Downpour, Not Quite Torrential

Yes, it's a terrtional downpour, at 3.30 on a lazy Sunday. Not quite what I'll call torrential but sure helps the Marina Barrage. 

Sunset at Upper Pierce

Naming the New University

The MOE wants the public to name the 4th Uni.

I suggested: Temasek University

Explanation for Choice of Name (in no more than 100 words): Got Singapore, got Nanyang, cannot use Ngee Ann, so the next choice is Temasek lor

Singapore mah, what else? University of Changi meh? 

NDP Flyby

Waiting at the western end of the Esplanade Bridge, just behind the Merlion, waiting for the NDP final rehearsal to happen. The flag-bearing Chinook escorted by 3 Apaches approaching from the north.

Nian Gao

Nian gao...yum yum. Doesn't really look good in this pict but yum,yum...can't wait

Committing

I think I am about to commit the cardinal sin. I think I am about ot fall in love with a colleague who is going to be my subordinate. And I am not unhappy about it.

More Work

I tried teaching Arlene for the forth time yesterday the documentation flow. She still doesn't quite get it and I don't blame her cos it took me more than a month of being really on the job to understand it too.

She's not unintelligent or anything but I had been hoping that with her 6 years of experience on a main line operator, she'll pick things up more quickly. Maybe I'm just a bad teacher.

Took her out for lunch to try and cheer her up alittle but not quite sure it worked. She did open up alittle and told me she didn't like the job. Not sure if she meant she regetted coming to SIN to work though. Well, it's tough, going to another country to work, where the food is unfamiliar, the people talk loudly and in a strange accent, and work habits are different. I wonder if the money (which is not that great) is worth it. At least she's on a S-Pass instead of the more restrictive Work Permit.

I missed Hobart today.

2007

And it's 2007. Feels no different from 2006. But it's good to have a long weekend to rest.

Thursday

And it's Thursday. Damn, it's almost Christmas weekend, and I'm wondering where the week went.

The previous week in ICT passed so s-l-o-w-l-y that we were all wondering when it was going to end. But it was good, to get away from the office and to breathe the diesel fumes in Gedung, to meet up and catch up with the people you have almost forgotten and to be able to curse and swear freely cos no one around would give a damn.

Things change and things stay the same. Incompetent warrant officers, bo chup officers, overly hardworking NSFs; they are all still there. More IT systems to and more civilians track IPPT and medical status but things don't look any much more efficient then when we did such things manually during our active days.

But I'll give it to them that the electronic IPPT system is way much better for NSmen who can wonder about and clear all the stations within half an hour depending in 2.4 speed of course :)...I almost passed, twice.

X'mas lunch gift exchange at the office today. Sam brought me two ties, which is just what I need and I got Angerline a set of very nice photo frames.

anGRy

So I'm back from ICT. I wanted to write a more complete entry today but in the afternoon I went down to Ikea to buy a shelving unit an a new computer desk for my room. The shelving unit was fine but the computer desk had missing components and it took no less than four trips and several rude and unhelpful Ikea people to get it fixed.

I'm so angry right now cos it's almost 10.30pm, my room's still a mess and all I wanted to do today was write about ICT and watch a few DVDs.

And Blogger Beta is slow.

>:(