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Off to 5th gear & above

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Off to 5th gear & above

So much for highway codes… & the quayside sign… still find that a rather funny signboard *duh* Its the second day of the bike course, and hey its rev rev the scrambler bike up to 5 gear on the straights… the best part is, the instructors are so freaking on! whee freakin’ fun dudes. Also a small part of the national service photo folder is up, featuring the passing out parade. The photocam will be online only after I get the captions and 70++ more pictures to scan onto the gallery… in the meantime, seeya!

Currently Listening: Matchbox Twenty – Bright Lights

Gallery up

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Gallery up

Ok, the gallery is up and running. Though its missing the new sections and still need somemore formatting. Hey what are soft openings for! Check it out at the photo gallery links on the navigation bar!

Currently Listening: Disney The Jungle Book -The Bare Necesities

Gallery completion

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Gallery completion

The new art and photo gallery is roughly 60% complete, with mostly lots of photo uploading and captioning to do, should be done by next midweek or so. Also to all my NS friends, I will also be posting up a new anticipated photo album called “NS” very soon, so stay tuned for that!

Oh yea and lookee left, yea the new photocam thingy, that is something I would be working on too. Its offline now, but when its up it will function very much like a photolog (photoblog) with shots coming from my new upcoming handphone. yea!

Blogwise, most of today is actually spent working on the gallery itself. Dropped by for some shopping with my fam after dinner around mustafa center for a pair of Nike Acg sandles, more 3/4 pants and a backpacker’s high backpack for my camp stuff. As deepavali is drawing near, so are the crowds around the area- even more crowded than orchard dudes! Dropped by rivervalley for some roti parta supper and headed home thereafter. Upz tomorrow at 6am, hope I can wake up then, the first lesson of the bike course will start tml, gotta get my helmet ready…

Currently Listening: Linkin Park- Papercut

New photo gallery

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New photo gallery

I have Gallery v1.4 up and running on the apache server, it would be no time before I transfer all the photos from the old gallery to the new one. The new gallery spots mainly stuff for lazy people like me. Just upload and the rest are done giffy by the scripts. Had-ing done with previously on the painstalking manual resizing thumbnails each time I upload an album, so let that not be a deterrence to post pictures up next time.

Currently Listening: Power 98

Friday…

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Friday…

And so today would be the last day of my stay at camp, and off to a *supposedly* 9-5 bikecourse at kaki camp. Yea would be training for a class 2B bike military bike license and hey its the SAF who wants us to go for it. So what can I do but get all the practice I needed on my own humble-foot-powered-contraption also known widely as, the bicycle, paried with the seemingly invincible newly issused crash helmet elbow and knee guards oh well, BRING ON TOMORROW’S QUALIFIERS MAN!

Talking bout qualifiers, haha lucky I didn’t throw $$ in soccer lately, as many lost quite alot in this weeks matches :X

Theres one thing I would like to bring up about pricky officers in camp, shit ’em if they wanna play rank around the workplace. If they think they can push their weight around and demand all the heck they want, they are gonna not get much respect from us rather, as they say when u meet suxy officers, (or orificer) greet by saluting the rank, not the person.

*fumbles* oh well I guess I can make full use of the free time during my bike course to study for my class 3 highway code and advanced driving theory test coming up.. in the not to distant future I say, yea its a matter of time too where I would zipping around in the family car.

Lastly, check out this freaking funny videosite, not the best of hollywood ya gettin’ here but hey plain old homemade ones, just like ..mm lemonade?

Gotta get some eyeshut now, wakes at 6am tomorrow dudes, no nice show of red tried eyes and messy hair in the morning, scares kids of their beds…

Currently Listening: Aqua- My Oh My

No time, so much rush.

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No time, so much rush.

Didn’t have much time to get this entry up, so I will make this quick.

Got a new Maxell screen filter and a LCD indicator from simlim yesterday. C&C generals is also out retailing at $44.90 (lowest price in SLS) EA games decided to do away with the traditional big box of air thingy, spooting a much more compact and smaller packaging this time. I don’t have much time to complete it either I would have to put the purchase later when I have the time to play and, for the price to drop too. Dinner was good and it was sometime since my fam went to the Metro-Y YMCA coffee house for dinner too. Sunday was spent very much slacking around as usual and casual gaming. So much for that, oh well for now….

Currently Listening: Linkin Park- Pushing me away

The end of this sunday.

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The end of this sunday.

Its coming to the end of the week… (If ya weeks don’t start on a sunday it is so.) it had been a fun week and letssee.. my horoscope next week tells me to “pay attention and don’t neglect my family”.. Mmmm time to call ’em folks up more times a day… *duh*

Tomorrow will be start of another work day, monday. Oh well, so much for monday blues like what Garfield experience, weekly!

