Blog Profile / Rambling Librarian
| URL : | http://ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Education / Library & Research | |
| Posts on Regator: | 342 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.3 | |
| Archived Since: | March 4, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Feedback on the Khatib Bongsu Park Connector
Over the weekend, a few of my friends were discussing about Singapore's National Cycling Plan over email. One of our members offered to collate our ideas and suggestions, to relay to the right government agency folks.I love our Park Connectors. Show More Summary
Part 1 - Tripping on Two Wheel: Pengarang to Desaru, and Back Again: Cycling Adventure 29 - 30 Mar 2013
Total time on the bicycle: 10 hours, thereabouts.Total distance covered: about 112km over 2 days (51km each way).Total energy burned: pretty sure it's 1,800 calories at least (extrapolating from my own 40 km rides in Singapore).Total...Show More Summary
Post-workshop notes: Creating Digital Music 101: GarageBand
[Sat, 10 Nov 2012]Nine people turned up (there was a cap of 12; heard it rained heavily so maybe some opted to stay home?)Nine was a nice number. I sensed the average age was around late 20s to early thirties. Heh, it's nice to knowShow More Summary
Soon-to-be-released: My 2012 Creative Commons project: post-rock themed digital music album
My band mates, with a guest collaborator, started working on a few tracks around Jan this year. Through the usual (for us) way of passing ideas and MP3 files over email.In July, when it sunk in that 2012 would be the 10th global birthday...Show More Summary
What would be the 50 objects that represent Singapore to you?
Back in September, a friend pointed me to this NYT article about a project in New York City, asking historians and museum curators to name 50 objects that could "embody the narrative of New York".Top of the New York list was a Mastodon tusk. Show More Summary
Book review: "Praying to the goddess of mercy: A memoir of mood swings"
There is power in knowing a name.When it comes to an illness, knowing what it is called allows for some measure of rationality. We can start making sense of it and adopt ways to deal with it.Praying to the goddess of mercy: A memoirShow More Summary
Remixing Romeo & Juliet
Came across this graphic-novel adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play.Romeo & Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels), by Matt Wiegle.ISBN: 9781411498747I’ve never read Romeo & Juliet because it was not one of my literature text in school. Show More Summary
Have you ever had the office go silent on you?
It happened to me a few weeks ago.I was in meeting at an open area within the office floor. At first there was ambient noise with other colleagues in their cubicles speaking, typing. My meeting got heated. A few colleagues, including...Show More Summary
Crowd-funding to buy a Creative Commons license for an ebook: Unglue.it
You might be thinking what a "brain-ful" of concept behind this statement: "Crowd-funding to buy a Creative Commons license for an ebook".Let me break it down for you: Crowd-funding: "Funding a project by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people" (source: OxfordDictionaries.com) Purchase, i.e. Show More Summary
Mental preparedness: Towards Bicycling Zen
Note: I'm an amateur sharing my own perspectives on leisure cycling. I'm learning as I go (you know what they say about the 'blind leading the blind'). Feel free to join in the conversation.As mentioned in the previous post, my preparation...Show More Summary
My journey towards bicycling zen (or, "How I overcame my fear of riding on the roads")
I've been hitting the roads and Park Connectors on a foldable bike the past four Sundays, thanks to the cycling friends at ZenDogs 2.0.My initiation ride was 57km. Prior to that, I had stopped cycling for about two years. After thatShow More Summary
Dear Tern Bicycles: I love your Link P9 but...
Just posted to the Tern Bicycles forum:[thread starts here]Link P9 chain falls constantlySame problem here. Got my P9 about 4 weeks ago. Rode it slow first week and never went on gear 9. Then second, third and fourth week, I rode with my friends on the roads and park connectors. Show More Summary
P. Krishnan: His literary Journey
Now that I'm with the National Library (office is at the NL building, Victoria Street), I get to see all the exhibitions that have been put up for the public. I also thought I should 'archive' them or at least have a simple pictorial record that they once existed. Show More Summary
Remembering ECP McDonald’s
This served as a draft for this blog post I wrote for work, i.e. for the Singapore Memory Project:"Remembering a place like a fast food outlet is overdoing the whole nostalgia thing, isn’t it?"No it isn't, IMO.Not all places are equal in terms of hertiage value. Show More Summary
iremember my childhood: Being caned by my father
For the Singapore Memory Project. I guess it's really for myself:(Original Twitter sequence has been edited slightly)"@ramblinglib: As a kid, being canned by pa almost every day. For slightest thing. Didn't know why but resolved not to show emotions #sgMemory”“@ramblinglib: The caning was so bad I had obvious welt marks. Show More Summary
Blast from the Past: My presentation on "Web 2.0 & library services to young adults: An introduction"
Yikes. This is a really late post. Back in June 2011, I gave a presentation at the 5th National Library for Children & Young Adults Symposium, 2011, South Korea. The symposium was held at Duksan Resom Resort, South Korea.OK, so thisShow More Summary
Behind the scenes: Towards the launch of the Singapore Memory Project's flagship portal, SingaporeMemory.sg
[Views expressed here are strictly my own. I am straddling between writing in my personal capacity, as well as my official role as the head for Digital Engagement for the project. Just so you know :)]By tomorrow, all the intense efforts...Show More Summary
Dealing with negative comments in social media
Ever since joining the Singapore Memory Project full-time in Nov 2011, I've been taking a closer look at social media strategies. Being a social media practitioner, as I had for the past seven years, does not necessarily make me a good "social media strategist". Show More Summary
Remixes, Attribution, Creative Alchemies: The Long Tail in Acts of Kindness (part 2)
Continued from Part 1:THE 'WHY' QUESTIONI get a kick out of the creative process. I've come to realise that's the basis of why I create. Of having seemingly created something out of nothing; moulding ideas into something that can be seen/ heard/ experienced. Show More Summary
Singapore Memory Project: Focus group session with Memory Corp volunteers
My Digital Engagement team mates and I conducted a series of focus group sessions today. For the upcoming Singapore Memory website. Here's one with volunteers from the Memory Corp: Tuck Chong, James, and Philip. We'll be posting more behind-the-scenes updates regularly. Show More Summary