Farewell before leaving!

Manish , Anshul and GuekHar gave farewell today before my departue from Singapore. Sort of mixed feelings : leaving some good friends and starting up at new place with new colleagues. ....Gift: professional looking organizer type diary ....being organized ;) hard for me.....maybe they also knew i need it desperately (knowing me for past 2 years) or will be kicked out pretty soon from the company I join in...thanks to them :).

Trying new methods of drinking soup from bowl......

Also had a coffee session with Tal in the evening at Starbucks :).

Oh ya ! and my old/new roomies(Prajit, Balu, Pramod and Jaewoo)...they had a feast a day before...my job party pending for long :).

Some pics at night....

Sharon's Wedding !

It was an honour for me when Sharon invited the Techno group members to her wedding at Raffles Hotel. First chance to attend a Chinese wedding in Singapore,though both Sharon and Leon are Chinese native. I was glad and delayed my journey back home, got some reason to stay longer in Singapore ;). It was a small gathering relative to what we have commonly in India.

Sharon happened to be the key source for our group in Technopreneurship module and also in the Synergy competition which we entered last year and won 2nd prize. It was all by luck that she happened to be part of our group when after listening to the first presentation of our groups idea she expressed her interest in joining the team. Kudos! to the great intellect and communication skills of this young soon to be PhD. candidate.Not much time left before we call her Dr.Sharon when she completes her thesis successfully. She was the Chief Technology Officer of our group. I must say all others learned a lot about diabetes through knowledge transfer from her and not to mention she was the front runner in handling most queries from judges(which happened to be venture capitalists) in the final presentation of our module. Sharon & Leon look a perfect fit. Made for each other type :). I was glad to be part of their wedding celebrations.

(from left Ann, Manish, Sharon, Leon, me , GuekHar and her kids Yu Siang and Jun Wei)

Abhinav(first from right) joined in for the lunch with his wife. He too has got married recently in Feb 07:).

The only missing member from Techno was Sophie, who was busy heading as financial controller for Michelin and is based out of Shanghai, China.

Delivering the goods!

Wooh this one took quite a long time...going at snails pace...so finally decided to sit down in central library of NUS and finish it off. Huum not quite upto the mark from what I expected but anyways a decent read.

Review

Some criticism of Porter's 4P given too much weightage. Emphasis on creating demand (marketing arm) and mostly neglected satisfying demand(logistics arm).

Essence of delivering goods:Transferring , buffering, reconfiguring and modifying

Writers speak of a Tri Level view, where the supply chain can be seen as a combination of 3 layers:

Physical layer –comprising facilities, transportation, equipment and inventory
Information layer- at bottom comprising cost, time , location , configuration and characteristics
Services layer- in between and uniting the activities of transferring, buffering , reconfiguring and modifying

...dont feel like writing much :.

Drenching in rain.....ahh big mistake

just after return from walk in the rain at night ........

...3rd day of recovery ( cough, fever, cold ....)

Balu is welll trained in getting wet in rain....usually he does this once in 2 weeks.....so he was all well.

Tackling dandruff

Huum dont know since when I got this problem of dandruff ....ahh too bad....have tried various methods but no use.....rommie Balu had got this new shampoo specially for dandruff treatment.....called NIZORAL......hope it will do some good at least for some time :).

new friend ITAY

My MBA friend Tal got blessed with a very cute son recently...ITAY. Attended his brit party where Tal captured the above pic :).