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Birthday bikers

Bike in the morning they say and yea theres me and my friends at east coast early this morning for some leisure biking. Got my dad to ferry my bike from home using the car's bike rack. It was fun, got to see lots of racing, flying, cuts and bruises, otherwise pure-fun. Its also quite surprising that...
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9/11, 2 years had passed…

It had been 2 years since the sept-11 attacks. Our deepest sympathy and prayers go out to the families and victims of NY, DC, Pentagon, American Airlines Flight 11, UNITED Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77, & UNITED Airlines Flight 93. We will not allow such disasters disrupt our lives in anyway, but instead everybody will...
Computers

Woot!

*reads october issue of PC Gamer* Mmmm neat DVD disc.... Man! & they even have patents for the cardboard cd holder. :O whats the world coming to these days.... :p *hint, hint* The thing for this entry is bout "helpings". Anyway, sorry for the period of inactivity during the past few days (or weeks), I just have lots...
Army

Nights off

Well, thats unit life as they say, lots of "loboing" (nothing to do) my armor course won't start till year end, so prepare to slack slack and slack till then. And Mmm my first nights off did really get to enjoy this short friday night at home, before heading back to camp for the rest of the...
Army

New unit vocational posting

*grumbles* Didn't know sewing my CPL rank sewing on my uniform could be such a pain, so many sets to do.... Anyway, the new vocational postings are out and this time the posting's gonna be permanent- one which will last for my 2 remaining years of national service till I ORD *Yeaaa.. freedom, end of army life*....
Computers

Windows Longhorn “Aero” Gallery

Some shots and dots of the upcoming successor of windows xp, the Windows Longhorn "Aero" design. When the Windows XP "Luna" user interface was revealed in February 2001, the Windows User Experience team took great pleasure when they verified that I had never seen a leaked copy of the UI before the official unveiling. I decided, at that...
Army

28th BSLC graduation

*wakes up after 14 hours of hiberation* And so... the 32km graduation route march is over, so is the passing out parade and the receiving of my CPL rank, all yesterday... It was really a tough day on thursday night, the whole school literally marched 32km from thursday night all into friday's late morning, where we had breakfast...
Blog

Dinner @ Tony Romas

Mmmm, its sunday today, a good time to stay at home to rest, relax and watch some VCDs on the computer. Yesterday, saturday was very much of a busy day for me: Its time again where my mum's old friends from UK, London fly over with their families for a visit, and its pretty much an annual...
Army

Camp stuff & Networking for dummies

A good way to end the 2nd last week in Sispec- take a non stop 12km run, said OC to the company. And yea there we went like brainless fools, like him running madly. So why the sour grape? It was definitely of achievable distance, but the heck? we are only expected to run only 7km as...
Army

Medical Appointment

You may be wondering why am I here now typing this blog on a weekday when I should be at camp sweating it out... *pauses with anticipative grin* ok, so I will shoot, would be dropping down to NUH tomorrow for some medical review on some eye infection, acute conjunctivitis(otherwise known as sore eyes). It had been bugging me...
Interesting Stuffs

Club Imperium

As a usual saturday night on national day, its chill out time as usual, had dinner at home. Did some window shopping around orchard later in the evening, Siemens moblie is having a roadshow of their latest M55 tri-band phone, it really cool, feature wise, it suxs big time, they really have cute salesgirls there, had some...
Army

I wish upon an excavator… & bulldozer!

Last week seems to be a very short week, very much shorter than usual. Whoosh its the weekend again and here I am typing this blog again. As I can remember with this clogged head and aching limbs of mine, heres what I have to share at camp. And yea, so there was the outfield defense exercise for...
Army

BSLC coming to an end, WOoo!

Theres lots to do this week, so I would make this entry short and sweet. And yeeaaa, yup, the 3 day sispec out field camp is over, next week there would be one more outfield "choing sua" before the end of course! and yea company happy hour will be on around end next week. All good things may...
Gadgets

Warcraft 3

Finally managed to find some time to play Warcraft 3: Frozen Trone up to the 6th mission this morning and to update this blog too. So much time spent away from my computer and things start to get fragmented and messed up from everyday family use (and yea, do I have to be the computer admin in...
Blog

Sleepless weekends

This blog entry will cover the last two days, as I am quite busy lately, *sighs* didn't have time to catch any movies this week, but did had a good dinner at MK restaurants' steamboat buffet on Saturday night. Not bad I say, very value for money at about $23 per head. And yea, the sashimi bar...
Family

Orchard shopping

Its catching up time at orchard again so its shop shop shop. Coincidentally, my sister is involved with some 2 day cultural show at the orchard park (opposite borders), so kinda dropped by to say hi, before heading for dinner at Golden Mile steamboat resturant. As usual, the place is always packed with people, so kinda waited...
Gadgets

Siemens SX1

And now a phone to end my search, and too, a potential succesor of my old Siemens SL45i Mp3 phone, the SX1. Expected to be released in Aug this year, its one phone I would drool for, (though expecting a high price for it) being a Siemens fan myself (*gone are nokia phones man!*) This one is as...
Army

Back Back, then movies and back again

And so, I am back from the tekong resort from the 7.30pm fastcraft. Then it was Terminator 3 at Tampanies. The show, though very very similar to the 1991 blockbuster T2, its too, based on the story of machines taking over the world, blah blah blah... (as if we haven't got enough of it, esp with Matrix...
News

C&C Generals Expansion: Zero Hour

Electronic Arts has today announced that its LA studio is currently working on the first expansion pack for Command & Conquer: Generals. Currently known by the working title of Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour, the expansion will add a number of new features, including a generals challenge mode, to the original game. The expansion is currently...
Army

Camp Blues…

As all weekends there is, and this one is coming to an end here.. *damn* so the fun is over and back to work.. expect more "choing sua" this week at camp, oh its monday tomorrow argh! Currently Listening: Rimini Project- Boys Summertime
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