My boss passed me some leads this morning for our Bangkok conference in October. As I was sifting through the stack of business cards, I came across this one:
Try saying it quickly 3 times! I wonder if he (I think this one’s a he) ever has enough boxes on those forms when filling out his [...]
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After spending 4 nights in Jakarta, I’d like to share with all of you the memorable observations/experiences from this dynamic city.
Always start and end the trip with some local food. Thanks to a former uni-class mate I got to taste Sate Babi, and some Bakut without the teh. It’s ribs in some “kiam chye” soup [...]
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Come Monday I’ll be in Jakarta for business trip part 3 of 6 for 2009. I’m happy ‘cos
Jakarta is just 2 hours by plane
I’m staying only for 4 nights
The kek lapis rawks
Super Cheapo DVDs (according to Peanut’s mom—Mangga2 rite???)
I realised [...]
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I have nothing against forwarded emails. Yes, occasionally I get chain letters (omg so yesterday can??) and also some middle aged man trying to give me his life savings of USD 10 million cos he’s dying wtf . I must however say that some forwarded emails come across as inspiration to add colour to one’s [...]
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I get this question quite often, and I always find it hard to explain in one sentence. So to all the Doctors, Accountants, Travel Agents, Teachers, Consultants, Pharmacists, Project Managers, Software Developers, Architects, Policemen, Lawyers, Engineers, Pilots, PAs, Journalists, Receptionists, Tea-Ladies (insert all possible obvious-in-your-face job titles here) be thankful cos you don’t have a [...]
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I’ve been working on the blog post of our weekend adventure in Paris, but it’s been taking longer than expected. I think it’s because I’m trying to watch back episodes of Emergency Unit and trying to get to the finale before Astro cuts the transmission of it this weekend.
I would like to make a statement [...]
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It’s 4.30 am, I’m awake and I decided to write this blog entry to kill time.
Finally, I’ve arrived in Dakar, Senegal. Located on the westernmosttip of Africa, the journey took me through Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, car-transferred to Orly airport, before we hopped on to an Air Senegal flight to get here. All in [...]
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Ah, tonite I’ll be leaving for an extremely long trip to Dakar, Senegal. Not really crazy about the number of hours we need to get there, but more excited about the short stopover in Paris where Dave will join me next Friday. I’m also looking forward to a week away from the incompetent colleague (who’s [...]
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In this time and age, I still find myself having to write official letters at work for speaker invitations. There’s two sides of the spectrum, either for formality sake OR they just don’t have email. Sad but true, some developing countries still have very very limited spread of internet accessibility. In personal matters as well, [...]
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