I had my annual job appraisal recently, for my work performance in 2006. It’s the once-a-year affair where your boss brings you into a cold meeting room, sits you down, shoves you a “report card” with all the grades which she thinks you deserved based on a very fixed & rigid set of criteria, accompanied by comments on where she [...]
Archive for January, 2007
My Appraisal
Thursday, 18 January, 2007
I’ll Be Ready For The Big Game!
Thursday, 18 January, 2007
Woohoo! Just found out on the StarHub cable TV guide that they will be showing the AFC Championship Game (Patriots vs. Colts) this Monday morning at 730am. It’s the game of the season. I’ll be watching. (And taking leave.)
Scenes from “You’ve Got Mail”
Wednesday, 17 January, 2007
Pursuant to my soliloquy on You’ve Got Mail yesterday, here are some scenes from the lovely movie, courtesy of YouTube. A cute little scene where Meg Ryan muses about a butterfly. The scene where Tom Hanks gets stuck in an elevator with his girlfriend (not Meg Ryan). Through this episode, he subsequently realizes that she’s not the one for [...]
A Discussion On “You’ve Got Mail”
Wednesday, 17 January, 2007
Joe: So what’s his handle? Kathleen: Uh… Joe: I’m not going to write him, is that what you’re worried about? You think I’m going to e-mail him? Kathleen: Alright – NY152. Joe: N-Y-one-five-two. One hundred and fifty-two. He’s… 152 years old. He’s had 152 moles removed, so now he’s got 152 pock marks on his [...]
Go Pats!
Tuesday, 16 January, 2007
Woohoo! Patriots beat the fancied Chargers 24-21 in a tight, tight game to advance to the AFC Championship Game, where they will face *gulp* Peyton Manning and the Colts for the right to go to the Superbowl. The Tom Brady legend continues to grow. Too bad we didn’t get to see this game on TV [...]
Weekend
Monday, 15 January, 2007
Go on, ask me how my weekend was. No, I don’t want to. C’mon…just ask? I’m not that interested. Just. Ask. Me. How. My. Weekend. Was. Ok? Ok, how was your weekend? Bad. Quite bad.
Maybe I Could Get A Job As A Journalist
Sunday, 14 January, 2007
More than one month ago (on 11th December to be exact), I posted an entry about our swimming world champion Theresa Goh, and I paid tribute to her for achieving the distinction of being a world champion 200m Individual Medley swimmer at the International Paralympic Committee World Swimming Championships in Durban, South Africa. I wrote that piece [...]
Cool New Feature
Sunday, 14 January, 2007
Cool, I just realized that the Snap preview function has been automatically implemented on this Wordpress blog of mine. I’ve only ever seen this being used on Techcrunch, but it’s quite a cool feature. Basically, it allows you to preview the site just by placing your cursor over the hyperlinked text. So that means you don’t actually have [...]
No One Does Professor Higgins Better Than Rex Harrison
Saturday, 13 January, 2007
So I caught My Fair Lady the musical at the Esplanade Theatre last night. I couldn’t miss it for the world, since My Fair Lady is one of my top 3 favourite Broadway musicals of all-time (together with Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music). … Background My Fair Lady is a 1956 musical based on [...]
When I Wake Up in the Morn
Friday, 12 January, 2007
A poem about being apprehensive towards facing the new day. Hush now, hush now, turn down the light As I lay fatigued, forlorn For the morrow’s battles I fight When I wake up in the morn To work, to work, to earn my keep To slog, to grind, to moan, to weep To strive toward the [...]
