Category Archives for lighting and culture
The last few stages
Perth, 11th August 2014 Back to work after a long weekend break in Phuket, courtesy of Singapore’s national day celebrations. I had a long day in Jakarta last week to review the progress of the installation works on a hotel … Continue reading
Communication 2
Jakarta, 6th August 2014 Now here is another piece of communication that comes totally out of left corner. Before I left Singapore this morning where I still had a submission deadline to complete, I was also confronted with a piece … Continue reading
Communication
Singapore, 5th August 2014 It is not a secret that in our line of work, communication is key. There are many ways to communicate and there is a very obvious difference between the written and spoken words. We have several … Continue reading
No budget, no glory
Singapore, 31st July 2014 July has come and gone…Is it me or is time just zooming past? How do you deal with clients who have no budget or better still have money (we know the mother company has plenty of … Continue reading
Buddha
Singapore, 30th July 2014 Today was in the sign of Buddha. We had a kick off meeting for a new project in Nanjing ,close to the location that is known as the centre of Buddhism in China. As history goes … Continue reading
LED: 2500K is the new 2700K
Singapore, 24th July 2014 Something that has been bugging our team for a long time is the notion that incandescent light colour has to be 2700K. While manufacturers have been improving day by day in getting us good colour consistency … Continue reading
The Qatar interview
Singapore, 23rd July 2014 Today I want my actual words and real images to do the “talking”. I have received the video of my impromptu interview taken during Lighting Tech Qatar recently. So instead of me writing, here is me talking … Continue reading
LED wars brewing
Singapore, 22nd July 2014 Over the last year or so we have seen the emergence of low costs LED manufacturers and I don’t mean the cheap copy, backyard made bad quality stuff (often referred to as Chinese made) but the … Continue reading
Typhoon Rammasun
Hainan, 18th July 2014 Heavy rain, gutsy winds, but that seems to be the extent of what we are getting from typhoon Rammasun here on site. The typhoon has already reached Haiko, so no wonder all flights and public transport … Continue reading
Can I have a room please?
Shenzhen- Hainan, 16-17th July 2014 It was one of those days that had an unpredictable outcome which in the end did me leave any reasonable time to write my blog. I flew in via Hong Kong yesterday and had an … Continue reading
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