Youtube in 1985 This is how Youtube might look like back in 1985. Cool stuff. Naming the 4th University MOE is inviting the public to help name the 4th University in Singapore. The 4th University will open its doors in 2011. It will admit 500 students in its first batch for two of the three disciplines identified for it: engineering and applied sciences, business and IT, and design and architecture. The university will be build on land that had been put aside for the aborted University of New South Wales Asia at Upper Changi Road. Based on past experience when Singaporean name Marina Bay as “Marina Bay”, Bukit Panjang LRT as “Bukit Panjang LRT” and Budget Terminal as “Budget Terminal”, I think the name of the new University will most likely be one of the following:- 1) Singapore University 2) 4th University of Singapore 3) Changi University 4) Upper Changi University I hope I’m wrong…. A wonderful Comex Just came back from the Comex at Suntec. Not much new stuff. Almost like any other PC show. But it’s a wonderful Comex show. Here is the reason why: I wonder why is it so crowded on a weekday afternoon. I wonder why they ned to shout even when they are using a mic. I wonder if some if the temp staff really knows what they selling. I wonder how many trees were being chopped down to print those leaflets. I wonder why are the credit card company setting up a booth at comex. I wonder why I wonder so much this time. On the side note, BAK2u is at the Comex too. Gadget or the Girl This is an interesting game show. Gadget or the Girl. In each episode, a bachelor will be introduced to three women and he must immediately pick two to continue the game. The three will go on a date, and at the end, the guy will choose one girl to be his solo companion for the evening. After a few hours together, he must decide if he is going to enjoy an weekend getaway with the girl, or give her up and leave with some potentially cool gear. If the girl entices the guy to select her over the mystery gadget, she’ll score a prize. This is a very interesting concept. And I think it is going to be a big hit. Beautiful women, cool gadgets and 1 tough decision to make. Salute to the genius who came up with this idea. But come to think of it, it isn’t really a tough choice after all. I was thinking how would it be like if I took part in the contest. I think most likely I’ll choose the gadget over the girl. No no, I’m not gay. I’m still very interested in beautiful gals. But look, you only get to have a weekend gataway with the beautiful gal. With no promise of you getting lucky at night. So why bother? I don’t know what’s the gadget going to be. It might even be a 1gb thumbdrive. But at least it will be mine forever. (And if I’m lucky, it might be a 52 inch HDTV. Wahahaha) So I guess the choice is pretty obvious. Don’t you think so? What is your choice if you take part in the contest? A weekend getaway with a beautiful gal or an unknown gadget? First episode will be showing on Playboy channel, September 1st. Too bad we won’t get a chance to watch it. What do you do after selling your life on eBay? Remember the guy who sold his life on eBay for $399,300? It’s been more than a month since the bid close. I went to his site and discovered that he is on a new project. 100 goals in 100 weeks. Well, I guess that makes sense. Since you got nothing left except $400k, the next things to do is to achieve goals that you’ve always wanted. Some of the goals sound fun. Like “Swim with a 10+ metre whale shark”, “Drive a car into water off a jetty” and “Dive to the Titanic in a submersible”. All the best dude. Have fun. Boom De Ah Dah… Boom De Ah Dah… Somebody help me get this song out of my head!!!! Boom De Ah Dah… Boom De Ah Dah… Boom De Ah Dah… Boom De Ah Dah… Boom De Ah Dah… Boom De Ah Dah… Boom De Ah Dah… Boom De Ah Dah… Here is a shorter version. This is a great advertisement song for Discovery Channel. It’s so easy to sing and the lyrics is very flexible. Here is another version. In fact, you can come out with your own version easily. Haha. Anyone want to come up with a local version? iPhone 3G launch in Singapore The iPhone 3G launch in Singapore by Singtel. The countdown and the wait for the 1st iPhone owner to emerge. Finally, after 10 minutes MY Prime Minister took train during peak hours MY Prime Minister took train during peak hours to see the problems that commuters are facing everyday. Salute to the man. OK, that is not my Prime Minister. It’s MY Prime Minister (MY is the short form for Malaysia). Haha. How many of you got fooled by my title? You must be kidding right? My