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is how i am feeling like right now.After 2 giant meals on sun and mon..and probably more to come.cos relatives are in town..and we have to go around munching bits off the island.can't help feeling a tad miserable..am so used to eating a spoonful of rice + lotsa veggies for dinner...dat these meals are excessive to me..and i always end up looking like some pregnant woman after every meal (feel like one too..back aches can't stand up straight!)...u could pay me a buck to see this 奇观~not forgetting tat i always feel a tremendous sense of guilt if i overeat too.i noe it ain't right and i outta be fortunate and glad dat i can have all the food tat i ever want..as compared to the poor folks being sold as slaves .. just to digress..have u ever wondered that maybe the branded pair of sports shoes on your feet was made by some poor skinny kid slave driven by some ferocious man with a whip? haiz.oh well..but still..dats no reason for me to finish up all the food on the table.
when the chips are down...someone shoved me with a metaphor...
he said "designers are like farmers".
And then i came up with the rest of the story myself...
If designers are like farmers in the agricultural supply chain. then test engrs must be the QC who ensures that the food supplies are ok for consumption; marketing and sales pple would be the traders and retailers respectively at the other end of the chain.
So..it starts with the farmer at the start of the chain..who ploughs and sows to give us rice..or vege..watever farmer u choose to have.
after we get the rice...QC folks would need to go through the batches of rice and make sure that there are no bad nuts in them.
then we have the traders who act like middlemen between the farmers and retailers....supplying the goods to the retailers..ensuring that the flow of food supply goes without a glitch.
and at the end..the retailers are probaly the supermarkets..big hypermarts or small mama-shops...they are the ones who have the final interface with the customers and are obviously the ones who gather direct feedback from the customers too.
One dae..Mr X went to get a packet of rice. and then he discovers to his horror.. that there's a hole in the bag and a black pea in it.
he runs back to the shop and asks Mr Retailer "there's something terribly wrong with the rice! i can't eat this!! how can there be a pea in the rice! i paid for rice..not peas! explain!"
Mr Retailer only said "beats me"
and ding dongs it to Mr Trader who ding dongs it back Mr QC who just ding dongs it back to Mr Farmer.
But Mr Farmer doesn't know either. Simply bcos his farm only grows rice..not peas. he, of cos, had no idea how peas got into the bag in the first place. Moreover...all along, the previous bags of rice had turned out ok...
maybe a pea had fallen into the bag during packaging? maybe a rat chewed its wae into the bag bringing a pea into it? maybe here..maybe there... But so wat. everyone else is standing in a row..pointing fingers at the farmer..and expecting him to fix the fault..without lifting a finger to help (dats cos all the fingers are busy pointing at the farmer..where got finger left to help leh)...
For he's the one who planted the rice.
And somehow most of us have forgotten that Mr Farmer is at the crux of the supply chain. If he stops growing rice..we have no rice.
And most of the time...he's paid the lowest of them all. Paradox.
When man has New toy, man wants to spend much time with New toy.
And so does ellie...the one eager beaver set out again to contribute to her new blog.
Me had a wonderful gathering w frens on mon... And much honoured am i..cos it was after all a 'mondae-blues' mondae..so everyone shd be hard at work and unwilling to come out for dinner. BUT they did..such big a face they gave me i guess u could see my cheeks stretch from holland v to orchard rd (yah lets not be too kuazhang so i din put pasir ris to boon lay)...hehe~
Ooo...thanks for the bdae meal...gals (and accompanying guy)! it also seemed appropriate tat i would like to tink of it as our mini 10yr-anniversary frenship gathering tho...heheh..Aye time flies *flap* *flap*... it's heartwarming to tink tat altho' i may not have 10000 frens..i still have a handful to count on...
And look wat else i managed to dig out--- An age-old meal photo at swensens from 1999! i hope the subjects dun mind...but hey...everyone looks the same (prettier of cos...heh)...right down to the table arrangement! just so cute to look back at old photos once in a while...
