Now this came as a surprise to me: YTL actually sponsoring a Climate Change Week. Not that YTL’s environmental vision is different from other corporate citizens around the world, but just that after being in Singapore for so long, I didn’t even see such a public declaration of environmental awareness by any local Singapore company. [...]

Now, they say you need to be cultured to appreciate classical music. But then think of the irony: you also have to be highly “cultured” to be offended by classical music. For example, if you spend this Friday night at the recital studio for this concert: you’ll hardly get “offended” as everything will sound just [...]

Whee! Round 2 for me (Round 1 was here). This time at home ground Malaysia. Looks like my March is extremely packed with Philwind’s Young People Concert followed by this followed by Viva Verdi. Source: www.ticketcharge.com.my Check out some of the promotional websites: http://www.genting.com.my/en/live_ent/2007/jonathanlee/default.htm Getting a room package: http://www.genting.com.my/en/live_ent/2007/jonathanlee/roompack.htm Detail summary: Cheapest Possible Tix: RM72 [...]

This year you Fan Tai Sui, must be very careful, because this year no good for you. Heard enough of this from your Feng Shui gurus yet? Mandarin not “chim” enough to read this or this? Let’s start with the basics. First, I’m not talking about this: Source: www.people.com.cn This Tai Sui (太岁) is a [...]

Happy Chinese New Year! I’m going to blog till my hearts content these few days Let’s start with some well wishes. Here’s one from a doggy called dian dian (点点): Source: xiaogoudiandian.blog.sohu.com Last year was the year of the dog. This year, the pig. According to ancient wisdom (of some unknown Chinese fiefdom) one should [...]

I’m not Korean, I do not know how to Taekwondo. But, due to some coincidence and some ingenuity on the part of my parents, part of my first name contains a this set of letters: J-I-I-N, two ‘i’s. In fact, due to the inability of Americans and other nationals in American to remember my extremely [...]

Check this out! http://app.mof.gov.sg/budget_2007/choice/fiscal_choices.asp Like the disclaimer said, it’s totally not scientific, but then it’s really an awesome education tool for people. The percentage tweaks is, to me, simply just a hand itchy thing for people to hang around the webapp so that they recognize the various major categories of government Profit & Loss. Here [...]

So it turns out that the branding rumor that I’ve been hearing is true, that some bastard from the “other” side cannot co-exists. I really hate it when Singaporean and Malaysians cannot work together. Or before I continue to bitch, let’s talk about the important thing first. Discover U.S. Education ’07 is the successor event [...]

Few days ago, a big container took up five parking lots An impact that was further exacerbated by an advance warning from an internal circular saying that we have to park in the field (luckily not rainy season) tomorrow. Why? Alas, it’s an exclusive event by invitation only (so don’t bother). No wonder one box [...]