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Since 'the geek shall inherit the earth', this geek is just waiting for his day to rule the world. In the meantime, he is a young Padawan for CNET Asia whilst toying with a myriad of fun stuff disguised as work and pretending to advise companies on tech business and new media strategies. His playmates range from startups, (un)Fortune 500s, to government organisations. And JUST in case you were wondering, this blog is NOT about to make this geek a politician like his Malaysian CNET counterpart.
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Now in this geek's bag:

. LG WM6.5 Prototype
. iPhone 3GS 16GB
. Acer beTouch E100
. Zune HD
. Nokia N97 Mini
. HP Probook
. Lenovo Thinkpad W700ds a.k.a. "Chewy"
. Canon PowerShot G11
. Lenovo S10-2
. Jawbone 3rd Gen Bluetooth Headset with Noise Assassin
. Ultimate Ears Triple.fi Pro
. Blackberry Bold
. Nokia N96
. Blackberry 8800 (for secured usage)
. Nokia BH-902 Bluetooth Headset
. Apple iPod Touch 2nd Gen with Ultimate Ears super.fi

Formerly in this bag:
. Jawbone 2nd Gen Bluetooth Headset with Noise Assassin
. HTC Touch Cruise
. Lenovo Thinkpad T400s
. Canon Powershot G10
. Lenovo IdeaPad U350
. Canon Digital IXUS 990 IS
. Samsung Galaxy
. Canon Legria FS200
. Canon SX10 IS
. Blackberry Curve 8320
. Canon EOS 5D Mark II
. Canon Digital IXUS 980 IS
. Gigabyte Netbook M912V Tablet
. Lenovo Ideapad S10
. Lenovo Thinkpad X200
. Samsung Innov8
. Samsung Omnia
. Apple iPhone 3G
. Apple iPod Shuffle
. Kohjinsha SX Series
. Kohijnsha SC Series
. Canon Powershot S5 IS
. Canon EOS 1000D
  • 08Feb

    Lotsa exciting videos of the units, gameplay, game loading can be found here.

    And some in game pictures found here.

    It’s only in Mandarin though, so I can’t really help you translate a lot of the unit names, etc.

    But those of you diehard fans will need no help from this geek there!

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  • 07Feb

    Ravana and TH15 of Team 1MS has done Singapore proud by winning the Dawn of War 2 Asian Finals organised by Replay Interactive, THQ, and Gigabyte at the 2010 Taipei Game Show!

    Besides USD1.5k cash, they also win for themselves a Gigabyte M1305 laptop each complete with an additional dock that has a graphics card to add on to your graphics capabilities.

    It was a nail-biting finish between Singapore and Taiwan as Team 1MS lost the first round to the Taiwanese boys due to various hiccups. More on their exciting finals here.

    More photos from the tournament and the of 2010 Taipei Game Show can be found here.

    Over the next couple of days, this geek will not only be bringing you coverage from the rest of the 2010 Taipei Game Show, but most important from the Intel Extreme Masters where Singapore will be represented by Team Titans.

    Stay tuned!

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  • 12Oct

    DreamHack is the world’s largest and most popular digital media festival. Situated in Sweden, DreamHack plays host to thousands of gamers twice a year, numbering up to 12,782 attendees last winter. DreamHack has netted itself three Guinness World Records in 2004, 2006 and 2007 for being the largest Read more…

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  • 06Jun

    Nokia new Nseries flagship puts your personal internet experience into your pocket

    SINGAPORE
    , 5 June 2009 – The highly-anticipated Nokia N97 finally arrived in Malaysia and Singapore to much fanfare at a unique Web-themed launch party held at the Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur. Guests were treated to an immersive Internet experience that combined all the Nokia N97 has to offer – social networking, localised Web widgets and application, multimedia capabilities and a personal touch that exemplifies the S60 5th edition touch experience.

    As the new N-series flagship device, the Nokia N97 brings the features and power of Read more…

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  • 27May

    So this geek is in Beijing now witnessing the launch of a flurry of new HP products like the HP Pavilion MS200 All-in-one PC, HP Pavilion DV2 Entertainment Notebook, HP Probook S-series, HP Mini 110, HP DV2 notebooks (refreshed with AMD Dual-cores), HP Skyroom, Thin clients, and the Z series workstations.