Singapore Prime Minister will take the train during peak hours to see the problem that commuters are facing everyday meh? It is not possible in Singapore lor. Singapore SMRT is pack to the brim during peak hours. People, like our million dollar ministers, whom never had any experience in taking SMRT will be trampled to death by the peak hour crowd. You wouldn’t want our Prime Minister, would you? But if our Prime Minister really want to try taking SMRT to see the problems that our commuters are facing everyday, I suggest that he start by taking train during off peak hours. You must be thinking that it is useless for him to take train during off peak as he can’t see the real problem. But we can’t just ask him to take the peak hour train without any formal training right? That like feeding him to the peak hour sharks. These things should slowly progress. Besides, I’ve already shown everyone that our world class transport system is packed like sardines even during off peak hours. Check out this and this. Once he get used to taking train during off peak hours, (and perhaps also managed to convince our million dollar transport minister that something need to be done about the freaking off peak hour train frequency) then he should try taking train during peak hours. Woohoo! That will be fun. I volunteer to be the live blogger for the event. (Provided I managed to type in the peak hour train.) For the ultimate challenge, he should try boarding the east bound train at Jurong East MRT Station during peak hours. Once he managed to squeeze his way on the train at Jurong East MRT station, he can take on any world class transport in the world without any problem. OK, maybe not Japan’s subway. But the rest of the world should be still alright. Jason Mraz - I’m Yours Jason Mraz - I’m Yours Well you done done me and you bet I felt it I tried to be chill but you’re so hot that I melted I fell right through the cracks and now I’m trying to get back Before the cool done run out I’ll be giving it my bestest Nothing’s going to stop me but divine intervention I reckon it’s again my turn to win some or learn some I won’t hesitate no more, no more It cannot wait, I’m yours Well open up your mind and see like me Open up your plans and damn you’re free Look into your heart and you’ll find love love love love Listen to the music of the moment people dance and sing We’re just one big family And It’s our God-forsaken right to be loved love loved love loved So I won’t hesitate no more, no more It cannot wait I’m sure There’s no need to complicate Our time is short This is our fate, I’m yours Scooch closer dear and i will nibble your ear I’ve been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer My breath fogged up the glass And so I drew a new face and laughed I guess what i be saying is there ain’t no better reason To rid yourself of vanity and just go with the seasons It’s what we aim to do Our name is our virtue I won’t hesitate no more, no more It cannot wait I’m sure There’s no need to complicate Our time is short this is our fate, I’m yours Well no no, well open up your mind and see like me Open up your plans and damn you’re free Look into your heart and you’ll find the sky is yours Listen to the music of the moment come and dance with me A lá one big family (2nd time: A lá happy family; 3rd time: A lá peaceful melody) It’s your God-forsaken right to be loved love love love I won’t hesitate no more, no more It cannot wait, I’m sure There’s no need to complicate Our time is short This is our fate, I’m yours No please, don’t complicate Our time is short This is our fate, I’m yours No please, don’t hesitate no more, no more It cannot wait The sky is your’s! Photo of the week - Finally Available Finally….. Calbee Jagabee Bought this quite some time ago. But forgot to write about it. Been seeing this in supermarket for quite some time already. Finally bought it when there is a discount at NTUC. The Calbee Jagabee taste good. In fact, I like it a lot. It’s like potato chips. But much better. But here is the problem. It’s freaking expensive even with discount. And there’s only a little in each box. Look at the amount of chips I get in 1 box. I haven’t started eating yet hor. You can almost count how many pieces are there. It’s just not enough. Final conclusion: Great taste, but expensive and too little. The Days - 歲月 Some local production that is about to hit the big screen. Looks promising. In Cinema Sept 2008. Check out their website. First 15 Minutes of Heroes Season 3 Ep 1 - The Second Coming Some of you heroes fans might have heard that the 1st episode of Heroes Season 3 was screened for a crowd of 6,500 fans at San Diego Comic Con International. The security was rather tight. But when there are 6500 people in the theater, it’s hard to prevent anything from leaking out to the public. Here is the 1st 15 minutes of Heroes Season 3 Ep 1. Quite shaky and can only see 2/3 of the screen. But it is enough for those who simply can’t wait till 22 Sept. WARNING: If you don’t want to watch spoilers, don’t click the play button. This is the real stuff. 