Research without a purpose serves to dilute the very purpose of the entire exercise.

If the point of requesting that research articles be written, then allocate suitable timeframes, specify appropriate personnel that are interested in working on them, allocate rewards… give incentives, recognition.

It shouldn’t be some half-assed attempt to appear intellectual.

Every report takes 10 minutes to prepare. Thats 10 minutes of my life that I feel I have absolutely lost. Taking a poop gives me more satisfaction than writing one of those research reports.

Sigh…. bitter with the sweet…

“A powerful earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit southern Sumatra at about 6.17pm, causing tremors all the way in peninsula Malaysia.”

Freakishly frightening as a meeting was being held at the time of the tremors. Fortunately we’re still safe but I can’t imagine what its like for the people in Sumatra.

Disgusting management methods disgust me.

The point of throwing staff a bone only to take it away and yet expecting the staff to be still happily obedient puzzles me. which book of management tips are they referring to? It could be that everyone has been under the yoke of oppression for so long that they’re thankful for every meager scrap thrown to them.

My opinion of management becoming staff-centric really did a double-take today.

Bollocks.

The hedge-wizard Sedgewick gets fairy-fingered.

The ex-ex-prime minister will be on campus tomorrow to receive his Honorary Doctorate award,… the entire campus is undergoing upheavals and I can’t wait for the dust to settle.

Note to self,

Paintball = painful thighs.