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illustration-alcove · 2 years

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Malika Favre’s illustrated book cover for the short story compilation Anonymous Sex.

#malika favre #book covers #monochrome #hillary jordan #cheryl lu-lien tan

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westeroswisdom · 23 days

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George R.R. Martin has endowed a chair at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism – his alma mater. He was at Northwestern in late February for the investiture of Prof. Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan as the inaugural holder of the George R.R. Martin Chair in Storytelling.

He wrote at Not a Blog...

I attended Medill back in what they now like to call “the turbulent 60s” (and no kidding, they were pretty turbulent), and departed with a couple of degrees, BSJ ’70, MSJ ’71. I did not get back often in the half-century that followed, alas. Life got in the way, as it has a habit of doing. But I always looked back fondly on my years in Evanston, and the courses and teachers that helped shape me as a writer. I had been writing long before I arrived in Illinois, of course. Monster stories for other kids in the projects in grade school (got a nickle each for them, enough for a Milky Way, and if I sold two I could buy a comic book) and amateur superhero stories for comic fanzines when I got to high school (Powerman, Dr. Weird, the White Raider, and Garizan the Mechanical Warrior), but it was during my years at Northwestern that I began to submit to professional magazines. It was while I was in Evanston that I got my first professional rejection slip (from AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN REVIEW, for “The Fortress,” a story I wrote for a history class at Northwestern) and made my first professional sale (from GALAXY, for “The Hero,” a story I wrote for a creative writing class at Northwestern). So it seemed only fitting for me to “pay forward” to Medill for all I learned there, by endowing a chair in storytelling. The investiture was my first opportunity to meet Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, who was chosen over thirty other highly qualified applicants to be the first “GRRM Professor.” It seemed only fitting that I give her an actual chair, as well, as the title… so I did.

If you're a student at Medill, take a peek inside Prof. Tan's office to see the miniature Iron Throne which GRRM presented her.

Cheryl has written both fiction and non-fiction. She has been a news and fashion reporter for the Wall Street Journal, InStyle, the Baltimore Sun, and other major news outlets. Her books include the bestselling novel SARONG PARTY GIRLS, set in her native Singapore. She will teach both undergraduate and graduate students, organize panels and conferences, and conduct an intensive writing workshop every summer, to help professional journalists cross over into creative writing.

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ekute-ile · 1 year

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Book 41, 2022: 'Anonymous Sex' edited by Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan.

27 authors. 27 stories. No names attached .

Weltanschauung.

#book #bookpost #classic #anonymous sex #bookporn

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anthonymhowellblog · 5 years

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Freewheeling

For a round-up of good late Summer reads go to The Fortnightly Review

Post-Summer Reading:

Hebdomeros by Giorgio de Chirico; introduction by John Ashbery (1992 edition)

Exact Change | 258 pp | £14.93 $17.95

. Tales I Told My Mother by Robert Nye

Calder and Boyars, 1969; republished by Marion Boyars, 1992 | 172pp | £5.21 $13.48

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Dandy Bogan by Nick Ascroft

Boatwhistle 2018 | 96pp | $6.17 £8.19

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#Boatwhistle #Brian Marley #C. Perricone #Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan #de Chirico #GrandIOTA #Ken Edwards #Nick Ascroft #Robert Nye

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therumpus · 7 years

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When I was growing up, I remember looking around at the men in my parents’ and grandparents’ generation. My great-grandfather had multiple wives and families. This mindset and practice, to some degree, continued in my grandfather’s generation. Some of the men my family knew had girlfriends, secret second families, or mistresses on the side. Their wives were supposed to be martyrs about it and just look the other way. The hope was that the marriages—and the men—in my generation perhaps would be better.

Concubines And Expat Husbands: Catching Up With Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan by Catherine Cusick

#Interviews #Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan #Sarong Party Girls #Catherine Cusick

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howtotrainyouragents · 5 years

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Agent H’s Book Reactions

Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Jazzy is on a mission to find her and her best friends their dream white husbands in one month.

-I think this book is a great example of why purity culture is bullshit. This book has a lot of problems (which I’ll get to in a moment) that purity culture online would immediately cancel it for. But cancelling this book also negates the important work (which I’ll also get to in a moment) that it does, and that’s not okay either. I’ll be super cautious recommend this book, but I do recognize that it is a really important book and I’m glad I read it. You get to make your own judgment call.

