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Daddy Daughters Day
Each year there’s a Bring Your Child To Work Day, which translates to an afternoon of the girls running amok in the office. If it were to be an accurate depiction of my daily duties, I suppose La Serpiente would sit at my desk and make a combination of obscene gestures and awkward puns about […]
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Chairman of Culture
As the Chairman of the Culture Committee, for the inaugural event I had to stand on a desk this evening and bellow at my colleagues. I stood there, wearing my jacket turned inside out to display the bright red lining, and declaimed to the masses how fortunate they were. After telling them how important I […]
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Salad and SQL
This afternoon, my manager asked me what I would do, if I had to make a choice between salad and SQL. This is obviously a difficult question to answer, given that one option is a (nominally) healthy choice of food, and the other is a set of imperatives, used to manipulate things in a database.
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A Day Out
Miraculously, my back pain had cleared up by this morning, so my flight to Kuala Lumpur wasn’t an agonising experience, trying to cram myself into a poky seat for an hour. At ten o’clock in the morning, the arrival hall at KL LCCT was rather crowded, and although there was a queue of people lined […]
