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NDP 09 Theme Song by Electrico
By tangenghui | July 3, 2009
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Singapore’s birthday is just a few months away, currently, many people, young and old are preparing for a big birthday party celebration on the 9th August 2009.
The theme song this year is by Singapore’s local rock band, Electrico and it was great to see our local bands in action ! The title of the theme song is “What Do You See”, composition and lyrics by them too !
Drop by here to watch the video and here for the lyrics !
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2 Days with a Volleyball Coach @ Invitational Tournament
By tangenghui | July 2, 2009
If you all recall my previous adventure with Beach Volleyball Coach Jack, for this occasion, I was invited to cover his volleyball team, boys and girls team from Bukit Merah Secondary School, in an invitational tournament whereby a few schools came together for 2 days of friendly competition, learning and gaining invaluable experience.
For myself, not only was I covering the sports photography of the volleyball tournament, the aspects of sports science and learning volleyball techniques and correcting mistakes were recorded with the help of my photographs. With my observations and evidence from the split second volleyball motions captured, these were my observations -
(1) Setting – Some teams have a great player in setting while other teams are less stronger, while discussing with Coach Jack, it was evident that the team’s volleyball coach personal skill set & former playing position influences the strength of their team.
(2) Spiking – Saw some good spikers with good techniques, movement, and power. Being a sports fanatic, I took upon myself to learn more about volleyball spiking and had a great sharing with Coach Jack and to really learn how to spike a volleyball, the fundamentals of volleyball are very important and even before a player learns how to run and spike the ball, they have to learn how to spike and handle a volleyball on a stationary basis.
Here’s some video clips on how to spike a volleyball (4 Steps Approach) and how to approach a volleyball.
(3) Defense and movement – Do you recall watching Olympic volleyball matches comprising of teams from USA, China, Russia, Italy, Brazil ? Their movement and defense are really very exciting to watch even for a not very volleyball fanatic like me. For the art of learning and improving volleyball, we must always model on the best and learn from them. Coach Jack’s team have improved in their volleyball court movements and this is a great achivement for them, the boys and girls from Bukit Merah Secondary School volleyball teams.
(4) Fundamentals and pyschomotor skills – In anything and everything we do in life, fundamentals are extremely important – Ask Yourself – Do you run even before you know how to walk ? The fundamental skills are not taught properly and this would affect future training and volleyball progression. Pyschomotor skills is essential to be trained and improved, thus the action, reaction and movement in a volleyball match will be easier for the players to take on, thus improving their game.
Without good fundamentals and pyschomotor skills, it is possible to get injured easily in training or matches and in all sports, this is something that should be minimised.
“Psychomotor (doing) domain: Relating to skills that require varying levels of well-coordinated physical activity and precise manipulative procedures”
Overall, the 2 days of invitational tournament was a very good learning experience and it was a great time for me too, especially on using the photos from my DSLR to highlight to the players on their techniques that Coach Jack would be working with them shortly in their future training. Drop by my flickr for photos of the 2 days of volleyball matches !
These 2 days not just gave me a photojournalist perspective, it gave me the perspective of an Assistant Sports Coach and of course, sports science and management !
Topics: Essential Planning, Fitness Training, Life Experiences, Personal Development, Personal Stories, Sports, Team Development, Training and Development | No Comments »
HALF of Year 2009 had passed by
By tangenghui | June 30, 2009
The year of 2009 has arrived at Half-Time, in football, it would be a 15 minutes break for the manager to speak to his/her players and would either praise them or scold them, encourage them to make the difference in the 2nd half of their match, the game.
It is similar, the match is my life, for 2009, it’s the 2nd half of 2009 to play for. Before that, I would reflect on my 1st half, how I played my match a.k.a how I ran my life, my business, how much I progressed, where else I can improve on. Reflecting here ….
(1) Business – advisory business is affected by the financial and economic crisis for the past year and the effects doesn’t make it easier for us in this industry, striving and improving, is a key factor. It’s now my priority to do so.
(2) Blogging – Traffic Rank is achieved for my photoblog, reaching below 100k. Lots of effort, “blood, sweat and tears” put inside, my targets are on track and some are already achieved.
(3) Running – Completed my 5th Full Marathon with the 2009 Sundown Marathon, more running to come and complete, my plan to enter triathlon has not materalised yet, planning to push forward and enter this arena as I seek to venture into something more adventurous.
(4) Sports Science & Coaching – Found that I have a long and hidden passion, deep and strong, in the field of sports and its application via sports science. My recent attachments to Jack, who is a certified Volleyball coach and sports coach, makes me read, learn, analyse and assist in sports coaching. I probably qualify to be an Assistant Sports Coach without proper certification 
(5) Travel – plans are on hold currently, although would love to take a short break nearby to recharge and take many photos.
(6) Personal Development and Growth Books – Guilty as charged, books still on top of my work table, still unread or haven’t read finished. I need to set quality time, at least 30 minutes a day to read up on my personal development and growth books and share with my readers here.
