Letters from the Equator

23:52:37 reyhan: For me interviews are me interviewing them 23:52:51 Boon: totally 23:53:06 Boon: i so need to write a blog post about that 23:57:58 reyhan: Yes 23:58:06 reyhan: You totally should Why do you attend interviews? Do you do it just because it’s what you need to do to get a job? Or do [...]

This article on BusinessWeek inspired me to write this post. I started my first permanent job 7 years ago, just when the dot-com bust happened. I find it strange that I’m beginning a new phase of my career now, just a year after the recession. I’ll have to say that I’ve become acquainted with recessionary [...]

The Loneliness of Enduring a Change I met an old friend for lunch today. She was talking about making a big change in her life, and we were talking about how scary that whole process is. We talked a long time about the sort of ups and downs you go through when you make big [...]

My Masters course is finally over. Many of my classmates are into the job search in full swing now. To them, this involves a lot of time spent poring over multiple versions of resumes and CVs, enhancing or creating portfolio websites, polishing their LinkedIn profiles, and researching companies in the industry. The response I’ve gotten [...]

Just found out my article was mentioned in Moleskinerie. So, welcome – readers from Moleskinerie!
I find that it’s almost impossible to do anything without penning down my thoughts in a physical diary or journal of some sort. I now have about four ongoing journals I keep notes on, and I didn’t think it was necessary [...]

I dreamt that I was interviewed for a job by Google a few nights ago. I had this impression that Google was the sort of intelligent, caring, but serious tech company that I could be comfortable contributing to the world through and with. I think this was a way  my mind was responding to the [...]

My wife and I used to live in a fairly large apartment overlooking a lake. It had a huge hall, a full kitchen, 3 sizable bedrooms, and a decent store room. By Malaysian standards, this was considered to be somewhat of a luxury for someone at my age, but at the same time – it [...]

I Internets, Therefore I Am
Having the internet as a big part of me is scary. It’s scary because I’ve let so much of my life be transformed by it. I don’t know how I got here, but I admit that using it has influenced me to stop watching TV, switch jobs the last few times, [...]

I feel that the whole getting-a-job-during-a-recession thing is getting a bit bloated. It seems that every so often, I get emails about events offering students help about how to get jobs during a recession, and people are constantly referring to it like the bubonic plague, as though jobs are impossible to come by and that [...]

It’s been officially 8 months since I left home and settled down in greyish London, although the sun has been bright these days.
A typical week for me in London
A typical week involves making sure I get my gradschool work done, which is mostly just writing papers which are due over the next few weeks, thinking [...]