This evening, we discovered a new stall inside Thomson Plaza food court selling Thai food, advertised as “Gourmet Thai food”. Gourmet-ness is relative. But inside a food court that sells hopelessly tasteless food, this new stall has way exceeded my expectation. Over dinner, towards the end of a sumptuous gourmet meal , I recalled that I had [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Observing Life'
Dear SBY – Indonesia On Fire And Singapore In Smoke
October 21st, 2010 17 Comments
Dear SBY: I am a huge fan of you. I voted for you to be the next Indonesia president – in my heart. The same thing I did for Obama years later. Guess what? Both of you have won. I knew somehow, by the power of the invisible universal linkages, my vote counts. Anyway, back to [...]
Tags: dear so-and-so · haze · Indonesia fire
Nokia N8 – A Promising First Look
October 20th, 2010 3 Comments
Some of you have asked if I have had the opportunity to touch and feel the upcoming Noka N8. I would have, had I not missed the last few Nokia blogger events. Some personal commitments still take priority. And thanks to your inquiries, I have gathered enough courage to give Text100 a ring to see if a [...]
Tags: blogger event · nokia · Nokia N8
Transforming Into National Art Gallery, Singapore
October 3rd, 2010 2 Comments
Early last month, I have attended a blogger event at the former Supreme Court and City Hall that soon to be transformed into the new National Art Gallery. Now that the media embargo is lifted, I am here to share with you some photos I have taken, a fly-through video made by the National Art [...]
2010 SingTel F1 Grid Girls Crowning Party – A Media Event
September 17th, 2010 10 Comments
What a great media event! I mean, fast cars and pretty women should go side by side with one another. I am an avid fan of Formula One and have been watching every single match on TV. Singapore circuit is special. Not only because it is a night race, an anti-clockwise circuit, but also because [...]
Tags: blogger event · F1 · Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G VR · Nikon D700 · Nikon SB-900 · SingTel
Digesting The DBS and IBM Detail Findings Of 5 July Outage
August 4th, 2010 2 Comments
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 [...]
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 15 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