Category: Life

Have you ever thought to yourself, “maybe I should look for another job” or “maybe I should go work in a larger organization” or “maybe I should work in a smaller organization” or “maybe I should setup my own thing”. These are very common thoughts and unfortunately these thoughts seem to continue even when you have changed jobs. Why is that so?

• Is it the Work?
• Is it the Clients?
• Is it the Boss?
• Is it the Colleagues?
• Is it Yourself?

Or maybe it’s a mix of all of the above.

Morning Glory

I recently caught Morning Glory and I think it’s quite a close representation of the kind of workplace I’m in. The pace is fast, the pressure is high, work is challenging, you need to think on your feet all the time, clients and colleagues can be difficult at times and there is a constant nagging by that little voice inside myself asking is this where I want to be.

The female lead Becky Fuller played by Rachel McAdams is dedicated to her job. She is constantly throwing in 120% but still have to face many difficult situations on a daily basis. The key challenge for her on the job is this purist News Anchor Mike Pomeroy played by Harrison Ford who was forced by contract to do a Morning Show.

Long story short, she had to bring ratings up if not the show will be canned. She had limited resources and a potentially talented team, however a few in the team are making things really difficult for her. Eventually people started getting out of their comfort zone and things started to work out and the show was saved. Then at this point she was offered a dream job in her industry.

Should she go? Should she stay?

This is a feel good movie, so of cause she stayed. She stayed not because her boss counter offered. She stayed not because the dream job was not real. She stayed not because the new job had a crappy environment. She stayed because she enjoys working with the people she works with.

I personally feel, the people we work with on a regular basis would be the key reason we stay or go. We spend around 40 hours with them weekly, possibly more then with our family or friends and as a team we are constantly achieving victories together. So I think its key that we enjoy hanging out with people at work.

Anyway… go catch the show, its good.

The weekday is filled with complexity and decision making, so the weekend needs to be filled with simplicity. One of the best way to spend the weekend is to hang out with good friends or chill out at comfortable places.

I simply love hanging out at my friends Desmond and Hazel’s place their place is just so relaxing.

Their home is an extremely comfortable white house with lush greenery all around.

Here is us taking a group photo while having tea on a chillaxing weekend afternoon.

Their home recently got featured in habitusliving.com and there are more photos there. The photos were taken by my other good friend Jeremy San, do check them out.

Punggolians all celebrate at the opening of Punggol Promenade Riverside Walk. If you’ve not been there, you are missing out. I was exploring the place with my architect friend and just by looking at the design of the place, he could tell the place had a style that could belong to Look Architects. I searched for it on the net and true enough, Look Architects are working on Punggol Promenade as a whole and you can see more Architects Impression illustrations of the place on their site.

This place is perfect for jogging and they even have jogging paths that looked like wooden decks like Henderson Waves, but you will be surprised that they are actually cement. They used some kind of wooden mould to make these cement slabs. Very very cool. Very nice design touch.

The bridge connecting Punggol Promenade to Lorong Halus Wetland is interesting too. It had a trapezium shape and arced slightly across the river. The maroon colour however I felt was kinda meh. It almost felt like that was just the anti rust coat and they left it as that. Then again, if you looked at the toilets, that full fledge rusty look looks so much better.

Sunset is now more beautiful over Punggol. I look forward to be able to cycle from my place to my parents place in east coast via the Park Connector Network. you can check out a map of it on Google Maps which was started by my friend Lucian.

My friend W.T.B took loads of nice pictures of this place too. You can see some on his blog and more on his Facebook album.