Gen X minus Gen Y

Interesting article titled "Capturing the Y" from MIS Australia. Talks about characteristics of Generation Yers and their behaviours and expectations in the contemporary workplace while making comparisons to Gen X. Wonder how much of it applies to Singaporeans.

Tsunamis & Blogosphere

The sea, the sea

The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami

Killer Tsunami Hits SE Asia

Ushering in the New Year

Good news everyone!!

A venue has been found for our New Year's Eve party.

Please drop me a message if you can make it.

Details to follow soon...

Over the Air: The Thin Red Line

Just 3 things this Christmas

• Christmas Eve (24th December 2004)
  
• @Desmond's, from late Evening onwards
  
• BYOF (Bring your own Food!)
  

Alls invited!

Cascading Style Scheiße

I've been trying to work out the formatting part of our blog and meanwhile, it's been hell trying to make sense of our CSS.

Our blog is now available in two styles.
Meaning if you're using Mozilla/Firefox, just pull down the View->Page Style menu and choose a style. For IE...well, I'll let somebody else clue you guys in.

Meanwhile, I came across some recommendations

• Color of the year: Brown
  
• Tech grays and blues take a sabbatical; may not be back soon.
  
• Pure red (the “new blue” of the past few years) falls into disfavor.
  
• Designers are feeling confident—lots of bold colors this year.
  
• Lots of “in-between” colors (yellow-greens, red-oranges, etc.) used to achieve fresh looks
  

and some designs available at Open Source Web Designs.

Erm, brown?? Well, these are just some design company's forecast for 2005....

If anybody has any suggestions....

Oh yeah, anybody know a good CSS editor?

Maestro Frederick Fennell has passed away

-----Original Message-----
From: Cathy Fennell Martensen
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:37 AM
Subject: Fred Fennell

I've managed to reach some of you by phone, others not, and I did
not want to leave this as a voice message.

I want you, and the greater music community to know that my father
died peacefully in his sleep early this morning, Tuesday, December
7, 2004. Elizabeth and I were by his side. I had promised him that
I would do all I could to get him back to Siesta Key so he could
watch the sun set over the ocean. With the help of Hospice, he
arrived home in time to see the brilliant orange and pinks in the
western skies last evening. A bit before Midnight, dad told me he
was "frustrated and disappointed." When I asked him, "Why?" he
replied, "There's no drummer here yet. I can't die without a
drummer!" I told him that I loved him, and that "Heaven's best
drummer was on the way." Moments later he said, "I hear him! I
hear him! I'm OK now." This was my final conversation with my dad.

I was blessed to be able to dress my father in his finest set of
tails after he died, complete with the usual struggle with his tie.
Elizabeth asked if he could be "dressed up" and I could think of
nothing finer for a lasting memory. Dad asked to be cremated and
that I scatter his ashes in the woods at Interlochen, Michigan this
summer. This, of course, I will do.

Elizabeth is OK at this point. We are closely watching her,
monitoring her blood sugar levels and seeing that she gets the diet
and rest she needs after such a life transition.

There will be a small Memorial Service at a church in Siesta Key.
No date or time has been set yet. As knowledge of my father's death
is communicated, please keep both Elizabeth and me in your prayers.

Fondly > Cathy Fennell Martensen

Feel free to forward this email.

The Evolution of HDB

Quite shocking, HDB's building premium housing now?
Subsidised housing near the CBD....hmmm...
Oh well, too bad I'm not married yet.

HDB Launches The Pinnacle@Duxton under Build-To-Order (BTO) System

The Pinnacle@Duxton is HDB's first 50-storey integrated housing development. It is based on an award-winning design selected from international and local entries for the Duxton Plain International Architectural Design Competition.

The development will have special features such as skybridges and sky gardens at the 26th and 50th storeys. Apartments will be provided with a varied combination of balconies, bay windows and planter boxes, to suit the preferences of flat buyers. The development comprising a total of seven residential blocks will be self-contained with shops, a food court, a child-care centre and an education centre.

It is located centrally along Cantonment Road and in close proximity to the Central Business District (CBD). It is also within walking distance to the Outram Park and Tanjong Pagar MRT Stations, which provide convenient connections to various parts of Singapore.

Well....makes sense actually, after all, they've got years of apartment building experience behind their belts and not to mention, buckloads of capital!

Oh well, I'm keeping my fingers cross that we'll be selected for MUP or SERS soon. The latter, well, maybe not... I don't expect to live long, and just recently, my grandmother passed away just two months shy of moving into their new SERs flat in Depot road. So well, I don't expect to live past 40 let alone a ripe old age of 76. Meanwhile, I'll just dream of sky bridges, planter boxes, matter teleporters and for the ceiling to stop raining down on us. Apparently, the spalling concrete problem that we're experiencing currently is due to lousy cement used during construction of our flat. Hmm...maybe those sky bridges don't sound like such a good idea anymore.

Over the Air: Horrible re-enactment by lawyer in 'True Files'