Category: Work

Random Life

What’s in a doodle? Self-discovery through scribbles

• anjci
• on Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

I have spent an unusually long time today going through my work notes. Ironically, it was nothing work related. I was not looking for the installed capacity of the hydroelectric...

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Monkey business

How it was: My redundancy

• anjci
• on Friday, March 26th, 2010

I have recently completed the first year with my current employer. Reading the letter from the HR congratulating me on passing my probation period, I could not help remembering a...

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Relationships

Never apart or never again?

• anjci
• on Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Last week, two of my good friends – a lovely couple – set up their own company. Perhaps sharing a home did not seem good enough, and they will now...

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Random Life

Where is the good in goodbye, or Signing off business emails

• anjci
• on Friday, January 29th, 2010

I receive hundreds of work emails daily. In the recent past, I have increasingly directed my attention to salutation lines rather than the content itself. It is interesting how many...

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Random Life

Feeling important? Be it!

• anjci
• on Sunday, January 17th, 2010

I have met a few important people in my life. Every one of them had a different approach to communicating their self-importance to the world. Some fared very well; others...

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Relationships

Wanted: An office boyfriend

• anjci
• on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

I have an office boyfriend. We met about three months ago. I wrote an article for our internal work paper on my summer adventures in the Balkans. Minutes after the...

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Too bad we can’t choose our bosses

• anjci
• on Thursday, December 17th, 2009

I tattooed the title of this post on my bleeding heart during my previous employment. For the entire two years, most projects I worked on happened to be fronted by...

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Last Christmas…

• anjci
• on Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Last Friday, our internal office paper published a submission call for fiasco Christmas stories. Not the heart-warming ones which would bring a cheerful glow on your face and make you...

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Secret Santa: What’s in a present?

• anjci
• on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

During this intense pre-Christmas period, some people are asking me about the so-called “Secret Santa” tradition. The best way to describe it is as a Christmas game in which the...

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