A timeless lesson on how consultants can make a difference for
an organization.

Last week, we took some friends out to a new restaurant and
noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt
pocket. It seemed a little strange. When the busboy brought our
water and utensils, I noticed he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket.


Then I looked around saw that all the staff had spoons in their
pockets.

When the waiter came back to serve our soup I asked, 'Why the
spoon?'


'Well, he explained, 'The restaurant's owners hired a consulting
firm to revamp all our processes. After several months of
analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently
dropped utensil. It represents a drop frequency of approximately
3 spoons per table per hour. If our personnel are better prepared,
We can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15
man-hours per shift.'

As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he was able to
replace it with his spare. 'I'll get another spoon next time I go to the
kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now.'

I was impressed. I also noticed that there was a string hanging
out of the waiter's fly. Looking round, I noticed that all the waiters
had the same string hanging from their flies. So before he walked
off, I asked the waiter, 'Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have
that string right there?' 'Oh, certainly!' Then he lowered his voice.
'Not everyone is so observant. That consulting firm I mentioned also
found out that we can save time in the restroom by tying this string
to the tip of our 'you know what'. That way, we can pull it out without
touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening
the time spent in the restroom by 76.39 percent.'

I asked, 'After you get it out, how do you put it back?'

'Well,' he whispered, 'I don't know about the others, but I use
the spoon.

Many of us are guilty of looking at others our own age and thinking,
"Surely, I can't be that old". If you've ever done this, then you'll
appreciate the following.

I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new
dentist.

I noticed his DDS diploma, which bore his full name. Suddenly, I
remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name had been
in my high school class some 40-odd years ago. Could he be the same guy
that I had a secret crush on way back then?

Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This
balding, grey-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to
have been my classmate.

After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Morgan Park
High School.

"Yes. Yes, I did. I'm a mustang," he gleamed with pride.

"When did you graduate?" I asked.

"In 1965," he replied. "Why do you ask?"

"You were in my class!" I exclaimed.

He looked at me closely ... and then that ugly, old, bald, wrinkled, fat
ass, grey-haired decrepit son-of-a-b**** asked, "What did you teach?"

Hi Steven,

Sorry miss your email!

Will let you know if anyone interested.

Thank you.


Cheers
Alan Koh




--- HO STEVEN <steven_ho60@...> wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> I want to lease out my pulai spring membership too.
> It can be 1 - 3 yrs, it's flexible.
> Pls  let me know if anyone is interested.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Smart.com kaki
> Steven Ho
> 9388 8866.
>
>
> --- Alan Koh <alan_kbm@...> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a kaki  who wish to lease his Pulai Spring
> > Membership for 1 to 2 years. If you have any
> > friend who is interested. Please contact me.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Alan Koh
> > 9626 0742
> >
> >
>
>
> Steven Ho
>
>
>
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>Subject: The 1500's
>
>The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water

>temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to
be.
>Here are some facts about the 1500s:
>
>
>Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in
>May,and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting
>to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body
>odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting
>married.
>
>
>Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the
>house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other
>sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the
>babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone
>in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water..
>
>
>Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood
underneath.
>It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and
>other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof When it rained it
>became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the
>roof. Hence the saying, It's raining cats and dogs.
>
>
>There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.. This
>posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings
>could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a
>sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy
>beds came into existence.
>
>
>The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.
>Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would
>get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on
>floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added
>more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start
>slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence
>the saying a thresh hold.
>
>
>(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
>
>
>In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that
>always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things

>to the pot. >They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They

>would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold

>overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in
>it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas
>porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days
old.
>
>
>Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
>When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off.
>It was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They
>would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around
>and chew the fat ..
>
>
>Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content

>caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning
>death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400
>years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
>
>
>Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of
>the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the
>upper crust.
>
>
>Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would
>sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking
>along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.
>They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the
>family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they
>would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
>
>
>England is old and small and the local folks started running out of
>places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the
>bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these
>coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the
>inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they
>would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the
>coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would
>have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to
>listen for the bell; thus, someone could be saved by the bell or was
>considered a dead ringer ..
>
>
>And that's the truth...Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! !

