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My new colleague once asked me if I know where the best sites to download music are. My immediate response was Apple.com (iTunes Store that is). It is rhetoric. I knew that was not what she has in mind and neither can we buy music from iTunes Store in Singapore. Allow me to indulge myself [...]

Increasingly, I realize that there is some sort of role reversal between Cynthia and I when it comes to shopping. And I assure you, there is nothing to do with that 7 months break I had and how I became domesticated. Cynthia shops with objectives in mind. She may not know where to buy that [...]

Not many people I’ve talked to appreciate the technology of Videocassette Recorders (VCR). It is a matured technology – the first VCR made for home use was back in 1965 by Sony – and low cost compares to Digital Video Recorder (DVR). I clean the video heads and change my tapes regularly. Four hours long [...]

Day 1 of the Facilitation course at British Council, as icebreaker, the trainer asked us to think of an animal that best described ourselves and why (the activity was called “Animal Magic” by the way). So, some said dog, cat, lamb, hamster, cow, and some said lion, tiger, and eagle (I chose eagle because of [...]

Many Singaporean friends of mine prefer dining at the hawker centers to cooking a proper dinner at home. I do prefer home cook food but ever since Cynthia frequently worked overseas, there is not much point in cooking my own meal. Hence I eat out. Choices are limited – either dine around my work place [...]

I am not a big fan of sport broadcast but since young, I fall in love with high platform diving. With a high platform, the athletes are given enough time to chain the difficult moves together and yet land onto the water with the minimum amount of splash. Perfect ten is made of this. Some [...]

With the recent Hong Kong trip still fresh in my memory, I find it hard not to compare the customer services experience in Hong Kong and in Singapore. Back in Hong Kong, one evening I entered an electronic shop not unlike Courts near closing hours. The salesperson was very helpful full of enthusiasm showing me [...]

My friend JT and I have a long debat on what constitutes to a good song. To him, a song must be original that has hooks; to him, majority of the commercial songs are “typical” and not worth listening to; to him, majority of the songs I listen to are “typical” and not worth listening [...]

Yesterday as I was trying to explain to JT what the online gaming World of Warcraft is like, JT kept on insisting that it is just a virtual world and you get nothing out from it. This morning as I pondered, when you really think about it, the world we are living in, in this [...]

Today I was having a coffee with my colleague WT and he was sharing all the exciting new things that he has learnt during the 2-days Learning Organisation workshop. One of the case study was on how IDEO designed an innovating shopping trolley with three objectives in mind: (1) to radically improve upon the existing [...]