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  • Inside the mind of a ‘master’ juggler

    (This post was written on November 20, 2016) Does this title sound familiar? You are right! the title of this post is inspired by this TED Talk of Tim Urban. As Urban discusses during the talk, the “ingenious idea” of writing this blog came when I have a tomorrow noon deadline to submit a paper and…

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  • Four Takeaways from 4 days at Amsterdam

    The 13th ISTR International Conference in Amsterdam was a very productive encounter for me. I had attended two Asia Pacific editions of the conference in Tokyo (2015) and Jakarta (2017). However, I was attending the international conference for the first time. I was not only new to the conference, but also Amsterdam was the first…

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  • 5 things I learned in my first year at Wedu

    (Note: I wrote this post in November 20, 2016 to document my one year-long learning at Wedu. This has been in the draft for long) I completed my first year working with Wedu and here I present the five things I’ve learned: 1. Spreadsheet Skills: Trust me, I learned so much of spreadsheet skills in the…

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  • Two reasons why I stopped Blogging

    I started blogging back in September 2007 with Blogspot and abandoned my blog since September last year. There are  two simple reasons why I stopped. In this post, I will explore those two reasons and end with a call for your help to hold me accountable. 1. Lazy: I have this not ‘so unique‘ and proud characteristic.…

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  • Female Youth Literacy Rate in ASEAN Member Nations (1979-2013)

    Finally got a free day to work on some interesting info again. This time I was curious to know the Female Youth Literacy Rate in ASEAN Member Nations. With a few clicks, i could easily export data from The World Bank’s data repository. Youth (15-24) literacy rate (%). Female is the number of females age…

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