This is a shocking documentary about the manufacturing process of billions of single use chopsticks. The video clip is in mandarin, but I’ve summarized the key points below after the video. What the clip doesn’t say is where these chopsticks end up – if it’s only for Chinese internal consumption then the damage can still [...]
Browsing Education™
5 ways to deal with peak workload
Just want to let everyone know that I’m alright, in case you don’t see me that often these days, it’s because of the super workload that I’m taking on these two months. I will try to keep to blogging once a week to stay sane (see tip no. 2) as well.
Here’s how I deal with [...]
Win 60 iExperience Preview Tickets
Earlier at CommunicAsia, IDA launched its own self-managed Infocomm Experience Centre, called iExperience, located at the newly opened Esplanade Xchange. As usual, VIPs go first, and the public will be able to tour the place starting 1 July 2010.
The idea is to excite the public and the visitors about how residents of Singapore will be [...]
Unconference Singapore is now eChelon 2010
eChelon 2010 – Asia’s Leading Web Technology Event in Singapore
Well, this is not a post about the event itself. That would be redundant, since you can learn more about it yourself and buy tickets directly by heading to http://www.echelon2010.com, so why don’t you click on that (opens a new window) while you continue to read.
This [...]
10-ways to champion Software-as-a-Service in your company
If you’re reading this you are probably, like me, 20s to 30s, perhaps 40s, but not top management in your company, very well read online, aware of all these cool apps, some of them free, others at prices cheaper than having lunch, and sincerely wanted your organization to ride the wave by utilizing some of [...]
八打灵精武小学校歌 SRJK(C) Chen Moh school song
Looks like a few things has changed since I left primary school in 1992. The school is now SJK(C) instead of SRJK(C), whatever happened to “R”endah? And someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but in the past I always thought the lyrics at the end was 马来小国民, but it has been changed to 马来西亚国民… [...]
ReCom is geared up for this year’s scholarship season
Calling all young and aspiring students in Malaysia! Join ReCom today!
ReCom has recently undergone yet another migration. You would have noticed a marked improvement in access speeds and site responsiveness. Since 2003, ReCom has grown from a university dorm PC into commercial web hosting space (with some necessary evil of online ads) into a 15,000 [...]
Stanford Leading Matters vs CMU Inspire Innovation
In a fairly short time span, I was able to attend two alumni events of both my alma maters, without having to travel far as both were held in Singapore. Both came to the alumni for giving obviously, reinforcing their global status and the need for alumni to give to help in rankings and endowment. [...]
Cloning the Bright Spots – Fixing Analysis Paralysis
Great stuff. Simple idea. The capability of solving a problem not by analyzing, but simply by cloning the success cases is a crucial skill in the modern age, where problems are just too complex and intractable.
Read the article: Start from page 1 of 4, or all pages (print view)
When I read the examples, such [...]
Linchpin drawings from Hugh
Life is too short to not do something that matters.
It was either that or the insane asylum.
All artists are entrepreneurs. All Entrepreneurs are artists.
This is it. Fight like hell.
Linchpin. Ok, pushed into the to-read queue.
Buy the art. Buy the book.











Ong Jiin Joo is a Business Development Manager in SingTel Innovation Exchange. Much of his life thus far has been straddling the technology world and the music world, and nothing in between. He pretends that a lot of people read his blog, and is thus only partially frank in his writing. To get the full blown view often involves contacting him for coffee (he doesn't like alcohol). 

