Monthly Archives: January 2009
You Know Chinese New Year Is Coming…
…when boxes and boxes and boxes of Mandarin oranges arrive almost daily — sometimes, twice daily — into the office. It’s customary to give tangerines and oranges during Chinese New Year to friends, relatives and business associates because the words for tangerine and orange sound like luck and wealth, respectively. Oranges are also given to … Continue reading
My Weakness
This is why I shall forever be doomed with ‘excess baggage’ on my waist and hips:- I keep getting these as gifts and I am just too weak, too powerless to resist… Even with best weight loss product in the world, if I continue to indulge in such sweet temptations, I doubt if I will … Continue reading
View From Level 41, Petronas Twin Towers
It’s been a very hectic month so far. The workload in the office is unbelievable. I’m drowning in a pile of paperwork. My dreams are filled with Excel spreadsheets. I’ve been travelling so often that my trusty Samsonite bag remains in its half-packed state all the time. I’ve had very little time to write a … Continue reading
Korean Traveller’s Tale
DH and I had a dinner meeting with two Korean guys last night at Sheraton Subang’s Miyako (Japanese restaurant). For the purposes of this blog post, let’s just call them Mr. Lee and Mr. Kim. As we savoured the wonderful food in such a cozy ambiance, the conversation invariably went from a purely business discussion … Continue reading
Starting The Year Right
People greet the coming of the New Year in so many ways. Fireworks is one of them — probably inherited from the Chinese superstition that the noise will chase away evil spirits — but now practiced more because of their aesthetic value. Filipinos greet the New Year with some money in their pockets in the … Continue reading