1 more month to go. I can’t wait anymore!!! The king is finally here OK, iPhone 3G is finally here in Singapore after being 1 month late. Oh well, better late than never. I’m at Singtel Comcentre with the Tech65 crew where they are here to do live recording of the arrival of the king of phone. The iPhone 3G. Singtel welcomed the iPhone 3G with a bang. They constructed a temporary 2 storey glass building like the iShop in New York. A small tentage is being setup outside the building for people to queue up. Didn’t managed to get a decent photo of the glass house. There are lots of security guard around and they refuse to let us get near the glass house. Maybe they are afraid we might steal the glass. Kidding kidding. They are here for crowd control. I managed to get close to the glass house before leaving the place. Singtel CEO together with other top executive gathered in front of the glass house to join the crowd in countdown. There was a brief mini fireworks as they pulled the ribbon that is wrapping around the glass house. And the first 10 customers step into the glass house to purchase the first iPhone 3G from Singapore. After roughly 10 minutes of wait, (What took them so long?) a guy finally emerge from the glass house with the iPhone 3G in his hands. Everyone is cheering as he raise the iPhone in the air for the media to take photo. I guess you will see photo of him splashed all over the newspaper tomorrow. The feeling is almost like Singapore has won another Olympic medal. Perhaps they should sing the National Anthem too. Kidding kidding. OK, I’m signing off now. Going for supper with the guys. (My main objective tonight) The Tech65 guys are still going round the queues to interview people and their reactions towards the iPhone 3G. Keep a lookout for their latest videocast. Where will DK be this Saturday evening? There is only one place to be at this Saturday evening. Esplanade Outdoor Theatre Opening Concert. Date: 23 Aug 2008 Time: 10pm Venue: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre Hosted by Najip Ali and Rosalyn Lee Featuring Ngak & Clement, Shirlyn Tan, Jack & Rai, Tay Kewei, Jiahui, Vanessa Fernandez, Kaira Gong and Jonathan Leong. Woohoo!!! Finally, the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre is back. They torn down the old Outdoor Theatre to build a bigger and better one. Personally, I love the Outdoor Theatre becuase it is facing the bay and looking toward the CBD area. Nice place to have performance. Only problem with the old Outdoor Theatre is that it is not sheltered from rain and the limited seats. I think they fixed this 2 problem with the new Outdoor Theatre. I’ll check it out this coming Saturday. Anyway, I’m glad that the new Outdoor Theatre is ready. Looking forward to more free performance. Anyone wanna come on Saturday? 7 meme This kind of thing is never ending one. I tag him once, he tag me back. Oh well…. here goes.. 7 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME: I don’t like to eat curry. Unless its with Roti Prata or in Curry Puff. I have perfect eyesight. I snore. I can eat the same thing everyday without feeling bored. I spend most of my time at home in front of a screen (either iMac, Laptop or TV) I’m most creative when sitting on the toilet bowl. I suck at mental math. 7 THINGS THAT SCARE ME: Durian Great heights Overslept Big foot (Effect of watching Paranormal TV show when young) Losing control Negative stuff Having to do Meme (I’m kidding…. haha) 7 RANDOM MUSIC AT THE MOMENT: U2 - With or without you Kenny G - Silhouette Olivia Ong - Tattoo 張震嶽 - 自由 Foo Fighters - Everlong Sarah McLachlan - Angel Shirlyn Tan - Couldn’t We Try 7 THINGS I SAY THE MOST: Actually End of the day Put it this way You see lah I think What the (Just this 2 words. I usually exclude that F word) KNN. 7 THINGS I TREASURE THE MOST(in no ranking order): Family Friendship My Gadgets Reputation Memories My blog **Reserved for the special someone whom I’ve yet to find** 7 “FIRST TIME” THINGS I EVER DID: **This question don’t make sense leh. There is always a first time for everything I’ve