    I’ll be doing a series of posts on this on CNET Asia and you can follow my live tweets here while I try to live update my CNET Asia blog now with more information on the HP Mini 110.

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  • 15May

    As mentioned, even this site is suspended till I can find more time from my busy-ness, I can still do some press releases here and there. I loved HTC’s first Google phone, so I hope this one won’t disappoint:

    Singapore – 14 May 2009 — HTC Corporation, a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design, today unveiled a new Android-powered mobile phone, the HTC Magic. A tablet-style device, with a sleek design and unprecedented compactness for a smartphone featuring the Android platform, the HTC Magic enables a superior mobile internet experience, providing broad flexibility for personalisation via the application-rich Android Market™.

    Providing broad flexibility for personalization

    The HTC Magic has a Read more…

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  • 16Nov

    I’m in Seoul now and tomorrow I’ll be presenting at this conference

    WPBA

    WPBA

    Amongst the familiar faces will be Hillary (Malaysia) and Victor (Hong Kong) from CNET Asia as well.

    Initially I thought I’d just be coming here as an attendee and not a speaker. However when they invited me to present, I took sometime to think about the theme of the conference and decided to present on the topic ‘Citizen Journalism in Singapore’ giving a snapshot of what’s been happening here in this area as well as some key learnings. In Singapore, citizen journalism has impacted brands, government, sports, traditional media (STOMP,OMY and RazorTV), legislation, local blogging communities, and much more (depending on how much I can squeeze in hurhur).

    Although I don’t really like to talk about social media and citizen journalism (as mentioned in an earlier blog post), when I started preparing the materials, I surprised myself how I managed to put a presentation together in less than 2 hours. In fact, I had much more materials than I had time to present. This alone convinces me that citizen journalism is truly well and alive in Singapore. Since I’m the only one from Singapore here, I hope to give the rest of the world a better understanding of what’s happening here in our part of the world, especially when folks from some really popular sites like Digg and Gawker Media (Gizmodo) will be here as well.

    Hope to share more about the conference again soon. Till then!

    p.s. Some of the gadgets I’m reviewing on this trip : Canon EOS 1000D and Gigabyte Netbook.

    (Signing off from Seoul)

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  • 13Nov

    Since end Sept, I think the time I’ve spent in Singapore are more like stop-overs, the shortest being 4 hours when I came back to Singapore from Kuala Lumpur and left for Chicago 4 hours later. Let me see, the cities I’ve been to include Moscow, Samara, Dubai, Seoul, Osaka, Tokyo, Chicago, Indiana, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, New York, North Carolina, Kentucky, and a couple of other American states. It was really great to experience the American Elections in the States itself!

    I’m in Brunei now and had the chance to speak at a great event - the Inaugural Brunei THiNKBIG National Technology Forum. It was quite overwhelming to be interviewed by the local dailies almost right after touching down! To hear the Permanent Secretary from the Prime Minister’s Office share about their national technology roadmap, to talk about new media alongside great speakers like Dan Neary (VP of Ebay for Emerging Markets), Edward Orange who’s in charge of IBM’s Collaborative Technologies, David Abberton(Partner of Accenture Brunei), Chow Yen Lu(a former Chief Scientist for Apple), and many more distinguished presenters. In many ways, it was humbling to be sharing the same stage with the very best and to be sharing to a crowd which represents some of the very best in the nation. Very eye-opening and a great experience indeed. With the setup of the National Incubator, the iCentre, technology never looked so good in Brunei. I hope this inaugural event will be the tipping point of technology and new media proliferation and adoption in Brunei! The responses I saw today was certainly very encouraging!

    Oh, did I mention that the Empire hotel where they put me up is overlooking the horizon of the South China Sea and is decked out in 21k gold? Well technically, this is the first time I’m blogging with gold everywhere around me. Blogging should ALWAYS be like this :p

    Throughout my travels, I brought with me the latest Kohjinsha SX and SC series which has been great for travelling because of the small form factor, durability, light-weight, and wonderful battery lives. I’ve been able to work comfortably on long flights, hotels, airports and in the conferences.

    I also brought with me the Canon 1000D on part of the journey for capturing some of the moments. I’ve just been too busy to process and upload the photos but promise you’ll be seeing some of them soon!

