Chu Er

2nd day, and we all went to uncle's house for another round of cny and, parky got his visa too.

So parky got to see his 'cousin' "coffee" once a year. And they played until both of them are drenched in drool..




Parky all drenched.. with drool..

Got a ride on the kuti R1 home.. really very kuti wor.. my head almost hit the roof, and there isn't much leg space.. basically, it's a car for 2.. only.

Got an extended day and a half of PH, coz the construction sector starts work on the 8th day of CNY.. and it is only for cny that is so. I'd choose 52 weeks of saturdays of halfday/fullday off over 1.5 days anytime.. so no need to eat grapes hor.

But then again, the sai pipe and water pipe will be waiting.. coz they continue to work throughout cny.. and the accumulated stuffs will be quite a bit... and i'll really be glad.

Chu Yi

On the 1st day of CNY..

The usual routine, and just like that, the parky dog went over to bai nian again. Supposed to leave him at home coz he was quite smelly.. but he was making that ke lian look again, so for the 1st time, the village chief decided to bathe him. I think parky will tio toto soon lor. After bathing, parky was so happy knowing that he won't be left at home.. he kept running about and jumping at us, as if to show his joy. That dog ar.. don't know what to say..

Played BINGO (that came with the abalone set) and won the last game - the only game with real cash rewards.. lol.. it was sponsored by aunt, and just so happened that game had 3 winners. Then parky also get angpao too.. haha.. if i had knew, i'd bring my hermit over too.

Went to jurong for the 2nd round of bai nian, and thought that the buffet food was quite nice.. so i ate 2 rounds.. lol.. work until lose weight, time to recover some back. Parky was home alone, so we went off quite early.

Still another round for tomorrow.. and then got an extended day of rest.. then it'll be back to CF to chiong all the way. The accumulated sewer pipes, water pipes and hydraulic hoses will be waiting lor.. really must rest well.. so i suppose no overnight mj for me this cny le.

Chu Xi

Fell down on my way to TSC.. how clumsy.

Combine piece was changed to american graff 10.. with songs like the entertainer and singing in the rain. Was quite nice, except that it was quite a draggy piece. And with the 3 bands combining, i think i can sit one corner and rest le.

As with the usual wind band arrangements, the horns got a lot of parts being doubled, making my job easier. At least i don't need to be around to complete.

Was at grandma's place for reunion steamboat.. and i quite like it as always. Ate and went off quite early to koon.. so at night can shou sui.

Looking forward to the good food tomorrow~ Poor parky might have to shou jia le.

Backline

Watching frontline, and saw a similar story to that of the ah lian wine seller. Only is ah beng sell speakers. I think they are of the same feathers.. even the origins and tactics also sama sama.

With that, i think there's a huge probability that the wine is of low grade.. what is go simiri-la must pay $300 then got one?. Just tie the rabbin on the bottle neck then is high class meh?..Don't even know whether if it's safe to consume or not.

Ah lian still ok.. wear the make-up until the face can crack like that. Then pierce here and there until don't know like what.. then still nevermind.. got one is lao lian somemore.. wa piang eh lor.. is lao lian leh.. not liu lian lor. Z.

And then the frontline also like goyak like that.. everytime happen liao then telecast.. the phone scam also like that, lehman bros also like that.. next time i better watch out for their ad 1st.

Stitches were removed, and all was well. Just that the irritating scammers make bad my day as always. I really don't like to treated like my brain is empty empty like that. I didn't buy from them.. i'm just buay song only.

OMGIOF (OMG it's only friday).. coz tomorrow still got to work, and seems like quite a few of them like to do some last minute shopping. To make working a much fulfilling experience for me, the GK is on leave until the 6th day of cny. Which means the defenders got to do a lot more lor. At least some of the customers still got gong xi fa cai to us lor.. it really made the whole mess less messy.

Our CF catered mostly to users who are mainly in the construction sector and civil engineering. Our competitors located near the west service the shipping industry. The requirement is much higher, and so as with the price. On the highest end is the aviation industry. So it is still a bit of differentiation along the way. So we need to do a lot more just to cover expenditure.

Tomorrow is half-day for a saturday.. coz it's cny's eve's eve. Normal saturday is full day lor.. then sunday got band pract. And again, what a wonderful life. How can i not be glad?

Dirty Sales

I do hate dirty sales technique.

So today some 3 or so lians stopped by the CF during closing hours to try to coerce people to buy their red wine. Whatever inside the package i don't even know.. and i don't know the background of the company too.. how to do biz like that? Btw, i super not interested in red wine also.. give me free i also don't want.

