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Life is good, but I’ll take a break from routine blogging (as if I haven’t already).
Activity here is going to be really infrequent for the next several months, till when I feel I can speak freely again.
I am doing really well, but I am not in the sharing mode right now.
As usual, the end of a year presents itself with many random thoughts. Some are not exactly positive, so consider yourself warned.
I am practicing the noble concept of “keep friends close, keep enemies closer”. It tortures me to be fake but I have to protect myself from liers.
It sucks to be betrayed by someone I [...]
I write this entry with a heavy heart, because it is about a grave disaster in my home country — Taiwan.
On August 8th, Typhoon Morakat flooded half the country. It dumped 80 inches of rain in a short span of 48 hours. Imagine that. I heard that the rain poured down like waterfalls. While it [...]
I’ve been receiving an unusual number of spam comments recently. While mass deleting them, several treasured comments from wonderful folks have mysteriously disappeared.
This has happened before, and a few people have asked me “why was my comment deleted?”. Answer is, I did not do that.
If you’ve left me comments before and [...]
Do not read further if you are a stranger. Ok, consider yourself warned…
There are lots of political and leadership instabilities at work and it’s unsettling to all of us. Earlier today, my colleagues and I were talking about current unpleasant work situation, and one fo the guys suddenly said to me that he just doesn’t see me as a city planner for a long term, because he [...]
I’ve always thought I have pretty good people skills, and that I am well-liked, and that I can be the bridge between disagreeing people…etc…etc… but sometimes such self-believed strength really gets put in question.
Once again my immediate surrounding people environmen is a fragile ecosystem - where a minute change in temperature causes species to died - just [...]
For no reason really, I’ve been feeling very low, for almost a week now.
I feel fat, I feel ugly, I feel dumb, I feel uneducated, I feel unaccomplished, I feel tired, I feel old, I feel empty, I feel useless, I feel isolated spiritually yet I don’t want to do anything about it. I know I am [...]
The trip is over, now is back at work time. It must be due to jetlag that I can’t seem to concentrate on work. So much going on as always…
The city manager was dismissed (i.e. fired) for doing nothing wrong. It was all part of a bigger nasty political gimmick. There are much speculation as to [...]
The holiday season is when everybody we dealt with at work show their appreciation towards us. Every year, our workplace is always full of ample gifts of food from contractors, developers, consultants, attornys… and whatnot. This year is no different. Each department had lots of baskets full of food. While we received lots of hams and fruit platter last year, this year’s [...]
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