Personal Projects, 2018 Alice . Personal Projects, 2018 Alice .

Book Exchange Corners @ NLB

Every month or so, I donate a few books from my personal library here in Singapore to the National Library Board (NLB), specifically the Central Public Library located at Victoria Street. Over the last 2.5 years of staying in Singapore, I have managed to accumulate quite a collection in my condo. It's amazing how one book can so quickly multiply into hundreds.

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Personal Projects, 2018 Alice . Personal Projects, 2018 Alice .

Something New, Something Called Corrigo

Heraclitus is known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, and that is certainly true in my universe. In my 40 years of life (41 soon), I have come to love change and embrace it—change is good. I am very happy in my work-life, so to stir things up a bit, I recently took on a new role within my company and with that role comes a very steep learning curve. I had to learn an entirely new tool called Corrigo to be deployed in a month’s time for the new client I'd be managing.

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Foreign Languages, 2018 Alice . Foreign Languages, 2018 Alice .

Kató Lomb

A few days ago, I received my order of Alex Rawlings' book, HOW TO SPEAK ANY LANGUAGE FLUENTLY. I'm now on page 84 and Kató Lomb was mentioned in the introduction, so I started to research more about her. She was a Hungarian interpreter, translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world. My research brought me to TESL-EJ website where I found three of Lomb’s books.

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Foreign Languages, 2018 Alice . Foreign Languages, 2018 Alice .

New Notebooks

I have been using the Five Star spiral notebooks (sheet size: 8-1/2" x 11") for over a week now and I'm loving it. The paper is lightweight but the quality is good. Ink doesn’t bleed through the paper even when I use my Tombow brush pens and Pilot drawing pens.

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