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Remember when families used to write annual newsletters, comb through their Rolodexes to decide whom to send it to, print it out, and actually snail mail it to their friends and relatives? I’m resurrecting this annual epistolary. Turns out it … Continue reading
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First, it was going to be somewhere in Latin America. Then Singapore. Then maybe Ivory Coast. Then Sao Paulo. Then Bogota. Then Fresno, CA. In the end, after much consternation, it was Chicago. I have been transferred to the Willowbrook, … Continue reading
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Week 3 – US Specialty Coffee Providence, RI Day 1 I’ve been in Rhode Island before, but I’ve never spent any time in Providence. This is my first time. It’s small. Very collegiate, with Brown, RISD, and Johnson & Wales … Continue reading
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After peanut ingredients, my next audit was for one of our larger US corporate entities. The audit would take me to Fresno, CA, NYC, outside Chicago, and to Providence, RI over three weeks of work. One week for each of … Continue reading
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We used to experience new things and places for the sake of the experience. Something was gratifying about the new and the beautiful. Seeking truth and knowledge, beauty and understanding, were ends in and of themselves. That’s not the case … Continue reading
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Many video games are filled with “dungeons.” These are multi-level, enclosed environments that the player has to navigate and eventually escape to advance to the next level of the game. There’s often puzzles, villains, and various challenges embedded in a … Continue reading
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This isn’t my first Internal Audit rodeo. After college, I was a banking consultant with Ernst & Young, and my first project was in internal audit with Freddie Mac, the fabled mortgage financer in the United States. It was an … Continue reading
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Last Monday morning, after racing between the different terminals at Kuala Lumpur airport, I got back to Indonesia after a few days in Goa, India for my friend’s wedding. While the wedding was great fun, I learned that Indian weddings … Continue reading
