I haven’t had the fortune to visit other countries yet. However, gathering information from people who have the fortune to do so, I noticed something, service in Singapore really is lousy no matter what.
There isn’t any incentive to knowing what food was ordered by whom since tips are not practised here.
Adding service charge and GST does nothing to help the employee, hence the lack of heart put into the service.
Commissions are earned only from sales, hence the hard-selling of all those sales persons instead of knowing what the customer wants.
This kind of culture has been put into practice for more than 10 years and changing such a behaviour is a painful process.
Giving the award for best service to the company is different from awarding the employee who did all the work.
Lack of dignity for the service industry despite the fact that doctors, dentists and lawyers are also in the service industries.
When I first heard Michael Jackson’s songs, it was the music video titled “Black or White“.
What fascinated me were the changes of the people inside the video. Male to female and back to male again with different races coming in together for this video. Michael Jackson incorporated that no matter what race or skin colour one is, we are still humans; eyes, legs, all our bodies comprised of the same organs.
One of his greatest hits would be HiStory. A massive production complete with a statue of him in his famous leather jacket. His dance moves included his famous moon walk that many subsequently followed when imitating him during contests. He started out in the group called The Jackson Five with his siblings. Their music can be found in The Ultimate Collection.
I didn’t know about Michael Jackson X-Posed – The Interview in the MP3 format for sure. Although I know that being that famous as him, he would surely garner all sorts of criticism that is often part of being in the entertainment circle. Including his life that was filled with ups and downs of every couple.
His Heal The World was the song that I had sung while studying in primary school during a school celebration that I totally don’t remember what sort of celebration it was for. All I remembered was that I was on the stage with the rest of the class singing this song.
Frankly speaking, during the subsequent years of my growing up, I never heard such songs from other singers besides Michael Jackson. Songs about kindness and love for the world are rare. What made MJ a hot icon was that he started popularising pop music that others soon followed in his path in hopes of making it big.
Now that he is forever gone, his worth has suddenly increased as the songs sung by him are now limited editions. Funny how one’s worth increased because of one’s death. Yet, it is how it works as there won’t be any more new releases. Although, if the scientists manage to figure out how to stay young forever, the worth may just be decreased drastically.
It might have been Father’s day on 22nd June 2009 but it was a great Sunday for me since I was spending time with other people instead of with my father. I have never celebrated Father’s Day with my father before since he doesn’t believe in wasting money on celebrations. Since that’s the case, every day is Father’s Day. It doesn’t need to have just once a year.
It was my first time doing a live demonstration with total strangers yet I was feeling extremely excited about showing them the benefits for their health and homes. If I were to have done it 5 years ago, I would have stuttered madly and looking for means to shorten the time with them as much as possible.
By the time the event ended, I had learned so much more about the stuff I was supposed to be presenting when others came in to help out when I was alone at the counter. I’m so thankful to all of them who have helped to add on or answer the questions that I haven’t learned yet.
I have enjoyed myself at this event and look forward to more presentations.
I decided on Monday that I would visit the Botanical Gardens on Tuesday. Based on the fact that I suddenly ran out of things to do with the laptop and online. I was restless, thus, this impromptu decision. Visiting on a weekday is sweet bliss since 80% of the population in Singapore is at work. It was also near my old workplace; so no problem knowing where the entrance is.
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The landmark band stand.
Taken at Evolution Garden.
Teens feeding the elegant black swan. I wonder where they got the bread.
Medicinal plants.
National Orchid Garden entrance. S$5 per adult. I didn’t go in.
I may not be subscribing to any newspapers now but I do know that there are still companies retrenching in hundreds only to hire people with a lower pay. There are many ways to be laid off. The feeling that the boss is telling you “I’m letting you go” due to various reasons. Check out the reasons that people are being laid off here.
Just because of a burn incident, this guy was laid off.
Returning from a hip surgery, this guy was told to leave.
The above are just some ways that companies can do just to tell you that your services are no longer needed. The feeling that goes through those people is horrible as it spells of uncertainties. Despite all these layoffs, Wal-Mart is opening up new positions. It goes to show that the industry is booming business.
Guess what I found? A site that tells management on how to lay off employees. This is a cycle. Just like how we live our lives; born, study, work, die. Excluding terminal illnesses, we are all bound to die at one point in our lives. Just how fulfilling do we feel our lives should be?
Two important ingredients in our lives; happiness and family. A job is for survival. We work to survive this day. We all have dreams but have we let our dreams that were formed during our childhood die as we started working hard for 40 to 50 years?
Feeling generous, I have been posting free stuff at Bazaar. Do take them up fast! I understand that Everyday Minerals are being sold at Bugis although I don’t have the price, I’m sure some of you who shop at Everyday Minerals will understand what I mean.
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