May 10, 2009
Hey folks, it’s been terribly busy for me and I’m suspending my blogging here for a while due to my ultra busy schedule. Well, I oughta tell you what’s been keep me so super busy :
Licence 2 Play 22-24th May SUNTEC Convention Hall 603.
Quick spill: First ever physical Facebook gaming competition in the world, first ever World of Warcraft Arena 3v3 Tournament in Asia, Launch of Maplestory 2, breaking a record on the Singapore Book of Records for number of turnups for Maplestory, etc. Do I need to say more, especially to the gamers?
e27 unConference 16th May Matrix @ Biopolis
Quick spill: 31 startups from 10 countries (numbers updated) come together for the premier unConference of the region! Tickets selling out fast!
and I’m also helping to promote Video Games Live! on 19th June. THE gaming symphony event! Have you got your tickets yet?
All this in between my crazy travelling schedule over the next 2-3 months. Which is why I really have no time to blog here for a while.
I’m still blogging at CNET Asia though, do drop by often and I hope to resume my blogging on this site soon!
I’ve also taken on some new work and there should be an announcement soon regarding a new site I’m working on. Stay tuned for the announcement!
This blog might be suspended for as I exit the highway for a while to run my errands, but it’ll always be around because we’re all on a journey on the highway of life and you are my precious co-sojourners.
See you when I rejoin at the next exit!
Filed under Co-sojourners, Life, Must read!, News, Notes to You, Personal, Technology, Travel, Work, Writing
Tags: best events in Singapore, blogging, Dark Moon Faire, gaming, licence 2 play, license 2 play, maplestory chinese version, maplestory episode 2, unconference, video games live, Web 2.0, WoW Arena Competition
March 27, 2009
What do you do when you lose a precious co-sojourner?
You haven’t heard from me here for the past one month or so cause I was on national service – military reservist training – for two weeks, while really messed up my work schedule.
The worse thing was, Kero disappeared on the second day of my reservist training :
For weeks, countless hours were spent looking for her. There must have been at least a dozen prank calls, and calls of dog sightings that ended up as other dogs. Three trips to SPCA didn’t yield any results. I even missed my panel slot at BlogOut! (sorry guys)
You can imagine how little work I got done in March. But the more important thing is, she’s gone; and I’ve all but given up hope.
Loss of a loved one is really hard..
February 6, 2009
A co-sojourner emailed this news story to me, feeling really angry about it. It’s a really sad story.
It’s so obvious that the Thai government have floated these people out to the big sea to whither and die. And newly elected fresh-faced Thai Prime Minister Abhisit refered the investigation of this case back to the very people who conducted these inhumane acts. Tells you pretty much what he stands for.
Interestingly, Abhisit was Keep reading →
Filed under Co-sojourners, Corruption, Life, News, Notes to You, Stories, Thoughts, Travel
Tags: Abhisit, bangkok international airport, boat people, burmese, Thailand
January 24, 2009
I just got back from a couple of days in Mumbai. I guess this trip made me more reflective than ever following the recent 26/11 terror attacks.
Security was tight, reminded me just like Indonesia when I was there after the Bali bombings.
Even as myself and billions of Chinese all over the world celebrate the lunar new year, I just wanted to leave this thought on faith with you.
All of us operate with a certain amount of faith in our lives. The word ‘faith’ can be quite hard to describe sometimes. A good way to understand it would be when you are a passenger in a vehicle on the highway.
Look at it this way, how many times do you ask the driver to show you his license, or do a test drive for you, before you decide to hop on and enter the highway with him? Basically, you’ve placed a certain amount of faith in this driver, enough to entrust your life at least!
Many times, we enter into the highway of life with a certain amount of faith in whoever is in the driver’s seat. Faith in yourself, in your god, in the person who is leading you.
Perhaps this is how Obamania came about, someone that the masses decided to place their faith on when the times are dark; in hope that this driver would be able to drive them through the darkness towards their destination. And I hope he does, for the sake of the world.
As we enter the Lunar New Year celebrations, I wanted to leave this thought with you – if you have faith to step into that car, entrusting your life to the driver, without checking his/her license, maybe today you have faith to do other things that you didn’t dare to do in your life? Or faith to believe in someone to be in your driver’s seat?
Have a Blessed Lunar New Year!
