Chinese New Year have always been the most stressful time of the year without a doubt. Anyway, I tried to enjoy myself where possible.
Food at thepans
Cleo suprised
Yummy
CSS Workshop with Russ Weakley
Russ Weakley came to Singapore to conduct a CSS workshop and its thanks to PebbleRoad for organising such an event. Who is Russ Weakley? Well he is the one behind Max Design, the one behind the high qualilty list of light-reading list which i subscribe to.
As Aussie as Russ is, his Aussie humor really gave the workshop an informal its-ok-to-laugh-at-yourself feel to the whole day. It was totally enjoyable.
The entire session was amazing as Russ drilled down so many facts and clarified several i-thought-i-knew-but-was-not-100%-sure kind of doubts.
As many have muddled their way thru trail and error, figuring out css problems along the way, not many people had formal training in CSS. But after today, it felt like the little cracks have been filled up, it felt like it was official training.
See some other posts about this event.
Breakfast on Saturdays
Breakfast on Saturdays are magical. Its the time where my wife create eye candies, the time where everyone comes together to watch cartoons while having nice hot breakfast in their PJs. Thank God for 5 day work weeks.
I need my Sentosa
I’ve been working like mad over the past 2 months and i’ve been craving for a stress free day at Sentosa. As some might know i’m quite a Sentosa person.
We started the day early with Prata at Jln Kayu and you can see below Cleo is already in here sentosa outfit.
I’m glad my kids like me love prata, so its really enjoyable to just chill out, no rush, have breakfast knowing that the day just started.
Being a member of Sentosa, i knew that the renovation at Palawan Beach is completed and thats where we spent out time on Sentosa.
The kids saw the new additions, played with them for a while, but i think, Sentosa meant sandy beaches and sand castle making to the kids and its suppose to be the main event, so we ended up on the beach after exploring the new stuff.
Beach, sand, family, sun, cold drinks, stress free, nothing to worry about… thats the kind of rest i always look forward to.
First Singapore Web Standards Group meetup
One small step for some, one giant leap for Singapore.
Its a privilege to be at Singapore’s first Web Standards Group meetup (actually a smaller group met some years ago, but this one is like more official). This event is made possible by the dedicated people behind WebSG.
There were 3 presentations that evening with Lucian starting off explaining what and why we need web standards. Coleman continued to present on Accessibility, Hitler & Mother Theresa where he showed a video of how blind people use screen readers to surf websites. Then i had the privilege to be the 3rd presenter. As i knew Lucian will be talking about Web Standards, hence i thought i showed an example instead of a past project where i used LIM (my own acronym for List Item Menus). Its something simple, but i think it might be a suitable example to showcase the power of seperating content and presentation.
3 collegues of mine got dragged by me to this meetup as I hope that they too will come to the appreciation of creating standards based websites.
If you missed the meetup, you can still see those who went for the meetup here.