A wedding is a life changing milestone and also a heck lot of work. It would be a pity if the entire process was not documented and recorded. My wife Alyssa and I went through a year of planning and execution to have our wedding the way we wanted it to be. Here is a …
I didn’t expect the abrupt end to Linkin Park’s lead vocalist Chester Bennington’s life to affect me. But it did and I was brought to recognise a part of me that I was and probably still am not comfortable with. My music preferences lean towards a more classical genre, shaped by my dad’s daily indulgence …
I was not looking forward to Commencement. Commencement is NUS’s rebadge of Convocation which basically refers to the graduating ceremony. On paper, it felt like a simple ceremony packed with recipients where you will spend 99% of your time waiting first for your turn to come and then for the ceremony to end. Thankfully, things …
This is long overdue. I have been keeping pets since the age of 4. It began with fishes – guppies, tiger barbs, tetras, angelfishes, ‘sucker’ fishes, just to name a few. My dad believed that keeping pets was going to be an important part of my growth. I was told he wanted to have more …
I stepped out of the exam hall two days back amidst cheers from my fellow course mates. For almost all us, this was the final exam of our time as an Economics major in the National University of Singapore. We had finally completed our fourth year which is sometimes referred to as the honours year. I thought …
In the midst of the continual negativity around population and housing issues, I thought it’ll be refreshing to share something different. My family moved from a 64 sqm three room flat to a 105 sqm four room apartment almost exactly 13 years ago. In this move, we experienced continual assistance from HDB and two MPs. …
Lunar New Year has always been kind of an awkward event for me. I could not really grasp the Lunar Calendar since young. It has been a somewhat mystical event that begins with a story of how a beast terrorized a village in the past. This evil creature would do so every spring and was …
Christmas has always been a festive that I looked forward to ever since I was a child. There were only two windows a year that I would receive gifts or be allowed to make gift requests – Christmas and on my birthday. As a child growing up in a low income family, getting something of …
Sinofsky’s departure from Microsoft nearly mirrors Forstall’s move away from Apple. Both of them played key roles in Windows (7 & 8) and iOS (1 to 6) as leading visionaries and process driven leaders. Like it or not, both of them were control freaks and marginally psychotic in their approaches to leadership. But this was …
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I have completed 2 full summer internships during the undergraduate years. I am going to undertake my fourth year this coming semester and am about to enjoy the final week of my last ever summer holidays. Here’s a look at both internships. Summer 2012: SingHealth – Centre for Health Services Research http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtxEdb8PuTE This internship …
This post is on religion which is a very subjective. Everyone interpretes religion differently. You see that in the vast numbers of religions, the vast denominations within religions (e.g. Methodist, Protestants, etc for Christians and Sunni, Aqidah, etc for Muslims). Within denominations there are differences between places of worship. And within places of worship, differences between members. …
You learn something new everyday. I have owned my domain davejunia.com for nearly 8 years now and have only realized that I could have made the switch to Google Apps to run my email. Obviously, I did. Gmail’s Dominance I had my first email back in 2000. That was the year a friend of mine …
Technology and the Younger Me I am a relative early adopter of technology. I do so for productivity boosts, not to be a technological hipster. Back in the 2000s, I adopted carrying a Palm handheld as an organizer to coordinate my student council that had a size of over 150 students. When organizing school wide activities such …
I’ve explored every section in the ENT Department in SGH. Ears when I was young, a surgery for tonsillitis when I was in MI and now my nose. I landed in the same Ward 55B again and was due for a surgery to remove the excess skin foldings in my nose and to correct the …
So here we are again… There’s this burning urge to write after I stopped blogging for a long while. That was back on National Day 2006. Man, a good long 2 years plus. Things have changed pretty much. Well things change for every single male in Singapore at this time. Read: NSF. Ok, fast forward. …