December 2011
1 post
The Value of Twitter
On the way to work today, I walked past this big group of reporters and cameramen crowding around an Ang Mo, in front of one of the big advert posters at Bugis station.
The kaypoh me wanted to find out hey, what’s the big hoohaa - but time wasn’t at my disposal so I hurried away.
Still, I was curious.
So I then flicked out my phone, did a search on the simple term...
November 2011
1 post
April 2011
1 post
The MacBook Air
A few months ago I was notoriously known for being anti-Apple. Whether iPhone, iPod or MacBooks, I was the detractor. I was the rebel against the herd mentality, and quite fiercely so.
That was, until I met the MacBook Air.
Finally, I understand why in the recent years Apple products are getting increasing popular - because they understand what we users want.
I’ve had my MacBook Air for...
March 2011
2 posts
“Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill
February 2011
2 posts
Making life better for your event organiser
In any gathering or event, most of us are participants. At least, the lucky ones are.
There’s always someone who gathers everybody, find a most convenient date, be responsible for the turn-out, sometimes choosing the venue and making reservations and what-not.
I am of the opinion that I am horrigibly bad at maintaining friendships. But I try, mostly by organising outings.
Despite my...
January 2011
4 posts
Again, being normal
is what my third story is about. Similar to the second story, but not quite.
It’s about being normal - as compared to the less fortunate around us.
Recently I had the fortune of catching this movie - 聽說 (Hear Me), starring Eddie Pang and Chen Yihan, with the girl.
It was a wonderful romance flick, and if I could rate it as though I rate movies I caught in theatres, it would be a...
The simplest things
are easily ignored. When they are taken away from you abruptly - suddenly you feel the loss. It is a kind of presence only felt with an absence.
The past one week was kind of like a mini-hell for me. Because of one bar of chocolate, I developed a mild fever that escalated into a full blown fever garnished with headaches that woke me up in the middle of the night and horrible sore throats that...
What do $15,000 mean to you?
For us, it was an expensive resolution to an unexpected predicament. Luckily, we didn’t had to bear the blunt of it.
My dad has always been built like a bull — he is rarely sick, and the only time he got hospitalized was when he was robbed when I was 3 years old.
Then one day recently, he hurt his back. The strain and pain resulting was so intrusive that he had to take time off work...
Being normal
is something all of us take for granted.
Until it’s all taken away from us — and then we realise that we should be glad that it’s there in the first place.
This dawned upon me in three different ways, and I came out of them learning three different things, which perhaps in the end — at the most basic level — aren’t so different after all.
December 2010
6 posts
Cards and Vibes
A year ago, Maybank’s representatives ambushed me in school with an offer that was hard to resist. Sign up for their free card, and get a free voucher for GV and free entry to Sentosa for a year!
So many of us signed up that day, the card salesman was practically grinning from ear to ear.
About 2 to 3 months later, the free entry to Sentosa privilege was revoked.
The card henceforth...
“Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
My parents
are out of town, and their dog makes my bed her bed - literally, adjusting my blanket for her comfort. Because she’s probably feeling lonely without them, I let her do this just once. Just once, Yuki!
Prestige
During my short stint as an IT trainer, I had the honour of teaching in a few primary schools.
It was thus so that I had a first hand experience of the difference between the attitudes and behavior of those from neighbourhood school, and those from so-named prestigious schools.
My opinion is that kids from the former are more down to earth and therefore more pleasant to have as students.
On the...
I abhor exclusivity
More specifically, exclusive deals.
iPhone and Singtel. EPL and Singtel. Some particular gaming titles and PS3. Or Xbox 360.
Choice is a necessity to safeguard consumer interests, and exclusive deals take away our ability to choose.
When it’s no longer competitive, ultimately, we as consumers are the biggest losers.
November 2010
5 posts
“One bird on hand, is better than 3 birds in tree.”
– Overheard, my brother on phone with his client.
I have two loves in my life
One is Amber, and the other is Science Fiction.
In a lift ride today
A primary 2 school kid was standing next to me. His bag looked much heavier than mine.
I was carrying my laptop, adapter, mouse, notes, and jacket in my bag.
Hmm.
Please do not
add music in your blog. It drives me away.
At Sembawang Shopping Centre
There is this pushcart selling mechanical, battery-operated toys from China. Besides the demonic looking yapping toy dog with glowing LEDs for its eyes, there are also quite a few motive toys that play irritating tunes out of their cheapskate speakers constantly.
Same tune repeated every 10 seconds, for 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, 4 weeks a month.
I’ve saw the same cart attendant over...
October 2010
3 posts
Long train rides
Give one time to think.
I have nothing much to say, really
except to say that I have nothing much to say.
September 2010
2 posts
August 2010
8 posts
“I feel like you’ve just shot me and left me dying, and when I want to...”
– Somebody wounded.
This guy beside me
kept peeping at my screen.
“People who thinks tampons are bad for bodies are old-fashioned. Or their mums...”
– Ming Hui (?!?!)
This is so fabulous
I don’t understand why people still stick with Twitter.
Hello world!
I’m right here. :)