| Baby | Youth | School | Scouts | NSF | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | Sun | 1988 | 1989 | Tris | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |
| 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | NS | 1996 | Wedding | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | Renos | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
Scanning in progress, albums should be up to date by December 2008.
Singapore
in 1964, named after
St. Bernardine of Siena
, enjoyed a brief childhood without school,
Star Of The Sea Kindergarden (Jan 69 to Dec 70)
St. Ignatius Church
for Sunday School (Jan 70 to Dec 82)
Yamaha Music School
(Jan to Dec 70)
St. Michael's School (SMS)
(Jan 71 to Dec 76)
Victor Doggett Music Studios
(Jan 71 to Dec 79)
Pelandok Scout Group (2104 Stamford)
in SJI (Jan 72 to Jun 85)
St. Joseph's Institution (SJI)
(Jan 77 to Dec 80)
Alumni Listing
(
OBA
)
Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus
for French (Jan 77 to Dec 78)
Alliance Francaise
for French (Jan to Dec 79)
Catholic Junior College (CJC)
(Jan 81 to Dec 82)
(Alumni Association)
School Of Basic Military Training
(Jan 83 to Mar 83)
Officer Cadet School
(Apr 83 to Jul 83)
School Of Artillery
(Aug 83 to Jun 85)
University Of California, Berkeley
(Aug 85 to May 89)
Sun University
and
Sun Education
(Jan 88 to Aug 06)
Armour Training Centre
(Nov 95 to present)
I served my 2.5 years National Service in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) from December 1982 to June 1985. I was in the U.S. for 10 years and returned to Singapore in March 1995. I came back, requested a reserve unit immediately, and was designated Forward Observation Officer of Foxtrot Company, 400A Tank Regiment. I served in this capacity for 11 years and was decommissioned with the rest of my regiment in March 2006.
THIS WEB PAGE IS FULL OF BROKEN LINKS BECAUSE IT WAS RIPPED FROM http://bernardng.com JUST TO LIST THE MANAGERS I REPORTED TO AT SUN MICROSYSTEMS.
I went to the U.S. to get a
Computer Science degree at Cal
in the Fall of 1985 and got involved in the Engineering Co-op program.
My advisor on my work in Manufacturing-related Databases was
Prof. Larry Rowe
.
That's how I started in
Sun
on Jan. 6th, 1988 as employee # 4215, a
CIM Software Engineer
in the
CIM
department (re-orged more than 20 times to SMCC IR GSM)
by 1994 (and probably another 20 times since).
I worked in the Shop Floor System (SFS),
CIM Technology,
Keep the Business Running (KBR),
Automated Test System (ATS) and
NextGen Manufacturing Systems groups.
I relocated back to Singapore and was a
Regional Systems Consultant
with the Asia Escalation Centre from June 1995 to March 1997.
For 1 year until April 1998, I was the
Tools/Technology Architect
in
Technology, Architecture & IR Infrastructure
group.
.
My primary responsibility was our
Software Development Environment
, especially tools for building Java-enabled, enterprise applications.
A secondary activity was providing SunService IR APLA and other SunService
groups with architectural and technology consulting.
And of course, I worked on any projects related to Technology, Architecture or
Infrastructure that my boss deemed necessary.
TAO was reorganized to Global Program Office (GPO) and again to Architecture
and Technology Office (ATO) under different VPs, directors and managers.
Around 2002, as a result of regular reorganization and RIFs (reductions in
force) many IT Architects were pooled into a single organization known as STAR
(Strategy & Architecture). I was a Technical Architect (as opposed to a
Business Architect) in the Application & Security Architecture team within
STAR. Most of the time, my boss reported directly to the CIO. Our department
gradually morphed into SARG (Strategy, Architecture & Governance) when the IT
Governance organization was merged.
Just before I left in the August 2006 RIF, it was announced that we were
merging with ITSM (service management) but I doubt they would've called it
ORGASM (organization for Governance, Architecture, Strategy & Management) as
I suggested.
Here is a chronological list of all the managers I've reported to in Sun:
Anyway, the work at Sun was very interesting due to continual high learning
curve in not just technology areas. I picked up a thing or two about finance,
people, processes and methodologies in the last 5 years there.
The battle-crys at Sun IT over the years ranged from "Keep the Business
Running" (KBR) to "One Sun running Sun ONE supported by ONE IT" and "Let's
outsource ourselves" (Project Jupiter).
A few days after receiving my bronze parachute, I made the decision not to
rejoin the ranks of the Fortune 500 and incorporated
Java Troopers Pte Ltd.
This decision was more about fulfillment than finance. In the 2nd decade of
my time at Sun, I had invented many mechanisms, of which only 10% saw the
light of day. I am determined to try building at least another 20% of them
in the course of serving my clients requirements. Most of my ideas are
rather generic but I will now get to see if the ROIs make them worthy of
systems or products.
* - denotes repetitions
I married Julie Phua Kim Li on November 16th, 1996. She wanted me to say that she's a heart-stoppingly georgous babe, but I admire her intelligence and character most, which is why I named my wonderful Ultra 2 after her. We were blessed with our daughters, Hannah on April 26th, 2000 and Leah on February 3rd, 2003, and our son Noah on August 20th 2005. We are hoping to be blessed with 1 more after if him someday.
I have 2 godsons, Gregory Wee who lives in Davis with his parents, Chris and Poh Foong, and Benjamin Chee who lives in Singapore with his parents Gerard and Joy . And we have 2 goddaughters, Jamie Yeo belongs to Chris and Susan, and Marie Lim belongs to Mark and Monica. Julie is also godmother to 4 boys, Zachary, Jordan, Aaron and Elijah Khoo , in Singapore belonging to Tony and Angie.
Maybe we'll put our family tree on the web one day, but for now, here are a few
pics of the
Ng Clan
.
Ballroom Dancing*
DJ-ing*
Kayak Surfing*
Kayaking
Mountain Biking
Mountaineering*
Movies (primarily
DVDs
since we don't go to the movies very often)
Music (Listening only, thankfully for everyone I don't play the clarinet or
piano anymore) (Catalog of 800+ CDs coming online in 2007)
Photography
Programming
Scuba Diving*
Skiing
Soccer
Sports on TV, mainly
Manchester United
,
49ers
and the
Football
.
Tae Kwon Do*
Triathlons*
Wargames*
* mark hobbies in hibernation (not done for more than a year)
According to Myers Briggs, I am an
ENTJ
.
Here are some of my
favourite quotable quotes
Take a look at my
Software Engineering Pet Peeves
.
Motley Fool article on Happiness
that workaholics should read!
Arnold Schwarzenneger
is my favorite action hero.
Robin Williams
is my favorite comedian.
If you are foolhardy enough to listen to me, here are some
lessons I've learned in life
(some are actually from others' mistakes
) and some from
other sources
.
We drive a
Toyota Picnic MPV
and are really happy with it. If you are considering one, here are the
gas log
and
consumption log
(computed using
this awk script
). You might find the
Singapore Gas Price Guide
useful.
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