I have completed my TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), which I started about a month ago. I committed to complete a section every day, no matter how little I could do for the day. Bit by bit, I chipped away at the sections, and on Saturday, 14 September, I completed the course. […]

Every month or so, I donate a few books from my personal library here in Singapore to the National Library Board (NLB), specifically the Central Public Library located at Victoria Street. Over the last 2.5 years of staying in Singapore, I have managed to accumulate quite a collection in my condo. It's amazing how one book can so quickly multiply into hundreds.

Heraclitus is known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, and that is certainly true in my universe. In my 40 years of life (41 soon), I have come to love change and embrace it—change is good. I am very happy in my work-life, so to stir things up a bit, I recently took on a new role within my company and with that role comes a very steep learning curve. I had to learn an entirely new tool called Corrigo to be deployed in a month’s time for the new client I'd be managing.

This is a presentation I created in 2009 when I was invited as a guest speaker at an international conference in Singapore organized by the Asia Business Forum (ABF). It was an all-expense paid trip and I got to attend the whole conference too. My topic was CAREER PROGRESSION FOR PAs AND EXECUTIVE ASSISTANTS.