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Shoebox Christmas

2012-01-12T21:35:00.000+08:00

Kampung Terian is situated in the district of Penampang, 16KM away from the main road. However, It is only accessible by a 4 wheeler with centipede wheels, airlocks, snorkels and whatnot. The journey would take around 2.5 hours -3 hours, depending on the road and weather conditions. The folks from the Kampung usually depend on the Ministry of Health to airlift supplies and medications to them from time to time. All that remains of a promise by their adun for a Klinik Desa is an empty plot of land. There is no electricity except that which is generated by some solar panels. Then again, the electricity supply is insufficient to last them through the night. DIGI is certainly not the smarter choice in Kampung Terian. The nearest village is another 2 hours away on foot.

We reached the village at about one in the afternoon. The journey was uneventful save for a number of occasions where the winch was needed. Moving on, the medical clinic was up and running in thirty minutes. A group of medical officers from GH manned the consulting rooms. I made myself useful at the dispensary which happened to be the busiest.

Philippians

2011-07-20T19:51:00.004+08:00

1. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
2. The ruthless gain only wealth; if you want to gain wealth you have to be ruthless; you have to be ruthless when it counts.
3. A broken man, is hard to come by.
4. I don't have a car, but I get to walk the talk.

Selangor

2011-07-15T14:46:00.006+08:00

1. Aspirational but not inspirational
2. Permanent friends or permanent interests?
3. Disadvantaged to resilient students- a beautiful process that I want to be part of
4. We respond to incentives
5. Attract the best to teaching- Precious few have truly inspired me
6. Hidden love, is not love at all. To extrapolate it further, the state government of Selangor needs to highlight its achievements to the Rakyat. Without which all their hard work will go to waste if the Rakyat are not under the impression that the government has brought about unprecedented income into its coffers.

"The 4 PR states of Penang, Selangor, Kedah and Kelantan have beat the other 10 BN states by attracting RM25 billion in investments comprising 53% of Malaysia's total investments of RM47.2 billion in 2010. For the first time in history, Penang is now the new champion of investments in Malaysia, coming out top in 2010."
7. Memorable dinner, memorable lunch
8. Be comforting first
9. Deuteronomy 11: 8 Observe therefore all the commands that I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
10. Obedience brings with it strength

2011-06-08T23:47:00.002+08:00

1. What is happening in my life?

2. What is the God saying about what's happening?

3. And what am I going to do about it?

Torres Strait Islanders

2011-06-06T22:31:00.003+08:00

1. The growth zone is always outside the comfort zone, you will never grow if you settle for the status quo

2. Discovery is the inspiration of living, the first step is learning something good to pass on

3. We live in an unseen world where truth is the most precious commodity - Ravi Zacharias

4. John 17:17

5. Relish the teachable moments, ask the right questions

6. Had a hand in preparing dinner, forgot to fry the prawns before the garlic and vegetables

I attended a lecture today by two Aborigines from Australia where the topic of discussion was cultural safety. During the introduction, the speaker drew up a map of Australia that was fragmented into 207 pieces. Each of the fragments represented an Aborigine tribe with a specific language. I had no idea that the Aborigine race was so diverse. Currently, there are 500,000 Aborigines of which more than 50% of them reside in the urban areas. Where are the Torres Strait Islanders located?

2011-06-05T21:58:00.002+08:00

1. Sorrow may last for the night, but joy comes in the morning; I love mornings

2011-06-02T17:19:00.005+08:00

1. Spending time in the labour room, start by offering a service

2. Life is too short to be lived without thoughtful, skilled competence

3. There is no short cut to the renewing of the mind. It is a daily investment

4. Realized that we are the greatest recipients of grace, of undeserved favours

5. Therefore, in the light of true grace, we have an accountability to grow

Blue Bar

2011-05-29T22:44:00.002+08:00

1. Time to focus on the inner life

2. Value authenticity

3. Esteem substance

4. Heard the call to discipline from the pulpit on Saturday night at Jurong West

5. 0600 hours

6. Ate too much cheese at Valentino's

7. Good time w Dad, brothers and friend

d-_-b

2011-05-24T22:42:00.002+08:00

1. What is it that keeps playing over and over in your head? Encouragement or discouragement?

2. We all have plans, ideas and all the resources we need at our disposal. But we are always tired.

3. How strong is your resolve? Do you falter under pressure or change your mind if the alternative could help others but make yourself miserable?

