Tuesday, May 24, 2011

iPad games for Cats

Think iPads are developed for humans? Think again.



Absolute genius.

Monday, May 23, 2011

iPho @ Singapore Education Summit

And I am officially on day four of being iPho’s CEO!
The SES went well. It was great to see all the positive responses from the crowd! Each participant were given the chance to have a photo taken for free. Subsequent photos are at $1 per namecard size and $2 per 4R size. It was cheap no doubt (Original Price @ $2 for namecard size & @5 for 4R size) , but it’s only the start and it was a special promotion at the SES. Glad to know that people appreciate the effort we are putting in to make their pictures look beautiful.
Someone actually stole my black angry bird. I suspected it was a little boy who took it and 'good thing' he came back to steal the blue one. So I caught him and followed him around until he went back to the safety of his father. After speaking to the father, he turned to ask the boy, who lied saying no. It was his younger brother who  happily broke his cover and took the black bird out of their school bag. And he still refused to do anything, saying that some auntie annie told him it is free and he could take it. When the younger boy took the bird and gave it back to me, he came along and tried to snatch it back! And the father just sat there and do nothing! ARUGH. Luckily I did not let go. Such a disgrace. I simply told him he can’t have it because it is not his, thank the father and left. I hope the father gave the boy a good lecture.
Never expected that I'll need to play detective on second day of work!
The two days of the first tryout gave me invaluable experience. I have also learnt some lessons. In order of time sequence:
1.       Always have the quotation well explained and defined.
2.       Need to include floor space needed, 4 chairs, table length, ceiling height & no of plugs needed (min 2 preferbly 4)
3.       Free parking coupons?
4.       Do not let people choose what was taken. They'll take forever.
5.       To have computer faced against the wall so that people do not get to see what we do and try to intercept the flow.
6.       Photoshop was a bottleneck. We need to rectify this.
7.       Manpower – One photographer, two photoshoper, one cutter and one to manage the crowd.
8.       Signs must state clearly the prices
9.       Crowd manager has to try to garner mailing list people so we can inform them when the photos are up on face book
10.   There must be a cut off time to pack up.
11.   A netbook for mailing lists. I spent the last 1 hour typing in emails which could have been done in afew minutes simply by importing the contacts from a excel sheet. Bard. 30% of the emails bounched back due to wrong mail. Never knew there were so many doctors around.
Here are some fabulous pictures taken!









iPho is for the very young to the old! iPho rocks!

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Officially Self Employed!

Its been 28 hours since I was out of YEO'S and 28 hours since being a professional entrepreneur!

YeEEEeeeBAaaa!!!

Here's what my last 28 hours have been like:

6pm to 8pm yesterday - Thinking very hard what I might have missed out and what else i'll need to purchase on what is iPho's very first debut tomorrow, a partnership with edvalue for the Singapore Education Summit! (Where BF is a main speaker!)

8pm to 12am yesterday - Headed down to Marina Mandarine, location of the partnership venue to do a site reccee and to look for the very-much-missed BF main speaker.

12am to 2.30am - Finishing off what's left of formulating the standard proceedures and templates which the helpers can follow, learn and execute easily. Packed and checked items and set up needed for the morning's debut.

2.30am - 3.30am - Toss & turn in bed with excitement

3.30 - 5.30 am- Think I slept?

5.30am to 6am - Toss & turn in bed with excitement

6am to 7.30am - Prepare to leave home, pick up helper & zoom off to SES - Singapore Education Summit!

7.30am to 5.30pm - iPho GOES LIVE! go www.facebook.com/ipho for pictures taken and printed, on the spot!

5.30pm - 10pm - Happily Concussed =)

Friday, May 6, 2011

Progress in my resignation and iPho

Progress in resignation

This is actually old news, just that I did not post it up, and it's a good news! So I'm letting it out here!

Instead of 1 month notice, I only need to serve say 2.5 weeks notice!

That's because I haven't been taking my leave so I have lots left to offset, including a leave in-lieu for the elections. If you consider Vesak Day and that one week has passed since I have handed in the letter (TIME PASSED LIKE SONIC MAN), I only have 1.5 weeks to go! WooOooHooOoO!!!

iPho

The offset came in handy, as right now I am trying to secure the first partnership deal for iPho, even when nothing is set up yet =.=.  If it works out, the event will be on 21st & 22nd of May, which gives me one or two days to be fully prepared for the first debute. I will have to work faster now, confirm the deal and move on to the preparation, name cards and collaterols.

