Posts from ‘August, 2007’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Things are happening so quickly, I can’t keep up with ‘em on my blog!

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 [...]