User Experience - Travel Guide

Why you need a travel guide in the first place ? You probably wanna know where to go, where to shop, and where to eat, don’t you ? In addition, you probably want to know as well about when would be the best time to visit those interesting places and what is the best way [...]

User Experience - Supermarket

There are two supermarkets around my place and I visit there around twice a week. So, let’s see my grocery list (basically essential items for everyday’s living) … yogurt, juice, fruit, canned food / soup, ice-cream, meat, eggs, vegetables, bathroom tissues, beer, newspaper, magazines etc. etc.
So as a typical supermarket wanderer, I spend around 20, [...]

Boracay - Small business

Say you wanna retire in a small island with nothing except blue sky, white cloud, coconut trees and a perfect beach; what shall you do ? For me, I would like to run a small business, just selling fruit shakes and snacks … like Jonah’s.

Boracay - Long Island

Boracay is a small island somewhere in Philippines, and somehow it is called “Long Island” as well. Since it is a small island, everywhere is crowded with tourists from Korea, Japan etc. And since it is a “long” island, the best place to have some quiet time is in the two ends of the “long” [...]

Boracay - Have a good rest

I reckon we spend far too much time in a concrete jungle … so why not have a few days’ break in a real jungle ? It would be perfect if there is a beach as well. Blue sky, white cloud, perfect beach … have a good rest.

User Experience - Octopus Card

Octopus card is one wildly popular “contactless” card being used in the city. What it does is rather simple, certain “value of money” is stored in the card such that you can go to subway, take a bus, or even buy something from convenient store … without cash.
It’s so popular that over 8 millions cards [...]

London - London Eye

I always think London Eye is one of the most under-rated tourist spots in London, at least among most Asian tourists … probably because they don’t have the time and patience to queue up …
But the view from the top is _really_ stunning …

#58

April 1st is a very special day. Since several hundred years ago, Europeans started to send jokes and hoaxes to their neighbor and friends today. 30 years ago, Apple set up their company to sell a thing called “computer”. Three years ago today, we were in a SARS chaos and one superstar left us. And [...]