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This is the eighth chapter in my upcoming book “50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Earlier” and is also a long-overdue entry in my Visual Literacy series. My Tripod.com homepage, circa 2001. Homepages have come a long way since those primitive days when we had to manually create every hyperlink and thumbnail.
Many people kick off [....] Continue reading Chapter 8: Designing your blog This is the 7th entry in my upcoming book “50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Earlier”. If you’ve done home renovations before, you know how painful the whole process is. This article applies to renovation of small apartments and doing proper future-proofing, I’m afraid I’m too poor to tell you how to renovate a bungalow right Back [....] Continue reading Chapter 7: Renovating Your House For The Future This is the 6th chapter in my upcoming book “50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Earlier”. The previous chapters were getting a bit too serious, so here’s something less philosophical, but no less important. The photo above is that of our wedding bands which I designed after watching too many episodes of Xena the Warrior Princess. Whenever people [....] Continue reading Chapter 6: The Wedding Survival Guide This is the 5th chapter in my upcoming book: “50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Earlier” Some years ago I sat down with my mum’s old friend and insurance agent, Uncle Tong Hai, for lunch, and he related a story of a client who was perpetually unhappy. The conversation went something like this: “He was very wealthy but he was [....] Continue reading Chapter 5: How to solve problems quickly 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 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 |
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