4. Have I been a blessing today? For it is better to give than to receive.

5. Sat through our first self-directed bedside, energy is contagious, lets keep a good thing going.

6. He who serves reigns

7. Time to hit 1000/day

bakrimusa

2011-05-12T21:53:00.000+08:00

1. Are you organised for effective action?

2. Once you know what to look for, you will see policy battles played out on a daily basis

3. Interest groups may be seen lobbying government decision makers, participating in expert groups, commissioning research and advertising

4. You are not accountable to the community, but on paper, you seek to influence policy that affect the community

5. Bakrimusa.com

BMW Edge- Federation Square

2011-04-19T23:08:00.004+08:00

1. Iridescent

2. Year 3 Faculty Prize

3. Ex-Health Minister's words - What are you going to include in your CV? Who are the senators in your state? Why is this important?

4. Humbled and grateful- Time to broaden my horizon and drive the stakes into the ground

5. Need to get proper shoes

6. Koko Black w Joel and Sarah, have to really appreciate Joel for giving up his precious assignment time to accompany me for the ceremony, floored

7. Witnessed my first Greenpeace protest against ANZ which was sadly short lived

8. Shook Steve Wesselingh's hand

9. Some things you have to work out with fear and trembling

10. Alexander travelled all the way to the city again to meet up, floored again

11. Will mail that postcard tmr!

Swanston Street

2011-04-18T21:56:00.002+08:00

1. Day 3 in Melbourne, had a good walk around the CBD w Alexander, bumped into Victoria, feels like a happy city

2. 1/3 of my way through the Lost Symbol

3. Finally opened an account

4. Visited the Crown and played 21 with the Queen, left while I was ahead, I will come back for you, Nobu

5. Experienced a little peer pressure

6. What you value will increase in value

7. Visited Swinburne

8. Had the biggest rum and raisin serving in my life

9. Cycled and worked out Down Under, perfect weather for sports

10. Need a smart phone and a camera, memories for life

Thank you

2010-10-09T23:31:00.002+08:00

1. So, would you rather be a captain of a canoe or first mate of a large cruise? Go!

2. Some connections unfold future and create destiny, these are the connections that will always come under attack, keep those connections alive

3. It may sound surprising, but 90% of my destiny is found inside other people

4. Hence the saying that destiny comes out from community

5. Barnabas, the son of encouragement

6. Ps Phil kept everyone til 8pm, dinner at subway til half past 9, back in JB by 10

2010-10-09T00:47:00.002+08:00

1. Always watch out for hidden costs, always be aware that they exist

2. True faith must be preceded by true repentance

3. Your confession should be as wide as your transgressions

4. Visited a German owned condom factory at Senai today. The attention to details. Impressed. The label "Tight" actually means snug fit, which actually means small.

5. Found a new place for WINGS

2010-10-07T22:49:00.007+08:00

1. Returned from a fruitful meeting. I really like to sit back and listen to people talk about/share/explain ideas, especially since they are wiser. Listen, then speak.

2. And the King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you have done it one the least of these my brothers, you have done it to me.'

3. Attended an unpleasant case presentation this week where it seemed as if some of the students were more interested in preying on the faults of their colleagues as opposed to learning medicine; god forbid that any of us enjoyed the spectacle. Was there reason to be unkind? To humiliate our own? Shouldn't we defend and protect?

4. There can be reason to disagree and to argue, but there should be no reason to be unkind

5. This is how we judge others:

When an enemies make a mistake, they're idiots

When friends make a mistake they're only human

Double-standards

6. We are all the same, in need of amazing grace

2010-10-04T21:02:00.004+08:00

1. Lest we forget what made this day significant

2. A time to search and a time to give up

3. Longing for the days when the Big Mac was actually BIG

4. Mr Ushwe: " So now, you in Sabah, and you are the surgeon. There is no endoscope and you are in the OT, how would you find the source of bleed in the bowel?"

" Don't know Sir"

" Ah, you use the district method!"

- We teach global, but practice local

2010-10-03T15:02:00.003+08:00

1. Completed my 5th Mini case record today. Patient with a known Hx of Colorectal Ca presented at the A&E with a one week Hx of abdominal distention worse after eating. Associated with non specific abdominal pain that involved the back, altered bowel habits and one episode of non-bilious vomitus. All these were classical symptoms of intestinal obstruction. My initial impression was adhesion colic because of a previous history of abdominal surgery. However, the patient was also mildly jaundiced and slightly febrile. Physical Examination was unremarkable except for the fact that he was jaundiced. Blood investigations revealed a normal full blood count, there were no dilated loops of bowel in the abdominal x-ray. An ultrasound of the pancreato-biliary tree and liver was carried out. The findings were, a thickened gall bladder wall and stones. A serum amylase was subsequently ordered, it was in the thousands - 2206. A Provisional Diagnosis of Gall stone Pancreatitis was made.

The interesting thing about the patient was that he looked too well for his condition.