I'M SO EXCITED!

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Boat Ski and an exciting Labour Day!

This year's labour day is a day of new trials and adventure! As part of  friend's birthday celebration, we went on a boat ski with wake pirates. It was b'day girl's treat to do something exciting that none of us ( b'day girl, b'day girl bf, bf & me) had done before, before we all grow old with passing birthdays and realise our brittle bones will not restand boat ski and anymore excitement. Dinner was our (bf & I) treat back to b'day girl, just that bf foot all of the bill =P: That was when I had my virgin try on the most horrifically pitch black squid ink pasta that turned me into a witch like monster - continue reading to find out!



Boat Ski with Wake Pirates
Contact person : Jeremy Koh
43 Admiralty Road West S759962
Mobile: 9845 7452
Email: jeremy@wakepirates.com
Enquires: askme@wakepirates.com
Web: http://www.wakepirates.com/



SAF Yacht Club Sembawang Clubhouse is not exactly the kind of clubhouse you go looking your best. Be sure to clad in broad-shorts, singlets or tanks and most importanly, slippers or sandles for your Boat Ski. As true as the web claimed, there is indeed freeflow water and sunblock, just that it's all either used up or empty, so better bring your own drinks and sunblock.

 They charge $90 per person for an hour for the boat ski and it's a good amount of time to learn some good stuff without breaking any bones ( boat ski looks relaxing, but trust me I am sore all over my back). If going in a group, you may need to wait for each other so I say get some chips up on board. Forget about cards as they'll all be in the petrollium dark waters once the boat starts chattering away.

Talking about the boat skiing in sea water, this is what you'll be soaking up and gobbling in when falling - water with Singapore's marine wildlife natural deposits mixed with industrial waste from the nearby all-sorts-of Senoko Factories ( All wastes goes into the canal. All water in the canal flows into a big canal. The big canal is connected to the sea. I was fated to intern and work there so I know.). Human deposits ( like my bf's spit and think about all the pee when people get excited...) and not to forget the visible layer of black petrol floating on the water. You may include all else things imaginable.

Oh but Hack! It's not like we don't know where our tap water & Renew water come from! Don't think about it and have fun boat skiing!
Fresh face all ready to go for boat skiing!

Big ship, small boat - all at Sembawang SAF Yacht Club

Our boat ski boatman & coach - Freddy from Wake Pirates

Two sets of skis for big feet & small feet

Introducing the beer & tobacco man on Jet Ski - Jeremy Hohoohooo

All behing coach's back

BF wearing the ski.
I would have loved to place my boat ski tutorial video, but BF's one turned out to be more informative and better taken (because I was the one who took it -.-). So here it is! Hope you can gain some knowledge here before going for your first boat ski!



A squat...
 

And a stand on first try!
 
I can't stand it how pro BF looks.
Presenting my super Pro BF boat skiing!




This is how small you'ld look from the boat

My turn! As I have never done it before,
 more time was used to get my basics drilled in first.

On board simulation of how you'll feel when tagged by the boat in the water.
For this, a patient, knowledgable and strong coach like Freddy
(coz he needs to simulate the pulling power of a BOAT) is needed.

I have lots of videos of myself in the process of boat ski learning and trying to get boat ski-ing right, but I'm not going to upload it and bore everyone out. Instead, I'll just upload the more interesting and educationa and you'll go subscribe to my You Tube Channel and check out the rest of the videos there! - http://www.youtube.com/user/bearoncloudnine



 The first time you fall durong your boat ski, you'll most probably fall front so you'll be lying in the water on your tummy. To get into position for ski again, you'll have to get onto your back and trust me, the first time is never easy. Somehow things don't work the way you want it to do in the waters with lots of floats!

Tip: Try straightening your legs and knees when you turn. Don't forget to continue keeping them straight when you turn!

And I didn't know there was so much commotion going on on the boat!


This is how you'll look like when preparing -
tuck everything between the ski and your stomach and only your head should be seen!

First time I'm Up!

And in 3 seconds I'm down again! YAY!!!!
Just to give you a video-ral sense of what happened.



Riding on the waves getting pro man =D


We learnt how to get stable, manouver from side to side and lastly, to ride on waves and cut through waves.

It is scientifically proven that the smaller size you are, the smaller you'ld look from the boat.

BF says I am hot....

  
But he also knows my Hotness Level cannot be compared to his...


Just compare it for yourself! He's going one hand show off! Hump!


Busking in the sunset, with sore arms, back and legs =)


Coming up - Squid ink Pasta