-The bad parts: a TON of sexism, misogyny, and racism; and a bit of ableism, fatophobia, and slut-shaming. It made me uncomfortable reading it. All of these are aspects of the Singaporean/Asian culture, and I KNOW that that is not an excuse for any of it. But rather I mention it because these things are not products of the author but the author portraying life (in this specific segment of the Singaporean/Asian culture at least) realistically

-The good parts: Written about Singapore by a Singaporean author. Written in Singlish, a Singaporean language that is currently being stamped out by the government. Criticizes the society’s treatment of women and the toxic cycle of dating, marriage, and cheating. The main character does not end up with a guy but pursues her own career. Makes you like the main character despite the main character being a difficult person to like (which is really quite impressive). Very engaging writing.

-There’s also a coerced rape scene. I think that’s the term for it? Her friend makes her feel obliged to have sex, but she didn’t really want to, and that counts as rape. It’s not stated as rape and no punishments come, but she does state that she was forced into it.

-This was a really good book. Much more complex and deeper than I had been anticipating. It’s a criticism of the society and it’s a well-developed journey of a young woman. I feel more educated and aware because of this book and I’m grateful for that.

-It’s also inspired by Emma! Very loosely, but I can see where that idea comes from

-I don’t think anyone takes reading recs from my book reviews (10/10 would not recommend), but if you read this review and wanted to know more, hit me up.

#agent h #agent book reaction #sarong party girls #cheryl lu lien tan #singapore #singaporean books

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occasional-daughter · 3 years

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Are there any radfem/rad-leaning feminists who have read Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan? If so, what did you think? (no spoilers please)

#it sounds interesting #but if the main character is obnoxiously straight i dont wanna read it #but i haven't read a book yet that plays in Singapore so i kinda really wanna read it #i need options #radfem #radfem safe #radfems please touch #suri rambles

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minissingaporeanlitblog · 4 years

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10 Interesting Singaporean Novels

Ministry of Moral Panic by Amanda Lee Koe

“Meet an over-the-hill Pop Yé-yé singer with a faulty heart, two conservative middle-aged women holding hands in the Galápagos, and the proprietor of a Laundromat with a penchant for Cantonese songs of heartbreak.”-Amazon

2.)The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y Tang

“A rebellion is growing. The Machinists discover new levers to move the world every day, while the Tensors fight to put them down and preserve the power of the state. Unwilling to continue to play a pawn in his mother's twisted schemes, Akeha leaves the Tensorate behind and falls in with the rebels.” - Amazon

3.)Kappa Quartet byDaryl Qilin Yam

“Kevin is a young man without a soul, holidaying in Tokyo; Mr Five, the enigmatic kappa, is the man he so happens to meet. Little does Kevin know that kappas—the river demons of Japanese folklore—desire nothing more than the souls of other humans. Set between Singapore and Japan, Kappa Quartet is split into eight discrete sections, tracing the rippling effects of this chance encounter across a host of other characters, connected and bound to one another in ways both strange and serendipitous.”-Amazon

4.)Foreign Bodies by Hwee Hwee Tan

“Trouble often comes with a late-night phone call. So it comes to Mei, a twenty-something Singaporean lawyer about to face the greatest trial of her life. Her English boyfriend Andy, working in Singapore as a teacher, has been arrested, accused of masterminding an international betting ring. Under Singapore's draconian system of justice, he has but nine short days to prove his innocence or face life in prison. With time running out, Singapore native Eugene, Andys best friend and Mei's childhood playmate, flies in from Holland to help uncover the truth, a search that will unearth long-hidden secrets and forever challenge the moral, ethical, and spiritual framework of their lives.” -Amazon

5.)State of Emergency by Jeremy Tiang

“Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency. And in Singapore, Siew Li's niece Stella finds herself accused of being a Marxist conspirator.”-Amazon

6.)Lion City by Ng Yi-Sheng

“A man learns that all the animals in the Zoo are robots. A secret terminal in Changi Airport caters to the gods. A prince falls in love with a crocodile. A concubine is lost in time. The island of Singapore disappears.” -Goodreads

7.)The River’s Song by Suchen Christin Lim

“A beautifully written exploration of identity, love and loss, set against the social upheaval created by the rise of Singapore.” -Goodread

