by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 30, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Communication, Life Issues
I remembered a time when I didn’t know how to use electronic mail. Heck, I didn’t know how to use a computer. I was petrified of coming near one in case I spoilt it. I finally forced myself to learn how to use a computer because I needed to learn to use...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 9, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Communication, Life Issues
Can you see the real me, can you, can you?? [The Who (Quadrophenia)] I saw Laura Bush on TV the other day. I did a second take. She was hilarious! Speaking at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 30, she had the audience in stitches. This...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 26, 2004 | 2004, Articles, Communication, Life Issues
I really liked the guy. I asked him “why should I switch from PC to Macs?” I expected a long and enthusiastic exposition of the superiority of Apple technology. I thought I’d receive fresh revelations of the more recent plots of the wintel axis of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 2, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Communication, Life Issues
In her excellent book on the “Writing Life”, Annie Dillard advises writers to: “Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin...
