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Unbearably Instant
Published by Sylvia Giacinta July 16th, 2010 in sylv.thinking(); and the world. 2 CommentsJust some things to ponder about. When I was in Jakarta, my littlest sister one day threw tantrums to her boyfriend because he had not replied her text messages for several hours. Or not @-replying her on Twitter. Whichever it was. I was like, “Seriously, sis? Maybe he’s just busy doing something else?”. And my [...]
Skype at CommunicAsia 2010 (giveaway at the bottom!)
Published by Sylvia Giacinta June 18th, 2010 in blogging world and my geeky bits. 21 CommentsNavigation: CommunicAsia 2010 Skype at CommunicAsia 2010 Giveaway! CommunicAsia2010 and BroadcastAsia2010 is Asia’s premier business event for the global infocomm technology (ICT), broadcasting and media industries. It’s held at Singapore Expo from 15 – 18 June 2010. The exhibitions feature almost 2,000 exhibiting companies from 57 countries and regions, keen on unveiling their latest offerings. [...]
When I close my eyes, I’m there When I fly away, I’m there I wish I were there, my Jakarta.. Then I close my eyes and pray That soon I’ll find my way to place that I call home, my Jakarta.. (A snippet of lyrics of my yet-to-be-finished song) So. Last year brainwashed people attacked [...]
I’m Voting (and you’re probably not)
Published by Sylvia Giacinta July 8th, 2009 in Current Affairs and sylv.thinking();. 2 CommentsIn case you’re so ignorant, my dear fellow Indonesian readers, Indonesian presidential election is being held right now as I speak (type). I should have written this piece long ago, I know. But what do you expect of me? Thank you 20 visitors who came yesterday As I’m now over 17 (and subsequently have left [...]
Mumbai, I hear you cry
Published by Sylvia Giacinta November 30th, 2008 in Current Affairs. 4 CommentsI think no other expression can express my feeling better than “What the hell?????”. My heart aches for you, Mumbai. Especially your people who are hurt, saddened, and brought down. This is just too familiar to me. Some unknown people just came, hurting everybody, with unknown reasons. They might think they’re doing something great. They [...]
When did I run out of interesting things to write? When did blogging becomes such a hard task to accomplish? When will I come back to my blogging frenzy days? When will people stop intimidating me by blogging every single day? When will this blog be most alive again? Leave what you want me [...]
I can haz Innov8?
Published by Sylvia Giacinta October 4th, 2008 in blogging world and my geeky bits. 3 CommentsThis is not a pun. I WANT SAMSUNG INNOV8 RIGHT FREAKING NOW. NOW!! Ahem. Ok, so I was invited to the Samsung’s first blogger night (after shamelessly e-mailing Daniel from Samsung to be included. WAHAHAHA. Srsly!) I arrived late because I had class until 7 PM. After class I hurriedly checked gothere.sg for directions hahaha! [...]
on the way to become a popular blogger
Published by Sylvia Giacinta September 11th, 2008 in blogging world and sylv.thinking();. 2 CommentsThis post is to clarify that my previous post, Dear Bloggers, is not a response to a highly popular blogpost by Cowboy Caleb “How to be an irritating Singaporean blogger“. Probably it’s the timing that makes it inevitable that people think it is, and I have to admit that in some way or other the [...]


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