Archive for October, 2006

Getting ideas out of the heads

As business grow and more people join the company, the one challenge that I constantly face is how to get ideas out of my head and into the head of people who will execute and realise the ideas.
This may sounds simple until you try to untangle all the strands of detail in an idea and […]

Thinking of too many things

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.
– Kerry Gleeson

Wikipedia unblocked

Following the unblocking of Blogspot, Wikipedia is now also unblocked and accessible from within China. Seems like China is becoming more “open”.
Now if they would just unblock Technorati and Wordpress.com.

The Art of Wearing different Hats

Being an entrepreneur certainly means wearing different hats. It could be the financial hat, marketing hat, operation hat or the sales hat. Unlike working on a job, wearing a few hats at the same time is commonplace.
Wearing the accountant hat, I worked out the account for the company so far over a few nights. Previously […]

PayPal in Singapore Dollars

Although eBay is not doing well in China, and by proxy PayPal (贝宝), this is something to cheer about.

This has been a long time in the waiting. A big boost to ecommerce in Singapore no doubt.
Singapore badly need a payment system to complete with those pricey solution from eNETs and WorldPay. If PayPal get their […]

Our new office is ready!

We stepped-up our pace after the 1 week China National Day holiday in order to get our new office ready.
Here are some photos taken over the weekend with the desks in place. (The photos are stitched from multiple photos so they look somewhat distorted. )
The main office area. 6 partitioned cubicles with plenty of empty […]

Picking up Golf

So far I had been to the driving range 2 times. Out of a 3 boxes of practice balls each session, a few did fly. 150m with a 7-iron. It was pretty exciting.
I’m picking up golf.
Many people think that when you start playing golf, you are either getting old or getting somewhere. Neither is anywhere […]


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