One thing I’ve talked a fair bit about with my friends and colleagues lately is blood types. It is true that some people – some “cultures” to be exact – take blood types very seriously. Children in countries such as Japan and Korea, for example, grow with the various personality stereotypes (allegedly) associated with the [...]
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File: Life Outside Work
Here’s documentary evidence of the fact that life isn’t fair: “Once there was a man who went out early in the morning to hire some men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard. He went out [...]
Today I watched City of Angels (1998) for the first time. Here are a couple of interesting dialogues that I thought I’d jot down: Seth: What’s that like? What’s it taste like? Describe it, like Hemingway. Maggie: Well, it tastes like, uh, a pear. You don’t know what a pear tastes like? Seth: I don’t [...]
I found a song with the most cheerful flute interlude EVER: Why don’t we take a little piece of summer sky, hang it on a tree / For that’s the way to start to make a pretty world for you and for me / And for the sun we’ll find a lemon bright balloon, you [...]
While project management is not my job description, I acknowledge that it is a sensitive subject that plays a major role in determining the profitability of a team, particularly in a vendor environment where the team provides services to an external client. In a small project where its size does not warrant a dedicated project [...]
31 March: It’s been almost a day five days. I don’t understand how a government that’s technically been in war for the past sixty years is not able to determine the nature let alone origin of an attack that sank its navy patrol ship near the northern maritime border where almost half of the 104 [...]
Human Target, for those who don’t know, is a new TV series about a mercenary and his supporting crew (a private firm) tasked with a variety of low-key missions involving things like industrial espionage, rescue, treasure-hunting, and world peace. The show seems to be gaining popularity around the world, and from what I can see, [...]
Reviewed: Shutter Island / Green Zone / Haeundae Shutter Island As I told a friend of mine (without spoiling it, but her other friend then kindly spoilt the fun for her), this film had me completely fooled right till the end – and beyond. That’s because even after learning the shocking yet inevitable truth, I [...]
For well over the past 72 hours, I’ve had this one tune stuck in my head. I knew it was from my Michael Bublé collection but thought I’d look it up knowing that it was a remake of a hit from many decades ago as are most of his other songs. Compared with the countless [...]
I have been a fan of LOST since the beginning. I was in Fiji when the first season came out in 2004. I am still not able to pinpoint what it was that got me hooked; perhaps it was the “fact” that Oceanic Flight 815 was flying somewhere “near Fiji” when it went missing. Finally, [...]