Pictures - Every Story I Share is my own Story

Every Story I Share is my own Story

Do you know the secret of a Quality sleep?

Do you know the secret of a Quality sleep?

A good mattress is just part of it, the other factor is no one can advise you and even your mattress seller doesn't know about it!

Let #fsyqualipreneur share with you the secret of a Quality sleep.

You see from the surface; I am sleeping on a king-size mattress bed. (Maybe I behave like a Monkey God so king-size it is!)

Every individual sleeping patterns & body movements differ from our partners which in my case, she is my exgirlfriend.

Even you bought a hard firm mattress or numerous heavy springs inside your designer mattress vouched; but,
whenever your partner tosses and turn it will kind of affect your sleep in one way or another.

It will be more crucial if you happened to be a light sleeper! You will feel similar movements whenever your partner is doing the tossing and turning.

Want to know the secret?

The answer lies under my mattress cover!

Hold on...it is in my next picture.

You can disagree to agree with me because you are entitled to your own opinion. Hence, I do know that haters hate my idea but they tend to motivate me. However, I also know that there are "lovers" out there who like my idea and always supported me!

"Yeeha"!













2 single king size mattress is the secret to FSYQuality Sleep

Haiku Poems FSY

Haiku Poems FSY 

(Japanese Poem) 

(F) First Things First  Calm Down 

(S) Staying that way all day long 
(Y*) You can be mindful

You can pen your only Haiku, Janapese poem 

Below is how to pen your Haiku Poem (or you can Google) 

Haikus follow a strict form of
three lines, with a 5-7-5 syllable structure. 

That means the first line will have five (5)syllables, 
the second line will have seven (7)syllables, and
the last line will have five (5)syllables.

Enjoy a slient moment to pen your own Haiku Poem.

Good morning to you

By the way 

I love

(F) Fried rice with

(S) Spam &

(Y) Yeeha with eggs

Pictures Story - Power come with Authority & FSY Quotes

Pictures Stories

Every Story I Share is my own Story

Take a picture; digest it and understand it from different angle point of view then try to form your own opinion. 

Power come with Authority 

Even at the lowest rank of the workforces, they also have power & authority too!

The power and authority that these aunties have over you are when she is affirmative on her 7 am sharp schedule means they will not distribute the free Newspapers. 

You want free Newspapers then queue and wait in line till your turn.

I have a question -

Whose timing schedule does she based on? 

Did her boss teaches the +/- 3 minutes strategy to her?  Probably not; or it will be a  better and happier society.

In life, there are certain tolerances that we have to live with -

#1

In our society (society norm), we need zero tolerance on drug trafficking. 

#2

Workplace tolerances 

1, Verbal warning, recorded.

2, Verbal warning recorded and signatory.

3, Letter of Wisdom.

4, Enough is enough!

5  You are fired! 

#3

Singapore tolerances 

Fine-loh 

Is a "fine" city!

#4

Products Specification and Processes Management Tolerances

We have +/- , Statistical Process Control  (SPC), 

Six Sigma tool of 9.99999 (Bell Curve) & etc

#5

Girlfriend to marriage relationship, we too have tolerance on this issue.

For the girlfriend to marries tolerances, I always use Statistical Process Control Tools (SPC) to explain.... Oops!!!  Not Sharing here, keep it for another day another story. 

Remember 

I got 63 years of good old Quality stories to share.

Haiku Poem (Japanese Poem) 

Haiku Poem (Japanese Poem) 

(F) First Things First  Calm Down 
(S) Staying that way all day long 
(Y*) You can be mindful

You can pen your only Haiku, Janapese poem 

Below is how to pen your Haiku Poem (or you can Google) 

Haikus follow a strict form of
three lines, with a 5-7-5 syllable structure. 

That means the first line will have five syllables, 

the second line will have seven syllables, and

the last line will have five syllables.

Enjoy a slient moment to pen your own Haiku Poem.

Another Haiku Poem (Japanese Poem)

My Eldest Daughter sum it up - My Parents’ marriage and mine

Friday, December 5, 2014

Happy Friday 

I hope this week was a wonderful one

My Parents’ marriage and mine

They live forever happily thereafter…that is usually what most fairy tale stories that Disney World projected to us. This particular fairy tale story gives me a false expectation that will be high calling for me because my temper is too short and also my patience level is simply too low.

