Farewell

Hey guys,


Today will be the last day for this blog.


The demise of it so to speak.


I would like to say a big thank you to all the readers out there, especially the ones from the United States and the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Singapore and India, you guys have really been supportive and stuff.


Thanks to all of you, my unique views per day has shot up to the moon.


A big thank you once again.


I hope to see you guys in the future, anything is possible you see.


Yeah, so all the best to all of you out there and continue reading the global news because it will benefit you in the long run.


A little dosage of news a day will make you a master of all.


Consistency is the key. Remember that!


Bye bye

sevigny.

Bugs

The sofas with bed-bugs!

Ricky Martin is gay

"I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man," Martin wrote in a blog posting at http://www.rickymartinmusic.com/.


First it was Dumbledore from Harry Potter and now it is Ricky Martin.

I guess the world is really undergoing a revolution. It's changing like no one can possibly imagine. Anything can happen.


This definitely came as a huge shock. I read the news as I was eating my dinner and my jaw almost dropped, literally. I was in a complete daze when I saw the news.


Many have said that homosexuality is in the genes but doesn't it seem the other way round now ?

Given that there are so many random people being in the spot light of the gay industry, it seems more like a fad.


Not really a genetic problem, rather a trend problem. It is now de facto "cool" to be gay.


I was discussing with my friends why we like to talk about homosexuality and one of them said simply because their life is very flamboyant and intriguing. The things they do, the clothes they wear, the people they hang out with, their language, their style of speaking and their career.


Some say they are rich, some say they are smart, some say they are just lame.


Whatever it is, they are now the center of attention.


My friend told me that normal family life are already depicted in the drama series over and over again and people are sick and tired of them already. It turns them off in fact, it's too mundane and dry.


They need interesting stories about what these group of people do and their dramatic stories.

You hear about breakups in relationships often but when it comes to them, you suddenly become interested because their stories are always full of vissicitudes; ups and downs so to speak.


Are they bringing new ideas and sparks into this world?


Look at Lady Gaga, she brought all the craziest thing you can possibly imagine and look at her now, she shot to fame within a year and is now a world renowned pop star who is compared to Madonna.


Look at Ellen Degeneres, mega-tv talk show host and she's doing so well that Oprah Winfrey has to take a side step.


Drama, is that what we need in life? Are they the only source of drama for us today?


All these will be palpable soon enough.


Credits -mundofanclub, -ning, -devianart

MEGATEX The Most Complete Electronics & I.T. Show

MEGATEX The Most Complete Electronics & I.T. Show

01 April 2010 - 04 April 2010



Event type : Retailer & Sales

Venue : Hall 4B

Don't know where is Hall 4B? Not to worry, just look below

Admission : Public - Free Admission

Event Schedules : Time: 10am to 10pm



Show Profile :



The Most Complete Electronics & I.T. Show



Organizer : Courts (Singapore) Pte Ltd



As you can see from the above, there's a plethora of brands participating in this IT fair. In fact, it is one of the biggest one, even better than that in Suntec Convention Hall a while back.


You have Nokia, LG, Lenovo, Starhub, Singtel, Fujitsu, Dell, Compaq, Yamaha, Buffalo and so many, many more.


So what are you waiting for? Do drop by Singapore Expo if you happen to be free this weekend and shop like there's no tomorrow if you happen to need some electronics!

Credits -photobucket

China Charged

A bipartisan group of 130 U.S. lawmakers issued an open letter Monday, calling on the Obama administration to label China a currency manipulator and impose sanctions.


"If the administration fails to act on this issue it will hold back our economic recovery and hurt the ability of American small businesses and manufacturers to increase their production, keep their doors open, and create jobs," Michaud said in a statement on his Web site.

Okay, I only have got one opinion on this when I first saw this. I'm not going to talk about China being a currency manipulator, helping its own exporters in order to boost its trade surplus and end up with an astonishing 8% annual growth and stuff.


Conversely, the first thing that came to my mind is that the United States feels threatened. China is going to overtake Japan any time soon and the next one on the chopping board will be the United States and they are threatened by that fact.

As far as I'm concerned, China is not really impacted by the financial crisis or has already recovered even if it was impinged by it. On the other hand, the United States is not recovering yet for it is still fraught with mortgage issues, all-time high unemployment rate, debts, loans and insidious social problems like labour's employability and stuff.


Thus, the United States feel that if they do not stop China (for they are on a roll), the United States will be overtaken faster than they can ever imagine.


All in all, it boils down to the United States being insecured about themselves in terms of sustaining its position as the Number 1 economy is the entire world. Nonetheless, I am going to agree with the United States that China is flagrantly manipulating its currencies by undervaluing it.


Credits -marketwatch, -scienceblogs, -wallpaper-s

Helping Hand

Here is something I learnt from work.


This happened about 10 days ago if I'm not wrong.


It was in fact one of the busiest day ever due to the shortage of manpower.


What I saw was definitely true friendship.


