Archive for August, 2010

Chemicals found in single use chopsticks

Posted by  in August 29th, 2010  
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Posted in: Education, Internet     

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 [...]

Five by Five Concert Videos

Posted by  in August 15th, 2010  
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Posted in: Music, Singapore     

The recording was done by camera (Think it was a Lumix?) The video quality is too good, HD video of a rather still image catching all the unsightly stage habits (including appearing too much like log). But the audio quality is really bad, yet unfortunately also capturing the worst in our music, e.g. not holding [...]

6 weeks to Accelerate 2010 accelerate.six.sg

Posted by  in August 11th, 2010  
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Posted in: Singapore, SingTel     

If you have been following my tweets, facebook, or is fortunate enough to receive a personal eDM from me, you would probably realise I’m helping put together one big conference in September called Accelerate which my team in SingTel (SiX) created after realizing that we need to also play our part in augmenting the innovation [...]

5 ways to deal with peak workload

Posted by  in August 2nd, 2010  
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Posted in: Diary, Education     

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 [...]