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Gearing up for the “all powerful” Alienware M17x

With my university term starting in October, it's very much shopping time to get the gears and stuffs in preparations for my departure. Shopping is good therapy, well, not until you see the bill! The choice of my desired system was much of a personal debated topic as well. The story started with this quad core desktop...
Blog

Old Amercia, Canada and Mexico holiday photographs digitized!

I've always wanted to digitize my old holiday photos, but knowing that they are buried in storage under years of dust made it quite a turn off to do so, till now. I recently got this spanking new Canon all in one printer which allows for network scanning and printing over wireless-fidelity, so technically any PC can...
Laughs

Team fortress 2 Motivational signs- Steamroll and teamstacking sprays

Motivational signs are always well... motivational- stuff you usually see lining cubicle walls or classrooms. On the other end of the spectrum, particularly if you use them in another unintended way, come the kind of signs we call de-motivational signs. Coupled with a sense of humor these signs can get rather hilarious, especially when you try to...
Blog

Remembering Michael Jackson: The Greatest of All Time

Today saw a sad moment and the lost of one of the greatest pop stars in history. Jackson collapsed at a rented home in Holmby Hills in Los Angeles from an cardiac arrest, attempts at resuscitating him by his personal physician and at the UCLA Medical Center was unsuccessful. Though speculation was already turning to what killed the...
Blog

Site officially upgraded, now time for the eye candies!

Well the site had been fully upgraded with all the basic necessities up. The tough part is of course converting all the current articles and tutorials into wordpress itself. What's more the site is xhtml validated now, so that will put some standardization into the site itself. Strangely, xhtml seems to be like a milestone or sort,...
Computers

Integrate and wrapping WordPress 2.8 functions with Gallery2 (with conditional CSS)

Following the upgrade of the site, I've successfully integrated gallery2 with wordpress 2.8, able to call wordpress functions within gallery itself and maintain your wordpress sidebar. This was not previously achievable with gallery1 considering that some wordpress and gallery share some variables which needs to be redefined to avoid conflict, with this new setup I am glad...
Site Updates

A new post on a new revised site design!

Heads up for the new clean design I've been working on over the past months. The site is running on WP 2.8 and I will be upgrading the photo gallery soon as well. Part of the update which took so much time was to update the various textual content around the site such as the about and...
Blog

There is not much of time left, or it is?

Well it really had been sometime since I've posted an entry here. Haha to the extent of some of my regular readers contacting me about my absence. Haha yes of course I am still around, my apologies. So what had been keeping me busy? well much, it's only 4 months before my school term starts in October....
Blog

Are you really open-minded?

This is a very interesting video on open/closed mindedness. So if you always go around telling people they are closed minded or telling people to be more open minded, you should watch this.
Interesting Stuffs

Team Fortress 2: Meet the spy

As part of the series of "Meet the cast" in the uber cool game, Team Fortress, which sadly had saw me playing for a good ol' 10 years since 1999 with team fortress classic and now it's sequel, team fortress 2. This latest installment is an early leaked version not released by VALVe yet, but it's still...
University

Guide for applying to UK universities via UCAS for polytechnic students – Part 2 (Employment, personal statement and reference)

This is the second part of my guide for applying to UK universities via UCAS for polytechnic students in Singapore, covering the remaining sections, employment, personal statement and reference. 4. Employment If you've have any working experience, say part-time at a fast food joint or being your own boss, list them here, if you do not have any, you...
University

Guide for applying to UK universities via UCAS for polytechnic students – Part 1 (Personal details, choices and education)

After my successful application as an international student from Singapore via UCAS (guess many found their way here from a dated blog post), I've been receiving quite a number of questions about the application process, particular for non-mainstream poly students like myself. I have written a small guide condensed from the replies I've given out, going section...
Sports Events

Mizuno Mount Faber Run, 14 Jun 2009

In the third year running, the highly successful Mizuno Mount Faber Run is back again, taking runners through the sights of the southern hills of Singapore. Race Details Venue: Open carpark space between Block 121 & 123 Bukit Merah View (There will be multiple tents erected in the carpark itself) Distance: 10km Race Start Time: 0730hrs (No reporting needed, just arrive on...
Computers

Launch of Dell Swarm

Due to be launched on the 5th of May and the first of it's kind in the world, Dell Swarm by Intel and Dell is an online ordering portal targeted at students and value hunters alike. So it works like a mass order system we usually see taking "lobangs", only that this time, you are dealing the...
Site Updates

Site revamp progress, right on track

Well, progress on the site revamp is rather fruitful. It started with a rather tough fight to get div containers to go fluid on percent values for a 3 column layout, fixed width divs are more predictable over a range of browsers, so I am still contemplating whether to allow the fluid width option for content. Nevertheless...
Blog

Classifieds impersonations!

I've been receiving quite a few emails asking about my "Ad" on few popular online classifieds sites, such as 88db. Which left really really puzzled as I do not feature my freelance services anywhere else on the internet other than my portfolio pages on this website. So I went about a search on the net and found...
Computers

Followup of the hacking situation

Am updating all scripts on my servers as I type along in this blog post, there is quite much updating to go, I guess I just sneak an update here. After much investigation of the previous hacking attempt in my last blog post, it seems that the DoS problem narrows down to a vulnerability in the roundcube...
Computers

ShaunChng.com servers hacked

Sorry for the 1 hour downtime last night from 12:30am to about 1:30am (Singapore time). The site is up and functional now. I jumped when I got a downtime message from my servers, strange, the server can be reached and pinged, so not a hardware or network problem, but my website cannot be reached. A short search...
Site Updates

Site upgrade planned in next month

Always wanted to get a site revamp up since last year, but just do not have the time and commitment to do so. I guess I has been more busy creating and building websites for my clients that I think that I am starting to neglect this very site. Bummer. Furthermore, in the age of code compliance, web...
Blog

Singapore is a “fine” city, of course, aren’t you proud of it?

It's ain't no april fool's joke, but hey Singapore does have a reputation of a fine city. And what better way to see it through the eyes of a rather chatty taxi driver. Though I think the expats have not really seen much of Singapore to make any firm creditability from their remarks, I guess Singapore will still...
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Galaxy Ai 2024 new Fold 6 and Flip 6

Let’s take a hands-on of Samsung’s new foldable phones and wearables at this year’s Galaxy AI Unpacked 2024 event in Singapore. The global event...

Belkin BoostCharge portable Magsafe 5k charger review

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Singapore Night Festival 2024

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Singapore Garden Festival 2024

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Astro Boy Journey through Time BLAXK Funan

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Kapitan Slavic Ukrainian restaurant

Let’s take a dine-in today visiting the Kapitan Slavic Ukrainian/Russian restaurant at Tanjong Pagar. The restaurant offers a curated offering of Eastern Europe. The...

Sheng Ji Fishball Noodle Bukit Merah

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Yat Ka Yan Dessert (Fortune Centre)

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Kheng Fatt beef noodles Golden Mile

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COCA steamboat

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Mio Fine Foods Neil Road

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Food for thought National Museum

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