An appeal to Singaporeans An online fund-raising campaign has been started to enable Singapore’s top cyber-athletes compete in the upcoming Grand Finals of the World Cyber Games (WCG) ‘08 in Cologne, Germany. This fundraising campaign is crucial after gamers were stranded without sponsorship even though they qualified at the National Finals to represent Singapore. Three of these Singaporean champions [...] And we thought Singapore taxis were bad 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 [...] My Father’s Hands 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 Ping.Sg Highway goes on 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 [...] HP’s giving YOU a free Touch PC! 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 [...] Talking about cute babes 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 [...] I’ve been sleeping with the cutest babe.. 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 : Please meet Kero (Khoo). [...] International Museum Day 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! China Earthquake : a 9-year-old’s recount 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, [...] EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT: BODIES BEING THROWN INTO RIVER 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 [...] My Co-sojourners II A quick follow-up on the previous post comes part II ! My Winning Eleven nemesis and star-wannabe Mike! Adrin Loi (left), Executive Chairman of famous local coffee chain Ya Kun Int’l. Had a really nice chat Too bad this pic was a little blur with my HTC Touch Cruise. There, my trusted HTC Touch Cruise, although it’s not [...] My Co-sojourners I I was just reviewing some of the photos on my HTC Touch Cruise and Canon S80 and thought it’s about time to upload them. These are random photos of co-sojourners I meet as I go about my daily activities so I decided to start this regular (hopefully!) series of photos of co-sojourners I meet in my [...] Choosing your co-sojourners This blog is about the life being like the highway, with quite a bit of parallels and lessons to learn from. One of my favourites subjects is on co-sojourners. In the context of a highway, your co-sojourners can be other cars right there and then on that same highway with you. But it could also be the person [...] Cambodia Suspends Foreign Marriages Hi folks, sorry for the ‘radio silence’ here. I’ve been walking around with the ’swamped thing’ t-shirt :p Here’s an interesting piece on co-sojourners I came across today : Cambodia has temporarily banned marriages between foreigners and Cambodians because of concerns over the rising number of brokered unions involving poor, uneducated women. The move follows the publication [...] America - Towards a future of no discrimination? In the recent debacle where Clinton released videos of Obama’s pastor Jeremy Wright making racist speeches, instead of just allowing the controversy to die down and move on, Obama tackled the issue head on (in Philadelphia) in what must be one of the most inspiring speeches I’ve heard, and totally off-the-cuff too! Check it out [...] Trojan on Nuffnang Ads? This popped up on my screen 10 mins ago when I was visiting nadnut’s blog (a fellow co-sojourner met through this highway of life) : (Click on image to enlarge and zoom in to read the popup message)  Hmmm.. looks like a trojan on nuffnang? My, what will happen to the thousands of blogs on Asia’s first blog [...] Singapore Slingers - Traditional media does it again? OK this is not a typical post you will find on this highway. But traditional media does it again, and I guess using new media as a response would be a good way? A few days ago, the Straits Times managed to publish a sentence from an one-hour-long NBL CEO speech taken totally out of context [...] Blog advertising is like outdoor advertising on vehicles? This blog is about reflections of life through lessons/parallels learnt from the highway (or the road). And I just had this reflection recently about outdoor advertising on vehicles and how it has some similarities to blog advertising. Companies place out ads on cars or vans like this because it’s an outdoor advertising media that gets you lots [...] Mistakes in life - Lessons from the highway. I grew up in a culture where we are not so forgiving towards mistakes. A recent chat with an american-based venture capitalist (VC) confirmed this: “I’ve realised that over here, when your startup fail and you lose money, people scream for blood.” “But over in the US where I come from, when your startup fail and [...] For Singapore Airlines, Slapping Their Stewardesses Is A Private Matter! Can We Really Slap Them? I read this on the Majulah Singapura blog and am quite shocked because SIA did not take any action and Mr Wong is quite a respected businessman in Singapore. As an iconic company of Singapore, regardless of whose fault, it’s unbelievable to me that SIA did not do anything about this case of air rage. From [...] Man found dead at his home computer terminal Came across this shocking news thanks to Nadnut. Thing is, this is rather strange to me as I play a bit of Defense of the Ancient and can’t really see any strong reasons why this would happen. He is not even a ‘hardcore’ gamer. Anyway it seems much more related to his personal health [...] Unlikely Co-sojourners : 100 Year-old Tortoise acts as Mom to Baby Hippo Here’s a heart-warming and very unusual story of a Hippo that lost his mum and found a co-sojourner and surrogate ‘mum’ in a 100 year-old tortoise! A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port [...] Happy Lunar New Year! It’s the time of the year again, the Lunar New Year where chinese all over the world celebrate. Happy Lunar New Year to you my co-sojourner, and here’s a cutesy video I saw from Foxtwo’s blog Huat ah! Highway Quotes : The road to success Here’s a quote for my readers about your journey on the highway of life - the road to success : The road to success is always under construction.” - Lily Tomlin (American Actress and Comedian. Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2003.b.1939) I know what I get out of this quote. But what about you? [...] Co-sojourners and India I just came back from almost a week in Mumbai and I must say I’ve had a lot of interesting experiences with Indian co-sojourners recently! First of all, a very close co-sojourner got married last Christmas in what must be Singapore’s grandest wedding of 2007: Congrats again to Ash and Simran :) You are blessed truly! And yours truly donned [...] Bribing on the Highway - Singaporean Version I wrote about bribing on the Malaysian highways earlier. This is the Singaporean version, from ’Today’ :  A CEMENT mixer driver tried to beat a traffic rap by offering a police officer a $50 bribe Blessed Christmas and Happy Holidays! 2007 has been an eventful year for me indeed as I shifted back into high gear - traveled tonnes and took on more business portfolios. And 2008 is set to be even more crazy as my 1st half is almost fully booked and a few more portfolios are in discussions! But most importantly 2007 marks the [...] A Million Dollar Opportunity – coming out of someone’s pocket! I just came back from a Slingers game and boy did I miss the Slingers after more than a month of layoff! It’s good to meet co-sojourners again, those whom I’ve met through blogging like Jean and Alice, Sheylara and the Goonfather , Andy and Vandalin, Sabrina and MissCel, Daphne and Arzhou, and Jason my long [...] I think Singapore’s traffic is worse than Ho Chi Minh and Taipei! I just spent a total of 11 days in Taipei and Ho Chi Minh City very recently and boy am I amazed at their traffic! Ho Chi Minh City I met the cutest little babe in Taipei Here’s a companion I found in the hottest area of Taipei called XiMenDing that’s not your everyday co-sojourner: