I received three warmhearted W3 Silver Awards today, awarded by International Academy of the Visual Arts, an assembly of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media.

The three winning websites are: mysingapore.sg, yesterday.sg, singapore2010.sg (was face-lifted), in which I was involved in site planning, and in-charged of the rest of the development, deployment, testing cycle.

Special thanks to Convertium and Gerard Lim for the opportunities, ex-tech manager for the unconditioned guidance and supports, project managers for excellent collaborations, and the designers for the brilliant creativity, and not forgetting the awesome clients MICA, NHB and MCYS.

I gladly and truly appreciate the recognitions, it seems like all the hard works being paid off.

This year is definitely going to be a better year!

Cheers!

I have always been aware of the existence of my blog and the lack of updates, but simply couldn’t make time for there were always other better things to do than sitting down and complete a blog post (I do have a few saved-in-draft blog posts that yet to be completed), be it excuses for laziness or was really busy (haha)

I have seen a lot of my friends talking about their past-a-year achievements and new year resolutions.

While I don’t really have new year resolutions which I’d want to share publicly, I appreciated (and felt glad) with what had happened in year 2009. There were simply too many things to record them all down, but here were some of the great happenings:

• I visited Tokyo for the first time in my life towards the end of 2008 and back to Singapore in early 2009. I was exposed to the lovely Disneyland, breathtaking Mt Fuji, shopping heaven Harajuku and Shibuya districts, amazing railway systems, pedestrian scrambles at Hachiko Square, historical Kamakura, and many more interesting local cultures and people. I told myself that I would definitely revisit Japan some time later.
• It marked my first anniversary with Convertium Pte Ltd, at where I have gained the most growth in my working life (the people I worked with, the projects I was exposed to, the knowledge I’ve gained and the opportunities I was given). It was a whole great year in my career and I believed it would elongate.
• I was promoted as a senior technology engineer as an acknowledgment of works I’ve done. It was also meant to be a beginning of another level of my career, with more chances and future exposures.
• Me and girlfriend celebrated our first year anniversary as we spent our precious first 365 days of life together. We spent quite a bit of time in adjusting ourselves getting together, and I promised myself I would do the best to make sure we will spend indefinite 365 days in our future.
• I stopped rambling and turned to take more actions. It was hard to let go something you are so used to, but sometimes you just need to sacrifice for the better. In fact, ramblings (and grumblings) will not help but to get out there and act.
• I was in the United States for the first time in my life at the end of the year, took the longest hour flight in my life, experienced real jet-lag and been to magnificent places (like San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, Death Valley, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon and Los Angeles). The scenic places were simply awesome, but culturally I felt glad to be born in Asia country (will blog about the trip separately)
• I revisited Tokyo for a few days as we transit from United States back to Singapore. Tokyo was as great, and once again, I promised myself that I would revisit Japan again, maybe some other parts other than just Tokyo as I believe there are more details yet to be discovered in the Land of the Rising Sun.

To sum it all once again, it has been a good year 2009, and I very much look forward for year 2010.

Google Trends have been made available for quite some time, ever since its Beta version. There are localized versions available too, e.g. Google Trends for Singapore. You will be surprised on how these valuable information is made available for free, and such easily accessible!

** Do note that there is a quota limit each day, not sure about the number of queries limit, should be around 20? Anyway its a free tool, what’s more to ask?

On august 2008 Google launched Google Insights for Search, a more sophisticated and advanced service displaying search trends data. I am not going to talk about that in this post, maybe soon though as it seems interesting.

This is a casual post that I will walk through some of the keywords that I find interesting

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12-minutes is all you need to spend here, to realise about something Really Wrong going on, now, on The Earth.

Watch CBS Videos Online

Have you ever questioned yourself, where do the millions of computer monitors, cell phones and other electronic refuse our society generates end up? This clip explains it all.

I personally do not think I ever put any effort on this matter, and I do regularly contribute to the waste.

What are the roles of us being the consumers?

Any serious efforts has been put onto this matter?

Do share your thoughts.

My dear 小B

Angel brought you to this world, to us

And you brought us smiles, happiness, and laughters

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