Category Archives for city beautification
Earth Hour 2012
Singapore, week-end edition 31st March 2012 Earth Hour has really caught on and like last year I happened to be in Singapore to experience the event. Celebrated on the last Saturday in March, more than 150 countries are now participating … Continue reading
Valuable
Singapore, Wednesday 28th March 2012 Flying overnight is less and less my thing, even if it is business class. I used to fly overnight all the time as to not loose valuable time, but right now what is valuable is … Continue reading
Qatar Architectural Lighting Summit
Doha, Monday 26th March 2012 Today was the Qatar Architectural Lighting Summit, the main reason for my being here. As one of the invited guest speakers I got to share my experience and expertise with an eager group of participants … Continue reading
Qatar 2012
Doha, Sunday 25th March 2012 While in Rome do like the Romans…my travelling brought me to Doha, capital of Qatar and in the Middle East, Friday and Saturday are generally week-ends with the work week starting on Sunday, so I … Continue reading
Mabuhay
Manila 14th March 2012 After quite a number of years I am back again in the Philippines. It’s been quite a while, but on the back of the WorldBex 2012 exhibition and conference, for which I have been invited as … Continue reading
Pushing the boundaries
Perth 8th March 2012 If there is one event I would like to experience as a lighting designer it would have to be a concert spectacular by Jean Michel Jarre, the French composer famous for his multimedia and laser extravaganza’s, … Continue reading
Are we loosing our way?
Singapore 27th February 2012 A few days ago I had a very interesting discussion with an up and coming young lighting designer. She told me that all her projects were based around the LED technology and that she had yet … Continue reading
The Ambassador
Bangkok 23rd February 2012 We always have these memorable encounters we remember long afterwards, encounters of the 3rd kind I call them…Today in between meetings we made a cold call on a potential client that happened to be in the … Continue reading
Happy New Year!
Perth 9th January 2012 Happy New Year everyone… I know some of you have been eagerly waiting for me to restart the blog in this exciting new year. I was really enjoying my time of blogging as quite frankly it … Continue reading
Xmas light ups
Singapore 25th November 2011 With Xmas nearly upon us, just a few more weeks to go, most cities around the world have lit up their main shopping belts with Xmas lights. Singapore lit up a week ago I believe and … Continue reading

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