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Teadog is now in China…:)

This new phase is just starting, hopefully teadog will be able to make the most out of it…

There is a question:  What is Jesus to you?

The funniest reply I read says: Jesus is like my janggut. Can never be shaved from my face or else I’ll lose my handsomeness…

But then again Jesus is different….if He is removed from my life, I’ll lose my true identity…
hahaha…who can top that lo

Jesus is like coffee to me…It is my source of daily energy…a booster for me to kick off the day with zest.  Without it everything seems weak, lame and bland.

But then again, Jesus is different.  He is my source of daily light and a booster for me to kick off the day with faith.  *and He leaves no deadly caffeine in my blood*

It always starts with a genuine concern of resource limitation.  When there is an unexpected windfall of potential businesses, technical resources to support the overwhelming increase of new projects are spread very thinly.

It is then decided that investment would be made in getting junior technical personnels to assist, hopefully to address the increasing delinquent tasks. 

With the new batch of juniors in, one would expect to see improvement in project executions. The amusing thing, however, is that the exact opposite happens.  The delinquent items do not reduce, but now, even juniors start to request for assistants.  How is this possible?

Guess what, this is what most likely to happen when everyone wants to be ‘manager’. 

The seniors automatically promoted themselves to become armchair engineers when new hires joined.  Instead of letting the juniors assist so that things can get done more efficiently, they become ‘managers’ to the juniors and sit in the office waiting for updates so that they can update the boss.

After some time, juniors would wise up and demand for technicians to assist them.  When granted technicians, these juniors, following the footsteps of their seniors, start to dictate their technicians on what to do.  Similarly, the juniors now sit in the office waiting for reports from their technicians, so that they could update their seniors, whom would be waiting to review their updates so that they could present to the boss.  It is just a matter of time before these technicians would become senior technicians and the pattern would repeat itself. 

There would be so many new hires, one would expect the end of limited resource’s issue, but no…nothing changes.  Delinquent items remain just as many if not more….

The whole organization, is exactly like a mushroom….very broad and heavy at the top, but whole weight is supported by a poor, thin stem waiting to fall.

As grand and rewarding as it is to manage people…it is just as exciting and challenging to get your own hands dirty and actually do what you are paid to do…it is really very satisfying being able to derive at solutions to difficult tasks, much more rewarding than to just reporting other people’s success to the boss.

If proven worthy, one will have the opportunity to manage others eventually, but for the time being, stop contributing to the mushroom pattern that is indeed actively mushrooming liao.

My Boss told me today, I remind him of prairie dogs…hmmm

Skiouros [Gr] = squirrel. Extremely successful, the sciuridae family [51 genera, 272 species] includes squirrels, marmots, chipmunks and prairie dogs.

Sciurids have relatively unspecialized bodies; a long and bushy tail in arboreal species, a shorter, stiffer tail for terrestrial species (it is used as a prop when sitting up); no loss of digits, no reduction of free movement in the elbow, wrist or ankle joints; sharp claws and a generally arched head profile, marmots less so. Cheek teeth are rooted.

RANGE:

The Great Plains from south-central Montana and Saskatchewan to extreme northern Mexico.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:

Head and Body Length: 11″ - 13″.

Weight: 1.5 - 3 lbs.

Coloration: The guard hairs are agouti-banded, and the coat has a gray or reddish cast. The belly is buff, shading to light gray or white on the throat and the lower part of face. The tail is black tipped.

DIET:

Zoo: Fruits, vegetables, greens, grass hay and Purina Lab Chow.

Wild: Tall grasses.

BEHAVIOR:

Prairie dogs are large ground squirrels which live together in highly organized societies. Prairie dog “towns” are divided into male territories called “coteries” (coterie [french]: a feudal tenant organization). The dominant male usually maintains the coterie’s boundaries by challenging other prairie dogs from neighboring coteries. He may be supported by a subordinate coterie member, often his mate. One male usually dominates the other males but there is no clear dominance hierarchy among females. When coterie members meet, they frequently engage in contact by touching noses. They may turn their heads and open their mouths to permit tongue contact. This contact is thought to be a form of identification.

One other important social interaction is the use of sentinels. The sentinel sits upright on a burrow entrance rim and watches for predators. A loud bark is emitted when one is sighted hence the name Prairie dog.

BREEDING & GROWTH: Prairie dogs breed once a year; under normal conditions this period is in late February or early March.

Gestation: 34-37 days. Litter size 1 - 8 (with an average of 3 surviving to emerge above ground). The “pups” wean between 5 - 7 weeks and appear above ground at 6 - 7 weeks. They continue to grow until they are about 15 months old.

Longevity: Wild: 3-5 yrs.; Captivity: 8.5 yrs.

STATUS:

Prairie dogs are considered threatened due to loss of habitat to agriculture and poisoning.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Their most common predators are rattlesnakes, golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, coyotes, bobcats and man. The black-footed ferret may well have been a major predator, but because of its highly endangered status we can only surmise the historical impact of that mustelid on the prairie dog populations.

Blessed Christmas everyone !!!