Because I did not realise that my friend has been making the headlines all week.
Congrats babe! You deserve every bit of worthy mention and yes, I finally understand what you have been putting your heart and soul into the past year.
Because I am such medical idiot when it comes to these kind of things.
I am so ecstatic for you! 
I have to get used to this betrayal business.
In the workplace, it is a big battlefield with invisible lines drawn and unsaid strategies marked out.
And sometimes I am just too oblivious that I need things spelt out for me.
I have to become more attuned to this sort of things. Sigh, I am losing some part of me, day by day.
And so the horror begins, the retelling of a tale of how a former prime minister and someone who was running for elections in a country rife with political turmoil, was killed.
I had boarded the bus home, after watching Elizabeth: The Golden Age with a friend. And thanks, to the omniscient presence of TV Mobile on buses, the news came ‘live’ with startling clarity.
Thanks to the earthquake in Taiwan, the Internet here has been sporadic at best.
In light of this erratic connection, which comes and goes as it pleases, will have to make do with a short post.
Happy Holidays everyone.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz on Friday called Singapore’s restrictions on the entry of activists for the World Bank/IMF meetings “authoritarian”.
But he said the World Bank and IMF did not plan to postpone their annual gathering, which is being hosted by the Southeast Asian city-state this month.
“Enormous damage has been done and a lot of that damage is done to Singapore and self-inflicted. This could have been an opportunity for them to showcase to the world their development process,” Wolfowitz said in response to questions from civil society organizations at a town hall meeting in Singapore.
“I would argue whether it has to be as authoritarian as it has been and I would certainly argue that at the stage of success they have reached, they would do much better for themselves with a more visionary approach to the process.”
He added that the bar on entry into Singapore for some activists “is a violation of the understanding that we had drawn up” with Singapore.
The city-state has put 27 civil rights activists on a blacklist for entry to the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank, and some would-be participants to the meetings have been deported.
© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
My daily routine has been pushed out of whack, thanks to this intense preparation by the government to welcome the delegates.
Road closures not withstanding (and I am very heavily affected by the way), there are just so many details to take care of and dedicate more time to now.
Security has been beefed up the train stations, and every morning I tap my card at the payment posts, I am met with the scrutinising glares of some uniformed guard. As if getting stared at by the bodyguard of the President when I occasionally jog during the week was not enough.
Oh, I have pictures to prove the all round humour of Singapore and how hard they tried to polish our fine city for such moments and I am not talking about the numerous banners heralding the delegates’ welcome that grace the place.
I just need to find the time to upload them.
I had not meant to book myself into two appointments at the same time. But I somehow knew my good luck streak would come to an end. Relying on memory and the occasional jot down on my planner is really not the way to go.
Now it is just a matter of trying to extricate myself from one or the other, and trying to postpone the appointment to another time and date.
One of my third quarter resolutions (eep, starting to sound like an analyst now) is to knuckle down and really organise my schedules and timetable. Apparently a neat desk and a neat room is not all that I should have to upkeep.
Time is a tricky thing though. It is one of the hardest things to manage and it throws up surprises when you are least prepared.