done** Hmmm…. who should I tag this time? Maybe I shouldn’t tag anyone liao. Wait they tag me back like what Plaktoz did. This kind of thing never ending one. But if you like this meme, feel free to do it. But remember hor, I didn’t tag you. So don’t tag me back. Singapore to ease ban on political videos – FINALLY Prime Minister Lee announced that the government will ease up the ban on political video. This includes using the new media to show political videos. FINALLY. It’s about time that Singapore do this. Afterall, we are the so called IT hub. It’s funny that the political parties in the IT hub doesn’t make use of the new media to reach out to the citizen. We are a democratic country. Political films can help voters make better decision at the polls. It’s funny that political films has been banned for so long. How did voters make the right choice in the past? I really wonder. In fact, this issue has been brought up during the Seminar on Internet Regulatory Reform. And we know things are going to be changed soon. Mr Lee said an outright ban on party political films is no longer sensible. I would say a outright ban on party political film is no longer possible. It’s either the government ease up on this restriction or face losing control. And easing up the rules they will be. So I guess the Bloggers’ Group for Internet Deregulation just scored a goal. Speaking of the Seminar on Internet Regulatory Reform, I totally forgot to blog about it. A night in DK’s life - 18 Aug 2008 It’s been a long night. In fact, I’ve been up whole night. So instead of the usual “A day in DK’s life”, I’ll giving you a sneak peak into a night in DK’s life. 620pm: Left home for Ogilvy centre. I forgot that I need to add extra 15 minutes in traveling as it is peak hour. Going to be late. 715pm: Reached Ogilvy centre. Late for 15 minutes. Could have reached slightly earlier but I parked my car at the wrong carpark. Mistaken Golden Shoe Carpark for Market Street Carpark. Damn. Am glad that the event haven’t started. 730pm: Talk by Rohit Bhargava, author of “Personality not included“. It was an interesting talk. Very insightful. Decided to buy the book after the talk. Ahhh…. 1 more book added to the long list of book on my desk waiting for me to read. How am I ever going to finish all of them? 9pm: Networking session. Managed to catch up with some bloggers. Surprised to see Xtralicious at the event. Seldom see her at events. Had a good chat with lodestar. He is planning for world domination something interesting. Looking forward to it. Finally met the guy behind Harro. Nice meeting Joanna again. It’s been long time since we last met. And many other people….. 10pm: Left Ogilvy centre. Don’t feel like going home. 11pm: Reached Changi Airport T3. Went to Coffee Bean for a drink. Took out my laptop to do some work and read up some stuff. SMS keep coming in. Sigh. 230am: Decided to turn off computer and spend sometime reading the book I just bought. It’s an interesting book. 245am: 15 minutes into the book, I suddenly got an idea. Took out my laptop and start emailing Paddy the inspirations that I got. 3am: Decide to leave Coffee Bean and go for a walk around T3. It’s very quiet at night. Not many people around. My shoes making lots of noise when walking. 330am: Left T3. Went for a short spin. 4am: Went to the McDonalds near my house to buy supper/breakfast. They run out of Hashbrown!!! How could they run out of Hashbrown!!! I want Hashbrown!!! 415am: Reach home. Turn on computer to watch The Apprentice Season 5(again) while having my supper/breakfast. 5am: Surf some net, did some work, blog a little. 7am: Feeling a bit sleepy. Went for a hot shower. 715am: Decided to write this blog entry. Still feeling sleepy. I think I’ll go take a short nap before going to office later. Hope I don’t overslept. Hitler And ERP Woes Nicely done. 100 authority on Technorati Just checked my Technorati status last night and found this. My blog just hit 100 authority on Technorati. Woohoo! OK, I know 100 authority is nothing. It took me nearly 6 months to achieve that. And I’m still far from my previous technorati authority. That’s the pain of moving to a new domain. Oh well. Thank you everyone for linking to my blog. And so we got an Olympic medal… And so we got an Olympic silver medal in the Women Table Tennis competition. Or did we? Rightfully, I should be jumping in joy, celebrating Singapore’s victory. After all, its our first Olympic medal since independence. But I seriously couldn’t find the sense of pride and glory in me. The feeling just isn’t right. It doesn’t feel like we won. It