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Don't send in the clones
From the New York Times:
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: August 10, 2010
WASHINGTON
For a time in college, I shared a dorm suite with three other girls.
We food shopped and ate dinner together but always squabbled over what groceries to buy. It got to the point where the only food we could agree on was corn, so that was what we got.
This upset my mother, ( Read more... ) -
The pursuit of happyness
From the New York Times:
But Will It Make You Happy?
By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM
Published: August 7, 2010
She had so much.
A two-bedroom apartment. Two cars. Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people.
Yet Tammy Strobel wasn’t happy. Working as a project manager with an investment management firm in Davis, Calif., and making about $40,000 a year, she ( Read more... ) -
Joke of the day
Army friend: I went for my company retreat last week..... oh yeah we don't call them retreat now. We call them advance.
K: Huh? What? As in you went for your company's "advance" last week?
AF: Yes.
K: Why?
AF: Because we don't retreat. We advance.
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Upper management getting very creative these days lol..... -
Honesty, honestly, not the best policy
Came across a speech , given at to the graduating class of 2008 at the NTU convocation by Adrian Tan, the author of The Teenage Textbook (1988).
One particular line caught my attention. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences.
I had never thought about it that way before, associating honesty/candour with immaturity.
I'm ( Read more... ) -
Friend Fail
I was out with NS friend and he was telling me he was determined to go on vacation at the end of this year because he had 18 days of leave to clear (his annual leave is 18 days!) and his previous plans to go overseas have been thwarted repeatedly ( Read more... ) -
Clueless boss
Had a meeting with my boss cos I wanted to explain to him how I was involved in a recent spate of rather unfortunate mistakes. (I was instrumental but entirely incidental to the mistakes ( Read more... ) -
I iz tenor!
Watching Glee made me want to sing (even more than usual), so I decided to check out a choral group today. Of course I had to tame my expectations that this was going to be Glee.
When we started out, S played some notes and told me to sing along to gauge my range, whether I'm tenor or bass. I thought I would be relegated to playing the bass as I ( Read more... ) -
The Great Singapore Male Sale
Had a long talk with KC over the phone Tues night, til around 1.30. It was about my singlehood status and selling myself.
You should get a more funky hairstyle. You should dress up better, wear nicer shirts. You know our circle is very superficial one.
I don't have the hair follicles to style. And while I will not be appearing on best-dressed lists, ( Read more... )
