I take the train to Dhoby Ghaut station most days to work, and there’s this huge (one level high) Magnum ad with Eva Longoria, as well as this large Magnum prop that’s easily two to three times my height.One day I walked past and in my usual cynical manner with all things traditional, thought to ...

A couple of weeks ago I was at Ad:Tech and besides meeting some companies who treated us like idiots and some that didn’t, there was a pretty decent talk by three creative directors with their own set of “Five golden rules” in advertising.The first and the last creative directors gave typical rules like stay true ...

Yesterday was the Ping.sg birthday party and awards. You might remember me mentioning I was nominated for “Most insightful blog”, “Most insightful post” for “Are bloggers really influencers?” and “Best review post” for my review of Plurk.The great news is I managed to snag both “Most insightful post” and “Most …

Last week I was looking through my feeds on Google Reader (an act that is becoming less and less frequent with work piling up), and saw one of del.icio.us’s “hotlist” saying “200 Nipples“. How could I resist clicking?Turns out it is a t-shirt selling website that runs batches of t-shirts in exactly 100. Hence they ...

You might have read the “About me” section that I put up on the blog maybe a month ago and picked up that I collect comic books/graphic novels. The thing about comic books (and to some extent normal books), is that they’re homogeneous. I could get them from any comic store (or book store) in ...

In a month, Social Media Breakfast: Singapore 3 will be happening. The tentative date is Saturday, 16th August at the Asian Civilisations Museum. I finally got to meet up with Walter at Ogilvy’s Verge event, and pitched him with the idea a week later, and it’s worked out pretty well. We’ve got verbal confirmation ...

I’ve been sitting on this post literally for months. I thought I had it planned out when I made the social media jump and the theme was “What do you learn from school?” to be focused on what they key takeaways from your education should be. But now that I’ve gone back to MTV Asia, ...

I must really apologise for not blogging much this week. I think it has been the least I’ve blogged since I’ve started the blog, but work has really been tough (though incredibly enjoyable).The 2nd Ping.sg blog awards (blog aggregator in Singapore with about 3,500 blogs) have their nominees and I’m nominated in three categories:(for “Are ...

Just got back from my first day of work back at MTV. I started the day at 10am and ended at 8:45pm.“What?” you say? “So late?” you ask?The truth is I hardly even noticed that it was so late becausea) MTV is a truly comfortable place to be and hang outb) I had so much ...

As much as our local students are seemingly either rude or ignorant during Q&A sessions, I’m sorry to say that Singaporean executives are no better. Here they are paying almost $1,000 for a conference hosted at a rather beautiful convention centre, and what do they do?Leave their trash behind. Stuff from their goodie bags, pens, ...