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Coasting to a stop

Just came back from a visit to granny's. Went to abc market for supper thereafter, had chicken cutlet while the rest of my family had a more muslim type meal with satay & mee siam. The more I drive, the more some habits start to show, such a "dishwashing the wheel", not keeping left & coasting on neutral...
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New site design comin’ up

Just came back from my WITS leader course at Toh Payoh, HDB hub, its a 9am-5pm workshop held today & tomorrow teaching mainly on skills & knowledge about being a wits team leader. Very much looked forward too are the 2 tea breaks at 11am & 3pm, not to mention the 1 hour lunch break from 12pm-1pm...
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Short week ahead

wee ho hay! its time of the umm year? again where I just can't stop bitchin' bout holidays ahead. Yup you got that right its gonna be a short week ahead of me with work days monday, tueday & wednesday. Thursday & friday aren't exactly free days but stay out days, as I have a wits leader...
Automotive

First drive out

Its sunday morning! family day & what better than driving my family out for the morning. With my dad as my "navigator" (well I am sitting on his usual throne!) mum & sis as passengers behind. Fetched my sis for her tution class in good old jurong west & went to visit my grannys at nearby clementi...
Gadgets

New handheld Dell Axim x50v

Dell had released their new series of Axims, the x50 range. I 've always been looking for a good vga PDA, with the $1199 hp ipaq hx4700 currently in mind, but with the similarly loaded $800 Axim x50v I think its reconsidering time... Some reviews I dug on the net regarding the x50v: Axim Site Geek.com BargainPDA PDA...
Gaming

Completed frozen throne

Well, guess this is not the very of latest news. But hey I finally managed to complete Warcraft III Frozen Throne today, well after (counts fingers) 7 months or so. Guess my time in the army really takes away lots of your gaming time at home. Now lemme see, now I have C&C generals zero hour, Commanche...
Computers

Gmail

Got an invitation for a gmail account. With 1GB of storage space, how can I resist? haha. The week ended quite ok with me as DI on the last day (fri) started the week with a much needed slow start with wos duty, allowing me to recover from my fever last sunday. I've got an ATTB status for...
Art

Tutorial: Drawing and computer coloured art – Part I line art and planning

I enjoy sketching and drawing as a form of expression, not to mention a way to relax as well. It's a hobby I enjoy doing since I was a kid and never stopped since. This tutorial will cover some of the basic techniques I use in creating various hand-drawn artworks you see around the site. Article table of...
Computers

DIY your own home theater personal computer – Installing drives and booting up

Article table of contents First impressions, Installing RAM & the addon cards About the heatsink. installing the CPU Installing CD-ROM & Harddrive. Wrapping & booting up Installing CD media drives and harddrive Whether you intend to use your HTPC as a universal player for DVD or Blue-ray movies, you can always purchase a Blu-ray writer or combo drive for use in the...
Computers

DIY your own home theater personal computer – Installing the CPU

Article table of contents First impressions, Installing RAM & the addon cards About the heatsink. installing the CPU Installing CD-ROM & Harddrive. Wrapping & booting up Installing the CPU, some interesting parts A small confined case requires some careful space management for components, also considering that regular parts do not fit well in such a small case. One of the most interesting...
Computers

Tutorial – Build your own DIY home theater personal computer

A home theater PC is very much alike a regular home PC, only that it is used mainly more for media and visual needs. Also given the increasing adoption of alternative medias such as digital content sold over the internet, as well as soft-copy video, music files over conventional mediums such as DVDs or CDs. A home...
Blog

2nd doctor visit

Followed up friday's visit to the doctor's... well this time to satisfy my mum's worries (aka curiosity) about my fluctuating fever. Personally I saw no need for it- I am feeling better than I was the last few days. Then she painted a picture, together with my dad about viral infections, dengue & more. So what can...
Automotive

Beautiful sunday

Didn't go out today, as I wanted more rest at home. 😉 Since I've passed my driving test, I think hey why not compile a small set of tips & hints for anyone out there taking the traffic police driving test. Hope that may prove useful. Reality check: Payday is on & pay is in, but my marksman bonus is...
Computers

Clean new system

& there I am back typing my blog from my own computer again. Formatted, installed win XP on my system. Now everything's so fresh clean & fast, just finished installing all the needed drivers & applications. Now whats left are GAMES GAMES & GAMES, would be running 3D mark to benchmark my new hardware, would be posting updates...
Articles

20 Traffic Police Driving Test Tips and Hints

Golden rules for learner drivers taking the traffic police test. Taking a driving test can be an unnerving experience, here are 20 tips I share from my own experience as a learner driver myself. These tips are updated for the 2017 season. 1Understand your test vehicle. Try to make the warmups before the test, its crucial if you are using...
Computers

250GB of dunkin’ space

Managed to slipstream my winXP OEM together with MS service pack 2 in the morning. Now I have a complete new bootable winXP CD-Rom I can install in my computer anytime I reformat with all the latest updates inside... & the best thing is, its all completely legal! Read more on creating one here. One of the...
Automotive

Fahrenheit 381

I am now typing this post on my family computer, as my personal one is under maintenance, will get back to it later. On a recap for the day: The day began quite slowly, but otherwise quite painful as I didn't really get a good sleep the previous night. Furthermore its the day of my traffic police test....
Blog

Am I ready for driving?

Came down with a slight fever 😕 this evening, its just a light one I think, it it was not that bad. Just a very warm feeling & a sore throat, very typical-lish fever feel. I think I should get out once in a while today, instead of staying in the whole day in front of the...
Computers

Living by the ad/spy/shitware…

Its amazing how great spyware can turn the best of computers down to nothing but a heap of pop-ups, intrusions, browser hijacks & not to mention lots of headaches with unexplained hangs, unresponsiveness, even on the NTFS & win XP platform! Personally I don't think my hardware is that old. But what this really taught me again...
Army

Start of October

Booking out on friday would be a first & too, a very much welcomed thing for the company. Considering the implementation of the 5 day work work week by our prime minister. Its october & the transistion from sept to oct is very much a welcome, the specialists in the wing would be all one year bikers...
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