Another visit to Samar last week with Cara, Linda and Sara saw me being an honorary girl for the evening, plenty of shisha and a rare evening out for me. Dinner Club turned into Small-Cute-But-Bitey-Dog Club with Sarah, Maryanne and Sooty - the latter being the small cute but bitey dog. She's only a few months old, bless ( Read more... )

Suffering an overdose of cute today, with Colleague Appreciation Day. Picture the scene: a giggle of six-to-eight year old Singaporean girls (and I believe "a giggle" is the correct plural), wandering round the office selling either chocolates or flowers (proceeds to charity, obviously) so you can demonstrate how much your colleagues mean to you. I ( Read more... )

Attempting to rise above post-holiday blues I wandered along to Samar, near Arab Street, for a very different Wednesday night out with Matt, Lucy, Maryanne, Rob and Zoe. It's a strict halal restaurant, so no alcohol but plenty of fabulous Middle Eastern food and shisha and lounging on cushions on the floor. Extremely chilled out evening, followed ( Read more... )

Rather pleasant weekend spent entirely out of the office (I know, I know, they were powering the building off so I couldn't go on) wherein I had my team over for supper on Saturday evening. Recipe for the evening was simple: take three Indians and one Indonesian and feed them home-cooked vegetarian Mexican with wraps and nachoes and the like. It ( Read more... )

Thanks to people for their comments and emails; I shall reply to the latter over the weekend but they have cheered me up no end ( Read more... )

It seems I am falling into bad habits, dear readers, not having posted anything for two weeks - I can only apologise and reassure you that I am still here, albeit a wee bit busy! Entirely unsurprisingly work is primarily responsible, with silly hours in play, conference calls that need to include London and New York and a fairly aggressive level of ( Read more... )

We have opportunities for people with skillsets covering Oracle, VB, C#, C++, Java and most especially Perl out here in Singapore. We are looking for experienced people, locally or willing to relocate - and I believe relocation costs will be covered

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You may have noticed a certain silence on here, my friends - or at least a reduction in volumes of whittering. If you did you may have deduced that work is pretty hectic and you would be correct in that deduction. It's not all work, however ( Read more... )

Among the melodic ultra-light pop ballards of Katie Mehlua is a track entitled "There Are Nine Million Bicycles In Beijing" that tries to capture some of the soul of that city. In Ha Noi, which is where I spent the Easter weekend, there are two million motorbikes and they serve equally well as a metaphor for the passion, craziness and vibrancy of ( Read more... )

Yesterday saw a most marvellous fifteen hour day; tonight has me dialing in for a meeting with London and New York at 22:00 and tomorrow at 23:00. Thank $Deity for Daylight Savings else it would be an hour later!