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Another trip to Bangkok
After work today I took a car over to the airport and caught a flight to Bangkok. The corporate travel agent had messed up, as they are wont to do so, and failed to spec a vegetarian meal for me, but I had almost two hours to kill so I did a long, slow lap […]
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A wet start
This morning, after having a reasonable amount of sleep, I got my bike out of our bomb shelter and prepared to ride it to work. Outside the sky was darkening and the wind was whistling, but I only needed 15 minutes to get to the office. Except the tyres were flat after my bike being […]
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Back on the bike again
I had a phone call with the US at 9 this morning, and so after I finished the call on the way back from school, I got on my bike and rode to the office. Well, I got my bike out, went down to the ground floor in the lift, then realised I’d left my […]
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Here’s what you could have won
La Serpiente seems to ignore about half the things I say at the moment. Sometimes this means I have to say the same thing several times to elicit a response, and honestly, when I’ve had a poor night’s sleep, wracked by bad dreams and the child crawling into bed to fidget next to us, I […]
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Ohnobike
An app-based bicycle rental company has launched in Singapore. (Savour that sentence for a moment, a series of words that would have made little sense a decade ago.) It’s called obike and they’ve put white and yellow bicycles all over the island. You sign up to their app on your phone, then scan the QR […]
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Gus The Dinosaur Bus
I hope it isn’t going to be an annual event, but today La Serpiente fell over on her face, and has a big bump under her eye. The kind of wound where I worry about taking her to school tomorrow and people thinking I’m the Bad Dad With Anger Issues. It’s not quite a year […]
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Discombobulated
I’m feeling a little bit wonky today. After getting home late from depressing tapas last night, I was up until after midnight, and then at 5:30 I had to get out of bed to take a call with Tokyo. So as well as working what feel like Singapore hours from London (as well as London […]
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Phoning it in
Last night I had a conference call that ran on until midnight, so I was sluggish this morning. Late to bed and late to rise doesn’t really make a man healthy and wealthy and wise, it makes him confused and easily distracted by the world around him. At least this could be seen as a […]
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Not very good Samaritan
I didn’t sleep very well this morning, waking at 5 and unable to doze off again. I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep since last week: ones where you pass out drunk or wake up hungover don’t count. Trying to exhaust myself so that I’d sleep tonight, I trotted out for a run at 6:22. […]