I’ve had this craving for Dunkin’ Donuts since the last time I was in the US at Florida with Esh. We passed by quite a few DD outlets but we never stopped by any of them.
This time, on my recent trip to the US, I finally managed to pay a visit to a DD outlet. As with most things where you build the anticipation up to a crescendo, the actual donut was… disappointing. I’ve had better donuts in SG.
Anyway, reproduced here in multi-colour glory is the donut.
Keep chanting it to yourself as a mantra. “7 days is the max… 7 days is the max…”
Whether you are doing up a project plan yourself or accepting a project plan from vendors, each task on the project plan should last no longer than 7 days. If any task exceeds 7 days, then it becomes difficult to track the progress and the people working on the task may also not develop a sense of urgency since the discernible milestone to them is still some time away.
Most, if not all, tasks can be broken down to a maximum 7 day duration. If you find that you are unable to do it or you are working with a project planner who says “It’s impossible” (incidentally a much too common refrain from vendors…), then TRY HARDER.
Went to the US not long ago and one of my friends requested me to buy a Coach bag for him as a gift for his girlfriend. I didn’t do any shopping in San Francisco so I thought I had better drop by one of the outlets in L.A. Unfortunately, the Coach shop was “Coming Soon”…
When I booked in to OCS in the past, I always had my discman with me. It was contained in this discman pouch where there were also sleeves for storing other music CDs. I somehow remember that Alanis Morissette was the CD whenever I made the lonely trek back to camp from home…
Went to this coffeeshop near YL’s place to try the zi char. It was recommended in the papers or something. Tried the food there but it was nothing special. Bumped into ABC there as well. He later told me that the zi char was gonna close down due to increasing coffeeshop rental. No big loss…
Sharepoint may be a useful collaboration portal for people involved in a project to work together, but certain functions are still quite clunky. Not sure if it wasn’t setup properly by the company’s IT Infrstructure team or if its just MS software being wonky, but the “Edit in Datasheet” button that is available for all Sharepoint lists does not work properly. Whenever it is clicked, there is an error stating that something is wrong about ActiveX or that a compatible application is not installed.
What to do? It can be quite a pain to manage lists through the UI especially if you have to consolidate information and copy-and-paste information between spreadsheets. Typing in each new row one-by-one is an option only for those with great patience and a huge amount of time. Thankfully, I managed to work out one way…
First of all, export the list to a spreadsheet. You will be given a file with the extension .iqy. Open this file using Microsoft Excel and your list’s data will appear. You can make any changes you like to this list, but instead of clicking on Save, you right-click on the sheet, go to Lists/Synchronise Lists. This will automagically update the list on Sharepoint!
I liked the effect the raindrops had in distorting the view, so I whipped out my mobile phone and took a shot.
Just got on the bus to meet HY for lunch at the hawker centre nearby.
While on my way walking to the coffeeshop to buy dinner before going to MPS, I came to this small flight of stairs just outside the multi-storey car park. There was this stupid guy sitting on the steps and I had to make a slight detour around him.
It’s called a “STEP”, not a “SAT”