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It took us three years to teach Banjo how to say ‘good morning’ in Japanese. He doesn’t like Jap, but picks up Cantonese, English and Mandarin real fast. Thus little did we expect him to come up with up so many variations of a combination of the English “good morning!” and the Japanese “ohayo!” within [...]
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Montaigne:
A quarter of an ounce of endurance can provide for such discomforts. I find that the remedy which works for me is, from the outset, to purchase my freedom at the cheapest price I can get; I know that I have by this means escaped much travail and hardship. With very little effort I [...]
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It took me 40 minutes to place an order for home delivery from Pizza Hut. I called twice. Thrice, actually. The third time only because my sis insisted. By then I was already filling in a feedback form on their website, and was looking into alternatives for dinner.
The first time I called, I was [...]
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While at Borders the bookshop -
Elderly Caucasian woman: Excuse me, sorry, could you tell me how much this book costs?
And she hands a book over to a young man, who takes it, looks it over, amused, and points to the price label. Politeness getting the better of him, he reads it out.
Man: It’s [...]
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Socials, meet ups, talks, and the outdoors. What a fulfilling week… that has now cumulated in quite a number of tasks on my plate.
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A couple of days ago, I attended a talk by CSR Asia on the findings of their recent survey on business and stakeholder perceptions of CSR, based on [...]
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Recently I had the chance to do one of these tests. I thought I recalled doing them (or something similar) when I was younger, but since I was still young and innocent then, I hadn’t a clue if I was what the type description said I was. I did a search online to find out [...]
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Things are happening so quickly, I can’t keep up with ‘em on my blog!
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Sometimes you really wonder if there is a God, or a higher being, who is setting things in motion, or are the forces of fate and such that strong, if you believe they exist. How everything seems to come together, one coincidence after another, when timings, happenings, and people and events are fitting together almost [...]
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I find that the more I engage in finding out about CSR in the region… the more people I speak to - both young and old, student or CEO - and the more views I gather from all around, the more difficult it is to come to any solid conclusions for my thesis. Maybe [...]
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This time… for returning home even later than the previous night…
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I believe I’ve broken a number of records these few days:
Most number of consecutive hours spent outside the house (while I’m in Singapore)
And thus most number of consecutive hours spent off-line (while I’m in Singapore)
Most number of hands shaken and people met and new friends made
Most number of words I’ve said and [...]
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On “Insights to Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia: YOUth Speak!”
Went for the first event tonight - a networking reception dinner. First impressions - not that bad. Good company, people whom I could associate with more than I could those who attended the Business for the Environment Summit a while back! In contrast to the [...]
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When my MSN auto-replies, it usually means what it says. Unless I have 1) just gotten online and have not had the chance to re-set my status, or 2) fallen asleep in front of my laptop, which is a rare occurrence.
But what I mean by I ‘can’t get out’ is not that.
I have even [...]
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One thing I wished Word would include in the many oh-[they-think-they’re]-so-useful features is a word count that continually displays and updates itself. Somewhere visible on the toolbars or status bar, perhaps. It does indeed exist: the irony is that it is Macintosh’ers who have the luxury of enabling it in their Word:Mac by ticking a [...]
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the [...]
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I thought I could feel the excitement in the atmosphere this National Day, more so than I did for Christmas in Singapore. At least, people don’t go about wearing green and red on that special day in December, but today the streets were full of proud Singaporeans dressed in red and white. Even my sis [...]
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When I came across two arthropod types this evening in my apartment, I had no idea what they were. The one from the kitchen hit me as particularly isopody, somewhat termite-ish, but not entirely. I have ‘left’ the ecological sciences alone for so long that I had almost forgotten which order the termites belonged to. [...]
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On the morning of the 1st of August I joined the Singapore Scouts at their HQ in a simple ceremony in renewing our Promise. Little did I expect scouts from other countries - UK and Australia - to be present as well, and in their uniforms! Had a chance to talk to the Chief Commissioner, [...]
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