2nd Half of 2009 is going to kick-off soon ! I will make it better and I will play my game better !
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CommunicAsia 2009 with the Power of Social Media Networking
By tangenghui | June 29, 2009
CommunicAsia 2009 is an annual event that was held at the Singapore Expo from the 16th to 19th June 2009, a venue and mega conference whereby exhibitors, both locals and international companies, come together and address current and emerging issues in the ICT and digital convergence landscape. An event whereby the latest and newest gadgets were announced and launched to the regional or world market.
How does Social Media Networking relates to CommunicAsia ? Look at your mobile phones today, the netbooks, wireless wi-fi, 3.5G networks, the technology, the hardware and how the people of all ages today are getting more connected to different people around the world through the various channels of social media networking -
(1) Social Networking
(2) Social Bookmarking
(3) Blogging
(4) SEO 2.0
(5) Twitter
(6) Facebook
(7) MySpace
(8) Blogs and Blogging
(9) Submission to Search Engines
(10) Instant Messenger
They have enhanced and replaced traditional marketing principles in today’s fast moving society, especially in the FMCG a.k.a. Fast Moving Consumer Goods. Today, internet marketing, PR, media publicity, blogsphere and internet publicity have given branding, journalism a field that have expanded beyond our imagination, across to different people around the world very far away, yet so close with the power of social media networking and internet.
A few weeks ago, I was selected to be part of a photo blogging project by XPR to test and help market, PR and advertise LG’s latest range of highly interactive and powerful mobile phone, the LG Viewty Smart GC 900 Camera Phone. After a series of teasing photos and write-ups, the LG GC 900 was officially launched during CommunicAsia 2009 and we the 10 photo bloggers selected for this project were given an opportunity to visit LG at CommunicAsia 2009 and we had a great time chatting with LG staff from South Korea, mixing with fellow photo bloggers and enjoying ourselves, do read about my experiences here !
Bloggers who were connected and updated via various channels and it wasn’t before long that the power of social networking, social media networking and blogging came into helping LG launch their latest class of highly sophisticated mobile phones, smart phones and camera phones into a market that is very fast moving. If you are curious to know how it is being done, do check out from the various bloggers via ping.sg and it’s amazing how powerful social media has transformed into nowadays…… A BIG clue – different phones, different bloggers, different channels of network, marketing.
LG shows and leads the direction ahead in how to engage and bring the mobile phones closer to the people, the other mobile phone makers would most probably be sitting up and learning hard. Thank you LG for the opportunity and I believe LG has gain a significant in today’s mobile phone / smart phone industry.
Last but not least ……
DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKING !
Some of the best role models who utilised the Social Media tools above are President Obama during his election campaign and our Singapore Leaders ! Connecting to the younger generation and getting closer to their people !
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HELP the Fiesty Princess !
By tangenghui | June 28, 2009
Feisty Princess Charmaine has been diagnosed with neuroblastoma. She is currently in the 4th stage and fighting hard.
However, the medical bills cost about HALF A MILLION Singapore Dollars to send her to New York for treatment and Feisty Princess Charmaine needs ALL the Bullets to FIGHT her cancer and
YOU CAN BE HER WEAPON !
Please do drop by her site Fiesty Princess Charmaine and her blog to understand more about their current situation and how you can go about helping her to raise funds for her treatment.
Let’s all do something for her, spreading the word and helping her to FIGHT !
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Updated to OS 3.0 !!
By tangenghui | June 18, 2009
Are you an Apple 3G iPhone user ?
If yes, have you updated your 3G iPhone OS to 3.0 ? If you haven’t, go ahead and update it !
Last night, after crossing into 18th June 2009, I was informed by my iTunes that OS 3.0 was available for download and updating. With great excitement, I plugged in my iPhone and sync with iTunes, giving it a bit of time for downloading, installing and updating.
When all was completed, without any change in hardware, I was impressed with the additional features inside OS 3.0 and some of the key improved features are listed here on their website
Some of the key improvements that caught my attention :
(1) Finally …….. Can Forward SMS !!!!!
(2) Can CUT, COPY & PASTE !!!!!
(3) Enhanced Stocks Application – Nice improvement ! Loved its new features !
(4) iPod – Shake to Shuffle – Pretty cool !
(5) Internet Tethering – Interesting, I would probably find it very useful since I have a bundled data plan along with my 3G iPhone contract and maybe, I do not need to subscribe another mobile or wireless broadband package for my laptop. Would still be testing this function out and keep you Apple 3G iPhone readers posted !
(6) Landscape Keyboard – Quite cool, nice to have this additional feature !
(7) Safari – Seems to be faster, need to test it further.
Hope you all enjoy the new iPhone 3.0 OS update, I am still in the midst of exploring the newer features !
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Tweeting + IT Overdose + Planning Outdoors Adventure
By tangenghui | June 16, 2009
My personal blog has been expanding in its topics of interest with the addition of Twitter into my social networking sites and capabilities. It was a very interesting tool to use and I am still a novice in that area, therefore, looking forward to expand my networking of blogs and friends across the world and blogsphere.
