Posts from ‘March, 2007’

I have a knack for falling ill every time I return home…
It might have been that long flight back… those red-eye flights during which my nose would start protesting and the sinus problems would all surface. Or it might have been those philosophical and religious thoughts that tossed my mind about - that nifty [...]

Montaigne (1587-88):
I am obliged to fortune for having so often assaulted me with the same sort of weapons; she forms and fashions me by use, hardens and habituates me, so that I can know within a little for how much I shall be quit. For want of natural memory, I make one of paper; [...]

So in the paper, I dealt with climate change in the context of international businesses, and the effectiveness of environmental management systems and strategies. Ah yes, and writing up executive summaries for the evaluation of Vodafone’s annual and corporate social responsibility reports.
The guys went to the pub afterwards, whilst some of us girls preferred [...]

It’s the specialist option exams tomorrow.
Why do I feel like I know so much and yet so little?
It’ll almost be like writing articles for the The Economist impromptu. Bah - if only we’re as skilled and as half as entertaining. Haven’t decided if it being open book actually helps or if that only adds to [...]

From some time ago:

To those sneaky characters from Republic Medical - get back to work *cracks whip* ‘else I’ll get Sephe to hit you with a Prada shoe!

Initially, I had planned on swapping my laptop’s hard drive with another 120GB HDD, thus giving me more space and allowing me to use a dual-boot Windows-Linux OS. I wanted to do that after the exams. My system was due for a reformat anyway… it was bogged down by malware and no matter which anti-spyware/malware/virus [...]

I have faded out of existence within the Singaporean community, but that doesn’t matter… there are few people left there whom I know, and a few I can still get into a genuine conversation with. The rest are just faces. It’s deja vu - what I blogged about last year. The only time I can [...]