Remember my earlier post where OMD treated about 140 students like idiots and thought we didn’t know they were farming for ideas under false pretenses? Well here’s the flip side.MTV came in after lunch with their execs in regular MTV attire, and gave us a straightforward, no bull$#!t account of what life is in MTV. ...

I was at the Future Generation (aka student) track of ad:tech yesterday and I was really disappointed (almost disgusted) by the lack of professionalism in the crowd. About 140 students from the universities and polytechnics, and no one knows how to state their name and affiliation before asking a question?I actually asked a question and ...

More on the IDC Web2.0 Conference yesterday (attendees aside), there were some great insights that I’d love to talk about.Prof. Michael brought up a point that I personally identify with. He says sometimes he has a guest in the class room and the guest is talking to the class, but the class is talking to ...

Continuing from last night’s post of our wonderful Saturday night, how do you know when your friend is getting married? No, it’s not the marriage email. It’s wedding magazines all over the backseat of the new family car!!This was after dinner at Hanabi. I have a couple of pictures, but they don’t do justice to ...

Yesterday Gerard asked me to do a survey, where I saw this question:It got me thinking about our favourite anonymous bloggers in Singapore, ie The(new)mediaslut, Thenewsocialite and WorkWhore.Hisham has speculated that NewSocialite is Brian or myself, well it’s not me because1) I believe in transparency and trust2) I don’t make terrible grammatical errorsWhy do …

Customer service is a big pet peeve of mine. So I’m always grateful (and sometimes surprised) when I’m on the receiving end of good customer service.I had a problem with Mass Effect and dropped an email to EA Games Support in Singapore. I got an email reply in three hours (still acceptable) saying:Greetings Mr Tay,Thank ...

I got this in my Google Reader Shared Items last Friday, but in the rush to head off for a camp I completely forgot about it. If you haven’t seen this video yet, give it a watch. In fact, watch it at work and tell your boss it’s helpful for your company. Good and productive ...

My laptop died on me recently, so I was searching for a new one online. The review sites gave a Dell model pretty good reviews, and knowing how Dell is active in the social media space with their blogs at Direct2Dell, I thought I’d take the plunge and get one.However, once I announced my intentions ...

After the fiasco at Ambrosia and dinner later (more on that tomorrow), it was proposed that since we were in the east, we should go to Reuben’s place and play with his Xbox 360. As a brand new Guitar Sidekick, I didn’t need much convincing even though I stay at the opposite end of Singapore.Oddly ...

How do you keep up with the comments you leave on other blogs? I think if you’re truly interested in joining and contributing to a conversation, you need to check in again to know how the discussion is evolving over time and whether the author has replied to you. The worst thing you can do ...