Simi is give face? Give face or give money? Might as well rob if like that. If don't want means don't want.. tell me grandmother story also won't make any deal. In the end is waste time only. I don't approve the notion of giving in, yet i do feel that i need to be give a bit more ap in such situation. It seems that some people don't quite understand what is rejecting politely. Then again, keep repeating the same story over and over again.. at least 3 times. I already catch it the 1st time.. no need to remind.

Till now, i wonder whether the whole things is just another scam or what. 2 bottles of wine that they ask you to any how give a price.. any how is not really any how lor. The minimum price is given in the story that is repeated 3 times. Sometimes, i really wonder.. is this the way or not. Then they say throw in 1 more bottle of wine that is worth $300 in market. And again, if it is too good to be true...

Though in the end i didn't fork out any cash, someone else did.. and after the whole incident, i now have an ultra negative impression on anyone trying dirty sales technique.

The next time, i know what it'll be.

A pinch of Salt

If i need to take things with a pinch of salt, i reckon i'll need at least a few bags of salt.

Employment through ability, i rather it be attitude. At least there are some things that can be taught.. those that can't are the ones that are of value-adding. That said, re-train however much also won't create value. There are things that money can't buy.. really.

Employment IMO is to value-add.. and if marginal cost is more than marginal return, then for what? My preference is with one-time payment than infinite installments. Which means, if technology can replace the job scope, why not? The payoff will most likely be very very soon.. and not only that, it can keep all the small circles away.

I believe that sincerity goes a long way. To be sincere doesn't mean to be perfect, but to give customer whatever is due, and not to shortchange customers through unnecessary shortcuts. To know is one thing, to understand is another.

And to be able to bring, one needs to able to see. That is, to foresee whatever is foreseeable, and to have contingency for the unexpected.

Said i need at least a few bags of salt le..

One more week to CNY..

... and i haven't prepare anything.

Cny also like no feel like that. Some even dread it.. for after the cny bonus, maybe will get retrenched. And now, still want to lower the forecast yet again.. when will it be right anyway? If so, then no need to forecast liao.. forecast also buay zhun.

Wondered why long term are being put into considerations when the ends of the short term can't even meet. Anyway, a direct hit is certain to affect both terms.

And now, the quite a number of the supporting projects are nearing their term.. and with the economy in this goyak state, there won't be any new ones coming in. The CF will get hit quite hard.. As always, the chocolate sector is late to slow and slow to pick.. yet, some are still in the mood.

Got carried away, and i almost forget... i need to carry on learning all aspects of the CF and not just the groundwork alone. Slowly, the technical aspects are coming to.. just need to train more. Already i know how to be careful in certain things.. Till time permits (which ironically is when biz slows down), i'll have to polish up on my product knowledge and pricing.

Pok

Friday, and was off to the west for "red cliff" after work. Was just in time for the show at 9.30pm and was really glad i still can find the energy and time for leisure. Who says working then got 'life' must be kuku in the head.. or maybe mentally unbalanced. "Red cliff" was very nice, especially when it was ROTK. Sort of like AT LOTR.. coz i don't know why, here was already becoming 'somewhere else'.

Biz was again quiet at the CF.. if this keeps on, i don't know if anyone will kena pok-ed or not. Already the hours are shortened (for some of them except me) to keep cost down (not me coz i'm already a low cost labour).. and so the CF was very quiet after noon.

Spent time doing some cleaning under the shelves and found 15 cents, plus quite a bit of those chocs that fell in. Thought of some ways to perhaps compliment my goyak skill in measuring.. and hopefully i'll be able to keep up the pace with the veterans.

Then the stitches was like going to pok like that. Got a waterproof dressing for the stitches to protect it from grease and whatever metal shrapnel that may further complicate things. It did well, that is of coz.. for each plaster cost $1.10+ .. lol.. and i've got to perhaps get a 2 weeks supply till the removal. Stitches not pok, already my pocket pok.

Thought that at least today was a peaceful day.. but the finale was quite cmi. One customer was utterly disappointed in the services of the CF, and there was quite a bit of pushing of blame. I was feeling quite sorry for the customer.. already we didn't deliver, and then, the originals was gone as well. Then it was quite a blow for the staff as well.. i could tell that none of them wanted all these to happen. It was just a chain of minor events that lead to this. But then when it happened, i felt so helpless (everyday i also helpless one la.. lol).. for i wasn't able to foresee all these, and however much i said didn't help at all. Now that things are finalised, i think all it did was bad publicity for the CF. Sometimes it just take that one time to kill off future opportunities.

Wondered since when i volunteered for tomorrow.. but since it came, i'll go.. hopefully i can get plenty of rest during the journey. After the performance, i'll have to concentrate on the CF liao. Got plenty to know, and plenty to learn. Maybe that include driving the very heavy CF van in manual gear sometime in the near future.