Filed under Co-sojourners, Life, Must read!, Notes to You, Personal, Stories, Thoughts, Travel, Work, Writing, driving
Tags: bali bombings, chinese, driver, faith, god, highway, journey, Life, lunar new year, mumbai, obamania, Terror attacks
December 19, 2008
There are some drivers I met – and they are mostly of a certain type but I don’t really want to mention names – that can’t tell very well between left and right.
You give directions like “Turn left ahead” and that person will signal right! And vice versa of course.
Yeah, let’s not get started on the details :p I don’t feel like having an accident on the highway today.
But I was just thinking about it recently, how that relates to life – since this blog is about highways relating to life.
And I think this one is obvious enough : Keep reading →
December 14, 2008
Last Friday night, I was given a chance to experience what it’s like to be in the arctic right here in Singapore :
Guess where’s this? (And it’s free for public) Keep reading →
December 14, 2008
Test mobile blogging from Nokia N96
UPDATE 1 : Since this blog isn’t updated as often as my other blogs and now that I’ve discovered the wonderful service of Ping.fm, I’ll update it from time to time with micro-posts or short posts from mobile (mostly Nokia N96). So don’t be surprised to see blog posts without tags, categories and titles! Hey at least the blog is being updated more regularly!
UPDATE 2: I discovered that micro-blogging here is not good for some of my more ‘ardent’ and RSS readers. Finally managed to figure out how to put the micro-blogging stuff onto a side widget on wordpress.com. So there you have it, I’ll be mobile blogging onto a side widget called “on the steering wheel” from now on.
December 8, 2008
A fellow co-sojourner told me he turned down the company’s offer for a company car including transport allowance. It kinda baffled me so I had to ask the big “WHY”?
“Oh, I used to drive but I prefer to let others drive me or take public transport so that I don’t have to drive others around.”
That really got me thinking about one’s attitude towards life.
Why would one prefer to Keep reading →
Filed under Co-sojourners, Life, Must read!, Notes to You, Personal, Stories, Thoughts, driving
Tags: control, driver, driver's seat, highway of life, journey, passenger
December 5, 2008
Last night, I finally went to a bloggers’ event after 2 months of travelling and not being around. It was good to meet fellow co-sojourners on the internet highway a.k.a. bloggers again and also made some new friends :
Alice (with the camera) and Pris
Bernard Leong with Yuhui behind him and new STOMP star blogger Vanessa on the far right.
Claudia posing with the Lenovo S10 which I brought Keep reading →
Filed under Co-sojourners, Friends, Personal, Work, Writing
Tags: Alice, bernard leong, bloggers, Claudia, Co-sojourners, Coleman, diana, esther, event, Fidelis, Fleishman Hillard, Jacelyn, jayden, Jean, nadnut, nicole, Pris, Rinaz, Singapore bloggers, Vanessa, winnie
December 5, 2008
‘If I don’t make it out…’
Lo Hwei Yen’s husband talks about her last moments
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‘Only in her very last sentence did she say, ‘Please tell them (the authorities) to hurry up’,’ said Mr Puhaindran, who wants people to know his wife was a brave Singaporean. — ST PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN
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EVEN as she was being held by terrorists in her Mumbai hotel a week ago, Ms Lo Hwei Yen’s voice remained steady as she spoke with her husband on her mobile phone.
‘I was reacting to her trying to remain calm as well,’ her husband, Mr Michael Puhaindran, recalled yesterday.
‘Only in her very last sentence did she say: ‘Please tell them (the authorities) to hurry up’.
‘That’s when I really couldn’t take it and I told her I loved her so very much, and she said the same thing.
‘And those were her last words.’
Some time later, the 28-year- old Ms Lo was killed by her captors. She was one of several people who lost their lives in The Oberoi Trident Hotel, one of several Mumbai landmarks attacked by terrorists whose rampage left over 180 dead.
Yesterday, during his wife’s wake, Mr Puhaindran spoke to reporters for the first time about her last hours.
While the 37-year-old was composed at the start of the 40-minute interview attended by some 20 journalists and cameramen, by the time it ended, he had broken down several times.
He said he last saw his wife on Wednesday last week when Keep reading →
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Tags: Lo Hwei Yen, mumbai, Terror attacks, Terrorists