At the A&E, the differentials that the houseman arrived at were 1. Non-specific abdominal pain 2. Colon Ca with secondary metastatis.

In the ward, the surgeon's impression was adhesion colic. This was before the abdominal x-ray results were ready. On seeing that there were no abnormalities on the abdominal x-ray, the surgeon subsequently ordered a serum amylase as well as USG abdomen which nailed the diagnosis.

Lesson- In non-specific abdominal pain, do not forget serum amylase!

2. Met up with the boys the day before, was most impressed when

David said: " I'm not making full use of the NLB"

Darren said: " Sometimes, I find that prep is too short"

3. Ps Tan spoke about turning points. Whenever Naaman looked at his baby like- skin, he is reminded of his object of service; whenever Gehazi looked at his leprose skin, he also is reminded of his object of service

4. The traveling experience is less then satisfying but the destination is worth it

2010-10-02T00:24:00.006+08:00

1. There is always a cost and with it a reward

2. Its Dad's birthday today. The person whom I have the utmost respect for; the person I will tell my kids about; the example for everything I want to become

3. The washing machine is making weird noises

4. Do you love me, Peter? Then feed my sheep

2010-10-01T14:03:00.004+08:00

1. Was reminded over dinner last night that I have to start preparing for my SPM BM paper, still unable to find the motivation to do so; I need another fella with the same predicament

2. Pay the extra RM 1 if you know that the other box of fresh milk tastes better even if another company tries to undersell to you. Be the loyal customer, not the convenient one

3. Packing your own bottled water to meals does save money

4. How does one jump start a cooling relationship?

2010-09-29T22:35:00.004+08:00

1. Even the best surgeons may perforate bowel

2. Wonder how it feels to be on the front line in the hospital

3. Had a "deep calls to deep" conversation with a certain drummer dude, may the omnipotent one enlarge our tents

4. Reminded again that mentors are indispensable and precious

5. Was mightily impressed by the fitness level of the medical students at the inter medical varsity games. Note to self, do not rest on your laurels!

6. Do something for the kid in you everyday

2010-09-22T23:20:00.003+08:00

1. Let go and again i say, let go

2. The best antidote to fear is to take initiative again and again

3. Keep on meeting up again and again

4. CCF or AECOAD?

2010-09-21T21:52:00.004+08:00

1. Been having discomfort on the medial meniscus of both my knees after standing for an extended period of time. Pes planus, you are starting to rear your ugly head. In-soles.

2. To play or not to play basketball? The satisfaction of scoring a field goal is orgasmic, but is the pain that you discover while standing under the shower worth it?

3. If you have time to worry, you're not busy or doing enough or thinking enough

4. A diagnosis of PUO means "I have not looked hard enough". Look into the ears, the throat, the nose, the web spaces in between the toes, the lymph nodes, the back for punctums, the site of the branula, the CBD, the CVL, the chest tube, the chest drain, the NG tube.............

and you don't need to wait for the fever to last for more than 2 weeks.

5. There is such a thing as work related stress leading to hyperthermia

6. Don't lose the initiative

2010-09-16T21:46:00.002+08:00

1. Money does grow on trees, that is after you've put in the necessary (ground) work. Elaeis guineensis

2. Re-familiarized myself with Koch's postulates

3. Been tailoring with the idea that - clothes doeth maketh a man

4. The prospect of and requirements to enrolling into an MBA program is intriguing; I need material for the essays, real life stories

5. Some things you leave on the back burner and forget, some things you leave on the back burner but not forget

2010-07-11T21:16:00.002+08:00

Taking stock and being thankful thus far for:

1. Longines

2. Lovely PBL mates

3. Awesome Tutors, Dr Wong, Prof Toh, Prof Khalid, Dr Pagal, Dr Yap

4. Studio Unit

5. New Nike Bag

6. Warm Cell Group, Dorothy

7. Ps Chee Kiang

8. Seafood meal with Ps Kevin, Esther, Heng

9. Road Trips to Papar and the land office

10. 7 a.m. Genting with Amos, Joel, Eric and of course Uncle Lim

11. 3 a.m. Sri Petaling Dim Sum with Eric, if not for Joel locking me out of the hse

12. 12 a.m. Jln Ipoh Dim Sum with Heng

13. Half empty/ Half full Glenfiddich bottle

14. The Zone

15. Mizuno trainers from David and Darren

16. Part of Heng's Heng Tai and burning lips

17. Dinner at Tony's and Outback with brothers and friends

18. Free Rosmarino dinner with Heng

19. Fresh Prawns from the Southern Prawn King

20. Malfunctioning car aircon in Singapore and the subsequent journey

21. Ah Mao, for letting me stay at his place and the opportunity to tidy it up

22. Breakfast with Hocks

23. The long walk back to Aloha

24. New gym partner

25. Home-cooked food from Johann

26. Chinese seafood dinner with Johann and parents

27. Late night supper with BOb

28. Dinner at Tao with Amos, Brian, Andrew, Ah Mao, Heng

29. The eventful journey from Damansara- Sentral- Banggi- Nilai- KLIA to see Amos off with 10 minutes to spare

30. Lost my phone

31. My understanding of the ECG

32. Friendly MO Dr Fazli

33. Asia Conference and all the lessons

34. Experience of helping out in a school camp and earning money

35. New pathology tutor, may my love for the subject grow, susah.....

36. Movie night with family

37. 3 CME dinners!

