A former colleague from work, who happens to be a close friend, invited me for lunch a couple of days ago. I knew it wasn’t going to be a catch-up session, and I was right. She was confused about her love life, a very recent fling. She was recovering from a failed relationship, the one…
One year and 2,605 tweets later… I didn’t realize it had been one year since I jumped at the microblogging bandwagon. A tweet was directed to me earlier this afternoon by @jak_twop_1000, which I thought at first to be a machine, but turned out to be conversational. My foray into the Twitter world turned out…
A global election is taking place between Earth and Global Warming. Your vote will contribute to a worldwide mandate for action on climate change, to be presented to world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, set on 16 December 2009. What’s your vote? “Because global warming is not about what country you’re…
Today, on 7 June 2009, hundreds of thousands of people across the globe in 24 times zone walk together to raise funds and awareness for United Nations World Food Programme’s work to end child hunger. The event is named ‘Walk the World’, one of the most significant global events against hunger. The WFP walk in…
Yesterday night, my friend and I observed the 2009 Earth Hour, from 20:30 till 21:30, Jakarta’s time. Along with us, 83 countries the world over were participating, turning off lights for an hour to raise awareness of global warming. In Jakarta, the local government committed to turning off the lights in 5 of the city’s…
I came across a video on the Financial Times website. The video is a report by investment editor John Authers on the financial crisis that has hurt the world’s economies, developed and developing alike. A financial crisis that was rooted in the US subprime mortgage sector. As Mr. Authers said, it may start from a…