Do I blame my parents unrealistic expectations of LOVE and MARRIAGE that are simply too good to be true? My dad always said that “It is the Father that finds the husband for his daughter”. Do you agree?

My parents celebrated their 31st anniversary on Tuesday, Dec 2 that is also my dad’s birthday (my mom always jokes that he purposely chosen this day because of his short memory). My dad hardly works on his birthday because he will go to Bukit Timah Hill asking the monkeys why he was brought into this world. Also, this is the day he does his reflection of – what he has achieved in the last 11 months of the year? what new skills he learned? He always tells us that if by the month of December, you do not learn any new skill then you have wasted the whole year! He added that work performance given and if you have failed, it is your boss’ fault. But, if you didn’t learn a new skill; it is your own fault. There are many people who are doing the same old skills repeatedly and claimed that they have 10 years of experiences. My dad will usually rebutted that they simply have only one year of skill-set multiply by 10 times.

Since Bukit Timah Hill will be closed for 2 years restoration, he decided to do out of the norm together with my mom in embarking on a two weeks of holidaying with my husband and I. We are in the last leg of Bali-Indonesia, Bangkok-Thailand and now presently enjoying in Hong Kong!

Looking at my parents’ 31 years of marriage and after being married myself (June 1st 2014), I have came to realize that their relationship is built on different layers of rock by rock in rarity and exceptional sacrifices.

They share decades of inside jokes and tease each other. Dad still teases mom over a chicken backside that he gave her to eat during a trip in Malaysia that eventually courting her into marriage, 31 years ago! Not forgetting that my Dad is always fiercely protective towards my mom. If any other family members of my dad bad-mouthing mom, Dad will be defencing her at all costs. He never allows us to talk back to our mom. During our younger days, when we are rude to mom, he will thundered his no-nonsense voice and made us to face the wall until we realized our mistakes.
It is a good thing that my dad decided to retire from his full time job to travel a bit more with his wife. He told us that it is payback time for her hard labor of keeping us and our home in order. After dad retirement, they found a way to keep their relationship both comfortable and surprising by combining a warm familiarity with the willingness to try new things together by letting go of the old. Often travelling to Dad’s Setia office in JB and teach each other new things in dad’s new teaching Qualiprenuer programmes.

Never think that our parents are a single decision making entity when comes to meting punishment. Both my parents, never play one parent against the other. They always make decision collectively and even in having to occasionally quarrel or getting into each other nerves (usually at this point either my mom or dad will walk away to cool off), they will always try their best to work it out quickly and never let it spills into other interactions.

After my own marriage, I asked my mom how they managed to keep our family intact. She responded – “Mutual Trust, Commitment as well as Give and Take Attitude”. Her philosophy – Always (F)ollow his dreams, (S)upport him silently from behind and (Y)ounqiuely cooks him ‘shiok’ dinners awaiting for him to comes home safely from work greeting him with a smile and he will gives me all his money! Our dad hardly ever goes to the bank and ATM for money or using his credit cards without first checking with mom. She gives him $2 a day for his meals/expenses allowance (minus out dinners and weekends meals as mom usually cooks)…poor dad!

I can understand all those fairy tales on building relationships are rare, maybe only a few that you can find in Disney World. I will have to compare my own stubbornness, less perfect relationship with that of my parents’ wondering how they have managed to be so accepting and welcoming of each other.
Well, they have practiced it for the last 31 years and my dad teaches us that only correct practices make lives better. I have 30 years to perfect my dad’s model… who knows? Only time will tell. Will my dad be here to witness it??? I hope so!!! He will be 89 years old by then.

My mom & dad are Rocks! We, as their children are forever thankful that our family are built on a solid rock foundation of unconditional Love.

BTW, my dad is launching his new teaching next year “Make Money & Love Safety & Quality”. My dad’s teachings is always about “LOVE” that is Listening, Observe, Verbalize and Engage…dad says “no more work, no more career, Teach! It is his calling” not for free though but, for a fee of $5,665 to living a comfortable retirement life.

