Giffy… allows you to publish your UML diagrams in a Web 2.0 way. I find it amazingly cool. Check out the diagram below. All thanks to Giffy!
Archive for March, 2009
Publishing UML – Web 2.0 Way
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Interesting Information Tit-bits on Malls
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
‘In normal times, malls hope to open with at least 90 per cent tenancy,’ said Ms Sherene Sng, head of retail at Knight Frank.
Orchard Central – Stats
Last October, the mall announced it was 60 per cent leased, at prices between $20 psf and $70 psf. Far East Organization’s deputy director of retail management, Ms Susan Leng, had said in December she would ‘be pretty happy if we can achieve an occupancy rate of about 80 per cent to 85 per cent…in this economic situation’.
Forfeiting of Rental Deposits
‘There have also been a few cases of tenants forfeiting their rental deposits, which typically amount to three months’ rent.’
Hmmm.. now I wonder… for my office leasing agreement, if I run away half way, does that means.. just forfeiting my one month security deposit?
Google Health – Singapore Version
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Hmmm.. I was just wondering if there is any opportunity in this. It seems that Singapore does have its own version of Google Health:
http://www.singhealth.com.sg/Newsroom/NewsReports/2008/Health+Level+7+(HL7)+launch+(ST).htm
This looks like a pretty new protocol? Wondering if private clinics might need some software to link to the patients’ health record. Also how will it work? Will it require the patient to log in at the clinic?
Surely the clinic cannot access the patient health record just through his NRIC number without validation on the patient side. That will be a gross invasion of privacy.
Hmmm… must drop KKT a tinkle on this…
Christian Disciplines
Sunday, March 8th, 2009Today I was at church and they were talking about Christian Disciplines. One of the disciplines was journaling. Suddenly, I thought.. hmmm .. the one year bible online facebook application needs improvement. Besides just pointing you to your daily readings.. .it does nothing.. and hack.. it uses only a small area of the entire screen for such info. All the rest are basically for advertisement. Isn’t it irritating?
Citigroup and GIC
Sunday, March 8th, 200927 Feb 2009, the news was out. GIC was going to exchange its convertible bond to common stock at a price of $3.25 per share. Based on the opening share price of $1.67 on Friday, this will mean that GIC will have realised a lost of almost half its investment.
The first comment that came out of the article (which I could no longer retrieve because the online Straitstimes actually do now show any news article past 7 days)… exclaim that the loses have not even taken account of the further decline of share price caused by share dilution.
Well, I totally disagreed with that comment. I felt that the result would have been contrary. I thought that this was really a good piece of news for Citigroup. The fact that I am blogging about this is… I have been proven wrong by the markets.
Hmmm… makes me reminiscent about the song… "I started a joke… but I didn’t see … that the joke was on me…"
Help.. I am Lost!
Sunday, March 8th, 2009When I was really small, I was very frightened of being lost. Its really scary when you are so tiny and all the grown-ups around you are so huge that your vision is like 100% blocked in crowded places. Today, I got lost again. I was at this church near the Commonwealth MRT when I suddenly realized that Denise was no longer within my sight. Darn, I had a few options:
- Look for her pro-actively in the church building
- Stay at one place and hope she will find me
What will you do if you were in my place?
Educate our young… the Google Way…
Sunday, March 8th, 2009Recently, I had the chance to come into contact with the Republic Polytechnic and was pretty intrigued by their no-exams approach to education. Basically at RP, you will be given a problem daily to solve.. and at the end of the day, you will need to present your findings (mostly from the internet) on how the problem can be resolved. I was once again reminded of this training methodology when I read about the Eric Schmidt interview…
The combination of Wikipedia, which is a remarkable achievement of humanity, just phenomenal, and search engines like Google, mean that you can literally get it all if you’re willing to be motivated. So my idea about school would be that you would sit there with however many students you have and you’d say students, I’m going to give you a set of search terms to get started with. And we’re going to see which of you learn the most. And what would happen, of course, is about a third, the ones in the back row that are asleep are going to wait for the other two-thirds. And out of the other two-thirds, some of them will do great, some will do poorly. Then you have a conversation among all of them. It’s a complete inversion of the textbook model….
With reference from: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/07/eric-schmidt-tells-charlie-rose-google-is-unlikely-to-buy-twitter-and-wants-to-turn-phones-into-tvs/
HDB Prices are declining
Saturday, March 7th, 2009PRICES of resale HDB flats in Punggol have fallen in recent weeks to the point where they are now around the same level as new ones launched just two months ago.
March 5, 2009
Scratching The Itch
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009I seem to read somewhere some time back that software developers generally go about solving some problem that frustrates them daily… and in the process come out with a BIG BANG project. Hmmm.. is it possible that this “Scratching The Itch” phenomenon is one of the easiest way to develop truly solid products, i.e. over the conventional business plan with market forecasts, etc….
I can understand the itch. It is something that you are exposed to… and greatly irritates you.
Currently, I am in a FAT-FIGHTING phase of my life… and I guess… a lot of my blogs will be about such health issues. I am currently using a online portal to track my workouts and nutrition – http://www.gyminee.com. It works kind of fine save for a few problems:
- Does not allow me to key the details of my workout through an iphone/mobile app (pretty impt as iphone is like the defacto exercising companion nowadays)
- It lacks local data for the nutrition segment. Hmmm… wouldn’t it be great if the nutrition segment can tap of HPB’s vast repository of nutritional information… all localized with the average Singaporean in mind? – http://www.hpb.gov.sg/hpb/default.asp?pg_id=993
- Integration to Social Networking Sites… so that you can get your friends to be involved in exercising, dieting and living a truly healthy lifestyle!
Hmmm… I am itchy….. but do I have enough hands to actually scratch my itch?
A Solution to the World’s Power Problems
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009I was thinking… man… one plate of chicken rice in the morning and it provides me with sufficient energy to work out on the thread mill, do presentations and work? Hmmm… maybe the human being is just one of the most efficient generators of energy! Imagine we can culture muscle tissues, feed them with rice… These tissues will be attached to pistons in which they will pull and push based on electrical signals send to them (to simulate those from the brains…)
Imagine the amount of energy just a bowl of rice will generate! Hmmm… fats might even start accumulating at its side if the load is not heavy enough!
Have u ever wondered why machines had to use human beings to power themselves in the matrix? Hmmm…… enlightenment…..