A colleague of mine who goes by the name of Joyce was floundering as the boss tasked her something that she is not skilled in and de facto had no idea about! Nonetheless, she said that she will try her best for she knows that our boss will mark her down if she were to say that she did not know how to do it.


At this point in time, when everyone is so busy, another colleague of mine who is called Jeslyn went over and help Joyce because she has some knowledge in what she was tasked to do. Then why not ask Jeslyn to do it in the first place you might ask. Well I myself am not sure of that!


Anyway, the point is, Jeslyn had a lot of work that day too but nevertheless, she went over and offered her help.


This is bona fide friendship to me. Helping your friends when they need help. A lot of us have the proclivity to approach others only when we need help ourselves. When others need help, we just pretend we didn't hear anything like those people sitting on the handicapped seats in the bus. We just act ignorant, as if we do not know a thing.


Are you guilty of that yourself? Well I sure am. That is for sure a human nature but I believe that we can change for the better.


Instead of leaving our friends to drown, we should start to offer our helping hand and continue to build an even stronger bond between ourselves and our friends, for this will be a bond that will be perennial. A bond that will bring you unprecedented rewards in the future.


Trust me.


So from today onwards, start to offer your help as and when possible. Do not conceal yourself when others need help or they will do the same thing when you need help one day!

home sweet home.

i wish everyday was a saturday.

Abysmal Incompetency

Yes, as the title suggest, I was infuriated with anger yesterday due to the abysmal incompetency of my "supervisor" who plans the schedule for all of us because the system that does it is apparently down.


I'm typing this post with a placid persona because I have already calmed myself down.


Yeah so it goes, a few days back . . .


On wednesday, 24 March, I was discussing with my friends about Good Friday, nope we are not Christians, rather I was thinking that it will be great to work on Good Friday because you get double the pay, which is definitely a bountiful sum of money!


I was thinking since my schedule this week sucks so badly, the next one should be pretty great. So with great optimisim and alacrity, I was pretty sure that I had the Good Friday work day in the bag.


Considering that this week my off day was on Tuesday and Friday, I thought that there's no way I will be losing my weekend once again the next week.


But as you all might have already guessed. It happened. I'm on off on Friday again and I will be foregoing my weekend once again. The thing is not really focused on that fact that I will be losing my weekend. Rather, it is focused on the fact that I'm actually on off on a Friday and the worst part is that I will be losing my double pay opportunity which is practically like a once-in-a-blue moon opportunity.


So I went to approach him and I asked him why am I on off on a Friday again? And he told me that the schedule now is manually planned out by him and so it's a bit screwed up.


I was thinking to myself, what do you mean a bit? It's completely screwed up, 101%.


The tales of his incompetency bore me seriously. It is no wonder he is earning a measly amount of money every month. I guess the pay really does commensurate to his capabilities. Oh wait, perhaps I'm wrong, he deserve way lesser than that, given his intelligence.


He can't even plan a schedule properly? This palpably shows how pathetic his planning skills actually are.


If you can't do it right, at least get someone else to help you. Don't be ambitious and do it yourself.


Furthermore, this is not the first time he has failed us in planning. It has been incessant in fact, when it comes to his failures.


Don't even get me started on it please.


Truly appaling man. Devastating.


He seriously does not know how to reward the talent in the team.


Hence, from now onwards, I shall destroy the bible I wrote for the newbies which has facilitated training by a mile and made it way more effective than in the past. With my bible, the newbies can learn faster and they can even refer back if they happen to forget some of the details, which happen very frequently, particularly for the very new guys.


So, I'm going to withdraw the bible and I'm going to have nothing to do with the training from now onwards. Call me selfish or whatever you want but I'm not going to do a losing business.


It doesn't pay to put in so much effort because you have a fucked up supervisor that knows nothing and is always panicky in times of crisis.


Sick of his trite comments in an attempt to bond. I will ignore him the next time he tries to strike a conversation.


I have to be relentless on this one. No mercy

Painting

Look at the number of air-con switches!

a bit blurry.

"i've always favored amateurism over professionalism, attraction over experience. it obliges anyone in the industry to think in a fresher way"

~hedi slimane.

it was just one of those nights where my photographs weren't turning out how i wanted them to...but after looking through them i realized that the "mess-ups" were good but in a different way. sometimes a blurry photograph with washed out color can look really neat and add a different point of view to photographs.

*Fashion: Atelier Versace Lookbook

Until now, Versace has kept its Spring '10 Atelier collection under wraps, showing the collection to an elite invite-only audience during Couture Week. The Italian fashion house has finally revealed a sneak peak of its look book for all to lust over. It features designs inspired by the Greco-Roman era. With the help of model Kasia Struss, Versace shows off a decadent line of Swarovski crystal, feather, and chain-embellished gowns fit for any red carpet queen. What was on show proves just how far Donatella has progressed in terms of sophistication, taste, and command of materials.
It's sexy, slinky, and daring Versace!

