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This made me so happy today. I found a digitised copy of the Singapore Chronicle (what later became the Straits Times) from 1831, the year the paper was started.

And this is the in-game newspaper in Red Dead Redemption, set around 1900. A brother from another mother! (Screen grab from this YouTube video.)

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Posted 3 days ago

Smug chug

I realised, to my horror, the face I was making in my latest blog post is almost identical to the smug drink-hogging kid's.

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Posted 7 days ago

Keepin' it casualllll

Spot the odd one out. All the freelancers are hard at work (so many iPads!) but I'm relishing the last moments of freedom before I have to start gainful employment next week. In other news, I did read a couple of chapters of my book inbetween sips of iced coffee.

(I'm fully aware of how unflattering this picture is of me. But the moment was too good, plus I couldn't figure out how to replace it with another picture on the fly.)

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Posted 10 days ago

Pedantic customer or staff?

The grammar nazi strikes again.

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Shek O grocer

From an otherwise sleepy-looking part of Shek O in Hong Kong.

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Nothing but the local DJ

New Flip cam + new MacBook Pro + impromptu trip overseas = a sudden unexplainable urge to create something, regardless of quality.

"Great DJ" by The Ting Tings was chosen as the audio track because those in control of the iPod in the car in Hong Kong refused to play it upon (my) repeated request.

Huzzah!

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Posted 13 days ago

Toy camera fancy

       
Click here to download:
Toy_camera_fancy_tagout_and_ab.zip (561 KB)

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Posted 19 days ago

NewmacbookandIhavetouseitnow

Squeeee

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Posted 23 days ago

Last day at ZDNet

   
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And in a blink of three years, I had come to my last day at ZDNet Asia. Most of it passed in a haze, the prospect of clearing my desk lingering in the backdrop of my regular work routine. 

"This will be the last story I'm writing at ZD, but it feels less momentous than i expected," I tweeted.

And when it came time to hoist up my bulging bag and leave, I expected a quick and clean goodbye, but instead was greeted with a card, a box of gifts and tears at the door (which really turned on the waterworks for me as well).

My season parking ran out that day, so I had plans to take the MRT home. But at the last moment, I decided to take the bus instead—something I hadn't done in years.

Sitting on that bus on the way home, everything started sinking in. I'm not sure if it's the different mode of transport, but everything suddenly felt foreign. I was about to walk right into change, that old friend I'd tried so hard to avoid. Did I make the right choice? Why was I feeling all beat up about leaving?

Oddly, the only thought that started to distract me from all that was the realisation that after three years of getting used to U.S. spelling, I would have to go back to U.K. style. (Just as well—this blog is kept strictly to the latter, anyway.)

More importantly for now, I have a couple of weeks' break. So here's the plan:
  • Stop biting my nails. Since I only do that when I think, this will be a period of zero thinking. That ought to fix it. 
  • Finish Red Dead Redemption and relive the days of 10 hour gaming binges.
  • Complete one book.
  • Finish a song composition.
  • Complete the rest of a song arrangement that's been sitting dolefully on my desktop.

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Posted 25 days ago

Spot the least enthusiastic actor

"Okay models, give me a yeeaahh! A big one. Hey Anna, look more enthusiastic. Like this photoshoot was your idea not your mum's. Come on, you can do it...No? Okay fine. Whatever, everybody else...Altogether now.

"Yeeeeaaaaahhhh."

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Posted 1 month ago