Good Past 2 Weeks At Work

November 14th, 2011 Bryan Chung

I have been waiting to share this good news but I kept on delaying to update my blog. So I shall do it now. If you have been following my blog, you must have known I gone through one of my toughest days at work. Breaking down in tears during work because I was overwhelmed by the tasks that I have on hand. Having my boss to give me another course to prepare to present for the school teachers and not just students. But having weathered through that phase, I came out stronger in that process. Because of that, my boss talked to his boss and the company agreed to look into promoting me as soon as January 2012. In the mean time for the remaining 2 months leading up to 2012,  I am now holding the designation of an Acting Assistant Manager. And if all goes well, by 2012, I will be promoted to Assistant Manager. That is a double level promotion – skipping the role of a Senior Training Executive.

Excited I am! Because being 27, many others around my age is probably already a Manager or higher. But because I started my career rather slow, I am lagging behind others. With this opportunity of a double promotion, my career and accelerate faster now. My aim when I started work was that 5 years down the road, I wish to be a Manager to lead a team of my own. Now with just 2 months under my belt, and another 2 months before I take on the role as a Assistant Manager, sure I feel my aim is within reach.

Days after I shared the news with my mum, she was reading the Bible and came across this verses and shared it with me.

If you’re a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don’t call your wages a gift. But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it’s something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift. – Romans 4:4-5 (The Message)

In fact, when my boss told me about the promotion in the meeting room, I immediately Thank God for the blessing. Without God’s direction, guidance and blessings, I doubt I will be so favoured upon.

I also want to share about that teachers’ training that my boss told me to go… I went for a dry-run presentation in front of Ministry of Education staff last week, and I passed it. They were happy with me and did not need me to do another dry-run, that normally they do for other trainers.

I am just hoping I can continue to cope with the work load! :)

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I was alive on 11-11-11 at 11:11

November 11th, 2011 Bryan Chung

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Quit Restaurant City

November 9th, 2011 Bryan Chung

Of every Facebook games I played, I have always not wanted to quit Restaurant City. But I guess the time has come for me to quit that game too. After I started working, I found that I have no more time playing Restaurant City. Well yeah I do, but is just probably just going in to click for the money. Then I leave the restaurant open for 24 hours then I repeat the process. No longer have I found any more pull factor to continue playing the game. With that, I decided to quit the game. Here is my final restaurant layout.

I want to take this opportunity to also give special thanks to Sharon from Hong Kong – my Restaurant City friend whom I gave me so much throughout my 2 years of playing this game. Without her help, I will not have enjoyed the game so much too! “Thank you Sharon but sadly I am not going to continue this game.” Also want to give thanks to Jennie from Sweden – another Restaurant City friend of mine who helped me too. :)

So, I am no longer actively playing any Facebook game. I am considering one though – Airport City. But I still do not have time to give it a try.

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Astons Specialities at Changi Airport

November 7th, 2011 Bryan Chung

When Dean suggested having lunch at Astons Specialities at Changi Airport, I thought the prices will be more expensive than the Astons branches located in coffee shops. Much to my surprised, the prices were the same. Therefore making the meals at Astons Specialities affordable. Recently I went to New York New York with Tiffany and we ended up, just both of us, the dinner cost us about $30. But yesterday lunch, the three of us – Dean, Tiffany and I, we paid only $32. That included two sets of mushroom soup that comes with garlic bread too. The food also tasted good! Dean ate the sirloin steak; Tiffany ate the lemon & lime chicken while I ate the crispy chicken. The only issue we had was Tiffany’s serving of fries were cold and hard. I told them to replace that serving, and they done so. The steak that Dean ate looks good! And it was quite a good serving portion considering it is only $13.90. While Tiffany and my meal cost $7.90 each.

Good suggestion by Dean to eat there! I was also amazed at how much Changi Airport upgraded their Terminal 1. Looks so much nicer and compared to before. I am not sure about Terminal 2 though. I have always been going to Terminal 3 to eat. Looks like there is much more options now in other terminals. I regretted not brining my DSLR camera with me. So these photos are taken with Tiffany’s iPhone.

I am looking forward to go back to the airport to eat again, probably even to eat at Astons Specialities again! Next time, I will sure want to bring my DSLR camera with! :)

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My Class 1B of Hong Kah Secondary

October 31st, 2011 Bryan Chung

It was the remaining last 4 lessons when I was tasked to take over class 1B of Hong Kah Secondary. They were doing ICT lessons throughout the past few months. I remember my first time seeing them, I was asked to go to the library room because the regular ICT room was being used for other reasons. So that was where I had my first encounter with these students. I took over to complete their remaining ICT lessons on podcasting. The topic was pretending they will be hosting some overseas guests coming to Singapore. So they as the DJ of the radio station should do special interview with these guests. Personally I did not have much experience with podcasting. So I was learning as I was teaching too. Thankfully the software they are using, Audacity is something I have been using too for recording songs. So it was not that difficult to pick up.

Listening to some of their work, some are funny some are not. Nevertheless, good attempt for the first try of doing a podcast. Besides, there were a lot of other background noises since everyone was recording at the same time. And noises were created when passing the headset from one person to another. So probably I can learn from this experience for a next class, next time.

This class is another class I do not wish to leave or stop teaching. Yet all good things must come to an end. So far it has been like this for me over the past 2 months into my new job. As in, I have to teach classes that their course is coming to an end, since it is end of the year for them. Hopefully next year, I can create a longer bond with whichever school I may be teaching. Secondary school students, yet this class was awesome. Why I say that? Because I was at Fajar Secondary last week too but it was not the same as this Hong Kah Secondary class.

“Thank you 1B of Hong Kah Secondary, 2011! Enjoyed teaching you all! Many of you have added me on Facebook, do stay in contact! :)“

Before I end, I tweeted sometime last week about my boss dropping another “bomb” on me. Some of you are asking me what is it about. I will blog about that sometime during the week.

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