I work in a bank. Prior to that, I have spent more than a decade working as a IT and management consultant serving primarily the financial services industry. I am also a customer of DBS. Certainly, I have high anticipation on the detail findings on what went wrong on July 5th when DBS suffered an unprecedented systems [...]
Entries Tagged as 'I See I Write'
Summer Blog Episode 10 – A Piece Of Work (Final Episode II)
July 1st, 2010 6 Comments
What is a piece of work? My friend Barbara from Philippine did some research and noted to me that it either means “someone who, although often interesting, is difficult to get along with on an every day basis” or “a remarkable person, achievement or product”. For some strange reasons, in my mind, when I asked [...]
Tags: Bob the Bot™ · summer blog 2010
Summer Blog Episode 6 – Who Created Zipper At The Back Of A Dress?
June 26th, 2010 2 Comments
These cannot be coincidences, the more I think about it. If you are a man, imagine wearing or taking off a shirt with a long zipper all the way up from your waist to the back of your neck. Or from the low side of your hip all the up to your armpit. Whoever designed [...]
Tags: Bob the Bot™ · summer blog 2010
SingTel mioTV Gives A Black Screen? Here Is How To Hard Reset Your Setup Box
June 12th, 2010 9 Comments
Update: SingTel called me to propose waiving one month mio Home subscription fees as a token of compensation. I think it is reasonable and fair. And he mentioned that I have been a loyal customer for many years, which is true. Let’s hope that the mio service will get improved. 10 pm, it was the [...]
Tags: mioTV
Asmara Lifestyle At Bishan Park – Singapore’s Best Kept Secret?! – Garden Spa, Restaurants, And More
June 3rd, 2010 6 Comments
You have no idea how surreal I felt last evening, when Cynthia and I attended a blogger event somewhere so close to our home. We have driven up and down passed Bishan Park along AMK Ave 1 so many times a month, in the day and at night. We had absolutely no idea that behind the [...]
Tags: Aramsa Lifestyle · Armsa Spa · Canopy Dining · greenroom
The Story Of Yeh Chi Wei – Singapore Art Museum
May 28th, 2010 No Comments
At the opening ceremony of “The Story of Yeh Chi Wei”, it is heartwarming to hear the late artist’s granddaughter giving a speech on Mr. Yeh Chi Wei’s art and the effort in putting an exhibition together – works by Yeh and works by The Ten Men Group (a community led by Yeh). It must [...]
Tags: blogger event · museum · National Art Gallery Singapore
Don’t Miss the 20th European Union Film Festival Here In Singapore (May 6-16)!
May 1st, 2010 1 Comment
I love to watch European films. What a coincident that Cynthia and I were invited to a blogger event for the 20th European Union Film Festival. We had no clue why the event was hosted at Spain Embassy Residence. Today, I read that Spain is the current rotating Presidency of the EU. Now I know! [...]
Tags: blogger event
Realism in Asian Art – Singapore Art Museum – Don’t Miss It
April 10th, 2010 2 Comments
Cynthia and I love to visit museums. There is always something to learn from these exhibitions. Last week, we were invited for an exhibition opening at National Art Gallery, Singapore – “Realism in Asian Art”. And we had the opportunity to hear from the experts in this field talking about the art, the process of [...]
Tags: blogger event · museum · National Art Gallery Singapore
So This Is Our Casino 1 Of 2? A Visit To Resorts World Sentosa Singapore
March 19th, 2010 29 Comments
One evening, seated opposite me inside a Japanese restaurant at Wheelock Place, my sister in her supreme cuteness and child like innocence squeezed her fists hard, gesturing in annoyance and said to Cynthia who was sitting next to me, “Does he always play with his phone at the dining table? Do you feel like grabbing his phone and throw it away?” For [...]
Tags: casino · Resorts World Sentosa
Nokia Christmas Party, By The Singapore River
December 11th, 2009 No Comments
I have always enjoy attending a Nokia party. Familiar faces from the traditional media, the new media. New faces too. And as I looked across the Singapore River, I was greeted by the enormous Integrated Resort yet to be completed stood silently against the dark evening watching over the inhabitants of the-other-side, us. What are those [...]
Tags: nokia · nokia event