Kampong revisited

Went back to the kampong.

I was enthralled by this particular path.

Angry clouds taking over the sky. That was my cue to depart.

Back to familiar urban surroundings.

Ignorant

I always tell Jux not to assume that IT people know what they're doing. In my line of work, I frequently encounter IT staff how are shockingly ignorant about IT concepts. Jux learns a lot from reading my blog and she probably knows more than some IT people I know.
She left her company recently and made sure she wiped her corporate laptop with 3 passes. She got a shock yesterday when her now ex-company's IT employee called her enquiring if there was a problem with her laptop previously. The bugger didn't recognise the error message displayed because there was no longer an OS on the drive. She had to explain to an IT practitioner that she had wiped the drive.
This is not an isolated case. Her husband also wiped his corporate laptop when he left his previous firm. They deducted S$180 from his last pay check because they thought he had thrashed the drive. Lame!!!

Never knew that!

Extracted from Wikipedia.
"The name "Cisco" was derived from the city name, San Francisco, which is why the company's engineers insisted on using the lower case 'cisco' in the early days."

Mediocrity

Was watching the Liverpool game and realised that I could never be a Football Manager. I would go crazy from mediocre performances by under performing players. I would be throwing boots, chairs and whatever I could get my hands on. I would shout profanities until my face would turn purple. I can't stand mediocrity.

The lost frontier

Singapore has lots of "treasures" but is not very good at preserving them. It's a real pity.
Seletar camp. Traces of our colonial past. Commercial airport within.

House for rent.

Please do not take the plants? Wide open spaces. A rare sight in Singapore. Antique mailbox.

Colonial house.

Kampong Lorong Buangkok. The last village in Singapore. A place time forgot and soon lose forever.

Both places have been marked for destruction. Visit them now before its too late. Fenn has a few pretty amazing pics she took at Seletar.