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About a month ago, my flat’s (well my landlord’s flat) lift upgrading got started. Everywhere, things are being destroyed, removed, dismantled, made unusable, made dirty, moved, replaced by other temporary things.Goodbye, Wall.The piling machine that goes “TANk! TAnK! TaNK! tANK!” every day, 8am to 6pmThe trail of destruction - bye bye garden, tree, …
Are you a film maker? Are you a corporate buyer? Do you need music, not playback but LIVE music? Would you get 50 to 100 people to a venue and perform for you so that you look “atas” (~prestigious)? Let me tell you a stories about orchestras.Originally, there’s the age old Singapore Symphony Orchestra, circa. ...
Everybody needs an Apple device, at least eventually. Since the first release of an iPod many years back when I was still in US, I’ve thought that a mobile device by Apple would be nice to have, but a plain MP3 player just wouldn’t cut it for me - it has to be a COMPUTER. ...
Total cost? $735,600 Not as expensive as you’d expect. I was particularly surprised that an Exoskeleton will retail only for as little as $15,000 USD. This means soon our security forces will look no different from the likes of the Federation in Star Wars.Here’s a breakdown of the cost.Source: IEEE Spectrum
The Philharmonic Winds @ VivoCitySunday, March 30, 2008, 1pmVivoCity, Central Court (Level 1 Atrium)(FREE ADMISSION)Let The Philharmonic Winds, led by their Music Director Leonard Tan, bring you a whole new world of musical enjoyment.Presented by Singapore Press Holdings, this SPH Gift of Music concert promises to enthrall both the young and old with tunes from ...
This is the first time I’m watching Malaysian elections from the lenses in Singapore, and it certainly has it fair share of reality distortion as the mainstream newspapers in Malaysi …
When I got on the shuttle bus today from City Hall MRT to go to Suntec for work, I was surprised by the relentless announcement made by the kind bus uncle, which is apparently triggered by some recent decision by the Traffic Police. Come Jan 2, the shuttle bus which used to stop along Exit ...
You are invited to join Kiyoe Hashimoto, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Admission at Stanford for an information session together with five other institutions: the University of Chicago, Dartmouth, Duke, Wellesley and Yale. After a presentation on each institution, there will be a general question-and-answer period as well as the opportunity to speak with individual …
If you’ve attended the last concert of the series, be sure to check out this one too!Source: The Philharmonic Orchestra (Singapore!).Buy tickets from SISTIC now! (opens new window)This is one of those concerts that caters to both the sophisticated listeners (Sibelius, as we all know, is a revolutionary composer at the turn of the 20th ...
Funny Or not? Adding to sad joke is that, firstly the cartoon is from a Scandinavian country, secondly the guy is watching football, and thirdly he’s still using a CRT monitor.Every time I see Java (the programming language) I think about its history of firstly trying to be the language of a universal set ...
Ah just downloaded my photos from the phone.Sebastian reaching the end of Bedok JettyMun Yew, Herk, Wei Kang, Keok Tong, Choon Ong and Sebastian. Missing: Clemence and meThink we could have cycled / bladed a lot further - the beach keeps changing, there must be more to see.
Hong Kong TVB production - a short 30 minute documentary of Lim Guan Eng’s first 100 days leading the PR government and the people’s response to it. It has a HK perspective, ma …
There’s something about this video that’s very touching. Not just the ad-hoc-ness of it, or just the lyrics / tune etc. something else…
A “two sided market” is a rather recent economics term, basically a new way to look at many of these platforms who has two mutually reinforcing players. But alas my study and understanding of the concepts are not complete yet, will have to study it closely further. Here’s a deck from “Telco 2.0″:[kml_flashembed …
Wiener Philharmoniker, i.e. Vienna Philharmonic, plays a symphony that I’ve come to love - it was my last concert with Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra when in Seattle (Alan, Dan, Lynne, Jensen, Mark, Rabi, Brena etc. I miss you guys!), but hopefully not with TPO this time I like how Bernstein deliberately drags certain parts ...
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of ImaginationJ.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits …
Yay, our favourite location based info site is back:http://www.undi.info/Run by mkini instead of the government was always hoping to find time to bridge this into facebook so that youngsters of that constituency can come together to discuss issues etc. Looks like it’s too soon again. Sigh, lofty ambitions.Now to figure out how to ...
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