money will be there to take.

i guess, when i need more money, i need to work more. just as what i had to sagely tell him and to my parents. but just purely saying working more doesn't mean more work will be there for me to do. so is it that God really is providing? God is giving the grace and mercy and blessing? God is doing what no man can do as usual?

i hope so. i can't tell. i don't know when i can say yes for sure. but i really hope so.

going back to becoming 30 and settling down. i won't be able to fight and work at the level i was used to at 25. i need more but without the energy i used to have, how do I deal with all these new endeavors? i guess the answer had been given to me many times before already.

work smarter. build a team i can trust.

i think i'm ready to find new blood and come in to 'help' me.

this stock taking has been good...

For ref

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who am i

i must have lost myself somewhere between.

i should find out at which point it began, but prob does not matter.

because i can remember who i was.

now to become that person again.

what do you do when you are stuck in a sea of negativity for all your life? how about also being the lowest form of life in this very negative household thereby bearing the brunt of the worst of the negativity like you don't deserve any respect, like your existence is not welcome, like you are always wrong, like a piece of dirt. so whatever you do you must always give in the the rest of the useless household even when you have already tolerated it all your life?

in the stomach

hate this feeling

why so many things to wrestle at one time

why does everyone expect me to make their problem mine

how to think about getting married... i just wanna move home and get on with life smoothly.. don't want any hooha.. very tiring to have drama everyday..

so hard to think positive.... but have to suck it in

i survived 2011 and i learnt a lot.
in 2012, i will thrive and get a life. there is so much to protect and so much more to fight for.

life is good

can't wait for holiday and get the sparkle back in my eyes, everything looks so dull now!

Why does one hate cleaning up other people's unnecessary mess?

Because its like wiping and scrubbing the gross toilet bowl clean.

Worse still sometimes the flush also doesn't work. Flush also no use. Have to somehow patch up the problem then hunt for a plumber to come. If no $ to hire a plumber, then have to learn to plumb it yourself.

You say angry or not after cleaning up the shit.

What if the other person is your responsibility and his ass never wipe clean? So have to wipe for him? He mite as well go eat shit and die.

just when I'm beginning to think doing all the extra work like making more friends than enemies in my career, the soup restaurant treat I insisted on giving to some very unrelated people (and relatively un-influential) from 2-3 years ago is bearing some fruit. unripe, but the gestation has begun.

i want to hold myself back, but I can't help it. praise the lord for he is the one who gives.

hard work put in does not always equal results because God is the one who decides whether to give you the results.

i have been cleaning up the mess but nothing in my power can clean every thing up.

I don't deserve all your snide remarks.

you owe me. all of you.

i don't owe you anything. i have been very filial as much as I could but words fail me how unimportant i am to you as your flesh and blood. you only remember me for my usefulness. i am human too. i tell you straight out how i feel, and aren't you ashamed?

i can't wait to leave this place forever and forget this place ever existed.

lai chan cheongsam
poufy white dress
dramatic evening gown
gloves
fascinator
sobek loubs

bicycle
mrt
bus
car with only the wheelbase,steering wheel and seats
aeroplanes
boat
scooter


old historical buildings: parliament, arts house, haji lane, fullerton hotel, raffles hotel, goodwood park, fairways, red dot, tongtong entrance, shaun's brick wall
NO sam museum, NO fort canning, NO botanic garden
in the mood for love

new today buildings: MBS, gardens at the bay, changi airport, NTU, ion, pontiac land water wall, gateway beach rd


props:
spray gold mini animals
red umbrella
lace umbrella
balloons
calbee chips?
sword?
starbucks

sisters:
pompom skirt under their floral dress

the housing is on track so far.

the wedding plans are progressing sporadically..

now i'm thinking to fix the color theme..
i would love a very saturated/satin turquoise or emerald combined with matte and glossy gold.. art deco style. it should be consistent with all the stationery, decor and attires!

i want a pair of fushcia/fandango colored shoes with my white dress!

next i need to set the evening dress color(s) too...

everyday should be small victories day. like today. be happy a little then move on to the next challenge. rawr.

we got the ground floor unit facing the runway!
sign chop guarantee!

electricity & aircon all built in!