I believe that when your dad and mom care deeply, Listening, Observe, Verbalize and Engage (LOVE) for each other then their children will grow up in an environment that is full of LOVE…

Happy Anniversary to mom and dad especially to dad, a Quality Holiday Birthday too!!! Your relationship remind me that LOVE is built on different layers of rocks year after year and it can works because your teachings work – Quality Work; Quality Life will be in our hearts…and… yes, we know! – A dollar saved is a dollar earned.

From Cheryl (eldest daughter) Just married with a new life, new being, learning tricks and treats from dad endlessly.

Sharing is Good; Sharing is Caring

Every time you pass this Friday Sharing w/You along to a friend or colleague, you make the world a better world! – Copy, Paste & Send

My Eldest Daughter Story

Friday, August 30, 2013

My dad a naughty kid and 4 advices

My dad used to be a naughty kid. He disliked studies, always loves to play marbles and has fun. In fact, he is not bad in his studies in the later part of his life. He realizes that he needs to upgrade on his knowledge as well as to brush up on his English Language, he went back to school attending evening classes for 20 years with 5 years in British Council to improve on his English. Someone said you need 10,000 hours to master on a skill. I think my dad passes all the marks as he does not need a MBA, but he has a PhD mindset for Passion, hungry and Discipline. Lady Luck has always been on my dad’s side.

It is an amazing achievement for someone who quits formal studies at age 14. My dad told me that his mother passed away at that time. Being the youngest and very close to his mother, he is demoralised with life then quit schooling totally. Hanging in the streets made my dad to become a street smart boy. He acquired his skills the old-fashioned way, starting from the bottom rung of the ladder slogging tirelessly and grabbing any opportunities that comes his way.

He is very happy with his life right now. A wonderful & supportive wife with 3 lovely kids living in a House Done Bloodly expensive but comparing with other countries, it is okay to have a small nest in the mid air on the 13th floor. He has been working very hard to be where he is and retired from the Corporate Jungle to has his own teaching business in a quiet place in JB to do a little teaching here and there to keep his brain working. He advise that we need to nudge the box above our neck a little bit. It is the only tool that if not in use will go rusty eventually.

My dad is a FSY – a Facilitator, Story teller & Younqiuely fun person who has many Inspiring, Influencing and Interesting (3Is) stories to share although he repeated many of his stories again and again, we never feel bore because of the 3Is.

I would like to share 4 advices he gave us.

First advice is when in doubt, always ask. By asking you will have 5 answers but he only wants to share 3 – that is Yes, No or Maybe keeping the other 2 for us to guess and learn from ourselves because he believes learning must come from within. Today, many people live in a short-fuse life. Their food are fast, frozen dried and microwavable. They google and read 140 text instead of books or hands-on experiences and want answers NOW. He said adults attending his workshop want the how-to, easy-to-use steps, they want no pain but only gain.

The 2nd advice is don’t waste people money. When you work for people don’t waste people/company money. A dollar saved is a dollar earned for the company. Do things right the 2nd time every time. He explains people never do things right the first time that is why many companies get high scraps and reworks in both offices and manufacturing environment. If you measure in term of sales, it is going to be about 15-25% or about $1 million dollars going to be wasted. That is a lot of money that can be saved and use for FUN budgets. Dad said, if company willing to give him 5% to 10% of the savings when they engage him to halves their Scraps and Reworks in their organization then my dad will be a millionaire again!

The 3rd advice - on the personal side, my dad loves to use acronyms of “CPF“. Since Singapore Central Provident Fund (CPF) is doing such a good job for Singaporeans, why not use the same framework of C-P-F on ourselves?

Commit fund – This fund he gives to my mom and cannot be touched even on raining day.

Progressive Fund – Money in the bank is dead money, so invest a bit to let it grows.

