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Its holiday! But only for this week…

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Its holiday! But only for this week…

Despite the sun coming out quite nicely these days, the whether and ambient temperature is still holding out nice and cool in my area. In fact so good I do not even need to sleep with regular air-conditioning on for a few weeks! Morning temperatures are around 25 Degrees Celsius (readings from my desk clock), with rather frequent strong breezes threatening to slam doors around the house. Cool, but just wonder how this weather will hold out? Just hope it’s not a by-product of global warming…

Reuse Reduce Recycle!

Had been catching up on dated chores since my last paper on Tuesday – Engineering Mathematics III was easy with a careless mistake on partial fraction threatening to set my maximum score at 98/100. Personally after going through the post exam paper again with my classmates, we more or less came out with a model answer sheet for all the solutions in the paper allowing us to calculate our expected score for the paper. Seemingly, 98/100 is the lowest I can ever go…

:mrgreen: Talking about chores, had been doing ALOT of packing and cleaning up the last few days, therefore not even having any blogging time in my hands. It’s namely sorting up my past semester lecture notes and organising them into binders for archiving *and forget. The rest will go into the paper recycling bins near my home. I won’t exactly say that I have a recycling obsession, but it’s just a way of life I guess – Little things you can do on your part for the environment like cutting down on plastic bags used at NTUC Fairprice or declining wrappers or carriers for small items in shops. But ironically, that doesn’t quite go for me when it comes to cars and POWER (taking about C02 levels….). I guess as the saying goes – “penny wise, pound foolish”.

And now, the news…

News in the limelight
Some notable news around the past weeks have to be:

Johor’s complains of the flood caused by Singapore reclaimed land works.
– So I guess the melting of the ice caps and depletion of the ozone layer have to be caused by us too I guess… NEXT!

Singapore ups plant to desalinate sea and reservoir water fueling up to 10% of our water capacity and mainly set for industrial use.
– Making the decision to drink our waste water than buying water from the north is like indirectly saying: “we would rather drink our piss than your water” at least that will keep water issues quiet for as long as it can be…

Jail or high fine for Singaporeans who did not stamp their passports at causeway checkpoints.
– I mean who else can be so negligent to stamp an immigration visa card instead of the passport?

First say of ITP starts tomorrow for all SP second year students, wishing everybody all the best!

New Video and Portfolio Section up

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New Video and Portfolio Section up
Form Error Reporting

Site Updates
As part of my planned holiday chores, spent time over the last few days revamping and fixing up parts of the site. The videos page now has the videos streamed from youtube and google video, so no hassles to download them for viewing anymore, freeing up alot of server space for the site as well. Did some miscellaneous cleaning up of the site’s core code for W3C compliance, with the exception of IE7.0 screaming at every single “error” it encounters – code with Firefox breezes through with ease and speed.

The portfolio page is also revamped with a new look and updated sections, noticeably the interactive mouse overs and the quotation request form, which I’ve spent the last 3 whole days altogether coding and testing. Personally I think it looks fabulous with the exception of some more code tweaking in the background to speed up browsing in some areas.

Email contact code
Powering the quotation request page of the portfolio section is an email contact form. It’s very hard to find good free email programs are all very basic, they are either cgi or simple php files with basic functions and userablity. So I decided to write a whole custom contact form scratch and put it up for testing on the pages:

Little basic run down on of the contact code.
One PHP file is used for input, verification and submission. In other words, it basically calls itself back with an identifier when there are any error(s), preserving all the submitted field data and not having to retype the form again. It’s like and instant redirection back to the form if a user misses out and required fields, unlike conventional forms which will “tell the user to go back and fix the problem”. I personally find this user-friendly aspect lacking in most free code which depends on browser back button and cache to retrieve back field information which does not always work. A success submit will yield a success message and the done option to close the form altogether.

Form Success Message
Success Message
Email Sent
Sent Email Format

Moreover, the form even lists down the errors in a numbered list with the missing field boxes highlighted so that the user knows where to go from there. Other features include:

  • Active hover tooltips for fields which requires explanation
  • Optional no direct access to form itself (against spam bots)
  • Auto loading of different custom form field templates for different categories
  • Field conditions (e.g. if “others” is specified it’s required to specify)
  • Valid email checking
  • Antispam fields with image verification
  • IP, referrer and client browser logger
  • Able to log requests in a log textfile or database
  • Mail sent through PHP mail() or SMTP

The whole software comes in 3 files, with the main PHP file weighing in with 500 lines of code, coupled with a .js file for the javascript tooltips and a CSS stylesheet for form styling.

