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make a list of Singapore brands (read all 2 entries…)
Creative Technology

This is the brand that many Singaporeans very often have referred to as the star brand of Singapore. But for some reason, I have often come acrossed foreigners misunderstood that Creative Technology is a Japanese or American brand. (Sigh..Anway, Singapore has been misunderstood for so many things )

Creative Technology is founded by Sim Wong Hoo, born in 1955, who is also the CEO and Chairman of Creative Technology, a pioneer of computer sound systems, a designer and manufacturer of products for personal computers and personal digital entertainment devices.

He graduated from the poly (In the older days, if you go to a polytechnic, is considered as good as going to an university, though it’s right after GCE “O” level-secondary school). In 1 July 1981, Sim Wong Hoo with his school friend Ng Kai Wa set up shop in Pearl Centre(chinatown) in Singapore. He got his start running Creative as a computer repair shop. While doing this, he developed an add-on memory board for the Apple II computer that they sold as well.

Later, Creative started creating customized PCs adapted for the Chinese language which included enhanced audio capabilities so that the device could produce speech and melodies. The success of this audio interface led to the development of a stand-alone sound card named Sound Blaster that Creative marketed. Sound Blaster was very successful and has been used as a standard of comparison for sound cards. Creative has sold over 100 million units of Sound Blaster since then.

Creative’s global corporate headquarters is located in Singapore, in the heart of the Asia-Pacific region. Besides having regional headquarters in the US, Europe and Singapore, they also have two manufacturing facilities in Malaysia and China.

Creative currently employs more than 5,000 people worldwide.

At age of 45, Sim Wong Hoo became the YOUNGEST billionaire in Singapore (2000). He was also the first person to be named the Businessman of the Year twice, in 1992 and 1997. In 2002, he was named Person of the Year by the Singapore Computer Society in recognition of his contribution to the IT industry. Sim is widely considered to be the star entrepreneur of Singapore and he currently chairs Singapore’s Technopreneurship 21 Private Sector Committee.

In 1999, Sim Wong Hoo released a book entitled “Chaotic Thoughts From The Old Millennium”.

Click on to each of the MP3 and you will get this
or this or even this and few other types to suit your different lifestyle!

This is a technology report I found written by an American co on Ipod and creative technology situation in Singapore.

Anyway, Singaporeans in general, still have this habit and preference for things made in “overseas” rather than home grown brand lol

If you scroll down, you will see some comments in there. They were talking about the differences of creative and ipod, but this American (1Dude1) in there came up with untrue story about our laws and Judicial system. Sigh, don’t understand why he wasn’t sticking to the “topic” of the report, and yet talking about other nonsense. His story is obviously a very ignorance perception about us.

It’s really not fair to us, having to put up for so many years, and we still getting people misunderstood us. I really don’t understand why people like to come up with stories and without any proof. The author already said from the beginning that the news they heard in the U.S. are tabloids not fact.

And very often, when we challenge their stories, they always claim to have their sis or bro lived here before, which of course always is a lie, otherwise they would have known what THE REAL SITUATION is like in Singapore. It’s no wonder people tend to generalize some Americans, sigh.

Thank goodness, there is a good American in there (cpo99), who has been to Singapore and gave a more accurate review about Singapore. He wrote, “I am an American and I love my country, but we need to recognize that there are other parts of the world that are also great places to live.” WELL SAID AND WISE THOUGHT.

If there is a country that is doing well and doing a good job for their people, sure, I will be happy for them, and not getting jealous of the country.

I am just glad that there are NO tabloid stories or paparazzi in Singapore (it’s not allowed here), otherwise we would become a nation of ignorance, rather than trusting the fact.

Attached a pic of my fav mp3 player, as it is so small..smaller than my palm :)

Oct 20, 2006, 10:35AM PDT | 27 cheers


Comments:

Jo

aiyoh

these people are dumb la. :-)

well i’ve lived in SG for many years and u can rest assured that I too attest it to being a wonderful place to live in. Not perfect but which country is?

My friend puts it the best cos another person was listing all the problems in my friend’s country (which is mine too so i now happily use this line).

“Yes, my country has problems. You mean yours doesn’t?”

