Happy New Year! It is now 2015. 2014 has come and passed. It's had its ups and downs -- as had every other year preceding; and as will every other year succeeding, though in many ways this year has had a little more of the latter than the former. As with the start of every... Continue Reading →
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Attributed to Augustine of Hippo, the quote above reignited latent wanderlust. If I had to be honest though, as much as I like the idea of Travel, the execution of the act of Travelling is very different. Alain de Botton,... Continue Reading →
Ah, it's been a while since I last published anything here. Feel a little guilty, but thankfully not too much. Crazy work commitments in the months prior (man, I've been busy) followed by a two week holiday (to America!) meant I couldn't devote as much time as I'd have liked to writing here. Which reminds... Continue Reading →
It's been such a long time since I last wrote anything here (blame the whole ____load of work that's been coming in; hint: sounds like "ship") that I'm suddenly all self-conscious about it. It reminds me of a period of my life where I used to wear running shorts all the time. I wore them in... Continue Reading →
This is a beautiful talk, one that addresses something I'd felt strongly about since I started thinking seriously about my professional life back when I was studying at Temasek Polytechnic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKHTawgyKWQ I remember sitting in the lecture hall, listening to an entrepreneur who had been invited to speak to us business students. During the Q&A,... Continue Reading →
Tired and socially exhausted after a very nice company dinner (a common predicament for introverts), I was looking forward to some me-time on the taxi home. But it was not to be -- the taxi driver was a little chattier than I'd hoped. Having seen me catch his taxi amongst a group of foreigners whom presumably were my colleagues... Continue Reading →
People watching used to be a favourite hobby of mine. Sitting at a café, observing without judging. Then technology came along. And I don't observe people so much anymore. I mean, you can't observe both the screen and the people around you, can you? A real pity, really. Technology has filled all those little spaces... Continue Reading →
I read a post by Alex Tabarrok today, regarding school safety in his son's school (via the Marginal Revolution blog) today. The post is really a letter that he'd written to his son's school principal, regarding the introduction of security guards and cameras. From the post (emphasis mine): When going to school requires police, security guards and cameras how... Continue Reading →
As we approach the end of the year and the beginning of the next, I've started thinking about resolutions and how I might make 2014 different (and better!) from all the other years I've had (almost 30 now). 2013 hasn't been the best. And though I wish I could say to you, "I won't bore... Continue Reading →
I just realised that I haven¹t announced that I achieved my IPPT Gold last Saturday. Third one in three years. Full points for all three too. I almost make it seem easy. But the fact is, it was anything but. For the past couple of months I've been training really hard for this and the... Continue Reading →
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