We had our first SL Singapore meetup at 9pm last night. We took a group photo. Then Ivan, Kevin, Preetam, Alvin and I started talking geek, and the younger members slipped away. We moved to Chilin’s Yacht. Thanks to Chilin for being such a tolerant hostess as we messed up the place with furniture, booze …
Month: October 2006
Stephen Baker, in a Businessweek Blogspotting article, asks if we are entering a new Jazz Age. In the article, Bob Guccione, founder of Spin and now publisher of Discover Magazine, reportedly said that jazz is ‘a pretty small niche in music’ that preceded television. Those facts in themselves are true but he interpreted it too …
I have been visiting various campuses in Second Life to learn how visitors can be engaged and learn new things using this medium. Worthy of mention is the Second Life Planetarium (Slurl:Second Life Planetarium) where you can view the constellations moving around you, with a guided voice tour. It felt like I was in an …
Early this morning while sitting in a cafe, chatting to Ramblinglibrarian and some new friends, a man appeared out of nowhere. He took out a gun and fired it in my directon. I didn’t realise what was happening until I saw sparks flying around me. I realised I might have been hit. Almost as quickly, …
Someone from usability company Etre wrote in to inform me they that conducted a study on many corporate websites to see how the new Internet Explorer 7 displayed them. Turns out that many of these websites are busted. I haven’t done enough research myself to determine if IE7’s new rendering engine really adopts standards as …
Just added Google Co-op‘s customised search engine to my website. You can try it on the right nav bar (if you’re viewing it from the home page, scroll down further). Customised some of the layout but need to tweak it further. It’s time to sleep…
My new band, the Moonjumpers, kind of met up this Sunday. We were all playing at a student jam session. It went well. It’s good to get out of ‘soloist’ mode every now and then, and work as a team. That’s the fun part. The students who don’t communicate with others are the ones who …
My duet with cousin Sean. I’m wearing my nyonya kebaya. Note: This is amateur video … we haven’t seen the ones taken by the pros yet.
Finally, after several years of cajoling from friends, I have some music to show. powered by ODEO This is a recording of The Girl From Ipanema which I recorded while practising for my grandfather’s 80th birthday bash. In this recording, the guy’s part is sung by me (because my cousin wasn’t around during the recording …
We survived. The singing went well. When I went on stage to sing ‘Girl from Ipanema’, I took off my spectacles for aesthetic reasons. Turned out there was a practical use as well – because I couldn’t see the audience clearly, I did not panic. I didn’t forget my lyrics or sing the wrong note. …