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 ...
Career
Various grouses about working life
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 ...
A Vicious Cycle?
Even though I have only been in the public service for a short time, I have come to notice a very interesting cycle. Singapore is a small country with limited natural resources. The only thing ...
How do we become excellent?
I recently went on a field trip to the National Library Board (NLB) to learn more about their service excellency journey and being the ever ardent fan of the public library, I lapped up all the information ...
Should it be deleted?
It would only be a matter of time before I had to make a decision such as this one. Someone posted a comment on our Facebook page today requesting support for a rather anti-government blog. The choice of site was ...
Who’s the boss around here?
It has been two months since I started work at my current position. I have to say that thus far the job nature is exceedingly interesting and enjoyable! I never realised I could come to ...
Wealth and Quality of Life
Spurred by an interesting dialogue between two members of the Parliament about the adequacy of using GDP as a measure of a country’s well-being, I posted the following comment on Facebook – Quality of life ...
Unspoken Boundaries
I have completed the migration and compilation of all my blog entries from various sources into one. I felt sad shelving the web pages I have worked on since October 2009 but we keep looking ...