The bed which wobbled

It’s 12 midnight, and there I was lazing on the bed with Stella in one of the rooms on the 12th floor of the Theme Park Hotel, Genting Highlands. We were just watching a documentary about Angels – individual experiences and the way the scientific world would explain it. A little past 12 midnight and [...]

Mobile operators gone nuts…

It’s pretty official. Network operators in Malaysia are literally undercutting each other from super low SMS charges to super low phone charges. The original five TimeCel, Maxis, Celcom, Digi and TmTouch, now just Maxis, Celcom and Digi after the government requested for the merging of some operators are now at a neck to neck fight. [...]

What do all these names have in common?

What do these names have in common? Anuar ZainBackstreet BoysBlack Eyed PeasBoys II MenDayang NurfaizahInnuendoJackie ChanKimora Lee (founder of BabyPhat)Sheila MajidLauryn HillN SyncNicholas TsePaula AbdulRuth SahayanaWyclef JeanYumiko Cheng These people put up, in my opinion, one of the greatest concerts ever held in Malaysia and also the best I have attended! It’s called the Force [...]

It’s probably official – I’ve put on weight…

With the non-stop servings of ice-cream, my favourite tiramisu cakes, plenty Starbucks’ Ice Blended Creme Frapuccino, very good food and little – perhaps no exercise I think it is official. At first, it wasn’t really noticeable. It was only realized when one of my uncle’s commented “Ben, fei cho wo!” – Direct translation from Cantonese [...]

Cristian Darie has done it again!

Cristian Darie has done it again. The last book I had authored by him was Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 E-Commerce. It was a book which guided me from the introduction of three-tier programming all the way to the creation of a full-blown, feature packed e-commerce website using Microsoft’s ASP.NET Technologies. This book, Beginning PHP 5 and [...]