Month: February 2002

For the past few semesters, i have been buying lots of budget Jazz CDs, each for like AUD$10 (about SGD$10 also). Romantic Jazz Vocal, Jazz Vocal At Night, Jazz Piano For Lovers, etc… Also alot of stuff from Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz and a few others.

I wonder if there is a SG based Jazz community on the net… hmm…

Just before Pearl and I came back to Perth, we paid for the first 10% of our flat at Punggol East. The last time when we went to the actual site, our block was only 2 storey high. It should be ready by mid 2003.

We also went to HDB Centre to take pictures of the models of our flat, pretty cool eh.

On our SQ flight from Singapore to Perth, Pearl and I actually had “yu shen” on the plane. Its actually quite cool, they served it as a starter. With our little forks an that little plastic container, we went ahead and “lo hei”. haha… that was fun.

After a good 3 months back in Singapore, I spent quite a few brain cells on my parent’s business. Its not that I am an experienced business person or that I am extremely involved in the business, but just contemplating that business itself can be a stage to show ones character.

Having parents who are business people, somehow I have been brainwashed to have a management view on business ever since I can remember. My dad always preached that I should give salary and not take salary, I should tell people what to do and not do it myself. But after all these years I am still toying with this concept.

A staff can be viewed as a record in the HR database, but so can a customer, a supplier, a friend, a person. But behind each person there is a story… a story that is only told in that person’s life. A story that might bore the living daylights out of you, but it’s a story that is most personal and very heart warming to that individual.

I feel guilty knowing people just as a face, just as a name, just as a person whom I can’t even remember their name 5mins after introduction. But is that how things are? Or should I be more sincere? hmm…

Its now 20/02/2002 20:02 cool huh.