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I was away from work today attending a course at Grand Corpthorne Hotel. I must say all these courses which my company sent us too are mostly very professionally done - with excellent instructor and course materials. However, whether the theories learnt are easily applicable not is another thing altogether. But one thing for sure, we get to enjoy expensive + delicious hotel buffets everyday.

And i went home to check my mail box - 273 emails in all - not as much as i have expected (or feared for). After some filterings, only abt less than 10% require my immediate attention and actions. The others can either be KIV, ignored or arrowed to some other parties, kakaka.

And during the course, i received 3 SMSes from 3 different friends, asking why i was not at work today. Haha.. i guess they must have been so used in seeing me on MSN during office hours. But there seem to be a common understanding and rapport built among my friends that MSN chats during office hrs are to be kept at minimal, most of the time not done intentionally but we simply have no time to chat. But MSN is indeed a very useful and powerful tool to use for working matters. Save up the trouble of composing emails, send here send there, or speaking over the phone (esp when reading long string of part numbers and such). Put it simply, its INSTANT messenging!

Last week, my colleagues were commenting that i write v chim english in my emails and work reports. Last evening, another 2 friends on a grp msn chat were commenting that i always use very chim english. Well, do u guys find words like "tentative", "avantgarde", "oblivious" and "succint" to be very chim? During my pri sch days, i was already identified by my english teacher for my weak command in english. And this fact continued throughout my sec and jc days. In fact, i was one of the 5 or 6 students in my entire class who failed to get an A1 or A2 for my O level english. My english teacher was pissed, and

However my confidence in english kinda pick up a little after coming NUS. Tats becos most engineers are really sucky in their languages, and hence, i tend to be slightly better than them in this aspect. I also noticed many of my engineering friends struggling with essay modules like Law, HRM and history. And tats probably the only few chances that i could edge over my engineering peers to compensate for my lousier engineering module grades.