Club 30's "Kill The Boredom Demon" Jive Pad, 44th Edition

• the Bear

  25 Jun 07, 09:55

  *$&^#
  
  called for quotations for our section and another section..
  
  the other section had 17 replies..
  
  ours.. over 30 replies..
  
  thing is.. in the invitation to quote, it was clearly stated that we need samples of their past work and a simple mock-up of their design.. we were worried because we only got samples from about 7 companies... which means about 25 companies will be thrown out immediately because they did not meet the specifications and instructions stated..
  
  wtf?? can't they read??
  
  colleague going to murder a whole bunch of trees in the meantime
• InnoHippo

  25 Jun 07, 10:02

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  *$&^#
  
  called for quotations for our section and another section..
  
  the other section had 17 replies..
  
  ours.. over 30 replies..
  
  thing is.. in the invitation to quote, it was clearly stated that we need samples of their past work and a simple mock-up of their design.. we were worried because we only got samples from about 7 companies... which means about 25 companies will be thrown out immediately because they did not meet the specifications and instructions stated..
  
  wtf?? can't they read??
  
  colleague going to murder a whole bunch of trees in the meantime

  can't u summarize and save some trees
  
  
• av98m

  25 Jun 07, 10:03

  whole lot of trees dying as higher ups try to cut manpower and manpower costs over at my place, giving lie to the crap published during the ministers' pay hike controversy
• the Bear

  25 Jun 07, 10:03

  sadly, got to print out and file all the quotations..
  
  the auditors demand it
  
  

  Originally posted by InnoHippo:

  can't u summarize and save some trees
  
  

• stellazio

  25 Jun 07, 10:09

  ahh, the horrors of parking lots.
  
  so far i don't have any, better not to have as well, cause i might just get out and blast the guy infront of his gf/family.
  
  last time, there was this car like 3 cars behind me who moved out, i was probably dreaming or sth, so i didn't know there was this empty lot there. then i continued waiting, till this uncle in a pickup horned at me, and asked me whether i wanted the lot.
  
  i was so.. and waved at him.
  
  if old ppl, can be courteous, why can't the young be. i hate those p plate drivers..
• the Bear

  25 Jun 07, 10:11

  look.. we have a minister of something, assisted by a 2nd minister, ministers of state, senior ministers of state and goodness knows what else...
  
  i have asked this before: if we pay them that much money, why the hell do they need things like 2nd ministers, ministers of state and senior ministers of state and mayors and whatnots...
  
  so, they are either incompetent or overpaid, or both...
  
  i think the gabrament is hideously overstaffed
  
  

  Originally posted by av98m:

  whole lot of trees dying as higher ups try to cut manpower and manpower costs over at my place, giving lie to the crap published during the ministers' pay hike controversy

• stellazio

  25 Jun 07, 10:12

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  look.. we have a minister of something, assisted by a 2nd minister, ministers of state, senior ministers of state and goodness knows what else...
  
  i have asked this before: if we pay them that much money, why the hell do they need things like 2nd ministers, ministers of state and senior ministers of state and mayors and whatnots...
  
  so, they are either incompetent or overpaid, or both...
  
  i think the gabrament is hideously overstaffed
  
  

  they're paid to taichi work down to one another, to the ppl like u guys. :
• av98m

  25 Jun 07, 10:13

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  look.. we have a minister of something, assisted by a 2nd minister, ministers of state, senior ministers of state and goodness knows what else...
  
  i have asked this before: if we pay them that much money, why the hell do they need things like 2nd ministers, ministers of state and senior ministers of state and mayors and whatnots...
  
  so, they are either incompetent or overpaid, or both...
  
  i think the gabrament is hideously overstaffed
  
  

  And yet they do the cutting from the bottom up, where we are hideously understaffed to begin with
• the Bear

  25 Jun 07, 10:14

  what work do they actually need to do?
  
  everything is done by the kar-kia..
  
  i wonder if they expect someone to wipe their ass when they go crap..
  
