Nope Uncle Casius is not a kapoh, so I am not going to comment on other ppl business. Uncle Casius is actually looking in his own pocket and decided to request for a pay raise from the HR department since he has not been given any increment since 2000.
"Hi, Miss HR I would like to ask for an increment of 25-33% since I have not been given a pay raise since year 2000."
"Hmm... but don't you know that since 2000 the economy had not been very good, and let me remind you that on 2001, the September 11 incident actually drag the company down quite a bit. Count yourself lucky that you were not retrenched by the company at that time!"
"But Miss HR, looking at what I did for the company, my pay is consider very cheap! I guess my payroll is just 0.0000000022% of the company turnover!"
"Well, you did contribute to the company turnover but many ppl does too. That could hardly count as a good reason for increment!!!"
"Ok, Miss HR, don't you afraid that I jump ship to another company. You know the my family doctor is earning much higher than me and compare to a banker my pay is simply too low! You know Ah B from my department has been head huntered by a bank?"
"#%$%, Uncle Casius.. you are a bloody cleaner and you are not qualify to be doctor... by the way pls enlighten me what the hell a bank would want to headhunt you to be banker while your working experience is to sweep floor?!!"
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007
Profitable Business
The latest court case on NKF has re-ignite some interest to the Charity scene in Singapore. Uncle Casius cannot be help to think that Charity is indeed on of most profitable "business" (if you agreed with Mr Dulai opion).
Firstly, Charity has not tangible product to sell. You are selling the misfortune of others and expliot on public sympathy. As a intangible product, you do not have handle issues like product cost, inventory control, providing warranty etc.
Secondly, Charity has low start up cost. You just need to register with the relevent authority and lock on to a target that you can exploit. Well, since the world is full of misfortune or all kind of illness, its not too difficult to just pick one.
Thirdly, lower cost of publicity. Under the banner of "Charity", most media will be willing to settle of lower fee. if you are innovative enough, you just need to call up the one of the Chinese night paper to tip them about one of the sad stories you have in your file. The indirect way of publicity is always a more effective way compare to buying advertisment space.
As can be seen, Charity is just one of the thing that met the above criteria, Uncle Casius do not want to elaborate further as it could be quite controversial... but this should be quite obvious!
Firstly, Charity has not tangible product to sell. You are selling the misfortune of others and expliot on public sympathy. As a intangible product, you do not have handle issues like product cost, inventory control, providing warranty etc.
Secondly, Charity has low start up cost. You just need to register with the relevent authority and lock on to a target that you can exploit. Well, since the world is full of misfortune or all kind of illness, its not too difficult to just pick one.
Thirdly, lower cost of publicity. Under the banner of "Charity", most media will be willing to settle of lower fee. if you are innovative enough, you just need to call up the one of the Chinese night paper to tip them about one of the sad stories you have in your file. The indirect way of publicity is always a more effective way compare to buying advertisment space.
As can be seen, Charity is just one of the thing that met the above criteria, Uncle Casius do not want to elaborate further as it could be quite controversial... but this should be quite obvious!
Friday, March 2, 2007
Home Alone with Amanda
Today, the wife need to go out in the afternoon so it will only be Amanda and me at home. And I will have to bring Amanda to meet up with the wife in the evening. Since this is not something Uncle Casius is good in, I created a checklist and timetable:
1. Pat Amanda to sleep (hee.. so that I get some personal time, like posting the blog)
2. Get ready the milk so that I am always ready to feed Amanda when she wants it.
3. Choose what she is going to wear later in the evening
4. Pack Amanda's belongings for tonight outing.
a. Toys
b. Spare set of shirts
c. Diapers, anti rashes cream, wet-paper wipe, plastic sheet
d. Small Towels
e. Blanket
f. Medication for insert bite
g. Plaster to keep insert away
5. Changed her diaper before leaving the house
6. Apply medicine on her insert bites
7. Call for a cab to meet the wife
Phew* This remind me of my days of reservists when we need to come up with a SOP and pack the full battle order for field excercise! Anyway today outting should be an interesting one, the wife is going to treat Uncle a Japanese meal that she rated as one of the best in Singapore at Chime, following by a walk along the riverside.. guess this is a new experience for Amanda!
I am keeping my fingers cross, I hope the sky will continue to be clear as it had been raining for the last 2 days!
1. Pat Amanda to sleep (hee.. so that I get some personal time, like posting the blog)
2. Get ready the milk so that I am always ready to feed Amanda when she wants it.
3. Choose what she is going to wear later in the evening
4. Pack Amanda's belongings for tonight outing.
a. Toys
b. Spare set of shirts
c. Diapers, anti rashes cream, wet-paper wipe, plastic sheet
d. Small Towels
e. Blanket
f. Medication for insert bite
g. Plaster to keep insert away
5. Changed her diaper before leaving the house
6. Apply medicine on her insert bites
7. Call for a cab to meet the wife
Phew* This remind me of my days of reservists when we need to come up with a SOP and pack the full battle order for field excercise! Anyway today outting should be an interesting one, the wife is going to treat Uncle a Japanese meal that she rated as one of the best in Singapore at Chime, following by a walk along the riverside.. guess this is a new experience for Amanda!
I am keeping my fingers cross, I hope the sky will continue to be clear as it had been raining for the last 2 days!
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
The World is Flat
Yesterday, Uncle Casius and wife along with the baby daughter, Amanda, decided to go jalan jalan in Serangoon Centre.
