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Hi there!

I’m Alvin and my friends know me as an unrepentant geek whom they can turn to for solutions.

I love hacking (don’t mix that up with the illegal stuff), putting things together that aren’t meant to be used by default in a certain way to solve problems.

Some of my previous endeavors include setting up a Linksys SPA-3102 VOIP gateway at home to make cheap outgoing mobile calls via 3G on the go at landline rates, turning an old Sony Ericsson k750i cellphone into an SMS-sending GSM modem (via AT commands), web scraping of wunderground.com using rubyful soup (Hpricot does this easily now), installing GentooX (a linux distribution) on the XBox to run as a bit torrent server.

Lately, I’ve been messing about with objective-C iPhone development and I’ve just finished working on an app of mine (hopefully Apple approves it for the appstore!).

I’m also competent with Ruby on Rails, PHP, Linux, SQL and I have an eye for design, designing vector art with Adobe Illustrator – Probably just enough to launch a startup! :D

So drop me an email!

Education

Amazing Commercial

My hair literally stood on its end, towards the end. :p

Evolution of Dance

Thrilling to see some of my favs here :)

Singapore Chao Mugger Style

Format: Open book hand-written coding competition. Answer 1 or more of 4 questions” = EXAM with $$$.

Update: Jen suggested a caption change and added: “what kind of coding competition is handwritten?! exam! it’s a glorified exam!” LOL

Singapore Prime Minister showcases Qik on our National Day Rally

Now, how cool is that? :)

Ma Dad’s Shark’s Fin Soup!

Singapore Judge Quotes Ecclesiastes

Photos from Alvin Lai

It’s not so amazing that a Christian judge quotes the Bible! :)

The Qik Singapore Group

Ok all ye Singaporean Qikkers! Here’s the Singapore Qik Group! Join us!

Singapore Qik Group

Singaporean Homecooked Hokkien Mee

Here’s how to cook home cooked Hokkien mee! Singaporean style!