I will leaving the form to run on the site testing before looking to release the contact form under a GPL. Also after I go about cleaning the source code and making it more modular as it is currently hardcoded to fit some specific form fields my site is currently using. Come worse to worse if I am unable to do so, I will just release the code “as it is” for ya all coders to pounce on and start dissecting.

Lor mee and Laksa at AMK Ave 10, Chong Boon Market

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Lor mee and Laksa at AMK Ave 10, Chong Boon Market

One of my favorite lunch spots in the Ang Mo Kio area will be the Lor Mee and Laksa store at Chong Boon Market along Avenue 10 . This hawker store had old beginnings being in the business for over a decade, or at least since I first tried their dishes in the late nineties. Their trademark dish is what as said on the tin, authentic Singapore Lor Mee served with crispy fritters as a topping. Their typical standard dish comes in “bee hoon mee” configuration impregnated with their signature gooey brown paste which has both a consistency well-balanced between watery and starchiness. The Lor Mee can be quite salty, but the small bowl portions does not overload you or make you excessively thirsty thereafter. It is garnished with pounded white radish and chili paste by the side.

Their Laska is flavorful, you get the usual fare of cockles, fish cake slices, bean sprouts and tao pok served with a brimming bowl of laska gravy which is surprising not spicy at all, making it suitable to all or even children who detest spicy food. For the adventurous, you can control the spiciness levels with topping up your gravy with additional chili to your liking.

The store used to start out at now Teck Ghee market also along Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, where you can recognize the store by the always-long queues snaking out of the hawker center, where they will often sell out past lunchtime. Following some disputes, they temporarily moved to the Old airport road hawker center, where I was told on my patronage there that business was not as good. It was not long where the store moved back to Ang Mo Kio, bringing the legendary Lor Mee and laksa along with them to a new store location at nearby Chong Boon Market (453A Ang Mo Kio Ave 10).

However, over the years, I noticed the food portions are getting lesser and lesser over the years, despite able to keep to their pricing of $2.50 to $3 a bowl. You get half an egg as to a full egg five years ago and the noodle portions are considerable lesser now. The thing which is still retained is the their trademark Lor Mee and laska gravy, which I believe is their trump card.

For me a typical meal there will be both a bowl of Lor Mee and Laska for lunch (yes, that is how much their portions had shrunk). I found the store now lacks much of it allure, already also considering many other viable options now. Still, if you happen to be around the Chong Boon area, it’s one dish still worthy of a taste.

Windows Vista – Slow! Bill Gates: No No No!

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Windows Vista – Slow! Bill Gates: No No No!

With all the hype and publicity on Windows Vista going on in Singapore, I guess I can only commend on the efforts MS Singapore is putting into promoting the OS. However in that limelight, definitely the main selling point and MS broke in sales will tell you that it’s “safer”, “more secure”, “looks fabulous” and has “excellent media PC functionalities”. What they WON”T tell you though are the horrible benchmarks, system requirements and how slow it is compared to previous versions of Windows.

Anyway as the saying goes “a sucker is born every second” & “people will pay for it just because it looks good, lest functionality”.

Courtesy from Tom’s Hardware (You can read the full article here), all benchmarks ran on high-end Intel Core2 Duo systems with 2GB DDR2-800 RAM, 300Gb Harddisk space & ATI X1900XTX 512 MB GDDR3 GPU, let me just share some findings:

  1. Fact Number One: Vista is performs slower than WinXP in ALL tested game benchmarks. On same hardware configuration, the vista OS system performed slower in all games benched, with UT2004 having a record 32% lower than XP benchmark: 3D Mark06, Call of Duty, Farcry, FEAR, etc
  2. Fact Number Two: Vista is only faster in in Video and Audio encoding, but only with marginal increments (1-23% faster). Benchmarks: Xvid, LAME Encoding
  3. Fact Number Three: Vista is horrible at 3D based modeling programs. Vista is 83-90% slower than WinXP running3D Studio Max, Lightwave & Maya. Tom’s hardware 3D Modelling progrram benchmarks
  4. Fact Number Four: Vista fails badly in the CAD and design benchmarks as well: PTC Pro-engineer, SolidWorks 84-98% slower
  5. Fact Number Five: Vista treats anything you install as a threat to it. Even after you get through installing it, any program you run will need a prompt to initiate even though YOU are the only who started it in the first place. Till you disable the prompts in the UAC, any user will go bonkers over it.

