The third weekend of October

I was back to office this morning. The new product line is going to have production in another two weeks' time. Getting more work to do as my predecessor hands over job to me. He is going to field in December and I am supposed to take over most of the things he is doing now, plus another new product.

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These two weeks I am keep thinking whether I want to live in such a way for the rest of my life. I get a not-too-bad salary from a MNC. Most probably after 5-7 years, or maybe 10 years, I can be a manager after gaining enough experiences. I will always report to someone and rely on him/her to rate my performance. The money I have, definitely not enough to have a luxury life, but more than sufficient to get a "pigeon box" house and a japanese car...

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That is not what I hope to be. No matter how hard you work for the company, the company eventually is not belonged to you. Most of the time, they will not pay proportionately to the effort you put in.

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So I want to be my own boss. Anyway it's not going to happen soon because I have nothing now- no money, no experience. Learn as much as possible is what I can do now.

The 2nd weekend of October

Last weekend, it was great as I was able to meet 3 different groups of friends.

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Friday night, I had dinner with Jeremy and Kuan Nee. We had so much things to talk about. We shifted from the dinner place to another coffee shop and continued to chit chat till mid night. I really like these two friends whom I could share many things.

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The next day, finally the outing to East Coast Park was put into action. We spent the whole afternoon cycling in the park. That kind of activity is much more better than wandering in the shopping center or town.

On Sunday, it was reserved for my hometown friends. We had a ktv session followed by a dinner at Holland Village.

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I will never be lonely to have so many friends around me ; )

CONNECT Nanyang Photo Competition

Tyng Tze and Pei Pei won a consolation prize in the photo competition. This is the winning entry.

A new challenge

I have taken up a new challenge recently. Pei Pei becomes the President of MAE Alumni Association and she is the first lady president of the association. Today I gave my first speech as President.

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We have our first recruitment drive and it is very successful! We have almost 100% of the alumni attending the events to sign up with us as lifelong member. Even though the number is not a big figure, but it's a very encouraging outcome.

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I like to work together with a group of friends in such voluntary basis. What we do, is really for the interest of the club and our discussion is meaningful. Not like what happened in the company, where people know it's not going to be good overally but they still choose to do that because of certain reasons. And you see how people playing "taiji" to push away what they are supposed to do.

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There are a lot more things to be done to MAEAA. So I make a little advertisement here:

"For MAE alumni, pls sign up as lifelong member of MAEAA. One time membership registration fee of 10. You will definitely gain a lot of enriching experinces by joining us."