  

  Originally posted by stellazio:

  they're paid to taichi work down to one another, to the ppl like u guys. :

• av98m

  25 Jun 07, 10:15

  I was wondering, mee siam mai hum is PM cum Finance Minister.
  
  Shiny forehead is 2nd Minister for Finance as well as Education Minister.
  
  Does that mean we are paying 4 portfolio salaries to 2 guys holding a combined total of 3 portfolios( 1each, both sharing the 3rd)?
• the Bear

  25 Jun 07, 10:16

  you fire one minister, you can hire about 50 normal working hacks..
  
  

  Originally posted by av98m:

  And yet they do the cutting from the bottom up, where we are hideously understaffed to begin with

• the Bear

  25 Jun 07, 10:17

  they are 'transparent' so we should be allowed to see their pay?
  
  

  Originally posted by av98m:

  I was wondering, mee siam mai hum is PM cum Finance Minister.
  
  Shiny forehead is 2nd Minister for Finance as well as Education Minister.
  
  Does that mean we are paying 4 portfolio salaries to 2 guys holding a combined total of 3 portfolios( 1each, both sharing the 3rd)?

• the Bear

  25 Jun 07, 10:18

  av.. go see 'share your recipes'
  
  by pinkybear.. with pics
• elindra

  25 Jun 07, 10:19

  VK, posted the recipes
  But all based on agaration
  
  *goes back to work*
• av98m

  25 Jun 07, 10:19

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  they are 'transparent' so we should be allowed to see their pay?
  
  

  I think meesiam mai hum is holding on to the Finance portfolio because of his husband's role in Temasek Holdings and his old man's in GIC.
• stellazio

  25 Jun 07, 10:20

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  what work do they actually need to do?
  
  everything is done by the kar-kia..
  
  i wonder if they expect someone to wipe their ass when they go crap..
  
  

  they will tell u, they're mentally stressed that their hair don't even grow properly, as they're bothered by the affairs of 4mil ppl.
  
  look at tharman for example.
  
  
• the Bear

  25 Jun 07, 10:20

  hey.. it's a no-brainer...
  
  maybe it really is his husband who wears the pants in the house
  
  

  Originally posted by av98m:

  I think meesiam mai hum is holding on to the Finance portfolio because of his husband's role in Temasek Holdings and his old man's in GIC.

• the Bear

  25 Jun 07, 10:22

  on the contrary.. his sycophancy means he got patted on the head so much that it wore out everything down to the scalp... and they kept patting him.. which accounts for the shine...
  
  

  Originally posted by stellazio:

  they will tell u, they're mentally stressed that their hair don't even grow properly, as they're bothered by the affairs of 4mil ppl.
  
  look at tharman for example.
  
  

• stellazio

  25 Jun 07, 10:24

  this basket education minister.
  
  during the poly forum last year, he kept diverting the question away from the angry mobs that are asking why are we paying adult fare?
  
  good taichi master.
• the Bear

  25 Jun 07, 10:26

  they took the lessons taught in the X-Files to heart..
  
  Deceive, Inveigle, Obfuscate
  
  
  
  

  Originally posted by stellazio:

  this basket education minister.
  
  during the poly forum last year, he kept diverting the question away from the angry mobs that are asking why are we paying adult fare?
  
  good taichi master.

• stellazio

  25 Jun 07, 10:30

  oh no, they;'re gonna start upgrading the computers to windows vista soon!
• av98m

  25 Jun 07, 10:30

  Originally posted by stellazio:

  oh no, they;'re gonna start upgrading the computers to windows vista soon!

  good luck. you're going to need it.
  
  and I hope you guys have at least 1 gb of ram
• the Bear

  25 Jun 07, 10:45

  considering it was only in late-2004 that they started to upgrade everything to xp, i think my organisation is safe for the while
  
  anyway, you guys read of the fella who dropped dead after the triathlon?
  
  frankly, i would say this again.. never mistake education for intelligence..
• elindra

  25 Jun 07, 10:51

  Runs around screaming
• the Bear

  25 Jun 07, 10:53

  don't run around too much.. look at the triathlete who ran too much
  
  

  Originally posted by elindra:

  Runs around screaming