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Rest in Peace...

Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007), under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series.

He died September 16, 2007 from complications due to cardiac amyloidosis.

Fūrin Kazan

風林火山 - Fūrin Kazan



The title is a reference to the war banner used by Takeda Shingen, which in turn was taken from Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

"Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain."







"move as swift as the wind,
stay silent as the forest,
attack as fierce as fire,
immovable defense as the mountains."

Colorgenics Profile

My complete personal profile, as provided by Colorgenics





You have exaggerated demands on life but you are cautious enough to try to hide these beliefs from the outside world. You are covert enough to try to impress other people around you with your achievements and at the same time able to put on an act of pretending to be 'humble' - being the same as everyone else. It would appear, however, that whatever you are doing seems to be working out O.K.

You 'need to be needed'. As an idealist you are intolerant of anything short of special consideration from those close to you. If you do not get what you seek you are apt to become reclusive and you will close the doors on all those within your sphere of influence.

In spite of the fact that you believe that your hopes and ideas are realistic, it is hard for you to accept that your needs and desires are misunderstood by almost everyone within your sphere of influence and there is no-one to turn to or rely on. Your pent-up emotions and inherent egocentricity make you quick to take offence, but as matters stand you realise that you will have to make the best of things as they are.

You are trying to prove yourself - not only to yourself but also to everyone around you. There is much that you would like to say and do but the situation warrants self-restraint and that is the last thing that you have on your mind. It would seem that you have an unsatisfied need to ally yourself with others whose standards are as high as your own. You want to be different - to stand out from the crowd. This is subjecting you to considerable stress but you tend to stick to your attitudes despite lack of appreciation. Of course, you are finding the situation uncomfortable and would like nothing better but to break away from it but you don't like the idea of compromise. Your main problem is that you are unable to resolve the situation because you continually postpone making the necessary decisions. You feel that if you make the wrong choice this would lead to such opposition that you would not be able to command the esteem of others. It is essential that those around you are prepared to comply with your wishes.

It is strange that the anxiety that you are experiencing at this time is of your own making simply because of your desire to be respected by your fellow man and with those whom you work with. You are not satisfied. The normal congenial 'you' is becoming quite introverted. This is becoming increasingly more obvious because you seem to shy away from participating in everyday activities. You are refusing to allow yourself to become involved or to participate with others and it is the reluctance to communicate that is the inherent cause of your problems.

smells bad...

I live in an apartment with nice lawns.
I also happen to have to pay a nice tidy sum to the Body Corporate in fees.
So, we have a nice gentleman (who is our caretaker) and he keeps the lawn nice, green and bright.
Over the winter, the lawns wither and waste away.
Every spring, the nice caretaker comes over and plants a new green lawn.
The new green lawn will need fertilizer to help the lawn grow up big and strong.
Since the nice caretaker is a fairly pro-environment guy, he uses manure.

I DO NOT like the smell of shit in the morning !!!

I hate logging stats at the office...

Stats, as in statistics, where you have to log how many work units you complete in an hour. This forms a way for the management to monitor the productivity of their employees. Since it runs on an honor system, I am skeptical of the accuracy.

I am not a particular fan of the whole system though. I, as an individual employee, find it an extra chore to log stats every hour on the hour. And, in the interest of being more productive, I find that it slows me down and breaks my work rhythm.

I am currently chasing the personal best (highest number work units completed in a day) of my colleagues at the bank and I find that I am not quite improving. They have the advantage of familiarity of the work and of having had proper training sessions. I just got 2 weeks of having been shown how stuff works and it has been 'monkey see, monkey do' ever since.

But, I understand the need for it and how it helps planning and work distribution. It is not feasible to work on a guesstimate. And, it makes sense to have the hard numbers. Say that you have a team of 5 on a manufacturing line that needs to assemble 100 widgets a day. You kinda need the numbers to map out the capability of your team and monitor how many widgets they can comfortably achieve in a day.

And with those figures, you can then allocate the work load accordingly. I'm a big fan of team work and the idea of load-balancing among the different production lines and teams in the factory.

Furthermore, if you log and track each individual employee's stats, you are in a better position to plan for contingencies. Say, you have John Employee who is able to comfortably assemble 20 widgets a day. That means, on the days that John calls in sick, the other 4 team members must be able to pick up the slack and complete an extra 5 widgets each. This is assuming if the team is to make the daily production quota.

And, when John decides to take off to the Bahamas on his annual leave, it would be better to hire another guy. This is as not to burn out your team by having them pick up the slack...

... every day...

... for the next 4 weeks.

...

ma de chau hai...








Australian Idol
has started again...

I have just run into my room to escape the nonsense that is the idol auditions.
It is so… bad.
I don’t get the fascination of people who actually want to watch the auditions.
Why watch the shit that show up?
Those who can’t sing are awful, the wierdos make it horrific and the desperate are just sad.

Why watch shit?

Just get to the good parts.
I mean skip the audition completely and just show the competition when you have the shortlist of people who can actually sing.
I just want to watch the finalists who can sing well and entertain.




… you know?