feel like China B team won. Or we purchased the medal by hiring mercenaries to fight for us. We got a silver medal. But did we get the same glory that is supposed to come together with the medal? I’m sure there are many people out there who disagree with me on this. But I don’t feel the glory in it. The feeling is completely different. In fact, I feel more pride when Joscelin Yeo took part in the Swimming competition back in Athens Olympic, 2004. She didn’t win anything. She didn’t even make it pass the heats. In fact, she performed badly. But she is a 100% Singaporean. And I’m proud that she could represent Singapore. Same goes to many other born in Singapore athletes who represented Singapore in all major sporting events. I’m proud to see them taking part in international competitions. They truly represent Singapore. But I really don’t feel any pride when the Singapore Female Table Tennis Team won an Olympic Medal. Not because I don’t love Singapore. But because I don’t feel any connections. Yes, they are wearing Team Singapore uniform. They raise the Singapore flag. But are they our people? Do they represent Singapore? I have nothing against foreigners who feel that Singapore is a better place and wish to call Singapore home. But are they here because they feel that Singapore is a better place? Or is it because we pay them a lot of money? Is their heart with Singapore or Singapore Dollar? I’m not slamming the foreign talents in Singapore. You might want to read my National Day blog entry first to know my stand on foreign talents in Singapore. I’m not against foreign talents who come to Singapore on their own without any incentive from the government. But I’m slamming the Foreign Talent Scheme in Singapore. Why are we spending so much on getting foreign talents to join us? Those money could be put in better use. We could use it to build better sporting facilities for Singaporeans to train. We could research on better swimming suits or training methods. We could even use those money to help the poor. Actually, I was praying that the South Korean will win Singapore on Friday. Not because I like South Korean or hate Singapore. In fact, I do feel bad when I was rooting for another country to win. But I couldn’t bring myself to support a team made up of migrants who came to Singapore because they are being paid to help us win medal. I’m against the Foreign Talent Scheme. I was supporting the anti foreign talent scheme camp. But I lost. Friday was a night of mixed reaction for me. Everyone around me is celebrating Singapore’s victory. But I was morning the death of Singapore sporting scene. Their victory has become a precedent that the foreign talent scheme works. It will be the model case study for all future cases. And the Singapore Sport Council will have more ammo in terms of money to get more foreign talents to Singapore. Forget about grooming the locals. Why invest in such a big risk? Just go buy another athletes from elsewhere to help us win. Besides, other countries are doing that too. So why not Singapore? Yes, the Foreign Talent Scheme works in the sense that it does bring us an Olympic medal. But it kills the entire local sporting scene. How do we groom local athletes when all we think about is to bring foreign talents in to help us win? How do the local athletes gain international competition exposure when we always send foreign talents oversea? How do we motivate our local athletes when all the media attention are on the foreign talents? Who will dare to send their child to the Sport School when there is a high chance that we will bring in a foreign talent to replace them if they don’t perform up to standard? We are only interested in the results. Not the process in getting the results. It doesn’t matter who gets the medal. You don’t need to be a local. You don’t need to stay in Singapore for long. You don’t need to speak with a Singapore acent. You don’t need to know the Singapore history. You don’t need to understand Singapore culture. You can even drag the Singapore flag on the floor for the world to see. So long as you get the medal under Singapore flag, the rest doesn’t matter. This is the sad state of Singapore sporting scene. And it will remain this way until someone wakes up from the medal chasing dream. It’s not about medal. It’s about representation. It’s about national identity. And this foreign talent scheme is eroding our national identity, if there is any to begin with. So while everyone is out there celebrating the Olympic medal, I sit infront of my computer with mixed reaction. I should be happy that