// May 25th, 2010 // No Comments » // Blogroll
I have recently changed jobs, and have been pretty busy catching up with new technologies and products. So for those who are reading, blog updates will potentially be sparse until I get settled in…
Meanwhile stay tuned.
// April 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Blogroll, Food, Singapore
Being Malaysian, I’m fairly picky over the quality of my nasi lemak. In Singapore, the definition of nasi lemak is somewhat different from across the causeway. In Singapore, nasi lemak is somewhat a blend of sweet sambal, coconut rice, otak-otak (otah as referred here in SG) and maybe a fried tiny fish or chicken wing. Fellow Malaysian’s would probably agree with me that the Malaysian styli is probably much more enticing, with flowing curry, beef rendang and scorching hot sambals as standard fare.
I have been on the hunt for a similar nasi lemak since I arrived in Singapore 2 years ago. Been to recommendations that were “supposedly” best in town but still no joy. Latest addition, the Punggol Nasi Lemak Centre on Upper Serangoon Road. Decided to drive past at around 1am hoping to skip the queues, but no getting away even at 1am. Fairly quick to clear however.
So did I finally find it?
Nope. Nada. Same ole, same ole. Was it good? Well yeah! Could probably go down as one of the better ones for the “Singapore Styli Nasi Lemak”. Definitely worth a try if you are around the area, but probably not so much if you are gonna go there just for that.
Anyhow, meanwhile, if you are a little like me craving the Malaysian Nasi Lemak, the closest fix is to get it at Old Town Coffee franchises around Singapore.
Punggol Nasi Lemak
965 Upper Serangoon Rd
Opening Hours : 6pm-5am
// March 31st, 2010 // No Comments » // Blogroll
As I’m sipping away my coffee looking out towards Victoria Harbour, I looked back to 2.5 years ago when I was sitting at the same spot now. Can’t help thinking how much have changed. Obviously much younger then, still in excitement as to how it all fell into place, moving to Singapore from Sydney, and a change in role to something I have always wanted to do. Now reminiscing the journey, while the experience was good, it wasn’t always great and while some moments were awesome, some were extremely awful. Nonetheless, made some extremely good friends along the way. The signs are lining up and I believe the decision is a right one.
Hope the next journey will be quite as good.
// March 26th, 2010 // No Comments » // Blogroll, Technical Know-It-All
Surely you guys would have heard of Earth Hour happening on the 8:30pm 27th March 2010. While it is a great move to spread awareness about being “green” and potentially save some “energy”, underneath it all we are still a society driven by energy. From a consumer’s point of view, the whole world going dark for a bit and it’s suddenly a statement being made. But what they probably don’t know is that one of the biggest power consumers in the world are datacenters and IT infrastructures. So the question is “why don’t they power-down for Earth Hour?” or maybe use less power. Sure. If you want your bank accounts frozen, mobile phones services offline, Facebook account going offline (OMG, that would be a disaster wouldn’t it), and airplanes sent flying blind just to name a few during Earth Hour. Having said that, I do support the cause of being greener whenever I can.
While much is being done to make datacenters and IT infrastructures greener, I seriously think it will still get worst. For example, virtualisation of servers to reduce hardware and carbon footprint sounds great, but as needs grow its inevitable that the infrastructure will consume more power. Traditionally, provisioning a new server requires quite a bit of time and usually justification, but with virtualisation, this process is made easier and much quicker. Now, admins provision servers in half the time and on readily available resources, and then here comes the catch. Where in the past, 1 physical server will usually run a few applications, today in a virtualised world, 1 virtual machine will often be dedicated to run a single app. After a while, we are back to square one, burning up just as many physical servers like we used to.
So what I’m really trying to say is that in order to be truly green, I suppose technology alone is not good enough, it requires management and education. Guess it’s something to ponder on this year’s Earth Hour.
p/s : I do not usually agree much on what Malaysian Orgs / Govt has to say, but there has been a viral thread circulating about that says “TNB wants to sue WWF for Earth Hour”. I suggest you guys should make your own judgements if its true because it is written on a blog and none of the big news players like Reuters or AP has picked it up. Go figure… I’m not gonna provide you guys the link to endorse it further.
// March 24th, 2010 // No Comments » // Blogroll
Since I arrived in HK a few days back, the air pollution has been off the charts. It was so bad that I had to constantly have water around me. I am so glad that its somewhat back to normal. Well, the smog is still unavoidable, but at least it ain’t hazardous.
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