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It’s our Annual Sports Day again! Many researches have proven that one who exercises regularly, most likely has better mental health & reduces the risk of developing mental illness. It increases our self-esteem. reduces stress & anxiety and improves stamina. This year we have the Monstro guys back with us organizing our Sports Day. This … Read more

The other day I received a text from my team member. She was telling me, she was chatting with an employee and he sounded ‘off’. Like so stress with himself that he is almost depressed ‘off’. So she asked, could she send him breakfast or something to cheer him up? Aaaahhhh… Of course. It’s little … Read more

Neither WFO nor WFH thoughts: For the first time, after many many many many months, I don’t have my laptop at home over the weekend. And boy, does it feel good! Recently I’ve heard things like Stand-Down Day & Email Free Fridays, where employees are encouraged to focus on their own mental wellness. Yesterday evening, … Read more

I have been in the recruitment business for a long time & I’ve seen a lot of careers transitioned over the years. Subordinates, peers, superiors, clients, friends, mine. This is what I had observed: 1. If you are a recruiter in an agency, the job is more sales than HR for it’s a target-oriented, number … Read more

I am blessed that numbers are able to talk to me easily. So when I was in school, maths for me is cool (and quite easy). The next subject I was always intrigued with was Science (oh I love playing with experiments in the school lab). That plus my connection with numbers, Physics was something … Read more

When May Chong was casually interviewing me, I told her I was looking for work that is related to engineering but not as an engineer. She said she has the right job for me. Branch Assistant. Which is a fancy name for Front Desk. Because she was going to start a division specialising in engineering … Read more

I do use a lot of this conditional statement in my day-to-day be it at work or at home. When I was in college, I even wrote an entire “love assessment” program using mostly if-then scenarios. “IF you choose to like a man, THEN…. IF you choose to like a woman, THEN….” Fast forward to … Read more

One of the earliest applications of my knowledge from my engineering background to my work here in HR, is flowcharts. Both engineers and HR personnel are quite process-oriented people, but I notice how they express their processes are different. HR folks uses a lot of words, while engineers, they like to use a lot of … Read more

I came across this joke in the internet: A graduate with a Science degree asks, “Why does it work?” A graduate with an Engineering degree asks, “How does it work?” A graduate with an Accounting degree asks, “How much will it cost?” A graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, “Would you like an apple … Read more

I majored in Computer Engineering so part of the syllabus was also learning programming. People my age who studied programming in college would remember this – Bubble Sort. That was the first sorting algorithm I had learnt to code. The outcome off a Bubble sort would be having a set of numbers sorted in the … Read more