About
Hi, my name is Hoo Shao Pin, aka Shooperman.
I am a web consultant and run Spiragram, my own web development shop in Singapore. At times, I’d dabble in some web design and development work for clients. But at 39 and some 15 years of doing client work, I’d really rather not nowadays.
For the last 10-12 months, I’ve been spending my time learning and catching with the world around me. This was a journey which took me through most of Paulo Coelho’s works, contrarian investing, Social Media, global warming, Facebook, the Secret, Seth Godin’s Meatball Sundae, Law of Attraction and countless movies and RSS feeds.
After 12 months of research and introspection. I’ve boiled it down to 5 things that I want in my life.
- A loving, committed, engaging and growing relationship.
- Being financially-independent and enjoying the good things in life.
- Blogging successfully.
- Managing an exponentially-growing financial portfolio.
- Creating valuable Web 2.0 applications that is in service to millions of people.
About This Blog
This blog is created for two purposes.
First, I’ve designated it as the place for me to write from my heart. And from there, to launch all kinds of initiatives that I’m truly passionate about.
Second, my intention is for this blog to evolve into what will give me my third goal – blogging successfully.
So, I’ve determined the destination and I’ve identified the vehicle to take me there.
The only thing left to define is how I’d get there. And this is where the subtitle of the blog comes in – “Snapshots of Life Going Downstream”. ‘Downstream’ means to go with the flow, like when you’re whitewater-rafting, when you let go of the oars, your canoe will simply turn and go in the direction of the water.
Going downstream shouldn’t be confused with taking the easy way out or waiting by the sidelines for things to come to you – it’s more to do with one’s state of mind where it means to do the thing that will uplift your emotions, whatever that might be. So, if I’m grouchy, going downstream will be to do something that’ll take me to ‘mildly-inconvenienced’.
In any case, the blog is written for you as much as it is for me. From my heart, I hope you’d get something out of reading it.
Yours truly,
Shooperman