4823. TRAVEL STORIES BY DR SING K Y. Adding value to your employer's services. 2 case studies.

TRAVEL STORIES BY DR SING K Y.
Adding value to your employer's services. 2 case studies.

 

Macau
Aug 22, 2012

EMPLOYEES WHO ADD VALUE TO THEIR EMPLOYERS - Tourist Guide and Gondola singers

This is my first one-night stay at The Venetian Macao but my 2nd visit. 

 

I had a beautiful view of the new competitor, Galaxy Integrated Resort, from my 30th floor window, South Wing. The view just reminds me that competition increases over time and there will be better equipped and richer competitors to beat the incumbent as well as taking business away from the smaller players. 

 

 The Venetian Macao has many tourist attractions especially the enclosed shopping area with branded fashion shops and an artificial sky and so tour groups have something to show the visitors. The new Galaxy Macau across the road has laser shows of crystals and singers performing on the stage inside the casinos.

 Galaxy Macau Hotel provides 20 minutes free wireless internet access in its surroundings ground floor and a bus service to and from The Venetian Macao to its place across the road. The Venetian Macao charges $160/hour internet access in the room and does not provide complimentary wireless internet services unlike Hotel Panorama in Hong Kong. The Hotel Panorama is a 4-star hotel which charges $100/hour in the room but has free unlimited access in its lobby.

In this visit, I have some pictures of employees who add value to their employers. 

 

CASE STUDY 1.  One example is the Macau tour guide I saw in the Venetian Macao. She was my Hong Kong guide during my last 2 visits to Macau. It was such a coincidence that I saw her snapping pictures for her tour group in the Venetian Macao in which she would bring tourists to view. 

 

Tour guides need not bother volunteering photography for clients but she knew that the whole group would not be able to have a group photography without her. So she snapped photos for the group and for individuals.


CASE STUDY 2. At the Venetian Macao, I heard loud singing from some of the gondola rowers as they work at making the boat experience enjoyable. I don't hear singing amongst the original gondola rowers in Venice or those at the Marina Bay Sands Singapore. The audience clapped their hands in appreciation in this case.

 
In the end, it is still the service and performance of the employees that count in sustaining the business. Provided the new businesses don't go bankrupt due to lack of revenues and capital to survive the start up period.  Managing the talented employees is not easy as experienced ones are "in demand."

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4822. VIDEO RECORD. National Fitness Challenge. Walking OVER 20,000 steps in a day in Hong Kong

TRAVELS HONG KONG
VIDEO of HPB FITNESS TRACKER

 

27 May 2023. Hong Kong travel. Arrived at Hong Kong International Airport. Clocked 20,475 steps walking for the day sight-seeing Hong Kong. No leg muscle cramps as I had been walking an average of 5,000 steps in Singapore for the few days prior to travel to Hong Kong.

If not conditioned to long walks, the person will get upper thigh muscle cramps in the medial areas and calf muscle cramps walking over 20,000 steps in a day of sight-seeing. 

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4821. Photography tip: The National Steps Challenge. HPB Fitness Tracker.

The National Steps Challenge™ is the world’s first population level, fitness tracker-based physical activity initiative that encourages Singaporeans to move more.

A HPB fitness tracker and the Healthy 365 mobile application encourage and rewards the Singaporean population to move more.

PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Use tripod.
Canon R5, Tripod, AV Mode, f/11, ISO 400, 0.8 sec
28 May 2023, 11.24pm

Photography Tip: Use a tripod to get sharp image. A smartphone's tripod can be used, but this image is from Canon R5, tripod, AV Mode set to f/11 and ISO 400. The shutter speed was 0.8 sec

 

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4820. Photographing a fluttering butterfly

The Common Rose butterfly sips honey at 1 pm in the public garden outside Double Cove Starview condo in Wu Kai Sha, Ma On Shan town, Hong Kong.

PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Use TV Mode and tripod. Rapid fluttering of wings. 1.56 pm 28 May 2023.
Canon R5, Tripod is necessary. TV, 1/1000 sec, f/4.5, AUTO ISO (ISO 500 in actual setting).

 

The butterfly just appeared and posed for me on 28 May, as if she knew I am looking to photograph butterflies in Hong Kong. Butterflies are rare, just as in Singapore, in urban gardens and under the hot afternoon sun.

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4819. TRAVELS HONG KONG. Prevent sarcopenia via exercises

PHOTO:   The Magnificent Five prevents Sarcopenia via exercises

Sat 27 May 2023, 7.40 am, Hong Kong
AV f/4.0 ISO 200, 1/1250 sec

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4818. Airport Express Hong Kong

HONG KONG - 27 MAY 2023: The Airport Express stops at Tsing Yi Station stop. With the Airport Express, the journeys between the Airport and downtown Hong Kong take approximately 24 minutes.

4817. Travels Hong Kong. Seven-Eleven at Hong Kong Airport is very busy at 6.38 am

HONG KONG - 27 MAY 2023. A very busy Seven-Eleven outlet at Hong Kong Airport at 6.38 am. Tourist arrivals have surged since relaxation of Covid-19 travel curbs.

PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Canon R5, AV Mode, F/11, ISO 400, 1/10 sec. Focus on face of young lady in white.

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4816. Photography tip. Police standee

 

 PHOTOGRAPHY TIP. Police standee using iPhone 11 at night

Woodlands South MRT Convenience Store
25 May 2023, 9 pm, iPhone 11 & photoshop. Focus on eyesPhoto of cap is slightly grainy.

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4815. IMMUNOLOGY. Auto-immune disease. Thyroid.

 

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TREATMENT

Treatment is said to be the autoimmune medicine - Myfortic

4814. Phobia of lizards

 25 May 2023 Morning Walk. THE LIZARD.   

"Don't move, there's a lizard!" the Indian father shouted to his daughter ahead of him and pulled the leash of the dog. I was looking for a lizard in this public garden near to Lentor MRT Station but it is uncommon. I looked at the father and son frozen like statues, through the gap of the leaves of the plants from the other side. I couldn't see any lizard from my side.

When they left, I went to the same location to try to photograph the lizard. None was seen.

This girl of around 8 years old will be frightened of lizards for life owing to the father's actions.

"No chance of photograhing a lizard today," I said to myself. I packed up my tripod gear and looked one more time at a tree trunk in front of me. I can't believe it. There is a young lizard basking in the sun!