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National Weekend!

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National Weekend!

National day is today, & whee red & white madness everywhere…:shock:

Ok now for some site based updates for the day… did some minor upgrades & fixes around the site, firstly with the addition of the new projects page. Showcased there are more or less my progress & current task(s) I am involved in, that includes assignments & commissions, a rather general “work to be done section”. Secondly, upgraded the blog search function & upgraded the links sections with new headers & added new links to the hardware & art sections. I am working on a new poll which would be ready by the next weekend. Also, to end things sweet I’ve already started on the modeling tutorial- already compiled the images needed so we should be able to see it up in the weeks to come :wink:.

End of sunday, as we know it.

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End of sunday, as we know it.

Let me recap some happenings yesterday night. 🙄 Had an early dinner at home, mom & dad had some loh (black sauce) egg & meat dish with rice and soup, they are always good at such dishes, not bad. Then they all always go bout talking of going into the food business, well thats all talk anyway, no action for now. Visited granny in the evening then dropped by Suntec thereafter as my mum wanted to deposit some carrefour lucky draw coupons. Since we were coming from the eastcoast area towards city, we were warmly greeted by the fireworks released on the National Day preview along the ECP and Benjamin sheres bridge, quite a spectacular sight. & there we were at Suntec, Sis wanted to repair her Nokia 7250i, but the service center was closing & didn’t allowed anybody in. Kinda raided the Carrefour’s supermarket later for sushi & bread for tomorrow’s breakfast. To much of horror, Tower Records at suntec had been severly downsized now bout 1/3 the original floor area with Courts taking over the floorspace, & they are having some 50%-70% off sale, looks bad wonder how long can they hold on.

Moreover, Court’s “so-called” price slash doesn’t raise any brows either, a Canon powershot going at $649 plus a 128MB CF and bag? tough luck! I know of stores going at $586 plus a 128MB CF… Due to all those shopping, PK computers was closed for the day before I could even get to it & amazingly Times the bookshop was still open (bout 9pm) but they didn’t have anything good either.. dang magazines… Suddenly I get to know that the Vin-Mart DIY hardware store isn’t the store I used to know as “tools-R-us” very little goods are stocked there now, not to mention their all patentic torchlight section (yea I was looking for a diver’s one).

And so it was (and still is Sunday) 😎 Very much spent my time relaxing & spending time infront of the computer. Did some surfing for ideas for my home theather PC (HTPC) & hey, DDR dance pads for PC (with converter) Mmmm, imagine hooking that to the living room’s TV for a good dance, not to mention getting my mum to try as she all too engrossed into losing weight now. Dang Itching to play some DDR now, had been sometime since I last DDRed in arcades too. Monday’s tomorrow & its actually the start of a fresh new month, August. Arghh! why do the weenends have to be so short…

5 Funerals & an elder Petanque competition.

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5 Funerals & an elder Petanque competition.

Just came back from a swim from the swimming complex. One thing I noticed around the neighborhood is the amount of activity going on, the number of cars parked around and not to mention lots of catering trucks… Well what can I expect for, living in a matured estate. The funny thing is that a large bunch of elderly were having games of Pétanque (a mini bowl/shotputt) competition at same time the garden’s sand pit with tents and loudspeakers all set up.

Interestingly cute in the mist of the immediate activities.

Doom 3 released on the 3rd Aug in SG

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Doom 3 released on the 3rd Aug in SG

Doom 3, its finally here, in a few days time! Check it out at Funan’s software store, The Software Boutique’s promo.

And oh yea, on the driving test, I failed it :mrgreen:, think I drove too much like Michael Schumacher, the second time thats it. Oh well next test should be in september. 😉

Relaxed?

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Relaxed?

My driving test is on tomorrow afternoon and I am feeling (yet strangely) very relaxed compared to my previous test. Guess considering that it would be my second attempt, moreover if I fail, its just “oh well time to book another test then”. 🙄

Found some time to actually site down and relax today. Had a few rounds of counter-strike in the morning, playing on some taiwan server, man are they such easy frags dudes. Spent some hours touching up on some updates on my AOH flash intro and creating the event map. Updated the drawing tutorial as I felt it was wayyy to old. Anyway do feel free to check out the new tutorial article up on the tutorials section of the site, spanning an additional page on photo shopping. Its kinda up there but otherwise incomplete in some areas, would finish it up by the next book in.

But didn’t find time to leave the house, guess I would have to catch Will Smith’s new show I, Robot next week then.

May my next post bring good news of my driving test… :mrgreen: *duh*

Geared ahead.

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Geared ahead.

It had been almost one month since I’ve touched my guitar… 🙁 or actually found time to relax & play the new games I’ve got the pass month… *sob* the absolute pressures of the Army Half marathon & Open house are definitely eating into my schedules, not to mention my weekend rest periods. Whats things becoming too? And why am I using such precious weekends to do work? so much for being dedicated, even the pay increment for NSFs next month won’t compensate much… anyway what can a merger $150 increase do?

