I am currently sipping my macchiato latte at pacific coffee company at Vivo City. Yeah.. they have nice plush sofa there.. and I just kind of like lounging around there with my laptop….
Inefficient Latte Market
April 11th, 2010Digital Marketing
April 6th, 2010
Hmm.. looks like everybody is jumping into digital marketing… Did a mindmap on a Business Times article I read today…
Modern way of hailing a cab
March 28th, 2010
Just wanted to blog this down.. before I conveniently forget about it. Yes.. sometimes I get wierd ideas on how to make the world a better place.. 
Recently, due to my failing memories, I lost my phone. The result was that I got myself a new android and new iphone.
And I was thinking to myself… why do people need to hail a cab through the traditional phone line? Surely, it is much more convenient for someone to just whip out their i-phone/g-phone and click on the option to say that they would like to hail a cab and have their whereabouts information effortlessly integrated to the Taxi reservation system?
It is a win-win for both sides.
Consumers.. no longer need to specify their location (as the phone GPs can do the work for them). They save big on both time and mobile charges.
Taxi Companies … no longer need to spend money on telephone receptionist to handle the calls. The system can automate the entire cab hailing process.
Hey.. in the future, it might even give rise to paid hitch hikers. I remembered once when the government actually made it mandatory for all cars entering the CBD to have 4 passengers… there was actually a central pick-up point for people to gather.. so that cars with insufficient passengers can just load up these strangers….
Surely, a driver who is on the way to Clementi wouldn’t mind stopping by and picking up a passenger who is going there for a few extra bucks? Win for the driver (money), Win for the hitch-hiker (cheaper ride) and win for the environment (less CO2)! A triple win-win-win!
Super Freakonomics
March 21st, 2010Hmmm… finally had some time to indulge in a really good book. Spent the weekend reading up on Super Freakonomics. Hmmm… reminds me of the good old Freakonomics. Nice.
And you know something really strange… the best part of the book is actually the Introduction…
Did a nice mindmap (using a software that costs me a hundred bucks!).. but could not resist the temptation….
Upgraded the Wordpress Blog
November 15th, 2009My blog has been like totally out.. because it would not be connected to the Windows Live Writer (WLW). Upgraded the blog.. and just hope this works…
Anger Management Day 1
August 3rd, 2009Well, I have been very, very angry recently. Too many things to do, too little time.. and well, I guess I am just kind of a lousy manager.. Now that things have kind of cool down, I have started to look into Anger Management. Chanced upon this book on Denise’s shelf which reads “Managing Your Emotions” by Benny Ho. So guess, that should do. Great thing is.. out of the entire 197 pages, only 30 pages are devoted to anger management (4 chapters in all). Great! Should be able to go through it 4 days pretty thoroughly.
One of the useful things I learned is counting to ten. Boy.. it was effective… to count to 10 before you speak when u are seriously angry. Served me really well today. Apparently, this counting to ten kind of trick comes form the US president Thomas Jefferson. Cool dude. Really clever. Bet he must have been an angry man.. to improvise something so useful and practical…
After some hard work… I have also managed to run through chapter 1 of the book and am left with 2 phrases to commit to memory:
Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than a man who conquers cities
Proverbs 16:32
Dear brothers, be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger. For man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that god desires
James 19:20
Android -> The death of SMS Modems
June 15th, 2009I was looking at my android phone when I thought.. hmm.. this will be the end of all those Waveo, etc.. sms modems. I mean.. wouldn’t it be easier to just write an service on your Android phone that recurring polls a Web Service for SMS Messages to be sent? Upon detecting it, it will automatically send the SMS Message.
Anyway, I should be writing something like this soon. I find it exceedingly irritating to keep typing in the small Android keypad to sms my customer. I need a more efficient messaging platform.
Publishing PDF online – Scribd
April 30th, 2009Social Media with Email Marketing
April 28th, 2009Was looking through some online marketing magazine, when I found an interesting article that advocated the mixing of social media with email marketing strategy… Hmm.. maybe there is something I can leverage on?
http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/2009/04/23/social-email-campaigns-to-increase-nearly-400-in-2009/
I find it quite interesting, as recently, I was exposed to CNI business school who were willing to pay 1-2k for a solitary blast to eHoteliers database. I guess.. this shows the importance of a targeted group of clientele. I think Social Media.. might be the next easy thing to get a targeted group of clientele. Provide something useful.. and sure.. people should flock there.
Was thinking of Cinema timings and locations. Why not build a site that allows people to very easily locate the nearest cinema showing their favorite shows? Currently, the navigation is pretty unfriendly… On top of it, maybe we can leverage on Facebook for dissemination of the app. The app can also let people review the movies really easily.. and surely.. we would much prefer to read our friends’ reviews over those posted by some crap people.
Anyway, started getting my intern to GeoCode the cinemas in Singapore….
Android Emulator
April 24th, 2009Well, just went for this CodeXtreme stuff today… and asked a question about bringing a desktop in to program. Everybody laughed… But.. man.. this android emulator thing is kind of heavy. I just did a simple emulation.. and had to wait a long, long, long time on my dual-core CPU. Man… can’t imagine the wait on my Lenovo Laptop. What’s so funny?
Took me maybe 2 minutes just to get something like this… Man.. what’s so funny…..