Well, on the other hand, I need to remind myself to go back to my personal development, leadership and entrepreneurship books, read at least 30 minutes a day to enrich myself, develop and change for a better and improved self.
For once, this is not just an ordinary regular boring update …… If you are still continuing this line, thank you for reading !!!
Information Technology overdose is something that I thought won’t happen to me since I am a follower of IT gadgets aka IT toys, however, with the launch of new Apple products, PC Show 2009 finishing a few days ago and the upcoming CommunicAsia 2009 whereby I should be visiting on one of the days, and engrossing myself with the latest smartphones and playing with them ….. I am probably able to write up on the SmartPhones that I tried and experienced before !
Besides all the usual business, work, administrative and cracking my brain to strategise how to develop and build and maintain my clientele in this world economic crisis, there is the H1N1 virus floating around the world, causing enough worries and mayhem to the countries affected, thus causing the world travel and tourism industry to take another hit from an already badly hit tourism, travel and hospitality industry.
There were times when I was mesmerised by the outdoors ………….. It’s calling me back ………. to where I once loved to be in the outdoors and I wanted to pen down some of my adventure destination thoughts
Short Trips
(1) Waterfalls in Kota Tinggi and Tangkak area of Johor, Malaysia
(2) Mt Ophir, near Tangkak area of Johor, Malaysia
(3) Redang Island
Medium Trips
(1) Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia
(2) Mt Bromo, near Surabaya of East Java, Indonesia
(3) Borocay, Philippines
(4) Alishan, ChiaYi, Taiwan
(5) Bali, Indonesia
Long Trips
(1) Bhutan Photography
(2) Shangri-La route, Yunnan, China
Based on the current situation, flu + economic crisis, short trips and medium trips might be more feasible.
Keep you posted folks !
Topics: Apple, Dreams, Goals, Information Technology, Life Experiences, Personal Stories | 2 Comments »
Apple’s Latest New Toys !
By tangenghui | June 13, 2009
Months leading up to WWDC 2009, there were lots of rumours and pictures floating around the internet on the potential upgrades and new stuff that could be launched by Apple, just as it was interesting to be following the rumours and news, there would always a question being asked inside me, “Should I Upgrade and suffer a relapse of the BUY BUY BUY disease” ?
On a hot night here in Singapore at 0100 hrs local time, we were following the developments from the conference whereby the latest upgrades and additions were introduced to the Apple family. I was following with great interest and excitement from 0100 hrs to 0300 hrs local time with Apple engineers, fanatics in San Francisco and it was great to see the following new toys and their improvements !
(3) Snow Leopard
(4) 3G iPhone OS 3.0
(5) 3G(S) iPhone
Well, the Macbook Pro 13 inch is very attractive to me, however, my current Macbook is serving me very well and it’s only about 1 year old and going very strong ! Nontheless, I won’t rule out the option to buying Macbook Pro 13inch ! As for the iPhone, looking forward to the new 3.o iPhone OS for my current iPhone and awaiting for Snow Leopard OS to be ready for distribution at a later date.
Once I became an Apple/Mac OS convert …… there was no turning back …….. I am now in the White side ….. hmm …. Apple.
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Tagged by iWalkU2 : An Interesting Personality Test
By tangenghui | June 10, 2009
I was tagged by iWalkU2 on this personality test and it was interesting to do such personality tests again !
Ok folks, here are the rules
(1) Open this website !
(2) Take the Personality Quiz (VERY Short and EASY !)
(3) Copy and Paste the Results on your Blog
(4) Tag as many friends as you can and link back to the friend who tagged you
Your view on yourself:
You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.
The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You are a true romantic. When you are in love, you will do anything and everything to keep your love true.
Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person. And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you might that person.
The seriousness of your love:
You like to flirt and behave seductively. The opposite sex finds this very attractive, and that’s why you’ll always have admirers hanging off your arms. But how serious are you about choosing someone to be in a relationship with?
Your views on education
Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.
The right job for you:
You’re a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you’ll be set for life.
How do you view success:
You are confident that you will be successful in your chosen career and nothing will stop you from trying.
What are you most afraid of:
You are afraid of having no one to rely on in times of trouble. You don’t ever want to be unable to take care of yourself. Independence is important to you.
Who is your true self:
You are full of energy and confidence. You are unpredictable, with moods changing as quickly as an ocean. You might occasionally be calm and still, but never for long.
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How true are your results ?
Tell you more soon !
I would be listing down my name lists of friends soon !
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Playing a New Toy
By tangenghui | June 7, 2009
I am a IT gadgets fan although I confess that I am not so much into the portable games and games entertainment systems because once I play with them, I will be hooked very badly !
Recently, I received a new toy and was allowed to play with it and taking photos with it. For now, I shall call it my Mystery New Toy and let me introduce you to my adventures here
(2) Photo from Mystery New Toy
Do stay tuned for updates !
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