The of the Water Dragon comes around tomorrow. It’s the 4709th Lunar New Year. Every Chinese family is probably now busy one way or other preparing for the new year. In fact, for many of them, various sorts of celebrations would already have started. I just had my first lao yu sheng and reunion meal at lunch, and will have another one at dinner tonight. This is the customary gathering of family and relatives to reunite and celebrate the new…
How do you evaluate sound quality in headphones? What do you look out for? How do you compare between headphones? Well, we’ve finally arrived at this topic in this part of my series on Ultimate Listening – In Search of the Best Headphones. Earlier parts of the series have introduced the different types of headphones, technical details, and a special focus on in-ear headphones. Sound quality is not less important than any of those. In fact, for many people, the ultimate choice of headphones…
AKG’s latest flagship headphone, the K3003, clearly sets a new standard in ultimate headphone listening experience. Launched at IFA 2011, AKG describes the K3003 as the world’s smallest true three-way reference-quality in-ear headphones. It’s really an absolutely astounding headphone, not least because of its price tag, at $1599, which will almost certainly be out of reach of most except the most discerning music listeners who are willing to pay for premium quality. The K3003 has quickly become a much talked…
In-ear headphones are, to me, the best type of headphones. They strike the best balance of portability, sound isolation, comfort, and sound quality. I’ve been looking forward to writing this part in my series on Ultimate Listening – In Search of the Best Headphones. The first instalment had focused on the different type of headphones, and the continuing Part 2 discussed some technical aspects of headphones. The choice of headphones type as much a personal preference as it is the type of use…
Apple yesterday launched its one-day Red Friday sale in Asian markets such as Singapore. It’s the Asian equivalent of the U.S. Black Friday sale. In the U.S., Black Friday marks the starts of the Christmas holiday shopping season. Red Friday sort of marks the season before the Lunar New Year. The shopping reasons here are different though. We don’t give or exchange gifts on Lunar New Year. The closest to giving that we do are “red packets”. But it doesn’t…
Baby #3 is born (yesterday), two years, two months and 25 days after Ian, who’s #2, and was two years, two months and 17 days after Vanessa. #3 did not cry much, and very quickly opened one eye, and kept that eye opened for pretty much the entire time in the labour ward while waiting to be transferred to the nursery. He had a very peaceful and inquisitive look on his face while I was watching over him during that…
For the last dinner of 2011, we had a nice home cooked meal made by The Wife. Yup, with extra prawn heads for me because that’s the part of the prawn I like the most. No lavish buffets like we had earlier in the week. In fact, our last lunch was also a fairly simple, even though it was a buffet: porridge buffet at Hotpot Culture at Marina Square. 2011 has been a good year, and I’m expecting that 2012…
16th December 2011 was the date of ieatishootipost’s AGM (Annual General Makan). It’s their 2nd Crab Fest, and the highlight of this dinner, held at Chin Huat Live Seafood at Sunset Way, was the 5 crabs and 1 lobster dish. The Wife signed us up for the makan fest. This is the first makan outing I’ve been to with ieatishootipost, and it also isn’t the usual kind of blogger makan outing. I’ve been so looking forward to this makan since,…
You don’t have to go over to Sentosa for the famed foam party at Cafe del Mar. There’s one happening right here in the mainland too, right in the heart of town. Well, almost. It’s just outside the main downtown shopping belt. It happens in front of Tanglin Mall, at the junction of Tanglin Road and Grange Road. This is a family-friendly foam party, of course. Completely unlike the one at the (more or less) southern tip of continental Asia.
We have not had such intense firefighting excitement at work in recent times. As IT folks, firefighting usually refers to emergency management of IT issues. This time, the firefighting literally included an element of real fire in the big picture. We’re not firemen, so no, of course, we weren’t directly involved with fighting that real fire. Furthermore, although the fire had not happened inside our premises, our IT operations was severely impacted by fire, and we would be spending significant…
Our SMRT trains have been on the headlines for the past week. I decided that I need to weigh in my own two-cents about the whole episode. The problems that have been occurring of late have hit on an unprecedented scale in our public transportation history. The MRT trains which so many people are dependent on for the daily commute are expected to run flawlessly. How can they fail us? Most of us have been venting our anger at SMRT….
The McDonald’s Monopoly game came alive at the inaugural public “Chance Card” draw held at the Clarke Quay Central Fountain on Thursday night. It’s the grand finale event where McDonald’s will give away all unclaimed prizes in a draw to “Chance Card” winners. All prizes must go, just as McDonalds has promised, and some 270 prizes were up for grabs that night. There were still other fun games and activities on the sidelines of the main event. Admission to the…
What would you do if you had $80,000 cash? Buy yourself an expensive gift? Bring your family on a holiday? Your mind will probably be thinking right now how you would indulge yourself with that amount of money. Few people, I’d say, will think about giving away the money to benefit other people. Well, it seems that’s what the top prize winner of McDonald’s Monopoly game plans to be doing. Mr Sankararama Subramaniam was awarded the $80,000 top prize last…
