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At last count, it’s three. (Who cares about passports and money? :P) One geek to collect all our laptops and put them in the safe. Two geeks to take photos of our laptops in the safe. And …
Had a great dinner with my SCGS girlfriends on Friday at La Forketta at Dempsey Road. We had a lot to catch up on. We called another schoolmate long-distance to wish her happy birthday as well, as that was the...
I’m fine with Maria Sharapova as a tennis player, apart from the shrieking. Now I’m more ingrigued to learn that Maria has now turned to her fans for advice online, since this smells of We …
Here are the winners. Activism: World Without Oil Amusement: Elf Yourself Art: Viscosity From what the winner said, this started as an experiment with mixtures of liquids Blog: Passive-Aggressive Notes The winner was inspired by her room mate and dog....
I received many questions from classmates wanting good, cheap, convenient massages in Singapore. My answer was usually that the ones in town aren’t that cheap and they’re better off gettin …
A classmate of mine asked me last night, “So how is R———?” (full name of my INSEAD alum boyfriend) I said, “Oh, how did you know his name?” She said she asked another classmate, who did no …
This is a belated post on the Sony VAIO launch this Thursday. I think other bloggers have covered the main specs of the new Z, FW and SR laptops and talked about how VAIO is being redefined, so I...
Had a great dinner with my SCGS girlfriends on Friday at La Forketta at Dempsey Road. We had a lot to catch up on. We called another schoolmate long-distance to wish her happy birthday as well, as that was the...
User-generated ideas for Starbucks. The way to go.Saved By: Vanessa Tan | View Details | Give ThanksTags: crowdsourcing, coffee, marketing, web 2.0
This year’s INSEAD ball theme was Red Dot, which represents Singapore. It all began when an Indonesian politician said Singapore was just a little red dot. Somehow the name stuck and it do …
One of my favourite acid jazz songs is ‘Everybody Loves The Sunshine’. As a beginner to acid jazz in my university days, I listened to compilation CDs and thought the song was written by T …
This morning, I intend to: Wake up at 7am or latest, 7.30am after taking lolling-around time into account Run on the treadmill to burn off fat accumulated from consuming too much German beer and sausages Shower and get my hair...
Since I’ve announced my MBA plans, I’ve been approached by a number of people asking me to freelance while studying. My answer to this is: No. There simply isn’t enough time, even if the w …
Just saw this when I logged into Facebook. Maybe Mark Zuckberg did listen to the hisses at SXSW initially meant for him (before the audience turned on the journalist for being more annoying). Check out the new privacy page and...
I was invited to the launch of the new HP Pavilion dv2 Series Entertainment Notebook PC at Supperclub. Make that two notebooks actually, one in black and one in white. Which do you prefer? White. Black. Backlit keyboard. Separate Blu-Ray...
Over the past couple of weeks I have been asked numerous times about my plans for the future, why I’ve made certain decisions and whether these plans can be reconsidered. My plans have bee …
I and many other journalists and bloggers have the chance to get up close and personal with this forthcoming iPaq Business Messenger model… If all goes well I will attempt to take photos a …
Mack Collier (The Viral Garden), Kami Huyse (Principl, My PR Pro), Mario Sundar (Community Evangelist, LinkedIn), Lionel Menchaca (Dell) The Dell blog was first conceived in April 2006 and Michael Dell himself was involved. 48% of the commentary about Dell...
Wilkins, Adaptive Path. organizations tend to see customers too generically. But customers are not all the same. There not always rational or predictable. Organizations think people just w …
I was driving out of the Sheraton Towers car park last evening and it took a while for the system to deduct the fee from my In-Vehicle Unit (IU). [To those not from Singapore, this is a device used in...




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