Singapore finally won a medal after 48 years. But I just couldn’t feel the pride and glory. In fact, I feel sad because we will start having the mentality of getting new migrants to help us in sports. Congrats to Li Jiawei, Wang Yuegu and Feng Tianwei for winning the Silver Medal. But sorry, I don’t know how to celebrate your victory. I end this blog entry with 2 paragraph. One from BBC Sport last friday on Singapore winning South Korea and another from Associated Press on Singapore winning the Silver Medal. Feng Tianwei, who, like the rest of the Singapore team, is an import from China, won both her singles matches to help them clinch a tense 3-2 victory. The Singapore team features three former Chinese athletes who went overseas in search of better playing opportunities Food for thoughts: Do we want to see this sort of statement every time we win a medal? Photo of the week - Fallen hair Saw this on the train. Hope it’s just hair extension and not real hair. An evening with Vinton Cerf Finally found the video for the talk by Vinton Cerf in Singapore. It was a full house event organised by TDM. I was lucky to secure a seat. Actually, I didn’t managed to get a seat. I was standing at the side throughout the whole event. (You can see me at the beginning of the video when Vinton Cerf walked in) In case you don’t know, Vinton Cerf is one of the father of internet. He co-design the TCP/IP. Without TCP/IP, the internet will not exist. (And you won’t be reading this blog too) Check out the video. I was standing throughout the entire talk. And it’s worth every second! Twitter - turning off sms alert for rest of the world It is a sad day for twitter. Twitter announced that it will stop delivering SMS updates via the UK number. Which means unless you are living in Canada, India or USA, you will not get anymore twitter updates on your handphone. This is a very bad news for everyone. The SMS update is the main feature for twitter. Removing it is like making twitter useless. (ok, maybe less useful.) They did mention that they are trying to introduce new local SMS numbers in countries throughout Europe. But what about rest of the world? What about Singapore? Will people still stick with twitter without the SMS alert feature? And also, some websites integrated twitter to their services. Will there be any issues with twitter turning off the SMS alert? I know a lot of people have switched to Plurk lately. I’m also using plurk. But I still feel that plurk can’t replace twitter. I still prefer twitter’s clean interface. And most importantly, I love the fact that I get a SMS alrert when my friend posted a twitter message. Still remember during twitter’s peak period where lots of conversation occurs on twitter. My handphone is always flooded with SMS alert. We had lots of fun using twitter. Although the service can be unrealible sometimes, it’s still a very good social networking site. Hope twitter can bring back sms alert for the rest of the world soon. They should teach this in school This thing happens every year. Maybe we should have a chapter in National Education on how to hang the Singapore flag properly. Sigh. WIMAX in Singapore Another super duper whooper delayed post. Do you know that there is WIMAX in Singapore already? I didn’t know that until the Intel Centrino 2 Launch. We actually have WIMAX in Singapore already. It’s operated by Qmax, which is under Qala, Creative. But the thing is, the WIMAX is only for Singapore Strait. It is more targeted for maritime companies. But we are fortunate experience the WIMAX at the Intel Centrino 2 Launch event. Since the WIMAX is covering the sea, they rented a yacht for this demo. WOOHOO! Cool huh? And we bloggers did what bloggers do best on the yacht, camwhore and blogging. Overall, the internet speed is fast. We didn’t have a chance to travel far from land to test the distance. But I’m sure we are out of range for WIFI already. We don’t know how fast it will be when more and more people start using the WIMAX. Let’s hope it will maintain at this speed when WIMAX start covering our island. Special thanks to Qmax, Intel & Ogilvy for the great event. Thanks to Brian & Tania for the invite. Intel Centrino 2 - A new era in mobile computing Another super duper whooper delayed post. Paiseh. When Intel announced the first Centrino, it was like the beginning of the golden age of mobile computing. I still remember reading on magazine about what the Centrino platform is about. I was amazed about it. Using a combination of mainboard, chipset and wifi card, the Centrino promise better performance and longer battery