On a lighter side, managed to get a off period next monday afternoon for my driving test. Here it is, drawing nearer, part II. here I go… getting geared for the test. 😯

Contacts… eww

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Contacts… eww

*pokes eyes with fingers* neato. Booked out of camp around 7pm for nights off, got my dad to fetch me to tiong baru to collect my contact lenses ready today. As it was my first time with contacts, the optician very much spent some time teaching me how to put them on after like 3 tries, lost one lens to the floor & I finally got it! whee.. However, generally my degree of shortsightedness is around 75-100 degrees so I do not actually need much aid. Its just something niffy for those occasions like range, lectures.. etc. Though I do have a pair of specs.. lying, somewhere.. otherwise its always the shades man. 😉

wow sharp… I can see through stuff now…. whoa!

Project “project”

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Project “project”

Went for driving this morning, again me and the instructor had talk on driving testers & I guess the Poh guy who took failed me the other month was rather notorious for doing so. Mr Yeo my driving instructor for the day even told me that my tester failed his own driving test 5 times, you think he will let me go off so easily on the first attempt? dang driving testers, getting so personal everytime. Overall I get the usual comments on “hey your driving’s not bad”, “blah blah blah” I think I am already there in driving, why is it so hard to pass! Oh well, I guess passing the real test is actually the true answer to all.

Moreover, I guess its time to get out of the black and post some updates on the flash movie I made for the army open house site. the video is to be used for the opening ceremonies of the Army open house. It’s an honor to have created it.

Its time for another week of army, & my horoscope says… try not to be so paranoid for the week. Lucky theres no range this week like the other, furthermore, lucky I passed last week’s ATP/M (advanced train fire package/ maneuver) range shooting with a carbine. Man was it tough…

Well, its monday tomorrow, the start of more things to come…

End of waterpolo season

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End of waterpolo season

Our last match ended about one week ago with a 10-3 win against 3rd Division, resulting in an eventual placing of 7 out of 11 in the whole national level, one place ahead of last year’s placing. All in hand we won 2 matches (against Combat Engineers & 3rd div) and lost 3 (against Arty, Commandos & Navy) throughout the competition preiod of 2 months+ . I have mostly my team and most particularly (& importantly) our manager Captain Goh to thank for putting in such great effort in this year’s games.

waterpolo

Well, done team, it had been a good year, lets see about next year!

Shopping spree

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Shopping spree

Dropped by to John’s house with him paying the cab fare from camp *duh* so I can get a look and troubleshoot his new, yet problematic computer. It turned out that nothing could be done after one hour of checking here & there, suspecting either a faulty graphics card or motherboard as nothing was displayed onscreen at all. The final decision was made to go to SimLim for some “professional help” in John’s uncle’s volvo X70 which he managed to “coup” without much resistance.

Troubleshooting the computer at Simlim only acts as a from of confirmation of my conclusion & its a motherboard problem afterall. Well pity that he have to wait 3-4weeks to get it fixed (considering that the board have to actually be sent back to taiwan for repairs) more before he can actually get his beloved new computer up and running. Patience dude! But I was actually quite pissed with the shop, Ja Maa trading very slow at service & most of all they don’t do 1-1 exchanges, considering them being the ones actually selling John the faulty board in the first place. Did some shopping while I was there & finally purchased the nostromo n52 speedpad for $59.90 after a bargain from $69.90, not a bad reduction I say, yet to try the new hardware online. Drove to Holland village for some chillout & a couple of foot-long subway sandwiches. There was a store selling the Canon powershot A80 digital camera I wanted at a steal-away-price of $589 plus a 128MB CF I card.
Definately a far cry from Harley Norman’s $699 price tag plus a 128MB CF I card & tripod, Best Benkin themselves going for $649. Went home only to go out again with my family for dinner.

Went to tiong baru plaza to get my daily contacts done and ordered, would in in by next tuesday. Visited granny thereafter followed by dinner at Parkway parade. Got an old game at MPH going at $13.90- WorldWar3 black gold & another guitar reference book for $36.90. Parkway parade is really happening not to mention new stores, the basement foodcourt, Jacksplace, Pizza hut & Swensens, not bad I say. Breadtalk is having some 4th aniversary sale thingy going on for 3-4days, and every bun on the house is going for $1, as we all know this is definatly bait for the kiasu Singaporean. And my mum have to spend $13 on just bread.. dammit when will she learn.. our neighbourhood bakery sells buns at most $0.60 everyday man!

New item up on wishlist.

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New item up on wishlist.

Been researching for a good digital camera for sometime now, guess I its time to start saving for one which have the following features I want:

  • Relatively Small/compact design
  • Manual modes (for fine photography)
  • At least 4.0 megapixels (more than enough for 4R prints)
  • 3x optical zoom (a basic requirement)
  • Movie Mode (for short snippets here & there)
  • Optical viewfinder (no over dependence on LCDs)
  • Rotatable LCD screen or Lens (for self portraits or overhead shots)
  • Able to run on conventional alkaline battery (travel convenience)
  • Uses the compact flash media+ or typeII format (cheaper & larger capacity)

So far I’ve finalised a few good cameras which suits (but not all) my needs. And they are:
Canon A80, Sony DSC-W1, Sony DSC-V1 & Sony DSC-F88.

If you happen to come across and digital cameras which I’ve missed feel free to drop a note down here. 😉

New Art Added.

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New Art Added.

New Art piece, “offender” added to the art gallery.

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