Went for Wedding Videography on Sunday with Mr William Wong. Got $300 for that. Today went to treat Mr Stamford Wee, Zhengyee, Wei Ren, Yong Xiang and Chang Jing (oops hope i spelt your name correctly. Never intended to treat you, but since you were there, why not?) for dinner at subway. Spent $50 plus. Still have my godbros that I haven't treated to yet. Haha. Promos coming. The timer is at the bottom of the page xD

Presenting to you: SEWAGE ICE BLEND!!!!!!!








actually its blueberry chin chow ice blend.


bought from "bake inc" at bishan north mkt

Trust is earned - not easily obtained. Yet, it is easily lost. One of the horrible things in life. MCSA certification doesn't mean anything to me. (FYI, mine is the very old syllabus) In my opinion, trust is the deciding factor on who can and will be an OUTSTANDING system administrator. I don't really do administration much. I don't enjoy doing it either. For a member of an admin, passwords are really important. The whole integrity of a system, and subsequently the organization, is hinged on that few characters that you memorized. Passwords are like virginity. You don't go around giving them to anybody that you like. Even saying it very quickly - without the intention of the other party hearing it is like losing your virginity to a prostitute. Intentionally or not, breach of trust is evident even in thought. Just THINKING about doing something that compromises the integrity of the system IS ALREADY a breech of trust. However, nobody can read your mind. Fine. But the thing is as long as the password is divulged (regardless of whether people actually GOT what the password was) is a clear breach of trust. It just says this: The password you gave me is worth nothing. I don't treasure it at all.

I have never given anybody passwords before. Regardless of the situation. If there is something that needs to be done, I will do it myself. At best, it is my duty to ensure that IF i help somebody login, he logs out promptly as soon as he does not need the access. Yes, I may have failed on that note. Fine. Perhaps I trust people too much. And it may be my greatest mistake to trust people unworthy about it. Complacent and childish people who lack the right attitude. Talk about ... gentleman and bilingual scholar of HIGH INTEGRITY and ... ...

Anyway, back to the topic. I came for the camp for only 1 reason. Infocomm Club. If not for Infocomm club, why do I want to burn my holidays? Let me just narrate the sequence of events. I came on Tuesday, 8th of september. I came early. About 7 plus, to help my brother, Jing Yew, Julian, Nicholas, et al with their CL oral. I don't really think I was of that much help. Anyway, I started to see the 1st ICC group at about 8am. This was dao shen and guan shun's group. They were earlier than expected and I had only just arrived too. I didnt have time to setup beforehand, so I had to set them some stuff to do, and I continued cleaning up and preparing the mac lab for my conducive use. My sincerest apologies to that group, because I couldn't devote my 100% attention to them for the earlier part of the session. If you happen to be reading this, please forgive me. (Though to my surprise, that group proved to be the most productive of all. GOOD JOB GUYS!) Anyway, I spent over an hour packing the place, sweeping the floor and stuff, so that it would be conducive for (READ) the INFOCOMM CLUB GUYS Later that day, the SGCC people came back. They used the mac lab. Fine. Competition anyway. Besides, I'm an alumni of Nucleii so I have their interests at heart too. However, they also brought with them their laptops and everything, including FOOD and DRINK. After they left, I CLEARED UP A COUPLE OF DRINK AND FOOD PACKETS. I had to do it. WHAT THE HELL.

I was seriously pissed. I can only emphasize that the primary reasons why I was there was cos of the ICC guys. So since there was a camp, I just stayed over. That's about it. I can be leaving my terminal on for a while, when I come back, a certain person (with 3 letters of his name matching mine) was at the terminal, and closed MY SOUNDTRACK PROJECT FILE w/o saving. Oh joy. Just lost like a few hours of work.

Nevermind, the following night, people can be there doing stuff they are not supposed to be doing, and without permission. Some idiots had so little cow sense that they didnt know how to plug out the lan cable. THAT COULD SPELL SERIOUS TROUBLE! Anyway, I seriously cannot tolerate people who take things/other people for granted. I really really hate it.

Took me a while to figure out the chords. I know it still sounds somewhat horrible. But I'm not really THAT good at this.



Victoria (G# Maj)

Verse 1


G#
Back in those good days of old
____C#___G#sus_G#
I remember being told
____Fm___G#/D#___Fm/C_D#
With spirit, we could do anything.
__________G#
And look at just how far we've come
C#___________D#/G
Together here as one.
_________Fm_________________G#/D#
And with growth, with strength, with love
___C#____Fm_____G#
I know that here I'll stay.
_______C#____G#______Fm___G#
Here we stand today shining like a star
____Fm7_____D#______G#______C#
And where we belong we'll ride every storm
____G#____D#
Just you and me




Chorus


________G#
This is my home
________C#_G#
This is Victoria
___________D#___A#m__G#
It's where I'll finally find myself
________C#______A#m/F_D#
Out of the wandering dark at last.
_________G#
This is my flame
________C#_____D#___Fm
This is my torch and burning hope.
____C#___________G#
And here I'll make it, a bright new future
____C#_______D#______G#sus____G#
Our one and only love, Victoria.




