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31 December 2009

Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010!

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As we hurtle towards the new year, I thought I’d take some time to look back at 2009, and collect my thoughts.
It’s been quite an amazing year for me, both professionally and personally.  I bought an apartment, changed 3 companies in a year and proposed to my girlfriend (now fiancee).  Someone once told me it [...]

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7 December 2009

How to have a jolly good meeting with me

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I had a less-than-ideal experience earlier today, at a tea-cum-pitching session with an entrepreneur that was introduced by a mutual friend.  I made the mistake of not asking for materials beforehand, and was still clueless as to what product the entrepreneur and his team was trying to build after listening for three-quarters of the hour [...]

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18 November 2009

When Fear and Hope collide

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Some days ago, I made the decision to publish an entry that some might consider controversial.  I received a wide range of responses from my friends, some supportive, and others less so.  Apart from the comments attached to the original entry, I thought I’d reproduce some of them (sans names and any identifiers) to illustrate [...]

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10 November 2009

Once Bonded, Reloaded

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Just like Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, I penned my name on a legal document in 2000 that effectively willed 6 years of my life – after the mandatory military service and the sponsored US university education – to the Singapore Public Service.  The ‘golden ticket’ was like a dream come true – a chance for the eldest [...]

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27 October 2009

Thin-slicing in Venture Capital: Tapping the power of the Adaptive Unconscious

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Every entrepreneur knows the importance of placing their best foot forward so as to leave a good impression with investors at the first meeting.  Yet more often than not, the entrepreneur finds the session rapidly going south.  The less patient angel or VC’s body language would subtly change, as they shift about in their seats [...]

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9 October 2009

SG Next-Gen National Broadband Network starts rollout

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The Next-Gen National Broadband Network, in Singapore’s bid to make up for lost ground against countries such as South Korea and Japan, has been rolled out amidst much fanfare by the passive infrastructure company (NetCo), otherwise known as OpenNet.  OpenNet is a joint venture of four partners – Axia NetMedia (Axia), Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), Singapore [...]

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1 October 2009

EPL win for Singtel, Loss for Singapore

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In Singapore, soccer ranks up there in the towering 40-storey blocks of our over-priced, cloud-kissing public housing (together with shopping and food) as one of our national pastimes.  Our national team of yester-years had cultivated the soccer passion in our hearts with their heroics in the Malaysian League days, before handing over the baton to [...]

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24 September 2009

Singapore – where whatever we do, is never good enough

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This entry is my response to Paul Graham’s old article, which talked about cities, the ambitions of its people and the messages that they send out.  In writing this, I was inspired by my personal experiences and a brief discussion at a Skype group chat that I hang out at.  I’d love to hear what [...]

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9 September 2009

Yikes – I like this Bike!

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This is one bike that will certainly turn heads for various reasons when it hits the mass market.
New Zealand-inspired YikeBike has built upon inventor Grant Ryan’s Mini-Farthing design to produce an under-10kg, foldable, Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) powered next-generation carbon-fiber electric ‘bicycle’ that makes the Segway look like a beached whale.  With a top speed [...]

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7 September 2009

The Land of No Return

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I stumbled across an old Henry Park Primary publication as I was rummaging through a cabinet of old stuff this weekend.  It was a thematic collection of essays from the Primary 4, 5 and 6 classes to commemorate my alma mater’s then-15th anniversary which fell on 11 April 1992.  I was 10 years old. [...]

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