I'm curious but what is actually written on your degree scroll as the institution conferring the degree? Is it Monash University or is it Monash University Sunway or some other term?

Does Sunway or Malaysia or Affiliate or With Permission etc appear anywhere on the degree scroll?

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 16 2012, 11:25 AM

You mean Genting Sg?

If he bought during IPO at $0.35, and then sold during the historical high range >$2, he would have needed to invest $20K and hold on until it hit 600% profit margin. That is hard to believe because human nature will usually sell once it goes 100-200% especially for IPO shares because of the windfall feeling. Your friend has very strong conviction and acumen.

Most of the higher end food is better in SG than in MY. Even the Chinese restaurants (like Imperial Treasure, Lei Garden or specialist Crystal Jade eg. Peking Duck, La Mian Xiao Long Bao or Palace rather than Kitchen) are up to par with the best in KL and Ipoh. Western, Japanese and Korean etc are hands down better in SG.

Mainstream shopping center chain restaurants are exactly the same on both sides of the causeway. Indeed the uniformity of food quality (or the reverse) is the entire point.

For food court stuff... Food Republic is not bad. But the rest like Food Junction, S22, HDB food centers etc. are simply not up to the standard of some of the better coffee shop stalls in KL or Ipoh. But then again... if you're a local and you grew up here, you'd know exactly which stall in which food center has the best xxx, yyy etc - just like I know for KL and Ipoh. The fact that we are foreigners means that we typically go for convenience instead of cari makan... and that will lead you to the "chain" food court stalls manned by the banglas etc. Most stalls selling similar stuff are run by single operators who run tens or even hundreds of individual stalls in food courts all over Singapore.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 17 2012, 06:03 PM

That is only true IF and only IF other people are also passionate about whatever you're passionate about... and they are willing to pay you money to be passionate on their behalf.

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Added on September 18, 2012, 1:27 pmNo, you cannot port your Malaysian number over to Singapore. You can only maintain your number with Maxis and then use international roaming when you're in Singapore.

So, you cannot port phone numbers from one country to another. In fact, you cannot even use the same number in different countries (ie. including the country and district codes, and in Malaysia's case - the telco code). That's simply because each country has a unique country code, and not many countries use a telco code.

Even if you just want to use the same Malaysian phone number (not including country and telco code) in Singapore, it will not totally be the same even if it were available for registration. Malaysian phone numbers are 7 digits. Singapore is 8 digits.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 18 2012, 01:27 PM

Nope. I'm just going to update my 4S to iOS6 tomorrow and get 99% of the iPhone 5 experience.

Then if you swap out the glass back panel for an aluminum or magnesium one, you get a bit of the tactile experience, thinness and weight savings as well. I found a website that sells wood replacements for the back panel. Need to find one that does it in metal.

Making it longer doesn't do anything for me. It has to be wider as well to accommodate bigger fonts, website spacing etc... ie. the shortcomings of the current screen size.

I just hope iOS 6 is better at corporate email. Hope it word wraps text in emails when there are graphic attachments. Right now it shrinks any graphic to the width of the very narrow screen and shrinks the text along with it down to a ridiculously unreadable size. And when you zoom in, it doesn't rewrap the text. Ridiculous and unforgiveable for a business phone.

And hopefully it allows the collapsing of email folders when you need to file emails away or find filed emails. Currently all my hundreds of nested folders are irreversibly expanded and it's a damn pain to scroll over every folder to do any filing.

Simple and basic features in Android and BB, but in Apple... No wonder I hate the phone.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 18 2012, 08:31 PM

It's something like this: http://iphone4parts.com/shop/iphone-4s-par...ipfes8a53g98830

Quite easy to replace if you have the proper pentalobe screwdriver for the 2 screws at the bottom. If anybody finds a shop in SG that does the replacement, please let me know. If you want to organise a group buy online, I'm in as well.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 18 2012, 10:00 PM

The iOS 6 update will be available for OTA update in SG/HK/KL at 1am tomorrow morning. Upgraders will know by tomorrow exactly how good the iPhone 5 will be.

