We organised to meet a photographer in Montenegro at a place called Kotor to do a post wedding photo shoot in June 2019. It’s all the rage in Singapore to do a pre-wedding shoot but that seemed limiting in terms of locations or costs in that we’d need to travel before the wedding and then again for our honeymoon. Meeting a photographer somewhere, that from the tour guides looked pretty amazing, was a great solution.
I’d love to say that it feels like only yesterday but I reckon it’s about seven years since I did a flying visit to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to visit my cousin Clare who was working there.
When joining Veeva one of the CEO book read recommendations was Zero to One by Peter Thiel… His ideas at least, even if he didn’t write it. On the way back from a recent work trip to Korea I dropped in to a book shop not realising that all the books would be in Korean!
For years I’ve been the resident Excel guru who knows how to run a pivot table and not stuff up a vlookup.
This year I thought I would take my meagre skills and try and super charge them by adding buzz words like analysing and visualization. And now I’m a data scientist and paid a million dollars a year! So I’m still no data scientist but I have learnt some nifty Excel tips and tricks and heap of things that I didn’t know were possible.
I’ve just finished a trip to Bintan Island with my girlfriend. (And we managed to survive!) Not only was it good for helping me progress towards my goals of travelling more but I felt like I learnt some valuable lessons with the trip as well.
The first is that beef bacon is terrible. It just doesn’t have the right texture or taste. I’d even take turkey bacon over beef bacon. I need to reconsider if I could live in a muslim country based on this learning.
