August 14, 2008
Been really busy and focusing more on my tech blogs, surprisingly the readership for this blog has been up even though I hardly update. So sorry my dear readers – I will do my best to update this blog more often!
Anyways, I’m in Hanoi now and just wanted to have a quick gripe about the horrible taxi situation here in Hanoi. And I thought Singapore was bad.
Here, a simple journey of say 3-4km costs like S$10. The meter ticks at S$0.10 every 10 metres. One U-turn is like 50cents SGD.
This is based on my few experiences with the cabs here which I hailed from the streets.
Seriously… how do people survive over here?
See my gripe at CNET Asia about the internet connection here… zzz
Having made all these gripes, I do think Hanoi is a much nicer looking city compared to Ho Chi Minh (with the exception of their upmarket District 7)
July 28, 2008
A son asked his father, ‘Dad, will you take part in a marathon with me?’.
The father who, despite having a heart condition, says ‘Yes’.
They went on to complete the marathon together.
Father and son went on to join other marathons, the father always saying
‘Yes’ to his son’s request of going through the race together. One day, the
son asked his father, ‘Dad, let’s join the Ironman together.’ To which,
his father said ‘Yes’ too.
For those who don’t know, Ironman is the toughest triathlon ever.
The race encompasses three endurance events of a 2.4 mile (3.86 kilometer) ocean swim, followed by a 112 mile (180.2 kilometer) bike ride, and ending with a 26.2 mile (42.195 kilometer) marathon along the coast of the Big Island.
Father and son went on to complete the race together.
View this race (have some problems embedding)
This post was inspired by last week’s Sunday Sharing from Notes from My Heart
Filed under Co-sojourners, Family, Life, Notes to You, Stories, Travel, Writing
Tags: father, father's hands, ironman, marathon, triathlon
July 6, 2008
Normally I refrain from commenting on disputes or scandals happening on the local blogosphere.
Coz I always believe that’s more to what we read than meets the eye and I’d rather not make a judgement in case I might not have the complete picture.
And also coz I’m usually too busy to find out all the ins and outs of the community and attend a lot of the events - especially with my being on the road since April till 2 weeks back.
But having said all that, do allow me to share a little bit of my humble thoughts on Ping.Sg, what I consider as the local highway for bloggers.
I have observed that Keep reading →
July 5, 2008
Yes, guys it’s like stealing candies from babies literally!
Just leave a comment on this post about the latest HP Touchsmart PC and how you can use it to win a HP Touchsmart together with me!
What are you waiting for?
p.s. get your friends and family to join too! But only Singaporean-based readers can apply 
Filed under Friends, News, Notes to You, Personal, Technology, Writing
Tags: contest, creative, hewlett packard, hp, hp touchsmart, hptouchsmartsg, innovative, interesting, IQ500, lifestyle, productive, Singapore, touchsmart, touchsmart 2, touchsmart II, uses, win
July 4, 2008
You know, since my posts on cute babes have been extremely popular, I decided to go for a part III 
I’ve talked about squirrels and my favorite doggie, how about some really really cute babes whom I’ve had the chance to meet as through blogging as fellow co-sojourners?
Sometime back, a friend and I talking about the local blogging scene noted that most of the posts that struck us or posts that our topics revolved around came from one blogger, a very cute one for that matter :
Yes, Meet Qiaoyun a.k.a. Sheylara. WARNING : DON’T go to her blog. I repeat, DON’T go to her blog.
You end up laughing yourself silly and totally hooked to it.
Which explains why she’s been nominated as one of the most entertaining blogs in Singapore.
Go Go vote for her, just requires a simple email and password and you can vote daily!
While you are at it, look out for the Best Blog Shop by another cute babe whom I’m never met in person.
She’s so cute and sexy she has stayed elusive from the public eye so this may be the best picture we have of her :
The sexy maths tutor Celine Loi of 五大超级补习天王天后 (lit. The Five Heavenly Super Tutors) fame
Go vote for her under the Best Blog Shop category!
Celine has put together a dummy’s guide to voting for her here.
For the rest of you wondering what I’ve been up to, I’m on a new religion and playing tonnes of basketball.
Filed under Co-sojourners, Friends, News, Notes to You, Personal, Work, Writing
Tags: Singapore, sheylara, cute babes, blog awards, celine loi, maths tutor, vote, religion, basketball
June 11, 2008
Yes, it’s time to come clean coz I haven’t really introduced this co-sojourner to you all this while. It’s about time I introduce to you my closest and cutest babe whom I’ve been sleeping with all this while, way cuter than the one I met in Ximending Taipei last year :
Keep reading →
Filed under Co-sojourners, Family, Friends, Life, Notes to You, Personal
Tags: babe, co-sojourner, cute, cutest, facebook, kero, khoo, sleeping, taipei, ximending
May 30, 2008
Here’s a special public service plug for the International Museum Day
More details of what’s happening at IMD’08 can be found on my CNET blog and also here at the IMD’08 microsite.
Happy International Museum Day!
May 21, 2008
My heart goes out to China especially the earthquake victims as I watched the nation mourn and wail on CNN yesterday in my hotel room in Bangkok.
This came into my inbox today from a friend in China :
One of the stories was about a little boy, he’s 9 years old. When the earthquake just started, the school building started to crash, he was buried, Keep reading →
May 8, 2008
Please pray for Myanmar:
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT: BODIES BEING THROWN INTO RIVER
Dan Rivers
in Bogalay, Myanmar
CNN
Homeless children watched on Tuesday as solemn men unceremoniously dropped dead bodies into the river of this southern Myanmar township.
The funeral-like procession to the river was one of many disturbing images of the destruction left by Myanmar’s deadly cyclone, which could be seen everywhere in Bogalay.
The estimated 240km/h winds spared only four of the 369 houses Keep reading →
Filed under Family, Friends, Life, News, Notes to You, Personal, Stories, Thoughts, Travel
Tags: bogalay, cyclone, death, disaster, myanmar
May 5, 2008
Filed under Co-sojourners, Friends, Life, Notes to You, Personal, Stories, Technology, Thoughts, Travel, Work, Writing
Tags: Co-sojourners, htc touch cruise, mike zhan, winning eleven, adrin loi, ya kun, kaya, changi airport, terminal 3, t3, hp mini, ho kwon ping, banyan tree, china club, nlb, pod, razer, lachesis