I agree. Just wait a little while. I've been using iOS 6 for a whole day now (updated at 1am this morning). It's really no different from iOS 5. Just a few additional options in the settings screen etc (it's not revolutionary... not even evolutionary. More like iOS 5 just brushed its teeth and combed its hair). And with the iPhone 5 being exactly like the iPhone 4/4S except for a longer screen... it's pretty much the same user experience. You're not going to miss much waiting a while.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 20 2012, 06:41 PM

The new mapping app in iOS6 is direct from Apple. And it sucks, apparently.

When I use maps, I want to find what I'm looking for and get where I'm going as quickly as possible. Not look at pretty pictures.

Google maps is still the best for actually using a map.

For driving, dedicated GPS devices are still the best. They have the fastest hardware to gain GPS lock and recalculate changes.

Is it a free app?

hmmm... too bad. I've still got my Android hat on. I will not pay for apps. Whatsapp is the only paid app I cannot do without. Adding insult to injury, it's free on every other platform.

Not what?

Ya, Apple has the upfront $0.99.

But for the other platforms, I haven't been charged the annual fee yet. I've had it on Android for 3 years now. Every anniversary, the expiry date clicks over another year. Same for BB so far.

That's my beef with apple actually. Their products are far from perfect but they try to restrict competition from alternatives. If I need to buy from a monopoly, I damn well better get a perfect product.

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Added on September 25, 2012, 11:15 amBecause we are customers, not beta testers. Because we use phones for a living, not Apple fanboys.


This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 25 2012, 11:15 AM

2 points.

My meaning of perfect is not that it caters for every need and desire. It means it needs to work as it should / as advertised, for the premium price you paid for it. You pay that price, you want something that works out of the box, not be drafted into Apple's beta testing team.

And that brings me to my second point, if you happen to be like me where I have different needs and wants compared to what Apple is willing to offer, then I am entitled to buy something else like Android. If Apple wants my money, do that market research and give me a device I want. If not let me buy Android in peace. But when Apple starts using litigation instead of competition against Android and Android customers - then that sets off all sorts of alarm bells for us.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 25 2012, 02:59 PM

Actually it's not free trade. It hinders free trade. Consumer choice is being gamed by Apple, a ridiculous US patent process that cannot define the line between trade dress vs natural functionality and a partisan US jury system.

Not all models. There are some models where the court has stopped Samsung from selling. What's happening in most cases, is that the appeal is pending. But the are some models which have injunctions against them.

More importantly, it's not hard to imagine that Samsung will scale back their efforts in the US, minimise inventories... so that they don't get caught out with an appeal being lost and they have millions of phones in inventory they can't sell.

The threat of litigation is an impediment to free trade as it is an artificial barrier to entry. It is very telling that courts in the rest of the world did not agree with the US.

It's not their pie.

Apple does not have a monopoly on touch screens, rectangle candy bar phones or icons etc. Smartphones already evolved there much earlier. Palm had it, even my old HTC Touch had it earlier. Symbian had icons way before Apple did. Microsoft Windows perfected screen navigation via icons, buttons and menus. Apple copied these concepts and improved upon it. Google etc copied the concept after Apple copied it, and improved it even further. Windows 8 is doing it now.

The market for candy bar phones with touch screens and icons may have taken off after Apple's iPhone. They really expanded the pie. But does that mean that the pie/market/consumers got candy bar phones with touch screens and icons are now owned by Apple and anybody who wants a candy bar phone with touch screen and icons must buy it from them?

If that were the case, Henry Ford would be able to patent motorised cars that are rectangular with a wheel at each corner. Rectangular with a wheel at each corner is the natural form for a car. Or else the car will fall over. If one day, GM decides to use magnetic levitation in cars. Are all other car manufacturers not allowed to use magnetic levitation in cars? Cars are not new. Maglev is not new. But maglev in cars, is that a concept you can own and nobody else can use?

The way of the world has always been that once the first mover introduces a market concept that successfully creates a market, other entrants will follow and capitalise on that market. Apple is trying to change the game... in that the first mover also owns the market. The market is not allowed to source from anybody else besides the first mover. We see this with inventions, scientific research like pharmaceuticals etc... but this is the first with a marketing concept.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 25 2012, 07:18 PM

You can save the entire $1500.

If you eat fish, and like to have more than 2 veg + 1 meat - it's quite easy to hit $6-7 per plate of chap fan. Add a kopi / teh peng, you spent $8 a meal already.