Toilets and Building Management

I work in an office at IBP. Recently, the management of the office building announced they will be upgrading the toilets, and that is supposed to be good news.

Over the last weekend, the contractors commenced work, starting from the floor I am working in. All the toilets of that floor (3 for males and 3 for females) are now closed for the upgrade and tenants are expected to go to other floors to do their toilet business for the next 6 weeks.

This floor-by-floor approach to renovating all the toilets for the building is to me an act of STUPIDITY. I have never seen such a BRAINLESS act in my entire life. Under normal circumstances, toilet renovations are usually done in the same area or segment for different floors at the same time so as to allow tenants of each floor to have at least one male and female toilet to use while the other toilets on the same floor are being renovated.

Obviously, it's too late for me to make any complain now as the work has already commenced, I guess what I can do, just for my own satisfaction, is to show some reactive responses by having the following notice pasted on all the doors of the toilets currently being upgraded.


I am fighting for a cause, hopefully to help increase the intelligence of the building management, not to do the same for the other floors!

Gardening

I have written several articles on the topic of gardening last quarter.

Recently, I started playing a gardening game called 'My Farm.' So far I have plowed and harvested several crops, bought myself several plants, and some animals. My crops include strawberries, tomatoes, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes and sunflower.

Depending on the type of crops, the timing for reaping will be different. Some are ready for harvesting within a day, others within two or three days. I can also reap fruits from my plants/trees.

This game teaches me short term patience to wait a day or two to allow the crops to grow before harvesting.

Daily Shuttle Madness

Take a look at the picture below and you will understand why I am suffering every morning simply to travel to my office located at Jurong East's International Business Park.

Photo: October 13, 2009 at 08:27

The photo shows a typical daily scene of the morning queues for shuttles at Jurong East temporary shuttle 'interchange' near the JTC building below the Jurong East MRT staton.

This morning, I have to wait for more than half an hour before managing to catch the shuttle to IBP, causing me to be rather late to work.

Wonder why the shuttle 'interchange' cannot be arranged like the interchange for public buses. Presently, it is just a place to jam up all the company shuttles around the area.

Disney's A Christmas Carol

Release Date: November 6, 2009 (conventional theaters and IMAX)
Studio: Walt Disney
Pictures Director: Robert Zemeckis
Screenwriter: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn, Cary Elwes
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG (for scary sequences and images)
Official Website: Disney.com
Review: Not Available
DVD Review: Not Available
DVD: Not Available
Movie Poster: One-Sheet Teaser
Production Stills: View here
Plot Summary:
"Disney's A Christmas Carol," a multi-sensory thrill ride re-envisioned by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, captures the fantastical essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3-D motion picture event. Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk (Gary Oldman) and his cheery nephew (Colin Firth). But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.

Next Travel Destination

There are 195 countries in the world and I have only traveled 35 so far; 7 countineunts and I have only covered 5, short of Antarctica and South America.

Where should I go next for my Valentine's holidays next year? Spain/Portugal or Greece?

Scandinavia Photos

My Scandi photos are now ready for viewing ... (",)

HappY Mid-Autumn Festival