Hi Alan,

I want to lease out my pulai spring membership too.
It can be 1 - 3 yrs, it's flexible.
Pls  let me know if anyone is interested.

Cheers,

Smart.com kaki
Steven Ho
9388 8866.


--- Alan Koh <alan_kbm@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a kaki  who wish to lease his Pulai Spring
> Membership for 1 to 2 years. If you have any
> friend who is interested. Please contact me.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Cheers
> Alan Koh
> 9626 0742
>
>


Steven Ho



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Hi Alan,

I want to lease out my pulai spring membership too.
It can be 1 - 3 yrs, it's flexible.
Pls  let me know if anyone is interested.

Cheers,

Smart.com kaki
Steven Ho
9388 8866.


--- Alan Koh <alan_kbm@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a kaki  who wish to lease his Pulai Spring
> Membership for 1 to 2 years. If you have any
> friend who is interested. Please contact me.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Cheers
> Alan Koh
> 9626 0742
>
>


Steven Ho



__________________________________
Yahoo! Movies - Search movie info and celeb profiles and photos.
http://sg.movies.yahoo.com/

Hi,

I have a kaki  who wish to lease his Pulai Spring Membership for 1 to 2 years.
If you have any
friend who is interested. Please contact me.

Thank you.


Cheers
Alan Koh
9626 0742

HOW TO FORWARD E-MAIL APPROPRIATELY

Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% DO NOT. 

Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it?

Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses & names.  As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every e-mail address that has come across his computer. Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit. That's right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel!

How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps:

(1) When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). That's right, DELETE them.  Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second You MUST click the "Forward" button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don't click on "Forward" first, you won't be able to edit the message at all.

(2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use the To: or Cc: fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the BCC: (blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way the people you send to will only see their own e-mail address. If you don't see your BCC: option click on where it says To: and your address list will appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it, it's that easy. When you send to BCC: your message will automatically say "Undisclosed Recipients" in the "TO:" field of the people who receive it.


(3) Remove any "FW :" in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.

(4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are reading.  Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page
with the information on it? By Forwarding from the actual page you wish
someone to view, you stop them from having to open many e-mails just to see what you sent.

(5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained therein. If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a petition. (Actually, if you think about it, who's supposed to send the petition in to whatever cause it supports? And don 't believe the ones that say that the email is being traced, it just aint so!)


(6) One of the main ones I hate is the ones that say that something like, "Send this email to 10 people and you'll see something great run across your screen." Or, sometimes they'll just tease you by saying something really cute will happen IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! (Trust me, I'm still seeing some of the same ones that I waited on 10 years ago!) I don't let the bad luck ones scare me either, they get trashed. (Could be why I haven't won the lottery??)            Something really cute: http://tubevube.com/user.php

(7) Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some of the other ones floating around nowadays, check them out before you forward d
them. Most of them are junk mail that's been circling the net for YEARS! Just about everything you receive in an email that is in question can be  checked out at Snopes. Just go to http://www.snopes. com/


Its really easy to find out if it's real or not. If it's not, please don't pass it on.

So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses.


Finally, here's an idea!!! Let's send this to everyone we know (but strip
my address off first, please). This is something that SHOULD be forwarded.

Enjoy the rap. Must listen !!


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Hi All again

Shoudl you want photos that are posted on the website for SMART.com Challenge 9, do send in your request to me.  But you will need broadband to download the file as each frame is about 2 -3 MB.  Otherwise, you can copy them from the site itself.  They are in 100K - 500K size resolution.

Your are also encourage to intoduce yourself at our members' webpage.  Please click on the address below to start your input:

http://sports.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/SMART_dot_com/photos/browse/611e

Once you are on that page, click "Add Photo" at the bottom center right-hand corner of the page.

At "Add Photo" page, click browse to search for your photo in your PC, thumbdrive, or CD, add comment about yourself and click  "Add Now" at the bottom of the page.  

Cheers

Sunzi

Hi All

A big thank you to the OC for SMART.com 9 for their time and effort in organizing the event, and the participants  for making it a successful and enjoyable one.

Some of the photos are posted on our website.  Please click on the address below to view:

http://sports.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/SMART_dot_com/spshow/bdce?b=1&m=s

Do feel free to add your comments on the photos. 

Cheers

Sunzi

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