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Passed BTT evaluation

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It was a lazy morning, woke up with an urge to complete my driving theory tests… (and it a good day to test out my phone too) Got my dad to fetch my to bb diving center at noon where I sat down to complete the 4 BTT practice books in 1hour, then finally got the clearance to enter evaluation itself. Within 1/2hr of “very careful reading and doing :eek:” cleared the test with 77/80 right (need 90% correct to pass). I was happy for myself, partly for someone who never studied the highway code since I took my class 2B last year, and kinda luckily cleared all the 5 tests in 90 minutes. Whew! 😀

Booked a TP BTT test date with one friend who is taking class 3 currently too, got the 27th feb date (18.30, Friday). shoulda be chicken feet, oh well taking bout chickens, just lets not count the chickens before they are hatched, but I guess some revision before the actual thing do help though…

Camera Test Pic 4

UPDATE!
With BTT gone, comes the FTT (Final Theory Test). FTT will actually be slightly more challenging than BTT firstly as the questions are more scenerio dependant unlike simply just regurgitating highwaycode in the BTT. For the final driving test, feel free to read up my writeup on 20 Tips for your Final Driving Test.

Came back bout 4pm after having a late lunch at the “new” redhill hawker centre, the old market is kinda leveled (literally) now, but business is still on at a new temp location near the MRT station, same old stores, same old food, different ambience though… more pollution. 😐

Then there came experimentation with my new phone, Installed tons of apps, customisations and finally got it to run doom3D, sonicN and afew N-gage games, which are still quite unstable till I find some fixes here and there.

Dinner is on tonight either at jacks place of YMCA metro-Y at stevens road. It will be a bash! 🙂

SX1 Camera tests in sub-vga modes

Got my SX1!!! wheee! (flips)

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Dropped down to hello shop, Orchard today. There was this very funny aura there which was rather “funny” initially, the “coming soon” sign is gone now, being replaced with a “features” backdrop in the store. but still a dummy phone on display, so I approached the salesgirl regarding the launch…

“cuse me, is the SX1 out yet?” (for the millionth time this year) 💡
“its out, shes says” 😉
“ahhh out?, I replied” 😮
*flips*

So it was a soft launch/opening they say, the phone is actually out today! and yea… got it, finally got the phone! (after a 5 month wait) but at a helfty $888 with a 2 yr contract with singtel, but with my mum who’s willing to fork out 50% of the cost, that helped loads. Now my SX1 is softly having a nice long 6hr initial charge before I can finally use it… whee! 😈

Work after Valentine

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Hey Valentine’s day is on this saturday, and guess what? whats more than having work on sunday? screwy right? no Saturday night on valentine’s day… 😡 argh!!

On a more positive side… for the week, my newly anticipated phone, the Siemens SX1 would be out on this week itself 😛 , though I have not seen or heard any advertisments myself so far, the buzz and friends around me on my new phone is kinda scary though too, its like they know what I want!… brrr!

So far, there are quite a few people I know (bout 1-30) in Singapore who owns the phone, getting them mainly from those little handphone importer’s shops, but heck they are easily going at about $1200 few months back, coming down to $888 for a 2yr starhub plan and $750 for the M1 one respectivity. Nothing released on official mobile provider charges. I would most prob be getting it with a 2 yr extension on my current singtel classic plan. Hope singtel have the plan going below $700, then my pocket won’t hurt so much…

Dinner at old AMK Teck Ghee lor mee and laksa

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Dropped bown to Ang Mo Kio today after collecting my new pair of spectacles from the nearby optician. The famous Ang Mo Kio lor mee and laksa store had moved to another hawker center at AMK avenue 3/10 which was previously from the old kallang hawker center area (where they moved from another AMK hawker center) earlier last year). The lunch decision came at a very last minute as my sis impulsively suggested trying out the good old dish (which sadly my parents miss too), that kinda messed up my plans for the day as I actually have alot to actually do at home, namely finishing uncompleted models for weeks, tidying up the room, actually get some guitar practice sessions.. etc

All in hand, had some instant photos taken at a nearby photo studio there before lunch, had my usual 2 bowls (one lormee and another bowl of laksa). Walked the central shops area before heading to my grandma’s house which is very much around the vicinity.

Returned home at about 3pm++ where I finally managed to find time to rush-finish my Master grade griffon mech model and cracking my head at the dumb php wordpress templates which I hope, to finish by today (which I unfortunately didn’t)

May a “presentable site” be up by next saturday.. *duh*

Its another weekend zipping past… too fast…

hollia!

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Well, after some longg.. long time away from blogging cos of some dumb harddisk crash at HTGK, which kinda nuked the whole site including the hosted sites (dammit and they ARE using phpnuke) did brought up some questions regarding the need of a dedicated host….

Anyway, I am back! First of all with the new domain shaunchng.com, a fresh new automated blogging system, wordpress. Lets get on with it man!

