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2TB of space! wohahahaha

Part II of pimp my PC was today, in other words, yes was around Simlim got a quick swipe at few more items to make my PC complete. That means picking up a western digital 1TB harddisk ($322) together with Vista Home Premium ($129). Amazingly alot of stores are still selling vista at like $167 to $179...
Computers

Got My New Yorkfield Quad Core PC!

Got some cool stuff today, or like those peeps in hardware zone will call "a Hoot", will let ya in for in with this teaser on the left to figure out the parts. I wanted to challenge myself in building a sub 10k 3Dmark2006 PC around $1000 without overclocking, the budget itself is a challenge I gave myself...
Sports & Runs

2008 IPPT cleared

Passed my IPPT with a silver at Maju Camp yesterday. Despite able to get a silver, it was my worst result to date, with 3 points (C) scored for standing board jump and 2.4km run with 21 points total. It was like Oh my Gosh, 11:14 for 2.4km? that was like more than 1 minute since I...
Current Issues

Streetdirectory.com comes back online (press release)

Yup Streetdirectory.com is coming back up online, here is the official press release, thanks to Glenn from Virtual Map public relations for sending this in. STREETDIRECTORY.COM COMES BACK ONLINE Singapore, 14 April 2008 – Taking its first step towards becoming fully functional again, Streetdirectory.com came back online at 4:20am today with most of its popular features including bus/ MRT...
University

US Ivy Universities talk at Civil Service College, more interviews

It was a busy weekend. Was at the Civil Service College (CSC) yesterday, University of Chicago, Dartmouth, Duke, Stanford, Wellesley and Yale were there to give a talk about each of their universities. It was largely a talk on "selling" their colleges, which I personally think, well, is not exactly needed considering the excess of applications the...
Current Issues

Upcoming Singapore fundrasing flag days from April to December 2008 (Whole year)

The previous SP flag day together with the Viriya community service ones were a blast this month. If you would like to help out as a volunteer and make a difference to the lives of the least fortunate by fund raising, here are the upcoming flag days in Singapore from April 2008 (today) to December 2008. Here are...
University

NUS Global merit scholarship interview

Had my NUS Global Merit Interview, it is one of the 2 interviews conducted in consideration for the prestigious Global Merit (GM), undergrad (Merit) or the basic undergrad scholarships. The interview was conducted by 2 Proffs and a Dr, so it's 3-1, the setting is very done typical meeting table style. The interesting task of the day was...
Polytechnic

SP Flag Day 2008 for President’s Challenge Charity 08

Today is SP's flag day and we were everywhere, including being highlighted on today's TV news as well. If you've missed us, well, then where have you been? My spot was at raffles place early in the morning, there I got to meet my "class tutor" Mr Teng who I got recommended by my Materials Lecturer, Mrs...
Interesting Stuffs

Xiaxue, Wendy Cheng on the real and china fake iPhone (fake one wins)

Posted just for the moment of zen after catching this on gizmodo, don't ask... OMG who do not know how an iPhone looks like? Oh yes, but hey we are in Singapore right? Anyway she mentioned that she's gonna be kinda biased throughout, so oh well, at least the producers got what they wanted from here, haha.
Gaming

C&C3 Kanes Wrath – Tacitus interruptus brief mission walkthrough (Hard difficulty)

This mission is fairly straightforward though largely requested, so I won't be going into too much detail on it as my previous most sought after walkthrough, The doctor vanishes due to the challenge of this mission being set on timely executions and not much on survival. So here goes, also played on hard difficulty. You start off with...
Computers

Intel LGA1160 and LGA1366 sockets to replace LGA775 by end this year

Little background of the upcoming processors and socket, as shown on the picture on the left, the larger LGA1160/1366 chip is based on the Nehalem platform spotting between one and eight cores running on the Intel LGA1160 and LGA1366 sockets. Noteworthy is the return of Hyperthreading in this processors- capable of handling two independent software threads per...
Blog

Streetdirectory.com reopens after lawsuit

Few days ago, I told the story of Singapore popular street directory shutting down after losing their lawsuit and appeal against the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) over map copyright infringement last week. Despite all that and few negotiations here and there, it looks like the all popular (not to mention indispensable) streetdirectory.com is set to reopen once...
Current Issues

Youth Olympic Games Dialogue Session with Mr Jacques Rogge and the YOG Panel

Held this morning at the Victoria Junior College, the dialogue session saw a panel of key personnel such as Mr Jacques Rogge (President IOC), Mr Sergey Bubka (Chairman, YOG Coordination Commission) and Mr Ng Ser Miang. Security was relatively tight with police presence, as hinted by the police vans and cars parked around. The gathering saw "top"...
Blog

Final DSTA interview and NUS Global Merit Scholarship Interview on the horizon

7 Interviews within a period of a month, man that have to be my lifetime record to date. There have been some good news coming in lately, and my agenda will see me through quite alot in thetime line for the coming weeks, such as my final DSTA interview as chaired by DSTA Deputy Chief Executive as...
Current Issues

Virtual Map’s Streetdirectory.com shuts down after losing suit

Been trying to get onto streetdirectory.com for directions around town lately, but apparently they had ceased operations after losing suit against the Singapore Land Authority. Besides considering PARF cash rebates for motorists now, guess this one is another one up for private car ownership. Regular directory nerds will get all lost taking public transport now on LOL....
Blog

A chat with Advertlet’s Josh Lim

Got a call from Josh Lim, the CEO of Advertlets today with regards to my views about them I had on my previous blog post. He apologized for the problems they had caused, especially with the delays in payment, we ironed out fews issues I had outstanding in mind, especially on improving their customer response and that...
Polytechnic

An institutional award in the mist!

Along with the line of back to back interviews of the week, just came back today from an interview with the SP EXPAN reporter (the previous ones were from the other corporate comms department), they are doing up a write up of outstanding model students as well as those who won awards at institutional level, not that...
Interesting Stuffs

Google Virgle- The Adventure of Many Lifetimes

Google Virgle- The Adventure of Many Lifetimes Earth has issues, and it's time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human...
Gaming

C&C3 Kanes Wrath – The doctor vanishes mission walkthrough (Hard Difficulty)

There had been lots of word going on lately on a particular C&C mission being rather difficult to complete, namely the 7th NOD mission known as "The doctor vanishes". I've completed the mission myself, so why not share my own experience and how I went about it in this mission walkthrough. I've completed the mission on hard...
Interesting Stuffs

DSTA scholarships 2nd assessment

It's April fool's day and man there is no other way to spend a day in the DSTA assessment center. It comprises of literally a half day line of events, 3 main ones to be exact which can be rather mentally taxing. But as most of the information there are largely confidential as told, there's a limit...
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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 Garden Festival 2024

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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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Mio Fine Foods Neil Road

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