Author: Nick Pan

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VW Touran Sport 1.4 TSI

Volkswagen Touran Sport 1.4 TSI

Its time to change our car, hence its shopping time.

Went for a test drive today with wife today and we both had a go at Volkswagen’s Touran Sport 1.4 TSI. It was a surprisingly nice experience.

The interior is super spacious and the built quality looks really really good. German Engineering. :)

The main reason this car is on the top of my list is because of 3 things.

  1. TSI Engine (apparently its an award winning twin charged engine that is super efficient even being 1.4 only)
  2. DSG gearbox (its super smooth to change from one gear to another, can’t even feel it)
  3. Versatile (its spaciousness make the car really functional, especially when i’ve got 2 kids)

I’m hoping to get it before Christmas. Lets see what happens.

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myDesk

My Desk of Feb 2006 - Jul 2008
My Desk of Feb 2006 - Jul 2008

This is the desk that i’ve used to send out the most email in my life. This is the desk that i’ve used to do the most work in my life. This is the desk that i will remember even when i’m 80.

Our office is moving and we all look forward to better stuff ahead.

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I’m a Singapore Tourism Ambassador

Win a free trip to Singapore with Project Postcard 2008

I love my country and i’m not shy to say it. Not only do i love my country, i’m also a tourism ambassador and i think everyone in the world should come to Singapore at least once in their lifetime.

What best time to come when Singapore is hosting the world’s FIRST F1 night race this September for FREE!! All you need to do is to send an eCard to your overseas friend.

I’ve sent to a number of friends already, so if you win, do let me know. ;)

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Night Festival

National Museum of Singapore

Have you been to the National Museum? If you have, then have you went at night before? Thepans were there on 26th July evening to experience the very cool Night Festival where they played outdoor movies, free admission to the Museum and a fantastic lighting installation on the facade of the building.

Enjoy the photos.

National Museum of Singapore

National Museum of Singapore

National Museum of Singapore

National Museum of Singapore

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The web in 10 years

Had a lunch conversation with a colleague and we toyed with the idea of being able to accurately predict what will the web be like in 10 or 20 years from now.

If you have a view, i’ll love to hear it. Drop me a comment. :)

  1. Bandwidth – I think with bandwidth growing at the current rate, slowly all data storage & desktop applications will become web based.
  2. Mobility – With mobile devices becoming more and more versatile, i think the mobile phone will eventually fuse with all portable devices (ie. Music, Camera, Video Recorder, Computer, Projector, etc) and it will definitely be internet enabled from almost anywhere.
  3. Affordable – Internet should also slowly become super cheap, maybe even almost free as costs will slowly be borne by advertisers.
  4. Semantic Content – Online content will eventually use a standard semantic standard. If we can use SWIFT code for bank transfers, i don’t see why we can’t use Microformats (or similar) for content.
  5. Universal Profile – I also feel slowly we will all use a universal profile. We have so many user accounts everywhere, twitter, facebook, flickr, yahoo, iGoogle, Gmail, etc… Sooner or later, we will all be able to choose to have one universal online profile if we wanted.

So my prediction is :

Affordable Internet everywhere via a mobile device to access all content, data, applications in a standard way using a universal profile.