My (baba) bling’s better than your (baba) bling!

Last Saturday, I had the privilege to go for a curated tour of a special exhibition at the Peranakan Museum. It’s called Baba Bling: The Peranakans and Their Jewellery and it’s an exhibition of the jewellery worn by the Peranakan Nyonyas (younger women) and the Bibiks (older women).
Speaking of which, remember Bibik Belacan? I vaguely [...]

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it’s important to get the shoes

Nothing special about this shot, except I asked Shirley to help me take it and was quite amused with the whole thing because she kept getting confused by my instructions. I told her to “hold the camera low”, but then we had to re-take because it was blurry. Then I said, “try not to shake [...]

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The Nice Post

Perhaps some of you have heard about the TweetSG saga. For those who have not, it’s been written at length by both Daryl and daphnemaia, who focus on the online reputation aspect of the debacle, as well as by the developer himself.
As for me, I don’t wish to rehash the conversation between me and the [...]

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A tale of 4 kitties

There are 8 cats in the office.
K that’s only 7. But apparently there a couple more, but these are the ones who more or less are inside the office usually.
So one day, my boss rescues two lovely orangey kittens from the monsoon drain. They were almost drowning, poor things.
The photo on the left (below) shows [...]

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displacement

Goodbye SMU. So long, and thanks for the fish.
Some of the best shots of the day:

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Journalism’s from Mars, Social Media’s from Venus

I attended the Open Room session organised by Ogilvy Digital Influence last week, entitled Journalism’s from Mars, Social Media’s from Venus. At first, I didn’t know what to expect, but as the debate became heated with both sides (bloggers/journalists) becoming very defensive, it became clear that the whole Mars/Venus thing was a pretty apt description [...]

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I survived 42.195km!

Unglam photo

Pardon the ugly watermark on the photos, I didn’t feel compelled to buy the photos for S$34.90!
I officially completed my first marathon on Sunday, 28 June 2009. It was the Standard Chartered KL Marathon, and me and Erfen had trained for 4 months for it. I was actually quite nervous before the race [...]

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