Timing and house buying

After a great adventure of house hunting when you don’t understand the language that well, I finally got myself a new house. Half-baked Dutch when you are making a reservation at a fancy restaurant vs. Half-baked Dutch navigating the legal and financial consequences of buying a new house I thought to myself about the time …

Grouse with UOB Credit Cards

If you live in Singapore, you might be interested to get a Credit Card, because we are *almost* a CC-nation. I call this almost because as much as I’ve been putting my card on the table, at least we don’t get the “you don’t need to sign if its less than 25USD” and stuff like …

Some more on the JooJoo pad

I think another thing which crossed my mind is the JooJoo pad when the iPad was released. Since this was made my Fusion Garage, which is a Singapore based company, I thought I would say a few things about it. – The JooJoo pad has a lawsuit on it via TechCrunch. That’s kind of scary …

The obligatory iPad post

On the 27th January, Steve Jobs announced the tech world’s worst kept secret, the Apple tablet PC, after Seth Godin, random publishers, leaked China replicas and every thing else pointed to the fact that Apple was indeed developing a tablet PC. On 28th January, I decided NOT to blog about it, didn’t have a clue …

In Singapore for CNY

After settling my passport / driving license / and other what-have-yous I finally have time to blog. Anyway, I’m back in Singapore for Chinese New Year, the first time since three years I’m actually back! I’m usually back twice a year, but CNY is a date in the middle of nowhere (February anyone?), so I’m …