What’s more, Vista breaks 90% of games, as said by game publisher, WildTangent.

😕 This does not justify the significant need for an upgrade. Furthermore so just as you think about putting the greens on Vista now, this is when it gets interesting – don’t think that holding your purchase now will solve all the bugs now. Think about it – unlike handphones, such that we can “wait out for the price to drop” or “new firmware updates in the next release”, the Windows Vista DVD is available pre-packed in default content, the next big DVD update you will get is a service pack (similar to XP SP2) which we won’t be seeing too soon, maybe over a year or so.

Everything will be patched through the naive windows update. In other words, having to install Vista now or later won’t be a difference, it’s just another PC in the Vista Bandwagon doomed with slow software, praying that Microsoft & their partners brings and fixes up compatibility and performances through new driver and software support.

And not only that, Vista look almost a clone to Mac OS X, now what Bill Gates have to say when poised with that question on CNN?

“NO NO NO!” Hahahaha!

Vista Price list
Oh and not leaving this out, for ya price hunters, here are the following rates for the respective versions of Vista after a SLS store roundup:

Main OS (OEM DVD Edition)
Vista Home Basic Edition – $145
Vista Home Premium Edition – $185
Vista Business Edition – $229
Vista Ultimate Edition – $309

MS Office 2007:
Home and student 2007 – $189
Office Basic 2007 – $269
Office Small Business Enterprise – $369
Office Pro 2007 – $489

Attila Vista Baby!

Too easy to score, Engineering Materials II

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Too easy to score, Engineering Materials II

With some new found time before dinner today, let me just spend some time talking about the paper I had today. Engineering Materials II.

[start mindless babber]

It’s TOO EASY!
wahahah it’s really a disappointment, studied and researched so much out of the box and the questions which came out are all repeated from the class! A typical case of overkill? Like using a bazooka to kill a puny ant? But it still gets the job done right?

I was expecting like more application based open ended questions like maybe: “explain the micro sub-atomic effects of intergranular corrosion”, “describe the nuclear decomposition of Cobalt 60 to produce a radiograph of best film sharpness” or maybe a more down to earth “draw and label the hot and cold camber die-casting processes”.

That would be it! The perfect challenge! Well… maybe with exception of half the cohort failing the paper, the possible angry mobs rioting the and burning of the staffroom, but hey they can always take the module again, life is all about 2nd chances right?

But No – the questions in today’s paper are merely just ask you to state-this state-that, there’s even no definition questions! It basically just a regurgitation of textbook answers and repeated identical questions from our tutorials!

And that is bad, why? firstly it is harder to get a distinction when everybody’s mark is all “high up there in As” and secondly, the papers are so trivial, not much is actually useful we can do in application to the industry. Yea they say we are making it great!

Calculating my minimum score, scoring completely zero for those questions I am unsure of, my expected minimum score should be 95/100, I am after all human.

But Mmmmm, but I guess I can’t count chickens before they are hatched, because maybe my extra theoretical explanation of Faraday’s and Lenz law of electromagnetic induction and in the induction hardening question could be too much for the markers. They might mark me wrong as they might not understand that…

Sometimes taking advanced physics before a diploma might have it bad points…I hope my head just don’t explode…

Now for Engineering Maths III… My last paper for the Semester, Next week.

[/end mindless babber]

Mileage for the week (7 day period)
SP Gym 3 Light Sets Weight Training + Sunset way Canal Run – Tuesday
Total Millage for week: 6km (20% of 30km/week target met)
Total Accumulative Millage for 2007: 39km

No Pok! No Pork! Coffeeshop & More…

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No Pok! No Pork! Coffeeshop & More…

In the mist of all this exam madness, let just catch some local laughs with these ol’ hawker audio clip pranks.

No POK!

Kopi Yi-Pei!

School
Time had been very tight on my side, this semester is very very very short, too short to even breathe I guess, with me just barely making through on most of the modules I am taking. The grades this semester will be very interesting, it’s just all “borderline” for me. Everybody is so busy, even I do not even know how am I doing as the teachers themselves are too busy to release any ICA marks for checking at all this semester, till I bug them the only way to get it is one big blow on march! Anyway, got my ITP posting already, will be working under the company I recommended. On the forefront, wish me all the best for the fast up and coming exams in the next few weeks!

