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Reading the Sunday papers and came across a piece written about Bryce Courtenay, he who wrote ‘The Power of One’ and talked about the rainmaker. It was a pleasant surprise to discover that Courtenay was once a junior copywriter who climbed up the ranks to become creative director at this famous ad agency ( Read more... )

My friend D* emailed me one of Robert Frost's poems yesterday. It's a simple poem with a simple message. I kept going back to it and re-reading it hoping to know, for certain, the message within. Du'oh! A straight interpretation of the poem is easy enough. But if you're a sucker for alternative endings, the possibilities are endless (which by the ( Read more... )

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Today's topic is 'share buybacks'. You know what that is. That's when a company buys back its own shares from its own shareholders. Why? For various reasons too tedious to talk about on here. What you do need to know is that eventually, you'll be investing your hard-earned money in shares (either directly or through a managed fund) and your ( Read more... )

Studying over the next few days. Change that to 'cramming'. Won't be back till my last exam which is on the 22nd of March. Hopefully, I won't procrastinate and post multiple entries on here and check my friends list obsessively :P. Look after yourselves ppl! :)

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My brother and I went to this Korean/Chinese store to buy a box of Mi Goreng noodles for my grandma. The planned one-minute stop turned into a half-hour aimless ambling and a full-blown grocery shopping ( Read more... )

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A broken wing lies outside the door of my study (the basement pool room I've converted into a study/office/library). Like, literally, just the one wing torn off from the rest of the bird's body. How it got there I don't know. I tried to look for the rest of the bird's body but it's nowhere to be found. I have several theories. One which I think is ( Read more... )