Road Warrior : Enjoy Every Single Minute of the Trip
Our road warrior for this week is Sandra Thea Cristina Delantar. Her work with Aboitiz Equity Ventures bring her around the Philippines every fortnight or so. A road warrior in the sense of the phrase.
She has enthusiastically accepted my request to feature her and a my big thanks goes to her for that. Below is how she describes her travel lifestyle and how she enjoys it.
Food Sharing : Hor Fun from Good Day
One of my all time favorite food which I only discovered here in Singapore is Beef Hor Fun, the best one is in Amoy Food Centre. I can't recall what lead me to try their fare, it might have been the smell, not so much the looks but might be likely because of the snaking queue during lunch. Its also cheap.
Not until recently, the only thing I order is Beef Hor Fun, I don't know why I never bothered to try the other dishes. There are days when I say to myself that I will try something else but when time comes to order, my mouth just spurts out Beef Hor Fun like it has a mind of its own. Its a conscious but an unconscious and spontaneous snap of a finger decision come order time.
Recommended Singapore Hawker stalls
Singapore is very well know for Hawker food, below are some of my recommendations. I go to some on a weekly basis and that is why most are located really near where I work (1 km radius from Tanjong Pagar MRT station). Budget would be between 4 to 10 dollars, on average the food is about 5 bucks, without the drinks. For a complete authenticate Singaporean meal, grab a Kopi, Teh, Milo Dinosaur or Bandung. I prefer Teh C or Teh Halia.
This post appears to be popular, I'll update this list often from now on and I'll create some post for some of what's in here.
Singapore Tour of Museums
I’d like to share another good walking tour, this time focused on Museums. As visiting a Museum would take time, I believe 2 to 3 Museums in a day would be enough so as content would be properly absorbed. Singapore is endowed with a couple of really good museums, expected of any major tourist destination and from a nation fully supported of arts and culture most specially Singapore which is a melting pot of various cultures harmoniously living and working together.
Iphone 3GS direct from Apple
Busted! after I upgraded my itouch to the latest iOS 4. The screen does not respond, even after a hard reset and a itunes restore. Phone support says I should bring it to the nearest service center. Oh well, I guess I deserved it, I should have waited for a week or to and see if there were problems with the new OS. I prodded and the call center dude shared that there were a couple of issues raised to them from customers who upgraded but it seems I'm the first one to have a non-responsive screen.
The main news I'd like to take up in this post is that while looking for support info for my iTouch, I noticed that the Apple Online Store for Singapore already sells Iphone 3GS directly and at a very cheap price, 748 SGD(around 24.6k PHP)! it comes unlocked(as all phones sold in SG are) and delivery is free. I had a hunch this would happen after the launch, just like the hunch I had that Macbooks of the previous generation would be sold at a good price to clear the stocks and I was right, I got might for 1288 SGD. Beside the 3GS is the new Iphone 4, the way it is presented seemingly shows that the latest Iphone might also be sold directly on the Apple Online Store? another great news if that ever happens.
Although we would still need a data plan to fully utilized these magnificent marvels of technology, having a choice of going pre-paid or sign-up with any carrier is freedom we should treasure. It's gonna be sometime till the next update of this wonder will come so bargain hunters should grab this opportunity now!
The last IT show of the year will be on November and I'm betting on a good price for the recently upgrade Macbook Pro's, if not, good deals on iPad's. Anybody have plans of shopping for Christmas, schedule a trip to SG late November, the IT Show will be at the Expo. I was also eying the Thinkpad X100e solde for around 700+ SGD last PC Show but what would I do with another notebook 
To do list and OSA
I've been scratching off items almost half as many as the new ones I add on my to do list for the past couple of weeks. Today, I was able to scratch of more than the ones I added, which is good in a lot of ways. Many people cope with multi-tasking and task management in different ways and I believe that whatever works well for you would be the best way. I do mine on a physical notepad and scratch off each item that gets done, it's old school and there are loop holes but it's what works well for me.
One item at a time and surely the list will get shorter.
Out and about weekend
My parents are visiting for two weeks and we were out and about the island to show them around, procure essentials and update ourselves with news from back home. It's been a couple of months since I last saw my parents and I'm happy to see them. Hopefully, the family and I will be the ones visiting Cebu soon. I have lined-up a couple of must Singapore experiences for them and I can already scratch off a couple. Ride the MRT, Bus, Ikea, Suntec City and the fountain of Wealth, Carls Jr. and Orchard Road, White Carrot Cake, Kopi-O, Teh-O, Kaya toast, Roti Prata and Chicken Rice. I'll still need to schedule a visit to Mustafa and Little India and Museums and try out some more Singapore staple dishes such as Roti John, Satay, Hokien Mee, Hor Fun and Biryani, hopefully we get to find time this weekend for all of these.
Any word for more than busy?
Is there any word which means more than busy? If there is, let's use that to describe my team's current situation. It seems 24 hours is not nearly enough but we stride on. Moving forward, pushing forward, tackling one task at a time, counting, one, two, three.... every task accomplished is a celebration in itself. One down! I shout in my mind. After scratching off a more than a handful on my list, a couple more are appended. Despite of it all, it still is truly a satisfying as it is more than challenging.
Long Weekend
Monday is almost upon us and the long weekend is coming to a close. Rain also came for an hour or two, just enough to cool things around. I'm looking forward to a full week of work and learning. We spent the later part of the day at the Expo and it sure had a lot in-store for us. First was the gamers event with a little tech show. The Blizzard section was huge and people got to play with the highly anticipated Starcraft 2.