Answer by Oliver Emberton: I'll answer your question, but first I need to explain all of human civilisation in 2 minutes with the aid of a cartoon snake. Humans like to think we're a clever lot. Yet those magnificent, mighty brains that allow us to split the atom and touch the moon are the same [...]
Often we see wedding videos of how a couple comes together. Often we watch videos on how guys proposed to their girlfriends. They are mostly creative, engaged friends and relatives to aid them in their pursuit of love and happiness. Now here is a crazy video of one engagement. Backed by studded violin, harp, laser [...]
Answer by Oliver Emberton: Let’s make you an entrepreneur in 5 minutes. (I like a challenge). You don’t need qualifications, money, a planet-sized-brain or even a particularly good idea. All an entrepreneur ever does is create something that consistently makes money. Think of a company as amachine you design and build. Here’s McDonalds: Your ‘machine’ [...]
Cherlynn’s website was hacked on Boxer’s Day. She messaged me while I was about to pack up and leave school for dinner with a friend, saying that she could not access her WordPress backend as usual. I went into overdrive and access to her cPanel directly. I did not have the site checked out until I [...]
Let me look back at 2012. 2012 had been a hectic year, as was with 2011. As usual, I overloaded myself with modules, assignments and side projects. As usual, my 2012 New Year resolutions were not kept. I did not lose weight. My grades were maintained than improved. What was different between 2011 and 2012 are [...]
I was reading Advice: What is the worst advice you’ve ever been given? and the answers. London Rook’s answer strikes me the most as it reminded me of a Chinese parable of one waiting by a tree for a rabbit to be struck by the tree after watching one foolishly did that. Chinar Radke‘s subsequent comment to that answer led me [...]
Alienware opens a brand new cyber-café, a second with Alienware Arena brand, in the heart of Chinatown at Lucky Chinatown building. Situated at the third floor, it is simply spacious, with plenty of room for 140 gamers at full capacity, floor space for a tournament event and an Alienware concept shop. All the gaming rigs are X51 machines, easily [...]
When the lift threatens to spoil, will your neighbour board it with you?
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Sometimes when life hits a rough patch, you would have to have the associated bad memories erased, forgotten… Sometimes, to the extend of the forgetting oneself. Once, I wished I had the “Memory Whitening Water” in the following short film. Once. And hopefully, that is the last.
Singapore, 12 November 2012 – Starting today, iPhone 5 customers will be able to connect to StarHub’s fast LTE network. StarHub’s iPhone 5 customers can now connect to StarHub’s 4G network. Carrier settings will update for customers over the course of a few weeks to enable 4G. If a customer wants to do this immediately, [...]
Came up with this when some unknown friend(s) were trigger-happy jacking another friend (M) ‘s Facebook account. In a status, we marvelled M’s mad skill of coding while walking. One commented about having a coding competition in an obstacle course. In my mind, I referenced it to Ninja Warriors. And thus this image was born [...]
My friend just posted up a status proclaiming that Steven Lim is dead. Dead? I guess many would rejoice by the news, me included. No more bad videos. No more feeling ashamed by the fact that he holds a Singapore passport. But wait… How true is that? A search on Google Singapore with “Steven Lim [...]