The humble t-shirt. Usually white or in any mono-color. Used to be this was strictly underwear or sleepwear. Or workwear, as in hard labor, not as office attire.

Until, legend has it, the great late American actor and rebel James Dean decided to report to work in faded denim jeans and a white t-shirt, inserted, no belt. And a classic was born. White shirt and jeans. A classic.

But since about the late '60s, t-shirts began to flash writings. "Peace". "Stop the War in Vietnam". "Womens Lib". Until the t-shirt-as-a-message-board became a full-blown phenomenon in the '70s to this day.

About 1978, I received one of those hugely popular '70s shirt that proclaimed "My Mom/Dad/Aunt/Uncle...went to San Francisco and all I received was this shirt." I'am sure people who were already alive in the '70s remember this. And many, many more.

I can also remember those Pidro shirts of the '80s, and the iconic...

We are a small medical department in our pharmaceutical company with just the ten of us. But we support and interact with three other bigger departments in the company: primary care, specialty care and oncology care. Primary care handles our drugs for hypertension, diabetes and osteoporosis. Specialty care handles our drugs for rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and hepatitis. And oncology care handles our drugs for the different malignancies. I deal with two groups of people under each department: product managers (marketing) and district managers (sales) who work with the product specialists or medical representatives in the field. I once asked my boss the difference between marketing and sales. He replied with an analogy, "Marketing is to sales as finance is to accounting." He did not further explain. I got his point.

I usually arrive at the office at 7:00 in the morning and I eat my breakfast at the cafeteria. After that, the next thing to do is to check emails. Sometimes,...