Rarely do I play around with my wireless phone when I am having a meal with someone. But when the three lovely ladies from the Nokia and Text100 teams handed me the Nokia N96 for a test drive, not even the thunderstorm outside The Rogues could keep me from having my hands all over this [...]
Entries from November 17th, 2008
Nokia N96 Test Drive Episode 1 – First Impression
November 17th, 2008 13 Comments
Tags: blogger event · N96 · nokia · nokia event · Nokia Test Drive Unlimited: N96
Clarke Quay is Lovely – Project Experiment with Nikon SB-900
November 16th, 2008 30 Comments
Clarke Quay holds a special place to my heart, it has always been since I first visited Singapore more than a decade ago. The vibrancy, the color, the tourists, and when I was toying with a location for me to experiment my new flash unit Nikon SB-900, I thought of Clarke Quay. To tell you [...]
Tags: Clarke Quay · Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G · Nikon D700 · Nikon SB-900
In the World of MMORPG, One Game Rules Them All – World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King
November 14th, 2008 18 Comments
God knows how many hours some of the avid gamers have queued for the 1pm launch party. It wasn’t so much of a party per se and when I was a few blocks away from my destination, minutes before the gate at SAFRA Town Club opened, a random group of lovely ladies right beside me [...]
Tags: Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G · Nikon D700 · World of Warcraft
My First Ever SLR Photo Shooting Session – A Test Drive of the Nikon D700 at the Singapore River
November 13th, 2008 24 Comments
Love, can be nurtured. I think. I have been staring at my new Nikon D700 for quite some time wondering what I shall do with such a complicated, heavy, fine piece of equipment. Today, I took it out for some test drive at the Singapore River during lunch. I think I am falling in love. [...]
Tags: Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G · Nikon D700
So I Bought A dSLR That Defies All That I Was Advised Upon
November 11th, 2008 18 Comments
It is probably one of the most breathtaking decisions I have made lately when I got myself an early Christmas present for the next 5 years combined: an entry level full frame camera. To my dear friends whom I have been bugging for months asking the same set of questions in 101 different ways, thank [...]
Tags: Nikon D700
Ayumi Hamasaki Complete Singles – Is This for You?
November 10th, 2008 27 Comments
Hardcore Ayu fans will get this, regardless. For just over S$30, even if most of us – the fans – have already had most of her albums (I have close to 300 songs of hers that amount to 23 hours of continuous enjoyment), this box-set is a very nice to have. It has: A beautifully [...]
Tags: Ayumi Hamasaki
Prefer Casino Royale to Quantum of Solace – My Quantum of Mad Rush from 1450 to 1658
November 9th, 2008 12 Comments
I think I had my fair share of action packed excitement prior to the five o’clock movie “Quantum of Solace”. At 1450 (timestamp from one of my messages to M), I stepped into my Aston Martin (OK, more like a … whatever) with one hand on my Nokia phone doing last minute checking on my [...]
Tags: Daniel Craig · Olga Kurylenko
Nokia N-Gage Games Night – I Was There (How Video Games Have Evolved)
November 7th, 2008 3 Comments
How video games have evolved, how they have not. After attended several of their press / blogger events, this time I was as close to where their home in Singapore is as I can be – the Nokia HQ. When I arrived at the lobby, I gasped at the grandeur of modernity, perhaps a bit [...]
Tags: blogger event · nokia · nokia event
Recession and You Think You See the Axe Coming … So What? Practical Ways to Stay Happy
November 5th, 2008 15 Comments
Lovely picture isn’t it? When I retire, I want to live somewhere that I can see this view every end of day. But between then and now, I reckon I still need to make just enough money to get there. And I reckon I will probably see a few rounds of bull and bear runs [...]
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Our Band Has a New Vocal Coach, Woot! – Live on Nov 29 (Sat) 7pm @ Heeren
November 3rd, 2008 8 Comments
Finally, the program for the charity event “Music for Hope” is out. I was just about to wonder if our band’s slot is still on, or off. It will be a whole day event at Heeren (Singapore) and our band will perform right in between the last leg of the show (Nov 29, 7pm), right [...]
Tags: music for hope