A touristy week for me :P

friend's visit gave me the chance to visit quite a handful of places I prob wouldn't have visited on my own... and discovered a few decent and not overly-touristy/artificial places to visit... Sg does have a its own share of cool places too after all... :)

Visited the National Orchird Garden in the Botanic Gardens for the first time... it's such a pretty garden... no pictures can justify the experience of walking through all those colorful elegant flowers. Very good photo op too! Didn't really get much time to take pics this time round.. but hope to return in future

hehe... where was this pic taken? (read on to find out..) sadly the CBD buildings are somewhat 'clouded out' by the haze... anyway, my FIRST time taking the cable car brought me to the tranquil summit of Mount Faber. have to admit that it was a lil scary to be 'floating' in non-airconditioned cabin way above everything else... as well as above lotsa tropical trees as we neared Mount Faber... but quite cool! :P

have yet to master the art of working both efficiently and competently... still some kinda trade off for me as i tend to spend more time to ensure that quality doesn't suffer... but sometimes realize that certain things you have to race against time... and things just can't be as good as you want them to be... which leads me to another point-- i find it rather disturbing how in an attempt to get things cleared, we sometimes have to compromise on details... one wonders what happens downstream if things aren't well thought-through enough? how do diff organizations make decisions? top management ppl can't always be right also... yet seems like subordinates usually wun question excessively. just do. how can like that. why like that. will i eventually become like that. or am i already like that...