Decision-making between married couples

My wife is glad we don't do this :P

Code Quality

As I start to do support work (think everyone's starting to do everything over here...) I'm reminded of this...

Taken from OSnews.

Spam messages in Facebook

Can't really figure out how this is possible, even applications that you install shouldn't be allowed to send chat messages on your behalf.  Perhaps browser malware?

Any ideas, anyone?

INTERNET. SERIOUS BUSINESS.

Serious business indeed.

E's birthday dinner

Some more pictures, this time from my baby niece's birthday dinner sometime back ="P

Housewarming

Some pictures from our housewarming a few weeks back =P

Photo-realism is moot?

Check out the Image Fulgurator. Really really cool idea, like the Laughing Man in Ghost In The Shell. The device looks too much like a gun though, wonder what security-paranoid countries would think?

Wedding and Honeymoon Pictures

Will be uploading pictures from the wedding actual day and the honeymoon, hope you guys like them =)

Wedding album (1 of 2)


Wedding album (2 of 2)
Wedding pictures courtesy of Yong How of 1950 Photography [blog], thanks! Haha, we've got a post in their blog too.

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Honeymoon (to be posted)

Baby Tigger Present

Cute right?! Cute right?! =D
Thanks dear =)

Stress-relief

If you can't read the text, it says: "Birds fly high, hard to catch. Friends like you, hard to forget!" A (primary school era) phrase in one of my colleague's childhood ;) Drawing is great for stress relief. Especially when the board was originally used for more work-related uses. I know my drawing is horrible, but I'm not Picasso! I'm an engineer!

Why not change the meaning somewhat? ;)

To further clarify the new meaning: I'm sure it would be really hard to forget this "friend", heh.

I don't think I'll trust SG's credit card handling for now

Random picture taken from Suntec city exhibition hall. Noted interesting by someone near me ;-) Maybe got prize for the one who guesses what exactly is "interesting" :-D

On a more serious note, the way things are currently done in Singapore only facilitates credit card fraud and raise alarm bells in security-paranoid people like myself, at least until someone gets burned really badly and the media hypes it up, then everyone will take note.

Take for example the restaurants we have here. When we foot the bill by credit or debit card, in many restaurants the helpful waiters/waitresses bring your card in a holder to the cashier where they do the transaction, bring the receipt back to you for signing before returning you the card. And in the process the card goes out of sight for a while, a very juicy opportunity for the numbers (from the front and the back 3 "security" numbers) to be recorded and to be used to buy _____ from ebay by some fellow.

Well, the tour agency we went to today took things one step further, writing the ENTIRE credit card number on the receipt when they make a transaction (and it is also done out of sight). The reason they gave was that the number was "for records purposes" (and to appease us they helpfully cancelled out the number with a line and countersigned it :-D As if that would help...). Thinking about it, this process only made it far easier for anybody to steal others' (the customers' in this case) card numbers for misuse (just remember the 3 digits on the back of the card).

I'm not writing this to target the poor fellows who suddenly had to deal with such a weird complaint/request about writing the number on the receipt (which even the banks themselves don't do!). But what I'm saying here is that companies should have better methods of handling customers' information, including NOT storing things that they shouldn't.

Even credit card issuers do have points of failure in this. I hope that they'll stop trying to persuade me to get even more cards from them when it is explicitly stated in the MoneySense guide not to get more cards than necessary. :-D The irony being that this guide is distributed with every card given out!

I like to have the convenience and options of the credit system. But looking at how credit cards are handled currently in Singapore, I think I'll stick to using my NETS card or cash for offline purchases. I don't want to appear in tabloids as a victim of credit card fraud :-D