100 Days 100 Songs on Spotify #100DayAdventure (Part 5 of 5)

It is finished! Day 100 of my #100DayAdventure. I can't believe I discovered 100 new and beautiful songs that I have not heard before on this journey. (Click here for Part 1,  Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of the first 80 songs in the #100DayAdventure Spotify playlist.) What stood out is that out of the 100 songs, three...

100 Days 100 Songs on Spotify #100DayAdventure (Part 4 of 5)

80 Days completed, 20 Days to go. (Click here for Part 1,  Part 2, and Part 3 of the first 60 songs in the #100DayAdventure Spotify playlist.) In this fourth list of 20 songs, the second abortion-related song appeared. Through the many years, abortion was never an issue I paid too much attention to. But just in the first...

100 Days 100 Songs on Spotify #100DayAdventure (Part 3 of 5)

When I started this journey, I thought it would be difficult to create a 100 song playlist of worship songs that were unfamiliar to me. It turned out to be much easier than expected with specific songs resonating in this season of my life. (Click here for Part 1 and Part 2 of the first...

100 Days 100 Songs on Spotify #100DayAdventure (Part 2 of 5)

This is the second part, showcasing the next 20 songs I am adding to my #100DayAdventure Spotify playlist. Click here to see the first 20 songs. In this season, someone shared about an upcoming movie "Unplanned" about the truth about abortions. This brings me back many years and reminded me of a case of a...

Grab-bing in Cebu… Expect Cancelations

I have taken Grab in Singapore, Malaysia (Johor, Malacca) and most recently in Cebu, Philippines. Same company but very different experiences. In Singapore, the experience is seamless. In Malaysia, especially in Malacca, the trips can be a lot cheaper than taxis. But in Cebu, apart from the Grab app, you have the drivers to contend...

100 Days 100 Songs on Spotify #100DayAdventure (Part 1 of 5)

I started the year with #100DayAdventure. While there are several parts to it, one part is to create a new playlist on Spotify and YouTube of 100 worship songs that are not quite the usual songs that everyone knows. So discover one NEW song a day. The full list will be completed on April 10,...

I believe Agoda sold this place to us at a loss

In a recent trip to Cebu, I learned a lot about how travel sites worked and discovered how amazing a deal Agoda gave me for a 76 square meter room in a 5-star resort with a water theme park. Together with three other families, we traveled to Cebu. We found an amazing deal at JPark...

Guitar Shopping in Cebu | Alegre #1, New Susings #2, Everybody Else #3

When in Cebu, shop for... Many would say Dried Mango, and they would not be wrong. Not known to many, Cebu is also known for its fine guitar manufacturing heritage. After the Spanish established the first permanent settlement in Cebu in 1565, the Spanish friars trained some locals as luthiers to repair their guitars. Certainly...

Danga Bay | 80% Sold, 30% Occupancy

I recently had an Airbnb weekend at Country Gardens - Royal Strand at Danga Bay in Johor. It was in a beautiful 3 bedroom apartment with a private artificial beach facing Singapore's Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. Country Gardens is so huge a development that it is divided into five separate condominiums - Bay Point, Amberside,...

A Futurist Made a Couple of Interesting Technology Observations in 2008 while in Singapore

This was the man who introduced me to Linkedin back in 2008. He was the keynote speaker at Singtel's I.lluminate that year. He shared about a dinner at a LinkedIn hosted event and everyone at the table had a personalised placemat of their LinkedIn connections. That was my introduction to Linkedin. John Seely Brown went on...