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Finally, Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination. At the start, he wasn’t expected to win. Hillary Clinton was viewed as the presumptive nominee. She had the Clinton name recog …
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 told that Ong Sor Fern wrote an opinion piece in the Straits Times (our national newspaper) today on how she never reads blogs but 'only published formats: newspapers, magazines and books'. This statement has been met with amusement...
At INSEAD, you can do two types of clubbing. Type one involves lots of loud music, sweaty bodies on the dancefloor, and alcohol. You may get pissed drunk, have a hangover and feel really tired the next day. You will...
We had a brief stopover in Bangkok en route to London. We landed at Heathrow Airport. Unfortunately it was at the old terminal, which was fully showing its age. The red carpet we stood on was so worn out, that...
A quick note to say I’m leaving for Austin soon. Last night I had a great dinner at Versaille in Los Angeles with my cousin and his wife, finally got to try out the wireless on my iPhone a …
i came, i saw, i Conquered. iPhone. I got the iPhone! from Vanessa Tan on Vimeo. Spending the past 2 days going from shop to shop and not finding the 16GB iPhone in stock was like an anticlimax. However after...
I will be in Southern China (Guangzhou and Xiamen) from 5-14 Jan. The first leg of the visit is with my mum and her relatives, as we tour Guangzhou where her ancestors came from. My dad and sis will join...
We had an interesting session with Steve Knight (formerly from the BBC). There were just 30 of us, so it was cosy. We were divided into 6 groups of 5, with exactly 1 girl per group. Apparently the turnout for...
I have been meeting up with many friends over the past month and thought I should list out my schedule here. It has been filling up rapidly. I have something on almost every day, until the end of July. And...
I was interested to hear about Google's OpenSocial API. They have cleverly stepped in to address the proliferation of social networks with different standards and made themselves the central connecting point. Despite the global popularity of sites such as MySpace...
I ordered a Mac OS Leopard family pack upgrade a few weeks ago and received two emails yesterday (26 Oct) telling me that Leopard would be shipped to my home by 26 Oct. Naturally I was very excited about it....
I and my housemate have settled down nicely in our little cottage in Samoreau, between a lake and the river Seine. Naturally if I ever waded into the river, you could rightfully call me ‘i …
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 …
“I am a Berliner.” That was President Kennedy’s famous line. Well, today I finally got to see what’s left of the Berlin Wall. I was a kid when it was knocked down, but it was a world event …
Alexander is attracted by my red-clad MacBook Pro, and ventures towards it. However, there is no fear! For MagSafe, protector of notebooks and small children, is here! Alexander meets MacBook Pro from Vanessa Tan on Vimeo....
Wilson Tan, who's been an advisor to the Dell blog since its launch, is coming home to Singapore. Dell gave him a glowing tribute on its blog. Wilson has been really dedicated to his clients. While I was at SXSW...
I am glad to report that Leopard finally arrived at my doorstep a day later than promised… but it made up for it by being so darned easy to install. I started with my iMac G5 and there were no...
We were deeply shocked and saddened to hear that Sue Hixson, a long-serving member of my church, passed away suddenly. She was travelling back to the US to be with her daughter, who was expecting her first child. She didn't...
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