38. Favourable MCR scores and tutors

39. Transport to cell group and church, to the people who gave me a ride, may your gas tank runneth over

40. Memorable Singapore trips with friends and brothers

41. Dad's visit to JB and the dinner he cooked

42. Mom for being patient and understanding

43. Sadong Jaya Ramly and Spain > Portugal at 230 with Doug and Marco

44. Lunch with Ragh at Likas Square

45. Attended first auction with Dad

46......

2010-06-13T23:43:00.002+08:00

You got my attention first thing in the morning and you did it the way only you know how.
I am grateful.

2010-06-09T17:08:00.002+08:00

1. Sometimes fear speaks

2. Sometimes greed speaks

3. Sometimes jealousy speaks

4. Sometimes insecurity speaks

5. Sometimes joy speaks

6. Sometimes love speaks

7. Sometimes hope speaks

8. But always wait for faith to speak

2010-06-08T14:53:00.003+08:00

1. If I could have a wish right now, I would like to play for the Boston Celtics for the NBA championship or Spain for the World Cup

2. Forgive one's self, even for the tiniest of things

3. WTF! - what is the first thing that comes to your mind? :)

4. Kimmelstiel- Wilson Lesion

5. Narrow is the gate that leads to life, and few find it

6. Eat at 11, hungry at 3

2010-06-02T22:52:00.002+08:00

1. Woke up with this thought, will you be a clinger or kisser?

2. Had the most awesome weekend of the year so far

3. I'm pro - claiming

4. Chumbawamba is stuck in my head

5. Realized that the soul does long for fellowship

6. Met a long lost high school friend at Changi Airport

7. Again, met a long lost primary school friend at the expo mrt - what are the odds?

8. Again, connected with Wisnioski through FB

9. Had the awesome privilege of driving amos to the airport, it took me twice as long to get home.

10. 1 week away from reaching the halfway point as a medical student- cause for celebration or evaluation?

2010-05-20T16:13:00.003+08:00

1. Never say never in medicine

2. A bleed stretches the neurons, an infarct kills the neurons

3. Nothing like feeling closer to earth

4. True fans or strangers

5. Seth Godin writes well

6. Miracle: Lost phone returned to friend

7. Hungry la

2010-05-14T13:37:00.001+08:00

1. God is in the details

2. The peripheries always have a story

3. Everybody has a seizure threshold

4. Say epilepsy and people stop thinking

5. Beat China and lose to Japan again in the Finals?

6. Our condominium has 95 units and 96 swimming pools

2010-05-12T17:53:00.003+08:00

1. A new RM 15 haircut means you have to spend an extra RM 15 on wax and an extra 15s a day

2. Be meticulous when examining

3. The cold chain of medication transportation cannot be broken

4. Tan Sri Jeffery Cheah paid a mining company RM 100,000 for the piece of land, which is now Sunway

5. Lonely places make one sharper

6. Once a melioidosis, always a melioidosis

2010-05-11T16:23:00.002+08:00

1. Ended the day with more questions than answers

2. Sometimes ECGs can look normal

3. According to the MMA, we should be able to work 18 hrs/day, 7 days/wk for the rest of our lives

4. Dr. Debakey only slept for 2 hours a day while he was alive

5. I need 7

Professor KangKung

2010-05-10T18:34:00.002+08:00

1. Somethings are not meant to be carried alone

2. Laughter is good stuff. Thank God for sitcom

3. Neuroanatomy, Thou art a ..........

The entreprenuer

2010-03-12T22:46:00.003+08:00

Mas has landed again at 1.90
when should we board?
when will it take off?

Change is what people do, a fad is what people merely talk about.
The entreprenuer searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it for profit.

Buy when its in the red

2010-03-03T18:51:00.003+08:00

We can all make it with a little bit of encouragement :)

We shouldn't wast time crying when being corrected

We will always be questioned again and again

It's a practice

I know who I want to be

Someone who is committed to personal growth

In the same vein

I know who I am looking for

Someone who is committed to personal growth

Human Factor in Management

2010-02-27T21:56:00.004+08:00

Hello,

1. I've got a couple things on my mind
How should one prioritize?
It seems that we can only pay attention to only one thing at a time
Are we then products of what we pay attention to?

