When your bosses hates each other

This was one of my pictures during my cousin's wedding dinner with the theme ,"Shanghai Night." One of my cousins thought it was held at a chalet and came as a trishaw rider at ARANDA COUNTRY CLUB. The night was fun as most of us were drunk and everyone went crazy and started singing on stage. But this is not the main story.

I was transferred over to Changi for a few weeks now. I enjoyed the sea breeze, the sights of ships, the environment (outside the office). From my personal observation, there has been alot of on going internal politics in my office. I wouldn't say its problematic or sickening but it feels satanically fun. I have been experimenting my human skills to ensure that no one will harm me. The relationship goes this way; Boss A is directly over me but he hates boss B. Boss B has control over me as she is sitting very near me, boss B also hates Boss A & C. Boss C is the overall in charge but is hated by everyone. Boss D is quite inefficient and is hated by B, but Boss D also hates Boss C & A.

Sounds complicated huh? But this is the fun part when human relationships meet internal politics. When my bosses meet each other eye to eye and I just happen to be in the middle; I will set them onto a stage to fight and lay back to enjoy the show. It sounds evil, down-under and despicable; but I see no gain or returns from participating with them.

Its hard to get into everyone's good books when they typically wish the other doesn't exist.It is only safe to maneuver them to fight among themselves and gain whatever comes out the confusion before ending up as a tool in their civil war.

An archer, a target board and a boulder.

An archer is some one that shoots arrows. A target board is what it should be as it is. In almost all the games I play so far, I always have a liking for long-range attacking characters; I never had a mentality of what the opponent would feel facing a long range opponent. Neither have I ever thought of what would it feels like to hold the bow all the time.

Thanks to my current job, I gain the enlightenment of what it feels like to be a living target board. The arrows don't really hurt me, but I do feel some pricks of thrill and excitement. I have been waiting to try out a mentality that I have been formulating for months with no chance to use it. Its like a king's sword stuck in a wooden sheath.

I read that a strong man is stronger and bigger than his problems; whereas a poor man is weaker and smaller than his problems. If a person were to fall in front of a problem, he is deem weak and feeble. Lets say this level 3 guy met a level 5 problem; its undeniable he would die. But to put things in a different perspective, once he reach level 10, this level 5 problem is no longer a challenge. Therefore, once I have reach the mindset of a boulder,strong, hard and impenetrable no arrows would be able to hurt me.

But the irony is that I have to be a target board before becoming a boulder.

Is it wrong to judge a book by its cover?

During the early phase of my army days, I managed to leech something interesting from my platoon commanding officer. He dragged me into his office one day for a one on one counseling. This bastard probably have high hopes on me assuming that I was the only one he took 30 minutes to counsel. He told me about this particular platoon mate who has tattoos all over his body but is a good friend of mine. He told me this line that I will never forget," Woi, Apache, (my nickname) a person's tattoos say a lot about the person's character. You see the person's tattoos and you will know it."

My friend's tattoos was typically a mixed of all sorts including birds and Beckham's trademark left hand tattoo and some other weird stuff. Individually, the tattoo looks nice. However, as a whole, it was in a mess. Although he is always sociable joker, its undeniable that he saved my ass a few times.

This lead me thinking. Was it really true when they say never to judge a book by its cover? Or was it really just referring to books? My conclusion is that this statement is only true to a limited extent. The way we dressed up usually reflects our sub-conscious thinking and behavior. So, it is possible to judge some one by his dress code, his appearance. Instead, I think what this statement meant was that never to judge a person by his god-given appearance.