As I posted previously, I'm changing role at work. Aside from the pressure-lifting sense of having pulled my parachute, what's been most interesting has been other people's reactions: from the people who've immediately asked if I have any open headcount to the mutterings of abandonment to the rapid exclusion from certain meetings (which is partly ( Read more... )

On Tuesday I saw Muse at Fort Canning Park; seriously sublime prog-rock in a pseudo-ampitheatre on a hot and humid night surrounded by good people. It could only have been better if there had been members of the London coterie and a sky less washed with civilisation's wasted light

As I walked into the venue they were playing Rage Against The ( Read more... )

Despite the craziness that was working from the London office it intensified on my return. With intense pressue to deliver the project my team has been working on since March (since completed) and juggling coursework (badly), I'd not been out much. Some fragments, for your consumption

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Previously, on "Adventures In A White Linen Suit", our intrepid Englishman was seen mulling over scars of the past on the banks of the River Kwai. We rejoin him several hours later, having being dropped back in Bangkok, showered and ready to face the night...

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After eight months and a serious number of hours we have delivered the enhanced version of the application I support, re-written from the ground up, to system test. After one week of testing 99% of the issues being raised are either cosmetic fixes or changes in scope ( Read more... )

All of the AEs aside from me have short hair. Really short hair, in fact. Unsurprisingly therefore they have been threatening to shave my head for the past six months ( Read more... )

For somewhere that's just had a military coup Thailand is far too chilled out; for me it was a box of marvels:

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Random culture has been the theme for the past couple of weeks, with doses of film, theatre, high dining and the IMF. Watched the most excellently unpolished Series 7 with Matt, Sarah and Maryanne a couple of weekends back - Big Brother meets Running Man in a far more believable fashion

Gathered a posse last weekend for The Forbidden City at The ( Read more... )

As promised some weeks back, a few brief pen portraits of friends out here to provide some context for you, gentle readers:

• Christine was an intern in $Company in 2000 with me and joined in the same graduate intake. Fabulously fun, occassionaly stern and feared throughout the office by everyone except me it seems. Dating Rai
• Lucy (rightmost) escaped ( Read more... )

Cancellations and some progress on the project encouraged me to have two nights off this week - out on Friday to an ANZA pub night, meeting a bunch of people not connected to werk! Shocking! Random conversations on the nature of expats and pilots at La Cave in Chijmes - including a couple of people who were at last weekend's brunch at the Grand ( Read more... )