yea, as you know the site was attacked early this week, managed to get it up asap.
damn you hackers, what can you gain from doing this shit?
Just woken up
yea, just woken up, having a simple bread and tea breakfast (lunch?) and getting on with my much needed sunday rest… why? just say I was very busy with some dumb SAF division exercise for the last four days (and so it woud carry on till next week.
Besides getting to work like slave office workers in front of retarded pentium 4 and sun workstations running Nvidia quadro4s on 18″ hp/17″ Dell, IBM/15″ phillips LCD monitors, everything sux in terms of our working hours (up to 4am in the morning on friday). Moreover even with the regular basic coffee and tea breaks to keep us running, I’ve never been so dependant on coffee before its like a drug to keep me functioning properly, not to mention my workmates. So much for the experience, I jus think office work is not for me…
The obvious lack of free time in my hands would, sadly delay this site’s building by alot. So don’t expect V11 to come up so soon, I need to rest… 😥
Niffy stuffs
Been surfin around lately for some addons for my phone and I think getting used to messaging on my new phone can be quite a pain at first and I guess it do take some time to get used to it. One alternative is to keep on practising on type gun speed typing game to get acustomised to the side key strip arrangement or get a wireless bluetooth portable keypad/board to do the job, which too means money being spent again. Anyway, check this baby out. Also a gyroscopic mouse do seem nice, even if this is like “the” technology many years back, it still have much of a wow factor to it (Link).
After hardly a week’s usage on the phone and damn, my screen is kinda stratched on one part, not very noticable in the dark but very annoying in the light, esp being spatted right on the lower left quarter of the screen (and now I know not to put my phone and charger in the same bag compartment). Think the warranty should be able to cover that, part of damage during normal usage right?, as numbly stated in the warranty card. 
But I guess that even if they were to replace the screen cover, it won’t be cheap either considering that it is actually part of the whole phone’s casing. Oh well, as the saying goes, “you won’t enjoy your new car till you put your first stratch on it.” 😎
Back and slackin’
Reached home bout 4pm today, everywhere’s raining kinda heavily today, esp in the afternoon around the western Clementi area. But that didn’t prove much of a trouble as I have shelter all the way to the bus interchange and from the bus stop near home upon alighting in the rain, didn’t really take time to appreciate this on dry weathers, but its very efficient shelter network in both there and my area though…
Reached home, dumped my bags, turned on my comp and started slacking in front of the computer, mainly fixing up site related matters, designs.. etc. I find that I seldom find time to even play games on my comp these few weeks, and yea it had been very busy weeks on the weekends- when I actually can find time to use the computer. Its always work work, coding or otherwise general surfin, oh well, habits. 😀
Passed BTT evaluation
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…
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)
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
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
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!
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!
Hey ya dudes! welcome to the new up and coming shaunchng.com, homepage of Shaun aka DeMoBLiTzer.
Happy chinese new year!
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.
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)