Author Archives: blogjunkie

Congratulations Yvonne

You’re all grown up now

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Can you drastically change how WordPress looks in 10 minutes? The Headway theme can!

I’m a user and big fan of the Headway Premium WordPress theme. This blog is made with Headway. I’ve been wanting to do a review of it and so I challenged myself to customise the default Headway style into a business website – all in 10 minutes. Check the video out and let me know [...]

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Hide status updates from Facebook apps, not your friends

I find it irritating when I log in and see status updates from apps that my friends are using. If you feel the same, here’s how you can hide these updates without blocking your friends.

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Digital Edge 26

Yours truly was a panelist on The Digital Edge Podcast (Episode 26). We talked iPads (I’m bullish), PM Najib Razak’s social media strategy (decide if you want to be in or out) & Maxis’ 1Store mobile app store (what a half-assed effort).

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Book Review: Career Renegade by Jonathan Fields

Before you say anything, yes I know I wasn’t looking directly into the camera. I was looking at the preview, which was just to the left of the lens and didn’t think it would be so obvious. Besides that, I would love any more feedback you may have about the review.
Book Info
Author: Jonathan Fields – [...]

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Should the USA ‘protect’ the internet?

2010 kicked off with a very interesting high-stakes drama unfolding between Google and China. The situation has now blown up and got the US government involved. Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a speech on Internet Freedom which basically outlined a new foreign policy for USA and extended it to the internet.
In a nutshell, the [...]

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His name is Zachary

And he’s due in less than 2 months. *Excited*
Check out the whole set on Flickr.

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Message to Luke Skywalker

Love this! These are images from the Stormtrooper 365 project. The 2 above are from the Message to Luke Skywalker miniseries.

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Why I don’t want to be Chris Brogan

If you’re in the social media business you’d definitely want to be like Chris Brogan. He’s like the father of social media marketing. He wrote a book on it. His blog has got more readers than I’ll ever have. In short, he’s a rockstar.
Lots of people would love to trade places with Chris, but not me. [...]

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Stuff I won in 2009

I’ve been pretty blessed in 2009 because I won quite a boatload of stuff. I don’t consider myself very lucky, but check out the haul I got this year:
1. Free photo shoot from Raw Pixel Studios from Twestival lucky draw. We used this for a recent maternity shoot, photos will be up soon.
2. DiGi Pimp [...]

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Did you *really* expect a Christmas card from David?

If you know me well at all, you’ll know that I’m pretty scatter-brained and constantly forgetting important details. Well, I blew it again and didn’t manage to send any Christmas cards out this year. Therefore, here’s my lame greeting to all my friends and family. (I’ll try to do better next year).
Merry Christmas everyone! Normal [...]

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2009: Year In Review

I figured I should really start doing yearly summaries since I blog irregularly. Hence, I present to you David Wang’s year in review, 2009 edition.
Career
I started off 2009 as the Web Analytics and Social Media Manager for AGENDA. We had moved to our new office in Solaris Mont Kiara and my commute had grown longer. [...]

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FreelanceShow holiday giveaway

I stumbled upon FreelanceShow recently, which has quickly become my new favorite freelancing resource. In addition to great podcasts, they are now running a contest with over $4,800 in prizes from awesome sponsors like CampaignMonitor, 37Signals, FreshBooks, and CulturedCode! How did he get these fantastic sponsors??
To participate, you need to tell Neil (the editor of [...]

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Itchy-faced kid does cover of I’m Yours

Found this on Twitter, linked from Jason Mraz’s blog. Cute little kid

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Zeldman on self promotion

Zeldman on self promotion:
If you believe in what you do, and if you’re doing it for real, you must find ways to let people know about it.
Bookmarking this great quote

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PicApps gives bloggers access to licensed photographs for free

Check out this awesome pic of Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick. Usually bloggers wouldn’t be able to use such high quality images beause of licensing issues, but new service PicApp changes that. PicApp has worked out licensing with premium image providers like Corbis, Getty Images, etc to give bloggers access to these images for free. [...]

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WordPress 2 for iPhone now available

WordPress 2 for iPhone is now available at the App Store. I’m blogging from it right now. Yes, you can upload pics from your phone. Learn more »

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PayPal now works with Malaysian banks

Here’s a great how-to from the webShaper boys: How to link PayPal to Malaysia Bank Account

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The Marriage Course: Building Strong Foundations

This is the first in a series of posts about The Marriage Course–a course that is aimed at helping married couples strengthen their relationship.
Pei Chyi and I recently started attending The Marriage Course on the recommendation of my parents. Despite feeling a little weird about it in the beginning, I decided that I would do [...]

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SMCkl #1 – Class is in session

I contributed a blog post to the SMCkl blog – Class is in session

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