Over a Cup of Tea

They left on tuesday ...

We know that TS and Guan would be leaving Singapore for US for work about 4 months ago. An announce they made over a simple dinner at their new home.....since then i have been thinking of the perfect farewell gift for my dear old friend and the only thing i could think of they they could not possibly have is a super solid FATA che char meal. To idea is to put in a lot of things and techniques i have learned into simple home cooked meals like roast pork, braised duck, pig stomach soups, steam promfet

however one things keep happening we just couldn't find the perfect timing to do this. It was last sunday, where we finally found some time to meet up at the good old prata place at Jalan Kayu, Over A cup of Teh Halia and musing over a incidental caterpillar hanging over a vine we caught up with each other and over 30mins gave quick updates, advice well wishes etc.

there used to a time where the basis of meeting up is good food, great ambience, interesting activities..... but truly the one nice thing we really need in really simple. A cup of tea and a interesting conversation. I guess we'll have to postpone this makan till much later.

Good Luck, TS and GUAN....and God Speed!

We had dinner with Eugene, Pea yesterday and somehow started talking about going to ZOUK and we started to reminisce about the past. about how initially we pool money and wait for midnight madness to order the mixed drinks and then moving on to pool money for bottle drinks ......and now finally...when we can afford to order by the bottles, we all agree that we will not last past 2 standard drink and had to be sleeping by midnight..well the die is set for us to do this long forgotten ritual of Dinner- Party-Supper next wedesday. we'll see if we survive!


FATALOGY : the Joy in life lies in the Ability to Makan with your friend and loved one! Food must be good....but dun have to be too fancy....(unless you kena windfall bonus and needed to redeem some long overdued credits.....heheh)

Nice thing to do on a sunday morning

Glamour Shot

Promo Photos Taken of Me, Haiwoon and our very first and second intern Huda and Fariz taken as a promo effort for ITE......coincidentally the pics were taken by a friend of mine name Richard who runs Elan Pictures.....he is a sort of celebrity photographer already having launched his first photo exhibition recently in singapore!

The who shoot took 1 hour plus and it's really tough trying to smile "naturally" wihout looking like Dr Evil...

Good things

The month of jan 2008 was interestingly good.

1) we "unofficially" expanded our office - we took over the neighbor's premise (our opposite neighbor moved so we got a new/old bar fridge too)
2) we "unofficially" expanded out staff strength to 4 (with the inclusion of 2 NUS interns - we decided to call them "project officers")
3) We got our website revamped - check it out www.alphabiofuels.sg (thanks Karen and Samuel)
4) Skipper from Musso volunteered his friend ( 2 highly talented people to help us create a really cool car stickers and Decal as well as t-shirt designs)
5) We would be having our inaugural Alpha BD charity drive to bring some festive cheers to some old folks at Lion's home this sunday.

Well CNY is nearing....it would be our very first one as a company.... last year was fun...running a startup and all, however things should be hotting up this year and now we are looking to do something that we thought was insurmountable last year, if we get through with this project, we'll really put clean energy into singapore!

I did my first "panelist" thingy at the NLB last sat to a crowd of 200plus talking Alternative energy etc, it was nice to know the among of interest that is growing amongst the youth and the people in the fringe industries of clean energy. I did my best to be "Chief Entertainment Officer" and distribute about a box of name card....that 32 bucks!

the only thing i am not looking forward to is that of saying goodbye to a couple of very dear friend leaving for US for good (well at least 2-3 years). Planning to make a gastronomical impression on them before their departure ... possibly after thier CNY fatigue.



Happy New Year to one and all...

a prospect

As part of an ongoing challenge amongst my close friend, i am openly requesting for any body who can get me some connections with a Mr Tay Ping Hui.....(Media Corp Artiste)

the idea is to get this guy to within my 3 degrees of separation so that i can tell him an interesting story and seek an opportunity to link him up with my friend

the links to his website is this (in case you wanna confrim who he is...)

http://www.taypinghuionline.com/

steady!

my Daemon on golden compass

We are in media again!

Got a interview with ACE - Action Community for Entrepureners.

http://www.ace.org.sg/Site/Page.aspx?id=59654B03-48CB-4351-B9C8-B01F528792E3