Its tough having to meet Ah Geok's expectation and more so when she seems to be suffering from short term memory loss. When dear Ah Geok said give her all the potential problems that could have hindered the implementation of Project X, the project team faithfully provided the problems and recommended solutions. But no, she said it is not for us to come up with the solutions, for something as 'tua zong' as mandating, only top management got the power to push through solutions and so, we small flies should not waste time in trying to think of solutions but instead should give her all the problems instead. And so, problems we gave her but then lo and behold, in her email, she said, 'Now that you have given me all your problems, what's the solution?' Nabei!!! She siao or what? Now I began to see why Project X is still hanging in the air, going nowhere, despite changing hands 4 times...

So anyway, that's my work life for the past 3 weeks or so, in case some of you are wondering why I seem to have stopped mentioning about life in Ah Geok's Dept after my wonderful story. Its extremely tiring trying to anticipate what the old goose wants and make sure we make her happy, in order to avoid having to shower in her saliva when she went screaming and blasting everyone in her room. Even with the renovation, her powerful voice can still go through walls. Corporate Developement should have made her office sound proof.

You see, whenever Ah Geok replies any email with a 'Pls discuss', it creates havoc to the receipients. An emergency meeting will almost immediately be held in one of the Deputy Directors' room and we will all try to anticipate the 101 scenarios that can happen and role play for any possible ways the meeting will go, not unlike going to war like that. But sad to say, no matter how hard we try to anticipate, prepare and role play, most of the time, we still ended up being fucked left, right and centre. Well, not at me personally (at least not yet) but its quite paisei to be in the same room when my bosses endure the full force of her verbal assault. The thing is, there is truth and wisdom in what she says and sometimes, well most of the times, we find it difficult to argue and then we would exit her room, feeling stupid and dejected. We would then adjourn back to our DDs' rooms, cry father cry mother for about 30min, or more, depending on what we need to follow up after the 'Pls discuss' session and then we will revert to our old chirpy self.

Well, lucky there's no 'Pls discuss' session today but somehow I still felt drained after work. Decided to go gym cuz I have been inactive for quite a while and besides feeling like a lump of lard, I have 17 days left to pass my IPPT, not that I can't pass but you know lah, I dun usually jog and so 2.4km run can be quite a challenge. But sad to say, I did not manage to step onto the threadmill anyways. 45 min of weight lifting and my poor body refused to work anymore =(

Rach had been wanting to meet up but somehow, as always, did not manage to do so. Sorry my dear, but too nua to go out after I reached home... heheh...

Gotta go Sentosa early tomorrow, not for fun but to bring my trainees out for a sponsored outing and for the student volunteers to have a chance to interact with the intellectually disabled. Speaking of which, I was actually quite cheesed off with the organisers. The whole preparation was quite disorganised and a lot of last minute coordination was required, resulting in many email ding-dongs and much frustrations to those involved. But well, since this is all for the benefit of those who are less unfortunate, I suppose everyone started off with good intentions so ok lah...

Lastly, congrats to ROvers for winning the Inter Project Bowling Competition again. Hahaha, someone messaged me on the night of victory and said its tradition that the Chairperson must treat supper if we came in first. Well, I dun mind treating 'tao huay chwee' and 'tao huay' if you guys come in first again for the next 2 competitive events also... Being a former TAGL, my goal is to reclaimn the championship this year hor, so you guys and gals pull up your socks.... heheheh