About six years ago, when I was about to enter my last year at university, over a casual lunch, someone in his thirties told me that: one of the things that I felt glad for doing in my early twenties is that: I worked really hard and spent really smart so that I could buy… Continue reading On discipline, competition and insecurity
Note from 2020: This piece was originally written in 2012 during one of my last trips back to Singapore to close my chapter there before relocating back to Hanoi to work at McKinsey & Company as a Research Analyst for about 2,5 years. I have been indifferent until the taxi driver who picked me up… Continue reading Been there, left, and back.
Note from 2020: I was fortunate to be living in Singapore during their historic general election in 2011 – the one when the ruling party PAP was most contested and which marked the first time an opposition party won a GRC (Group Representation Constituency) since Singapore’s independence. Nicole Seah was the youngest candidate in GE2011… Continue reading Singapore GE 2011 – Some thoughts from an outsider
