How to be a Good Leader

More will be updated when I learn more on how to be a good leader.

1.	Whatever bad happens during the phase of the project, do not vent it out on the team. Your team will not respect and treat you as a leader. You will be mocked behind for bringing emotions to work. When anything bad happens to the project, discuss it with the team peacefully and see what can be done to salvage the situation and to prevent such things from happening again in the future.
2.	Do not micromanage too often. Which also means that when you give the job to your fellow team mates to complete, give them the scope and target to finish it. Do not need to ask them how will they be completing their tasks. As long as the final version of the tasks are reasonably good, it is good enough.
3.	Every plan should come up with a contingency plan. This is to make sure that whenever something goes wrong with the actual plan, there will be a backup to cover up the actual plan.
4.	Structure the team and give the appropriate jobs to the appropriate team mates. Do not keep changing their scope of work or they will be very confused with what you actually want them to do. Keep them focus on a particular scope of work.
5.	If you want to hurry up to get a job done, try to motivate the team by giving them incentives or privileges. This will easily hasten the process and get the job done quickly and of better quality. Motivation is what keeps the team moving.
6.	To keep the team going in high spirits, try to occasionally organize some team outings during and after office hours. This is also essential for team bonding and to get to know each other better.
7.	Try not to bring up the pasts that do not bring any value to the team. Instead focus more on the tasks at hand and see what you can or cannot do.
8.	Give and take whenever you can. Always take in lots of criticisms and praises, you will improve along the way. They are necessary for you to mould yourself to be a better leader.

Interesting Facts About Xiao Niu (5)

episode 5, wonderous stuff and stunts performed by niu niu!

1.	at home, niu niu sit walker chair. without anything on her walker chair, she will run here and there. yeah, gd gd, learn to run in the walker chair, lol… but when she notices some toys on the sofa, she will take 1 toy by 1 toy, press n press n throw! there u go…
2.	we hv 1 toy that can press buttons n ‘drive’ one. she can creatively play it another way by hanging the toy on the edge of the walker chair…
3.	finally she can stay quietly on the bed by herself for some gd long time b4 making noise. at the very least, we could rest more for that few mins, lol…
4.	she shouts! making her way into the talking world step by step!
5.	she will be very happy to see both of us when we r bck from work. n i do mean v happy! she will laugh and shout happily~~
6	while sitting on her smaller version of the stroller, she will attempt to put one of her leg on the ‘safety bar’, depicting she is a boss~ lol…
7.	sometimes at nite, she sleep quite late de loh. 1+am then sleep one, wad a nite owl…
8.	when she wakes up, she will look super blur, no matter wad u call to her or do to her, she will juz stare at u. :\
9.	she can clap her hands!
10.	finally, she like listening to 爱 songs, lol… as well as several advertisements, especially colgate ones!

梓萱八连拍！

让你看看我的咪咪眼！	哦，我的眼睛大了点哦。	干吗叫我呢？	来，我们一起玩！
我向右转！	啊。。我在等着出门哦。。	哦哦，发生什么事？	好吃极了！

Silverlight Technology

recently embarked on a new journey in my life on a relatively new technology for me. the thing is, for me. lol… faced quite some problems wif their wcf ria services where the async callback always fails. dunno sometimes is due to ip settings in the configuration file of the application, sometimes is due to the settings in the iis. but when all is checked and still fails, we r at a lost. how come .net applications becoming more and more difficult than java’s? microsoft has made quite gd efforts in upgrading their IDE, but for their server applications, it is still very difficult to configure. hope i can learn more of this technology and build on top of my .net framework knowledge…

Mid-Autumn Festival

today is mid autumn festival, the 15th of the eight lunar mth. i hv taken half day for some event for the day! for the 1st half of the day was to deliver goodwood park mooncakes to my parents. these mooncakes were bought on monday. they are of the melon and lotus seeds ingredients. i used to eat them b4, i tink its quite gd so bought for them to celebrate the festive today. after delivering at abt 430pm, i headed bck to yishun, my parent-in-law’s place to gather wif my family.

it was raining very heavily around the whole of singapore, so we decided to hv dinner at home first, b4 heading down to clarke quay to tour around the river. at ard 8pm, we headed down! finally the long awaited trip and tour has arrived. my parents-in-law, baby, niu niu and me went ahead wif the tour. we reached there ard 830pm and central was fully parked by other ppl. damn it, in the end, we decided to use the valet service. $7 loh… for that 2hr service… anyway, we hopped off the car and off we went! below are some photos that i have taken and for all those who hasn’t been there, to see. :D

the 12 zodiac signs! do u know which is wad animals?!

other miscellaneous photos taken!

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finally some family photos!

Vampires Suck

wah tis movie cannot make it sia. is total failure! i 1st time say a movie is a total failure sia. is worse than any lame movies out there like fantasy movie, meet the spartans, etc etc… i totally cannot think hw the director actually got those ppl to act in the movie. oh gosh man… 0.5/5 rating for it…

The Expendables

wahaha, this movie is a joke sia. i tot how gd can the plot be, dont need see finish also know, lol… the onli big thing about this movie are the casts and the fighting scenes. quite nice la, the actions. but some of the conversations quite lame, and also arnold still has dat sinister laughs during that particular scene. the stupidest thing is, he appear juz to shoot bck at the ‘church’! tis is sooooo lame… i give this movie a 3/5 rating. luckily the actions kept me awake, else i would hv slept thruout the movie…

Losers

watched this movie and i find it quite lame. the storyline isnt very well written. the scenes of combat were quite normal. the onli things that interest me were some of their conversations, not the combat scenes. nth much to talk about. rating 2/5.