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What a bizarre week!  First my sister got hitched.  Then my old friend of more than a decade whom I have worked with officially made it to the partner’s rank in a major accounting firm just yesterday.  On the same day, I saw another old friend of mine whom I have also worked with featured in our [...]

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Hypothetically, if you knew that you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students?  It is an academic tradition of Professor Randy Pausch’s University to give a “last lecture” to the students except it was not just a tradition in his case; he is actually dying [...]

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Okay, I actually do like this hotel in Jakarta so I am going to put the logo instead in order to avoid the name being picked up by the search engine spiders. It is also my attempt to write something light and not so wordy. Hope you like it.
Last Monday, when I left Jakarta, I [...]

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No one should see his or her savings seized twice - once at prime age and another time at golden age. My poor aunt who is now in Paris was in Vietnam when the war was lost and witnessed all our family’s assets - pharmaceutical factory, tea plantations, shop houses, and etc. - seized by [...]

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Previously I wrote about my friend filing a police report against her ex-landlady for harassment. On the same day, her ex-landlady filed a S$1,000 small claim against my friend for something totally ridiculously trivial. Upon receiving the Notice of Consultation from the Small Claims Tribunal, my friend contacted me if I know of anyone in [...]

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Avid readers of my site know that I love my new home here. But, there are moments like tonight that I am not too proud of who I am. My friend shares the same birth town as me and she lived in Australia for a few good years. Just recently she has decided to try [...]

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Deep inside, I have always wanted Cynthia to have that long straight hair like the 99.99% of the female population found in the CBD area. I often think that majority of the population can’t be wrong. She did have her hair rebonded a couple of times and she never quite likes the damage done to [...]

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6am … funny I start my blog like the 1st song from the new Marilyn Manson album … oh where was I? Yes. Yesterday, I have received a text message from my buddy Kae Fong telling me that he and his friend have reached the Laban Rata Hut safely. 6am … this morning, I have [...]

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Today is Friday so let’s do something light, shall we? And let’s take a break from all the serious serious reviews.
So, what happens when happy people jog? Answer: You can certainly see their happy smiles from the back! That’s right. When Cynthia returned from her jogging one evening, I was shocked by what I have [...]

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7pm, my friend dropped me back in the office area after a tender presentation. I had my dinner and remembered that I need to buy some bathroom stuffs (thanks to the writings on my palm … literally). Picked up my stuffs and proceeded to counter. I greeted the shop assistance and not sure if she [...]

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