Wikipedia says, this time of the year doesn’t augur well. For one, it was when a certain great ruler got snuffed out many centuries ago. Though not as common as Friday the 13th, for the more superstitious lot, the Ides of March is a metaphor for impending doom. Luckily, it bode well for the agency [...]
Entries from March 2007
7 March 2007
Turn to face the strange…
It’s that time of the year again when one contract ends and a new one lurks in the ether. Two years ago, I and my husband-partner signed up for a job here in Singapore, not really knowing what the next two years held for us. Two year ago, we were strangers with two suitcases, not [...]
1 March 2007
Lessons from Dave Barry
Stumbled on this while in stumbleupon mode. Funny and true. I so can relate to no. 2.
Fourteen Things That Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn by Dave Barry
Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why [...]
1 March 2007
Happy Pills
The past weeks have been a series of late nights and weekends spent in the office. I am not complaining. It’s my job and I consider myself lucky to be doing work that would (fingers-crossed) really help our little patch of green grow much bigger. It also was great fun working with the other guys [...]
1 March 2007
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Nope, I am not a week behind. Chinese New Year is a fifteen-day celebration, well, that’s as far as I know. Hee hee. Mike and I didn’t actually celebrate it here. The 6-day holiday break was a good excuse to fly to Manila and spend quality time with the doggies and the scooters. Didn’t get [...]
