Banking on social media
Nope this post isn’t about how great social media is and why you should definitely include it in your marketing strategy. That’s for the twenty page report that I am currently writing right now. And it ...
Career
Various grouses about working life
The bloggers behind the blog
Yesterday, our organisation had an appreciation lunch for external partners whom we have worked with for the year. Our team invited the bloggers who have been faithfully contributing to our website FOC (save for the ...
Of two different worlds
I have a colleague who remains an enigma to me. She first caught my attention with her long flowy hair, tall slim build and make-up that accentuated her features in a very attractive way . ...
Faith is Trusting the unprovable
Out of sheer frustration, I am re-examining my purpose in life. When life starts going out of orbit, it has a tendency to make people go into soul searching mode. And somehow that always brings ...
Life sucks
Work has been draining the life out of me. I have never quite been so unhappy at work for as long as I remembered. Perhaps it is the general feeling of incompetence and the constant ...
Understanding the other person
I attended a supervisory management course today on effective communication, goal setting, delegation, motivation, performance appraisal and coaching. The material centers around the DISC psychometric profiling of ourselves and the people around us. We were taught the ...
Grandiose notions of changing the world
That was exactly what a dear friend said to me today. Stop trying to change the world! Which is really amusing because I never realised that this desire is so strong that my friends feel ...
Clueless about girls
Sorry if you landed here thinking that this post will help you understand the woman in your life better. Because believe it or not, as a woman myself, I find it impossible to understand my ...
Reflections of a young working Singaporean mother
I just spent the last two hours watching a women’s dialogue centered on living, working, raising children and retiring in Singapore. As a very young working mother of three myself, you can be sure this ...
Lessons from a team-building session
I attended a full day team building programme today conducted by FOCUS Adventure. If you have been reading my blogs, you would already know how I feel about my colleagues and bosses, so I was ...