BRB

Due to certain reasons... Blogging will only resume on 1 May.

*bzzzzt*

Don't sweat the small stuff

Came across an article today which I felt rang close to heart. As leaders, sometimes we end up micro-managing, that in itself is not a bad thing, as it shows that you do have some grasp on how the ground works, but most of the time it is just a grossly inefficient way to run things.

Quoting from this article by David Lyman: 90 percent of my work requires concept solutions, not the details of the actual answer. I have a staff to do that

The remaining 10 percent of course as mentioned in his article refers to crunching the numbers. While working this way is of course ideal, in many lines of work where people move from one position to the next higher one in barely the blink of an eye, sometimes they end up ill-equipped to fulfill that 90 percent. Lack of basic knowledge, etc have led to a generation of leaders who would take piecemeal the information from the people below them without questioning. Now that indeed leads to a very dangerous scenario where misinterpretations perpetuates itself until the organisation as a whole fails in its task.

As we carry out our daily tasks, let us not forget some of our basic ground work.

Self validation (part 2)

Remembering from this post, there seem to be no room for heading back now. Not after what happened, not after what has been said and disputed. If a simple act of proving me wrong is too much to ask for, then perhaps there was truly no point for the 39 days of anguish I put myself through.

Never one to jump into conclusions of saying I'm definitely right, one way or another, I will get the truth.

Diary

Seems fitting since this is a diary of sorts.

记事本

翻看随身携带的记事本 写著许多事都是关于你 你讨厌被冷落 习惯被守候
寂寞才找我

我看见自己写下的心情 把自己放在卑微的后头 等你等太久 想你泪会流
而幸福快乐是什么

爱的痛了 痛的哭了 哭的泪了 日记本泪页页执著 记载著你的好 像上瘾
的毒药 它反覆骗著我

爱的痛了 痛的哭了 哭的泪了 矛盾心里总是强求 劝自己要放手 闭上眼
让你走 烧掉日记重新来过

Moving forward

Well things have really been moving forward, even though not in my life, but certainly at least in the area of city development here in Jogja. Tapping this out in the corner of Sagan as I finish off my dinner, it is with some measure of interest that I realised, in 20 months some things have certainly improved around here.

Amongst other things, there is finally an authorised Apple distributor here in Jogja (so I don't have to panic if my power cable decides to go kaput), the place where I am staying has finally gotten a new generator set (which means even the rooms have electricity in the event of a power outage, a fairly common event during the rainy season), internet connection speeds have doubled since I first got connected... E's rusting busted up Kijang even got a new coat of paint, along with new windows and solar film!

The past week has not been particularly enjoyable. Made further worse when it seems to be hard to trust even myself. Where once I would not question my own instincts, I had to ask myself several times if I had lost that sharpness, that edge, which I had felt had been one of my greatest positive points... Has living out here (literally in the boonies when compared to Singapore) blunt my analytical abilities? Blurring lines which I could draw with clarity and absoluteness not that long ago.

Perhaps the answer would reveal itself to me soon.

What in the world...

You don't know know who you are messing with...

A low-point

While certainly far from being a breaking point, yesterday certainly marked the lowest point to date in 2008. Having learned of an inconvenient truth, it seems that the support structures that have existed in the various aspects of life have been systematically failing.

First it was that. Now this. What next? What more does fate have to take away from me in this year.

Talking didn't seem to help. Walking away isn't an option either.

With all the events shaping up to this point, I had thought there was at least one thing I could look forward to, and it could be all but guaranteed to happen. Apparently my belief in the system was well-misplaced. Though a short-term setback, and in the long-term it may not be an issue at all, it still stings bad, like a cold shower and a slap in the face.