Archive for December, 2007

Found on the way to work

Posted by Michael on December 18th, 2007

Life is a skinny child – I found this thought-provoking graffito fresh one morning close to my workplace.

S’pore Part II

Posted by Michael on December 7th, 2007

I’m in Singapore. It’s monsoon season. It rains a bit. C. wanted to know how much. Here’s how much (Orchard Road).
The weather fortunately keeps changing quite dramatically during the day, and the picture below was taken on the same day on Raffles Place.

But back to Orchard Road, the top-class shopping district, a bit like Ginza [...]

S’pore

Posted by Michael on December 5th, 2007

It certainly is true, working in science, and even more so, in academia, is not always very rewarding. While the suited business guys zip around in business class and get their incentive holidays and other perks, we usually sit day & night in front of our monitor glare (voluntarily!). But sometimes, the exceptional happens, and [...]