Taxi Uncle tonight was unusually chatty and nice. He asked me if I worked for Barcap, and I said no, not really wanting to prolong the conversation, but he kept at it. Somewhere along the line it emerged that his son was (this is the order in which I found out) the regional manager for [...]
Going through life as I have, I have gained some very smart Singaporean friends, and it always amuses me when they intentionally opt to speak Singlish, care about local news, or even choose to come back to have their career/settle down long term. I say it amuses me, but perhaps concern is the better word, [...]
It is nice to see an independent discovery: What he calls Princes I called the Blessed.
Kids. Unbunch your panties and sit down. The reactions to Greg Smith’s op-ed have been flying fast and furious. In my summary judgment, they have as a group been indiscriminately furious, perhaps as a result of being unjustifiably fast. I place heavy blame on the editors of the papers these reactions have been published in. [...]
Came back with a vengeance today. I realize it is particularly strong when I haven’t been talking for a while and have been doing a lot of thinking in my head. Come to think of it, I probably already think in American already. I already adopt some American spelling when I type and I actually [...]
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