Do your leaders walk their talk?

When you are faced with an adverse situation at work, you come to realize whether your leaders are true leaders, or are they just full of hot air.
When all goes well, leaders preach grand, noble values and belief systems, alluding to how good leaders they appear to be.
When things go wrong, watch carefully if your [...]

The truth is, power lies within the hands of a few people – get into these people’s good books and you’ll be bound to succeed. Once you fall out of favour it’s probably time to start packing.
It’s probably time for me to do myself a favour and salvage what is left of my dignity.
Dignity ain’t [...]

Upset

I’ve been wondering to myself, why am I putting myself through all these shit? Do I really believe that this place is a meritocracy, where I will get promoted and payrises for just doing a good job in what I am doing? Should I believe in this in the first place?
I guess not. This place [...]

I’m back!

Guess what… mrbiao’s back!
Been busy the past few months, working hard, trying to make a difference in my own life, my loved ones’ lives, and my organization.
Thought I’d start blogging again because this helps me to keep my sanity by allowing me to vent my frustrations and share my thoughts to nobody in particular (or whoever [...]

Merry Xmas & A Happy New Year

Here’s wishing all my readers a belated Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!
Unfortunately I have kind of abandoned this blog for the past few months as I had been busy settling down with my new job.
I make it no secret that I love my new job – I love what I have been doing, [...]

My new job

3 weeks into my first corporate job, I have just gotten used to the routine of getting up each weekday morning at 6.30am, getting ready for work, taking the bus, making a transfer and finally making it to office at 8.30am or thereabouts.
Getting used to working with my new colleagues who are mostly very nice [...]

What is the value of Citizenship in Singapore?

I haven’t posted any writings on societal issues for quite some time already because I wanted to instead focus on things that are more important for improving my own life (e.g., find a job, think about how to get out of Singapore for good, etc).
But some recent developments really infuriated me and hence I am [...]

To stay or not to stay

Now that I finally found a job, I ought to be very happy. However, I am actually having mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m glad that I found an ideal job in an ideal industry. On the other hand, having found a job means that I now have to re-think about my future [...]

Finally employed

Finally, after 4 months of job hunting… I received a job offer! And it is for a job that I am very passionate about, in an industry that I love to be in! I must say that the long and tiring job hunting process was worth it for all that I learnt through the interviews [...]

Is money important?

Went for a job interview this morning at a US listed technology company. I have about 2 years’ relevant experience doing things similar to the job requirements, so I asked for 3.3k starting salary despite being a fresh graduate (I mentioned that the figure is negotiable. The hiring managers kept asking me questions like… “is [...]