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Screwed Up Ngee Ann Scholarship Interview

It's the Teochew building anyway. At the interview panel, I was posed with a first question in Chinese which I understood, but had a hard time answering considering that I am not too proficient in the language. Whats more they are like speaking with a strong ascent which I could not fully comprehend. So I asked myself from the...
Thoughts

Paraskevidekatriaphobia Friday the 13th

Do you get paraskavedekatriaphobia? Apparently, the fear of Friday the 13th is called just that.
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Post 2007 Poly 50

And here we are the Poly 50 for 2007 had ended. The race is rather spaced out this year, despite having alos about 90 teams taking part. The interesting thing this year is the donation run part where few volunteers ran 50 laps single handedly with donations going in for every round completed. The main highlight of the race...
Polytechnic

Ngee Ann Scholarship Interview Invitation

Received my Ngee Ann Kongsi Scholarship interview invitation letter today. Whee! step one done, now to go through the interview. I wonder what questions will they ask? "why do you think you deserve this scholarship?" wahhh! hard!
Interesting Stuffs

The 2007 new 7 wonders of the world

Here is it, the verdict from 100 million internet and phone voters on the world's new 7 wonders, organized and compiled by a private Swiss foundation. Great wall of China Taj Mahal in India Christ The Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro Petra in Jordan The Colosseum in Rome Chichen Itza Mayan City Machu Picchu Incan Ruins Out from the list The not so Grand Canyon in Nevada Dessert The...
Site Updates

New Site Width Update

Site Updates The site will be under going on the fly upgrades, namely to the right side navigation bar with a new improved and wider width. The shoutbox is much wider and easier to type in now, the polls are removed and in place are spanking new ads from the good guys at www.nuffnang.com.sg to further monetize the site. The site...
Family

070707 Green Live Day, Earth Day, Life Earth & Hokkaido Food Fair!

Today is green day, earth day or life earth day as you may call it. Whatever it is the least you can do is just remember to be green and wear green these two days (07-08 July). Remember, it's environmental awareness we are talking about here so put that car or gas guzzling SUV in the park and take...
Site Updates

2007 Site Hosting Upgrades

Been around with my host lately to discuss upgrades to the my current hosting plans of shaunchng.com. Having doubled both my webspace and bandwidth to accommodate for future site expansions. Though my site doesn't really take up much space (about 380MB in pages and images in total), bandwidth was a particular concern especially with the increasing traffic to the...
Site Updates

SEO fun, Search Engine Rankings

Yes, I know this is not how search engines goes, but for some SEO fun, had some time to play with with them recently & here are some findings of my own using my name as a test search option & the ranking of the site. Well, just for fun. Keyword (worldwide): Shaun Chng 1st search result on Yahoo Google The keyplayers are Yahoo...
News

Farewell Captain America, for now

Well, yer all Marvel Fans, especially Captain America Fans here are some news to expect in the coming issue of Marvel Comics. Yes, folks, Captain America is dead and buried in the latest issue of Marvel Comics' "Fallen Son," due on newsstands 5th July 2007. After 66 years of battling villains from Adolf Hitler to the Red Skull, the...
Blog

Ahoy July and 070707

Its the weekend! The last day of the month and the the last day before the GST hike. Besides seeing the shopping areas like a dead town tomorrow there's still more ummmm shopping to do today, well for the rest of my family that is... For me I will be training with my Poly 50 team today in school...
Thoughts

Using return addresses to get your mail through free

This came to be from just a random neuron connection Ever wondered what happens when you post a letter in the mail box with your address on the front (To: address) and the address you actually want to send the letter to on the reverse (From: address) return address area? If you just want the letter to reach it intended...
Interesting Stuffs

Fevers, SGH, Pokes back and school reopens, and some news too!

You may not have not seen me up around here lately besides poking out the occasional shoutbox, the main reason this week is the official Mid-Semester Test week, which remarkably makes various places like Food court 6 a ghost town even during peak lunch beak times, very much a welcome for us people from Engineering who pop close by...
Current Issues

Lets talka bout the NETS, GST hike and Mosquitoes!

Ok, all of us had indefinitely, in any other way know about the 2% increase in the GST to 7% and the spade of mad rushes over the last great Singapore Sale to beat it. We can all see this coming, especially in the typical kiasu Singaporean perspective - it's like as if they cannot shop anymore when the...
Polytechnic

My 2 Weeks Vacation, scholarship, awards and stuffs

My 2 weeks vacation had started this week and I am already into a good 3 days into it. Having planned all my activities and schedules it's a great time to catch up on unfinished chores and finally find some time to get some of my planned ideas to work, also besides getting up with designing my Track &...
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Ngee Ann Kongsi Scholarship submission

Had been sometime since I've been to Ngee Ann Kong Si and man has that place changed - it's not the the old stone lined open air atrium which I recalled many years ago when I was a kid. Instead it's a new posh air conditioned lobby with automatic door but still largely themed to the old Chinese architecture,...
Polytechnic

Term Vacation Here! Late Gyming Out

Past I of my MST Tests are over and the holidays are on next week. Part II of MSTs will begin when school reopens after the 2 week vacation. Heres what I generally feel of the first half: Communication Skills for Entrepreneurs - No grade yet, but not bad, even teacher only requested for my slides for keeping after my...
Polytechnic

Houston, we have Mid-Semester Tests

On a note, next week will be last week before the 2 week vacation break- Hell week more like it, with the following tests to go: Start of Mid Semester Test week Monday CSE Presentation Industrial Automation Test Tuesday Statistics Test Wednesday Mechanics Test Vacation time will be another time to catch up on work and chores lying round the house then it will be Hell Week part...
Interesting Stuffs

Steve jobs and Bill Gates at All Things Digital

It's not everyday where you see Steve jobs and Bill Gates together at a go. A special brought to you by at All Things Digital. Now that must be a really pricey broadcasting setup and stage, with both Steve and Bill combined their annual pay is easily like 700 times how much our Mentor Lee is earns in a...
Polytechnic

It’s Vesak Day, let rock climb!

It's Vesak day today, informally "Buddha's Birthday". Well wishes going to all Buddhists celebrating Vesak day alike. The day started with me crawling to to Aljunied MRT at 9am on a snoozy public holiday to meet Darius and Elrick for the Adventure race team briefing at Enamel house. Over there we were briefed on the conduct and expectations of...
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