Btw, on fixing the problem with the worms 3D demo, after unzipping the game files just rename the run.cmd file in the root directory to run.bat, execute it to run. Game wise, controlling the worm in a 3D environment does take sometime to get used to, esp after playing 3 generation worms in a 2D environment.

Monday here we come!

Currently Listening: Linkin Park- Numb

Slacker’s sunday

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Slacker’s sunday

Nothing much happened today this sunday, but managed to get my old stinking canoscan FB310 scanner to work with windows XP, after some Bios and driver tweaks, off in a gif. Software incompatitblity? no such thing in my way dude… I dun need to depend so much on my other windows 95 system to scan images. So with that in hand, finished another artpiece and got it up on VCL. CS1.6 is freaking cheap to play online now after the beta stages, maybe I should play more UT and tribes these days… And grrr downloaded the anticipated “october blockbuster”- Team17’s Worms 3D demo but dont seem to be able to get it working, furthermore its an official download. dammit!

Currently Listening: Rimini Project feat- Da da di da

JC class outing

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JC class outing

Didn’t know the outing today is so widely known, with all the SMSes flying around, its sure hard to miss that. But in the end only 6 people went and yea, we met many others while we are out too, mainly NS and old school friends. It was rather enjoyable and we can’t wait for the next meet again.

And so, the day started with a wake up at about 9am. Got my dad to fetch me to Beach road to get some equipment at the army market. Namely a new L-torch, sonic wave mosquito repellant, some buckles just to name a few. And so the house needs a new hall light? Dang! it was my dad idea anyway… and he had to drag me to Sungei road to get some new fluorescent lamps, making me late for my “meet” in the process. “on the way” he said…

So theres Geoffery, Shup (da birthday gal), Zongjie, Julia and her bf for the outing many said they won’t come many didn’t turned up either. Dropped Nooch noodle bar for lunch and kinda like wasted the afternoon there chatting till 5pm+ can’t help it as we had not end in bout 8 months! No time for a movie? well so theres Super funworld arcade at Marina with Nameco’s Time crises 2, 3, Konami’s World of combat and lot of DDR too. Bowled one group round at superbowl “just for fun” you can guess how bad everyone’s scores are.

Its also one trip where the Safra club discount card suddenly made itself indispensable, with discounts mainly flying off mostly at anderson’s icecream stands…. ice cream obsession or deprivation? well… what the heck!

Lastly, what outing is complete without a dropby Suntec City. Super crowded as usual and the place where people always use fountains as performance stages… Had dinner at the fountain terrace’s Slizzer, (aka Ponderosa number 2) and their Ice cream machine is malfunctioning! dang it, luckily for anderson’s… Got a new issue of PC extreme magazine for some in camp entertainment next week. For now…

Currently Listening: Holly Valance- Naughty Girl

Games or the games

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Games or the games

Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour is expected to be released on 22 September 2003, as comfirmed by funan’s Software Boutique. They are too taking preorders now. :0

Team 17 had released a demo for Worms 3D, bout 67MB big get on their official site.

Mmm, tomorrow’s Superpet hardware aniversary sale. Check out good offers there, like a P4 2.4Ghz + mobo bundle for $399.

Currently Listening: Ace of Base- All that she wants

Mr Softee..

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Mr Softee..

*licks icecream* Mmm 7-eleven is having a Mr softee special- 2 cups for $1.20.. how can I miss that?

yum..

*eyes starbucks mocha on the weekends again*

duh!

Currently Listening: Most dance music, vol3

Birthday bikers

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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 a few didn’t know how to ridea bike… (taking bout deprived childhoods!) but it was easily settled with a few short lessons by some of us “dedicated” coaches. Headed back for lunch at home thereafter as my dad’s cooking (and he hadn’t cooked lunch on a saturday for quite sometime too, another reason for me to go back home to chow). Did some “spring” cleaning in my room, namely getting rid of all my old useless school worksheets and books which I would had incinerated sometime ago… tidied up my comp’s interior cabling bit as those messy fan and IDE cables are catching alot of air in my casing’s wind tunnel.

And hey today’s my mum’s birthday too. Its a birthday cake from my dad and dinner thereafter at the riverside/quayside Chinese restaurant. The food there is very much of a teochew styled restaurant- a higher classier version of those teochew hawker, and yea they even serve sharks fin.

The army half marathon is on tomorrow, Benjamin shears bridge would be closed to all traffic, nice many may say, the signs and detours are up and ready to go…. lucky for me, I don’t have to run! Zzzz!

Currently Listening: Perfect 10

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