2008 December

Entries from December 31st, 2008

What a Fruitful Year that Ends with a Bang: My Sister’s Wedding

December 31st, 2008 24 Comments

Out of over 7,000 photos taken with my barely 2 months old camera, if I could pick one picture as my Nikon moment, this is it. Friends of mine perhaps rarely see this look of mine that is ecstatically happy. And indeed I was and more, overwhelmed with emotion. I passed my camera to my [...]

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Year 2008 Movie Awards – The Nominations by the Movie Review Squad

December 30th, 2008 19 Comments

47 movies, 47 blog entries, in 1 year - 14 awards our Movie Review Squad has dreamed up with, and here are our nominations. I don’t even want to start calculating how much money three of us have contributed to our favorite Cathay Cineplexes. And if you see any bizarre conflict within the list of nominations, [...]

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Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett’s Omaha by Jeff Matthews – A Highly Readable, Well Balanced Travelogue That Will Get You Thinking

December 28th, 2008 3 Comments

As someone who has close to zero prior knowledge on the phenomenon of Warren Buffett, hedge fund manager and financial blogger Jeff Matthews has done a marvelous job in painting a holistic picture of a world according to Warren Buffett. Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett’s Omaha is highly assessable. Supported by close to 90 quotations from various [...]

Tags: Jeff Matthews · McGraw-Hill · McGraw-Hill Book Review Blogger

Second Batch of Photos from Our Bandung Trip – Cafe Sierra at the Peak and Our Last Day of the Trip

December 26th, 2008 9 Comments

OK. This photo of the waitress at Bambu Desa looks lovely. The authentic Indonesian food from the lovely city of Bandung is lovely too. Now before I get into that, here comes the second batch of our selected photo collection. If you notice from the previous batch, I have reversed the order of the batches [...]

Tags: Bandung Dec 2008 Trip · Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G · Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G VR · Nikon D700 · Nikon SB-900

We Celebrated Christmas Eve the Twilight Way

December 25th, 2008 16 Comments

Wow. How Kristen Stewart has grown up from the 12 years old Panic Room diabetes into one fine young actress who is in love with … a vampire. Twilight watched like a mix of my favorite TV series Buffy and Felicity. Add that with the cool rock numbers by Linkin Park, Muse, Paramore, and more [...]

Tags: Kristen Stewart · Robert Pattinson · Twilight Saga

First Batch of Photos from Our Bandung Trip – A Teaser and More to Come

December 24th, 2008 5 Comments

I know I have been slow in publishing the photos from my trips and now that I am heading to Hong Kong in less than 72 hours’ time, it’s a high time to release the first batch of … erm … teaser. Recently, I have added a telephoto zoom lens into my collection. Though it [...]

Tags: Bandung Dec 2008 Trip · Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G · Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G VR · Nikon D700

So This is What the Spanish Exam at Las Lilas School Beginner 2 is Like

December 22nd, 2008 8 Comments

Oh dear me, the Spanish Exam for Beginner 2 was mind blowing. I dragged myself out of the bed just hours before the exam, having a fever of 38°C. Oops, that was no good. My body ached (still does) and I have these non-work related appointments coming into my mobile phone’s Gmail application as I [...]

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Nokia N96 Test Drive Episode 4 – Satellites Watch Me Jog

December 20th, 2008 2 Comments

The Nokia N96 is without doubt more than just a phone and yesterday, I took it for a jog, with the satellites behind me. I have stopped jogging for more than a year after I have hurt my knees at the Mount Kinabalu. It is hard to describe the fear of not being able to [...]

Tags: N96 · nokia · Nokia Test Drive Unlimited: N96

The Day the Earth Stood Still Was the Day We Returned from Our Bandung Trip

December 18th, 2008 2 Comments

This morning, minutes before we checked out of the hotel from Jakarta and to catch a plane back to Singapore, two of our Movie Review Squad members were busy booking our movie tickets via the free wi-fi network provided at the hotel lobby while the third one was on the 10th floor busy catching up with [...]

Tags: Jennifer Connelly · Keanu Reeves

If There is One Thing I Can Change On How Singapore Retail Market Operates … OK, Make it 10

December 17th, 2008 16 Comments

I love my country but not certain aspects of our retail market. I am not an economist, just a layman consumer on the ground. My everyday observation as such. Recently I bought a camera. If you are to buy the exact same one I have at a major chain store, you would have to pay [...]