It is not funny when you are about to go to bed and you receive an request for the slides for a (very important) presentation by tomorrow morning. :PP It is even scarier when you managed to finish doing the presentation in less then an hour…Heck, I look at it again tomorrow when I am […]
Tag: Random Musing
Isn’t it ironical?
A friend come up to me last night and asked me why I am against the .ASIA TLD bid. “You are a public figure now! You can’t go around saying things like this!”, he said. Me, a public figure? Haha…and I thought I am just another engineer-geek in the AP community. But isn’t it ironical […]
Orkut…What next?
Orkut has done a lot of things “right” like its user-friendly interface. Unfortunately, when it comes to “what next”, it fails quite miserably. It does not know whether if it should be a casual social network like friendster or commerical social network like linkedin. It also not able to tell its users (like me) what […]
Scenario Planning: English in decline
Paul Hoffman send me this paper published by David Graddol of British Council which does a scenario planning (futorology :-) and went on to discuss what to do if English is slipping in influence due to demographic and technology trends. Scenarios are not predictions. The point of scenario planning is to help us suspend our […]
IDA allocates 2.3 Ghz and 2.5 Ghz spectrum for Trials and Commercial Deployment
While I am not directly involved in this, I am proud to see this announcement from IDA today! Well done! Congz to all all my friends who been working on this! The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) today announced the allocation of dedicated spectrum bands for trials and commercial deployment of wireless broadband. This […]
Personal Glider
One of my all time fav movie is Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind which feature a personal jet glider. I am very please to learn that OpenSky is attempting to build such a glider (via Slashdot). They even have a movie clip of the test flight! Now, I couldn’t wait to get my […]
Promotion: Dad
  My first baby girl, Zee Yau, borned on 14th Feb 2004 @ 9:04pm SGT. Both Mother and baby are doing well! Update: The Chinese name is 莊茈遙/庄茈遥 (Zhuang1 Zi3 Yao2). 茈 (Zi3) is a kind of flower which is often mention in chinese poems for its fragrance and sturdiness. 遥 (Yao2) comes from the […]
Blogging on the Train
I been taking the train to work lately. Standing in the train and typing this in my Zaurus, I begin to wonder how long will it take for the Internet to be really perversive. I mean, the technologies are already here. We have Wifi (802.11), 802.16, 3G etc. But getting companies to invest and deploy […]
What happened to Dean Howard?
That’s one big question which has been bugging a lot of people: What happened? There are a lot of theory but I got the most interesting one today from Dave’s IPer. It is an article by Dr. Carl Jensen title “The Unmaking of a President – 2004”. What is scary is that the media company […]
The Last Samurai
Just finish watching the Last Samurai and love it. I was expecting a silly Hollywood interpretation of feudral japan but the show surprise me. The scenery settings are beautiful and the swordplay are elegant (looks like authentic bushido). The war scenes are engaging and excitment. Most important of all, it illustrate the Way of the […]