8.)Singapore Noir by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

“For much of the West, the narrative of Singapore--a modern Southeast Asian city-state perched on an island on the tip of the Malay Peninsula--has been marked largely by its government's strict laws and unwavering enforcement of them...As much as I understand these outside viewpoints, I have always lamented that the quirky and dark complexities of my native country's culture rarely seem to make it past its borders…”-Amazon

9.)Teenage Textbook by Adrian Tan

“It is a story about love, lust and lechery, all happening in the pressing space of six-and-a-half weeks (but as this is a family book, we shall not say where or how it's pressing).” -Goodreads

10.)Fistfull of Colors by Suchen Christine Lim

“Fistful of Colours is an elegant, multi-layered reflection on Singapore as experienced through one day in the life of Ong Suwen, a young teacher in search of her identity as a woman and an artist.”-Goodreads

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fangirlx · 4 years

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Top 5 Wednesday - Top of the TBR

Top 5 Wednesday – Top of the TBR

So the joke here is that I’m always adding to my To-Be-Reads, and my Currently Reading list consists of books I’ve had for 5+ years. That being said, I’ll still give this one a shot. I’ve definitely got some books that I need to knock out.

At the moment, I am trying to finish MCA Hogarth’s Earthrise, which is a sci-fi that I’ll probably have to reread again because it’s going over my head. I…

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#Alexis Hall #B. Ivy Woods #Blue Saffire #Boyfriend Material #Brothers Black #Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan #Conspiracy in the Capitol #Dreamblood Duology #Earthrise #How Long Til Black Future Month #Kevin Kwan #MCA Hogarth #NK Jemisin #Rich People Problems #Sarong Party Girls #The City We Became #Top 5 Wednesdays #Top of the TBR

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fictaddict · 5 years

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Sarong Party Girls

A sarong party girl is beautiful Singaporean girl, spotted at clubs and bars looking for wealthy, Western men. In Sarong Party Girls, 26-year-old Chinese-Singaporean Jazeline Lim decides to get serious about finding a rich ang moh husband, before she’s too old to land one.

Jazzy is a sort of Singaporean Scarlet O’Hara, who blatantly schemes to get a husband. But, like Scarlet O’Hara, you…

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#Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan #Singapore

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emilyisreading · 7 years

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On the Hemingway cow: "All milk is to be used for the cats."

Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, “Hemingway’s Hamburger”

#cheryl lu-lien tan #The Paris Review #ernest hemingway

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herwitchinesss · 5 years

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july bookish wrap up

so, i read a fair amount this last month due to pain and me taking a month off of all drs appointments so i could just get my body more okay again without hours of car rides hurting me worse. of course, this meant that my sleep injury happened two nights ago - the end of my free month so i’m having to deal with thaaaaat which caused my left leg to have literally 0 strength/control and i’ve been hella relying on my rose cane like i’ve not quite needed to before. pains obviously bad when i feel anything. it goes from total loss of sensation to OH MY GD CUT IT THE FUCK OFF GIVE ME A METAL LEG EVEN A PEG NOT THIS which makes sleep interesting. i finished a 17hr45m audiobook in one sitting! and i’d started it at 1pm that afternoon, so... yeah! ended up finishing 31 books, listed below w my star ratings and maybe a sentence if i rly had Feelings. finished all but three books on my TBR for the month- NEVER have kept that much to a TBR before so go me, adulting and shit

