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Looking back at the year 2008 in photographs

Excerpt from the Boston globe: 2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up the thousands of stories in just a handful of photographs. That said, I will try to do what I've done with other photo narratives here, and tell a story of 2008 in photographs. It's not the story...
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How USB thumbdrives are made

Thumbdrives don't grow on trees, neither can you find them with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Find out how this minute everyday object is made by going through a tour of the Kingston memory thumbdrive production line. Interesting watch.
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Fedex has been fed, textbooks are here

It's a little more than a month before the Michaelmas term begins in October. Time do passes very fast and before you know it, it's time for studies again. I just feel that I am really running out of time for the things to do before flying abroad. My calendar is packed to the brim and there is just...
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A engineering interview to remember (Cambridge university engineering)

Since my unconditional undergrad offer to study engineering in Cambridge, I've never really found the time to write about my experience of the selection process and the interview I went through to be shortlisted. But heck it was really competitive, going against the top dogs in the best JCs in Singapore, not to mention scholars from around the region...
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Dover Park Hospice Sunday Walk 2009

Here is a charity related event event, they are kind enough to send me their press release, so I will post it down here for them, as a means of helping those who will benefit from the event itself. For the first time, Dover Park Hospice is organizing a Walk to raise much-needed funds to improve their facilities, develop new...
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Onboard the Singapore flyer with an experience article on the article page!

I always wanted to get this article written since late last year, but didn't get much to publish it as a work in constant progress until now. It goes to show how busy I was to even get this simple writeup timely done. Finally it is written. This article talks mainly about the experiences following my visit to the...
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Scheduled system maintenance

The site will be down about 10 minutes at around 3pm SGT today for a system RAM change and reboot sorry for any downtime during that period. Update: 3.17pm The maintenance was a success, resuming normal site operations.
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Cambridgeshire bus commute video

Traveling is quite a a big part of life in the UK, it's also a way of life. Simple short trips can easily go for hours on end. Time where you can just prep your day with some coffee, a good book, your music player or a fully charged laptop and embark on your journey on the bus for...
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Site gallery images bug, can you see them?

There had been some minor inconsistent errors which always seems to come and go on the gallery. So far the site has been successfully tested on primary browsers, firefox 2+, internet explorer 7+, safari 3+ and google chrome. But I noticed however, that the images in the gallery occasionally turn out broken, particularly when SEO short URLS are enabled....
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Old Amercia, Canada and Mexico holiday photographs digitized!

I've always wanted to digitize my old holiday photos, but knowing that they are buried in storage under years of dust made it quite a turn off to do so, till now. I recently got this spanking new Canon all in one printer which allows for network scanning and printing over wireless-fidelity, so technically any PC can scan, copy...
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Team fortress 2 Motivational signs- Steamroll and teamstacking sprays

Motivational signs are always well... motivational- stuff you usually see lining cubicle walls or classrooms. On the other end of the spectrum, particularly if you use them in another unintended way, come the kind of signs we call de-motivational signs. Coupled with a sense of humor these signs can get rather hilarious, especially when you try to get about...
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Remembering Michael Jackson: The Greatest of All Time

Today saw a sad moment and the lost of one of the greatest pop stars in history. Jackson collapsed at a rented home in Holmby Hills in Los Angeles from an cardiac arrest, attempts at resuscitating him by his personal physician and at the UCLA Medical Center was unsuccessful. Though speculation was already turning to what killed the 50-year-old "King...
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Site officially upgraded, now time for the eye candies!

Well the site had been fully upgraded with all the basic necessities up. The tough part is of course converting all the current articles and tutorials into wordpress itself. What's more the site is xhtml validated now, so that will put some standardization into the site itself. Strangely, xhtml seems to be like a milestone or sort, just like...
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A new post on a new revised site design!

Heads up for the new clean design I've been working on over the past months. The site is running on WP 2.8 and I will be upgrading the photo gallery soon as well. Part of the update which took so much time was to update the various textual content around the site such as the about and new portfolio...
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There is not much of time left, or it is?

Well it really had been sometime since I've posted an entry here. Haha to the extent of some of my regular readers contacting me about my absence. Haha yes of course I am still around, my apologies. So what had been keeping me busy? well much, it's only 4 months before my school term starts in October. And there...
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Are you really open-minded?

This is a very interesting video on open/closed mindedness. So if you always go around telling people they are closed minded or telling people to be more open minded, you should watch this.
Interesting Stuffs

Team Fortress 2: Meet the spy

As part of the series of "Meet the cast" in the uber cool game, Team Fortress, which sadly had saw me playing for a good ol' 10 years since 1999 with team fortress classic and now it's sequel, team fortress 2. This latest installment is an early leaked version not released by VALVe yet, but it's still cool as...
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Guide for applying to UK universities via UCAS for polytechnic students – Part 2 (Employment, personal statement and reference)

This is the second part of my guide for applying to UK universities via UCAS for polytechnic students in Singapore, covering the remaining sections, employment, personal statement and reference. 4. Employment If you've have any working experience, say part-time at a fast food joint or being your own boss, list them here, if you do not have any, you can leave...
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Guide for applying to UK universities via UCAS for polytechnic students – Part 1 (Personal details, choices and education)

After my successful application as an international student from Singapore via UCAS (guess many found their way here from a dated blog post), I've been receiving quite a number of questions about the application process, particular for non-mainstream poly students like myself. I have written a small guide condensed from the replies I've given out, going section by section...
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Site revamp progress, right on track

Well, progress on the site revamp is rather fruitful. It started with a rather tough fight to get div containers to go fluid on percent values for a 3 column layout, fixed width divs are more predictable over a range of browsers, so I am still contemplating whether to allow the fluid width option for content. Nevertheless I am...
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