"You know, The world is flat!", the wife suddenly said to me.
"This is the most stupid thing that I have heard! Even Amanda knows the world is round.", I turned around and whispered to her.
"Hello uncle, you should read the book by Thomas L. Friedman!", the wife mocked at me. She then continued, "The world is indeed 'flatten' due to advancement in technology. The competition ground has been levelled as information can be easily available through Google!"
This reminded me how much the technology has progressed. In the very beginning, when I was much older than Amanda, the so call network was done via 56K modem connecting to private BBS, for us to exchange small DOS based games and gossips (and yes, I exchanged picture of pretty girls in the BBS too). Then came things like Mosaic, Gopher and Veronica that linked up the campus network. And suddenly, in a big bang, you had Netscape and Internet is available to the public! I can't imagine how times flies and now our lives are depending on the web. I realised that the wife, or actually, Thomas is right that the world is indeed flatten. The old era of expert who had strong fundamental and able to remember cold hard facts in their head is slowly faded... nowadays, with Google and Wikipedia, and armed with easy access to the web, everyone can pretend to be an expert (of course they could't last long). And that day, a chao fresh grad tried to teach Uncle Casius what is structured products as investment products!! *sigh, just within a short span of less than 15 years, the entire ball games has changed.
"And you know according to Thomas due to the change in education emphasis in US, the younger American cannot count as well as most of the kids in other region.", the wife seemed to be enjoying showing off that she knows more of the global trend than me.
"Yah lah, yah lah, so next time we can go over to US to teach the ang-mo how to count 1-2-3 just like now the ang-mo flew to Beijing to teach the Chinese A-B-C", I am eager to show that I am old but not an fool yet. But then I know that the wife is correct again (or actually Thomas is). Changing the Education system seems to be the most "in" thing for many countries and even the Singapore government has decided to trim down on memorising pieces. But can we still claim that we have acquired the knowledge if we have to keep going back to the Web to retrieve hard facts?
"Hello uncle, I think you need to come out more often. In today world its more important to be able to assemble information and produce new knowledge to be able to be a few step in front of the rest!", the wife spoke as if she is already a few steps in front of me.
"I am really glad that I belong to a generation in between the old and new era. We have gone through the hard way of learning so that we have some hard facts in our head, and at the same time progressing along with the technology so that its relatively easier for us (compare to my dad) to adapt to the fast pace of technology scene!" I mumbered to myself.
I turned to Amanda and said, "I guess it’s important to have an open mind. Too easily rejecting new ideas even if they seem nonsensical at the beginning may jolly well throw the rare germs along with the trashes!". Well, Amanda could only responded to me in a puzzling look while sat in the stroller! *sigh.
"You know, The world is flat!", the wife suddenly said to me.
"This is the most stupid thing that I have heard! Even Amanda knows the world is round.", I turned around and whispered to her.
"Hello uncle, you should read the book by Thomas L. Friedman!", the wife mocked at me. She then continued, "The world is indeed 'flatten' due to advancement in technology. The competition ground has been levelled as information can be easily available through Google!"
This reminded me how much the technology has progressed. In the very beginning, when I was much older than Amanda, the so call network was done via 56K modem connecting to private BBS, for us to exchange small DOS based games and gossips (and yes, I exchanged picture of pretty girls in the BBS too). Then came things like Mosaic, Gopher and Veronica that linked up the campus network. And suddenly, in a big bang, you had Netscape and Internet is available to the public! I can't imagine how times flies and now our lives are depending on the web. I realised that the wife, or actually, Thomas is right that the world is indeed flatten. The old era of expert who had strong fundamental and able to remember cold hard facts in their head is slowly faded... nowadays, with Google and Wikipedia, and armed with easy access to the web, everyone can pretend to be an expert (of course they could't last long). And that day, a chao fresh grad tried to teach Uncle Casius what is structured products as investment products!! *sigh, just within a short span of less than 15 years, the entire ball games has changed.
"And you know according to Thomas due to the change in education emphasis in US, the younger American cannot count as well as most of the kids in other region.", the wife seemed to be enjoying showing off that she knows more of the global trend than me.
"Yah lah, yah lah, so next time we can go over to US to teach the ang-mo how to count 1-2-3 just like now the ang-mo flew to Beijing to teach the Chinese A-B-C", I am eager to show that I am old but not an fool yet. But then I know that the wife is correct again (or actually Thomas is). Changing the Education system seems to be the most "in" thing for many countries and even the Singapore government has decided to trim down on memorising pieces. But can we still claim that we have acquired the knowledge if we have to keep going back to the Web to retrieve hard facts?
"Hello uncle, I think you need to come out more often. In today world its more important to be able to assemble information and produce new knowledge to be able to be a few step in front of the rest!", the wife spoke as if she is already a few steps in front of me.
"I am really glad that I belong to a generation in between the old and new era. We have gone through the hard way of learning so that we have some hard facts in our head, and at the same time progressing along with the technology so that its relatively easier for us (compare to my dad) to adapt to the fast pace of technology scene!" I mumbered to myself.
I turned to Amanda and said, "I guess it’s important to have an open mind. Too easily rejecting new ideas even if they seem nonsensical at the beginning may jolly well throw the rare germs along with the trashes!". Well, Amanda could only responded to me in a puzzling look while sat in the stroller! *sigh.
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