Finally finish watching 雍正王朝. It is a long series (44CDs) on the story of Emperor Yong Zheng, the third Emperor in Qing Dynasty. Instead of typical fares where history is twist into some martial art cum romance story, the series follows closely with the history (with a bit of glorification to Yong Zheng). The story […]
Tag: Random Musing
Reinventing Government
Tom Peters’ posted a review of Bob Stone lastest book called “Polite Revolutionary: Lessons from an Uncivil Servant” which is particularly interesting to me because who I work for :-) He full well knew that he could not force change on the Federal bureaucracy; even the President rarely succeeds by frontal assault. And as a […]
No voice
I woke up this this morning only to discover I lost almost all my voice :-( Luckily, I can still blog.
Software Patents
The news that Linux potentially infringes 283 patents initiate a strong reaction from the OSS community. Actually, just look at some examples of software patents and you will see the most common algorithms like Quicksort (#5,175,857) and Random Number Generator (#5,251,165). So pardon me while I marvel : “Only 283 patents?” Some folks, like Richard […]
Don’t eat cheap sushi
I love Japanese food. I used to spend my weekend hunting around Singapore looking for good Japanese restaurants. I am also pretty picky about Japanese food. Because Japanese food are often served raw, it taste horrible if it is little bit not fresh! Unfortunately, good Japanese food are also pretty expensive but I think they […]
The problem with networking session…
…is you meet too many people in a 2-3hrs session. And you dont have the time to pause and reflect who just spoke to you. After receiving x numbers of name cards with ‘VP’ or ‘CEO’, everyone looks the same to you. Case in point, at one of the evening receiptions last week, I have […]
Busy week
It has been a busy with with APEC TEL 30 hosted by IDA/Singapore. For those who don’t know about APEC TEL, it is a group that meets once every quarter and reports to the TELMIN, a gathering of APEC IT Ministers. It has 4 steering committees looking at technology, business, liberalization and human resource development. […]
Radicals and Extremists
Radicals and Extremists are always a bad news, even if they are on your side. It is okay to have strong views and argue sensible. And it is also important to recongize different people will have different views. And even people on the same side may comes in different shades of greys. But when you […]
Chinese Names
Paul Hoffman send me an email a couple of weeks ago asking me how Chinese choose their name, esp. their English names which prompted me to write this entry. Background1 Chinese has a Family name followed by a Given name and no Middle name. Family names are typically one chinese ideograph although there are some […]
Gunbound and Singlish
Okay, I am hooked on Gunbound. It is a cute game with anime-like avatars and play very much like Worms. Best of all, it is free and each game don’t take too much time (5-10mins each). Very suitable for busy gamer like myself. Oh, I also found this interesting comics series based on Gunbound (by […]