Fuck-it Fund – Sounds naughty? Don’t kid yourself, if you live and breathe in the Corporate jungle beside OMG (Oh My God!) this F**K word is a common language. Remember, life is never going to be always good on your side. When you hit the cross-road of heading nowhere, this Fuck-it fund might not be big but at least my dad can “fuck-it and retire and doing less with less”. He told us many people yet to get on the wave of his new teaching methods. Many “sotong” managers and leaders still want to do more with less. Do you know getting the burn-outs in the working environment of doing more with less? My take is on the “sotong” managers and leaders. There are studies on burn-out of leaders. Just Google.

The 4th advice my dad wants to share is that of the 4 legged stool. Most people always want to have more Power and more Money but forgetting the other 2 legs that stabilize the stool. The other 2 legs are Love and Fun. To learn more about the other 2 legs that enable you and your organization to achieve Quality Work, Quality Life is to buy his 3rd workshop book @ Sin$39.90. Drop him a line at daniel@qualipreneur.com. He is half-way through his 3rd workshop book. 

The DYSF-unctions - Drive Your Self Forward. If you saved 50 cents a day starting today, you can purchase it in November @Sin$39.90. It is not a self-help book but more of a workbook, that is why dad called it a Workshop Book as our lives are always in the workshop and in progress. The day when they assembled us, it is the day we return to the source where we came from.

By the way if you need to Ignite Fun @Work, my dad charges only Sin$5,665 for a 2 days workshop for 20 pax. Do you know how my dad get this pricing of $5,665? He learnt it from Starbucks. Just imagine by selling coffee and their revenues are bigger than the 3 biggest oil and gas equipment manufacturers combined revenues. So sad if you are an Engineer in the oil and gas industries, right? You should be inventing coffee and make ton of money. That is why I prefer to be a Nurse. My dad always teaches sharing is caring, that is why I am following my dad’s footsteps of caring which is a calling from God.

If you like my dad’s stories and care for your colleagues, friends and families, feel free to forward to them or engage my dad for his storytelling workshops.

From his elder daughter: Cheryl Foo

My 2nd Daughter Story

Friday, October 25, 2013

Hi,

I am Clarissa, the Middle child of Daniel Foo.

It is good that my elder sibling started the ball rolling of sharing my dad’s stories then my cheekier younger sibling decided to inputs his share. So, what’s next? The so-called middle a.k.a. rebellious child die, die also must shares one or two stories about her dad too!!!

You already read two good quality stories from both my siblings about our dad. If you have not read it, please go ahead to read the postings dated August 30 (Cheryl) and September 13 (Desmond).

My dad said I should write something, so here is my short story version of my dad who I have learnt to cherish and admire for the last 27 years.

When we were young, my dad is a very family oriented and hands-on man. He helped my mom around the house doing chores like washed the dishes, changed our nappies etc. During weekends, he sent us to our grandma’s house so that he can totally cleans up the whole house as well as has some peace to do his self-studies. If you have known my dad, he started as a Machinist in the production line and grew to become a Regional Manager in a MNC till he retired from the Corporate Jungle two years back. Most people said my dad is lucky but the hidden hardwork that he has puts in on his unexpected journey is hardly known. My dad keeps on improving himself by studying for 20+ years and eventually got his BBA. That’s not the end of this learning journey, today he is still learning…maybe who knows a Master Degree certification with his name is awaiting.

Till today as a semi-retiree, he still does some of these household things mopping the floor and washing the toilets are still my dad’s favourite chores. We greatly appreciated my dad’s thoughtfulness and I hope one day, we as his children will not be too lazy picking up all these chores that my dad is still doing in order to give him a good quality break.

The difference between my mom and dad is that she is rather rigid and always worries about our upbringings and safety. 

My dad, on the other hand is more willing to let go and treat us as friends. We started drinking a bit of wine and beer at home during most of the Chinese festive celebrations. My dad allows us to be drunk at home rather than doing it outside. To my mum, dad tends to creates jokes and stories that are serious into insignificant and ordinary incidents and mom will scolds him for not seeing the severity of these incidents. When we drive our dad’s car, mom will always reminds us to drive slowly and safely.

My dad never likes the word “slowly”.  In his Quality Improvement Process workshop as he preaches “Speed Wins and Speeding Kills” and he always has this favourite Words of Wisdom his ‘FSY’ – reminding us that when we are at the wheel – be Focus, be Steady & You will reach point ‘B’ happily.