Verse 2



G#
So look to the bright ahead
____C#__G#sus_G#
The future it is said
__Fm___G#/D#____Fm/C__D#
Together we will still stand as one
_____________G#
Cause you know that's how people grow
___C#__________D#/G
And we can proudly show
________Fm_________G#/D#
That with all the years behind
_____C#___Fm__G#
We'll look to more ahead
_______C#____G#______Fm___G#
Here we stand today shining like a star
____Fm7_____D#______G#______C#
And where we belong we'll ride every storm
____G#____D#
Just you and me




Chorus


________G#
This is my home
________C#_G#
This is Victoria
___________D#___A#m__G#
It's where I'll finally find myself
________C#______A#m/F_D#
Out of the wandering dark at last.
_________G#
This is my flame
________C#_____D#___Fm
This is my torch and burning hope.
____C#___________G#
And here I'll make it, a bright new future
____C#_______D#______G#sus____G#
Our one and only love, Victoria.




Chorus (Modulated up a semitone to A maj)


________A
This is my home
________D_A
This is Victoria
____________E____Bm__A
It's where I'll finally find myself
________D_______Bm/F#_E
Out of the wandering dark at last.
_________A
This is my flame
________D_______E_____Fm
This is my torch and burning hope.
____D_____________A
And here I'll make it, a bright new future
____D________E___Asus_____A
Our one and only love, Victoria.

What is an AAR?

"The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured review or de-brief process for analyzing what happened, why it happened, and how it can be done better, by the participants and those responsible for the project or event... ...Their use has extended to business as a knowledge management tool and a way to build a culture of accountability." - Wikipedia

Key Points: Structured Review (not REVUE), ANALyzing what happened, WHY it happened, and HOW IT CAN BE DONE BETTER, BY the participants and those responsible, BUILD a culture of accountability.

Different people have different styles of doing AARs. No doubt about that. However the bottomline = IMPROVEMENT.

I don't think there is a point of an AAR is nothing is learnt from it or if everybody is adulated regardless of their performance. The latter would be called "Self-praisal" (NoT appraisal). This would make us look like the "i" organization. A good de-briefer would not make AARs seem like personal attacks. They are NOT meant to be personal attacks in the first place! We need to learn who did what right/wrong. And, how we can IMPROVE. Most comments and statements made (today) were very objective and directed at NOBODY in particular. We are in this as a team, therefore, comments would be directed at the team as a whole, not individuals. No doubt, there are exceptions where certain individuals have to be singled out due to the different role that they play but the bottomline is that EVERYBODY learns from SOMEBODY's mistake and that person should (and must) therefore, well, learn from his mistake too.

As I mentioned before, different people conduct AARs differently. Its just a different style, no right or wrong. Some people tend to be more emotional when briefing. I tend to be more technical (and somewhat emotionless). I tend to have a de-briefing and an AAR conducted separately. For me, the debriefing is the part whereby blasting is done, expletives are squirted at various individuals. The AAR is the part which is more technical, where events are replayed and analyzed.

I am a technical person by nature. AARs that I conduct are in a very "neutral" mood, where everyone is calm, rather than sad or anything. I recall previously doing a very detailed AAR, where we sat down reviewing photos and videos of the whole event and though were were deciding on the beamwidth of the line array for future performances, our AAR shifted its focus to "Where should the pencilcase be put? Near the lights mixer or sound?" and this debated lasted 20 minutes. But although we were looking at seemingly trivial stuff, this (2 hour) AAR was very detailed, and the AAR on its own can be sort of an "instruction manual" for performances.

Once again, to reiterate: THE BOTTOMLINE=SOME FORM OF CRITICISM TO IMPROVE FOR FURTHER events.

Why some people get so emotionally affected by AARs? I think they're fun. I particularly hate AARs full of adulation and glorification. Yes, you feel good. But so what? What gets done? I remember a church AAR for a particular event. All that was said was "well done". Well done this... Well done that... Yes, we know what we did right and yes we must learn and remember what we did right. But there was no mention on HOW to improve what was already right, and no mention of what went wrong, coz IMO, it was a total screwup.

One more thing. AARs have to be impactful. It doesnt help if everyone is tired and sleepy. Neither does it help if everyone starts to break down and cry when a little scolding is done (IMO, today's wasnt really considered a tough scolding). Notes need to be taken and points need to be generated. This must be consolidated for future use. Recall "BUILD a culture of accountability."

Anyway, to conclude, AARs are to be taken in our stride. No point feeling sad or over it or anything. Just MOVE ON!

ME = D-popotamus
Time Spent On Earth (Years) = 17
Likes = Sleep, Food, GOOD music,
Pri Sch = Montfort Junior School
Pri Sch Classes = 1F'99, 2G'00, 3G'01, 4G'02, 5I'03, 6I'04
Church = Living Sanctuary Brethren Church
Sec Sch = Catholic High School (Secondary) 公教中学
Sec Sch Classes = 1-3'05, 2-3'06, 3-9'07, 4-9'08
JC = Victoria Junior College
JC Classes = 09S32
Friendster = Friendster Profile
DISC Profile = C/S
MBTI Profile = ESTJ
1 Corinthians 10:13
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
2 Corinthians 5:9
2 Corinthians 7:10
2 Chronicles 7:14
Genesis 4:7
James 1:12
James 1:17
James 5:15-16
John 14:6
Matthew 7:12
Matthew 18:20
Matthew 19:26
Philippians 4:13
Proverbs 1:7
Proverbs 25:1-28
Psalm 16:1
Psalm 50:15
Psalm 118:5
Psalm 118:29, Psalm 118:1 (different quote, same quotation)
Psalm 118:13
Psalm 118:17-19
Psalm 118:20
Psalm 118:21
Psalm 118:24
Psalm 119:105
Psalm 133
Psalm 136:1
Romans 6:23
Romans 12:18