I've been feeling down recently. So much so that I've been avoiding some work. Instead, I immersed myself in meetings after meetings. They are necessary but I need not have piled all the meetings together in the past weeks. It was my way of avoiding the real problems. I was frustrated. I don't have a solution. Even though I've assembled my team of very capable members, …

One of my servers was having problem for the past 1 year. It had gotten from bad to worse. For the past 3 months, every week, it would require a hard reboot at least once. There would also always be corrupted files which would require a rebuild (if we are lucky). Else, we would need to restore the corrupted files from our most recent backup. The server is only 2 years …

Sorry for the late of recent updates. Been really busy. There is some recenet big news, at least for me as an entrepreneur. Hardwarezone sold for S$7.1 million. I've my thoughts but I'll save my comments for a future post... or not.Usually I hope to blog on weekdays but I'm not a fast blogger. Some "difficult" entries may take me up to 4 hours to write. Yeah! 4 hours! …

It's been a while since I last blogged regularly. At my peak, I blogged about 20 entries per month. But since last September, my entries have dropped drastically to only 1 per month (if you even consider the April entry, an entry).Many things have happened but now trying to look back, everything seems to be in a blur. Things were moving really quickly and I was quickly …

I fetch my 3-year old son from his childcare centre after work. That day, instead of walking, my son asked me to carry him home. I usually obliged as I understand that he is feeling vulnerable and jealous as he sees that his younger brother is being carried most of the time. I usually obliged also beceause there'll be a time when he'll be too big and heavy for me to carry. …

I've not been blogging for so long that even typing my blog's url felt weird and unfamiliar. My fingers actually tripped over each other typing the url on the keyboard. I've been kept busy with various projects, chasing payments, closing accounts for year 2006 and of course, preparing for the Chinese New Year.This year, instead of just hiding all my junk and mess in unseen …

I've lost my blogging momentum. I'm writing this entry hoping that I'll be able to restart my blogging engine. It is nearly 3 weeks since my last entry. I would like to restart by writing something short, something not so "insightful". :pWhy have I lost my momentum? It was mainly due to work but it was also because the follow-up entry "The Art Of The Start: Part 2" would …

I've recently received a mailer informing that I've been pre-approved to receive a Platinum credit card. Before you go Wow and think that I earn millions, let me just tell you I don't. I've only one credit card since I graduated and started working. I've been having only one credit card since then. I never thought that I'll need more than one credit card. Why do I want …

Why I don't have a car yet? Because I prefer to have $100k in my bank account after 10 years! If I can pay for a $70k car by 10 years loan. That would also mean that if I save the money from the loan, petrol, car insurance, maintenace, it would likely amount to $100k in 10 years time! That would mean a likely savings of $10k per year.If you buy a car, after 10 years, it …

I've finally lost my mobile phone a few days ago. Throughout 35 years of my life, I've not lost a single thing. Well, there were occasions but I got the items back so they were not counted.As I was going to a client's home which was located at a secluded (what we usually call ulu) road and the taxi driver didn't know the exact place, I had to put down my mobile phone which …