Conflict

Have you ever hated your boss for asking you to cancel something so that you can join a meeting after working hours or on the weekend?

Have you ever been pushed by your boss so much that you want to straggle them?

Have you ever been told by your boss that you've not done enough even though you've given your best?

I guess most people will think that bosses are assholes. They keep pushing and pushing us, it drives us up the wall.

What many bosses fail to do is to explain to the staffs why is he doing it. They like to feel the authority of demanding things. What I prefer to do is to give the team a target and they'll come up with a strategy and plan themselves and I'll give my comments.

That way, they can feel that the own the task and wants to complete it, when something goes wrong, they are accountable to it. Obviously, I'll have to accept the blame too because its me who choose to leave it up to them.

Back to the 3 questions above, this is the monster that I'm turning into. I accept that many people are just not like me, where the most important thing is to achieve the goal regardless of everything else. I'm still learning how to deal with this. Hopefully I'll learn how to manage people.

Life is special

Remember my long lost friend? After being here for 6 month and about to leave soon, I make it a point to pay her a visit.

She's staying in Katikati. Left Auckland at 8am and reached there about 11am including a few break and photo taking. Catch up about ol' times and talked about how's life now. Not sure whether did my colleagues felt bored then. I've asked 4 of them to come along.

No, not that I'm intimidated or shy. I'm an "old timer" here. Plenty of colleague come and go. I'll bring them around because I'm allowed to use the company car and I want to travel to places and snap pictures.

After Katikati, we went to Tauranga. Did Mt. Maunganui, the beach and a beautiful waterfalls (forgot the name lah).

Damn freaking tired now, signing off. Nights.

ps. I love GPS.

Now what?

Ok, to tip the scale a bit. What if I say US offer will have renumeration package which is 50% higher than AU/NZ?

Free = Good?

SC shared this site with us. To put it simple, East Ocean e-Imaging (EOE) offers digital photo printing service (among other stuff). The site has a clean looking interface with few important tabs and a handy search bar on top with all sorts of highlights below. I find it odd that it’s formatted to be 800 pixels wide rather than 1024 and it doesn’t support Firefox :(

The service is quite interesting as no matter where am I, I can send my photos to my family and friends back at home. This is possible by the fact that you can have different billing and posting address. International shipping is also available.

I’ve been taking loads of pictures but I’ve never printed any photos since few years back. Even then, it was my ex who printed them. 3R was the standard then and usually it goes for 30cents. Nowadays, 4R is the “correct” size to print and from EOE, its 30cents. With all the prices in Malaysia escalating, this is a good deal. Even 5R goes for 50cents only. Free delivery for purchases over RM35 is the bomb, totally makes sense for this service.

One of the worry when printing photo is whether the shop can reproduce accurate colors and details of the picture. I have friends who went through a lot of trouble to have the shop print to the color profiles that he want.

I’ll be eager to get my hands the photos when I get back to Malaysia next month. If it’s good, I’m sure I’ll be ordering more as it’s so convenient.

ps. I'll keep a lookout at the photo competition as well ;)
ps2. The slow internet makes the upload painful.