The Reason Behind The Singtel 3G Outage

On February 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Toys

So thanks to my cousin in KL, I found this really cool app for the iPhone called “Action Movie FX”. Great for CNY when you’re bored in between vis­it­ing rel­a­tives.

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Voicing The Beetle

On July 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Toys

Put a brand new car on pub­lic dis­play, get one comic actor and one comic writer in a con­trol room that allows them to talk to the occu­pants of the car, hilar­ity ensues. That was the for­mula the orga­niz­ers thought of the past fort­night, and they were right. Chua Enlai […]

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UOB Mobile App lets you send cash to people

On July 10, 2012 · 3 Comments · In The Ingterneck, Toys

Quite a while ago myself and a bunch of peo­ple were treated to a pre­view of UOB’s mobile bank­ing app. Most banks in Sin­ga­pore have adopted mobile bank­ing in one way or another. (There are some banks which still haven’t grasped this, or are unable to — and their idea of mobile banking […]

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Elmo finally announces the winner

On December 11, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Toys

There’s sel­dom a time when I don’t say I’m com­pletely swamped with work and other obligations.

So I’m say­ing sorry to those who’ve waited and waited for an announce­ment on who’s won a Let’s Rock Elmo from my Let’s Rock Elmo Con­test sev­eral months ago, and offer­ing even more apolo­gies to […]

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Let’s Rock Elmo

On September 20, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Parenting, Toys

Hasbro’s Let’s Rock Elmo rocked the Toy Fair in New York ear­lier this year.

I’ll leave it to the video pre­sen­ta­tion made at the Fair, and leave it to you to decide who is poten­tially more irri­tat­ing, Elmo or the presenter:

Has­bro very kindly gave Kai a basic set […]

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PC Show 2011

On June 10, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Places, Toys

The crowds at the PC Show are such that the media are treated to “pre­views” an hour before the gates open and the hordes start pushing in.

Thank you peo­ple at Grayling who’ve invited us for the sec­ond year run­ning. We got our stuff, “redeemed” our free­bies, and fled […]

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Do you have to ask your kids’ permission to use your iPad?

On June 7, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Parenting, Toys

Like many other par­ents, we some­times have dif­fi­culty pry­ing our son’s grubby hands off the iPad. Ever since the first ver­sion was released, Kai has taken to it like a true iOS native.

He now thinks that every screen is a multi-touch screen, and has been seen try­ing to swipe shop­ping malls’ elec­tronic direc­to­ries to […]

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Need for Speed handsfree

On April 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Toys

Apple and EA came up with a hands­free rig for iPod/iPhone gamers. Post-game neck mas­sage and panadol not included.

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Apple Corner

On January 3, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Places, Toys

Any­one who’s been to the ToTT Store in Bukit Timah will know what a kitchen won­der­land it is, chock full of appli­ances we can’t afford, plus an IKEA-style cafe­te­ria that is sus­pi­ciously not as crowded as IKEA’s cafeteria.

We had been look­ing for an apple corer over the week­end, because one of our […]

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Useful Christmas Gifts #4: Something From Apple

On December 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Toys

Let’s face it. You’re gonna be either buy­ing or con­sid­er­ing buy­ing an Apple prod­uct this Christ­mas, either for your­self or for some­one else. Epi­cen­tre, the pre­mium Apple reseller, is mak­ing it more fun with an in-house per­sonal shop­per who’s gonna help you buy more stuff and then you’ll go home and curse him later.

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