Do it right the first time

"Do it right the first time" is more about attitude rather than intelligent. It means that it does not matter how smart you are, but whether you bother to try your best to do it right the first time. I've seen smart people spending unnecessary time and effort to troubleshoot problems that could have been prevented right from the beginning. The recent case is the good example. This case involved 4 parties, my company, my joint venture company in China, my external consultant in Singapore and my external consultant in China. There was a request to this consultant in Singapore to customize certain part of the software, and this customization is to be deployed to China and be supported by the consultant there. The customization is simple and if the singapore consultant try his/her best to do it right in the first time, there wont' be any need for such a long process of to-and-fro communication to fix the bugs. The main problem here is the singapore consultant never spend enough time to test and make sure everything is ok before deploying the solution to China. The consultant is smart, but his/her attitude is bad!

So, next time try to do it right the FIRST time.

Tough decision

Sometimes, in life you just gonna meet a situation where your feeling and your logic could not agree. Tomorrow is my brother's wedding and I'll be there celebrating the joyous event. But tomorrow or probably tonight is also the moment where I'm confused whether to follow my heart or my mind.

It's regarding the problem of my other younger brother. He fell in love with someone whom he should not. And now he is asking my permission to let his lover to continue to work with us. He said thing is over between them and the only reason why he asked for her to be allowed to work with us is because he feels pity for this lady. The lady likes to work with us and she will be deserted if we let her work in other place.

I could understand my brother's reason and I empathize him. However, logically thinking I should not trust him, because he has broken many of his promises before. And I really don't think things can be so easily over between them.

If I allow the lady to work with us, there will be many foreseeable problems that we are going to face but if I don't allow her, I feel I'm being too cruel. My brother is begging me for help and empathy and I personally do feel sory for the lady. I feel that my brother is the main culprit for all the saga though there are some parts on the lady to be blamed too.


Anyway, it's a tough decision...and probably I'll just follow my heart because my heart is not hard enough to follow my mind. I might be making a very big mistake, and I can only pray to God that everything will turn out to be ok (at least).

Catching the flight...