life. I was fortunate to be invited to the Launch of Intel Centrino 2 couple of weeks ago. I didn’t know it was a Centrino 2 launch initially. The invite says Launch of Intel Montevina. Me, being super disconnected from the IT world, didn’t know that Montevina is Centrino 2. I thought it’s a new Intel chip for laptop. I didn’t know that I was invited to witness the launch of a new era in mobile computing. Intel Centrino 2. The launch of Centrino 2 is indeed the launch of a new era, just like the launch of Centrino. I shall not go into the details of the Centrino 2 specs since I doubt you will understand. Actually, I also don’t really understand. Wahahaha. OK, for the layman like us, the new Centrino 2 means better performance and better battery efficiency. We were shown a short demo of the resource consumption difference between Centrino and Centrino 2 while playing a video. The difference is impressive. While the current Centrino 2 laptops are using WIFI chips, the future Centrino 2 laptops will be having WIMAX chip. WOOHOO! This means that all the laptop makers will surely put a WIMAX chip on their laptop. And since most laptop will have WIMAX chip, more and more cities will implement WIMAX network. Intel invited several major laptop makers to showcase their new Centrino 2 laptop. So many laptops, so little time. I didn’t managed to play with all the laptop. Blame myself for spending too much time on the Lenovo Thinkpad. Can’t blame me, I’m a Thinkpad fanboy too. Haha. Luckily there is another session in the evening at Geek Terminal where bloggers gets more time to play with the new laptops. With the launch of the new Centrino 2, we will be expecting to see the major laptop makers releasing their new laptop with Centrino 2 platform. I was invited to 2 laptop launch events recently. Will blog more about it later. Special thanks to Intel & Ogilvy for the great event. Thanks to Brian & Tania for the invite. Some good things in life comes free Beginning to love freeware and open source more and more. There are so many good software out there that are free of charge. Some of them are much better than those software. Like Firefox, google earth, eclipse, open office etc etc. Excuse me if I missed out any good stuff that are free. There are just too many for me to list out. Then there are also wonderful content online that are free. Stuff like article, blogs, podcast and videocast. Recently, I found an amazing podcast channel by DJ Tiësto. It is updated every week. And it’s not just sample song. Its a full session that lasted almost 1 hour. In case you don’t know, I’m a great fan of Tiësto. Got a couple of his CD with me. (Original one hor!) Some of them can be quite expensive. I think I got a 2-cd set that cost me around $50. Am glad I found this podcast channel. It’s amazing that some good things in life actually comes free. Oh, by the way, In Search of Sunrise 7: Asia is out in the stores now. It’s not free. But worth buying. Feel like buying it. Tiësto is one of the best DJ around. Don’t believe me? Check out podcast 62 and 63 which is a sample of the In Search of Sunrise series. Advertisement that pissed you off 6 Streetdirectory is back. Woohoo!! Still the same good old Streetdirectory. The map area is bigger now. And you can drag the map to navigate. YIPPIE! Cool feature! But it comes with a irritating advertisement. Smack in the middle of the map when you are using it. And you have to click the small little cross in order to continue using the maps. I know it is expensive to get the new maps and you guys need to recover the cost. But slapping an advertisement in the middle of the map isn’t a good solution. Why not at the bottom of the page and still allows user to continue using the map when the advertisement is showing? Corrinne May - Scars (Stronger for Life) Corrinne May - Scars (Stronger for Life) I just want to run Just want to hide away Close my eyes to your gaze Just want to leave Don’t want to hear them say “You’re no good at this” When the world swirls with naysayers Broken wings and torn pages The road ahead Drowning in my tears Break me open Tear me down Into pieces Broken crumbs On the ground You can mould and shape me In your image Breathe your life You know I need it Scars make us stronger for life Losing myself Gaining it back again Forging strength from weakness All that I am All that I’m meant to be Melting in your hand Let the world swirl with naysayers Pickled hearts and sour faces What is real is what I cannot see Cut away All within me That won’t bear fruit Cut away All within me Scars make us stronger for life