Looks like SIL’s flat is shaping up quite well. The family (ex-SIL) went to the flat to check on the progress.
Feeding time
Both Esh and myself are in our car. We’re waiting for her parents and her maid to come back to the car while L-A is being fed.
Touch-me-nots “demo”ed to L-A
Esh found some mimosas while we were walking to a coffeeshop to enjoy a steaming bowl of laksa. She then proceeded to touch them with her sandals while showing how they closed upon contact to L-A. L-A seemed to be a bit curious about them.
Monkey business in the morning
While walking to the bus stop, I found this monkey sitting on top of a lamp post
Free Microsoft Project Viewer
I did feature OpenProj as one of my open source recommendations not too long ago, and it has since been acquired by Serena Software. However, there is an irritating bug with the software where some of the task dates are calculated wrongly.
In this case, you’ll need to download a MS Project Viewer so you can view the files correctly. One software that was recommended by my colleague that represented the date correctly is LiveProject. You won’t be able to edit files though…
Standing Around
Right now, I’m standing in front of a Home-Fix store where there’s a guy with a portable mic and speaker extolling the benefits of his portable steam cleaner. I’m just waiting for Esh and the maid to finish loading up the car with the groceries that we had bought from NTUC. Didn’t go with them as L-A was sleeping in the Baby Bjorn baby carrier that I was wearing.
Visit to AMK Hub
L-A really enjoyed herself today. Was also the first time that we brought the maid out shopping with us. She commented that Singapore was really a very crowded place!
Management and Measurements
There’s a saying that you can’t manage what you don’t measure.
It’s true in the sense that sometimes its very hard to get a grip on reality and the progress that a project has made unless you institute mini and major milestones for project members to keep track of.
Personally, I do not like to have “mammoth” project milestones where they appear on the project progress chart week after week. It can get quite demoralising at times for the project members involved in that milestone task and it may also make it difficult to explain progress to higher management. When managing projects, it will be better to cut the mammoth milestones into mini milestones so it will be easier to track progress as will as improve morale.
In the clinic
Waiting in the clinic for my turn to be called. Gonna be sending my new maid and L-A in to the doctor’s.
Need to screen the maid for Hep A & B, while L-A has been having a skin rash on and off for a few weeks now…
Man U triumph over Bayern for Champ’s League 1999
This was probably one of the sweetest memories that I had for Man U football. I was staying in a holiday flat with Esh and we (or rather I) woke up in the middle of the night to catch the match live.
If you are a footie fan, you should already know that Man U had lost its talismanic captain, Roy Keane, to suspension, and Bayern had the impenetrable Oliver Khan in goal. It seemed like a lost cause, especially when Man U were down by a goal with minutes of the game left to play.
Who would have thought that Man U would turn the game around in a matter of minutes and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat through 2 goals via Sheringham and Solskjaer? That was a feeling of pure exhiliration, although Esh did feel a bit sorry for the Bayern players as they cried on the pitch.