2. It's been an interesting weekend
Time spent in Singapore, as usual, is awesome esp w great company
It is amazing how soul connections work and feel
Now if only the Ringgit would catch up

3. Read a chapter in the book
"Startup Nation: Is Israel's Economy the strongest in the world?"
Harvard, Princeton, Yale - Everybody knows Everyone
It's on my wishlist

4. Good music in a car is hard to come by

5. Spent some time shopping for groceries today
I find consumer behaviors v interesting

6. I promised to be home by 1030

7. Management must be built on communication and personal responsibility. All members need to think through what they aim to accomplish- and make their associates know and understand that aim. All have to think through what they owe to others- and make sure that others understand. All have to think through what they, in turn, need from others- and make sure others know what is expected of them. ~ Drucker

Mixed Feelings

2010-02-21T21:37:00.002+08:00

I watched the final episode in the season finale for both Prison Break and Friends and ended up with mixed feelings.

What a lousy sentence.

Shopping

2010-02-18T14:32:00.003+08:00

Different people have different risk appetites, I like a little bit of everything, but a little too much alcohol can change that.

1. Buy into good counters
2. Buy the leaders of the sectors
3. Buy good dividend paying stocks

and wait..........

thankful for the big and small

2010-01-11T22:09:00.005+08:00

Things to be thankful for in 2009

1. Passed MED 2042

2. Passed Cell Leader's training

3. Flew to Bali w Joel

4. Flew to Ho Chi Minh w Amos

5. Flew to Singapore to catch up w David and for AR Bernard

6. Flew to Singapore w Darren to help him settle in

7. Flew to Shen Zhen w family

8. Brought some kids to Bubba Gump for lunch. hahah

9. Took Part in Emerge 2009 Manhunt

10. Took Part in Emerge 2009 Preaching Challenge

11. Preached my first sermon in leader's meeting

12. Able to find accommodation in Sunway

13. Amazing cell members from w31 and w51

14. Amazing cell leader: Nat

15. Made it through CBP (Awesome CBP mates too)

16. New Crocs

17. New New Balance shoes

18. A good time shopping in Ikea

19. Jalan Ipoh Dim Sum

20. Ridzuan Bah Kut Teh

21. Bicycle that lasted only 2 weeks

22. All the scoldings

23. Powerful Subzone Leader: Mr Heng

24. For being part of the POS team that performed during Pastor's Bday

25. The opportunity to be a cast for HTV

26. Mr Jason Tham, for lending me his suit

27. Jackass Lee, for lending me his shirt

28. Joel, for lending me his shoes and ideas

29. Opportunity to work in a law firm

30. Myopia didn't get worse

31. Found a new passion for athletics

32. A free month's gym pass at California Fitness

33. Haagen Daaz eat-all-you-can, 15 scoops was the max

34. Survived Jackass Lee's driving on the highway back from JB (He hadn't driven since he passed his driving exam and that was 3 years ago)

35. Survived Joel's driving in Bali (He didn't even have a license)

36. Almost crashed into KFC in Ho Chi Minh (Riding a bike for the first time in Vietnam)

37. Rode a motorcycle for the first time in Vietnam, the best city on earth to learn how to ride

38. Visited Ben Tanh Market (nth much to see)

39. Played guitar for chinese church for the first time w Amos + Joel

40. Mom, for never failing to pay my rent and bank in allowances

41. Listened to Bro John Avanzini preached

42. Got singled out by Keith for zoning out, gotta be sharper

43. 2 new pairs of skinny jeans

44. Converse for only RM 25

45. Special PCL members and kind PCL tutor

46. Leader's meeting on tuesday nights

47. Brian, for staying over every weekend

48. Dad, for coming to visit me and putting up my curtains and sleeping on my bed

49. David and Darren, for all the good inside jokes

50. Books! The Outlier, What the dog saw, Revolutionary Wealth, How I Caused the Credit Crunch

51. RM 500 Culture Couture voucher

52. Managed to keep in touch w friends, you guys know who you are (cliche-nya)

53. No serious illnesses

54. RM 150 Haagen Daaz Voucher

55. Surprise Birthday Party, my parents and brothers and sister managed to con me, yet again.

56. New Hobby

57. Learnt a bit more patience

58. Worked as a secretary

59. Friends who sent me off at the airport- Samuel, JeeKit, Chee Meng, Stan d man, Priscilla

60. Farewell gathering at Desmond's Hse, it made me realize the everything was worth it

61. Dr Penafort, for giving me a ride home

62. Handphone didn't die on me

63. Avatar 3D @ Singapore

64. Ps Kong's preaching

65. .....still thinking..

