Year: 2006
Nokia N80
Finally went to Singtel shop yesterday and upgrade my SIM to a 3G USIM card. At the same time, I also got myself a brand new phone, Nokia N80. So far, it is like the Series 60 phones that I had before so I am pretty at ease with the interface. Most important of all, […]
Home Sweet Home
Finally back at home in Singapore after 3 weeks in KL and Jakarta. As I step into the elevator, I almost forgot which floor I lived in. Gosh, thats not a good sign. But I am glad to be back, even though it is only for the weekend.
The demo…
The demo I want to talk about took 6 years to prepare: NLS is an instrument for helping humans operate within the domain of complex information structures. By “operate” Doug means compose, study and modify. By “complex information structures” Doug says that content represents concepts, but there is also a relation between the content of […]
Rules of Business
I had dinner with Charles Lee* earlier this month when he is in Singapore. I considered Charles a mentor who has given me many valuable career advises, esp. at times when I need it most. Anyway, I have being thinking over something he said over dinner: “世上所有的事都讲情，讲理，讲法。”. Loosely translated “the rules are relationship, logic and […]
CEOs play ‘World of Warcraft’
We Know is in the news again. This time, not just an article on Wired, but a video interview with Ross Mayfield, CEO of Socialtext, aka Kalevipoeg of We Know. Link to C|Net Video Damn, our guild seem to be getting all the press coverage, doing all these free promos for Blizzard. And we can’t […]
Seeing is believing
When Pak John told me they have over hundreds of wifi base station on a single roof top in Indonesia, I don’t believe them at all. Until I see this… And repeat that picture on every inch of the roof. Many microwave links of course but most surprising, most of them are 2.4Ghz base stations […]
JW Marriott – Jakarta
Just checked into JW Marriott Jakarta. Yep, the hotel that was bombed in 2003. It has since being renovated and it is a very nice hotel. Security are tied, cars are searched by 5 security personal, metal detectors at doors, and bags are checked before I step into the main door. I was stopped by […]
Thinking about Outsourcing
Catch up Boon Kok for dinner last night. Had a long and interesting chat with him on various ICT topics wrt Malaysia, mostly me trying to pick his brain :-) So we talk about outsourcing, something that is currently promoted by Pak Lah. We arrived to a conclusion that China is growing at such a […]
You have to bribe…
After (unsuccessfully) trying to call for a cab from my client office in PJ (petaling jaya) from almost all taxi operators I know for an hour, a collegue smiles and whisper to me “Erm, you have to bribe them”. “Huh? How do you bribe a call operator over the phone?” “Tell them meter + 5”