Emotional vs professional

My boss is very emotional. When he becomes passionate about something, it's always about THAT something. Everything else has to get out of his way. For example, the recent fraud case in Shanghai. Everyone who was on leave was being called back. The entire team had to be in Shanghai, whether or not he/she can speak or read chinese. Even my Thai colleague came over and wondered what she was going to do cos even her English is CMI. End up she was shopping and eating good food.

So now, the latest passion of my boss is to collaborate with external auditors. He started making everyone work OT (including himself) over weekends and up to 2am on weekdays. Then during the meeting with the external auditors, the partner said "Now is TOO EARLY to do detailed planning. There's no way we can estimate these things properly at this stage, but your estimates are definitely wrong. We will look at this later in July.". And so on. My boss got nothing to say after being scolded, except that he "understands and agrees". My colleagues are all super angry at the boss for making them OT for nothing and not listening to them when they told him that there's no point in doing this now.

Lesson learnt. Next time, i need to find a boss who's professional and logical, rather than emotional and irrational. He's acting like a woman!

Food blog?

I've heard this many times from my friends and colleagues. To set up a food blog. It's good when I'm so into food and travelling most of the time. Not to mention that most of my food expenditure is now on company's expense... But that means i need to keep up with pictures and reviews. Should I do it?

Help! I need advice!!!

Emo day

This is at least my 5th time in Taiwan and just the thought of coming here makes me super sian already. I don't understand why people just love to come to Taiwan. The buildings are old, the food is not THAT great, there's the modified bird flu H5N1, everything here is super Chinese (I know i'm a chinese but...) and it's just plain boring. And to make things worse, I'm not even staying in taipei!

For the first time in my life, i'm eating bread for dinner during a business trip. That's the result of staying in an obscure place, a pathetic hotel with no room service and no food adventurer for a colleague combined. And it's only the 3rd night in Taiwan out of 3 weeks. I don't even eat that for dinner when i'm on holiday! I feel so miserable that i made a reservation at the Wang steakhouse (that costs at least SGD 70 per person) which is super famous for dinner tonight and am planning for my next dinner in Taipei 101.

Maybe i'm just being emo from the fact that i have an emo boss. Or that i didn't eat nice food last night for dinner. Or that i'm going to miss the IT fair this weekend. Argh!!