Archive | July, 2011

Harry Potter: Down Memory Lane

21 Jul
European & American posters for the film
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I cannot help it, but I really like to do a post on Harry Potter phenomenon over the past ten years. It’s been more than ten years since the child actors and actresses were revealed in 2000 August, and today, the epic story has finally come to an end (or has it not?) I started reading Harry Potter back then (can’t remember which year), and since been following the story. I bought every book that was published and watched everyone of them on the movies. The movies were never as good as the books if you ask me, but it was as good as it can get to fulfilling my imagination.

I decided to capture the past posters of each movie and see how much have the characters grow over the years. Starting with their Year 1:

Daniel Radcliffe, kind of lost his child look from the 3rd book onwards, while Emma Watson start to show signs of a beautiful actress in the making from the 4th book onwards I say. =) Even non Potter Fans started to follow the story because of Emma Watson. While, for Rupert Grint, it’s from the 3rd book onwards as well.
Here’s a tribute to Harry Potter, and surely, the Boy Legend that will survive for a long time to come. =)
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SGFI 3: Graduation

18 Jul
A graduation hat

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Well, this is it, after almost four months of rewarding classes. I’m an FI Grad. =) Graduation is often accompanied with a sense of achievement for many, relieve and … dread to a certain extent.

What dread am I talking about? Haha, I was talking to Sayanee, another fellow FI grad, about the day I finish my last exam paper from NUS. I walked out of the exam hall feeling relieve and kind of cant believe I just completed my last paper. But the relieve didn’t last longer than five minutes… before I even reach back my hostel, I had an awakening. And it says,

” Damn… Holiday just ended….”

True enough, it didn’t take long for me to realise that I’ll be thrown into the real world from now on. And ain’t shit learning anymore, it’s for real now. Looking back, I still kind of find that thought real amusing, especially how the mood changes in less than five minutes.

Well, graduation from SGFI really just mean the same thing. But I’m not exactly on my own, while I still have a community of graduates/ mentors and more to come in the semesters. But the real work starts when no one is going to come nagging at you about not completing your homework from here onwards really.

But in a way, I’m just proud to be able to graduate from SGFI and looking forward to building my new start up. Don’t get carried away by the graduation, the real shit starts here. =) ut still, enjoy that moment. One deserve it. =) 

And I’ll definitely reccomend any budding entrepreneur who is looking to build a tech start up to join SGFI 4 this coming Oct.

Regards

How To Start Your First Start Up? (for youths)

6 Jul

Think About It, Talk About It, Evaluate It, Do It

I get this question once in a while from youths who I work closely with for my volunteer work. I thought about it and decided to write a simple post on it to share my thoughts about starting your first start up. I’m not here to share about the technical aspect of starting one, but rather, the organic process of starting to do something. It’s really not that tough to start working on it. I’ll be sharing four simple steps.

Think About It
It always start from a simple idea during those eureka moments. When you get the idea, give it some thoughts like what problem you are solving, is there a demand for it? Do some research and see what’s in the market and what others are doing and what’s working and not working. Google Alerts does wonder for beginner research. There are also several other Google products that are great a well, like Insights, Wonder Wheel and more. I’ll talk about that next time.

Talk About It
Next up, once you’ve done some thinking through, have some research done up and some facts, start talking to people who are able to help you. You can start with some of your friends to get your questions in order, then move on to other entrepreneurs, teachers, mentors, target audience, just to start off. Talking to them will help your crystallize your thoughts and understand the problem better and what you are solving.

Evaluate It
So you done your field research, get back to your lab and start evaluating what you have found out with the earlier research you have done. Is there a fit? Does your idea make sense? What are the feedback? Don’t stop talking to people while you are at it, continue to talk to as many people possible about your idea and your research.

Do It
After evaluating your options, and decided to go ahead, start drawing out your timeline and plans. This is where you start planning your action plan. It’s a whole new playing ground from here onwards. But the idea is that once you considered your options and decided this is the path you want to take, sit down and plan your next move. Get a Mentor to guide you through from here on the set up. From here on, it’ll be abit more technical than this post, which I’ll share more in another post. 

Here’s the tough part where alot of people drop out and find hundred and one excuse to not do anything. Some are geniune concerns, while some are just excuses. Talk to someone who have started a business and he will most likely be able to spot excuses from geniune concerns. =)

From here, it’s going to be another mental barrier you need to break starting one some serious research again and planning. Start easy a get a feel of it first.

Cheers

Iphone 4 White

4 Jul
iPhone 4 White Plastic Case
Image by Photo Giddy via Flickr

 

As some of you know, I’m not the best tech person around since tech was founded. =p But once in a while I do get some good reccomendations and chance upon things ahead of others. Well, it’s not so much the case today talking about Iphone 4, which most likely running out of date in six months’ time with 5 on it’s way. =p

 

Well, I’m not going to talk about what an Iphone does, in which most will be better than I am. But rather the importance of keeping pace with technology. Since my joining of FI, I’ve introduced with lots of new technological stuff. Not to mention that my Mentor has been constantly showing me updated technology he knows about as well. And since getting my Iphone white (proud, haha) I’ve been able to touch base with a lot more things while on the go, like reading updates, articles, getting connected with people. It was then I realise how much I left out. I did share in a previous post about how important it is to have tech support in a start up, yet again, this just prove how important technology is to us. I use to buy papers to read while on long journeys or while waiting for people. Instead, I take out my Iphone and start following up on latest articles on entrepreneurship on twitter. And while I fumble to get something to write my new ideas and hold that thought while I get internet access to do some research, I could now immediately key in my thoughts and check what’s up online. Not to mention I’m pretty addicted to Foursquare now. =p hahaha.

 

In any case, technology has improved connectivity among people and make life, I won’t say simpler to be honest, but rather, interesting and engaging. =)

 

Cheers to my new Iphone 4… White. =)

 

 

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