Photo Credit: OSI Shipping If you have ever been anywhere near a port, a distribution centre or a logistics hub, you would have probably caught a glimpse or two of these ubiquitous, rectangular-shaped metal containers in their gamut of colours. These shipping containers, made of weathering steel, are also called intermodal containers. They form the … Continue reading
Image Credit: Blog post by David Young on University of Lincoln Research Blog The emergence of an inter-network of smart things, enabled by a plethora of new advances in info-communication (microprocessors, data storage, software, embedded OS, wired & wireless communication protocols, etc) and other technologies (sensors, MEMs, etc), is sure to prime businesses and industries … Continue reading
The following is an excellent CCTV series on Taijiquan available on YouTube. It covers the leading Taijiquan forms (Chen, Yang, Sun, Wu, etc) and shows leading representative (grandmaster) of each form expounding the intricacies involved in the practice of this ancient form of wushu. Current Taijiquan practitioners will get to explore many of the ideas … Continue reading
This is an infographics that I’ve done up as part of my participation in San Jose State University’s Emerging Future: Technology Issues & Trends MOOC. In the last part of the online course, we are asked to put together a digital presentation, poster, video, infographics or other digital formats based on some kind of “What … Continue reading
Here are 3 technology-driven domains that I’m most excited about and which I’ll be looking out for due to their relatively high probability of crossing the “chasm” into mass adoption and their high/broad impact on humankind: 1. Personalised Medicine – beyond the mapping of the human genome, we are currently in the “-omic era” (genomics, … Continue reading
I have been practising Taichi since the year 2000 and had participated in a few local performances in Singapore; but had not taken part in any major International event until 2009. I started learning and training under Grandmaster Gao Xing Liang (Vice-President with the Qingdao Wushu Association, Chinese Wushu Association 8 Duanwei 中国武术八段 and direct … Continue reading
Image Credit: Duke Center for Personalised and Precision Medicine I chance upon this YouTube video of Professor Michael Snyder’s presentation on “Personalised Medicine – How I Used Genomics to Discover, Track and Stop My Diabetes”. Michael Snyder is the Stanford Ascherman Professor and Chair of Genetics and the Director of the Centre of Genomics and … Continue reading
There are lots of stories regarding the origin of Taichi, but most sources converge around Wudang’s Zhang San Feng (around the period between the Song & Ming dynasties) and both Chen Wang Ting and Wang Zong Yue (during the Qing dynasty). The Wudang branch of the origin was based on records that Taichi was invented … Continue reading
Our Nation Celebrates! An evening where our family celebrates with every other Singaporean the birth of our nation. My wife whipped up a few healthy and delicious dinner dishes, and the whole family gathered in front of the TV to watch the parade. It was great to see MM Lee at the parade and there … Continue reading
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