Divided into two

I think better when I jog alone, but I still can't comprehend how a "family" community has to end up like this. Those who just can't accept things, just had to make things unacceptable when such decisions won't affect them. Those (more like that) who don't know things, just had to make things more complicated by jumping on the bandwagon.

Childish thoughts keep running through my mind that will make the current not-so-nice situation worse than before. How come this shit has to happen within the blk that I m in? I must not be childish.

7 deadly sins of meeting

Sin #1: People don't take meetings seriously. They arrive late, leave early, and spend most of their time doodling.

Sin #2: Meetings are too long. They should accomplish twice as much in half the time.

Sin #3: People wander off the topic. Participants spend more time digressing than discussing.

Sin #4: Nothing happens once the meeting ends. People don't convert decisions into action.

Sin #5: People don't tell the truth. There's plenty of conversation, but not much candor.

Sin #6: Meetings are always missing important information, so they postpone critical decisions.

Sin #7: Meetings never get better. People make the same mistakes.


Ripped it off from some website. Sad to say, all meetings I ever attended are guilty of at least 5 of the 7 listed sins. Maybe NUS (and ah gong's army) should start a module on meeting management or even make it a university requirement module.

Death of face to face talk

Received 5 emails from a certain group seemingly quarreling about some ambiguous issues. Somehow, with emails, people can no long talk face to face and differences have to be settled with emails (and broadcast to innocent parties who most likely don't know what is going on). I can imagine 5 years later, I would be sitting in front of my boring officer computer, receiving heated arguments between parties who just can't bear the sight of each other to hold a normal face to face conversation (or hold a conversation with each other using an ancient technology call telephone). Most likely, I won't know what happened but I would still be receiving the mails, thanks to the power of "carbon copying". How exciting my future office life will be?