I guess I should count myself lucky that so many dear friends and nice people are getting married and that I’m playing music for them. Well this time all I have to do is compile music CDs for Paul and Alison’s wedding, which is today. The music is generally jazzy with quite a few classics …
Month: September 2002
The Chinese government denies hacking into the Dalai Lama’s computer network and spreading a virus via email, to his supporters. Even web gurus make boo-boos. Well, more like their editors did. Check out the erratum for Zeldman’s book, Taking Your Talent To The Web. A book I intend to purchase, BTW. And before I forget, …
{ url } There was an earthquake in the British Midlands, measuring 4.8 on the Richter Scale. While the source originated in Dudley, the tremors were felt by my friend Demetra who’s still studying in Bristol (gawd how I miss the place). No major damage, thank goodness.
I’m currently working on conforming this website to W3C standards. Unfortunately this will penalise users of Netscape 4 and below – but since they’re using a browser version that’s becoming increasingly irrelevant in this day and age, they might as well be encouraged to upgrade. But there won’t be any major changes to the look …
I was much taken in by this story of a female black singer who was often undermined in the music business because of the colour of her skin. She refused to mimic the rest of the singers in her genre in the way they dressed and behaved. She is now the recipient of the Mercury …
After admiring the innovative and chic home accessories at the lifestyle shop on the 2nd floor of Ngee Ann City, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read about the CEO who spent US$2,200 on a wastepaper basket that didn’t do anything extraordinary. However I do have my eyes on a very intriguing timepiece, the …
Today is my very good friend Vanessa Heng’s birthday. She’s flown off to Italy today with her parents, the lucky girl. Since she speaks Italian and studied in Florence for half a year, she should have no problem showing them around. In the meantime, I’ll just hang on to what’s left of my leave.
It’s Denyse’s birthday today and we celebrated it at 8 on the Bay, the restaurant near the Indoor Stadium. Well, since the booking was for 8pm, it was literally at 8, at 8. Hahaha. OK bad joke. Everything was fine until we got to the birthday cheesecake, which tasted more like quiche to me because …
Just took the GRE this morning. Let me just say that I had less than 7 hours of broken sleep (nerves!) and diarrhoea. Got my results. Sent them to USC, Berkeley, Santa Barbara and Columbia. Did okay. Top quartile for all three papers, which is probably just average for most Singaporeans. Whatever. I can’t think …
My computer’s been offline for over a week but today I finally had time to sit down and reinstall the home server, so everything’s back to normal. I also installed the { Opera browser }, the third player in the browser market that’s often been sidelined by the battle between Microsoft … and what’s left …