Monday, November 24, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Amazing LG Prada phone with a matching bluetooth watch!
In life some of the best things are the spontaneous joys that spring out of human curiosity and adventure.
I am amazed by the power of human invention and creation at technology where each day there is something new and shocking. Imagine how these technology inventions change our lifestyle regardless for better or worse.
In a world powered by technology, driven by bottom lines, and information-accessible world-wide, it's a wonder we're not all robots. The temptation to so fully digitize oneself is great. And the innovation will definitely impact our life. For enterprise who wants to survive, one needs to keep innovate and improve to sustain its business.
In fact, Prada has essentially conquered the world of fashion, and now they take on the world of cellular phones. The Prada has a full 3-inch touchscreen, with a slider QWERTY keyboard as well.
Other features include dual-band HSDPA, quad-band GSM, plus a full HTML browser. The user also has the option of listening to FM radio, and watching television with the TV out option. There is also a document viewer for whatever you want to read.
In other words, your phone has entertainment as well as being a phone. As far as memory is concerned, there is 60MB of internal memory, and the phone has a microSD slot.
All this, plus it comes with a matching watch. Not only will you be able to view incoming calls and texts on the watch, but it is stainless steel and genuine leather. You can also view the world time, but you have an alarm with stop and snooze. (Isn't this amazing?!!! I would really like to have one! Sadly only available in European countries like Italy, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands. The price is about 600 euros)
Sunday, November 2, 2008
eArts Festival, Shanghai
Under the banner 'Urbanized Landscape' this year's festival sees more than 150 creatives at the vanguard of the electronic age transform parks, avenues, rivers and malls into interactive hubs for curious citizens.
Philip Dodd, an eArts organiser said: 'What the new digital technology allows us to do is reconfigure our ideas of space and geography and to find new ways of imagining cities.' And if it's time to redefine our ideas about the future cities of the world, there's no place more evidently willing to embrace the new than Shanghai.
Website: http://www.shearts.org/
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Zerrissen
Zerrissen by Juli, is a German rock/pop band from Gießen, Hesse, consisting of singer Eva Briegel, guitarists Jonas Pfetzing and Simon Triebel, bassist Andreas "Dedi" Herde and drummer Marcel Römer. The band was formed with this lineup from the band Sunnyglade in 2001.
Juli are one of Germany's most-played bands on the radio; their first three singles ("Perfekte Welle", "Geile Zeit", and "Regen und Meer") all reached the top of Germany's airplay charts and all remained in the Top 10 for several months. "Dieses Leben" also repeated this success. It remained number one for five consecutive weeks. They also managed to reach the top 5 with their current single.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Sharing - Life Is Wonderful
It takes a crane to build a crane
It takes two floors to make a story
It takes an egg to make a hen
It takes a hen to make an egg
There is no end to what I'm saying
It takes a thought to make a word
And it takes some words to make an action
And it takes some work to make it work
It takes some good to make it hurt
It takes some bad for satisfaction
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle
Ah la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la
It takes a night to make it dawn
And it takes a day to make you yawn brother
And it takes some old to make you young
It takes some cold to know the sun
It takes the one to have the other
And it takes no time to fall in love
But it takes you years to know what love is
And it takes some fears to make you trust
It takes some tears to make it rust
It takes the dust to HAVE it polished
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la
It takes some silence to make sound
And it takes a loss before you found it
And it takes a road to go nowhere
It takes a toll to make you care
It takes a hole to MAKE a mountain
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Singapore Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest
The event kicked off with a few German men dressed up in traditional costume and playing their traditional songs
2 german chicks cheered with me
He was dancing oddly (to me)
German traditional instrument (i guess)
Raymond and Calvin emceed on the stage
Drinking game!
German sausage marathon! who can finish all of them first?!
Met some new friendsMonday, October 6, 2008
Singapore Oktoberfest
Der Gemütlichkeit
Ein Prosit, ein Prosit
Der Gemütlichkeit”
The lyrics above is from a traditional German drinking song that translates into “a toast, a toast, to happiness.”
And if beer is your preferred poison or way to happiness, there’s no better time to raise your mugs heartily because the Oktoberfest is in full swing in Singapore starting from 7-13 October.
This year, the Oktoberfest will take place at Paulaner Bräuhaus. Established in 1999, Paulaner Bräuhaus is located in a unique three-storey glass building at Time² @ Millenia Walk. Recently renovated, Paulaner Bräuhaus offers freshly-brewed on the premises German beer and traditional Bavarian cuisine.
Here, you can expect a truly authentic drinking and dining experience in a cosy and rustic setting reminiscent of microbreweries in Germany.
More info CLICK here!
Excitingly, I am going to the launch tomorrow (to work as be told by my boss). So looking forward to see how it likes!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Inspiring Starhill Gallery Art Festival 2008
Starting from 1st October to 31st October, the entire Muse Floor of Starhill Gallery will be transformed into a giant art gallery replete with great works of arts from different regions to the public and art connoisseurs.
