Wednesday, September 24, 2008

I'm beginning to feel a little addicted to being on course... And somewhat dreading going back to work next Mon... This week's been relatively less intensive; I'm getting a bit more comfy with my coursemates, and though there are readings to do, I've grown really lazy and totally neglected doing any reading before the lectures for this week... While my group has this EDC challenge to do (final pdt is to have some visual cum oral presentation of ideas abt Sg in 2020) I am secretly loving how my team members are rather relaxed about it and not like seriously staying back to discuss the challenge, unlike some other teams... :P (Though we prob have to biah a bit tmr just so we are not totally outcome-less for Friday...) So yeah, life has actually been pretty good thus far this week! And cos we sometimes have to make our way to certain sites (eg. I visited a pri sch this afternoon) we kinda carpool among ourselves and dunno, it's just somewhat fun! Yest on way back from HDB to CSC, our 'driver' even dropped by Holland V for us to get the yummy frolick yogurt there...

This week I also found out a little bit more about my thinking styles and leadership qualities... According to the Emergenetics test (that analyses my thinking and behavioral attributes) I did, I have a tri-modal analytical/social/conceptual profile. Well, will not dwell at length on what that really means since I cannot imagine it being terribly interesting to anyone, but apparently the stress of having such profile comes from being "Jack of all trades but master of none".... Thought that was quite spot on... And such ppl are "not always able to sort out thoughts or feelings about an issue, since to him/her all sides of the issue make sense. Most likely, making a decision is difficult and time-consuming"... Seriously, sometimes I wished I were more extreme/ opinionated about issues, then it wun be so difficult for me to decide.... The brighter side of having my profile though (i'm tri-modal dominated by the conceptual part) is that I am a very intuitive about ideas, see big picture kinda person... And supposedly more imaginative and creative hehe. I suppose that kinda gels with the 360 degrees thingy which said that one of my weaknesses is with coming up with detailed plan/ strategy on how to execute my plans... Yeah man, seriously I am terrible at meticulously setting milestones/ interim deadlines for projects... The last min put out fire approach seems to get me to work better.... somehow i doubt my sec sch friends would believe me if I told them that... but yeah, I can be so ad hoc/ disorganised these days... But then I find my order in my own tiny chaos lah... :)

Sunday, September 21, 2008

I can still drive!

This is but a self-glorifying post to declare that I can still drive decently, but given that it's such a pleasant discovery, pls at least allow me to indulge a little :P Haha and so yeah, after two refresher lessons over the weekend, I discovered that my driving skills are largely intact; and that it really isn't that difficult trying to get used to driving on the other side of the road! The only thing that kept happening during first lesson was that I kept switching on the wipers whenever I wanted to signal :P And well, I'd probably get honked at a lot by impatient drivers at multi-storey carparks; cos I seriously need to work on my parking. Prob also need GPS and better feel of roads in sg lah. That aside, I really enjoy the feeling of being in control of the car... and the feeling of cruising along the expressway. Yesterday's expressway driving was eeky cos of slight traffic congestion... but today I drove myself to the airport and traffic was pretty nice and smooth... Die, a bit addictive leh. Hmm, maybe it's time to psycho nice Dad to change car.... :P