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May 04 2008

Turning Committee Into Community

Published by Ricky under People, Sports

Recently I served in the organizing committee of a grand annual sports event held on Labour Day in Matsushita Sports Complex, Shah Alam. We received compliments that the sports event has been held more smoothly and systematically. However, we didn’t expect much less crowd turned up this year compared to last year.

Anyway, I learned something important that, relationship is equally, if not more, important that the results we strive to achieve, be it in business, office or social work. Through working together in the committee, we not only worked together to achieve our organizational goal, but we also developed friendship and relationship.

As I heard from a speaker before, we can know how many seeds there are in an apple. But we do not know how many apples can come out of one seed. Our relationship with others is like the seed. We may do great things together for now. But without a good relationship, we may not be able to do great things together many times. It is no use that we do great things now but our relationship with colleagues deteriorates as a result of working together.

When I was younger, I tended to go for results no matter what, even at the expense of relationship with others. When working for one company, I remember being a busybody to always give suggestions to reform the business process of the company, to the extent of hurting relationship with others especially my boss. As a result, I lost out in office politics and was nearly fired from the job.

Good relationship is vital in our life. Let’s turn a committee into a community. Let’s turn our office into a fellowship of humans who love and care for one another. Of course, oftentimes we need to start from ourselves first.

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Apr 25 2008

Web Development For Sports Event

Published by Ricky under Projects, Sports

Recently I was given the privilege to develop a web site for a sports carnival event in which I am an organizing committee member. It is a yearly event where teams compete in various sports, carnival stalls to provide food, games and fun, and many other goodies. I had to burn my midnight oil to finish it in just a few days!

Here is a technical summary of the web site:

  • It is a combination of blog and web application.
  • The blog allows for online collaboration by several authors.
  • The web application allows online registration for sport teams and carnival stalls.
  • SMS is used to send automated acknowledgment and reminders to members.
  • There is a hidden panel for administrator to glean information and retrieve summary.
  • The whole web site was developed using WordPress, PHP and MySQL.

Among other things experienced include:

  • This is the first time where registration for the sports event is done by means of Internet only.
  • A blog site is different from a conventional hierarchical web site, not only technically and but in concept as well. A blog requires us to think differently on how a web site works and how to use it.
  • Blog is superb for online collaboration by many authors at the same time. This is moving from the old kind of working where one designer does all the updates.
  • Blog is almost instantly indexed and updated in Google! :-)

Next year the web site is going to be reused. In addition, we are going to have online payment as well!

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