Happy New Year 2012!

2011 has been a significant year for me as I attempted to start a social media platform for Foodflag. I have met a lot of great and interesting friends, and I have learnt some mistakes in the midst of getting it started. Nevertheless, this has helped me shaped the new year today. It helped me [...]

Preparing for the new year 2012

I have been thinking about how I should set my new year resolutions.  Or I should say they are my goals for 2012. Other than my usual full-time job that I have, I have my online hobbies (as you know): They are the Android Phone Tips, Foodflag, Singapore Profile, and a few more others. In [...]

Teaching others is giving myself a wake up call

These few months, I have been occupying myself with my daytime job and dealing with the newbies working on my Facebook Pages. As I was doing that, I was brainstorming what I will want to do with my future websites. Today, I happened to speak to a friend who is starting up with his own [...]

The secret of how the poor saves their money in their own way

Over the past few years, I saw a common pattern of how the poor saves their money in such a way that they can still have money ranges from $100,000 to $300,000 even though their monthly salary is only $2,000 or even lesser, and yet they are not savvy or risk-taking investors at all. Mentality [...]

Our iconic bookstore – Borders – is closing down at Wheelock Place

Initially, when I was listening to the news that Borders has closed down in other countries, the very first thing in my mind is whether our iconic bookstore at Wheelock Place is going to close down too.  It turned out to be true that Borders is closing down its flagship store at Wheelock Place. I [...]

I am now in the process of revamping my blog

Apologize if you are surfing the site while I am revamping my blog. I have just removed all the files in this blog, while retaining the contents that I have blogged since June 2007.  Now, I felt that it is a fresh new start for Charles Lau dot Com again.  I am using Genesis framework [...]

Charles is a change agent.

I simply love the Internet. As I keep striving to be better than yesterday, I have seen a couple of resistance due to the usual unspoken rules.  Nevertheless, I am here to change the situation and to make a better place for everybody.  It is a known fact that social media is here to stay, [...]

Some mobile phone companies are marketing Android the wrong way

I was watching a couple of advertisements done by the mobile phone companies.  I realise that they are marketing their smart phones as though they are feature phones.  This is definitely the wrong way of marketing in my opinion.  I think only BlackBerry and Apple are able to market themselves this way simply because their [...]

Spending my time on the Internet on a Sunday dealing with information overload.

It has been a while since I really sat down to have a look at my Internet stuff.  Ever since I have gotten my Samsung Galaxy Tab, I have spent lesser time on my own laptop already.  It is almost unnecessary for me to use my laptop actually because most of the things can be [...]

Dealing with comment spams on my blog

This recently, I have been alerted of comment spams on my blog.  It has become so serious that I start to check where has gone wrong.  I really don’t know if they are really spams or not. The fact that my number of comments increased by a lot is quite comforting.  But they don’t seem [...]