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. ;)

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

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.

Thepans at Henderson Waves

Henderson Waves

This evening after a heavy dinner at Little Bali, we went to Henderson Waves for a stroll. The bridge stands 36 metres above Henderson Road and its the highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore. It connects the two hills of Mount Faber and Telok Blangah Hill.

Wooden deck floor

The wooden deck makes me feel as if i’m on a ship. The round corners also allows people to sit, recline and relax. You can literally sit anywhere.

Henderson Waves

Henderson Waves

Kids going wild

The kids definitely had fun too. They were climbing up and down the interesting structure. We wanted to take a group photo of them all hanging off the hand rail, but as some could not hold so long, we just could not catch the right moment. Some even let go when they could not hold any longer and fell on their butts.

Kiddy group photo

Ok, at least we manage to get them all to sit down together.

Kids having fun

Henderson Waves

Cool Benches

The benches were also super cool as the gentle red light made it all so different.

Cool benches

Looks like a super cool place to hang out in the evenings. If you are a local and have not yet been there, you are defiantly missing out one of the best places in Singapore.

Zoo

All set to go

Its a Saturday and its family day! Today, we are off to the Zoo!

Clié and Cleo at the Zoo

The girls have been to the Zoo countless times already these years, but kids being kids, its always fun.

This time I did up a work sheet for them to do at the zoo. The sheet had pictures of animals that I know will be at the Zoo and all they had to do was to write out the names of the animals.

RAAAHHH

We saw the white tiger! RAAAHHHH!!

Kangaroos

Its super hard to take pictures of Cleo, cuz when we ask her to smile, she smiles, but she looks away. So finally I notice I got to tell her where to look. So “look at the black black thing on the camera” was it. From now on, I think I can get decent shots of her already.

Cleo seeing Gibbons

Here is Cleo looking smashing!

Ice Cream time

We wanted to see the “Splash” show, but as we were late, it was not possible to see anything with the amount of people there on a Saturday. I could put one of them on my shoulder, but i simple can’t put 2. When one is up, the other is unhappy… so how? Go eat ice cream lor. problem solve.

Water Play time

Mommy bought the girls new swimming outfits and they are super cute.

Cleo happy to play water

Thirsty

Thirsty

Clié plays hard. I hope when she grows up, she will work hard too.

Cleo playing with water

Here is Cleo filling up her cups with water, only to later throw them both up in the air. Lately she finds throwing things up fun. At home, she throws her stuff toys up.

It was a nice afternoon. Not too hot, not much whining, not much problems… everything went smoothly. The only thing that could have made things better was if mommy could have joined us. Too bad she had to work this Saturday.