New Office Policy

EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1, 2008

NEW OFFICE POLICY

Dress Code:

1) You are advised to come to work dressed according to your salary.

2) If we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a Gucci bag, we will
assume you are doing well financially and therefore do not need a raise.

3) If you dress poorly, you need to learn to manage your money better, so
that you may buy nicer clothes, and therefore you do not need a raise.

4) If you dress just right, you are right where you need to be and therefore
you do not need a raise.

Sick Days:

We will no longer accept a doctor's statement as proof of sickness. If you
are able to go to the doctor, yo! u are able to come to work.

Personal Days:

Each employee will receive 104 personal days a year. They are called
Saturdays & Sundays.

Bereavement Leave:

This is no excuse for missing work. There is nothing you can do for dead
friends, relatives or co-workers. Every effort should be made to have non
employees attend the funeral arrangements in your place. In rare cases where
employee involvement is necessary, the funeral should be scheduled in the
late afternoon. We will be glad to allow you to work through your lunch hour
and subsequently leave one hour early.

Bathroom Breaks:

Entirely too much time is being spent in the toilet. There is now a strict
three-minute time limit in the stalls.. At the end of three minutes, an
alarm will sound, the toilet paper roll will retract, the stall door will
open, and a picture will be taken! . After your second offense, your picture
will be posted on the compan y bulletin board under the 'Chronic Offenders'
category. Anyone caught smiling in the picture will be sectioned under the
company's mental health policy.

Lunch Break:

* Skinny people get 30 minutes for lunch, as they need to eat more, so that
they can look healthy.
* Normal size people get 15 minutes for lunch to get a balanced meal to
maintain their average figure.
* Chubby people get 5 minutes for lunch, because that's all the time needed
to drink a Slim-Fast.


Thank you for your loyalty to our company. We are here to provide a positive
employment experience. Therefore, all questions, comments, concerns,
complaints, frustrations, irritations, aggravations, insinuations,
allegations, accusations, contemplations, consternation and input should be
directed elsewhere.

The Management

Thank you.

What Managers Must Know

1. Just because you like someone doesn't mean the person is cut out for the task. And it doesn't
matter how many years you know the person.

2. Don't overwrite the decision of your subordinate whom you have empowered.

3. Stop pushing your favourite people into roles just because you want to have a foothold into
someone else's project.

4. Admit it when you picked the wrong person for the job and stop blaming others for his/her
failure.

5. Back off and stop stepping into areas where you are not needed.

6. Don't talk double or triple - you loose credibility and respect.

7. Don't make deals with individual and promise rewards outside the performance evaluation
framework - this is favourism and will cause division.

8. Be humble and don't think you know how to run other people's department - respect others.

9. Grow up and act like a professional worthy of your office - stop behaving like a spoilt kid
wanting to grab at every high visible endeavour.

10. Leave your staff alone to do their job - they were at it long before you came along to be
their manager.


They just don't get it--

Airplace Crash

Marshalling at an airforce base.

BluRay Titles Cheap

Title		Sale
Michael Clayton		$ 56
Monty Python's Life Of Brian		$ 40
Good Luck Chuck		$ 52
Terminator 2: Judgment Day		$ 35
The Punisher		$ 35
Total Recall		$ 35
Stargate		$ 35
The Devil's Rejects		$ 35
Stir Of Echoes		$ 35
Dragon Wars		$ 52
Resident Evil		$ 40
Pan's Labyrinth		$ 56
Rush Hour 3		$ 58
Blade Runner		$ 62
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix		$ 56
Harry Potter: Years 1-5		$ 222
The Legend of Zorro		$ 40
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire		$ 45
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban		$ 45
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone		$ 45
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets		$ 45
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End		$ 54
Ocean's Thirteen		$ 56
Ratatouille		$ 52
Spider-Man 3		$ 58
Spider-Man: The Motion Picture Trilogy		$ 124
2001: A Space Odyssey		$ 40
King Of New York		$ 40
Hollow Man		$ 40
Bram Stoker's Dracula		$ 40
The Replacement Killers		$ 40
Doctor Strange		$ 40
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within		$ 40
IMAX: Blue Planet		$ 40
300		$ 52
Wild Things		$ 40
The Fifth Element		$ 40
The Patriot		$ 40
Hellboy		$ 40
Curse of the Golden Flower		$ 40
Dirty Dancing		$ 40
Planet Earth: The Complete Series		$ 139
The Pursuit of Happyness		$ 53
Chicken Little		$ 52
The Untouchables		$ 40
Casino Royale		$ 53
Mission: Impossible		$ 40
Mission: Impossible 2		$ 40
Dreamgirls		$ 40
Reservoir Dogs		$ 40
Payback		$ 40
Black Rain		$ 40
Black Hawk Down		$ 40
The Manchurian Candidate		$ 40
Failure to Launch		$ 40
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera		$ 40
World Trade Center		$ 40
U2: Rattle And Hum		$ 40
Aeon Flux		$ 40
The Italian Job		$ 40
Four Brothers		$ 40
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow		$ 40
Sleepy Hollow		$ 40
Nacho Libre		$ 40
Training Day		$ 40
House of Flying Daggers		$ 40