1) “The Girl from Everywhere” by Heidi Heilig - 4/5 stars. i liked this one a lot, planning on reading book two probably today. it’s really great if youre in pain mentally or physically and wanna feel like you’re legit traveling via book 2) “Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception” by Maggie Stiefvater - 3/5 - didn’t enjoy this as much as i thought i would but it’s no fault of the book/author. it’s just a book made with 12-14 year olds in mind and i am not, but that’s IMPORTANT to see in YA and i plan on getting this for my lil sister who is 13! 3) “The Exiled Queen” by Cinda Williams Chima - 5/5 stars; this was the 17hr45m book i did in one sitting! SO GOOD, YALL. i’m easy to please if it’s a university/school that has a mage section, though, so i mean, shrug. i loved it. can’t wait to continue w this series once i’ve finished Heidi Heilig’s books that have Kim Mai Guest narrating since she also does the spin off series for this and i want to not associate her voice w anything else for a bit. 4) “Bryony and Roses” by T Kingfisher - 5/5 - I finally have a book version of Beauty and the Beast that I utterly adore enough to finish. 5) “Lake Silence” by Anne Bishop (there are valid criticisms of this book & it’s treatment of Native American cultures, which you should look up before getting into this series bc they definitely are valid things; i was already invested/had bought the whole series before i knew any of that unfortunately) 5/5, great installment in the sadly for me one book left series that’s helped me a loooot during flares 6) “A Book of Rare & Cunning Device” by Ben Aaronovitch - 5/5 7) Peter Pan & Wendy by JM Barrie - 4/5 8) The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory - 4/5, very cute as always for Jasmine Guillory 9) “The Toll” by Cherie Priest - 3.5/5, rounded up to 4/5 for GoodReads 10) “Daughter of the Pirate King” by Tricia Levenseller - 5/5, lived up to ALL the hype 11) “Daughter of the Siren Queen” by Tricia Levenseller - 5/5 see above 12) “The Bird & the Blade” by Megan Bannen - 5/5 13) “Tsumiko & the Enslaved Fox” by Forthright - 5/5 omg lived up to years of hype i’d seen. glad i waited for the audiobook though bc it came to life so fully. 14) “Furyborn” by Claire Legrand - 5/5 15) “The Forbidden Wish” by Jessica Khoury - 2.5/5 rounded up to 3/5 on Goodreads 16) “Shadow of the Fox” by Julie Kagawa - 5/5 17) “Signal to Noise” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - 4.5/5 rounded up to 5/5 on GoodReads 18) “The Epic Crush of Genie Lo” by FC Yee - 5/5 ALL THE HYPE. SO TRUE. 19) “Sarong Party Girls” by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan - 3.5/5 rounded up to 4/5; the dialect was only possible for me to love/appreciate via audiobook, so i truly encourage anyone wanting to read this who is not Singaporean to check into the audiobook version to fully experience this book! 20) “The Demon King” by Cinda Williams Chima - 5/5 21) “Ash Princess” by Laura Sebastian - 4.5/5 rounded up to 5/5 22) “All Systems Red” by Martha Wells - 2.5/5 rounded up to 3/5 23) “Spin the Dawn” by Elizabeth Lim - 5/5 LIVES UP TO ALL THE HYPE READ THIS PROJECT RUNWAY FANTASY BOOK NOOOOOW 24) “Flame in the Mist” by Renee Ahdieh - 3/5 25) “Song of the Dead” by Sarah Glenn Marsh - 4/5 26) “Romanov” by Nadine Brandes - 3/5 27) “Sorcery of Thorns” by Margaret Rogerson - 5/5 AHHH SOOOOO GOOD 28) “The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones & Other Victorian Scandals” by Michelle Morgan - 5/5, very entertaining. while also showing compassion when needed 29) iZombie vol 4 by Chris Roberson - 5/5, great ending to a series i never wanted to end 30) “Unthinkable: What the World’s Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own” by Helen Thomson - 4/5 31) “The Kingdom” by Jess Rothenberg - 5/5

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westeroswisdom · 1 year

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Last November we reported that Northwestern University alum George R.R. Martin donated $5 million to the University’s Medill School of Journalism. $3 million is going to establish George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop and the remaining $2 million created an endowed professorship at Medill.

The university has announced that one of GRRM’s fellow alums will be the first person to hold that professorship and lead the summer workshop. Journalist and author Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan joins the faculty in September.

Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, BSJ97, will serve as the inaugural holder of the George R.R. Martin Chair in Storytelling at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University.

Tan, a journalist, author and teacher, will lead the George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop, as well as teach courses across a breadth of genres to both undergraduate and graduate students.

The George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop will provide support for journalism professionals seeking careers in creative writing. Launching in 2024, the workshop will enroll six to eight writers and authors each summer and afford budding fiction writers, screenwriters and playwrights the time, space and guidance to develop their projects.

“Journalists have always been compelling storytellers, and many have a wealth of stories and ideas that would make for rich novels, films, TV shows and plays,” said Tan, whose book career launched when she turned an essay she wrote for The Wall Street Journal into the 2011 memoir, “A Tiger in the Kitchen.” “I am thrilled to be leading this unique program that will help journalists make that leap from news narratives to creative writing.”

