Archive for January, 2008

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Regret sending out that email?

Are the following scenarios familiar to you?

• Feeling angsty with a colleague, you immediately replied a rude email with equally hostile wordings
• A private joke that was supposed to be .. private until the “To” includes the butt of the joke
• Reply all conveniently and include the whole school community, and conveniently making yourself look stupid
• Emailing to your wife love letters that are well-too-loving-for-any-eyes that was NOT supposed to be for your wife.

I did discuss about email etiquettes and a way to handle this. I now actively advocate that one should try deferring emails by 1 minute. Of course, you can set to 5 minutes delay if you want. 1 minute is a “just nice” reaction time buffer for me to realise any mistakes, or any further details I would like to further add on to the email, and the bare minimum delay I can tolerate for sending emails.

One way you can do this in Outlook using the Rules and Alert method, like in the following.

Another method I formerly employ is in activating “Spell Check Before Sending”, though it really is “Are you sure you wanna send this”. This provides a brute force reminder, and again, if you use Outlook, you can change it under Tools->Options->Spelling in the following manner, and check the 2nd box.

There you go, 1 way to go back in time, and another way to ensure you live on in your time. (: Of course, a last ditch resort is to revoke that email, by going to the “Sent” folder, then under your toolbar choose “Action->Recall message”. However, this is normally an ineffective measure as the recipients often are able to still access the message content.

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Pensée - Doing Business in Cambodia and Thailand

As promised: The takeaways from the trip (:

The crux of “Business Study Mission (BSM) to Cambodia and Thailand” is in understanding both aforementioned countries’ business environments, chiefly through participant observation. Indeed, this BSM has not only provided key insights in the differences between both developing countries and ‘developing’ Singapore, but also successfully illustrates the innate distinctions between the 2 countries themselves; such learning opportunities would otherwise not be realized in any Prentice Hall or McGraw Hill textbooks. In other words, this was a fruitful BSM trip which would be analyzed in the following aspects.
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Back for good from Cambodia and Thailand

A supersized big apology for neglecting this space for 2 months! There is some good explanation I can offer though: Firstly, I was away for a Business Study Mission in Cambodia and Thailand for a good 2 weeks in December. I would later provide a link to some takeaways from this trip in the form of a journal (later entry), but meanwhile, I have to say being in Asia and especially South East Asia, you got to visit Ang Kor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

 

Here’s why (:

 

Now, it is easy to see why I will come back to Ang Kor City really soon. For some reasons, we only spent 1 day in this place, and about 2 days in total in Siem Reap. And I learnt a new local lingo – “Boom Boom”.

If you plan to go here soon, please do let me know just in case I could join u!

It was also my first visit to Bangkok (I know la… sua ku), Honestly, clubbing doesnt feel the same anymore in Singapore now, after visiting Slim @ RCA. Other than that, nothing really eventful, nor do I have any useful information for you, except don’t eat too much squids on the roadside or you will kena rashes like me!

 

Now, the second reason to my hibernation mode is my evaluation of a new desktop tool. For some reason, I hated Wordpress’s web interface. I could have messed up some settings and thus posting in that WYSIWYG interface is a painful process. I tried W.Bloggar (which interestingly enough sounds like a virus name), which though was’nt too bad, it just was’nt good enough for me. So here I am, typing this using BlogJet, one of the premium tools in the market. So far it has been good. Again, I will use another blog entry for this trial post, so do keep coming back for more updates.

 

It feels good to be back here though, little red dot (: