Kodak Moment

I was doing a bit of grocery shopping with my wife at Jasons in CityHall when I came upon this Kodak stand at the entrance.

It allows you to upload photos via CF card, CDs, diskettes, from handphone etc into it and within minutes develop the photo. Always one to try out new tech stuff, I happily try to upload a photo from my handphone.

The handphone option offers 2 mode, either via 'wireless' or infrared. The 'wireless' here is a bit misleading, does it mean bluetooth or wifi? From the instructions, it says to look for a device named 'Picturemaker'. If it is a device, then it should be Bluetooth. Not wanting to go through all the trouble aligning my handphone to the infrared receiver, I fired up my bluetooth on my handphone, and sure enough, a device named 'Picturemaker' was discovered.

Choosing a nice picture of my dog, I uploaded it. The transfer was fast, and painless. After then on, it was basically just editing the picture, choosing the size of the photo and the quantity needed.

Payment was either by Cashcard or NETS. I opted for NETS, and was quite pleased to find it only costs 50cents per picture. After paying, the picture was developed in less than 30seconds.

Remarkably painless, smooth and very easy to use. Thumbs up from me.

Singapore Chinese

I came across an article in the ST today that mentions something about Singapore Chinese not feeling Chinese.

I have always look upon myself as a Singapore chinese. The only ties that I have with China is my race. I was born in Singapore, raised in Singapore. My family is in Singapore, my friends is in Singapore. I have absolutely no ties with China. So why should I be actually trying to relate to China?

Everytime I travel out of Singapore, I have always corrected foreigners who always assumed that just because I am Chinese, I am from China. I have always firmly inform them that I am a Singapore Chinese, and not a China Chinese, and no, Singapore is not some province in China.

For all her imperfections, her funny Gahmen policies, Singapore is MY home. I served 2 1/2 years of my life and then 13 years after that protecting her. If Singapore is NOT my home, then where is? Even if I migrate over to Australia next time, I will always view Singapore as my home, and that I am a Singapore Chinese. I will always go back to Singapore from Australia and not go to Singapore from Australia.

I see nothing wrong with myself not relating to China, nor am I going to try to associate myself with China.

Bloggers.sg 2005

So this was recently concluded :




What is this with bloggers finally coming out of their shell and showing themselves to fellow bloggers? I snort till I realised I had been doing it a few years ago.

It is exactly the same. The MUD gatherings, the IRC gatherings etc. Just that at this moment in time, the latest craze, the 'IN' thing, the latest trend, is to blog, just like it used to be MUD, IRC etc. I even recognised a blogger who attended this Bloggers.sg con, fatter now and holding his daughter, who used to be a famous buaya in the MUDing community and also used to attend such MUD gatherings frequently. Just like this one.

It is funny. As time moves forward, the things we used to do still exists, just under a different name.