A Twitter conversation led to my declaration of my love and appreciation for the group of tweeples I regularly tweet to. It seems corny and cheesy, but eventually, someone pulled a hashtag out of our collective hineys and called it #grouphugtuesday. I’d like to encourage you to take part in #grouphugtuesday if you’re on Twitter. [...]

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Talk about local start-ups for the win. Last year, we had three start-ups to go to the TechCrunch50 conference and do pretty damn well there, with one winning the demopit. Now, McAfee has announced that it plans to acquire tenCube, a mobile phone security company from Singapore. tenCube is the provider of WaveSecure, a software [...]

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I’ve just spent the last two hours trying to figure out how to first, tighten the front derailleur cable on Electra, then trying to fix her whole front derailleur. The result? Her shifting still sucks, I’m still limited to a bare few gear combinations and to make it even more fun, she can no longer [...]

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I think I shall start a new tag called ‘Training Notes’. If anything, it’ll help me stay good about entering crap into my training log regularly. I’m such a slacker. Anyway, the good ole Thursday night expo ride. Alan gave me a yell over bbm in the afternoon asking if I wanted to ride. We [...]

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It might just be my inner expat brat talking but Skype has always thrilled me. It’s this slightly giddy, almost rebellious feeling of “Hey, I get to hang out and talk to my friends like nothing has ever happened despite being forced to spend school vacations 3000miles away from them every 6 months.” Well, it’d [...]

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Online TV Shows by Ustream I’m embedding this streaming video so you can have a looksee at what’s happening at the Skype booth later today at CommunicAsia 2010. Write up to follow after! =)

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Some time ago, I did something that could be construed as truly stupid or truly brave. Or perhaps, bravery usually requires some level of stupidity. Either way, after about 5 months of saying I’d sign up to ride the Singapore Mountain Bike Carnival 12 hour marathon solo, I actually bit the bullet and did it. [...]

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What happens when you take a couch potato wordsmith and dump her in the world of marathons? You get this book, that’s what happens. As much as I love reading books about training and autobiographies about runners and cyclists, half the time, those books take themselves way too seriously for my liking. Dawn Dais’ book [...]

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Don’t wear clothes you like while working on a bike. If possible, its probably better not to wear a top at all but considering that I’m a chick and my neighbor’s estate agent is pottering around inside his house, it might not go down very well with the rest of the world. I feel terribly [...]

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Today, I did my first 18km run. And no shit, when training books tell you nutrition is important, they weren’t kidding. So here’s the fun facts pared down to absolute simplicity. Your body’s primary fuel while exercising is glycogen and it can use up its glycogen stores in 60 to 90 minutes of hard exercise. [...]

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