Skeptics, don’t ask me where I got these messages from. Message received by senior church member during our house blessing: The fish in our Koi pond shall grow to have unusual patterns. Everything that lives in there, shall flourish. (I am logging this down so we can keep track of it when something happens) Message …
Month: December 2004
Another SPH newspaper closes down. I can vaguely recall the pain felt when the newspaper I worked at, Project Eyeball, closed down 3 years before that. Vague, because time has eroded many of the memories I once had of the people and the place. As a fresh graduate I was idealistic. And shaken. ‘Why retrench …
…Is like living without my right arm. I can still get things done But it’s like walking 3 sides of a square to get to the same point. Every time I think of opening a new page, I reach out to hit CTRL-T but then realise It doesn’t work that way any more. I did …
Merry Christmas everybody! Hilin got me the Apple iSight. I totally didn’t expect anyone to get it for me. Best Christmas present this year, so far. In line with my plans to catalogue all the items lying around the house, I bought the full license to Delicious Library (Mac only) and it has been able …
It’s now official. The whole company has been informed that on 1 Jan 2005, the new Copyright Law would come into effect, with criminal penalties for offenders. At the same time, the new company IT security policy would also be implemented. Mozilla Firefox was listed as one of the programs not allowed on our systems. …
We officially moved in yesterday. However many fixtures have yet to be, well, fixed. My G5 Mac is now situated in the music room. Unfortunately, that places it just out of reach of our wireless network (yes, it’s encrypted, unlike our neighbours’ ;-). AirPort Express (AE) was of little use – the G5 could connect …
I’m very busy juggling work and moving house. I won’t necessarily respond to emails. I won’t check out URLs you send me. I may not reply to your text messages. And no, we have no housewarming plans yet. We’re not exactly in the mood for that right now.
The big match is on right now but I can’t watch it on TV because we only have one SCV point, and everyone in that room has fallen asleep. If, in the first minute, I had jumped up and shouted GOAL!!!! I don’t think anyone would be cheering with me. But well done, Henry. Oh …
Recent CD acquisitions (at the usual CD Shop): Zero 7’s When It Falls (nice ambience, sounds a bit like Air though); Blue Bar Vol 2 (hip chillout lounge – my only big splurge); The Very Best of Christmas Favorites (heart-warming renditions by various artistes – I particularly like Diana Krall’s take on Jingle Bells); WOW …
Hot in the news today is a finding that the majority of Singaporeans believe they speak Mandarin well. As suggested in the Straits Times, they probably gave themselves a generous self-assessment. Here in Singapore, I haven’t heard anyone speak 100% Mandarin without relying on other tongues to fill up gaps in their vocabulary. Quite often …