Presenting collection: Chinese paintings by Zhang Wei Ping and He JiaLin from China, unique and very own Malaysian paintings by Datuk Syed Ahmad Jamal, Dato' Chuah Thean Teng, Abdul Latiff Mohidin. Other presenting artists are Edi.A, Eston Tan, House of Suzie Wong, Li Mu, Tew Nai Tong, Yusri Sulaiman.
The art galleries participating in this festival are Absolute Art, Art Seni, Edi.A, Art Gallery, Heng ArtLand, House of Suzie Wong and the Gallery @ Starhill.
Today as I attended the launch and was amazed by tons of paintings. One of the paintings that really strike me and feel like owning it is the painting below by Uuganbayar Kherlenchimeg, an artist from Mongolia. I was lucky to meet him in person at the gallery as he is leaving on the same day and had the chance to talk about the painting. I told him that I really like his paintings and what inspired him to paint this. He said he was inspired by the buddhism and Tara, the female buddha who has to change its mask according to the changing world. The goddess has to keep pace and not being old-fashioned which doesn't apply to the current universe. In fact, I feel it also reflects human being indeed which can be changed through time and circumstances. It's an inspiring piece of art to me.
More info: Tārā (Sanskrit: तारा, tārā) or Ārya Tārā, also known as Jetsun Dolma (rje btsun sgrol ma) in Tibetan, is a female Buddha typically associated with Buddhist tantra practice as preserved in Tibetan Buddhism. She is the "mother of liberation", and represents the virtues of success in work and achievements. Tārā is a tantric deity whose practice is used by practitioners of the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism to develop certain inner qualities and understand outer, inner and secret teachings about compassion and emptiness.
Other fine art:
Ulaanbaatar, Netherland, Germany, UMA Art Gallery, MICA Singapore, Dzanabazar Museum
Friday, September 12, 2008
Net Generation dominates the twenty-first century
The Web is no longer about idly surfing and passively reading, listening or watching. It’s about peering: sharing, socializing, collaborating, and creating within loosely connected communities. For instance from Facebook to MySpace.
All generations in developed countries use the Web. For example, have time to spend and new motives for going online – communicating with their children/grandchildren abroad. However, a new generation of youngsters has grown up online, and they are bringing a new ethic of openness, participation, and interactivity to workplaces, communities and markets. For this reason, they merit special investigation. They represent the new breed of workers, learners, consumers and citizens. It’s the first generation of youngsters to be socialized in an age of digital technologies and becoming leaders that rule the twenty first century. Preferably named this group Net Generation, it’s the first generation to grow up in the digital age and makes them a force for collaboration.
The vast majority of North American adolescents know how to use a computer, and almost 90 percent of teenagers in America say they use the Net. The same is true in a growing number of countries around the world. Indeed, there are more youngsters who use the Net in China than there are in the United States. This is the collaboration generation for one main reason: unlike their parents who watched 24hours of television per week, these youngsters are growing up interacting.
Rather than being passive recipients of mass consumer culture, the Net Gen spend time searching, reading, scrutinizing, authenticating, collaborating and organizing. The Internet makes life an ongoing, massive collaboration and this generation loves it.
They typically can’t imagine a life where there is no tools that can constantly think critically, exchange views, challenge, authenticate, verify or debunk. While their parents were passive consumers of media, youth today are active creators of media content and hungry for interaction.
Today young people are authorities on the digital revolution that is changing every institution in society.
There is another good reference that I spotted today while I read through New York Times Online.
MTV has been bringing together eclectic groups of young adults to live together in loftlike spaces on the series “The Real World.” Now, with the backing of a major technology marketer, the network has gathered 16 youthful creative types in a loft in Brooklyn for a contest that can be watched on TV or online.
MTV and its mtvU channel, which is aimed at college and university students, will join forces with Hewlett-Packard to present “Engine Room,” an original series that will follow the 16 contestants, divided into four teams, as they produce digital art using PCs, work stations, monitors and other products sold by H.P.
Episodes of “Engine Room” run from five to seven minutes each, and the series is scheduled to last seven weeks. At the end, one team will win prizes that include $400,000 in cash and a chance to program the giant MTV screen in Times Square for a night.
“Engine Room” follows a previous video series that H.P. sponsored with MTV, called “Meet or Delete.” It also comes after a video series for the back-to-school season, “Dorm Storm,” presented by Hewlett-Packard in partnership with Broadband Enterprises, an online video producer and distributor.
Those series are indicative of the increasing interest in video campaigns among large marketers, particularly to reach younger consumers who have demonstrated a willingness to watch clips on their computers, cellphones and other mobile devices.
Almost 2,000 people from 122 countries submitted more than 20,000 original artworks to earn a chance to take part in the contest.
The teams of contestants are divided by the regions they come from: Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America. They are visited during the competition by guests like the musician Moby; Kevin Smith, the movie director; and the British pop band the Ting Tings.
Monday, September 8, 2008
the art of living
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
- "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)