Diesel at $1.563 per litre.
That sucks! It’s a 347% increase in 4 years!Now my cost per km is up to $0.14 per km or. US$0.16/mileS$1.563 = US$4.25/gallon! for my USA friends.ArghOn top of that with crazy rising ERP/Parking surcharges, I’m getting hammered like crazy by the inflation here.Just yesterday I was charged $11 just to park 2 hours in the CBD.3 New ERP Gantries coming up right outside my home by November.GST up to 7% despite projections of a budget deficit of $0.7b, this year’s budget surplus was like 7x ($4.7b).Hospital Means Testing coming soon too! Grand Theft.Even the Hong Kong Govt is nice enough to cut the 40% tax on Alcohol. What a great way to celebrate in HK! Official Inflation for January in Singapore was 6.6%. Yes 6.6% for just ONE MONTH! If annualized, that would be 79.2% in yearly inflation!
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Tyranny of an open Inbox
I must admit i’ve been struggling with information overload recently. An open Inbox makes it even worse since you know that whatever that’s inside the mailbox is still an outstanding issue. Outstanding issues continue to fester in my mind over and over again. It’s getting tiring. Last week I spent so many coffee induced 4-5hr sessions of pure concentration just to clear my inbox and ended up sending out easily 400 email replies over the course of 4-5 days. Yet I’m still not done with clearing my Inbox!The writings of Timothy Ferris and how he tackles email overload became vividly clear to me. I thought I could handle it but I really couldn’t.The first thing I need to do is to recognize that I have a problem with information overload in my life. The next thing I also recognize is that I’m an information bottleneck to others. I’ve become the Router that just can’t handle the things coming my way and sending them out to people who need it fast enough. Somehow, I’ve become the ultimate decision maker whom many people depend upon to get things to work. It’s a good problem I guess but it’s really taxing for me. During a work day, my life turns into something like that of a trader. I get smses, calls, requests, visits, emails nearly every other minute. I thought I could context switch very well. And I still can. But the fact is, at the end of the day, the context switching drains me out so much that I can’t get anything done. The ‘anything’ here refers to stuff with substantial creative or intellectual input such as writing a quotation, proposal or contract that are necessary documents in the business world. I’m really sorry to everyone whom I’ve been delaying getting stuff out to. Really appreciate your patience. I’m taking great steps to figure out how can this be improved.These are a few things that I’ve been working on:1. Clearing out my inbox asap. -> Shifting things to a todolist instead of leaving them in the inbox.2. Checking it less often so that I can focus more on stuff.3. Going offline more often so that I can have full periods of concentrating.4. Enabling my co-workers to act. Still trying to figure out the best way to empower as much as possible.Hiya, growing pains… Will be solved with perseverance!
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