Feeling frustrated. Mr China is facing problems coming to terms with working culture here. Realised the task he assigned over the wkend wasnt done. He has to explain every all over again n urge them to get on with them. Mr China has some new graduates under him and wants them to do some photoshop design for a new makerting poster. In the end , he has to sit down with them n watch them do it. 3 pple staring at a computer, totally unproductive. Mr China lost his patience periodically as he still have stuff to tend to. But then again , he has been feeling this way over the wkend.
Maybe its e skype chat with NA the last before. Conversation goes:
NA - Ur stories are getting stale, abt the sales and all , we all know what is happening already, no need you to tell us that
MrChina - u mean u all know abt this 3 years ago and did nothing abt it? y?
NA - nothing can be done, *goes on to find other faults..."
On a ligher note:
Mr China decides to do intervals today, picked a park and this particular starting point. But alas! some auntie selling smelly tofu decided to do her trade there... excellent smell , esp with shortness of breath.........
Monday, April 30, 2007
Sunday, April 29, 2007
BackGrounds Part 2
Training period....
Mr China underwent 4 months of training in the HQ before departing for his mission. During his time in HQ, he experienced what he would like to term "Corporate Environment", office is unique in a way that the whole floor houses all the different department like small kingdoms. And Kingdoms they are with external wars and also internal rivalry.
He visited the various "contradictions", entered into everyone's "ego-land". He wonders where is the main objective? to drive the company forward or to perserve one's ego within a contracting biz? He also experienced something very unique and special, simply termed "Protocols". Big word it seemed , pple live and die by it, it seems. But Mr China here will like to say FUCK off with that nonsense.
To Mr China, "Protocols" are just a nice term used to perserve one's status , an observation of practices to make one feel gd. Slows down efficiency and is individualistic, relative and rubbish.In the past , one may see it in history during the King's lavish ceremonies, that he needs to a big hordes of pple and time with extravagance decorations. Nothing but waste of time and resources. Time has evolved that to what we see now in a company culture or protocols. A nice word to fence and protect one's status.
Stuck at emails, shld i cc this person? shld i include tt one or this one, what shld i say , would it be misinterpreted. time spent staring at a comp reduces efficiency. What to do? u have to observe protocols. They wan a new guy like Mr China to instill new life in the company , introduce new ways n directions. But whenever and whatever he wants to do , he have to work within protocol fences. Communistic Democracy or Democratic Communism, contradictions of each other , ironic.
Mr China is under the supervision of the NA manager, though he played no part in his interview, u may wonder why, he wonders why too. NA is an interesting and colourful character. Worked his way from a QA manager up to this position now. Started a subsidary elsewhere. Great work. He is old style, but knows rather alot of things, he is a lion at trade fairs with e amount of pple he knows. He had successful integrated new styles he learnt with his oldie format. But still very suspicious of everything. That is his way , very dramatic and very suspicious n careful.
But he taught Mr China nothing. Fuck him, he treated Mr China like dirt, subjected him to all kinds of nonsense. Mr China ate e humble pie and await for a chance to fight him back. Mr China's blood boils talking about him.
Mr China underwent 4 months of training in the HQ before departing for his mission. During his time in HQ, he experienced what he would like to term "Corporate Environment", office is unique in a way that the whole floor houses all the different department like small kingdoms. And Kingdoms they are with external wars and also internal rivalry.
He visited the various "contradictions", entered into everyone's "ego-land". He wonders where is the main objective? to drive the company forward or to perserve one's ego within a contracting biz? He also experienced something very unique and special, simply termed "Protocols". Big word it seemed , pple live and die by it, it seems. But Mr China here will like to say FUCK off with that nonsense.
To Mr China, "Protocols" are just a nice term used to perserve one's status , an observation of practices to make one feel gd. Slows down efficiency and is individualistic, relative and rubbish.In the past , one may see it in history during the King's lavish ceremonies, that he needs to a big hordes of pple and time with extravagance decorations. Nothing but waste of time and resources. Time has evolved that to what we see now in a company culture or protocols. A nice word to fence and protect one's status.
Stuck at emails, shld i cc this person? shld i include tt one or this one, what shld i say , would it be misinterpreted. time spent staring at a comp reduces efficiency. What to do? u have to observe protocols. They wan a new guy like Mr China to instill new life in the company , introduce new ways n directions. But whenever and whatever he wants to do , he have to work within protocol fences. Communistic Democracy or Democratic Communism, contradictions of each other , ironic.
Mr China is under the supervision of the NA manager, though he played no part in his interview, u may wonder why, he wonders why too. NA is an interesting and colourful character. Worked his way from a QA manager up to this position now. Started a subsidary elsewhere. Great work. He is old style, but knows rather alot of things, he is a lion at trade fairs with e amount of pple he knows. He had successful integrated new styles he learnt with his oldie format. But still very suspicious of everything. That is his way , very dramatic and very suspicious n careful.
But he taught Mr China nothing. Fuck him, he treated Mr China like dirt, subjected him to all kinds of nonsense. Mr China ate e humble pie and await for a chance to fight him back. Mr China's blood boils talking about him.
The Smell of The Weekend......
Mr China decide to do some cooking this weekend and finds it rather therapeutic. The preparation and the cooking, eating then washing up. A few hours zooms by and time flies....
Do take a look at his dinner yesterday. Cooked breakfast-Lunch today too. His program for today was his all time favourite activity. Wakeup early , do a super long run to get himself very hungry and then stuff himself with all the food he can find, hit the bed............
