About books

Living in too many places run havoc with our belongings; especially with books which my wife and I treasure so much.

We only brought the bare essential to Singapore. The rest of our belongings were left in Jakarta. We still have gazillion of boxes at my brother's basement in Westminster, Colorado. There was once that his basement was flooded from a burst pipe. We have no idea what is the status of our belonging there, especially the twenty something boxes of book. We definitely need to go there and sort out our stuffs.

At least I know some of the treasured books, like the signed copy of Object Oriented Analysis and Design by Grady Booch and Knuth's The Art of Programming, are safe in Jakarta.

Talking about book, I finally start reading Peopleware after a long time of sitting in my to-read list. I am also currently reading Living Proof by Jim Petterson. On the fiction side I am re-reading A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin. I love the series and can't wait for the next book to come out. And yes, I do read all three at th moment...just not at the exact same time :P.

What books are you reading now?

Enjoying Singapore

As a developer I love having all the choices of technologies and tools available to me. I also enjoy the choices of lifestyle and events that are going on here in Singapore.

This week we have the Singapore Air Show 2008. Last week there was Chingay Parade, which I missed and I still don't know what it was about. F1 Grand Prix is taking place very soon.

On lifestyle, there are tons of things to do and participate in all year rounds. Musicals, operas, dances, theatres, recitals, art shows, etc. My wife and I had been to a couple of shows at the Esplanade.

Next month we are going to watch Disney on Ice show called Mickey's Amazing Journey. I was enticed to watch it because the ads was using Fantasmic's theme song. It brought back sweet memory when I watched the Fantasmic premiere at DisneyLand in 1992. That was when I first found out about Disney's Imagineer because there are a bunch of them around with their Imagineering jacket. Because I didn't know about them then, I thought the jacket was so cool and I asked one of them where I can get one. That's how I found out that Imagineering is a division of Disney, so the jacket is for employee only.

I have to say those wonderful people really live up to their title as Imagineer.

Well, enough of the trips down the memory lane. In conclusion, I am enjoying my life in Singapore right now.

Finally I have a blog

Welcome to my blog. I have nothing to write yet at the moment; my plan for this blog is to journal , as Winnie the Pooh said it, my expetition on the various things that suit my fleeting attention.

Let's the expetition going!!!