The founders of Rails Girls, Linda Liukas and Karri Saarinen, had wanted to demystify the world of web applications and encourage women to learn about software development. The inaugural event in Singapore was held on October 8, 2011 at SmartSpace, and I was happy to have been a small part of it! (Pictures from Rails Girls’ Facebook)  Notice how I was the only non-Mac user there… We had already been told from the start that we shouldn’t be [...]

  http://titanic.sg Everyone should go. No, it’s not about Jack and Rose… the other stories will move you instead. It costs $24 for standard tickets ($20 for Singaporeans). If you’re an OCBC cardholder you get to receive an additional 20% off. I topped up an additional $5 for the hour-long documentary “Ghosts of the Abyss” directed by James Cameron (remember Avatar?). The prices were all worth it. Titanic was re-discovered in 1985.. and “Ghosts of the Abyss” [...]

Yesterday, Elaine and I got to hop on board for a 45-minute Journey of Indulgence made possible by Häagen-Dazs! In celebration of Christmas, the bus toured around the city area, passing by the beautifully decorated shopping malls and the unique Christmas trees outside each of them, from Esplanade all the way to Orchard and back. It was a pity that it was raining then, or else we would have been on the open-top area… but [...]

So last night, I was at SMU Entrepreneurship night for the second time and there was a sharing on this new product Poken. The business owner, Christopher was giving it out to a few attendees and I was lucky enough to receive one. Yep, so there I was holding it in my hand the whole night hoping to be able to get to try it out. This is how it works: Basically, to use it [...]

Woke up early to drag myself to NUS University Cultural Centre… Registration in the morning was screwed – 9.45am and there was still a long queue of people trying to get their passes to enter the seminar room. As the event was planned to start at 9.15am, the events management team asked the queue to dissipate and proceed to the room so the event could start and instead come back again during the break. The [...]