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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.
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Now in this geek's bag:

. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini pro
. Sony VAIO VGN-P23G
. Blackberry Bold 9700
. Nokia N900
. iPhone 3GS 16GB
. 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

Formerly in this bag:
. HTC Snap
. Plantronics Discovery 975 headset
. Acer beTouch E100
. Zune HD
. Nokia N97 Mini
. HP Probook
. Apple iPod Touch 2nd Gen with Ultimate Ears super.fi
. Nokia BH-902 Bluetooth Headset
. Blackberry 8800
. Nokia N96
. Blackberry Bold 9000
. LG WM6.5 Prototype
. 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
  • 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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  • 21Jan

    19 Jan 2010 (Singapore) - Last Saturday was an exciting day for many of the Dawn of War II fans in Singapore. For the first time, Replay Interactive, as the distributor of the game, organised a tournament for the local Dawn of War II players. This event is part of a regional tournament - titled: Asia-Pacific REPLAY 2010 Dawn of War II Tournament - which will feature 3 local tournaments (Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan) and one regional tournament (to be held on 6 Feb at the Taipei Games Show 2010), pitting the best team from each representative country against one another for the APAC champion seat! The Singapore round was supported by Colosseum, SCOGA and Gameaxis.

    Here’s some recap of the event: Read more…

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  • 20Jan

    At the invitation of the Singapore Economic Development Board, DigiPen, world renowned institute for video game development education, set up its Singapore campus in 2008 to develop high-demand manpower capabilities for the interactive digital media industry.

    The DigiPen cutting-edge:

    • DigiPen has produced more students’ award-winning video games than any other universities
    • Consistently achieved more than 95% employment placement rate with DigiPen graduates being hired by top companies such as Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Read more…

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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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  • 28Aug

    Microsoft delivers greater value this holiday with over 500 high-definition games, an incredible Comex Show 2009 offer and an exclusive Halo 3 ODST pre-order.

    Singapore — 28 August, 2009 — Xbox 360 today invites you to experience more fun, more entertainment and more ways to connect with friends and family at an even better value. Beginning 10 September 2009, the recommended retail price of an Xbox 360 Elite console with a 120 GB hard drive will be reduced by 26 per cent in Singapore.

    At just S$499 (estimated retail price, previously S$679), Xbox 360 Elite Read more…

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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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  • 11Mar

    Admire the brilliance of smart technology and enjoy the privilege of owning ingenuity. With vibrant and intuitive TouchFLOTM, browsing and interfacing is a pure pleasure!

    Singapore – 10 March, 2009 – HTC Corporation, a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design, today introduced the HTC Touch Viva™. Continuing HTC’s touch-phone tradition, the HTC Touch Viva™ utilizes TouchFLO™, HTC’s finger-touch optimized navigation experience enabling quick, one-touch access to the people, messages and information people want.

    “The HTC Touch Viva™ embodies our commitment to build a family of touch phones that are powerful and stylish but also offer something to everyone,” said Jack Tong, VP of HTC Asia. “Whether you’re a professional or a student you can now get an HTC touch phone with a beautiful touch user experience.”

    The HTC Touch VivaTM blends Read more…

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  • 01Mar

    Consumers in Singapore will be the first in the world to enjoy Nokia’s revolutionary digital music offering on a top-notch music-optimised device out in Singapore stores now!

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    Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

    Singapore – Nokia announced today that the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is finally in Singapore and will be sold as a Comes With Music device at Nokia Branded Retail stores and local operator stores from February 28, 2009.

    The latest in Nokia’s XpressMusic range of devices, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers an affordable music device with a touch screen interface to the mass market.

    Consumers in Singapore will be the first in the world to get their hands on Read more…

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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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  • 05Oct

    Slingers Spurred To Face Sydney

    After racing to a 3-0 unbeaten record in the Singapore Challenge Series, the Singapore Slingers now face their strongest challenge to date as they take on the Sydney Spirit, the first non-Asian team to feature in the series this year, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium at 4pm this Sunday (today).

    The Slingers outfit, which pulled out of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL) this season to focus Read more…

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