Posts from ‘October, 2009’

The realisation that I have been becoming a less confident person, in some aspects, is not entirely new. It is more evidently felt when I am engaging people, or set myself on some new task – assignments that may not be altogether alien to my experience. It is an unpleasant realisation, made worse knowing that [...]

For most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised… It will remain no more than a hope carried over from childhood, or a dream entertained as we drive along a motorway and feel our plans hovering above the horizon. Extraordinary resilience, intelligence and good fortune are needed to redraw the [...]

It’s been a heck of a week and more. My portfolio during this period could not have been any more varied: graphics designer, photographer, PR manager, personal assistant, driver, tour guide, nature guide. Appearances ranged from field trip garb, business executive look (Mom has been tremendously pleased), hiking boots, heels, flats, shorts, skirts, business jackets, [...]

An encounter at a petrol kiosk yesterday marked the near-end of my liaison officer-ing stint.
I was waiting in line at the cashier’s when the lady in front of me, upon hearing of a promotion for peanut cereal bars, asked the sales assistant to hold off swiping her credit card. She stood by the side [...]

It feels as if our normal lives have been put on hiatus since the previous week. It is finally here, and we’re keeping the show running, fuelled by reserves of adrenaline.

She looked up from the book and said, ‘What?’ and I said it again: ‘Only the mockingbird sings at the edge of the woods.’
She pursed her lips. ‘It’s like the words I just read, isn’t it? It makes you feel something and you don’t know what it is.’
~ Walter Tevis, Mockingbird

It’s Blog Action Day today. I’m not going to talk about climate change per se, since I’ve recently been accused of writing ‘too much like a scientist’ (no, not on my blog… never on my blog, I hope) and I can’t really talk about climate change (you know, CO2, atmospheric gases and all that. But [...]

While troubleshooting my recent GChat connectivity woes, I was examining and scrutinising every little corner of my FireFox browser. Gradually I came to notice that while surfing my blog pages, mysterious calls to ‘dg.specificclick.net’ were being made.
First reaction was: spyware!!
I Googled it, and traced it back to… Sitemeter, a popular statistics tracking service [...]