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This is the fourth chapter of my upcoming book “50 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Earlier”. I started teaching Isaac how to play chess yesterday (9 Dec 2009) and I kicked it off by explaining the role of the pawn and how he could move and attack the other pieces. Today, I went on to the role of the knight [....] Continue reading Chapter 4: Life’s really a game of chess Some of you might remember Darren’s story which I wrote the night after he got married in Sep 2006. When I was a journo I asked Darren if I could write the newspaper story on him, but he was too shy. He’s not so shy now, and my dear ex-colleague Wan Ching finally did the deed a few days ago [....] Continue reading Darren’s Story Part II This is the third chapter of my upcoming book “50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Earlier”. This chapter deals with the harsh realities of being a critic, officially or not. In the army, I earned several nicknames. “King Kong” for being beefy right out of dragonboat training the year before. “Lt. Smallbutt” for having a skinny derriere under the [....] Continue reading Chapter 3: It’s not easy being a critic This is the second chapter of my upcoming book “50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Earlier” and it deals with the great fertility/marriage issue in Singapore. Well, sort of. I’ll have another chapter on how to actually increase the fertility rate without spending more taxpayer dollars. Fact 1: One of the things most feared by the majority of people [....] Continue reading Chapter 2: Mr/Miss Perfect Does Not Exist I’ve been thinking of writing a book for the longest time. It’s not so much an ego thing (oh but it’s always so fun to see your name in print), but a matter of bringing my content beyond my blog into something more permanent. My readers will know that I have opinions on almost everything – except when my wife [....] Continue reading First chapter of my book I’ve been wanting to write something to the papers recently but this Forum letter today beat me to it. Let students have a taste of good Standard Singapore English I FULLY agree with Ms Pek Siok Lian’s view of a ‘half-baked Mandarin and half-baked English’ situation in Singapore (‘My bigini is BOOMZ’, Sept 13). We only have to open our [....] Continue reading My pet peeves about poor English My two external hard drives with total of 3TB storage Being a photographer and marcoms guy who happens to have two kids is a recipe for disaster – I create more data with high resolution images and video faster than anyone in my entire estate (or possibly the entire country). Today, my data archive stands at about 700GB (it’s alot [....] Continue reading Backing up is hard to do
Was reading Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince this morning and read this paragraph which I couldn’t help but agree with totally. If I have told you these details about the asteroid, and made a note of its number for you, it is on account of the grown-ups and their ways. When you tell them that you have made a new [....] Continue reading Grown-ups and their ways |
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