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I missed out on much of the activities for the Vespa Club first year anniversary. But I still had an eyeful looking at all the colourful and interesting scooters of all sorts of shapes and size.When I reached Wild Rocket at Mount Emily, I could see lots of people lounging around over at the verandah. ...
On Thursday night, I was at the Secondlife meet hosted by Engkiat and Nicholas from the Idea Factory. I met fellow Secondlifers like Preetam, Vanessa and Alvin. I also met Aileen and for the first time ever, finally got to meet up with Jeremy, or Limkopi, as he is known inworld.Limkopi was a memorable avatar for me because I always assumed, judging from the avatar that she …
During our stay in Singapore this time round, I didn’t want be stuck in town especially during the holiday seasons. With a million vehicles around, its a tad fastidious especially ha …
If you’ve been around youtube, you’ve probably heard of Esmee Denters a singing sensation from the Netherlands. A singing enthusiast, Esmee recorded her beautiful voice and put it up on youtube. Nine months later, she is signed up with the same label as Justin Timberlake.Click here to listen to her singing ‘What goes around’When you think about it, …
Its quite a flurry of activities this week.On thursday, my inlaws arrived in Singapore. I met them for a short while at their hotel and took them around orchard for a bit. They were as nice and warm as ever. And then I remembered that my Italian sucked. thus our conversation was a little ...
A bunga telur is a decorative container for eggs meant to be given away as gifts to guests in a Malay wedding.When mum brought home a huge box of bunga telur and an ornate copper display stand, I started to have my mini panic attacks. Cartcart and I havent even planned our wedding yet and ...
I am supposed to be doing a sharing session this upcoming Thursday at the Idea Factory for the Secondlife Community meet.To be honest, after hearing the discussion at the E27 unconference, and seeing participants with their scepticism and disbelief, I’m not very confident about talking this thursday, in front of all the technophiles I saw on the attendance list. …
Can you imagine finding these three books at almost unused condition that costs in total for about $20?Wow right? Yeah, thats what I thought so too.Its been a while since I’ve been to Bras Basah Complex. I used to go there some years ago while undertaking digital design course in a distant lifetime. I love this place as it has a plentiful of things for people who are …
Blogs are evolving. When I first subscribed to the internet in 1996, we recorded our thoughts with newsgroups (remember those?) We used outlook express to search and subscribe for threads and to discuss with other people.Later on, we learnt HTML to code for webpages like geocities and tripod (which was commonly used at the time). ...
Yahoo photos was closing and just recently transferred all the pictures to flickr. I was looking at some of the pictures that I have forgotten and remembered some of the memories that I had.Like the time when my girlfriends and I went to Thailand. It was 2003 then. I had just settled down in my ...
Last week, I was at the Singapore Garden Festival. After missing the first one in December 2006, I told myself that I should make an effort to view the one this yearWhen I reached Suntec City, there were already quite a number of people there - presumably after work, like me. I made my payments ...
Its not up to standard to what you’d have at the prata shop, but I’m quite proud at how my experimentation turned out Roti Prata is one of the food that most Singaporeans love to eat. Since I was a kid, I would patronise hawker centers and order a nice plate of Roti Prata, accompanied ... 
Maria Bertha Hertogh died recently at 72 years old from Leukaemia. To put it simply, Maria Hertogh was a Dutch girl who was adopted and brought up by a Malay lady, Che Aminah for several years in the 1940s. By then, she grew up to be like a Malay Muslim girl.It was only some years ...
I was awarded the slackiest latecomer award. In my defence for being the last to arrive, it was an extremely rainy day and I didnt want to risk having an accident on the road. But I’m sorry that I didnt get to meet new faces like Snowbiscuits, Nannywen, Shey, Yuhui and others as by the ...
1. Carry a box filled with foodA box of pizza or a box of cakes will do just fine2. Walk around alone, without your husband or your boyfriend with youAnd then slowly you’ll find random Italian men waving excitedly and smiling at you saying things like : “Oh for me? Grazie!”“You really shouldn’t have!”“Yes! That’s ...
For a very long time, my room was a shade of pink.But after numerous naggings constructive criticism by my mum to spruce it up in time for the wedding, I finally picked up the paintbrush and started painting my room.I’ve never painted before. After several advices from my friend on painting techniques, I dipped the ...
Somewhile back in August, there was a contest whereby readers give their thoughts about the touchsmart and the judges pick comments based on their creativity. The judges were impressed by Jurlique’s entry in my HP post. And that made the both of us to win a HP Touchsmart each!It was so unreal that it took ...
Personally, I’ve always had an affinity to Nokia - My past 3 phones itself being the 3310, the 7260 and currently I’m using the 7390 of the L’Amore series.Thus, when I was given the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet on loan for a some weeks thanks to Supriya of Text100, I took to it like fish ...
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