It's been 3 hours and I can't get my freakin' webpage to work the way I want it to!!!!!
Colour sucks
Images aren't transparent
Layout is horrid
Content is dull
ARGH!!!!! Time to hit the library for some serious HTML 4 DUMMIES!!!
Thursday, October 16, 2003
For the benefit of non-bizaders:
OE = Organizational Effectiveness, taught by Dr Chung. Interesting module, few pple [11 pple] n plenty of lively discussion. About the organization and its relationship with its external environment
AHRM = Advanced Human Resource Management. Chaotic module taught [facilitated] by Dr Chia Ho-beng, called Ho-Beng by the students [he insists on it] For this module, the entire class plays a HR consultancy firm n we're supposed to come up with a HR package for Technology Teams.
Service Marketing = By Dr Surendra Rajiv, who cancels too many classes, and is overdue in giving back the students their grades. Marketing concepts in the service industry
Internet for Biz = Dr Tan Boon Khaw. Internet n how to use it for biz. Terribly boring lecture but most interesting project. [i'm doing a website for a comics shop!]
My modules for this semester-about-to-end.
OE = Organizational Effectiveness, taught by Dr Chung. Interesting module, few pple [11 pple] n plenty of lively discussion. About the organization and its relationship with its external environment
AHRM = Advanced Human Resource Management. Chaotic module taught [facilitated] by Dr Chia Ho-beng, called Ho-Beng by the students [he insists on it] For this module, the entire class plays a HR consultancy firm n we're supposed to come up with a HR package for Technology Teams.
Service Marketing = By Dr Surendra Rajiv, who cancels too many classes, and is overdue in giving back the students their grades. Marketing concepts in the service industry
Internet for Biz = Dr Tan Boon Khaw. Internet n how to use it for biz. Terribly boring lecture but most interesting project. [i'm doing a website for a comics shop!]
My modules for this semester-about-to-end.
Today I'm starting to feel the impact of all those project deadlines looming over me.... which means I'm gonna go into denial mode.... *sigh*
Usually I can get my work done, but it's usually at the 11th hour and done really REALLY fast... have a pile of readings for OE, indiv. assignments for service marketing, and Internet for BIz, and an report I have yet to read thru.... and of course, my usual mental response to all this work is to shut it all off and do something totally un-related and possibly time-wasting. [case in point being this blog... :p]
One of me classmates [James the Kiwi from OE n AHRM] remarked that as Asians we spent entirely too much time on our studies. It's like the words "rest" and "relax" are totally anathema to our culture. He says that in NZ, a lot more importance is placed on family and slackin' time. [Anyone moving to NZ soon?] As much as i don't like it, his remarks about us are the God-solid truth. We place too much emphasis on productivity and [looking] productive, but we never think about Quality. Yes, Quality, without being between Total and Management. Quality of LIFE.
Let's say, an excuse for me slackin' off n procrastinatin' is that I can't start to study efficiently and effectively without first gearing up my mind for some serious mental action. So what I do is write in my blog until the old gearshift moves to 4th. Now I know there is NO way I can explain this to anyone in Asia without having them think I'm some kinda' slacker [which actually I am a bit of, but hey, I get the job done..... eventually]. Such a sad thing huh? I think i should dedicate my life to disproving this myth. I'm gonna show pple you can be a slacker and productive at the same time! Yea! Either that or I'll have to move to NZ.....
Quote of the day/week/month/whenever-i-feel-like-it:
Don't let reality crush the dream. Let the Dream crush reality.
~ Taken off an Esprit billboard.
Usually I can get my work done, but it's usually at the 11th hour and done really REALLY fast... have a pile of readings for OE, indiv. assignments for service marketing, and Internet for BIz, and an report I have yet to read thru.... and of course, my usual mental response to all this work is to shut it all off and do something totally un-related and possibly time-wasting. [case in point being this blog... :p]
One of me classmates [James the Kiwi from OE n AHRM] remarked that as Asians we spent entirely too much time on our studies. It's like the words "rest" and "relax" are totally anathema to our culture. He says that in NZ, a lot more importance is placed on family and slackin' time. [Anyone moving to NZ soon?] As much as i don't like it, his remarks about us are the God-solid truth. We place too much emphasis on productivity and [looking] productive, but we never think about Quality. Yes, Quality, without being between Total and Management. Quality of LIFE.
Let's say, an excuse for me slackin' off n procrastinatin' is that I can't start to study efficiently and effectively without first gearing up my mind for some serious mental action. So what I do is write in my blog until the old gearshift moves to 4th. Now I know there is NO way I can explain this to anyone in Asia without having them think I'm some kinda' slacker [which actually I am a bit of, but hey, I get the job done..... eventually]. Such a sad thing huh? I think i should dedicate my life to disproving this myth. I'm gonna show pple you can be a slacker and productive at the same time! Yea! Either that or I'll have to move to NZ.....
Quote of the day/week/month/whenever-i-feel-like-it:
Don't let reality crush the dream. Let the Dream crush reality.
~ Taken off an Esprit billboard.
Out of curiosity, and the plain fact that I do not want to start working on any of my schoolwork anytime soon, I've decided to start this blog. If nothing, it'll save me from writing all those lengthy emails to pple ( when I actually do it, that is ) and give my friends the option of choosing to read my crap or not. What a nice person I am. :p
Anyway, quick intro: 22 year old *still* student at NUS, fac of bizad, school of management, or [my favourite] School of Biz [SOB. who the heck was the one who thought that up??] I'm graduating in Dec, so will officially join the ranks of the unemployed on Jan 2004, wondering exactly what it is I paid NUS so much for. Will become wandering spirit by that time, the Fool of the Tarot, going where the wind blows me to and hopin' I don end up in some rubbish heap.
My big dream is to strike 1st prize in 4D one day, become disgustingly, filthily, rich and live off the proceeds for the rest of my life without having to work. Since the chances of that happening is [nil], I would also like to work in the creative arts industry in some way. If I ever get my Illustrator down, I'd like to become a freelance graphic designer. Until then, I'd be teaching tuition for a living, until the day I die of a heart attack in a pool of my own blood in some kid's house.
Ok, too much info for now. Me gotta go do some actual work, you know, the kind that justifies your place in society and that most parental and educational units look favourable upon. See ya.
Anyway, quick intro: 22 year old *still* student at NUS, fac of bizad, school of management, or [my favourite] School of Biz [SOB. who the heck was the one who thought that up??] I'm graduating in Dec, so will officially join the ranks of the unemployed on Jan 2004, wondering exactly what it is I paid NUS so much for. Will become wandering spirit by that time, the Fool of the Tarot, going where the wind blows me to and hopin' I don end up in some rubbish heap.
My big dream is to strike 1st prize in 4D one day, become disgustingly, filthily, rich and live off the proceeds for the rest of my life without having to work. Since the chances of that happening is [nil], I would also like to work in the creative arts industry in some way. If I ever get my Illustrator down, I'd like to become a freelance graphic designer. Until then, I'd be teaching tuition for a living, until the day I die of a heart attack in a pool of my own blood in some kid's house.
Ok, too much info for now. Me gotta go do some actual work, you know, the kind that justifies your place in society and that most parental and educational units look favourable upon. See ya.
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