Monday, August 11, 2008

Tough week ahead..when can I take a break?

[11:09 am]


After the euphoria of NDP, I am back in the deep of things again..

With the morning off, I can finally get to go out with dear mother for breakfast after so long. She commented that she has not seen me for so long, which, sad to say was due to my long working hours.

And it is going to be like this for this week again, because I am going to take my guys out for a 2 day 2 night trip to tangle with the birds. And the only time I can rest my soul will be on Sunday, because I am going to watch over everyone while they go out and party with their loved ones on Saturday. As the latest advertisement says, "You can't see me, but you can always feel me around you".

I am not complaining here, but I feel that I seem to be on the receiving end of lousy deals. Sometimes I feel the pressure is just too great to bear and that I am on the verge of a break-down. I think I should seriously take a break and go somewhere else..next week seems to be a lull week, maybe I should take some leave to relax..

If it keeps going on like this, I will go crazy..Already, my family life is affected and I don't want it to spoil whatever chance I have in finding my life partner.

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Finally its over..

[10:40 am]


The long and arduous journey which started since last Jun 07 has culminated in the biggest (and wet) celebration at the Marina Bay last Saturday.

Along the way, there has been plenty of frustrations, stress and of course, happy moments as we went about planning for this big day. To me, the greatest joy was the rapport I built with our logistics and external agencies. It was through working as part of the planning team that I have realised that without the support of the tireless logistics team, the parade would not have gone on successfully. These are the things I have learnt, which I will treasure it;

1. Building rapport with others; Engaging the external agencies taught me the importance of negotiation and resolving conflict of interests amicably. It is vastly different from the "I don't care, I want it done.." or rather, the hard-ball approach that is prevalent in our organisation. Here, we are dealing with the public where they have their interests to take care of, hence the soft approach has to be used. All it takes is one wrong move and it will be difficult to achieve the same level of trust again. I have seen it happen and the damage control measures taken to rectify it was a painful process.

2. Every man is important; The other thing I learnt about is the importance of cascading information down to the last man on the ground. If information is not cascaded down properly, the last man on the ground will not be able to execute the plan properly, which leads to disruptions to the overall plan. Every single man is important in the scheme of events and all it takes is one man to screw up everything.

3. Walking the ground; In order to formulate the plan, you must walk the ground, understand the terrain and visualise the movement. While we have learnt this during our days in the training school, we have not been walking the talk. This is something I have to re-learn from our sister counterparts.

Now that it is over, I can finally heave a sigh of relief. Now the only things left is colloate the debrief report, share the lessons learnt, hand-over all the information we have garnered to the next team. Last week, to celebrate the successful conduct of NDP, I bought 1 bottle of Moet and Chandon champagne which we popped and toasted to our success.

There was plenty of photo-taking with the external agencies (see my FB) which I had worked with for the past months and amongst them was a very photogenic person (go see for yourself), whom I thought wasn't a bad choice for a partner. Too bad she doesn't seem interested in me, because I am too young for her at the age of 29, 'else, we could have work something out...hahaha

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