9 Sin Ming Road

#04-05

575630 Singapore

Singapore

This week’s theme on SR Metropol is Christmas. These are the questions that I could use some input for:

• Is Christmas being celebrated, and if so on the 24th or the 25th?
• How is it being celebrated? With family or with friends?
• Christmas presents: Does everybody get them, or is it a thing just for the kids? How much do people spend?
• What do people eat on Christmas?
• To what extent is the city decorated, and with what?

Anyone have any suggestions?

One of my best friends back home, Erik, works for SR Metropol, the somewhat newly formed local radio station, and as some may know, I do some corresponding from Singapore every tuesday morning at 8.30, Stockholm time (that’s 15.30 Singapore time). What I do is basically compare what Singapore is like to what Stockholm is like in different areas. This week there was no show, but last week we talked about interior design and the week before that it was about fashion. You can find most of it in SR’s 30 day archive.

Next week, the subject is the environment, and here are a couple of questions that I’ll try to answer:

• Hur mycket skrivs och pratas det om det i media?
• How much is being written about the environment in the media?
• Hur mycket är det en snackis privat? På jobbet, på gatorna.
• How much is it being talked about privately? At work, in the streets
• Sopsorterar folk?
• Do people recycle?
• Köper man miljöbilar?
• Do people buy environmentally friendly cars?
• Hur är det med dubbelmoralen? Ex. man köper en bil och försvarar sig med att det är en miljöbil. Eller man pikar sin kompis för att hon slänger en glasflaska i soporna, men tar själv gärna flyget på semestern.
• What about double standards? For example, if you buy a car and defend it by saying it’s environmentally friendly? Or if you give a buddy a hard time for throwing a glass bottle in the garbage, but take a plane when going on vacation?

Any ideas?

I figured it was high time to do some brushing up on my blog, just for kicks. And to celebrate, here’s a new version of my Adium Dock Icons. Yay!





Download it from my iDisk (239kb) or from the adiumxtras page (don’t forget to give it good ratings if you like it)!

Since the N95 8Gb isn’t yet supported by Apple’s iSync (at least not in 10.4, which I’m still using), and the Nokia iSync page still doesn’t cover it, I decided to whip up my own by modifying the existing N95 one. This page put me on the right track. If you want it; knock yourself out.

Update 2008-02-12: Tried fiddling with the identification tags to see if it works better with new firmware. Not sure if it helped, though, but try it!

Download (34kb) and place in /Library/PhonePlugins/

Just picked up my new Nokia N95 8Gb yesterday! I know it’s not an iPhone, but it’s still quite impressive, feature wise, although the GUI feels a bit… 1996. I really plan to make good use of the GPS, especially after I get a new bike, sometime next month.

My new number is +65 9188 05 06. Finally no more prepaid! HOORAY.

Today is kitten vaccination day. I can just tell how thrilled she will be.

Took some time yesterday to update my icon set for Adium, Flat Balloons. Get it from the Adium Xtras-page.

Ok, latest updates:

• I have my EP! And a bank account with UOB. Now I need a proper cell phone account, but I can’t keep my prepaid number. How’s that for a developed country, huh?
• Was just home in Stockholm for ten days. I didn’t meet even half of the people I wanted to, and I caught a cold. But it was still nice.
• I’m renting out my apartment, from yesterday, to my friend Christoffer. Feels good that it’s not a waste of money being empty, but it also feels a little strange having somebody else staying in it.
• Having a meeting with Ogilvy Singapore tomorrow. Hope to do some work with them. More later.

Quick update, since I’m a lousy blogger trying to redeem myself.

• No news about my new visa, the EntrePass. Just checked the MoM website. They have my application listed as “processing” (feels eerily familiar) since October 2. It is supposed to take them 6-8 weeks of processing. Kinda reminds me of the computer from Invader ZIM. PROCESSING! For my application, I wrote probably the grandest business plan of them all. Check it out (92kb pdf)!
• We’re running out of money. Need to rob a bank and/or elderly person soon. Or sell off some funds. Either way.
• I’m about to go on SR Metropol to talk about the housing situation in Singapore compared to Stockholm.