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Recently I received a call from an acquaintance, saying that she had a business proposal to discuss with me. I was rather surprised as I did not know her very well, so I was quite curious …
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Quite interestingly, more people likes to talk to me, ever since I started to set up my own company. Maybe to some people, I am quite a rare breed because I gave up a decent and stable job …
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Recently, a local company (Vuestar Technologies P/L) sent invoices (ranging from hundreds to thousands of Singapore dollars) to numerous website owners. Basically, the company claimed that …
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I remembered watching a scene in a Hong Kong drama series “Net Deception”, where a hacker (or cracker to be exact) played by HK actor Wong Hei was intruding a system using his laptop in a …
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I had been looking for an office for the past few weeks. Ever since I moved out of my first office in the year 2006, I had been a mobile entrepreneur in the sense that I did not have a fix …
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Alright the story goes like this. This accountant D is actually a friend of my good friend AC. I asked AC to recommend an accountant to me earlier this year, and he recommended D who owns …
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A lot of people would like to think that they themselves are underpaid, and their roles in the company are very important. However, your actual value may not be as high as what you perceiv …
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After trying all means to contact my accountant D to no avail, I decided to drop by his office to try my luck. To my surprise, D was in his office. And the first thing he said to me was to …
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Recently, I came across an exhibition in the National Library showcasing the contribution of a prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist, Mr Tan Kah Kee and his son-in-law, Mr Lee Kong Chian.Just a little background on Mr Tan Kah Kee:Tan Kah Kee was born in Jimei, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, and went to Singapore in 1890, when he was 16 years old, to work for his father's …
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Haven’t been updating this blog for some time. Somehow, I have lost some of my initial enthusiasm in blogging. Or perhaps it doesn’t exist in the first place. Of course, part of the reason …
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Over the years, I had the chances to work with a lot of people, both locals and foreigners, in the IT/Engineering fields. Most of them are software engineers, while some others are system engineers, network engineers, IT administrators, system analysts, etc. And slowly, I deviced a way to categorize these IT personnels according to their abilities and ego :Category 1 - High …
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Time seems to pass faster ever since I graduated from university, which was some seven or eight years ago. Many of my peers are having the same sentiments, and I actually had my own explan …
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I still remembered the very first job interview I had after I graduated from university. It was an interview for an IT post of a MNC, and the interviewer was an american. After some routin …
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曾经遇到过一些传教的基督徒对我说: “你看这个世界多么美丽, 有高山, 有蓝天, 有大海. 有美丽的花草树木, 有各种各样的飞禽走兽. 在这许多美好的东西背后, 你可曾想过, 一定有一个无所不能的造物者 ?”且不论这番话的逻辑性 (是谁创造了造物者 ?), 我想, 这个世界是否真的如此美好本身已经是个见仁见智的问题. 这世界存在的许多天灾人祸, 弱肉强食, 是否原本就出现在 …
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Hadn’t been updating this blog for weeks as I was rather busy with some other things. Firstly, I had been preparing the distributionship agreement for my product, both the exclusive and no …
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很多人小时候都写过 “我的志愿” 之类的文章. 当时的模范志愿不外乎医生, 警察, 发明家, 教师这几种行业. 可是, 有多少人最终实现了当年的志愿呢? 我相信应该不多吧?志愿其实是一件蛮矛盾的东西. 很多时候志愿都在自己还搞不清楚状况的情形下产生, 譬如在应付小学的作文习题的时候. 有多少个工程师从小就知道工程师不是帮人修电灯炮的? 又有多少个上班族会在小学的作文簿上写着 …
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Once upon a time, there was a company S whose key business was delivering technological and engineering projects. Since company S was closely-related to the local government, most of compa …
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Recently, a friend W asked me which programming language is the most popular one as he planned to learn programming. W is an IT administrator with very little programming knowledge, and I …
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I attended a gathering recently. It lasted for only a few hours and basically we just played some games that I hadn’t been playing for years. On my way back, I was thinking about the gathe …
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I had originally intended to give a deeper analysis on the patent “Method of locating web-pages by utilising visual images” and how ridiculous the Vuestar’s claim was. But, now I decided a …
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