Do you just ignore everything after you tender resignation letter?

What happen when everything didn't go as plan and we are frustrated? We look for another job and tender resignation. So, what do you do after you've sent that white, nicely folded letter to your boss?

Most of us just come to office to fulfill the notice requirements and wait till the last day when we say sayonara. It's very common that once we tender our resignation letter, a few of us tend to start spilling out information we kept all this while and start gossiping about how bad this company is and how the company or the boss or the management has not value our capabilities and our work.

This is definitely not a good way to part with the company. We come nicely, we should go nicely or the best we can. I believe we leave a company when we no longer happy working there but this should not be the reason to ignore our jobs and be in-deferent. Sometimes the world is really very small and you'll bump to each other or most likely to bump into someone who knows you in your new company. A bad reference will affect or destroy your reputations. To build a reputation and your career is not easy. It takes years. To kill your reputation take minutes.

No matter how bad the company treated us, we should do our best to handover and serve my notice gracefully...hehehe.

You will probably ask this. What if my boss or the management treat me hostile during my notice period? Well, this will be their reputation too. What goes around, comes around. I believe in poetic justice. So, don't let others manipulate our career reputation. Take charge and end your service with your company with dignity, pride and proud of it!

Elizabeth Taylor Passed away 23 March 2011

 

Last night my friend tweet about the legendary actress Elizabeth "Liz" Taylor died on Wednesday at age 79. She was a true beauty with whose violet eyes and curvy body and her passions for diamonds. Her beauty is admired by millions of women and adore by men around the world.

The star of "Cleopatra" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?" died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles surrounded by family after a long battle with congestive heart failure that sent her to the hospital six weeks ago.

In a career spanning seven decades, Taylor first gained fame in 1944's "National Velvet" at age 12 and was nominated for five Oscars. She won the best actress award for "Butterfield 8" (1960) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?" (1966) with actor Richard Burton, whom she would marry twice.

Taylor's eight marriages, health problems, prescription drug addiction and ballooning weight often overshadowed her career, but she overcame adversity and used her fame to advocate for causes such as AIDS education and research.

Her death triggered an outpouring of tributes from Hollywood luminaries like Barbra Streisand, recording stars such as Elton John and politicians including former president Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Speaking for her family was her son, Michael Wilding, who called his mother, "an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love."

"It wasn't just her beauty or her stardom. It was her humanitarianism. She put a face on HIV/AIDS," Streisand said. John called her "a Hollywood giant" and an incredible human being.

In a joint statement, the Clintons called her "thoroughly American royalty."

GLAMOROUS HOLLYWOOD LIFE

Taylor was born on February 27, 1932, in London to American parents. She moved to the United States as a child and soon after her 10th birthday landed the lead in the 1942 film "Lassie Come Home," followed by her turn as a young girl who tames the fury of a wild horse in "National Velvet."

She confirmed her star power in 1958 in Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and cemented her reputation as among the greatest actresses of her generation playing a foul-mouthed alcoholic in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?"

She continued working through the 1970s, '80s and '90s, taking a variety of roles in movies and on television. In 1992, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave her its humanitarian honor. Her last movie was the 1994 live action comedy "The Flintstones."

But Taylor's fame went far beyond her screen life. After marriages to hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, British actor Michael Wilding and film producer Mike Todd, she found herself in a scandalous love triangle with singer Eddie Fisher and his wife actress Debbie Reynolds, before marrying Fisher.

Reynolds, 78, was gracious in remembering Taylor on Wednesday, calling her career long and productive and saying "no one else could equal Elizabeth's beauty and sexuality."

While filming the lavish "Cleopatra", at the time the most expensive movie ever made, in Rome in 1961, Taylor started a torrid affair with her married co-star Burton. The pair first wed in 1964 and Burton lavished her with furs and diamonds, including a $1 million pear-shaped jewel.

But the actors were as famous for their tempestuous relationship as they were for their love. They divorced in 1974, only to remarry in 1975 and divorce again in 1976.

"We enjoy fighting," Taylor once said. "Having an out-and-out, outrageous, ridiculous fight is one of the greatest exercises in marital togetherness."

She also married U.S. Senator John Warner and construction worker Larry Fortensky. "She was my 'partner' in laying the foundation for 30 years of public service in the U.S. Senate," Warner said. "We were always friends -- to the end.

TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH

As she grew older, the Hollywood legend began drinking heavily and grew addicted to prescription drugs. Her weight ballooned and she was lampooned by comedians. In 1983 she entered the Betty Ford Center in California for treatment.

Yet, she overcame those problems, and when her friend Rock Hudson died of AIDS in 1985 she began a crusade to raise awareness and money to treat the deadly disease.

"She was among the first to speak out on behalf of people living with HIV when others reacted with fear and often outright hostility," said The American Foundation for AIDS Research, of which Taylor was founding national chairman.

In May 2000, Taylor received the title "Dame," the female equivalent of a knighthood, from Queen Elizabeth.

When her friend Michael Jackson was tried and acquitted on child molestation charges in 2005, she defended him in public.

In her final few years, the once legendary beauty took to using a wheelchair in public to cope with crippling back pain, but she was still making appearances at charity events.

She was first diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2004. She also had three hip replacement operations, a benign brain tumor, skin cancer, pneumonia and heart surgery.

Taylor died surrounded by her children, Michael Wilding, Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd, and Maria Burton. In addition, she is survived by 10 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. RIP Liz Taylor.

Internet so slow

Since we moved to new office, the internet connection is just so slow. In fact is much slower than our old office. What happened to TIME? They seriously need to look into better service for offices. My so-so streamyx connection in the house is faster.

Limited Guidance

Recent change of management force a few staff to buck up and deliver performance. Unfortunately, some require more times to adjust to online media cultural and working style. Online media is definitely a fast pace industry and regular timeline means no more than 24hours turn-around or delivery. People needs to adjust and fine-tune to last minute changes or new project with instant solutions or adaptation of on-going ideas and plans.

For those who can't adjust fast enough are falling behind quickly. Some needs longer time to learn but there's no time. Those who have been here more than a year gave some guides, tips and process flow but that's so much one can do because everyone is busy with individual's timelines.

End of the day, it depends on one's initiative to self-learn and self explore besides peer guidance. Without this, no matter how much someone give tips and suggestions, it won't do much help.

Fascinating Italy - Vatican City

My trip to Italy during last Christmas is an unforgettable experience. The amazing cities and the magnificent architectural was breath taking. A place of olive oil, pasta, wine and sunshine, Roman ruins and renaissance palaces and its deep Catholic roots.

My first stop when touch down from the airport was a tour to Vatican City State, in a cold winter morning at 7am starting from St. Peter's Square and Basilica. Vatican City is officially called Stato della Città del Vaticano or State of the City of the Vatican. There were at least 20 policemen specialise in taking care of Vatican City guarding the streets and surroundings. 

The pillars are align in straight lines

The beautiful buildings of Vatican City in the morning

Vatican Church. The morning after Bishop of Rome gave blessing on Christmas Eve

Sun is coming up. The view was so amazing

The Church stand firm against the blue sky

Morning sun

The window where the Pope gave blessing on Christmas Eve

The guard stand there without moving a muscle

Details of the ceiling at Church entrance

After touring the exterior, we proceed to the security check before we entered the church. Our tour guide guide told everyone to be careful with our belongings and never to put down our valuable such as camera on the floor when we take photos...not even for 2-3 minutes because that's how fast the snatch thieves took to steal. Don't be fool by the many officers on the compound because the snatch thieves are much faster.