Sometimes Mr China sees the simplicity of life , this is the simple thing that he enjoys doing every wkend. But then if you consider running 18-20km simple and easy , by all means ... hahaha
Mr China is getting proud and happy of himself. Got kind of lost running today. Entered some villages with the familiar weird stares while he shouts " ZAO SHAN HAO !" tooeveryone he sees. Not that he is so friendly, but he fears being chased by dogs, so at least u greet the owner 1st , less chances it attacks Mr China. Run into some chemical factory, super big mistake as Mr China gets reminded of his chemistry days in the lab. The all too familiar choking smell of all the chemicals. Talk about enviromental protection. Someone needs to bring Al Gore here for the truth. Its 8am and the fumes are booming out. Never again to run near the chemical plant.
Woke up at 6am and hit the roads at 645am, took sometime to fight Z-monster. Ended the run at 815am, was a crawl in the end as he tries to find e way back. Went to the park and did strengthening excerises till 850am. More weird stares. Walked around 20mins to find the beancurd store , he has been dreaming about soya milk with oats and rice dumplings for weeks. Yup, if u all hadnt know it , Mr China here loves sticky sweet food.
Found the damn store finally , nearly fainted.... bought a big bag of soya bean milk and some beancurd for like S$0.40. YES... my whole pot is filled..... put the beancurd into the fridge and mixed it with some honey. The way they eat beancurd here is very different, they have it with spicy soup and all, which Mr China doesnt like.
Boiled the soya bean milk with rice dumplings and steam some sweet potato, then he does his washing and took a ice cold bath to recover from e morning torture. Eat his breakfast and dry the clothes. Wash up the bowls , pots and all... very proud of himself..
Mr China wants to hit the bed again and wake up to do some work before grabbing dinner later..
Friday, April 27, 2007
Mother of Backgrounds....
Mr China here welcomes everyone to his blog on his adventures....... Background... hmm... guess it not be simple to update 2mths of embarking on this land or 4mths of preparatory work in his mother land. He will be brief for anyone that cares:
He recalls tt period of time being out of work and desperate. Hanging out with a best friend day to day, with that "Lost" feeling. Mailed his resume like spam, went for crappy interviews till he is drained out. No directions, meaningless life and all tt promise after graduation to enter society on a high scale had been society and government's propangada and totally untrue.
One day on part time work selling flowers in this school, he received a call from an interested party that he cant even recall. Agreed for an interview in semi-memory that it is to go to China. Found out that the email they replied to arrange for an interview had been diverted to spam as the company's name sounded too pornographic......
Arrived at the interview with a file of his work in a previous job to meet the HR. Had a nice conservation, discussing everything. Mr China enjoyed it , telling her his fond memories of leading a team in sch. Saying is with so much passion like it was yesterday.
HR was impressed and called in SnM director. Mr China would appreciate that everyone have a clean mind to understand SnM means Sales n Marketing. Went thru the same discussion and presentation. SnM-D finally reviewed that he had 60 applications and interviewed 10pple , only 3 make it pass HR. SnM-D was just curious to see this young punk that applied for this senior position. SnM-D wanted to give this young Mr China a chance for his GUTs.
Retreat for home after nearly 4hrs of fruitful discussion. Received an immediate sms that SnM-D would be pleased to invite me back to see the MD. Delighted.
Mr China felt unsure at the moment, its a senior role, he called and checked with all sources on this company. Good overall responses. Met the MD and talked for 2hrs. 3 days later received a call to arrange for contract discussion. Company agreed to the terms that he requested for , not a cent short..... damn it , Mr China shld have ask for more initially......
Signed immediately on the dotted line and Mr China arised................
He recalls tt period of time being out of work and desperate. Hanging out with a best friend day to day, with that "Lost" feeling. Mailed his resume like spam, went for crappy interviews till he is drained out. No directions, meaningless life and all tt promise after graduation to enter society on a high scale had been society and government's propangada and totally untrue.
One day on part time work selling flowers in this school, he received a call from an interested party that he cant even recall. Agreed for an interview in semi-memory that it is to go to China. Found out that the email they replied to arrange for an interview had been diverted to spam as the company's name sounded too pornographic......
Arrived at the interview with a file of his work in a previous job to meet the HR. Had a nice conservation, discussing everything. Mr China enjoyed it , telling her his fond memories of leading a team in sch. Saying is with so much passion like it was yesterday.
HR was impressed and called in SnM director. Mr China would appreciate that everyone have a clean mind to understand SnM means Sales n Marketing. Went thru the same discussion and presentation. SnM-D finally reviewed that he had 60 applications and interviewed 10pple , only 3 make it pass HR. SnM-D was just curious to see this young punk that applied for this senior position. SnM-D wanted to give this young Mr China a chance for his GUTs.
Retreat for home after nearly 4hrs of fruitful discussion. Received an immediate sms that SnM-D would be pleased to invite me back to see the MD. Delighted.
Mr China felt unsure at the moment, its a senior role, he called and checked with all sources on this company. Good overall responses. Met the MD and talked for 2hrs. 3 days later received a call to arrange for contract discussion. Company agreed to the terms that he requested for , not a cent short..... damn it , Mr China shld have ask for more initially......
Signed immediately on the dotted line and Mr China arised................
Prelude
"Mr China" here is a thought up entity that doesnt exist in Real Time, a character in the Online world that can never contact any that takes in oxygen. Mr China here feeds on emails and brainwaves of some super smart human being that he rather not mention.
Here will represent his adventures in this crazy new world. Perhaps to share his existance and connection to everyone present. Mr China will take it over from here and relate his day to day adventures.
Here will represent his adventures in this crazy new world. Perhaps to share his existance and connection to everyone present. Mr China will take it over from here and relate his day to day adventures.
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