Modules/Papers Left:

  1. BA0232 : BUSINESS PLANNING FOR NEW VENTURES
  2. CP4094 : THE ART & SCIENCE OF COLOURS
  3. LC0520 : WRITING SKILLS FOR ENTREPRENEURS
  4. MM2206 MM8221 : ENGINEERING DESIGN
  5. MM2308 MM8331 : ENGINEERING MATERIALS II
  6. MM2701 : PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT II
  7. MS003A : METAMORPHOSIS – ILLUSTRATION & BOOK-MAKING WORKSHOP
  8. MS6221 MS6226 : ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS III
  9. ST003S : PRINCIPLES OF WEB DESIGN
  10. PRE-ITP TESTS

On a sidenote, Windows Vista Ultimate OEM is out in stores at $309. Though still expensive, it’s way below my initial thought of it being around $600, together with an upgrade of Norton Internet Security 2007 for $42. Looks I will be getting it and installing it after the exams, then I can go Aero before everyone else! Whee!

Well now, guess back to studying!

Formula 1 in Singapore 2008?

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Formula 1 in Singapore 2008?
Singapore Formula 1

With all the rumors and such going on for years, finally theres some official word…

Singapore may join F1 in 2008
Singapore is the latest country rumored to be hosting a new Formula One event, with news that F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone is in negotiations with at least two Singaporean groups about a deal to host the grand prix by as early as next year.

Local newspaper, Today, reports that the architect who designed the racing circuits in Malaysia, Bahrain, Istanbul, and Shanghai, German born Hermann Tilke, has already designed one for Singapore.

“Yes, we have been talking to various parties about a race in Singapore but as it is, nothing has been firmed up yet,” commented Ecclestone, further adding “when we have something, you will definitely know about it.”

Estimated costs of hosting a race is estimated at around $50 million, but the level of tourist spending during the events easily offsets this amount. An unnamed Singaporean businessman is said to be leading the group interested in hosting the race. Last year the president of the FIA, Max Mosley, mentioned that a race in Singapore would be welcomed, and the city-state’s wide streets are ideal for racing meaning that construction of a new circuit isn’t even required.

Yes imagine a Monaco like race on our CTE or PIE! Whoa! That will be so freaking cool! Well, too bad M.Schumacher have to retire before having to burn the tarmac here on our little island. Not that I am pro Ferrari, but you can’t deny that he was one of the best drivers around today. Nevertheless, till the time comes, it would be an even more interesting season.

Source

*Bleep* Please hold Life, incoming Exams

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*Bleep* Please hold Life, incoming Exams

😐 Well it had been a very very fast hectic week for me & it will get worse – before I know it, it’s 2 weeks left to the exam week. With no running millage for this week (I won’t see myself running, gyming or training so often these weeks now). Sometimes in this mess, I just stop to take alook at the students around me, how can they be so care free and relaxed when the exams are just around the corner? Still for outings and computer games, if you count all the hours left, there is hardly even any left for personal time. It’s just projects projects, deadlines, tests and it goes on.. till early February at least, when internship starts.

Steve - tada an iphone!

Have you read today’s ST Sunday Times article on the iphone? haha apparently it’s something like: iphone for Japanese? Eeew that’s old and dated, catch up on times Steve! Haha yea eat that iphone fans – well, besides the regular Mac loyalist who literally buy and lives on anything with an apple logo stuck onto it, maybe that is something more suited for the average American (or Mountain-Tortoise-Kiasu Singaporean) who are still on the regular 2.5G – 3G platforms (which we are all familiar with). But just not up there on the Japanese “hyperspace” networks. Definitely not a brow raiser for the Japs – “been there, done that!” as they said. Interesting read it was.

🙁 On a side note, quite disappointed that I didn’t quite make the Youth.sg first contest for the white PSP. Don’t know whether should I participate in the next fortnight competition with so many exams and tests around. I should prioritise my time and work here. Hope maybe I can win the next weekly random iPod Shuffle just for keeps.

😯 My school schedule for the coming weeks: (For my 9 Modules)

Week starting 15th Jan
Monday – Materials II Quiz
Tuesday – Business Planning Marketing Presentation
Wednesday – No School (Do GEMS and prepare following presentations)
Thursday – Product Design Presentation, Arts, Science of Colours Presentation
Friday – Finish Book Project

Week starting 22th Jan
Monday – Engineering Design Exam
Tuesday – Business Planning For New Ventures Exam
Wednesday – GEMs webdesign Exam
Friday – Writing skills for entrepreneurs Test

Week starting 29th Jan
Tuesday – Materials II Semester Exam

Week starting 5th Feb
Tuesday – Engineering Maths III Semester Exam

:wink:Well for a note, my town council recently placed some new recycling bins near my home area, Yippee! (considering them being removed previously in fear of bomb threats). Now I do not need to travel out of town to throw my sorted waste away… Yeh!

