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Time and Tide Wait for No Man

I have known this saying for over forty years now and it still remains as true as it was then. Why this title? I had lunch with a group of good buddies, all over fifties at Sushi Teh, at the former Big Splash at East Coast Park, Singapore. The discussions were over multiple topics and boisterous for each one of them. They ranged from living in Australia versus in Singapore, racism, globalization, money to Facebook. There will never be enough boredom when we get together, where laughter rang out loud, and each one contributing their experience. Time did pass, and two hours whizzed by without me noticing. If I had not gone to this lunch, I would have missed the fun and the laughter. The two hours will still go by and I could be sitting by twittering my fingers and getting precious little done. The lesson is when you feel like doing something, do it. The worst sin is to think too much over the consequence or what else could I do, if I had not done that. Such "academic excellence...

Having fun and having time

My latest gadget is the Samsung Omnia i900, powered by Window Mobile 6.1 operating system. I have replaced my good old Nokia N73 which uses Symbian. The N73 has served me well for the last two years which is able to synchronize with my Outlook calendar, task and notes. It has the cool feature of Nokia Life Blog, which pulls down the messages, photos and videos into the PC. This feature I do miss in the Omnia. The Omnia acts very much like the HP Jornada 560, which I gave away in the SgFreeCycle (in one of my previous articles); which attracted so many emails. It was a fully functional iPaq with charger, software, manuals and even an external keyboard! The Omnia's feature which I like is the wi-fi feature, allowing me to log into the internet to synchronize my emails in Outlook, Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo. With the number of hotspots in Singapore growing, it is becoming a very good feature, although the connecting time with logging in period is a great deterrent. The 5MP camera is not...