i miss... how the wind buffers against your face as you run in the cold dark morning
i miss... looking at the sunrise and sunset on the top of the mountain without a care in the world
i miss... the small mattress and little corner that was my home away from home
i miss.. the days we shared in the vehicle, travelling from location to location, talking about life
i miss... the little shack outside that serves excellent chicken and pork chop
i miss... the laughter and fun and all the friends around
i miss... how we would anticipate the coming of a food van and then grab our favourite bubble tea
i miss... the oh so fantastic bowl of noodles that we hunted the supermarkets just to buy a box back
i miss... all the silence that results in chaos 5am in the morning
i miss... looking at the stars and enjoying how peaceful things are, at the same time knowing what we're doing is worth doing so that we can continue to enjoy that silence
i miss you... land of purple mangoes and ruby jambus.. a life that i'll never forget

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We played this inventory and supply chain game in operations management class the other day. We were suppose to form teams of four, each team selling one product and each member became a part of the supply chain: retailer, wholesaler, distributor, and factory.

The objective of the game was to satisfy all the downstream demand while keeping holding and backlog costs as low as possible. This is to be played for 50 weeks. Each week, we'd have to satisfy the demand from the downstream and also place an order to our upstream. And the catch was we weren't allowed to communicate to each other except through the orders.

What seemed to be a pretty simple game turned out to be a hillarious two hours as we fought backlogs and huge orders to accumulate an inventory level that i believe is probably the highest in my level lol!

Let's put this in perspective.... at the end, we looked at all the future demand if we were to continue playing and realised that each week's demand was only 8 units by the end user.... However, inventory we carried amounted to:

retailer (pam) 67 units, wholesaler (me!) 327 units, distributor (adeline) 500+ units, and the winner the factory (xenia) 2000+ units!

Based on the constant demand of 8 (which is already the max), this meant that our total inventory was enough to last us for.... 361 weeks; which is equivalent of 6.5 years! If my lecturer found out, i think we'd become like some case study or something lol... we were supposed to graph out the costs and inventory levels too, but we exceeded the axis provided by so much that it wouldn't be accurate anymore. Was fun though :p don't think it'll help me too much if i mentioned it during a job interview for an operations position haha

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In what seems to be lifted off directly from those movies you see, the front page of The Straits Times was splashed with the mugshot of a wanted man.

His name, Mas Selamat. His line of work: JI Leader.

Apparently, this dude somehow escaped detention either on his way or inside the toilet on Wednesday afternoon and is still at large.

Needless to say, he's got the whole island worth of police, Gurkha's, and armed forces searching for him. Well, in my opinion, if he hasn't already left the island within the first few hours, chances of him leaving would be pretty slim by now and it'll only be a matter of time before he's eventually caught in this island.

Sounds pretty exciting, but then again, just be careful when you're out.

Another thing....

Last week, i'm sure you guys would have heard of the crane accident in NUS. Just so happens that the crane almost fell onto my school building and bus stop that i usually frequent. It was only to the quick thinking of the operator that he swerved it last minute to avoid many more casualties, at the cost of his own life. I only heard about this incident the next day as i took another route back, or else i would have saw the wreckage because i ended classes around that time. The lads around school are organising some sort of fund to be distributed to the victim's families, if you are from biz, or even from school, i urge you to help out. I'll be putting my money where my mouth is, and though it's not much, i feel it is the right thing to do, so should you.. *hint hint*

here's the website for more info:
http://www.cranevictimsfund.blogspot.com/

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very cute and interesting. i kinda like the pop up stars..

but the question you got to ask after watching.. what's the point in doing something like that!??! well other than the marketing/advertising standpoint, im going to go for that these people have too much time on their hands!

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I haven't been paying attention to you blog!!

Work was hectic, school's been a killer and assignments been piling up non-stop! But then again, that's not a reason to treat my best diary for (i dunno how long) number of years! Im sorry for neglecting you!

I promise.... that i will post some videos and entries to satiate you soon... i hope :)

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One thing i've realised, that as we progress more and more, we seem to lose our manners more and more as well.

I was at the public library this afternoon and its amazing how many people still choose not to silent their mobile phones when they enter. Not only that, i also suspect that they find it some sort of cheap thrill that they can get away with it by letting the ringtone go on so as to share with the public what marvelous taste in music they have.

Anyway, this behaviour shouldn't be new and it is also not just limited to the library. The courtesy campaign is still very much alive and i guess there's enough reason to carry on. As much as i would like to rattle on about the other lack of politeness or courtesy amongst our population, my guess is that everyone by now would have enough stories and experience. Thus i should just end off here by urging everyone to be more civil... please? oh well, at least just keep your ringtones to yourself in the library alright? Much appreciated =)

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