Personal posts and the diary I have kept since 2002: birthdays, year-in-reviews, milestones, and whatever is on my mind.
This year, Li Xiang's birthday celebration was a simple one. We had an early dinner at Jones The Grocer in Mandarin Gallery, did some shopping around Orchard, then finished with an early supper at Ramen Santouka in Cuppage Terrace.
Leaving my mark on this blog on 11-11-11 at 11:11am. According to Wikipedia, 11th November is the 315th day of the year, with 50 days left. In Japan it's Glico Pocky & Pretz Day, in South Korea Lotte Pepero Day.
I'm helping a fellow NUS SoCian, Reuben, founder of Household.sg, spread the word. Household.sg is an online supermarket that aims to eliminate the tedious trip to the supermarket for groceries, freeing up your time for what truly matters.
I bought two Bluelounge CableBoxes in Hong Kong but never fully used them. While tidying my room and cables recently, I realised I needed two more, so I picked them up at Challenger in Funan for S$49 each, choosing black.
I joined Twitter on 29th June 2007, and today marks my fourth year on the platform. Curiously, despite signing up in June, my very first tweet only came on 7th October 2007. Do follow @gamerz if you're so inclined.
I'd missed this news from March 2011: Knightsbridge, the four-storey retail podium on Singapore's premier shopping belt, is now fully leased, with Abercrombie & Fitch taking the prime corner unit. It marks A&F's first step into Southeast Asia.
The Promise is an awesome, creative marketing campaign by PayPal, remarkably personalised and targeted at individual bloggers. It follows four ordinary Singaporean boys, Eugene, Nicholas, Erik, and Josh, who've banded together to raise awareness of issues close to their hearts.
StarHub isn't IPv6 ready, and I suspect the same of M1 and SingTel. You can test your own connection and share your ISP's result in the comments. Mine showed no IPv6 address detected, just IPv4, ahead of World IPv6 Day.
I couldn't find the unlimited data rates for SingTel's 3G $15 hi!Card, which gives S$18 of value rather than S$15. It quotes pay-per-use data at a 50%-off 0.27 cents per kb, which sounds steep, though a separate 1GB plan exists.
Singapore Food Expo 2011 takes place at Singapore Expo Hall 5 from 27th to 31st May, open 11am to 10pm daily. One of the largest food events in Singapore, this year's edition features more than 100 exhibitors.
SingTel mentions 'Tag Lite' nowhere on its website, so the only way to learn about it is to visit a SingTel Hello store. I first heard of it on a Hardware Zone forum thread about using MultiSIM on the iPad.
A follow-up to my earlier post: SingTel has upgraded the SMS system for activating Bridge Data Roaming. You can now activate the cheaper DataRoam Unlimited plan by SMS, handy when you're only roaming in a single country.
Finally upgraded from SingTel Red Rewards to Red Prestige membership. Red Rewards is SingTel's loyalty programme, letting residential customers earn points off their bill to redeem from a wide catalogue of products, lifestyle perks and lucky draws.
I am twenty-seven today, firmly in my late twenties now! Li Xiang surprised me with two cakes from Pine Garden delivered to my office. My colleagues lit the candles and sang, embarrassingly letting the whole office in on it.
Fancy an Angry Birds plush or SingTel Droid toy? Head to the SingTel booth at IT Show 2011, like their Facebook page, show your profile to staff, and grab one using the UFO catcher machine.
mig33's creative team is hiring a full-time Webmaster reporting to the Director of Content and Creative Factory. They want at least five years of production web-development experience, plus knowledge of web design, GUI, mobile UI and information architecture.
Today is the eve of Lunar New Year, so I wish all Chinese a Happy Lunar New Year, may you all huat gao gao! For reference, the next Lunar New Year falls on Monday, 23rd January 2012.
It's been one year since I started at mig33, my first job, and I'm still learning loads every day. Beyond coding we research new technology trends and how to deploy them to production, picking up Hadoop, Redis, Memcached and RabbitMQ.
I began my weight-loss goal after getting the Nike + iPod Sport Kit with SwitchEasy Runaway. In October 2010 I weighed 89kg, aiming for 75kg by Chinese New Year. I'm now at 78kg, three to go with two weeks left!
An interesting blog post by yeeguy, How Facebook Ships Code, and mig33 shares some of these traits. Among the highlights: all engineers go through a four-to-six-week boot camp learning the system by fixing bugs and attending lectures from senior staff.
Li Xiang and I head to Jakarta tomorrow to visit my secondary school friend Sugih and meet Pei Jun. My iPhone 4 is a paperweight overseas thanks to pricey data roaming, so I'm finally trying SingTel's Bridge DataRoam Unlimited.
Apple is holding a one-day Chinese New Year sale this Friday, 14th January. They run it yearly; instead of America's Black Friday, Singapore gets a red one. I skipped 2010 but bought a Belkin Auto Charger in 2009.