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Cambridge engineering prep week

The engineering prep course was held over the course of last week, it was organised by the university department as an introductory course for all fresher engineers starting their first year in Cambridge university. There were talks on various engineering topics such as reducing airplane noise and introductory electronics by various speakers and industry partners, such as...

Aihoy Cambridge!

School starts in a few weeks time and it's time for my flight to Cambridge before term starts. My flight was seduled on the late night of the 27th, a Sunday at the Changi Terminal 3. After dinner within the airport with my family and a long farewell to friends, relatives and loved ones, I slowly made...

Singtel Formula 1 Singapore GP 2009 paddock visit by Shell

I was fortunate enough to be invited by Shell to witness the Singtel Singapore Formula 1 GP up close. I was part of a group which were brought around the track and general area by Shell technical directors from London and KL, we were given free tickets for the day to catch the action up close at...

Wacom Intuos 4 Medium Tablet review- A cartoonist perspective

Today is a good day! And a coincidence, the day my new Intuos4 arrived in the mail as well! I brought mine off Amazon at $297 USD with a student discount. The non-academic version is retailing too at Amazon for about $320 USD which is roughly $20 bucks more, however what you get is rather similar. The...

Looking back at the year 2008 in photographs

Excerpt from the Boston globe: 2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up the thousands of stories in just a handful of photographs. That said, I will try to do what I've done with other photo narratives here, and tell a story of 2008 in photographs. It's not...

How USB thumbdrives are made

Thumbdrives don't grow on trees, neither can you find them with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Find out how this minute everyday object is made by going through a tour of the Kingston memory thumbdrive production line. Interesting watch.

Fedex has been fed, textbooks are here

It's a little more than a month before the Michaelmas term begins in October. Time do passes very fast and before you know it, it's time for studies again. I just feel that I am really running out of time for the things to do before flying abroad. My calendar is packed to the brim and there...

Run for Hope 2009 (Sunday, 22nd November 2009)

Thanks Lyla Lin for sending me the official details of the event. Many thanks also going out to the various runners who sent me updates on the event and reporting the error I had for this event on my 2009 listings page. RUN FOR HOPE 2009 Today’s Research. Tomorrow’s Cure. Run For Hope 2009, the most established non-competitive charity running...

A engineering interview to remember (Cambridge university engineering)

Since my unconditional undergrad offer to study engineering in Cambridge, I've never really found the time to write about my experience of the selection process and the interview I went through to be shortlisted. But heck it was really competitive, going against the top dogs in the best JCs in Singapore, not to mention scholars from around...

NDP 2009 Happy 44th birthday Singapore!

Managed to catch a web telecast of this year's national day parade 2009. This year's one is impressive in my own opinion, despite usually being a sore thumb (hehe) and a big critique to all the previous NDPs. Surprisingly, gone are the trying to hard cheesy theme songs usually evident in NDP parades for years at a...

Dover Park Hospice Sunday Walk 2009

Here is a charity related event event, they are kind enough to send me their press release, so I will post it down here for them, as a means of helping those who will benefit from the event itself. For the first time, Dover Park Hospice is organizing a Walk to raise much-needed funds to improve their facilities,...

Onboard the Singapore flyer with an experience article on the article page!

I always wanted to get this article written since late last year, but didn't get much to publish it as a work in constant progress until now. It goes to show how busy I was to even get this simple writeup timely done. Finally it is written. This article talks mainly about the experiences following my visit...

Scheduled system maintenance

The site will be down about 10 minutes at around 3pm SGT today for a system RAM change and reboot sorry for any downtime during that period. Update: 3.17pm The maintenance was a success, resuming normal site operations.

Mechwarrior 5 coming soon on PC and 360

Being an avid fan of the battlemech universe, this installment to the mechwarrior franchise will sure to get any battletech fans jumping out for joy. The latest trailer released by Piranha Games shows the in game-graphics bringing out all the details of the battlemechs, far better than what I recall having entered the series in Mechwarrior 2,...

Cambridgeshire bus commute video

Traveling is quite a a big part of life in the UK, it's also a way of life. Simple short trips can easily go for hours on end. Time where you can just prep your day with some coffee, a good book, your music player or a fully charged laptop and embark on your journey on the...

Site gallery images bug, can you see them?

There had been some minor inconsistent errors which always seems to come and go on the gallery. So far the site has been successfully tested on primary browsers, firefox 2+, internet explorer 7+, safari 3+ and google chrome. But I noticed however, that the images in the gallery occasionally turn out broken, particularly when SEO short URLS...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Travel Guides

Exploring Yokohama City and Chinatown

Let’s take an explore of Yokohama city in Japan today, checking out key sights like the city district, Chinatown, and Shinko Island. Yokohama city...

Technology and Gadgets

Visiting Plaza Lowyat Bukit Bintang KL

Plaza Lowyat Bukit Bintang KL

Events

Singapore Comic Con (SGCC) 2024

The Singapore Comic Con (SGCC) 2024 is in full swing this weekend. It showcases the very best of pop culture under one roof at...

Food and Beverage Expo 2024

Singapore Night Festival 2024

Food Reviews

Heun Kee Claypot Chicken Rice KL

Heun Kee Claypot Chicken Rice is renowned for its traditional claypot dishes cooked under a traditional charcoal fire. The restaurant is situated at Jalan...

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