Yucks *looks around the default templates* I think I’d better be working on a new template. Would most probably be up up the weekend, hopefully saturday, in the meantime, chill!

Hey all, I am back!

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Hey ya dudes! welcome to the new up and coming shaunchng.com, homepage of Shaun aka DeMoBLiTzer.

Happy chinese new year!

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Its Chinese New Year now, the reunion dinner was great, had steamboat with a very nice spread together with cocktail desserts, wine and beer to finish it all. Fireworks can be heard around my house area now, kinda exciting man.

Visiting will start tomorrow. yea!

Currently Listening: DJ Tiesto – Cyberia (Deep Trance Mix) (4:15)

Chinese new year eve.

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Its Chinese new year eve and the festive mood is starting to kick in already. Hope I am able to collect lots of angpao $$ this year… keke. Reunion dinner here we come!

Currently Listening: Da Hool – Techno House Music (3:09)

I feel good… And maxonline 1500 promo

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The morning-afternoon period did felt very relaxing and good… should enjoy and relax more.

*stares blankly into space* *thinks* *thinks*

Grrrr, its mid-jan and wheres my Siemens SX1?

But hey, my mum got my room a new wind chime… coolz.. *poke* *poke* *poke*

Some starhub promotor, Mr Low called on the phone to promote their maxonline 1500. Though I usally adopt the thank-you-anyway-slam-down-the-phone-technique I just decided to talk as I was quite “free” (boliao) atfer that I did find some interest in his promotion. Considering that I am paying about $57 a month for 256kpb unlimited connection a month on singnet, 1500 offers 1500kps @ $58 all the way a month. Though i may consider lags due to shared bandwidth.. etc its one offers which I could consider with any one of the free promotional gifts: A 14″ Thomspon TV and dvd player, Xbox or cable modem installation.

The xbox one was like a “wah?” when he mentioned free… I already have a DVD player and who would be dumb enough to go for the free cabe modem installation costing only 90 bucks? the xbox offer is a good deal. Mmmm could consider could consider…. than maybe I would downgrade my singnet account to a $10/mth just to keep my old e-mail address.

Chinese new year is on next wednesday… whee!

Currently Listening: Red Hot Chili Peppers – can’t stop (4:35)

Late morning…

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Woke up at 12 noon today considering the lack of sleep the last few days, with my family out for my sister’s tution. Love the new curtains, bedspreads, ambience and very “red deco” my mum had been put in the living room as part of chinese new year’s tradtion, very nice.

And so it ends… the tedious 6 day nightmare.

Didn’t really get much sleep over the past week due to missions and planning. Duh, looking back I found out so matter how tried you may get, moving around and marching will tend to keep you very much awake in the night and once its naturally day, you won’t feel like sleeping not to mention the extreme “diets” and rations which can put you from going to the toilet for 5 free days of shitting! You not only sweat out most of your water even of you drink like hell, you hardly pass out an liquid waste at all (even of you do its yellower than poster colour on water). All in hand, it was 6 days of hell with very very repetitive but manageable missions. Glad it was all over now.

*Dum de dum*

Gotta book into camp at 11pm today, would be clearing stores tomorrow. And graduation would be on tuesday. Yea!

Currently Listening: Enigma – Out From The Deep (Trance Mix) (5:52)

One more hell week

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There will be another fieldcamp next week, the last one in my course, marking the end of life a trainee and HELLO unit life! It wil be held at Tekong from early next week lasting till bout saturday-sunday (6-7days). Things to look forward to next week would hopefully *a-hem* be lesser rainfalls (it can get rather messy outfield), less shagging out and get enough sleep for every mission, why? all to perform better my friend…. (ah ha…)

Catch ya this sun for an interesting update… tata for now. NEXT WEEK – END OF COURSE! yaaa!

Currently Listening: Martillo Vago – Por Que No (Plazmatek Club Mix (6:49)

Rest rest at home…

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Didn’t go out today, partly because I was too lazy to do so…

Managed to get one guitar playing and experiementation today, pushing the amplifer settings gain (distortion on) to bout 6, mid -1, reverb nil, bass maxed and treble -2 will produce a good acoustic tone on the bass strings while strumming on the other 5 strings will bring out the heavy metal riff-like-distortion. Think I am getting a rhythm somewhere, hopefully I can find time to perfect the intro and chorus of the song, finish it with a direct silent recording into my pc.

*Looks at my 1/35 Patlabor series Type-J9 Griffon Labor mecha model kit*

And dang, can’t get started on my model kit today partly because of the lack of supplies to actually start. Need to drop by some hobby store sometime next week to get hold of some primers, mircon liners, uni paint markers, tamiya paints and sealers, hope it won’t set me further by $50. This model will be different from my regular collection partly because of the intensive detailing required on Master Grade (MG) kits, not to mention the amount of time I need to put into building this wonderful model.

Currently Listening: HOUSE – Followerrs of the Drum – Tribal Hard Deep House Trance (4:32)