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 […]
Tag: Random Musing
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”
神雕侠侣
Just got a new version of 神雕侠侣. Guess who is the 小龙女? None other than 刘亦菲 from 仙剑奇侠传 (see here). Even my wife say she has the “xiao long nu” look :-) Oh yea, they film this show at JiuZhaiGou, a very beautiful place in China which you should go to take a look if […]
Too many things, too little time
Looks like I wont be able to go back Singapore this weekend. Too many things to do here in KL and too little time before the deadline. I also have to apologises to the MDA folks for missing the very first Community Advisory Committee (CAC). CAC is a new advisory committee “review effectiveness of MDA’s […]
Match Making Day
I am a match making service today. Setting up meeting with A with C, then C with T, and then A with L and all 3 of them happening today. So the whole morning was spent making phone calls and SMSes to make sure everyone got their appointments down, then follow up to see if […]
Microsoft To Support Linux
Wall Street Journal Amazing story wasn’t it, when that iconic tech company said it would help users run the operating system of its longtime rival as well as its own? No, not the Apple Computer-Windows announcement, but one made at about the same time that got vastly less attention, even though it may be more […]
In Tokyo
Okay, I have to eat my words: 13 base stations around my house isnt really that bad because this is what you get in downtown Tokyo. 46 base stations! O_O Yes, I am in Tokyo right now. Tokyo is one of my favourite city (not the cost of living tho). I always like Japanese people […]
Wireless for Everyone
On the trip in Cambodia, Boon Leong related to me a story about Michael Yap making a comment to the press along the line “the government should give email to everyone in Singapore”. We were impressed that Minister Dr. Lee actually took time to respond to him (along the line, we don’t need to give […]
Student Bloggers Crackdown
Elementary Students Suspended For MySpace Postings Two students were suspended at an Oak Lawn elementary school last week after the principal discovered questionable postings on a popular Web site, parents said. The MySpace postings allegedly contained foul language, a digitally altered photo of George Bush sticking up his middle finger, pop-ups of women in bikinis […]
To be polite or not to be…
Ever since I left IDA, friends in the industry start telling me stuff they would never say it in my face previously. Was quite a shock initally as I will be in a defensive mode for IDA but after a couple of weeks, I got used to it and just smile and listen. The comments […]