Browsing archives for November, 2008

The Family Funbox

Life 30 November 2008 | 0 Comments

About a year ago, we went to a family friend’s place to celebrate Christmas. They had a karaoke machine which was the hit of the party. The adults spent the entire night nostalgically warbling away on old Chinese songs while the kids tried in vain to block out the out-of-tune, out-of-sync din. I never realized [...]

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Should I be freaking out?

Blog-related,Finance 24 November 2008 | 3 Comments

We all know that the economy’s tanking and we’re all going to hell. The American financial sector has been, for lack of a better term, totally PWNED (by itself), and its repercussions have been felt across the globe. Last week, Citigroup slashed 50,000 jobs, which is freakin’ insane. FIFTY THOUSAND!! And today they’ve got a [...]

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The co-op life

Life 10 November 2008 | 4 Comments

It’s been a pretty interesting couple weeks. October 31 was end of fiscal year for banks, so the internal auditors have been pissing off my manager, keeping him busy and thus not having time to give me work. Which is okay, because I’ve been getting a million requests from other people. Anyways, I guess I’ll [...]

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