Posts from ‘August, 2009’

I’m always worried when someone comes up with contest to name something. We Singaporeans are the “most creative” people when it comes to naming contest. Some of the winning “creative names” from naming contest includes:
The Budget Terminal named as “Budget Terminal”
The Bukit Panjang LRT named as “Bukit Panjang LRT”
Marina Bay named as “Marina Bay”
So [...]

An interesting short film about the history of Johnnie Walker.

Howdy folks!
As you all may know, am not a new guest blogger on DK’s blog. Did guest blogging here before, thus I believe, not much introduction to begin with.
But for the sake of introduction, I shall write a little more here. Blogs at nicole.sg (plug!) as well as part of Tech65
First, a big thank you [...]

I’ll be going back to camp for reservist for the next 2 weeks (plus a bit) and will be “released” on 5 Sept. Which explains why I got my friends to help guest blog and also the camouflage blog header. (Which is the same that I used last year)

This year, I’ll be wearing the new [...]

I’m going for Reservist again tomorrow. I know, you must be wondering why I so much reservist one. I also don’t know leh. So happen that my reservist unit very the on, every year sure recall back without fail. Which is good lah. I will finish my reservist cycle faster so that I don’t need [...]

I was invited to try out Go Karting last Sunday at Sims Drive. It is part of K1 Karting series tour of the heartland to bring Go Kart to the residents and generate interest in the upcoming Formula 1 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix in September.

I’m always interested in F1. I’ve tried the Singtel F1 [...]

I was invited to Smirnoff’s Spirit of Champions party at St James Powerhouse on National Day. The party is to commemorates Smirnoff’s partnership with Manchester United Football Club. Smirnoff is Man Utd’s official spirits sponsor and responsible drinking partner. United Against Drink Driving.
Few weeks before the party, I met up with the nice folks from [...]

MARUAH (The Singapore Working Group for ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism) is organising a workshop titled “Engaging the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) – The People’s Views”. The aim of the workshop is to raise awareness on the functions and roles of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights.
Date: 22 August 2009
Time: 8.30am [...]

I did a phone interview with Sunday Times regarding online privacy on Google Latitude and the article was printed yesterday.

And nope, I haven’t give up on online privacy, although I feel that it’s getting harder and harder to be private online. A few keypoints that was mentioned during the interview but wasn’t printed. For example, [...]

One thing that never fails to amaze me is the amount of spam comment in my blog. Sometimes I can get up to 200 spams comment a day. Luckily for me, I’ve installed Akismet to catch the spams. But Akismet is not 100% fool proof. Sometimes it allows spam comments to get pass. Sometimes it [...]