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Taking a slice of the China pie
So the rush for goldmine that’s China hasn’t really ebbed despite its weakening economy and expected slower growth this year – and the country’s countless failings, from the perspective of the western world at least. A recent proof of this is the New York Times’ launch this week of a Chinese language website, targeting the country’s “growing number of educated, affluent, [...]
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Baston
June 17 was an important day for my family. No, it wasn’t exactly a happy occasion but all the same my family back home got together to celebrate Father’s Day and what should have been the 95th birthday of our patriarch. While they did so, I was working away on a Sunday. Not that I [...]
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Link In the hacker
I’m glad I don’t have a LinkedIn account because if I had, I would have likely used “1234″ in my password Just kidding. I guess by now the leakage of 6.5 million (gasp!) LinkedIn passwords is old news. But what grabbed my attention recently was the news that “link” was apparently the most commonly used word in [...]
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Foolish things we do on Facebook
While Facebook has done a lot to get people connecting and reconnecting, sharing, networking, and even marketing and selling, it has also become a fertile ground for loss of privacy, embarrassment and irritation. In some extreme cases, it has led to harassment and even crimes, but let’s not go to that. With so much to [...]
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“Touch it, dude!”
I couldn’t help stealing this photo from the New York Times website. It was taken at the White House three years ago when a former US marine was leaving the White House staff and had his family photo taken with the US President. The boy in the photo, named Jacob, just wanted to ask if [...]
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Another turn
For the past two weeks now, my little one would meet me at the gate at the end of each working day blurting out, “Happy birthday, mama!”, and then she’d start singing it loud. She does it to her papa as well, but it strikes a chord only with me ‘cos I’m the only one [...]
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A tree sentiment
I had to miss my Sat late afternoon jogging routine for more than three months for various reasons, ie working weekends, busy trying to be a hands-on mom, holiday back home, or just plain laziness. When I finally was able to convince myself to get on my running shoes again, my heart sank when I [...]
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Ramos-Horta and moi
I’ve never worked in mainstream media or covered politics, so meeting a country president, in this case Timor-Leste’s Jose Ramos-Horta, was a first. Well I did get a chance to meet Mr S. R. Nathan before he stepped down as Singapore president. It wasn’t a close encounter though but at an event. And the only [...]
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Homophobia and GMG
Below is one really interesting piece on a touchy subject. Not only because of the human interest factor and I never thought such a thing could be explained by some empirical evidence – but also because it’s amazing how anything can now be studied and explained scientifically. There are even studies now on what, if [...]
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