Work (long post, a lot irrelevant stuff)

Worked for a week le. My company is DKSH. It is a supplier company. And for my department, it is in charge of the brand Darlie, Prima and Campbells. My job basically is as a post of merchandiser, which need to run around different outlets to arrange and order goods in various supermarkets, watsons and guardians. Slightly tiring, the pay system isnt really that good. But just lazy to find better work.

I seriously feel dam fat sia, or should i say i am fat. Seriously has to cut down on supper and soft drink le. i need to go running to slim down!! i got no discipline in my workouts.

Just a list down of what i have done this month:

5A outing at yishun's eighteen chef- nice chat with my secondary classmates, lol, didnt know that one of my female classmates watched porn before... lol... she described a little too detailed and asked super detailed question for the guys that we felt overly-embarrassed to answer her. haha. Our class remaining number is ard 15 out of 40.

CS/Cultural's mooncake festival event- meaningful event but i only went like 15min of the event due to work and a stupid joke of me. it goes like this, over there there are two areas of identical block number. Suppose to find the block no. 105 but i went to the wrong area and couldnt find that block other than 114, 110. Then i called a cs subcom member wan chew. She was at the right area and she told me she was at the block 110. So we kinda played hide and seek finding each of us at block 110's lift lobby of different area -.- i was like half an hour then we notice we are at different area and thus i had to take a taxi to the event location. i only managed to attend the last 15min of the event giving out 2 plates of mooncakes, pomelo and the lucky draw before the events end. We ate at the tiong bahru mall's foodcourt before we went home.

The trip home was even more imba epic. Some of you may know one of the cs subcom member, galen is living just beside block of me. So we have like an hour journey back home together as the rest are going west and east. It was the second time i went home with him. The first time is the first basketball intercons training. We basically just ignored or act blur all the way to khatib from school, our awkward silence is too much that he took the initiative to find a reason of buying supper to avoid it. This time we did almost the same thing, or even worse we are like totally stranger, at the start, we were standing side by side but as the mrt moves on, our distance got further and further away with people in between us. I was like sms-ing gina what we doing to act busy and he also take out phone now and then. It was until khatib mrt when we tap out which we are unable to avoid liao, we have the total same route home. We have no choice but to start topic, anyway we manage to keep the convo going till we reach home. Lol? Hopefully we have the chance to know each other better....

Clique's chalet- i didnt attend the full 1 day chalet as it is a monday and i had to work. i reach there around 9pm. We had a little to much food to go as i had like 1 litre of milk in my tummy from work to home and to there. Anyway, i was really surprised that they had an super-early birthday celebration with me. Thanks guys and gals. I really appreciated it. We had some random random chit-chat and watched some tv. Later on at nite, we went to the air-con room to cam-whore. CC and PY gave us their souvenirs from Vietnam and Thailand.

Sometimes, cam-whoring at chalet isnt nice when u see a orb,"moon" on the photo. I gave a scare to the rest that PY cried. I was a little bad cause PY got the most impact for she was the closest to me. I was too tempted when the atmosphere was just nice as people was talking about ghostly stuff. Ard 5 plus, we sent KS to the mrt and ard 7 i went back home as i got an headache from the super cold room and i didnt have any pillow and blanket.

Some thanks to some ppl close to me=D

Thanks PY for the letter. You are the first good female friend that i had I appreciated everything small, sweet little thing that you had done=). I like the way you talk what you feel, the way which you dared to speak out to everyone.

Thanks CC for bearing those random rants, grumbles i had with u. I always respected and admired everything you do is of the best that you can do. I like your confidence, maturity at times.

Thanks Nest for being so "gay" at times. Your slow response and different frequency at times are always so entertaining and funny. I like your always-changing hairstyle, responsibility at work, and the care for friends.

Thanks WC for giving good advices. I know you don't like people to compare you with your bro, haha. Your joke always awkward silence, and srsly funny that you can be tickled till you cry. Now u still can act cute and more daring to step up as a leader. i like your seriousness in work, playfulness during leisure and enthusiasm in cca.

Thanks KS for being there during FOC 09/10 logistics, subbing me as logis IC for FOC 10/11.

I admired your luck with chiobu and being the most elder of the group. i like the way you bring smiles to people's face with the right jokes and the right time, and seriously you dun look like 21yr old.

Thanks Gina for being my friend since FOC. We gone thru a lot together, Cancri- cs subcom interview- cs subcom- LTC's unbeatables - MC till now yr3. You have been a pleasure as a company, cheerful and sometimes blur. I like you being always the one to liven up spirits, and starting a conversation with anyone without much trouble, biasness.

