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, [...]
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 [...]
Attractive Women At work today (Saturday.. I know) I had a completely random conversation with a Filipino IT support guy and somehow the topic of someone in the office came up. She is in sales so let’s call her SalesGirl. SalesGirl is an outlier in the office. She is by a conservative estimate about 2-3 [...]
It is that time of the year again when the kids wind down the holiday festivities/general merriment and head back to school. The sister is in a new year and my cousin is awaiting his GCE ‘O’ Levels. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed kids I’ve known since they were freshmen, lucrative jobs in the bag, are anticipating [...]
It finally happened. Today, I got the Risk Talk. By that I mean a senior person sat us down and dispensed his worldly wisdom about Risk and how it is managed: The only variable we care about is VaR. P&L losses in excess of VaR have to be explained, even those that statistically have to [...]
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