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你好 [Ni hao] Shanghai

Thanks to my lovely flat mate here in Singapore, I had the opportunity to go to Shanghai last week and experience the life of a local (almost). For the first time in my life, I felt like a complete alien not knowing the language and having to explain everything using hand gestures (which btw in a [...]

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Before class: “we get the quiz back today, I think I did well on it. I did study for this one “
Quiz in hand: “what happened here? Looks like studying has a negetive autocorrelation to grades “
If anyone has a better way of turning this relation around, we need to talk… Before the [...]

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Playing catch-up

Now I know exactly what the INSEADers mean when they say “these would be the quickest 10 months of your life”. I have been wanting to update my blog and I just cant find the time. As I write this post, in the back of my head there is this noise asking me to start [...]

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Bintan, Indonesia

The trips have begun, the plans are taking shape, the travelers are all geared up, and there is no time to waste.
Last weekend marked my first INSEAD trip and my first trip to Indonesia. As part of the birthday celebrations for two of my peers, the destination was aptly chosen. In short, the trip was [...]

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This is for all the twilight fans out there who are eagerly waiting for the next movie of the twilight series – ‘the twilight saga new moon’ which comes out on November 20th 2009.  
Check out these latest teasers out in theaters. 

Personally, I love the first teaser [...]

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At the end of Breaking Dawn, the happily ever after still left me yearning for more happiness … The book was – yet again- a good read but I guess I had really high expectations of it especially after numerous people told me that it is the best one in the series. For me, it wasn’t the [...]

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*may contain spoilers*
Eclipse … half way through the book, I started to ponder the meaning and reason behind the title of the book and it wasn’t until the very end – the last chapter- that I figured it out … although I m still unsure that I got the meaning right, I thought i’d share [...]

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tHe AlcHeMISt

I read the much aclaimed and popular book – THE ALCHEMIST. The book was a gift to my dad from a friend and he had read only a few pages before he asked me to read it. He was all praises about it and said to me that you learn something new everytime you read [...]

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YES, you read it right … I think I have turned into a Twilight-o-holic… I went out to buy the third book , Eclipse, of the Twilight series yesterday and to my extreme disappointment (but no surprise because this small town where I am am currently residing has nothing, I don’t know why it is [...]

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Finally, I saw TWILIGHT (the movie) and it was the movie that encouraged me to read the book. Like everyone says, “the book is just soo much better”. After reading the Da Vinci Code and watching the movie, I decided that when people say that the book is better… they are mostly correct. I can [...]

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