A while back, I had a hand in the early termination of a contract staff, who had decided that he was not interested in the work anymore. I am not proud of the fact that I saved the main contractor company some money because the guy did not qualify for the contract completion bonus, and [...]
It was a typical setting. We went into a meeting to discuss one some issues, came up with some solutions or suggestions, as well as some action points. One of the young analyst was then tasked to track progress of the action items, and the meeting came to a close.
The next day, the analyst sent [...]
I have been up to my old pattern of slogging extremely long hours again. It is now back to the same old shite – grab a cup of coffee from Kopitiam, drag myself into office, watch my colleagues saunter into office. Then it is the mad rush of fire-fighting throughout the entire day, well into [...]
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So I have been “missing” for the past week. That’s mainly due to the new project in Jakarta and partly due to the poor internet connection I have over there. The only place with a decent internet connection is my project site, which is exactly where I do not access my blog from. Sigh… one [...]
My experiences with chocolate in the past have all been brief. Most of them involve putting the delicious pieces into my mouth and down they disappear into the depths of my stomach. Other times, they came in the form of hot chocolate drinks, where I gulp them down without much thought to the process of [...]
I had been noticing some strange symptoms from my Dell Inspiron 6400 for a couple of weeks now. It sort of pauses at the bootup and took a longer time to boot up. Then the inevitable happened – when I booted yesterday morning, opened up Firefox and tried to type in a URL, it automatically [...]