Oct 20, 2006, 10:44PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

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Hee

That reminded me of the funny quote derives from that movie “6 sense”, “I see “dumb” people, they are everywhere and they don’t even realise” lol..Wow, imagine if that link techno report have cheering system like 43 places, ha, I won’t be surprised to see ignorant ppl getting cheers from ignorant ppl lol (Just like those ignorant ppl whom I have challenged before, and we could still see them getting cheers from the same kind of ppl, ha )

The thing is, there are just so many of these people in this world who never been outside their own countries, and so they only think theirs is the best and it seems very hard for them to accept that there are other countries who are great if not better than them. And if any bad things happening in their country, they auto assume that it happens in other places too, it’s a self comforting way to think their country is still the best ;) This kind of enoccentric thinking usually happens to countries who seldom have news or programs on others..and I noticed there’re in fact so many countries are like that too.

Thank goodness in Singapore, we grew up watching shows or programs about other countries and cultures, otherwise we will be so caught up with the same ignorant thinking and judge our country by OUR OWN STANDARD, and not international standard ;) ..It’s funny over here, it’s usually the foreigners(living here) who remind us that we have a great country and we should feel lucky to live in here! ;)

Sure, I agree, no country is perfect, but some countries happened to have better living condition than the others ;)

Ha, come to think of it, I remember one of those world delegates who came to Singapore recently for the IMF world meeting, thought Singapore feels like a “disney land for adults”, too perfect to be true lol

BTW, I just came back from that euro film fest in that new huge shopping centre called Vivo city..Have you been there yet? Oh man, that place is like a city within a city, I haven’t seen such huge mall in my life yet..You should go check it up, could easily spend a day in there lol..And this shopping centre is never close because the flap ship cinema in there it’s 24 hrs!

One of my fav stores in this shopping centre is called “fashion city”..they’ve super CHEAP and NICE quality of clothes in there(prices almost like HDB range :)), I suspect it’s Malaysia brand co.! You won’t believe when you see the price!..Oh man, the clothes selling here are getting cheaper and cheaper to buy!

Oct 21, 2006, 09:16AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 9 cheers

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Oct 21, 2006, 10:56AM PDT

Kiki's waiting at the gate what's on the other side? Hope springs eternal...and so it goes...

Oh let's go shopping

I hear that the shopping in Hong Kong is pretty unbelievable too …for electronics and fashion…I do well to make to the grocery store…but a change in the weather always makes me want to buy new clothes. It’s starting to get a wee bit cold…maybe I need a new shearling coat.afterall a girl needs to keep instyle! right? Hope you are having a great weekend.

Oct 21, 2006, 10:56AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 3 cheers

~**~mmm ~**~

Thanks!

I enjoyed myself today, and it’s already 2am now lol..Hope you have a great weekend too!!

Over here ppl shop all the time because there is no season :P

Yes the shopping in Hong Kong is great, for electronic and fashion, just like Singapore;)...Haha, ppl who don’t know asia well, didn’t know these 2 countries have been competing with each other for the slice of asia pie in the past 2 decades. ;P

Honestly speaking, Singapore has better range and choices of Electronics, and HK has better bargain and cheaper clothes than Singapore, probably because they have manufacturing plants in China(cheap labour)though now we are getting close to their price range, it’s all about price war lol

P.S. We should go shopping together! If you ever come to Singapore, I will show you the places to hunt for the best deal! ;)

Oct 21, 2006, 11:12AM PDT | Respond to this 10 cheers

russellviii Vacation time is coming soon

Everyone tends to think like that

until they get a chance to travel abroad.

Because America is such a large country it’s very common to find people who have never traveled abroad. (I am something of an exception, having visited about two dozen other countries so far, with hopes of visiting many more.)

When people who have never left the US talk about traveling, I have met a few people who say something like, “Why would anyone ever want to visit a foreign country? We have everything in this country.”

I don’t fault them for saying that. When you haven’t had the opportunity, sometimes you just don’t know what it is that you don’t know. (I hope that makes some sort of sense. :-/ )

And I’m not trying to pick on just my fellow Americans here. Believe me, this is not isolated to inhabitants of just one country.

Oct 21, 2006, 04:39PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

~**~mmm ~**~

You rock!

