Our internet connection has finally been restored after 2-3 days of sporadic availability. We’re going on tour today and I hope the persistent drizzle stops. Here’s a summary of our last few days since my previous post. So far, we’ve played two rounds of golf. Considering this is my second and third time playing on …
Month: December 2008
We woke up at 5am and headed to the airport. It was a comfortable 2-hour flight to Ho Chi Minh City. However our connecting flight to Dalat required several hours’ wait, so we left the airport, took a short city tour, had a pho lunch and walked around the Ben Thanh market where we were …
Now that I have the[ Logos bible study software on my Mac](http://www.logos.com/mac/), I consulted it to learn the origin of Christmas. My two main questions were: **How did the name ‘Christmas’ come about?** According to Harper’s Bible Dictionary, > Christmas, the annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus, celebrated on December 25 in all churches …
On Christmas eve morning I visited my colleagues and joined the department lunch party. Then I went to town to look for golf bag covers. I went to Tangs (in real life, [not Second](http://vantan.org/archives/2008/12/tangs_in_second.php)) to spend some vouchers. Then I went home and helped mum prepare for the Christmas party. The turkey and ham was …
I had a productive day: 1. Sent the car for servicing. Repaired the blown fuse in my cigarette lighter which I use to charge my iPhone 2. Met up with ex-colleagues from Fynch for lunch. Took lots of photos of 3. Went to SGL at Sim Lim Square to buy RAM to upgrade the family …
In several hours I’ll be on a cruise to Penang and back. I will be back before Christmas, but my schedule is filling up. After Christmas I will be playing golf in Vietnam. Next week: – I will be back at HPB for a department party and to catch up with everyone – I am …
Link to [full article](http://www.straitstimes.com/Singapore/Story/STIStory_315701.html) (subscribers only) Yesterday I received a call from a Straits Times journalist who told me briefly about Tang’s plans to launch a virtual store in Second Life, and asked for my thoughts on this. I learnt that homegrown company First Meta was behind this initiative. I applaud them for being proactive …
‘Hardworking’ was a label that teachers used to describe me. It was in my report cards for some years since Primary school. Presumably, it’s one of many commonly-used terms and teachers had to write reports for 30-40 plus students in each class, and I’m sure that some of my readers also have similar experiences. Still, …
I logged in to Gmail this morning to discover that a large number of bounced emails from email addresses I don’t know, in response to an email that I never sent. It was a fake AdWords email asking these strangers to click on links to modify their AdWords account details. But when you hover over …