Six Steps to Your own iPhone App in Singapore

This blog is called nibblezware and yet it has been super long since I last posted anything techie. So sad...

Excerpt from The Sunday Times, April 4 2010

Six Steps to Your Own (iPhone) App
Some "app-stract" knowledge, like 'Objective-C' a software programming language, helps.

But it seems like anyone can be a iPhone developer these days. There are six steps:
1. Apply to be an Apple developer at developer.apple.com/programs/iphone. A fee of US$99 (S$139) a year is levied.

2. Download the free iPhone software kit from developer.apple.com/iphone/index.action

3. Start writing the prgramming code for your software application. In practice, a simple app can be finished in two days.

4. Submit your app with screenshots to Apple for approval. Apple does reject apps. If it happens, fix the problem and resubmit.

5. Once Apple approves the app, it will be posted to App Store as a free or paid app.

6. With more than 150,000 apps in the virtual marketplace, you have to get noticed. Build a buzz by engaging with other developers. Start a blog, produce screenshots and mail out press releases. In Singapore, send to IMerlion (imerlion.com)

Car Sticker 1 - Crayon ShinChan

Holiday Munchie - Picnic at Kranji Reservoir

You may be wondering what the hell is this?

It is the view from our newly bought tent, without the cover. We were bored waiting for the tide to recede to a lovely clam-digging friendly level, so we decided to pitch our tent for fun, since it did not come with instructions. We also learnt that our tent is pretty cheapo versus those pitched by the Malay families around us. Theirs could be lifted up easily and moved after pitching, because theirs come with little holders at the bottom (i.e. theirs could even sit upright on a concrete pavement), while ours have to be driven into the ground.

This is the second time we are at Kranji Reservoir. I am addicted to digging for clams. It is fun, brainless (quite a pun, considering that clams do not have brains), and I get to burn some energy. It's like digging for treasure. And best of all, it's free, unlike the stupid prawning, which you have to pay a lot of money to catch less than five prawns in two hours.

I made a curry bento, using leftover instant Japanese curry cubes. Yes, I admit that my recent reading of this blog, Life of an American Mommy in Japan, has somewhat put me in a Japanese curry frame of mind (I have read up to August 2006, currently), since I kept reading curry dinner (seems to be the author, Gina's #1 Japanese meal) posts in the blog. Not that I want to toot my own horn, but I feel that my octopus hotdogs are the best looking that I have ever done them.

A lot of the people were braver and went down into the sea, when it receded to calf level, to catch flower crabs with their bare hands(!!!). I consider flower crabs to be bad eating, since they don't really have much meat, and I don't like too many colors in my seafood (I also don't like eating Thilapia, and Red Snapper). So anyway we continued waiting until we could see patches of treasure trove land.

We dug out 70+ of clams and mussels each, on top of the 56 clams and 67 mussels we dug out the previous week. Quite a bountiful harvest, except that B1 only likes clams and I only like yanking the mussels as they struggle to get away. I did cook some clams in a miso soup last night after we came back from our Pulau Ubin Cycling trip from Hell but I was too exhausted to take a photo. After we started eating, we later realised that only one of the rare big clams we dug out, which is the giant one in the photo was the real Lala clams. We had no idea what was the species of the rest of the clams except that they were very bad eating, as they had a really nasty muddy taste, despite my soaking them in salt water for >24 hours.

Other Scenes from Kranji Reservoir

Teck Sing - A Must YumYum when you go JB

So haven't been blogging much lately. I have been consumed by 三分度 enthusiasm again and have been much distracted by a furore of activities and programmes that I am only starting to document down today.

Gave my friends my virgin experience.... of traveling by car to JB (trips done when I was shorter than 3 feet are hardly remembered). They took me to Teck Sing for lunch, famous for cheap yet delicious food, such as its pièce de résistance, 纸报鸡 (literally, paper wrapped chicken). It is the one of the most popular yumyums that Singaporeans love to visit when they pop over to our neighbouring shores, or so I am told. I personally find that the restaurant is cute in that it gives free watermelon... before the meal.

We ordered hot plate otah, fried sweet potato leaves, of course the paper wrapped chicken, and hot plate egg tofu . The gravy from the chicken was savory and lovely. I liked the hot plate otah. Unfortunately the rest of the meal was nice but not enough for 7 grown persons. Would have loved to order more, but that is one of my number #1 weaknesses, order too much and get stuffed to the gills. But I think, one dish more would have given a more filling experience.

Nonetheless I will still go there again, if opportunity knocks.






5, Jalan Sutera Satu, Taman Sentosa,
80150 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.