Perception

The new year began with the familiar feeling the previous one did, that of worry and anxiety involving selecting modules for the upcoming school term. Despite trying to plan for the semester beforehand, complications always arise during CORS bidding with exam date clashes and what not. Besides the study break and examination period, these two [...]

Tags: CodeIgniter, CSS3, Django, Founders at Work, HTML5, IPPT, Jessica Livingston, Jono Bacon, MySQL, PHP, Python, Rails, Resolutions, Robert Pirsig, Ruby, sgBEAT, The Art of Community, YUI, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

The third semester of my university term is just about over, and this has by far been the most challenging one of all. I look back with the regret that I did not manage my time better and of the wrong choices I made, but in this position now I know that the last four [...]

Tags: ELITe, IDA, NOC, sgBEAT

It’s been a hundred days since I attended the IDA ELITe programme briefing at the end of July, and since then I’ve managed to secure a mentorship and internship with IDA, with the former beginning on January 1, 2010. The initial pace of this programme has generally been slow but comfortable, which I suppose is [...]

Tags: Ecquaria Technologies, ELITe, IDA, iSyndica, M1, NOC, sgBEAT, UBS, VSee

My application for the NUS Overseas College (NOC) programme for July 2010 has been the focus of my last four weeks, and so far I’ve been successfully through the first two stages. I’m currently waiting for the result of the Round Two interview, although I’m not really sure when it’s due to be released. I [...]

Tags: Minor in Technopreneurship, NOC, OrangeOasis, sgBEAT

It’s been just over a hundred days since sgBEAT launched into public Beta, and over this time we’ve witnessed a substantial growth of our user base. I’m personally delighted that so many Singaporeans have found the service useful, as this has always been my motivation working on this project.
While watching this increase in users has [...]

Tags: sgBEAT, Twitter

It seems that my passion for building and designing sites has been reinvigorated since the launch of sgBEAT, and over this last month or so I’ve been actively redesigning a few of my own sites, mostly for fun. I designed a couple more too, so I’ll be talking about them here as well.
Expression
Despite the module [...]

Tags: Expression, OrangeOasis, sgBEAT, Tutorific, Web Design, YourFinancialPlanner

I had been working with my brothers on sgBEAT these past few months, and I had avoided writing about it because we hadn’t gone into public Beta yet.
sgBEAT is essentially a microblogging platform specifically dedicated to Singaporeans, where users can share updates of their lives via the Web or SMS. Another aim of our [...]

Tags: Design, sgBEAT, Twitter, Whisk Technologies