Same same... But Different

Sunday's band was quite on auto mode.

Love³ was cmi as usual.. the whole piece like very lag like that. Too many semi q le. No conductor and so we played without one.. if not i really am going to fall asleep. Physically tired, not becoz of the lack of sleep or not being accustomed to.. but so becoz the nature of my job was physically demanding. Anyway, the love³ isn't ready as yet for feb's performance. Public performance somemore... sure it is good to have one that is equivalent to ten.. but the fact is, it is really a different sound altogether. Missing instrumentation, missing parts.. tell me how to bao ga liao lor.

Different means different.. if not it'll be called the same.

At the CF, things might looked the same, but actually are very different. This is due to countries insisting on their own set of standards instead of one ISO.. and as a result, the CF had to store a lot of different stocks to meet demand. If a wrong set is given, the customer sure explode one.. and dangerous to the end users.

There are just so many things that doesn't have a standard procedure.. everything is play by creativity, cost, and viability. Of coz, knowledge of how the finished product is going to be used by the end user plays an important part. And so i'm still quite lacking in terms of experience.. in actual fact, 14 years 11 months of difference to the armorer.

Anyway, it's a different experience altogether. To work under village leadership, and to work with a nature as such. It hurts more to not take care of the CF as a whole, but just individual interest. Anyhow do, just make sure don't tio pok right? It doesn't apply here. Maybe can ask the CEO of the pok FI.. ask him why he anyhow humtam the on risky assets.. then maybe will get an answer.. maybe he'll tell you coz that biz is no biz of him.. so long he gets millions in compensation every year. If he tio pok, his CV will ensure him that he'll get employed in similar positions. Who says not? Ask the ah tiang eh kia that got gold tap one and you'll know. My point is, if it is of no concern of yours, then it won't make much difference.

Sometimes, the CF is like a football team.. got different players of different calibre playing different positions. Then there are some that can play multiple positions.. plus, the medic and support crew that deals with the backstage.. Then there is the one manager who perhaps knows how to (or used to) play the game managing the team. Each player got their own pattern more than badminton.. and so the manager get paid to keep their patterns in check.. And so we've got one goalkeeper that is really keeping the goalpost (only). Everytime got ball sure pass to the defenders one.. lol.. so all he does is just catch ball and pass it to others.. while the rest are running around, who knows what the keeper is doing at the other side. Maybe pluck flowers or something ba.

Different biz use different strategy.. and mostly dependent on the 3 components of an optimum purchase (IMO):- cheap, fast and good.. and the 3 strategies (IMO) - cost/pricing, efficiency and quality. Most likely, cheaper goods tend to be goyak one.. so the 3 components can hardly co-exist. It will be possible if the biz is a NPO.. then no need to care liao lor.. anyhow humtum also can. My point is, if a certain element is missing, then the other two will have to be the selling point.. if not, who will want to come? Which means, if pricing is the strategy, then cost have to be low.. and so, there is really no space for people to pluck flowers.

And then as if it isn't enough.. the lord kept on harassing the workings of the CF. As a result, a lot of things we can't do outside the CF compound. We are not obstructing traffic, and we don't pose any fire hazards.. why make life so difficult? Daytime can't, even 9pm when the whole world go fight Z monster liao also cannot. We are only trying to earn a living.. why the minion want go all out to destroy? Actually i think is someone nearby blow whistle. If not i don't think they so free to come here every fortnight. And to make a unsubstantial claim, i think is the exploiting one beside. Maybe they need more storage space, and just nice the CF can add on to their existing 2. Same leh.. they tenant we also tenant.. why so different treatment one? So sian lor.. industrial park cannot do industry thing.. then do what? Sell kachiang puteh ar? Siao one lor.. and then keep saying cannot this cannot that.. how to keep the CF floating.. how to keep employment?

New Year

A new year, and quite a bit of changes.

Coz of downturn, there is some significant slowing of flow.. and so, non essential personnel of the CF will have EFO. That means i've got to take on their role after they EFO-ed.

It'll be good if there are a few that can take on multiple roles. A bit like soccer player like that.. can play left right center, forward defend or midfield. Just need a few jacks like that around, and a few specialist of the core. The rest are really not that difficult to learn.

Now a particular issue is resolved.. i wonder how things will turn out. But at least i'm glad for now.

The kopi stall above the CF is under new management as of the new year.. sadly, their coffee is cmi one.. so now we all da bao from the autopoint across the road. Even the veg rice also change management.. i wonder what is wrong with the canteen management.

I just need a bit more time.