Thanks jiayi for being my exam mates during yr 1 and yr2. I know i troubled you a lot. Your small lovey dovey quarrels with nest have always being a nice show for those beside. I admired you being able to hold on to your stand to problems, forward-looking and had a mind of your own that is not easily influenced.

There are still a few true friend i wanted to thank, those bonds that i had with them but if i missed out will expose to some that i didnt regard them as close friends.

Solving underperformed ppl

Hm.. this is something to remind myself and those who want to know..

Summarised from: http://rockproducts.com/management/human-resources/underperformers_handle_1009/

There is a scenario given from the webbie above. But the main points are below

For the leader/employer, your teammate/ employee have worked for you for so long, it is quite pointless to reject/ pull down ppl from their post. Other juniors and employees may have a false impression that getting such high post have a lack of security, thus they may not commit to what they feel they dun have a sense of belonging to. As long as they have the right and positive attitude, problems can be salvage.

3 considerations to start with:

1st: You had picked/hired your team/employee, you should get to the root of the problem first. Is it lack of talent/skill, lack of effort or lack of communication?

2nd: Avoiding or ignoring is futile, as a leader you will lose out as you need more effort to get the job done well.

3rd: Desperate measure such as firing or replacing is as last resort. It is hard to train and find new employee/team to work well with the current team. The new member may be ostracized by the older ones. Even you wanna substitute and take up their post, it will be making your ownself difficult.

People underperformed for one of the two reasons: either they can't do the job or they won't do the job. Communication among the employer /leader have to be mutual. Make sure you make known of what is the expectation and priorities for the specific person/post. If they can't do the job, guide and provide them with the help of senior staff or training.

If they wont do the job, or cause of pure laziness, the best way is give them consistent face to face feedback, may it by project to project basis or month to month basis.

A: Focus on the fact. Don't pinpoint their mistakes mercilessly, use their previous performances or mistakes to compare with their current state. Don't use other people's performances to match theirs, they will turn defensive and bad competition may occur within your team.

B: Explain the impact. How you feel for their performances?

C: Explain the impact on the organisation. How is the morale affected? How is the team affected ? The under performer should know how their behavior is affecting others. This will add their awareness of their behavior

D: Request improvement. Have the employee/team come up with a solution. Follow up to see whether did they apply their solutions.

If after sometime that you feel all the effort you made still goes to waste, tell yourself that you did what you can, as long as you did to the best you can, no one will blame you if you laid off or give up on someone.

This is an post for myself to self-motivate. 80% of the points are from the source and 20% is from my own experience.

Reminiscing the past: Peiying Primary 6B '02

Yep the first photo is the graduating photo during my pri 6 class. What made me went all the mess to find this photo out of my messy room was the Facebook event of Sihao about primary sch outing. For your info, i am of the same batch as Sihao during primary sch... just that different class and we never met before until poly. Kinda envious that they still remain in contact after near to 10yrs. That guy at the top left hand corner is me... dun ask me why i so thin when i am young.. i just grew fatter and fatter over the years. ( my proud achievement in primary sch was 5th in boys category cross country run, 1st in my class of sec1 and 2 "2.4km" run. Sigh... thats history)

Facebook is really a good application. Easy to search long- lost contacted primary school friends and look at what they are doing now. From some stalking/browsing... some of friends are doing real fine... some graduated from NTU and already in the workforce, some finished their NS and some even had their own family. Time really flies... from all those innocent faces to mature young adult/parents.

However, Facebook isn't that almighty. Some people just dun like their names and changed to some weird ones which made it hard to find. i only managed to find one out of my two besties in primary school namely Jorvin Soh but the other guy i still cant find, Oh Han Sheng. We all lost contacts when we went secondary school. Our batch very suay, last batch that continue the system of picking schools before the PSLE. Although we have the same 6 choices, our results separated us to 3 different schools, 3 different area. My school PHS(yio chu kang), jorvin's sch at YTSS (yishun) and hansheng's at AMKSS (ang mo kio). Seriously missing the past a lot...

The second photo is the live mini concert that my secondary school's friend organised for his birthday/ fans. He is the Campus superstar first season top 5 contestant, Chen YiYuan. It is also the first 5A mini gathering for my sec 5 class since the last outing that clashed with the weekend activity10/11, though attendance not good but we did have some good moments together. Below is one of the video that he peformed during the contest. Just wanna wish him happy b'day and fly high with his music dreams.