    Next stop is Shenzhen and Seoul where I’ll be presenting at some Tech Bloggers Conference. Think I’ll get to meet the guys from Digg, Engadget, and Gizmodo. Looking forward to that!

    I’ll then be back by the 20th to host the world’s first arcade eSports event outside of Japan at Anime Festival Asia ‘08 called the Singapore Arcade Showdown. Street Fighter IV will be launched in Singapore at the event so head on down to SUNTEC Convention during 22nd and 23rd Nov and experience the anime culture like you’ve never before!

    And do you remember the fundraiser I was crazily working on with SCOGA 2 months back raising funds for some Singaporean cybersports champions to take part in the World Cyber Games the ‘cyber Olympics’ Grand Finals? One of the gamers SCOGA helped to raise funds for just won the silver medal! Congratulations Danny! Thanks for doing Singapore and SCOGA proud! And thanks to all of you for supporting in one way or another, you definitely deserve to share in this proud moment.

    Busy busy. Welcome to the story of my life. I do miss out on quite a lot of stuff back home, especially a few social media events! Things will pretty much stay at this rate till end of January from what I’m expecting now. I didn’t even get a chance to unwrap and play with my Nintendo Wii - but I did manage to get the Apple iPod Touch 2nd Gen and it’s been lovely for my travelling so far!

    Hope to update you again soon, stay tuned!

    UPDATE : Here’s a lovely story by Rano, the top news blogger in Brunei whom I had the wonderful pleasure of meeting:

    Geekonomics and RanoAdidas

    Geekonomics and RanoAdidas

    and also with former CNET Blogger (Brunei) whom I finally got the chance to meet in person, Reeda! What a cool dude :p

    Geekonomics with Reeda of AnakBrunei

    Geekonomics with Reeda of AnakBrunei (Credits to Rano for the picture)

    p.s. I have no idea why but I think my server was flooded during the elections where I posted some posts related to the elections. It can be quite frustrating to blog while being on the road when sometimes I have limited access to the internet :(

    Anyways, Xmas is round the corner, what’s your Xmas wish? Check out my wish!

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  • 14Oct

    I’m just playing with some themes as I upgraded this blog to the latest Wordpress 2.6.2.

    Lots been happening, just landed from some crazy travellings not too long and have to travel quite a bit again. I think I’m gonna do like 60-70k krisflyer miles in 1 month?

    Also have some speaking engagements this couple of weeks, one of them is for the Government of Brunei Darussalam’s THiNKBIG NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FORUM. I’ll be speaking on “Technology Focus: Embracing the New Media”. Recently, I’ve had the chance to do some strategic work for governments in a few areas of technology, one of them being new media.

    Another interesting speaking engagement will be this week at National Library Board’s SME Workbench 2008 on 16th Oct, also on new media.

    Guess the interest in new media is really turning mainstream. 

    I seldom blog or share much thoughts on new media and social media on my blogs. I seldom get much chance to blog. Period. (Well, except for my more regular posts on gadgets and personal tech on CNET Asia.)

    I’d really love to share more of my thoughts, especially on social media in this part of the world. Guess I’m holding back because of the lack of context which I’m trying to build. Anyways, I found an interesting avenue to share a bit more at the social media breakfast forum here.

    I’m just glad to be back in time (though I totally missed the F1) to catch Singapore Slingers’ games against Sydney Spirits and Beijing Aoshen (translated into Olympic gods). You can read about them at our cool Doc’s blog here.

    The Slingers’ next game will be really exciting against Malaysian All-stars on 5th November.

    Will we bring back the Kallang roar?

    Here’s a photo to share with you from my travels, taken from the Canon S5 IS :

    View from my window 

    JFK to Incheon - View from my window

    Had many pics like this, dunno why I never really liked window seats before. But this time I’ve always been requesting for window seats so that I can snap away with my camera. I guess it’s because the Canon S5 IS is really a joy to use for such occasions. I also took some great shots from the Slingers games :

    Coming from under the net

    Our "Kungfu Doc" Darren Ng

    Hope to share more pics soon, have tonnes of them on my harddisks here :p

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  • 04Oct

    Nokia’s first touch-screen based phone for the mass market! My first peek shared here.

    MC-ee Denise Keller

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