Spermicide

2009-08-17T21:57:00.003+08:00

That is spermicide in a basin.
Ron says it looks like mentos.

Thoughts.
Do you know what can really spoil a good day?
Bad service.

IKEA

2009-08-15T14:47:00.005+08:00

Thoughts.
If the world is going to burn,
why do we still have to learn? :)
I was challenged today.
I have a long way to go in terms of learning how to communicate.
Put my feelings into words.
It is so true that communication is not about what you say.
It is about what people hear.
I realized that there were certain times when I was misquoted, misunderstood,
not that it doesn't happen to anyone, but if it can be helped, I want to work on it:)

Happenings.
I learnt how to assemble a table.
My chair has a name, Jeff, and "he" has a weight limit.
Dave's Pasta has really efficient service.
Joel raced a ferrari. *ahem

Monday Subway

2009-08-10T22:44:00.004+08:00

2 reasons to be happy its Monday:

1. Subway's BMT is going at only RM 7.50
2. Shogun's buffet lunch is only going at RM 32.50
~~3. California fitness is empty~~

Thoughts.
Don't try to compare yourself with others.
Others' success will discourage you, or yours will make you proud.
The remedy for cardiomegaly or ventricular hypertrophy or whatever is envy and bitterness, it'll shrink your heart.

Weekend

2009-08-10T00:37:00.004+08:00

Thoughts.
If you can touch a family, you can touch three generations.
If you can destroy a family, you will destroy three generations.
If you can't talk about it, its probably out of control.
If you are a poor, you'll have less friends. hmmm. This is life.
If you can't solve something, manage it.
If you can't manage it, accept it.
What is my five year plan? (sounds like sec 3 history, Lenin and whatnot)
Knowing when to quit is probably as important as knowing when to start no?

Happenings over the weekend.
Heard some demons, one sounded like a snake. woah.
Had my first meal of the day at 9:30 p.m.
Stayed up til 3:30 a.m. listening to wisdom.
Slept only for 3 hours.
Learned my way from Segambut to Sunway.
Slept til 1:30 p.m.
Bought my very first meal from Carl's Junior and guess who else was there.
Jeremy Thien, the fella from Malacca who always comes unannounced:)
Cycled.
Subway-ed.
KFC-ed.
Still hungry.
o.0 (whatever it means)

Monash: H1N1

2009-08-07T16:09:00.007+08:00

Happenings.
So someone from the medical faculty had to be the first person in Monash to be confirmed as H1N1 positive.
Well, that is called taking a bullet for the community.
Upside is, we get to stay home for a week.
Downside is, we don't have classes for a week.
I guess this is as close as it can get.

I want to go home

2009-08-06T16:38:00.003+08:00

I just want to know whether I've made a difference in this place.
It's hard when someone writes " I want to go home".
It's hard when someone tears because of a lost friend.
Nobody should spend their twilight years in this fashion.

EOS

2009-06-22T02:47:00.002+08:00

The head moves quickly, but the heart moves slowly.
The longest distance is usually between the head and the heart.

On a side note,
I realized that...
It took me 5 days to screw up my bio clock.
Now, I can't recalibrate it.
Oh well :)

john maxwell

2009-06-14T20:54:00.002+08:00

John Maxwell.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives, do good anyways.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies, succeed anyways.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow, do good anyways.
Honesty and frank-fullness make you vulnerable, be honest and frank anyways.
The biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind, think big anyways.
People favour underdogs, but follow only top dogs, fight for the underdogs anyways.
People really need help but often times they attack you if you help them, help them anyways.

Mother's Day

2009-05-10T02:16:00.002+08:00

Mom!!!

Happy Mother's Day!
Above the NKJV / NIV / Amplified versions of the bible,
yours is the version I like the most,
the version that you live out through your life.

Daniel

45 degrees

2009-03-23T19:56:00.002+08:00

Always remember 45 degrees whenever examining the cardiovascular system of patient.

ECG

2009-03-21T22:02:00.003+08:00

The above is an ECG readout of yours truly.
Sinus rhythm present
No PR interval abnormalities
No elevated T segment

And since we're dwelling on the subject of the cardiovascular system.
Yours truly, again, has a few thoughts to share on the subject of heart.
The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
No one on earth can figure it out.
But at the conclusion of all things,
A higher being will search the heart and give every man according to his ways.

hunted

2009-03-11T18:56:00.001+08:00

The quest for space is now over.
Walk-In wardrobe anyone?

aging

2009-03-07T23:02:00.002+08:00

The older we get, the stiffer our joints.
The older we get, the less flexible we become.

update: still house hunting.

rejection

2009-03-03T17:22:00.000+08:00

Still house-hunting.

