2009’s come so quickly that I haven’t even written anything retrospective, or come up with resolutions. But here are highlights / what I liked about 2008:
January 2008
- Gave a farewell speech to my ex-boss.
- Met Dick Lee!
- Went to southern China to visit the homes of my dad’s and mum’s ancestors
February 2008
- Got into INSEAD - and heard the good news on my mum’s birthday.
- Meeting the Undercover Economist, Tim Harford, in person
March 2008
- Went to the US: Returned to Austin, Texas for one last SXSW, staying with Kristen and Mark and meeting little Alexander!
- Bought my MacBook Pro in Austin, after my Dell laptop gets wasted by ‘free public wifi’
- Getting my first iPhone while in Los Angeles, visiting my relatives
- Spoke at the Startup Singapore panel
April 2008
May 2008
- Spoke at the Ogilvy Verge Summit in Singapore](http://vantan.org/archives/2008/05/ogilvy_verge.php)
- Started the INSEAD blog
- Got quoted in the Straits Times on Government videos on YouTube
June 2008
- Visited Berlin for HP’s massive launch event, and had a great time
July 2008
August 2008
- Attended Sony’s new Vaio launch
- Attended Business Foundations at INSEAD and survived the orientation week
September - December 2008
- School, school and more school
- Lured my female INSEAD classmates to attend Stepout at Geek Terminal
- Upgraded to iPhone 3G
- Wrote the post ‘Feedback to PR teams’, which started the ball rolling
- Attended the Lexus Cup and met golfer babe Natalie Gulbis
- Celebrated with classmates as Obama won
- Took a cruise to Penang
- Went to Dalat and Ho Chi Minh
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