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Crossroads, my chosen undergraduate education – Overseas scholarship with DSTA

Was around NUS last week to submit my application, my 3rd time in fact. Only this time I wasn't as anxious about it as what I did many years back, having been rejected 2 times in a row. Seeing all the first timers there all lost in the admissions makes me wonder how naive I was back...
Polytechnic

SP MM 50th Anniversary Dinner and Dance

The MM annual dinner and dance cum 50th anniversary celebrations was held last week at Raffles town club on the 15th (Feb) of this month. It's not a poly-wide event but rather one for the school itself in mark of the long way the SP's school of MM had came around. The event started with a reception...
Blog

Advertlets and Nuffnang Showdown, Advertlets payments processing painfully slow

The lowdown of the 2 biggest blog advertisers in SEA - Advertlets and Nuffnang Well ads do contribute alot to the running cost of my websites. I know not everyone like ads to be shown on the sites they visit- they slow the loading of pages, give errors and sometime intrude and even block/distort content you are reading....
Computers

Codetalk- tips to minimise spam in HTML form submit elements and comments

On the internet, I guess everyone is no stranger to spam and I believe neither is any of us is a fan of one. Spam always plague webmasters and our websites, finding difficult to balance the exposure of our emails so that we can still reach out to our intended audiences, but not extent of spam bots...
Polytechnic

DME Class of 25 End Semster Chalet and Old Changi Hospital Visit

Whats more a way to end the Poly semester but with a reunion chalet with my old class of 25. However, just like many others during the vacation, it's the time to work prior to enlistment to the army or university. Despite all these, many Cheers going tout to many who took the time off to drop...
Gaming

EA’s C&C Red Alert 3 Announced

Well just when you thought EA (aka old ruins of westwood) is totally done calling 2008 with the FPS "Tiberium" looks like they have something else up their sleeves with a new sequel to the largely popular Red Alert series. We've seen C&C 3 adn Kane coming up previously, so we can technically and most expectedly see...
Occasions

Happy Chinese new Year of the Rat!

Wishing everybody there celebrating Chinese New Year today a very happy CNY 2008 and the Lunar new year of the Rat! It's the time of the year where you not only get to stuff yourself silly with bak kua, pineapple tarts or turning orange from all those excessive mandarin oranges, it's also a period to meet up...
Site Updates

WordPress function integration with Gallery1 pages and wrappers

Prior to upgrading my site and making it more code efficient, I always had a problem of integrating Wordpress and Gallery together seamlessly and call functions from each program without any conflicts. By nature, unlike gallery 2 (G2), gallery 1 do not have a naive system in support for templates - sticking to html "wrappers" which you...
Site Updates

Some site features down for upgrading

Please mind the sawdust, the site is currently under a 3 day upgrade where few areas of the site will be upgraded and code re-written. These are few of the various addons planned for the site for a more Web 2.0 layout. Integrated photo gallery is now database driven Lightboxes for photo previews More user friendly shoutbox with reply and...
Polytechnic

Track and Field Seniors Farewell

Been all round Singapore and visiting grans in the afternoon. The rain kinda dampened the need to drop by Chinatown to check out the festive happenings and goodies there. Then there was the Track and field outing in the evening. It was a short dinner gathering at Hongkong Street cafe at East coast with most of the track...
Polytechnic

2008 CIE Class Chalet at Pasir Ris

Was around school today (for one of the few last times) with the team to collect my Spinnovex gold certificate. There was alot to catch up not to mention bidding farewell to many of our anticipative lecturers (not to mention many photos as well) who took us during our course of studies. I apologize for my absence...
Sports Events

Ambank Kuala Lumpur International Marathon 2008

18/02/07 Update: Singapore Runners Registration The official Ambank Kuala Lumpur International Marathon registration team will be in Singapore 2nd March 2008 7.30am to 9.30m at Mac Ritchie Reservoir Carpark (not on 3rd march as planned initially). Got a letter from the FTAAA few days ago, but didn't really had the time to update this as I was away for...
Sports Events

Details for more upcoming events

Got few updates from NTU on their National vertical marathon in march and Federal Territory Amateur Athletic Association on their 17th Ambank Kuala Lumpur International Marathon 2008. Till I get all the content sorted, will keep you all posted on the registration and updates for these events on an upcoming update.
Blog

The week in short, and school’s ended…

Well, it's one week after Spinnovex with all the post exhibition and administrations things to be done. Finally got all the project grading, interviews and reports done. Man especially the report- never had my team was able to type and compile like 20 thousand words of report spanning 4 days! I guess that feat in comparison, is...
Final Year Project

On the Media!

Lol, was just told by my intelligence network that I appeared on Tonight TV news, Channel News Asia a few moments ago, that one was the interview about my FYP motion simulator project I got the exhibition gold award for. They said I was professional on TV haha, with the exception of some acne... (haha maybe...
Events

Singapore Toy and Comic Convention (STCC)

Singapore Toy and Comic Con is here! (STCC) will be the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. The convention, modelled after San Diego Comics Convention and the Tokyo Game Show, is organised by Play Imaginative - the people behind the conceived in Singapore urban vinyl series “Trexi“. The three day event, from 27 to 28 June, will...
Sports Events

Menara Kuala Lumpur KL Tower Forest International Towerthon Challenge 2008

Event: Menara Kuala Lumpur KL Tower International Towerthon Challenge 2008 Race date: TBC Accuracy of Info: As given on 4th Jan 2008 Registration Register personally at Upper Ground Floor Menara Kuala Lumpur Sdn Bhd No.2 Jalan Punchal off Jalan P.Ramlee 50250 Kuala Lumpur 1 Jan 2009 to 30th Jan 2008 10am to 6pm (Malaysia time) Alternative mail in registration, downlod the registration form from their website. And mail...
Interesting Stuffs

Casinos & Maths are not too different- The keyhole view to science of Casinos

Met up with few news friend at a workshop over the week, apparently it was doing one of my freelance jobs for an event and they were my alias as operators for that particular event I was covering. Apparently, as even operators they spend most of their time sitting outside the conference rooms while their main speaker...
Gaming

Orange boxes, got team fortress 2!

Had been rather busy the last few days rushing up post final year reports and some other post Spinnovex administration matters. Before you know it, its the last day of the semester with the exam weeks starting next. Good thing I do not have any modules to take this semester! Good luck to those taking (and repeating)...
Sports Events

NTU Surf n sweat 2008

Event: NTU Surf & Sweat 2008 Event Date: 3rd Fen 2008 Organiser: NTU Sports club Venue: Tanjong Beach Sentosa Events All participants must be above 16 years of age. Main Event: Surf and Run Biathlon (400M surf on surfboard and 4km run) Open Categories Men's Open $15 Women's Open $15 Mixed Open $22 (1 Male surf or Run + 1 Female surf or Run)Team Categories Men's Doubles $22 Women's Open...
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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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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 and Flip5 unpacked

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Lights by the lake 2024 Jurong lake gardens

Let’s take a visit and explore the Mid-Autumn Lights by the Lake 2024 at the Jurong Lake Gardens. The event offers a Singaporean celebration...

Singapore Night Festival 2024

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Cable Cars A Ride Through Time at Vivocity Mall

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Singapore Garden Festival 2024

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