Thank you for being so honest!! That’s what and why I like you, because you are very different from the americans that I have met. You are perceptive, smart, refreshing, well travelled and not self centred.

Believe me, almost everyone I met during my 6 yrs of living there in the U.S, say or think the same thing, “Why would anyone ever want to visit a foreign country? We have everything in this country.” I am sure I WASN’T the only foreigner who experience that from the Americans. I have observed that in general, most Americans think that the world is centred around them. Of course, this kind of thinking happen to most countries, but it seems to me it happens more so in America.

It is NOT a good sign esp when the world is changing fast and IF the country wants to progress!

You are so right when you said
“Everyone tends to think like that
until they get a chance to travel abroad”..and the truth is, not everyone in America get the chance to travel abroad, and esp when there are still so many of them never even to other parts of the states, sigh.

I remember that even when I brought my cellphone to the U.S. the last time, an american came up to me and ask if I got that from Japan, duh :( Seems that everyone in America still stuck in the 60s,70s, thinking that only Japan has the technology, sad. Now you understand why I would “generalise” some Americans that way, because they HAVE portrayed to me that way. I don’t want to but there are just so many of them like that.

And it’s not about picking on them, but it’s hard cold reality that is happening in America.(It’s almost like a epidemic or something)

It’s the same happening on this site, I have met so many of them like that here. Some are really patriotic to the extreme, already seen a dozen of them on this site. Instead of opening up their minds to learn things from us, and understand on a different perspective, they can ARGUE WITH ME (when they never even been to asia/singapore)and in turn accused me of being “crazy” or “patriotic” and think that I was dreaming or talking nonsense when I BROUGHT THINGS UP THAT WERE WRONGLY portrayed about Singapore. haha.(Of course, these are usually the ones never been outside their countries or seldom travel. And spend all their time on the internet(instead of coming here), looking for evidence on the internet to prove I was wrong, instead of admitting they’re ignorant lol).

And of course I would defend on ANY countries that are wrongly being accused(THE ONES THAT I HAVE BEEN TO AND FAMILIAR), but somehow Singapore seems to get ppl misunderstood ALL THE TIME, and thats why I spend more time on defending her. lol..Not sure if people have misunderstood that Singapore is a country who like to keep profile as a small and stupid country, ha!

Some might have seen that I got this from an american lady earlier, who has only been to an eastern european(no wonder) she is the one accused me of being bigot, ha, having been only to eastern europe, she is probably thinking the rest of the world is like them except for america. HA! And she even came up with an entry about me generalising about the “WEST”, Duh, I wasn’t even generalising about the “west”, I was pinpointing the things I observed about “america”. And of course as close minded as she is, she tried to gather all her “self centred” friends from this site by coming up with a really stupid goal on my observation as “generalisation”, Ha! And then next I saw was the ignorant ones cheering the ignorant ones! lol

if she doesnt want to accept and acknowledge the truth, its really her lost.

You see, if those words that you brought up how “Americans don’t bother to travel because they have everything here” were to come out from me FIRST, I would be accused by this same group of ppl AGAIN, but if it’s coming out from an american, that is a different story ;) I don’t like to say this but this is what is happening now in America society and what I have been observing.

In all, I maybe direct, but I do TALK SENSE and LOGIC and based on TRUE FACT, and of course on things that I HAVE PERSONALLY EXPERIENCE and OBSERVEDFOR A LONG TIME, unlike some ppl here who talk nonsense without any fact, ha, that usually come from ppl who have only visit a country once and think they know everything already ;)

P.S. Anyway, I believe most ppl on this site are wise enough to observe and judge for themselves on who is correct in what they say, and not likely to gang up on ignorant talks, unlike that particular group.

Oct 21, 2006, 07:02PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 7 cheers

Christopher

Ouch!

I wish there were more of us willing to engage and open dialogues and share and learn about other places through this site, but ignorance and confusing one’s home for the whole world is not endemic to the US. Here in Canada we often feel like the whole world is coming to our doorstep, so the only trips worth making abroad are to Cancun and five-star resorts in the Dominican Republic. I don’t know what observations others on this site could make, but I think to varying degrees, people in all places are apt to think there is nothing to learn from the world outside their borders (however big or small they may be).

Kudos for encouraging us all to look farther.

Oct 21, 2006, 10:30PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

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