A quick update as most happening things are, well, happening on my [INSEAD blog](http://vantan.org/insead/). Survived the orientation week but it will continue into next week where I will hopefully join some interesting clubs. My team is working fine and we are all contributing in class discussions. Social life apart from INSEAD is down to a …
Month: August 2008
To wrap up my French revision for the night, I went to [Lemonde.fr ](http://www.lemonde.fr/)to read a spot of news in the beautiful language. Not surprisingly, the home page had a photo of Barack Obama and his newly-announced running mate Joe Biden. What was more interesting was that the headline said, “[Biden, choix par défaut pour …
I discover the Chinese text features in my iPhone, and attempt to write something in Mandarin.
This is my last week before officially starting school. Apart from 2 meetups with friends that were made several weeks ago, all my time has been spent going for French classes every day, doing French homework, catching up with my pre-readings and in the last couple of days, meeting up with classmates. I think I’m …
I learnt that over the past week, [my church website](http://www.stgeorges.org.sg/) was hacked with the image of a flaming monkey on the home page. That image was quickly removed. This morning I was informed that our Joomla templates were messed with, and as a precaution we’ve taken the site down temporarily. I’m not particularly upset that …
Whenever I had the time to read the entire Straits Times from cover to cover I would occasionally chance upon a typo somewhere. However, I had much higher expectations of international and British newspapers. I was thus surprised to find TWO typos in yesterday’s Financial Times. Can you spot them? First, a political piece: And …
We have a pond of [koi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koi) (colourful Japanese carp). They are generally happy and friendly. Over the week, one of my sister’s koi died. Interestingly, it was full of eggs. It is apparently rare for koi in a normal house pond to breed and get pregnant. We thought that was a one-off incident – until …
I will be commencing the Business Foundations course at [INSEAD](http://www.insead.edu/) this week from Monday to Friday. While lessons end at 3pm, we are expected to spend another 5 hours doing homework every day. Thus, I do not expect to have any social life outside of INSEAD. If all goes well I shall still be able …
Just a quick update: INSEADers are great socialisers. We went out on Friday and Saturday and those taking the Business Foundations Course will have a dinner together on Sunday. Since I’m local, I’ve helped my newly-arrived classmates with various things, mainly giving advice about where to buy things. As I don’t have a particularly strong …
I was reading [Le Monde](http://lemonde.fr/) and noticed this funny kitchen ad. It’s on YouTube too, so here it is: If you like it, there’s [another ad](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0WXENy6uHw) in the series, too 😉