OMG I'm turning into a Pillow Nazi
Just spent 2 weeks staying in at the Shangri-La Hotel to support the event mentioned above in the title...
Many many experiences and thoughts about the past 2 weeks are going through my mind as I type this so I'll try to write this in the most organized way I can.
I was assigned to oversee the Bilateral Meeting Rooms to check on all them before the foreign dignitaries used them for their bilateral meetings... Apparently I was assigned a few interns to help me run the show from the second day onwards of the ministerial meetings. Over the course of the next few days, and I managed to train some interns like Sharon, Nicole, Jasmine, Kristen, Lin Tong, Yi Ren, Tiffany, Gideon and Kai Yan to be able to run the bilat show with minimal supervision. Though they were barely 17, some of them showed maturity and ability to handle the (somewhat) complicated operation of the bilat room duty, which called for some of them to exercise their ability to think on their feet and their independent thinking. Overall Operation Bilat Rooms went by very smoothly without any major hitches, and I'm glad to say that I'm proud of each and every one of them.
Some rather interesting incidents happened, which I think would be quite unforgettable for some of the interns, but other than that, I would say everyone had their fair share of fun and laughter.
The last day was capped off with a nice party for everyone and Min G.Yeo & 2PS said some words of thanks to us before the gorging and boozing began. Some of us adjourned to Partyworld Orchard after the party and I must say we sang our hearts out that night... but thats not the end yet. We adjourned (again) to our favourite pizza joint along Evans Road, Mr Prata, and we had some supper there. We had a ball of a time as we were cracking jokes all the time, Juniper and Dominic included. Alice was so tickled/embarrassed by us that she was laughing non-stop at our nonsense.. =D
Now that its all over, back to reality and work again, and I think with all the work piled up and with preps for Nat'l Day Observance Ceremony in full swing, I think I'm gonna be kept busy, and won't be able to take a good break for the next 2 weeks... sigh.
On a happier note, though, I'm going to Jakarta soon (sometime next month) for my courier run... gotta start planning for it so... I'll take it as a short break. =D
Look out for the next post for photos of the event!
Jeremy@Shangri-La
It's been a hectic first two days of the ASEAN Ministerial Meetings but people are swearing the worst is yet to come.
Anyways I've been having a lot of fun learning to set up conferences and using "aggresive negotiations" with the event company to get what we wanted, when we wanted it. Apparently my Director/Ops thinks that I'm too good natured, so she was trying to train me to be nasty and hound pple so that things get done... Reminds me of what I had learnt previously about task-oriented and people-oriented bosses. I guess given my character, it would be pretty hard for me to be the task-oriented type. People who know me well enough will know that I'm quite the people-oriented "softie" so I will never (or almost never) make life hard for other people as I recognise the fact that other people are also wage-earners like me.
That being said, my character will or should not be an excuse for not being an efficient and effective person at work. Whipping people into shape first requires me to whip MYSELF into shape first. Discipline is the key. Which is why I'm still insisting to write this blog entry when I'm supposed to be sleeping...
The only thing good (and bad) about me is my stubbornness and commitment to whatever I deem is important to me. I guess that's how much importance I put on this event.
Fitness Regime?
Took a look down south today and found a nice piece of flab there I call my tummy.
I made myself look into the mirror long and hard today to
TRY and motivate myself to get my tough hard-sweating fitness regime on schedule.
I had started a couple of months back by starting to turn up at the company gym during lunch twice a week, and quit on my canned drinks. Started drinking Teh-O Siu Dai to cure my past addiction to Season's Ice Lemon Tea (which I used to have at least one can per day). I take more veggies now, even though I can only take cooked veggies instead of fresh ones, which make me puke. I've even got into the whole fitness thingy by starting to do light running at least twice per week. Though I've seen an overall improvement in my fitness in the past few weeks, to my horror, I'm still going the wrong direction on the weighing scale. Some people have told me that it was quite normal as I was turning flab into muscle in the gym... I even bought myself a skipping rope to skip the kgs away!
Notwithstanding all this effort that I am putting in, I am told that I would probably only start seeing results only after 3-4 months if I exercised INTENSIVELY. I admit that I do think of indulging myself once in a short while, but I think the only way I can slim down is if I really get my running thingy going rain or shine.
I thought of doing it the pills way by getting the detox ones, but they probably only helped remove excess oil from food or stuff like that. I also took long hard looks at carbo-blockers and whatnot.
I shall attempt to wake up at 6am again tomorrow morning for a morning run. This time... nothing is gonna stop me from slimming down. There's no better revenge on people who laughed at my figure by showing them how much better I can look when I am slimmer than them. =D Old friends would, hopefully, recognize me when they see me in town. I would probably be able to look good in everything I wear when I'm slimmer so I'd probably also start taking more care about the way I look from then on. I stopped caring about my appearance once the tummy set in, and now I guess its time to do something drastic about it.
I hope that I can train myself to be as disciplined as I am resolute on slimming.
