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March 29, 2011

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Farewell, Prince Philip

Caption: Screenshot of various online news on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II's husband, the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh sourced from the Internet. BY the time you read this, Operation Forth Bridge has been completed and the Duke of Edinburgh, the late Prince Philip has been laid to rest. Like many who read of his passing on April 9, memories related to Prince Philip just came flooding back. For me, it brought me back to the time I was sitting for SPM in 1986 at an all-girls boarding school in Seremban. Stressed out (and sometimes bored) and looking for some relief, a group of friends and I (I think there were 5 of us) decided to write to "someone famous" and get the person to wish us Good Luck. So there we were -- movie stars or pop stars wouldn't cut it for us, we decided to write to royalty. Not Princess Diana, our teenage minds thought, because she would be receiving too many fan mail but someone who would have the time to read through his mail and

It's now or never..

So, I've finally done it..succumbed to this urge to have my own blog. After years and years on my day job observing the ins-and-outs of the IT industry in Malaysia (this dates way back to the days when there were no such place as Cyberjaya and Putrajaya, when the only Net connection was dial-up, when the only social network was the IRC chat-rooms, yada yada yada..), I've finally gone and signed up for one. A bit late with twitter, tumblr and what-not are already on the scene, don't you think.. It was at a media session with Mizz Nina (hey! I know who Mizz What-You-Waiting-For Nina is...) that sparked off the interest for real. I was there to interview the fashionista-songstress for a story on twitter, when I met Chen Tian Chad. I was unfashionably early for a Jalan Conlay do at 9.30am and so was he and so we struck a conversation. He gave me a card (with Man About Town being one of his self description..) and I gave him mine and the lack of other company got us yak

Reskill, Upskill, Newskill: Strategising for (Re)employment

The unpredictable state of the economy and the Covid-19 pandemic have severely impacted the employment landscape in the country and many have been affected, including yours truly. When it was confirmed that my previous employer (which I was attached to for some 20-odd years) was closing the entire unit that I was serving last July, the first thing that came to my mind was how do I strategise to be re-employed. Age wasn't on my side and seniority did not seem to matter. Neither do I have outstanding cooking nor baking skills to sell food online that so many has resorted to once retrenched. But I love words and writing and apart from my experience in journalism, I did dabble in subtitling for TV (food shows, XFiles in the 90s, movies) as well as some freelance translation work for children's books once. So I thought why not - why not brush it up and pick it up again. So I decided to look up translation courses at the Malaysian Institute of Translation & Books - otherwi

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