Good morning to you blog,
I attended Forest Adventure Grand Course in Bedok Reservoir with my Young NTUC friends yesterday. Made new friends and was surprised that more ladies than guys attended the course. Look like the ladies are not afraid of trying out new things and guys are getting wimpy by the minute. Total of 4 guys attended the course compared to 12 ladies.
There was safety briefing conducted by the instructor before we set off for the course. The instructor briefed us that there were four sites to be completed. Each site will end off with a zipline which is actually flying fox. I looked around and realised that there are a lot of Caucasians bringing their kids for the course and having a mini picnic over there.
Site one is mostly like swinging to the net ala Tarzan and move to the platform for the first zipline. It ends off with the zipline to go to site two
Site two is where we need to make crucial decision. It is either we take the easier but longer route or harder but shorter route. Needless to say that I choose the latter as I wanted to take the harder route to challenge myself. The challenge is that you need to jump on the balancing logs with two supporting branches. It is energy consuming as you need to balance yourself before you jump to another log. After 20 minutes of balancing and jumping to logs, it ends off with the 220 m of zipline to go to site three.
Site three is the one where you need to complete a series of obstacles courses. It is easier than site two and we just need to complete one obstacle after the other. One of the obstacles is commando crawl where you need to crawl inside the obstacle and it ends off with a zipline to site four.
I was surprised to find an instructor for site four as the other three sites had no instructor at all. So I started on the site four and got confused on whether I should continue or just stand on the platform. The instructor guided me to say that I need to stand on the platform and will climb on a wooden pole. Practically, I needed to dig my toe in to climb higher. Then, I went for swinging to the net ala Tarzan but this time it is more frightening and I screamed as I never expected the difficulty level. By this time, I felt really tired but very energetic when I saw the final zipline to zip through the finishing line.
I felt happy that I completed the whole course as I love experiential learning rather than textbook learning.
We shall meet again blog :)
Monday, May 18, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
First entry in the year 2009
Dearest Blog,
This entry will be my first in the year 2009 so happy new year to you. Year 2009 had been an eventful year for me. Well, I did survive the retrenchment exercise in my company as Singapore or rather Asian Countries escaped from retrenchment. This made me very appreciative of my job so far as I am not a desk-bound person.
I am a very out-going person so to me desk bound job is very mundane as you will be doing the same thing everyday without fail. Sooner or later, everything will be at your fingertip. But hey, it is still a job which lets you have income every month and I am deeply appreciative of it.
Here is the flashback of what happened in the year 2009 so far:
The CEO of the company touched down in Singapore on January 2009 and visited our office. I had to keep my table clean and neat. When he introduced himself to all of us and came to our table individually, I just shook his hand and sat down and did my work quietly.
On the third day of his visit, he held a meeting with all of us in the conference room. It was a fruitful meeting with one important question raised. Besides that, we laughed and joked a bit to relieve the tension of the meeting.
During dinner time in Keppel Club, I took a lot of food to eat as usual. My manager joked with me to share with others as I took a lot of food. Enjoyed the whole ambience in the first place as music played in the background. My colleague who is an excellent singer kept singing the songs whereas I went to the 'stage' just to take a look at the lyrics of the song. Nevertheless, someone was aiming me and in the end, I was 'forced' to sing which I did it reluctantly. I sang the song 'When You Say Nothing At All' by Ronan Keating and audiences applauded my singing. I even earned praise from CEO's wife that I sang the song well but inside my heart, I was pretty nervous.
I had a question for the CEO and he answered my question brilliantly and truthfully. Although he is a busy executive but he made an effort to know each and everyone of us in the company to make all of us feel very important to the company.
Two months after his visit, the CEO sent his regards to me through Vice President of Sales for Asia and Europe. Naturally, I felt touched as he remembered this little employee in Singapore all the way from US so I sent him an email to thank him for his well wishes and to my surprise, he replied to my email immediately.
This alone can made me work very hard for the company. We should not take things for granted.
I will continue to write more entries for the year 2009.
Take care blog and till we meet again
This entry will be my first in the year 2009 so happy new year to you. Year 2009 had been an eventful year for me. Well, I did survive the retrenchment exercise in my company as Singapore or rather Asian Countries escaped from retrenchment. This made me very appreciative of my job so far as I am not a desk-bound person.
I am a very out-going person so to me desk bound job is very mundane as you will be doing the same thing everyday without fail. Sooner or later, everything will be at your fingertip. But hey, it is still a job which lets you have income every month and I am deeply appreciative of it.
Here is the flashback of what happened in the year 2009 so far:
The CEO of the company touched down in Singapore on January 2009 and visited our office. I had to keep my table clean and neat. When he introduced himself to all of us and came to our table individually, I just shook his hand and sat down and did my work quietly.
On the third day of his visit, he held a meeting with all of us in the conference room. It was a fruitful meeting with one important question raised. Besides that, we laughed and joked a bit to relieve the tension of the meeting.
During dinner time in Keppel Club, I took a lot of food to eat as usual. My manager joked with me to share with others as I took a lot of food. Enjoyed the whole ambience in the first place as music played in the background. My colleague who is an excellent singer kept singing the songs whereas I went to the 'stage' just to take a look at the lyrics of the song. Nevertheless, someone was aiming me and in the end, I was 'forced' to sing which I did it reluctantly. I sang the song 'When You Say Nothing At All' by Ronan Keating and audiences applauded my singing. I even earned praise from CEO's wife that I sang the song well but inside my heart, I was pretty nervous.
I had a question for the CEO and he answered my question brilliantly and truthfully. Although he is a busy executive but he made an effort to know each and everyone of us in the company to make all of us feel very important to the company.
Two months after his visit, the CEO sent his regards to me through Vice President of Sales for Asia and Europe. Naturally, I felt touched as he remembered this little employee in Singapore all the way from US so I sent him an email to thank him for his well wishes and to my surprise, he replied to my email immediately.
This alone can made me work very hard for the company. We should not take things for granted.
I will continue to write more entries for the year 2009.
Take care blog and till we meet again
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