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In addition to teaching and leading the summer workshop, Tan will collaborate with faculty in the School of Communication and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences to convene panels and conferences on writing for students, the greater Northwestern community and the public and be a liaison to industries related to long-form narrative and storytelling.

Perhaps Prof. Tan will advise her students: Be sure to complete your long-form projects before starting new ones. 😉

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reportwire · 2 years

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Schneider Electric's Clayton on the power of mentoring By Reuters

Schneider Electric’s Clayton on the power of mentoring By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Scheider Electrics is pictured at the company’s headquarters in Rueil-Malmaison near Paris, France, April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau By Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan NEW YORK (Reuters) – Annette Clayton is well aware of how few women there are in the energy industry. She is using her power as one of the most senior females in the field to change it. “I’m a huge…

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psyduckstudies · 6 years

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thanks so much @cyclicstudies for the tag!!

name: kimothy

star sign: pisces

height: 5′3.5″

middle name: Amanda

put your itunes on shuffle, what are the 4 songs that popped out? I use Spotify tho but : 100% - Kisum (really good, kpop) | Control - Halsey | Distraction - Kehlani | Young and menace - Fall Out Boy (these songs are basically a overview of me in general)

grab the book nearest you and turn to page 23. what’s line 17? “My god, for a while we were all a bit uncomfortable but really-we had no choice.” Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan....wow relatable tbh.

have you ever had a poem or song written about you? No, Im usually the one writing them about others.

when was the last time you played air guitar? A few days ago actually. I think it was to jazz....lmao

who is your celebrity crush? Robert Downey Jr and Kim Namjoon (bts)

what’s a sound you hate + a sound you love? Love the sound of thunder and rain pattering on the window. I hate the sound of sirens. they are always so bloody loud. omg.

do you believe in ghosts? nahh. Ive heard stories but its not something i think about.

how about aliens? unlike ghosts, i believe there is a greater possibility of them existing because who knows what other galaxies are out there

do you drive? nope. I was supposed to learn and take the test this summer thoo... never got to it

if so, have you ever crashed? nope

what was the last book you read? I don’t like reading but I read webtoons if that counts. I was reading unordinary on webtoon.com (its realllly good omg. i have recs for anyone whos interested)

do you like the smell of gasoline? no

what was the last movie you saw?

incredibles 2

what’s the worst injury you had? (its kinda disgusting,,warning) When I got an infection in my leg that had to be cut open 2yrs ago. Idk how it got infected tbh. It was like a giant pimple and swollen. the doctor had to numb it with injections to the site. OMG let me tell you how much fucking pain that was. i can not even. the worse part to anything is those numbing needles. then the cut the spot open, and squeezed everything out. lotta blood and fat cells came out too. my mom was there and she told me how bad it was cause i was a wuss and refused to look. Another doctor was at my head trying to talk to me as a distraction(which was nice of her). They then stuffed the newly made hole with gauze and told me to come back so they can remove it. It felt so weird to have someones finger literally in my leg hfsvbghnyjhtegrfbgnyh. Anyways, Im left with a small hole / indent in my leg from that.

do you have any obsessions right now? Vines and cartoons. Right now Im watching the regular show. I was watching My gym Partner is a Monkey like yesterday. Its a show i used to watch as a kid. such a throw back. I’ve watched Samurai Jack, Code Name: Kids Next Door and Danny Phanthom too.

do you tend to hold grudges against people who wrong you? No I’m very forgiving. It takes about a few days unless it was something serious but I never hold grudges. I’d stop talking to a person if the relationship was unhealthy but I wouldn’t hold a grudge...idk to be honest. I’ve never really been wronged in a serious way or hated or anything like that. I’ve been teased and what not but like the past is the past.

are you in a relationship? of course. Me + Food = long term commitment lolll (thats how single I am at this moment. Im working on it tho. ;)

#psyduckstudies #tagging game #answered

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guardiannews24 · 3 years

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How Netgear's CEO stays connected By Reuters

How Netgear’s CEO stays connected By Reuters

© Reuters. Netgear Chairman and CEO Patrick Lo poses for a picture By Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan NEW YORK (Reuters) – When Patrick Lo co-founded computing networking provider Netgear (NASDAQ:) Inc in 1996, he envisioned an online utopia in which “the internet was going to drive everything.” Who would have guessed that the distant future Lo had imagined would be here in a virtual flash? “When the…

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