Category: Off Beaten Track Page 16 of 44

I have been neglecting this blog for quite a while, which I hope to rectify starting with this entry.

Well, what has been happening lately?

Firstly, I switched over to cable broadband after using ADSL broadband for the past five years. I just could not help feeling short-changed when the monthly subscription for 512Kbps ADSL (SG$37) was only SG$20 less than 6Mbps cable, so I went over to the dark side two months ago when my contract for ADSL was up for renewal and I have been pretty happy since then. Actually that was just before the rate for ADSL dropped (similar price but three times the current speed), but that is another story…

Unless you have been hiding in a cave for the last couple of years, YouTube should not be a foreign name to those of us familiar with the internet. Well, here is a “top-10” list for 2006 of some of the wonderful talents on display.

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Some amazing photos of people on this photoblog. Each face IS telling a story, but frozen forever in an instant. Wish I can also shoot some half-decent portraits like these in the future!

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.

Jacob Riis, Danish-born Journalist, Photographer and Social Reformer

Life gets pretty predictable when the hot buns lady knows exactly what you want to order as soon as you walk up to her stall, then hands you a full bag of stuff and collects the money, all done without a word exchanged.

It’s like going to your favourite bar and ordering your usual drink – except, without needing to utter “The usual for me, Pete!”.