Okie back to studying…

NTU Surf n Sweat 2007, National Vertical Marathon 2007

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NTU Surf n Sweat 2007, National Vertical Marathon 2007

2 Events to keep ya sports freaks busy for the 1st quarter of Janurary, namely the NTU Surf n Sweat 2007 & the all-usual NTU National Vertical Marathon 2007. More will be coming soon, especially the cross-country season.

NTU Surf n Sweat 2007

Event Date: 4 February 2007
Venue: Tanjong Beach, Sentosa
Time: 8am – 6pm
Organiser: NTU Sports Club
Main Events: Surf & Run, Surf & Ride (biathlons)
Side Events: Beach Volleyball, Beach Soccer, Ultimate Frisbee, Beach Touch Rugby

Notable Rules:

  • Compulsory to wear race identification tags/bands issued.
  • No aqua shoes are allowed
  • Life jackets MUST be worn
  • Only paddling allowed on surf segment
  • Participant are allowed to recover from falls from board
  • Time will still run despite hidnerance from traffic flow
  • Running shoes are compulsory during run
  • Board dismounting is permitted only at marked dismounting point

[ Full set of Rules ]

Registration:
Closing Date: 19 Jan 2007 (Friday)
Fees: 10-$16 for individuals ~ $35 for team events (see registration form for details)

Obtain registration forms from Flash n Splash @ Velocity, Heeren, Citylink, PlazaSingapura: SurferGirl @Wisma, Citylink: Ripcurl @ PacificPlaza, MarinaSquare, VivoCity, Stussy @ PacificPlaza or…

Send the Registration Form & cheque (payable to “NTU Student Union”) to:

Surf n Sweat 2007
NTU SPORTS CLUB, c/o Sports & Recreation Centre, 20 Nanyang Green Singapore 637715
National Vertical Marathon

Event Date: 25th February 2007 (Sunday)
Venue: Republic Plaza
Time: 7am – 7pm
Organiser: NTU Sports Club

Registration
Closing Date: 5th Feb 07 (Monday)
Fees:$14 per participant for NTU Team, Inter-JC Challenge & Youths’ Challenge Categories
$18 per participant for other categories.

Hardcopy Registration forms are available at:
Yishun SAFRA Club, Toa Payoh Central, Tanjong Pagar, Siglap, Marine Parade, The Frontier and Nanyang Community Centres, Bedok, Bishan, Bukit Gombak, Clementi, Chua Chu Kang, Delta, Hougang, Jurong East, Jurong West, School of Physical Education, Tampines, Toa Payoh, Yio Chua Kang, Yishun Sports Complexes

Or Download here

All entries should be mailed together with the registration forms and cheque payments to:

National Vertical Marathon 2007
NTU SPORTS CLUB, c/o Sports & Recreation Centre, 20 Nanyang Green Singapore 637715

Event Categories:

  • Men’s Open
  • Women’s Open
  • Team Open
  • NTU Team Challenge
  • Youths’ Challenge
  • Lovers’ Challenge
  • Inter-JC Challenge
  • Veterans’ Challenge
  • Special Olympics Challenge (By Invitation Only)
  • CDL Corporate Challenge

Would really love to participate in the Surf N Sweat event, but that’s smack right in between my semester exam papers, but would definitely be running up republic plaza next month. In the meantime, time to get back to studying! The semester exams are just around the corner! 😉

Exams coming, Labrador Park Run

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Exams coming, Labrador Park Run
Labrador Park Round Run 1.22km

Ahh here I am tucked in the comfort of my room surrounded by lecture notes, library books and stationary, while still typing this post.

Well the exams are just around the corner & I say, this semester is as tough as it can get, in fact it’s the most packed ever, with 9 modules to take (excluding the internship quiz module) and most of them are in-course so it’s jammed pack with reports, assignments and presentations to make. The good thing is that I have only 2 papers to take during the official semester exams week (30th Jan Materials and 6th Feb Engineering Maths III). So theres technically 2 weeks left to clear all of these… grrr. Or I can say that this semester is simply just exceptional short – about 4 weeks shorter than usual, maybe that is why everything is all on hyperdrive now.

