Chinese New Year – typically an occasion for families to come together for reunion dinners, house-visiting, and awkwardness for anyone single above the age of 25. The family dinner on New Year’s Eve is probably the most significant meal a family will have for the whole year. For me, being a foreigner with no family [...]
Archive for January, 2009
25 Jan
445.
This post is simply to change the number of entries on this blog to a total of 445 rather than four-hundred forty-four. That would have been an inauspicious start to the year. Says the small superstitious part of me. Gong Xi Fa Cai!
24 Jan
Blogtv.sg gets a silver
Last year I co-hosted a show called Blogtv.sg on Channel News Asia. It was a lot of fun. My co-host was Phin Wong, an editor for MediaCorp’s daily Today paper, and every week we would have a different topic to talk about that related to young adults. What I personally enjoyed was being pushed to [...]
22 Jan
Microsoft layoffs
Layoff. What an ugly word. I’m not sure which sounds worse to the ears… retrenchment or layoff. I guess retrenchment is worse. Good thing that Microsoft is an American company and we use the word layoff instead of retrenchment. It was just announced that Microsoft is laying off 5,000 employees over the next 18 months. [...]
21 Jan
It’s your show now
Barack Obama has been sworn in as the new President of the United States of America. It’s time for the high expectations placed on him to begin turning into reality. To me, he’s an icon of hope, inspiration, and unity. I find it odd I feel so strongly towards him – he hasn’t been “proven”… [...]
19 Jan
I want to be friends with Hello Kitty
When I signed up for Xbox Live years ago, I chose “Hello Kitty” as my gamertag. I thought it would be fun to slaughter people at games like Halo or Gears of War and hear them scream out, “#!$@ I got killed by Hello Kitty again!” What I did not expect were the types of [...]
12 Jan
5 thoughts for the Singapore Tourism Board
Tonight I’ve been asked to participate in a focus group that will be discussing Singapore’s tourist attractions. I’m not entirely sure if that is the topic as they don’t tell you what the focus group is about, but in the “qualifying” statements they listed: I am a foreigner who has lived in S’pore for at [...]
12 Jan
Timely links
In this most turbulent of times, if you happen to find yourself without a job, it may be an opportunity in disguise. It gives you the chance to apply for The Best Job in the World. That’s right – you could be an island caretaker in the Great Barrier Reef area. Your office: While [...]
11 Jan
My petrified liver
After a bout of drinking that would have put Don Draper (of Mad Men) to shame, I find myself slowly recovering on this Sunday night. Sitting in my recently cleaned living room, I finally have a clear path to the window – which means I can open it and enjoy the breeze. Recently I have [...]
8 Jan
Windows Vista Tip for aligning windows
I’ve always had difficulty in aligning separate application windows in Vista. While flying through some tech articles today I found a tip that I didn’t know about – it’s an instant productivity-helper! (I wish I remembered which article so I could cite it). To quickly align application windows: Left-click on an application in the task [...]