Why Speed wins? In my dad’s workshop which I have attended and assisted a few times, he told participants that there are many wastes in the workplaces and environment. The number one waste is the transportation and movement (T&M). Any T&M from point A to point B are wastes and has no added values to the end products or results so it is important to either shortens both T&M activities or speeds it up.

He further explained that is why every countries have to put the infrastructure right – the roads, the air, the sea and the communications (internet). Nowadays, every T&M is getting faster and faster, a good example is the bullet trains reaching a speed of 500km. Speed wins! Look at ourselves, today the broadband provides instant connectivity in nano-second to our smart phones. What will happens should there be loss of connectivity due to a fire at your telco exchange building? We are at lost when our smart phones do not work. Another speed wins is the Singapore road pricing system, ERP (Every Road Pay) that deducted your toll fees in nano-seconds as you drive past the gantry. We are all talking about speed. The pop culture of today is speed nothing matters. In the far future, the whole Asia will be linked with bullet trains. The short future will be from Singapore to KL in 90 minutes compare to 3 hours by car at a speed of 180km.

Back to my dad, besides keeping the house clean (Good Housekeeping is another of his favourite subject when he teaches working safely in the workplace), he can be an impromptu cook with only one dish. During our younger days when our mom was hospitalized for a week, we realized that our dinner for that whole week is fried rice so much so that we never look forward to dinner! But dad is dad, does it matter if his fried rice were overcooked or didn’t smell good? It does not matters so long as we were able to laugh at the things that went wrong and those were the good old days. Fast forward…after 20+ years today my dad’s fried rice has improved with years of practice. Now he can ensures that each grain of the rice is coated with eggs and the fried rice is golden in colour. I believe this dish can be values at $15 dollar a plate…any takers? Someone said it takes 10,000 hours to master a skill and my dad really did it. He is one guy that keeps on learning, doing the abnormal things, mastering some things and break the rules. Nothing is normal or ‘new-normal’ to my dad.

I hope you enjoy my story.

We are thankful for my dad’s invaluable contributions and feel that we could not have asked for a better dad, who loves my mom and cherishes us, understands each attributes and personalities and occasionally coaches us and telling us many of his boring insightful stories, but we loved his repeated stories. My dad is THE best story teller, learn from him. In fact, he is the one that spoils us the most!

Enjoy and have a good weekend ahead

Clarissa Foo

My Son Story: Spending Time with Your Parents

Friday, September 13, 2013

Spending Time with Your Parents

Hi, I am Desmond, son of FSY.

We are now entering the 3rd quarter of the year and today, I am going to urge all of you to take out some of your time and commit it with your parents.

I know we do not give enough credits to our parents. They are the ones that brought us into this world, raised us to what we are today with their endless love. But often, we do not reciprocate “that love” back to them.

Yes, all of us love our parents but how can we improve quality time to spend with them. There are many ways you can spend time with your parents and I am sure all of you have many ideas in mind too.

But before I share how I spent my time with my parents! Have you read my sister, Cheryl’s story of my dad? If not please go ahead and read the August 30 posting.

My dad is a story teller, he has many Inspiring, Influencing and Interesting (3Is) stories to share although he repeated many of his stories over and over again, we never feel bored because of the 3Is. That is true!

Let me share something interesting between my dad and me, we are both left handed. The difference is that my dad can’t use chopsticks with his left hand and I can. In fact, my dad can’t even use chopsticks with his right hand too! If you are my dad’s friends you will notice that he always asks for folk and spoon when having meals. There is a story behind why my dad can’t use chopsticks. My dad always tells us in his generation, the parents never allow their son to use chopsticks with the left hand, Every time he does it his mom will knocks his left hand. Being the youngest son and a good boy, my dad is quite smart by asking for fork and spoon to avoid any punishment. Fast forward, someone said once you practice something more than 10,000 hours, you will know what happen. My dad can never holds a chopsticks correctly till today! Another funny thing when we were holidaying in Korea, my dad has to bring along his own fork and spoon because most Korean restaurants don’t have fork and spoon readily. In Korea, they only use steel chopsticks… If you want to know why Koreans only use steel chopstick, just Google if not, ask my Dad. He is a talented and a handy man that can fix anything in our house… left-handed people-ma!!!

