Attempting to understand why companies work in such a ridiculous manner is not helped by the occassional early morning call currently needed to fully disentangle ourselves from Singapore ( Read more... )

So. Living in Greenwich, where our temporary flat courtesy of work is, is fairly much full of rar. Coming back the the UK in the midst of a cold snap has been, ahem, interesting to say the least. Suffering second hand jet lag from the cats, bless their black furry hearts, was unexpected... As was finding out that my new boss has left the firm on my ( Read more... )

Contract came through Friday, so plans for our imminent return now moving at speed, on track for 1st February! Excitement is building as we wrangle kitten-shippers, international packing teams, my successor for the current role, new boss, taxmen at either end, letting agents in three incarnations and so forth. Plus sort out a final Orphans ( Read more... )

As some of you will have seen on Facebook, Gill and I got engaged on on recent fly-away trip to Venice. We were properly romantic and everything - with sunsets, bended knees and small bridges over canals being involved. Not set a date or a venue, but likely to happen when we're back in the UK next year :)

Ring

01 Apr 2011: Living in a four-bedroom terrace house with euphuistica and two cats, in the middle of 'The Heartlands', Singapore's equivalent of suburbia. Thirty-three. As is common here, on a two-year rental. Working for the same multi-national investment bank I've been with for coming up to ten years, running a team of twenty software engineers and with a ( Read more... )

Is London-bound. Already miss her and would like to extend advance thanks to those ensuring she has a fabulous time

Firstly, let me point you fine folk at war_poetry, a community I started some years ago solely for people to post occasional poems on. It's still running, filled with mostly people I don't know and moderated by someone who took over the baton - these fit it's purpose entirely, to be somewhere for shared glances

Secondly, as pointed out by scatterbeetle and my cousin-in- ( Read more... )

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... )

Dining at a fancy sake and sushi restaurant called Chiharu a week or so back, euphuistica and I were presented with the following extremely pretty sake bottle:


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Evening readers, it has been some time since my last post so a plethora of flotsam and jetsam to sort through from my brain

Work: Am moving internally come 1st August, back to a technical role. Greenfield team, with fifteen to twenty staff to hire. Greenfield project, with an interesting mixture of vendor and self-build. Stepping stone, with the ( Read more... )