Category Archives for lighting standards
The (short) week that was…February 16-18
Singapore, Chinese New Year long weekend 19-22nd February 2015 Monday 16; Singapore – The Chinese New Year’s rush It is a short work week this week with many companies already shutting down for Chinese New Year and from those companies … Continue reading
The week that was…9-13th February 2015
Singapore, weekend 14th February 2015 Monday 9; Jakarta- Familiar territory After more than 7 years (!) on this project the finish line is in view…finally. Have the problems changed or been resolved, no, not really. We keep issuing the … Continue reading
The week that was…February 2-6
Singapore, weekend 7th February 2015 Monday 2; Singapore: Moon lighting Most of the times we assume that everybody in the project team understands what we are talking about. Everyone in the team, consultants, client reps, contractors are supposed to be … Continue reading
The week that was…26-30th January
Monday 26; Perth: Australia Day As much as I have difficulty connecting with Singapore’s National Day (which is really for Singaporeans in celebration of their “home anniversary”), I do connect with Australia Day as it has been “my home” for … Continue reading
The week that was: 19-23 January
Singapore, weekend 24th January 2015 Monday 19; Singapore: Traffic jam I am slowly getting back in the groove; for some reason it really took me a while to get over my jetlag. This Monday was a busy day with many … Continue reading
The week that was…12-16 January 2015
Singapore, weekend 17tth January 2015 A new year and a new look for 2015.I had been a bit reluctant to restart my blogging now for a 6th season as I was also getting used again to not having to blog … Continue reading
Lighting photography
Perth, 11th December 2014 With one more blog to go tomorrow before I call it a day (year), I received back a series of stunning photographs from our Fremantle project taken by professional photographer Ron Tan. He does fantastic work, … Continue reading
Alarm bells…
Perth, 9th December 2014 You can really sense that the year is coming to a close, some of my clients, business relations and project colleagues are already partially switched off probably planning their year-end holidays, others are rushing to finish … Continue reading
Before and after
Jakarta, 4th December 2014 You learn the most from seeing the end result from all your efforts. Seeing is believing as they say and therefore going to site to see the fruits of your (years of) labour is extremely instructive. … Continue reading
Can you believe it!
Jakarta, 3rd December 2014 Commissioning projects is an experience by itself. I am in Jakarta today and tomorrow to start the commissioning stage of a hotel that has taken more than 8 years (!) to finish and still we are … Continue reading

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