Now, let me share my personal time with my parents. I love spending time with my dad in his car whether or not we have any specific destination to go or not. We do not really care because we can share almost anything whilst travelling in his car. It’s like our personal space. Whenever he tells me that he is going for a drive, I would never fail to accompany him. Sometimes, I would even paid to go take a ride with him, so, why not?

I also love spending time with my dad over drinks and snacks at cafes and coffee bean though I don’t love coffee but it’s the quality time spent with him that I feel happy about. We can just sit there and enjoy the scenery even without talking but we will definitely talk to each other since both of us are chatty people.

As for my mom, I love spending time with her watching Cantonese dramas though personally I don’t understand this dialect at all! We would be watching the drama and sometimes I love irritating her. You may think we would be watching our show and not conversing but you are wrong. We chit-chat for the entire show about almost anything from the show to not even talking about the show.

I also love spending time shopping with my mom. We will be choosing clothes for each other and sometimes, the benefits of shopping with your mom is that she pays for your purchases. I am so proud of my mom for putting a lot of effort to accommodate to my style and generation. Besides that, I love clinging onto my mom while walking on the streets. We will be happily having a wonderful time.

I love the occasional eating out with my parents. This is when we get the whole family together and chit-chat about almost anything. Most of the time, we will be busy with our lives that we leave our parents out of the picture so having occasional eat outs will bring the family together. My dad always tells us that a family who eats together stays together. Even though we may be busy in the morning or afternoon, we will try not to miss dinner together. So we practice that a lot!

My family practices kissing our parents before we go to bed and before we go out of the house. It is sometimes quite embarrassing initially because you would hear your friends saying that it is gross and all. But as I grew older, my friends start to envy that I have a strong bond with my parents.
You must be thinking after hearing so much about my bonds with my parents, you would perceive that I have a strong bond with them. I wouldn’t deny that but sometimes I still don’t give my parents enough credits and I don’t express my love enough to them often. I feel awkward sometimes when I want to express my feelings for them and I’m sure some of you feel it too.

So I actually talk to my parents on separate occasions. They told me that as long as I’m not doing anything bad like breaking the laws, taking drugs, joining gangs and doing the right things taking care of myself then they would be happy. The best part they never ever pressurize me or my two sisters in studies but dad has already set aside money for each of his children to get at least a university degree. Currently, I am in my final year with RMIT. They also told me that even if I don’t often show them that I love them, they know I do and they will forever love me for who I am because I am their child. That was when I realized that I could actually talk to my parents about anything even beyond my expectations.

So, go home today, take some of your time and make them happy! My dad reminds us if someday we have to work oversea and not beside them, he wants us to call my mom every night. So please, if you are not with your mom now, call her. For my Dad who has lost his mom at the age of 14 year old…you will understand the importance why he wants you to call your mom.

Thank you for reading my story.

Desmond, son of FSY.

Back to my dad…

When an organization is true to its values, good stories are everywhere. They use stories instead of policies or procedures to achieve their goals. A true story of real-life experience told by one of your own people strengthens values and improves result better and faster. After all, organizational values form behaviour. Stories about your values in action create and sustain the organization culture for better or for worse.

The next time your organization has a town-hall meeting, get employees to tell true stories of the organization in place of the traditional senior managers giving PowerPoint bullet-point boring speeches. If you can’t…….

Help is here…

To be a better storyteller, you will need to at least practice on 6 stories.

Here are 2 options that I am proposing:

For a group of 20 participants, we can conduct a 2 full days workshop plus 6 half day coaching sessions. The 20 participants will attend the 2 full days workshop to learn the storytelling techniques and foundation thereafter they will be sub-divided into 2 groups of 10 to begin practicing on their 6 stories on a 1/2 day weekly session.

alternatively, we can conduct a 3 full days workshop with 15 participants to learn the storytelling techniques and foundation then practice on only 2 stories instead of 6.

Drop me a line at fsyqualipreneur2u@gmail.com so we can pick up for continuance exploration over kopi or tea