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As much as our local students are seemingly either rude or ignorant during Q&A sessions, I’m sorry to say that Singaporean executives are no better. Here they are paying almost $1,000 for a conference hosted at a rather beautiful convention centre, and what do they do?

Leave their trash behind. Stuff from their goodie bags, pens, [...]

I was at the Future Generation (aka student) track of ad:tech yesterday and I was really disappointed (almost disgusted) by the lack of professionalism in the crowd. About 140 students from the universities and polytechnics, and no one knows how to state their name and affiliation before asking a question?
I actually asked a question and [...]

Yesterday was the HP TouchSmart PC Blogger’s Nite at Brotzeit and I have to say I had a blast. Hands down it was the best blogger event I’ve attended (yes, even over my own Social Media Breakfast: Singapore). And I’m not saying that because I organised it, but there was just something about a killer [...]

Continuing from last night’s post of our wonderful Saturday night, how do you know when your friend is getting married? No, it’s not the marriage email. It’s wedding magazines all over the backseat of the new family car!!

This was after dinner at Hanabi. I have a couple of pictures, but they don’t do justice to [...]

So you might have seen this if you’ve visited Lido in the last two months. Basically every two tickets you buy lets you fill up this form to win a Toyota car. Over dinner (at Hanabi, more on that soon) I was talking about it and Rubin announced “Forget about it! I’m going to win [...]

I picked these up almost a week ago and they’re part of the final (for now) wave of Minimates from DC Comics that will be released. I picked up the full set (4 sets of 2 figures each), so here they are:

So on the left we have Salaak of the Green Lantern Corps and on [...]

So this year I decided I needed some “excitement” in my life and chose to go to the PC show on the last night at the last hour. The office people made a trip on Thursday and I went with them to scout around and target the stuff I wanted, and then went back tonight.
So [...]

I just got off the phone with one of my boys from Scouts, who told me the very bad news that three of them failed their pre-hike report for the Chief Commissioner’s Award, the highest award that one can get in secondary school as a scout.
The reason why? Apparently there were similarities in their emergency [...]

If not readily apparent from my Lost season four review, I’m a huge fan of Lost. So imagine my exhilaration when I saw all four of the Lost series two figures on sale for only $6 each? $24 for some prime room decor is a good deal if you ask me.
First up we have Jin [...]

I was looking through my old HDD and clearing some stuff up and came across this:

That’s us. The “Singapore Management University” team with no name. So even though we eventually got trashed, we can proudly say that at one time we were the 16th best team in Singapore for Counter-Strike.
And don’t let anyone tell you [...]