Earth hour

Today is the day where you have to save one hour of electricity.

That is pretty easy. Just shut off all the electricity in your house for 1 hour and start to ruminate about what other things you can do to save the earth.


Use that 1 hour wisely, stay away from your handphones, computers and television sets. Just think to yourself what you can do in the future to stop this world from being obliterated as a result of global warming.


Let's look at the stark difference between a lighted city and a switched-off city.

Ostensibly it seems like a great movement, where the world can save one hour of electricity. But to think of it as a one-shot pony campagin will result it in being a futile attempt to move the world.


What I mean here is that the 1-hour global campaign is to remind the others of the pivotal importance of saving electricity in your everyday life. Obviously that 1 hour saving is not going to do a thing as compared to the rest of the number of hours in your 365 days. The point here is to offer us a caveat that if we do not our part, soon our city will be perpetually living in darkness like during that of the 1 hour we are experiencing.


Campaigns, events, advertisements are going all out to remind us about the 1 hour campaign today.

If they are doing it to merely remind us to switch off the electricity for 1 hour, don't you think that the total cost we saved would have been overwrited by the cost of all the campaigns, events and advertisements used altogether ?

Then what's the point right?

Hence, we should look at the bigger picture and start to save electricity whenever possible. Especially when we are not using any appliances.

A final note, if you switch off your appliances rather than putting them on standby mode, you can save up to $50 a year. That might be very littlt but imagine if everyone is doing that, the amount saved would be gargantuan.

Do not think of it as an individual effort, think of it as a global effort.

I presume that is what the Earth hour campaign is trying to tell us.

The magic of 285 Apple Stores

In a report to clients issued overnight Monday about Apple's (AAPL) opportunities for growth in China, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty adds, almost as a throwaway, the instructive charts at right (see also below the fold).

They show what she calls the "Positive Correlation Between Apple Store Expansion and Mac Market Share."


It seems flagrant that the accrued market share is a corrollary of the expansion of the number of Apple stores worldwide. Right now, Apple is planning to open up another 25 retail shops in China. This might be a perfect opportunity to expand in China given that Google has some conflicts with China at the moment.


It might be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to convert the Chinese into Apple fans!


Nonetheless, Apple still has many other opportunities elsewhere other than China. For instance, in Asia it is becoming more and more prominent where more and more teenagers are enticed by the iPhones and iTouch. Many are wowed by the number of applications and you can hear them talking about the up and coming applications of the day on the train everyday.


To be a topic of the day is HUGE!


The best form of marketing to date is for sure without a shadow of a doubt, the word-of-mouth marketing.

Imagine you yourself going up to the highest floorth in your country. Then, you pierce a pillow (which you have brought along) filled with feathers with a knife. Every single feathers will float along with as the wind gust and you will have no idea where each feather goes.


That is the power of the word-of-mouth. With the increasing number of shops as a concomitant, Apple is approaching invincibility.

I'm pretty sure that even though iPad was not a huge success, Apple will continue to move on with even greater success in the near future.


You have my word!




Credits -cnn, -charicemania, -cache4

Waiting Area

Just a picture of the day at work.

Facebook Surpassed Google

"It shows content sharing has become a huge driving force online," said Matt Tatham, director of media relations at Hitwise. "People want information from friends they trust, versus the the anonymity of a search engine."


Well, the day has finally arrived.


Facebook triumphs Google. The point made by Tatham is very intriguing. Content sharing is becoming a huge driving force on the net.


I thought this is really a fact.


I personally always get the thrill and adrenaline rush when I post a status message on facebook and then I get lots of reply on my status message. Somehow, I feel very happy to reply to these messages even though that person replying to my message is actually on msn with me.


So right now, I'm thinking to myself, is it because we humans prefer to share the message with the rest and also, we are able to show off to the rest of our friends that we are popular in the sense that our message get tonnes of replies on it.

Right now, it becomes a competition to see who has the most number of replies. It's a vicious cycle.


Don't you think so? Come to think of it, when you see others getting lots of replies on that status messages and you getting none. Doesn't it makes you reflect on yourself? Whether all your friends doesn't like you?


But when you suddenly get lots of replies, you tend to study the trend. What is it that I have to type to get lots of replies.


Interesting isn't it? Now it becomes what I should type rather than what I want to type.


We've just been manipulated by the society and social network.


Google has recently came up with Google Buzz but it was a major flop. Perhaps if Google can come up with something better, then maybe they will trash facebook.


Otherwise, facebook will still take the lead for now.




Credits -cnn, -mythsandfacts

America's next top model Cycle 14 Episode 3

Alasia

Not too bad

Alexandra

Classical Armani

Angealea

Dissapointment

Anslee

Average

Brenda

Pathetic

Jessica

Beautiful

Krista

She seems photoshopped

Naduah

Killer.

Raina

She looks like daredevil. Wow gorgeous man

Ren

Too messy

Simone

No impact at all

Tatiana

Not very impressive

Creidts -livejournal