Comdex is still the same as ever – hordes of Singaporeans (and their families in tow), trudging along in various directions, shoulder to shoulder, a few carrying huge boxes which got in everyone else’s way. After bearing with the occasional whiff of B.O. and a frequent elbow in the chest, I decided to call it…
I only popped by this evening for a short while, but this was my first time at WOMAD and I didn’t even have to sit on the grass, thanks to the hospitality of the Singapore Tourism Board which supplied us with food, drinks, cushions and mats. The African music was pleasant. The Indian dance workshop…
Today could have been called ‘Bad Driving Day’. It started when my mother was trying to exit a very crowded Ngee Ann City this afternoon. Just as she reached the exit to the main road, we found that a shiny red open-top Lotus (complete with lofty-looking yuppie chick with short hair and sunglasses) was sitting…
Two nice things happened to me this Friday. First, in the morning I finally met a nice client. A very polite German lady, who made reasonable requests and actually understood the nature of the internet as a medium. Next, the Singapore NIC (registrar for .sg domain names) replied to my query, confirming that .sg sites…
Due to increasing commitments at work and outside of work, I now get by with 4-5 hours of sleep per day. Every night I practice for the GRE, work on my church’s new website, research for my own further education, and maintain this website. By the time I’m done for the night, it is usually…
After a most excellent dinner with Ricky, Alex and Ricky’s son Marcus, I learnt more about databases than I ever thought existed. I also learnt two disturbing things: 1) My church still uses a predominantly paper-based filing system – which means migration to electronic records (for integration with the new website) is going to be…
Tonight I’m having dinner with the rest of the church website team. My company may be able to give them a content management system with minimal charges. But it would’ve been fun to see how far we could’ve gotten, completely free with PHP/mySQL and Perl.
This morning’s melodrama was a prime example of Murphy’s Law. I woke up this morning by myself, wondering when my alarm clock (actually, the alarm feature in my Nokia 6510) was going to ring. It didn’t. Because the damn phone had hung again. I restarted the phone, and checked the time: 8.20 am. Not good….
This evening my parents and I decided to try out Jade restaurant at Fullerton Hotel. We bumped into the son of famous forensics expert, the late Dr Chao Tze Cheng, who was waiting for his guests to arrive at the same restaurant. The next thing we knew, he convinced us to join his table, and…
I was browsing around at Borders this evening, and found myself immediately drawn to a specific corner of the Computing section – the two rows of shelves dedicated to Web Culture. *destiny* What would I have put in my shopping cart, budget notwithstanding? 1. Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias (on different aspects of net…