CHS Council Investiture 2003 from Daniel Tsou on Vimeo.

My good friend Hua Xia found this video that I had a chance to work on 5 years ago! It’s quite interesting to check out what you were like in the past, and how they eventually became seeds for who you are today. That video you see was my first attempt at playing with animations and trying out video techniques. Today all these have led to me pushing the boundaries of Keynote presentations and well, doing tonnes of videos.

P.S: I was friends with Jerrick by then, and you can tell how he’s managed to influence me to use the Star Trek Enterprise theme (which he loved back then) in this video

Note that numbers are based on number of conversations, not the exact number of emails.

Break down of my Inbox

I have 3 Tech65 email accounts and 1 SMU email account coming into my Gmail inbox. I’ve set up quite a number of filters and auto-labels in my gmail for me to quickly identify the source of the emails and which organisations. This graph shows a break down of all the emails I see in my Gmail inbox according to what they were for.

Legend:

• Tech65 related = All Tech65 emails including press releases, internal discussions and viewer/listener questions.
• Arrow related = Emails regarding serving (Interesting fact: Church staff don’t work on Saturdays and Mondays)
• SMU Filtered = SMU emails that are important to me (SIS specific emails, emails from Profs, project group mates and emails directed specifically to me).
• Others = Includes daily devotional, newsletters and social networking feeds, as well as caregroup emails and discussions and those who are not caught by filters

Lesson: I think I should start looking at the non-filtered emails (i.e. newsletters and twitter, facebook emails etc), since there are days where they take up the majority.

Break Down of my email accounts

All my email accounts come into 1 single inbox. This graph shows which email accounts take up the most emails. Note that in this graph, the SMU emails are totally not filtered. If you compare this graph with the previous one, you’ll realise that quite a portion of the emails sent to me skip the inbox. The next graph will show which are the emails that are getting filtered.

SMU Emails breakdown

This is a break down of all the SMU emails that come to my account. In case you’re wondering, only the red section gets to my inbox. The blue section consists of mostly CCA promotions. Note that these emails still get to my account, they just don’t appear in my inbox. So they do collect, and every few days I still go in there, take a quick glance to make sure I don’t miss important emails, and “Mark as read”.

Take away? My filter is working If you want to know what kind of filter I use, you’ll have to find me in person. I don’t want the CCAs to find away around my filter.

Summary

So there you have it. A summary of my email. Yes, I get tons of email and I do think I need to filter some more, such as all the social network emails that are good to know, but shouldn’t be in my inbox, as well as the newsletters I’ve been getting. I’m quite surprised the amount I get frankly.

Interesting fact: Emails I received in the time I made this graph (1 hour): 4

Okay, back to work!

I came across this video on Gizmodo where Steve Jobs was talking to his employees shortly after he returned, and it really spoke to me. The phrase that really inspired me was this:

“Apple at the core, its core value, is that we believe that people with passion can change the world for the better.”

That’s one of the things I hope Tech65.org will one day show people, that if you are passionate enough about something, you can change the world for the better.

So discover what you’re passionate about, because Love does indeed make the world go round. If you can harness your love for something, you can move the world, and I believe that we are all planted with unique giftings and desires so that we can play a part in making the world a better place in every unique way.

Shalom.

This was a video our team submitted for the WOMWorld Nokia E72 Challenge. What can US$199 do for your city? The song was “New Beginning” from the latest album by Starfish Stories, a CC band.

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I got this as a prize for an LTB class activity that my team won. I’ve never actually seen it before. Wonder what happened to the kinder surprise.

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I’m at the HP Future Is event. The bloggers are now attempting to build a gadget of the future! *this is a test post*

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One thing I’ve always wanted to do was to be able to share cool sightings of technology in Singapore with people. Twitpic really helped but then the photos would not be in one single location and attached only to a single tweet. Now I’m trying posterous along with the iPhone app!

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My first threadless shirts have arrived! I bought these two shirts during the 24 hour free shipping (international) promotion over at Threadless.com and waited patiently for close to three months before they arrived. I actually got a little (just a little) concerned when Jun Kit got his less than a week after he ordered his, but trusted God that they’ll arrive safely in any case.

I bought the Geek shirt and the AV shirt (they’re actually both geeky shirts, I know) cos I’m proud to be a geek!

This is my social graph, generated using Nexus on Facebook. I decided to try it out after reading Kevin’s post about how relationships on the internet tend to be clustered more by geography than shared interests, but I realised it was different for me. Mine tend to be clustered by my different “lives” or associations. I guess that’s probably due to the fact that unlike Kevin, most of my friends are in Singapore.

What does your social graph look like?

Be sure to check out Gear65 this Thursday!