Gift Exchange with Alanis and Ting

 Christmas meet up with my wonderful girls

 Look at how much gift we have for each others! I have to love Alanis's "this is all i can afford" wrapper.

 Ting's birthday present. I am an angel, with wings.

 Notebook and pen for Alanis

 Presents from Ting to us, she made  us a customized photo album :)

 So here's our food, fried platter to bite.

 Blue cheese burger to kill

 Why did i say kill? Check out the blueness of the rotten cheese! 

 Every girl's favorite dessert, varieties! We just love variety, especially when it comes to dessert, don't we.

The mango sherbet from Ben and Jerry is so good, we ordered a second portion.

Merry Christmas Girls, love our 2012 will be as great or even better than this year!

Jingle Jingle

 Food glorious food! Business product's group Christmas lunch.

 Department's Christmas lunch

The mango cake from Icing room is yummy, way better than their chocolate log.

 Look! I received jingle bell La Senza for Christmas, there are a lot of bells on it.

All other blessing from office folks! 

Anniversary at Shangrila The Line

We finally made use of our $200 Shangrila voucher i won from food review on insing.com about a year ago. We went to The Line on Wednesday for Seafood night to celebrate our five and a half year anniversary.

 I learned my mistake from Phuket Hilton experience, i attack the seafood counter first this time. Oyster freshly open when you order, we ordered a dozen of them that night.

 Crayfish sitting on a bed of hokkaido crab legs

 Shells are not that fantastic when they are ice cold, crab topped of our list that night.

 Free flow of sparkling wine or any beverage for seafood night.

 

 

Satisfied customer

Bill come out to be $208 for two, so we only topped up $8 for this sumptuous meal.

Time flies, we are together for more than half a decade. Things has been great, thank you for sticking around. XOXO wifey.

Hai Bin

 Hai Bin with Setho this time, 2 rod caught 23 steal 7. Yes we steal 7, someone caught it, BBQ it and left them on the BBQ pit.

 The husband's skill is horrible in front of Setho.

Humid House

My petite dehumidifier collected 200ml of water in my guest room after running for one day! Do you guys staying in bukit merah area face such problem?

Mookata

A place i would recommend for steamboat. Instead of our usual "cheena" steamboat we find around bugis area why not try the Thai steamboat place Mookata at east coast road along the stretch of shop houses where ASTON's is located. 

Mookata is quite well known in Thailand and Malaysia, this is their first outlet on our sunny island. I loves their creative charcoal steamboat pot, it's concave so the juice of the meat will flow right down into the soup. Holes on the curve to allow the mild charcoal smoke add the extra smoky touch to your meat. And their not to be missed Thai dipping sauce is so appetizing with almost everything.

They are reasonably priced and they also offer buffet during weekdays.

Peperoni Pizzeria

 Peperoni Pizzeria at Binjai Park. We are here for  Alic's birthday and the Mega Pizza.

 Wings and chips are okay, nothing to shout about.

 Good calamari but $14 for this portion is pretty steep.

 

 Mega XXL pizza came, it's 21 inch! $50, good to feed four - five pax.

 

 Birthday girl with the dessert. Not a fan of cream brulee, i love Tiramisu.

 Fav Big Head Maker + Instagram photo

Happy Birthday Pretty

Why So Cute

Sesame Street Cuppies

Bday cake for Amanda, Melody and Reshma!

Best convention gift ever!

Best convention gift ever! (from FSI convention in KR)

Do you have 4Q?

My company started out this company wide work cum social media portal. We are free to create a blog or forum for information exchanging and this is one meaningful piece from one of our leader.


Increasingly, leaders have to rely on talent and their attitudes to make a big difference to their overall performance  and success of their teams.  For me, there's a simple formula that I adopt to select the key talent in the team.  I look for the 4Qs ie IQ + EQ + AQ + DQ.  Let me explain these elements :

- IQ : Intelligence Quotient ie how smart or intelligent is the talent ?  This used to be the most important fact in the past, but as more candidates possessed high IQs, this became a commodity over time, especially in this age, partly a thanks to Google with their Search that levelled or flattened the playing field more this IQ area... Never stop learning !

- EQ - Emotional Quotient : the ability to assess and relate to others in effective or ineffective ways.  This is a key skill that differentiates the individuals, even in today.  People with high EQ have the ability to engage others well, excite and energize them even in the process.  Look out for more of these to be in your teams.

- AQ : Adversity Quotient : the ability of the individual to stand up and take the pressures of life, work or any challenges.  This is also another great differentiator for one who possess this element, especially in this age where challenges abound and plentiful.  How do you stand up to this ?  Remember, Tough times don't last, Tough People do... Like Tag Heuer's once tag line - "Don't crack under pressure !"

- DQ : This is a new one of recent times and one that is becoming valuable.  It's called Digital Quotient born out of this ever increasing Digital Age.  This is a measure of how adapt one is with the latest and coolest technologies, smart devices, facebook, games etc, but more important than being just a user, it's the ability to sense what's the next WoW and have a point of view, with a dare to try and test new grounds.  This is an area that my 8 year son can match me today and probably surpass me in a few more years if I do not continuously develop here...:)

So what is your IQ+EQ+AQ+DQ ?

那些年 - 胡夏 (翻唱)

心計 (Theme song from 酒店風雲)

Work Teddy

Work buddy, my vendor's bear i got it from c.arrier e.thernet forum.

Company Photo Competition

Photo of my bling bling "ah lian" hand phone pouch taken by our department photographer.

Cheong Sam Pretty

Saving it for Chinese New Year (if possible)