A Personal Journey
Archive for year 2005
One down side of being a manager
Dec 17th
With pressure from the top to get a project to be successful in its implementation and get the project finished as soon as possible, forced to be a bad guy, I had to reluctantly reduced the annual leaves for some of my staffs. I frantically tried to get as much More >
Vegetarian Christmas Party
Dec 14th
Raytheon Staff/Ex-Staff Christmas Dinner
After more than two years not meeting seeing all of them, I battled through the busy Epping Road to join some of my ex-colleagues from Raytheon Australia for a christmas dinner. No one has changed since the last time I saw them more than two years More >
Cherry Picking
Dec 10th
Picking Cherries
After an hour out of Liverpool, the bus stopped at a nice little highway cafetiara for us to rest and have a little snack. The cafeteria reminded me of the time when I travelled from Melbourne to Sydney with my mum and uncle. The thick white plates and More >
Management Christmas Party
Dec 9th
Walking Toward The Restaurant
Like any traditional Management Christmas party at Allied, we battled the busy Friday’s evening traffic toward the city through the last ray of sun light of the day. Arrived at Dolton House in Pyrmont, we served with delicious finger food. I don’t know what they were More >
Project Management Tool: dotProject
Dec 6th
After madly searching for an easy to use web-based project management tool, I came across dotProject when it was only in its infancy stage of version 1.02 which was not usable for our purpose. However, when version 2 was released, great improvements to the software were made which led the decision More >
FireFox 1.5 Rocks !
Dec 4th
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The Mozilla Team has done a great job with the new version of its internet browser, Firefox 1.5. It is quick to start and the displaying the pages quicker. Unlike its competitors, e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox has lesser number of overall security issues. In addition to its higher secured brousing, More >
Race 3 Regatta
Dec 4th
VADB Team Photo
The sun shines brightly upon the Penrith Lakes, after a thunder storm caused millions of dollar in damages that crossed the east coast of Australia the previous night, while the strong wind howls through the trees and creating waves on the lake. Teams around Sydney regions gathered More >
Difficult Customer I Am Not
Nov 27th
Christmas Tree at Darling Harbour
It has been a long time that I have not organised a get together with my friends. Gathered along the waterside of the Darling Harbour, we finally made up our mind to go to Y2K Supercafe in Chinatown for the infamous Chilly Fishballs that everyone More >