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Who's That Boy?

I first stepped foot in Asia exactly 20 years ago, for a one-year adventure teaching English in Western Japan. The boy in this photo is still on his adventure.

私はちょうど20年前にアジアに足を踏み入れました,西日本で英語を教える1年間の冒険でした。この写真の中の少年はまだ冒険中です。

20年前,我第一次踏上亚洲,在日本西部进行为期一年的英语教学。这张照片中的男孩还在冒险。

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Mandarin Official

Learning a new language in your 40s is a humbling experience. So it’s nice to at least get a certificate out of it.

在40多岁时学习一门新语言是一种丢脸的体验。 所以获得证书是太好了。

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Serious Silliness

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When will they learn... NEVER give me access to a microphone at a serious business event about leadership and courage.

Many thanks to the team at the International Professional Women's Society (IPWS) for having me at their annual conference, June 2019.

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Did That Really Happen?

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Today marks exactly 10 years since I somehow completed the RacingthePlanet 250km ultra-marathon through the deserts of Namibia. With a finishing time of 46 hours, 7 minutes and 35 seconds, I came 50th out of over 200 competitors.

Since then I have spent the last decade celebrating by lying on the couch eating pies.

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A Shout-Out To Warwick Law School

Warwick Law School asked me to write something that would help attract more students from Asia to its undergraduate law course. Here's what I came up with.

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Can't believe it will soon be twenty years since we graduated. Feeling old...

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This is Paul

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This is Paul.

Paul is my step-brother.

Paul lives in Beverly Hills.

Paul is a loving father, successful business owner, and general heartthrob dreamboat.

So let’s never talk of Paul again.

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Too Many Commas

I just learnt that there are two types of comma in Chinese:

  • 逗号 is the regular comma ( ) and

  • 顿号 is the back-sloping comma ().

The normal comma is used for pauses in speech; the back-sloping comma is used for the slightly shorter pauses you make when listing two or more things.


Here’s an example of their usage, with the English explanation below:

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Here’s how this example would look in English:

“Pastpresentfutureup and downleft and rightChina and foreign countries are all mutually connectedmutually influentialmutually restrictive.”

Oh, and the semicolon is used in the same way as English, to signify a shift between clauses. So in order of longest pause to shortest pause, it goes as follows:

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Today I Bid a Final Farewell to ChapmanCG

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It has been just over a decade since we started The Chapman Consulting Group in Singapore. It is now the largest organisation of its kind in the world, with senior HR appointments in 69 countries, and over 110,000 executive HR leaders in its global network. Playing a part in this trajectory has been by far the most rewarding professional achievement of my life, and I owe a huge debt of thanks to Matt, to past and present members of the amazing ChapmanCG team, and to the tens of thousands of HR professionals around the world whom I’ve learnt from, and hopefully helped in some small way in return.

With a new strategic investment from Will Group (株式会社ウィルグループ), and the continuity of it’s existing management team, I have no doubt that ChapmanCG will maintain its position in offering the world’s best Executive Search solution for the HR Profession. I will no longer be part of the ChapmanCG story moving forward. But I wish everyone all the best, and look forward to our paths crossing again in a personal capacity.

Oscar

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Remember Me

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A story about grief, remembrance, and self-delusion. Performed live at the Unravel storytelling event in Shanghai, Dec 2018.

This story didn’t quite go to plan. I didn’t get the reactions I was expecting. I underestimated the awkwardness of the subject. The self-deprecating parts elicited pity, when I had been going for laughter. My mind blanked and I fumbled in quite a few important places. There was applause in a part that I totally wasn’t expecting. I even had a heckle (which, to make matters worse, was entirely justified).

But I’m still happy that I did it. And I’m sharing it in case it’s a story someone out there needs to hear this Christmas.

Thanks go to Clara and the team at Unravel Shanghai, for the amazing community they have built around their monthly storytelling series. Thanks to Lisa, Fred, Shaun, and all the friends (and strangers) in the audience. And thanks to Denny, to Jennifer, and to my family for all their love and support.

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Hotel in a Quarry

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I visited the new Intercontinental Hotel, built into the side of a disused quarry. There are only two floors above ground, the rest is underground, and the lowest floor (B15) is underwater.

The whole thing is beautiful and bizarre in equal measure.

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Coffeeshop Flags

In case you STILL didn’t think I was a nerd... I spent twenty minutes in Costa Coffee testing myself on the identity of these flags. And I got them all correct. 🤓🤓🤓 (Answers below.)

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Answers from front to back:

Niger, Bahrain, Lesotho, Micronesia, United Nations, Cape Verde, Cuba, Turkmenistan, Marshall Islands, Bangladesh, Guyana, Panama, Macedonia, Maldives, Lithuania, Uzbekistan, Finland, North Korea, Guinea, Austria, Djibouti, Sao Tome e Principe, Cook Islands, Mongolia, Bhutan, Mali, Venezuela, Russia, Iran, Liechtenstein, Scotland, Somalia, Sweden, Bahamas, Andorra, Australia, United Kingdom, Afghanistan, France, Brunei, Morocco, China, Germany, Chile, Kenya, Sudan, Azerbaijan, Mexico, Ireland, Samoa, United Arab Emirates, Ghana, Chad, Fiji, Greece, South Korea, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Slovenia, Spain, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, El Salvador, Singapore, Bulgaria, Canada, United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Liberia, South Africa, Argentina, Uruguay, Ivory Coast, Papua New Guinea, Dominican Republic, Burundi.

And here are the flags that I always find most difficult to differentiate:

  • 🇸🇳🇲🇱🇬🇳 (Senegal vs. Mali vs. Guinea), 

  • 🇲🇩🇦🇩🇹🇩🇷🇴 (Moldova vs. Andorra vs. Chad vs. Romania, I don’t even know the difference between Chad and Romania),

  • 🇵🇱🇮🇩🇲🇨 (Poland vs Indonesia vs. Monaco. Monaco is longer than Indonesia.)

  • 🇮🇪🇨🇮 (Ireland vs. Ivory Coast)

  • 🇻🇪🇪🇨🇨🇴(Venezuela vs. Ecuador vs. Colombia)

  • 🇱🇺🇳🇱 (Luxembourg vs. Netherlands. NL blue is darker.)

  • 🇸🇮🇸🇰 (Slovenia vs. Slovakia)

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