ERP takes it toll on regular people

Get ready folks! ERP is getting more expensive from 7th July 2008. And yes... 5 additional toll gates, higher prices (50cts more per pop), and all in the name of getting smoother traffic!

Oh well.... expect higher transportation costs, meaning business owners will increase products or services to maintain their profit margins, which means more GST to collect... bottom line is - higher inflation.

What can we do to help ourselves?

1. travel less - certainly would help.
2. travel by bus - avoid taxi and cars
3. walk if possible - more exercise - good for health

By traveling less to Orchard or Singapore River area, you not only save on transportation cost, but also expenditure on coffee, food and what not. That translate to business owners needing to transport less raw material (eg. coffee bean, cooking oil etc), into the business area. Hence win win for everyone - almost.

For the kids/teenagers - please avoid the Tolls areas to reduce ERP charges! hah

Cloned Immune Cells to tackle Cancer

A patient whose skin cancer had spread throughout his body has been given the all-clear after being injected with billions of his own immune cells.

Tests revealed that the 52-year-old man's tumours, which spread from his skin to his lung and groin, vanished within two months of having the treatment, and had not returned two years later.

Doctors attempted the experimental therapy as part of a clinical trial after the man's cancer failed to respond to conventional treatments.

The man is the first to benefit from the new technique, which uses cloning to produce billions of copies of a patient's immune cells. When they are injected into the body they attack the cancer and force it into remission.

Campaigners and scientists in the UK yesterday welcomed the breakthrough. "It's very exciting to see a cancer patient being successfully treated using immune cells cloned from his own body. While it's always good news when anyone with cancer gets the all-clear, this treatment will need to be tested in large clinical trials to work out how widely it could be used," said Ed Yong at Cancer Research UK.

Peter Johnson, chief clinician at the charity, added: "Although the technique is complex and difficult to use for all but a few patients, the principle that someone's own immune cells can be expanded and made to work in this way is very encouraging."

Cassian Yee at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle extracted immune cells from the patient and found that a small proportion of them, called CD4 T cells, naturally attacked a protein found on nearly three-quarters of the cancer cells. Using cloning techniques, Yee's team replicated these cells until they had more than 5bn of them.

When the cells were injected into the patient they immediately began attacking the cancer. Intriguingly, the patient's immune system gradually began a wider offensive, attacking all the cancer cells in the body, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Two months later medical scans failed to pick up any signs of cancer in the patient.

The team believes the treatment could be effective in around a quarter of skin cancer patients whose immune systems have cells that are already primed to attack their tumours. "For this patient we were successful, but we would need to confirm the effectiveness of therapy in a larger study," Yee added.

In an accompanying article Louis Weiner, director of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Centre at Georgetown University, Washington, wrote that Yee's work "underscores the remarkable potential of the immune system to eradicate cancer, even when the disease is widespread".

The case showed that hopes to turn the immune system into a weapon against cancer was becoming a reality, Weiner added. "If the destination is not yet at hand, it is in sight. The endgame has begun."

Using the immune system to fight cancer could be much safer than existing treatments, which often have serious side effects.