Getting desperate :)

house hunting

2009-02-25T15:52:00.001+08:00

Arrived in Sunway.
The start of something new.
House hunting.

people

2009-02-24T23:00:00.006+08:00

To a certain Mr Alexander @ Ah Long.
I just thought I'd use this space to wish you a very Happy 21st Birthday.
Of course a card would've been better, but I figured that it would be nice to be able to come back to this page in the near future and re-read what I wrote to you.
Which wouldn't have been possible if I gave you a card.

Cut a long story short.

Sports was our meeting point.
Talking about anything under the sun, our common ground.
Hanging out, how we wasted time.
Belief in the afterlife, our religious pursuit.
Significance for this one life, our goal.
Being true love, our constant struggle.
In singing, you own me.
Rock on dude.
Maaf Zahir Batin.

"One thing I do, forgetting what is behind, I press on towards the goal for which Christ has called me heavenwards"

gaberment/prophetic

2009-02-23T14:52:00.002+08:00

On Government

We will require more rather than less government in the future.
But what we need is a different form of government.
The greatest threat is damage to the human habitat.
Second only to caring for the environment is the growing need for transnational action
and institutions to abort the return of private armies and stamp out terrorism.

so how does one person fit into the picture.

Pork-Barrel State

2009-02-22T16:38:00.003+08:00

The government becomes the master of civil society, able to mould and shape it if there are no economic limits to the revenues it can obtain. Through the power of the purse, it can shape society in the politician's image. The fiscal state thus becomes a pork-barrel state.

example from wiki
During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, the Gravina Island Bridge (also known as the "Bridge to Nowhere") was cited as an example of pork barrel spending. The bridge, pushed for by Republican Senator Ted Stevens and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, was projected to cost $398 million and would connect the island's 50 residents and the Ketchikan International Airport to Revillagigedo Island and Ketchikan. Palin, who initially supported the project, later stated that she supported a bridge, but not this costly one.

UMS invitational.

Failure of central planning

2009-02-21T15:06:00.003+08:00

Many people now considered rank-and-file will have to become capable of doing management work.

And on all levels, a manager's responsibility and competence, her vision, her capacity to choose between alternate risks, her economic knowledge and skill, her ability to manage managers and to manage worker and work, her competence in making decisions, will be greatly increased.

(I would really like to meet her)

Any society in the era of the new technology would perish miserably were it to attempt to get rid of free management of autonomous enterprise so as to run the economy by central planning.And so would any enterprise that attempted to centralize responsibility and decision making at the top.

It would go under like the great reptiles of the saurian age who attempted to control a huge body by a small, centralized nervous system that could not adapt to rapid change in the environment.

Point of thought:

Hi Daniel, do you micromanage your employees?

Start empowering them by making sure they are trained properly to do their jobs, and then give them responsibility to do it.

Provide room for failure.

managerial standards/ Pitas

2009-02-20T17:27:00.010+08:00

It can be said that there are no "underdeveloped countries" . There are only "undermanaged ones".

Give and take a hundred and forty years ago, Japan was an underdeveloped country by every material measurement. But, it very quickly produced management of great competence.

This means that management is the prime mover and that development is a consequence. Wherever we only have capital, we have not achieved development. In other words, development is a matter of human energies rather than of economic wealth. And the generation and direction of human energies is the task of management.

Microsoft Sound

2009-02-19T16:09:00.000+08:00

In 1994 Microsoft corporation designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk approached Brian Eno to compose music for the Windows 95 project. The result – composed by Eno on an Apple MacIntosh computer – was the six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, the The Microsoft Sound.

In the San Francisco Chronicle he said:

"The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while, and was quite lost, actually, and I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem — Solve it!" The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional", this whole list of adjectives, and then, at the bottom, it said: "and it must be 3¼ seconds long". I thought this was so funny, and an amazing thought, to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel. In fact, I made eighty-four pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny, little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds, at the end of this, that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then, when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were, like, three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time."

yep, lifted off entirely from wikipedia

Markets

2009-02-03T16:01:00.000+08:00

PE

NE

Market Cap

enough for the day.

Elsevier

2009-02-02T21:03:00.002+08:00

Sat in on a teleconferencing session today between kaykay and the US. It was really interesting watching the decision-makers go about doing their stuff. Two of the main people happen to be females-not surprisingly.

