If you read PhD Comics, you might have noticed the addition of a new “Emergency Button” at the bottom of each comic strip like this: Clicking on it generates an academic paper that looks like this: Intl. Journal of Temporal Deflective Behavior Vol. 4, No. 1163, pp.169, 2009 Copyright c 2008 J. Cham. All rights [...]

Wonderful production by Your Tango. Also read TIME Magazine’s article about the video. Since YourTango has 5, TIME has 10, maybe I’ll add 5 more etiquette for consideration: Tag people in (good) photos – it shows courtesy, acknowledges that you still remember / respect the person Introduce yourself when adding [...]

The Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2nd series of Haydn Symphonies (26, 49, 85). This time in Esplanade Recital Studio, on May 7, 8pm. Tickets won’t be sold through sistic, so you have to do one of the following to buy tickets for this concert: Ask one of our members for it Call us (97740045) E-mail us (contactus [...]

Sunday March 29, 2009 Shoring up the world By CHIN MUI YOON We see them everywhere, those concrete walls made up of hexagons, soaring across highways and bearing flyovers. They are Nehemiah Walls, proudly designed and built in Malaysia, and going global now. Read the full article on: TheStar. We need more entrepreneurs like this. [...]

GridAsia is today! @ IDA’s offices (Suntec Tower 3, #14-00), 13 – 17 April. See gridasia.ngp.org.sg/2009 for more info. Yes it’s free!

Occasionally I indulge in Mckinsey’s publication, not only because it pulls me back to the center of discussion globally on the latest business and technology trends, it also reaffirms some on-going stereotypes that people tend to nod their head vigorously to, which is important when you’re trying to sell some ideas to people. So when [...]

If you haven’t read the previous post, then please go straight to www.malaysiaforum.org/nmf/global-forum and devourer all the info on the site Quick note about the gathering in Singapore: If you have facebook, there’s an events page created for this that would be more complete than my post here. Please check it out and RSVP so [...]

a.k.a. The Red Book as the Malaysian Bar calls it, published together with TANGKAP sometime ago. Good read whether you’re a laymen or otherwise. You can download the PDF version from the Source: The Malaysian Bar Highlights (i.e. those that I personally found interesting): Police authority card: Red = Suspended Police Officer! 112 Statement: When [...]

Press Release: starhub.listedcompany.com/news.html/id/148092 News: www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/419908/1/.html Highlights from StarHub Release: “begin commercial operations in 1Q-2010″ “committed to attracting overseas online service providers to host their content in Singapore” “establish an integration test lab facility that will help RSPs trial and test out new applications and services over the Next-Gen NBN before commercial deployment” IDA Release: www.ida.gov.sg/News [...]

Earlier I posted Jonathan Jarvis’s video on the credit crisis, turns out that there are even more of them – check it out! Making Sense of the Financial Mess Granted, some laymen only want to cut through the rut to understand the crisis better, so the “less” information the better. But to some extent, the [...]