My shoes died on Friday. Well in all honesty, they have been dying for a while. The leather sole had been repaired a few times,
I just watched the new action/adventure/comedy Losers and I was impressed. Overall the plot is refreshingly entertaining without being too light or too heavy. It has elements of good-old James Bond and A-Team (old version) styling. The plot is predictable at times and surprising at others.
This is …
Today we finally had our wedding day full of pomp and style. And high-stress induced tempers. Earlier on I wrote about how wedding planning is a good preparation for a couple's rest of their marriage together, but today I realized it is also an important stress-test. All those little conflicts and d…
Old-Style Coffee Shops like Old Town Coffee and Elephant Coffee are a hallmark of Malaysia and in many ways and variations Singapore as well. But such Coffee and food shops often seem stuck in the past with round granite tables and equally hard wooden stools. At best they offer wooden benches.
Thi…
My wife is a big fan of the Clarins skin-care brand. I am not really a skin-care person and I feel a lot of their claims are over-marketed, positioned and bent-reality to be believable. But, hey, she is my wife, and I doubt she is going to change her mind (I have tried).
So whenever we stop by on…
Many online CRM providers argue that implmenting their system is the solution to all of your business problems. In a few months you can run their system and collect all the data you need to make better business decisions! But none of that is really true. You have a system presently, it might not be …
Since 2000, tools like TeamDesk, DabbleDB and Blist (Socrata) made headlines. These programs championed a way for anyone with a PC to create fairly complex databases of information, files and links. It was part of a movement to offer people another viable option to Microsoft's Access Databases but a…
I don't know much about Lady Gaga. I have listened to a few of her songs and been impressed, entertained and shocked by her music videos. I also have no idea whether she is respected by the people she works with, if she is a strong "communicator" or has good "EQ". But that doesn't really matter…
The years ahead will see increasing challenges and conflicts over race, immigration and international employment as more middle-class people can complete with each other across boarders and the gap between people and countries with money and those without widens. The increased mobility of workers at…
Welcome to the first time in the history of humanity where a middle-class employee in the West can achieve an equivalent position and salary on a local package in the East. When adjusted for cost of living and currency differences, average salaries in Singapore, USA, UK, China (major cities), Japan,…
Today we wrapped-up another discussion with the wedding decorator. We negotiated on price and changed some of the details, but one thing stuck me during the whole process - actually we don't "need" any of this. All the decorations and details are really just window dressings to something even more i…
We are back in KL today to finish up the last bit of arrangements for the wedding - including: selecting the final wedding day dresses (> 3 hours), my suite (< 10 minutes), buying wine and other drinks (~ 3 hours standing around comparing bottles and texture of a drink that no one will really notice…
During my recent trip to Taiwan, my old and beat-up Olympus camer finally broke. The lens fully extended and stayed locked there.
I have already paid once to have this camer repaired a few years back, so I am not especially exited to do the same a second time. Instead, why don't I just make su…
Lately our relationship has stabilized into a kind of relaxed and comfortable exchange. We still have silly arguments and exchanges, but overall things are pretty easy and relaxing. Surprisingly this isn't as horrible as so many people have made it out to be.
Having a partner who supports and lo…
Often one of the funnest things that strikes me again and again about being married is how it is like being back in the sandbox on the school playground, fighting over the toys. No matter how old we get, we always seem to be little kids deep inside.
As a couple we worry about whether our partners …
In recruitment we talk with a lot of people and meet a lot of different companies. Over time, we get a unique perspective on what motivates teams and companies to fail and to succeed.
The beginning of the end for any organization or team is when everything is put on a few people (or one) and expect…
These days our jobs are getting more and more dynamic. We can work remotely, in transit and pretty much whenever we want. And it is appealing. There are so many things we need to do that haven't been finished.
Yet this never-ending quest to finish our work and merge our working and personal lives …
We are back from Taiwan and I just wrapped up my first day back at work and boy am I tired. Running around Taiwan, taking never ending photos and carrying shopping bags has made me one tired doggie.
So now it is time for a few good days of recovery and rest, sleeping early and not overworking. This …
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