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Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Killed

CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said. It appeared that he was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest, Queensland Police Inspector Russell Rhodes said. He was swimming off the Low Isles...
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Google Adsense? more like Senseless Cheats

I recieved an unexpected email from google recently stating the termination of my google-adsense account. After displaying my ads for about half a year, I've made a total of $300USD since then, no idea how such ads can generate so much cash by just putting them up on the site. They sent me a letter to comfirm a pin...
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Even Laptops hidden in Cars not safe in Malaysia

Story: Malaysian laptop thieves using mystery gadget to pick which cars to break into. Presumably exploiting RFID scanners to detect those RFID tags/stickers normally placed onto the bottom of laptops containing serial/model numbers &/or li-ion batteries for computer assembly & manufacturer identification purposes. For ya people intending to head up north with ya lappies. The best is to carry it with...
Polytechnic

Semester 3 Exams, Lock & Loaded, Rock & FIRE!

*chomps on apple muffin while typing this post* Man! Am I on the ball now, InterStella HyperDrive, Schedule On Track with NO Eminent possible Serailment, Beam me up Scotty, 3 Papers To Go! :mrgreen: My first paper will be on tomorrow, starting with Engineering Maths II. Been looking forward to it as it would mark the end of another...
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Opps there comes gravity, back to reality…

Caught up with revision over the weekend. Guess its wake up, study study, eat, bath, study study from now on.. Recieved a call from Shuppedo regarding the 01S22 SAJC class of 2001 gathering the coming Friday, haiz might not be able to make it due to papers on that day & the week after. When I told matters could...
Polytechnic

Modules cleared, New SP website

Woot the poolside gym will be closed today, as they are installing a a new multi-rack weight station. Out goes the 2 decade old Universal station in place of a newer spanky one. So as told by the gym Auntie yesterday. Wonder what will it be... & that would be a good reason to visit the gym tomorrow (3rd...
Polytechnic

DBday… Its here soon…

Last Saturday - Happy Birthday Darius! (No CAKE!?) held at the Caribbean condo at harbour front. Its literally a water city, yea cool with swimming pools, fountains here & there, but otherwise not my taste of housing (No CAKE!?) with a giant longkang running through the whole area, like Venice? haha maybe not... I just find Singapore sea water...
Polytechnic

Shifting into gear, Week recapo-nation

With the Semester Exams sighted on Horizon, been very very busy with tests, projects & reports over the last few days. Not to mention catching up on tutorials & eventually *qualify myself* to dig up the blackboard for sample papers to do in practice for the semester exams due in 2 weeks time. This term is extremely short, with...
Polytechnic

Pace Warming Up

All things looks set, the pace is definitely warming up now with 6 weeks left to the semester exams, it should be all study study study very soon. Recieved my Pro-E Wildfire test results on Friday, got a spiffy 100 marks for it. For that, our teacher awarded the top 3 in class with a HP mouse pad each &...
Polytechnic

Plastic-fied

This was a very fun & interesting visit, but haven't really got the chance to share it on the blog - The visit to the CLS plastics workshop in SP last month. Had some really fun & interesting encounters of a "gluey kind" there, despite the rather ever-looming smell of liquid hydrocarbons & machines humming all around... Plastic Injection...
Polytechnic

Grades Dropping

I guess with this new found time & comparitively slower pace of life now, just let me recap the very hectic holiday week at the comfront the school's cafe. Indeed the last few weeks was the mid semester holidays. Tests coming out at the end of the holidays, not to mention elearning assignments. I guess the legend semester 2...
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Happy Birthday Sheena!

Celebrations was at ChinaTown Point Swensens last night (Saturday), also in conjunction with Father's day around the corner I guess. Initially we wanted to celebrate at Bugis Swensens but I guess arriving at 7pm will definitely have a long queue there, not to mention orchard or PS as well, furthermore the one at Liang Court closed quite sometime ago....
Polytechnic

E-DinkerLearning E Learning

Typing this post as I am waiting for the blackbloard to submit my assessment result, again! As stinky as it is, Singapore Polytechnic's E-learning E-stinking week is merely a typical "monkey see monkey do" thing. Its not practical as our campus infrastructure (physically & digitally) was never designed with the e-mode in mind. In fact it's more of a...
Interesting Stuffs

Super-soak, wait… flamer!

Wahhaa face your greatest burning fears, what next to cooler than a paintball gun of a rubber band gattling gun? A super-soaker flamer! Make Your Own Flamethrower With WD40 and a Supersoaker Coming to you on your next chalet BBQ!
Polytechnic

Shoing Week

Wow, this week is really busy dude, its school with 3 exams papers, 2 projects & 2 presentations to give, just to mention a few. Really really really packed.. duh! Guess I wouldn't be attending track training this week. Need air to breathe. Tuesday - CADCAM Test, Submission of Product Design Model Project Wednesday - Online Entrepeurship Presentation Thursday...
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I was late, & yea Big Walk 2006

Today's track training ended at 8:45pm, very much a dismay to mum & dad who came at 7:45 at school with Sheena to fetch me to dinner. Intially my parents intended to go to the nearby hawker center opposite Ginza Plaze for dinner, a place I can only vaguely remember from my childhood kindergarden days at Clementi Woods. Anyway,...
Polytechnic

Overnight at East Coast

Woke up at around 1pm today, skipping my usual sunday morning cardio swim. Considering being only back at home 7.30am today after an overnight stay east coast park. Very much conked out after reaching home then. 🙂 Yesterday was our track & field freshman BBQ, held at east coast. Met up with the gang at Bedok MRT where we made...
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Blood Donation Drive @ SP

🙁 Its another long 8am - 6pm day today at school today. Started with my dragging my feet into the lecture hall for a full morning of lectures, what else can I do but even think of donating blood at the end of the day? Held at the SP staff center, it was my 2nd time donating blood. The...
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Dinner at Ban Seng

Was a Plaza Singapura to close a deal with a client on a school social networking site, headed to the Simlim area thereafter for lunch with my colleague Andy before dropping by Simlim square to shop for a speed ball & bluetooth module for my laptop. Andy wanted a CRT monitor for his friend who got a new computer...
Polytechnic

Knowing the class better

It more than one week in class, & finally with updated news, our Mechanics Lecturer is actually our class tutor! Mr Goh Kim Seng is a contemporary stylish lecturer, who is well, not very much well-known in the looks department. But he sure is a good teacher and behaves really professionally as an educator, very unlike the standard stereotypical...
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