After an extended period of harassment from H1N1, people at the office started to turn to some dry H1N1 humour. Even as the Singapore Government turns to mitigation, some other places still implement quarantine and work segregation plans. Colleagues are now discouraged from interacting with each other through direct contact. As a result, we are depending a lot on the telephone.
We had something to dispose of and my wife thought to call the Salvation Army. We had an old sofa that we could donate to them. Now, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with our sofa. Other than the fabric being slightly dirty, the sofa was otherwise in very good condition. I was quite surprised that the Salvation Army actually said they wanted to view it first before deciding if they wanted to take it! Here we have people happy donate a piece of usable furniture, but there they were choosing that donations they want to accept.
Their website says “thin crust is available in all sizes”, but when I called, they did not have any thin crust at all. That was Canadian 2-For-1 Pizza. How disappointing. I used to like ordering Canadian 2-For-1 Pizza. One of the reasons has been the perceived value-for-money: 2 pizzas for the price of 1. But over time, their service has declined, their prices became less competitive, and their food wasn’t particularly outstanding anyway. Their service, particularly, has become quite bad.
Every now and then, someone asks me “Are you a student?” It has become a sort of introductory line at seminars and conferences for sales and PR people to start a conversation with me. They look at me, then look at my name tag, see that I come from a university, and then think that I’m probably a student.
The recent few high-profile suicide cases features in our media certainly raises a bunch of questions. Although many people’s reaction are going to be that suicide isn’t the solution, that it’s such a pity to die young, etc, sometimes I wonder if they’ve spent some time to think from that person’s perspective? What’s wrong with suicide? Why isn’t it the solution?
If you’re looking for a fantastic free notebook deal, I think I know where to go. I’m talking about a real notebook computer, not paper notebooks to scribble in. There’s an element of chance, but there’s plenty to go around. It is somewhat like a lucky draw, but I suspect the chances of hitting the jackpot are probably many times better than striking 4-D or winning the Toto lottery. Just invest in a little bit of time, and head down to the NUS campus.
I’m sorry to make light of these grave matters, but a colleague put it this way and I thought it was quite an interesting take: too much stress in NTU, too much partying in NUS. This is about the two student deaths that occurred this same week. A student at NTU was said to have stabbed his professor apparently after having lost his scholarship due to deteriorating grades then subsequently falling to his death, and an exchange student at NUS Â apparently passed away after having had too much to drink.
I’d never guess, but apparently professorship can be rated as a high risk job. In our tiny island of Singapore, look at how many professors have been injured on the job. It seems like the university can be very much as stressful an environment as the “outside” commercial world. Who would have thought so? Perhaps our students and academia are too strung up. Okay, clearly so, our education system in Singapore is far too competitive.
We ordered KFC delivery today for an office event. It’s the first time for me. I think the order taking service could be very much improved. The first thing they needed was my address, so I gave it to them. They put me on hold, for almost like 5 minutes, before coming back just for a brief moment to tell me to wait a little longer. Then I was on hold again for a while. When they came back again, I quickly interrupted them and demanded to know why was I on hold for so long.
I’m impressed. I’m so popular, in just one workday, I achieved a record breaking 50 new missed calls. Yes, people keep calling and calling me, no answer on the office phone, redirects out to my handphone, which has no signal because I spent much of the day somewhere with no phone coverage. Then they’ll try again.
This is the Nokia 5730 Comes With Music phone which, as the display says, will be coming soon. It seems like lately Nokia is releasing a whole bunch me phones that look and function about the same. Case of giving customers a false sense of choice?
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Back to this stall for their yummy beef brisket again. It's at Holland Road Hawker Centre. It's really good. But the funny thing is that they are supposed to be famous for their pork ribs I think (which I've not tried).
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