Popped by Labrador Park for an evening run, the place is still very popular with families, photographers and a popular fishing spot as such. While Sheena went about taking project photos on her Canon 10D. Commemorated my first 30km for the first week of 2007. Man considering I’ve not really ran in about 2 weeks, the distance is quite demanding to catch up, though this was chicken feet during my pre-marathon training, it goes to show how fast you can get out of tune in running by just a short absence from the sport.

Mileage for the week (7 day period 1-7th Jan)
Track & Field Training Macritchie X-Ctry Run – 11km – Tuesday
SP Gym 3 Sets Weight Training + Treadmill 6km – Wednesday
Labrador Park Run 15 rounds – 16km – Sunday-
Total Millage for week: 33km (110% of 30km/week target met)
Total Accumulative Millage for 2007: 33km

The talking about the word “Commemorating”, apparently in response to the spelling mistake on Singapore Marathon 2006 medal (ST Online Forum, Dec 18) – “Commerating the 5th Anniversary” (It supposed to be “Commemorating” instead), the event Director of the SCM 2006 Organising Committee is offering marathon participants the option to exchange their medals for the “right one” with the following details:

Contact Ms Priscilla Samson at 6340-9877 or e-mail her at ssc_sbd@ssc.gov.sg to arrange for the collection.
You may like to do this by 31 January 2007.

😀 On a side-track, Me dreams to win a White Sony PSP!

Lets talk about Toes! & Spinnovex 2007

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Lets talk about Toes! & Spinnovex 2007

Internet had been very screwy lately, even can’t even access yahoo mail or even google.com, me wonders how I survived without internet when I was a kid… Oh yea there was still the invention called TV back then…

:mrgreen:At least now I can tell which site are locally based, depending on their access speeds… Those at the other end of the globe – hello Timeout! Mmm a good reason to do homework on a rainy Wednesday night, oh yea did I mentioned that there was track training today? Yea but I went to the gym instead, been 2 weeks since I did so, guess I will have a hard time getting out of bed tomorrow, if I could-just-feel-my-arms…

And now onto topic – Since my Standard Charted Marathon last December, my right second toe had developed an under-nail blood clot. Presumably from the repeated “strike cycles” it gets from my running shoe. Ironically the clot only developed on my master foot/leg & it’s all black & ulgy!

But that was weeks ago. But I woke up one day last week discovering that my toe turned white! (don’t laugh). So it’s unlike the ulgy black duckling, umm – Toe stuck between a crown of jewels – it’s all white now! But heck this is no case of a white swan though – it’s still all wiggly and shaky… like milk tooth, AND that is bad because you won’t stop meddling with it… Well maybe when it pops out, the tooth fairy will come, only if there are nail fairies…

This toe nail thing, remarkably sparked a whole new talk in my track team about toes -toe talk, which seems to be a rather common victim for us runners. For starters just look at yours – is your big toe the longest or your second? it differs greatly between individuals though, then theres the whole assortment of shoes for different feet types, very interesting science of toes, wonder why there ain’t any undergraduate programs for that…

Today is the first prep day for SP Spinnovex 2007. Interestingly if I have not mentioned this yet, my lecturer”die die” want to display my prototype project models – even before it was graded! Bhwarrr! At first I didn’t kinda approve of it considering that it’s a final year exhibition & I am only in second year! But I let it pass as the only words he seems the chant to himself while clenching the model tightly, was: “my preciooousss…”

Other than that, it had been quite hectic lately in campus rushing projects & stuffs, most of seniors are all beyond reach & even the teachers are all too busy for consultation, oh well…

Foxtrot comic to cease dailies

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Foxtrot comic to cease dailies
Foxtrot comic to cease dailies

Ah great, my favorite comic strip Foxtrot has ceased it dailies… Brrwrr!

Kansas City, MO (12/05/2006) Bill Amend’s popular FoxTrot comic strip will go to a Sunday-only publication schedule as of Dec. 31, 2006, announced Universal Press Syndicate today. The last daily will be Saturday, Dec. 30. Reruns of dailies will be available for Web usage.

“After spending close to half of my life writing and drawing FoxTrot cartoons, I think it’s time I got out of the house and tried some new things,” said Amend. “I love cartooning and I absolutely want to continue doing the strip, just not at the current all-consuming pace. I’ve been blessed over the years with a terrific syndicate, patient newspaper clients, and more support from readers than I probably deserve, and I want to assure them all that while I’ll be now a less-frequent participant on the comics pages, I’ll continue to treat my visits as the special privilege they are.”

At least it’s not the end of the world as it seems. Foxtrot will only be appearing on Sundays, starting this year.

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