Zappos.com

2009-02-01T19:47:00.005+08:00

Zappos.com is an electronic commerce company specializing in footwear and is currently based in Henderson, Nevada, USA.
The name Zappos is derived from the Spanish word zapatos, meaning shoes.
These are the ten core values that Zappos.com lives by:

1. Deliver WOW Through Service
2. Embrace and Drive Change
3. Create Fun and A Little Weirdness
4. Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded
5. Pursue Growth and Learning
6. Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication
7. Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit
8. Do More With Less
9. Be Passionate and Determined
10. Be Humble

Powered by culture.

I was flipping through a Forbes magazine the other day when I came across this company. And from what I have read, Tony Hsieh (pronounced say) is a genius in creating culture. Amazing.

energy

2009-02-01T01:04:00.002+08:00

what do we do with unused energy?

basic trends

2009-01-30T19:24:00.002+08:00

Management of an institution has to be grounded in basic and predictable trends that persist regardless of today's headlines, be it 9/11, 10/11, 7/11

Henry Ford

2009-01-28T21:47:00.006+08:00

The story of Henry Ford, his rise and decline, and of the revival of his company is what one might call a controlled experiment of mismanagement. The first Ford failed because of his firm conviction that a business did not need managers and management. All it needed, he believed, was the owner-entrepreneur with his "helpers". For example, he would fire or sideline any of his "helpers", no matter how able, who dared act as a "manager", make a decision, or take action without orders from himself. Ford's failure was not the result of personality or temperament but, first and foremost, the result of his refusal to accept managers and management as necessary.

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Jeremy's 21st.
Slept at 3 a.m. last night.
Times flies when you talk.
I wake with a sense of trepidation each day, but I'll have it no other way.

reinventing

2009-01-26T14:34:00.005+08:00

Nowadays, people work increasingly with knowledge, rather than with skill. Knowledge and skill differ in a fundamental characteristic- skills change very very slowly. Knowledge, however, changes itself. It makes itself obsolete, rapidly. Thus, a knowledge worker becomes obsolescent if he or she does not go back to school every three or four years. People change over time. They become different people with different needs, different abilities, different perspectives and therefore for it comes with a need to "reinvent themselves".

You have to make something different out of yourself, rather than just find a new supply of energy when you think you are burning out.

CNYeve

2009-01-25T23:11:00.004+08:00

Whenever a Jesuit priest or a Calvinist Pastor does anything of significance (for instance, making a key decision), he is expected to write down what results he anticipates. Nine months later (the mean gestation period for humans), he then feeds back from the actual results to these anticipations. This very soon shows him what he did well and what his strengths are. It also shows him what he has to learn and what habits he has to change. Finally, it shows him what he is not gifted for and cannot do well.

thedruckersidekick on continuous learning

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Chinese New Year Eve.

whatever it means to you

2009-01-22T10:46:00.004+08:00

sICKoNfriDAY

sleep

2009-01-20T15:31:00.002+08:00

thedruckersidekick sleeps for inspiration and dreams for the future.

21

2009-01-14T22:57:00.001+08:00

thedruckersidekick turned 21

oil

2009-01-12T18:13:00.001+08:00

crude oil $39.89
▼0.94 2.30%

so what lasts forever?

2009-01-11T22:34:00.002+08:00

pain is temporary, if I quit it lasts forever.
well said, well said.

boss

2009-01-10T15:53:00.000+08:00

stalk list

"work"

2009-01-08T20:14:00.010+08:00

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Daniel has started his "work" in approach communications.
This will be his normal waking hours from hence forth 550a.m. to 11p.m. til the 25th of Feb.
Not that the world needs to know.
But He feels that the Daniel in 2020 would like these trivial details to be recorded somewhere for later viewing.
Moving on, or rather, moving back to the topic.
Daniel encountered a steep learning curve today.
However, he enjoyed it.

Short and simple yes?

abandon ship

2009-01-06T16:28:00.005+08:00

"If we did not do this already, would we, knowing what we know, go into it now?"

"No"

"What do we do now?"

"Outright abandonment"

"?"

"In any case, for management purposes there are no 'costless assets'. There are only 'sunk costs'."

"ah, ic."

and Thus, Daniel learned something new with regards to knowing when to abandon ship.

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Daniel learnt about the 2+1 principle for collecting rent today.
He feels that it is interesting to engage and negotiate with prospective tenants.

organizational inertia

2009-01-05T15:40:00.005+08:00

Every activity in an organization eventually becomes obsolete.
No need to be sentimental about yesterdays' plan or way of doing something.

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Daniel had a surprise early b'day wish this morning.
A menu is due soon at the windmill.

admonition

2009-01-04T22:14:00.006+08:00

Replace the quest for success with the quest for contribution.

An admonition from the Drucker himself.

parsimonious

2009-01-03T14:19:00.000+08:00

Daniel's first new word for the new year - parsimonious