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Rumored 6 Megapixel Camera slider phone from Nokia

Apparently from this leaked picture from Nokia, it seems that the successor to the N93i wouldn't be too far off in the 2008, spotting a similar form factor with the camera mounted perpendicularly to the phone face. The N96? Figures. This sideway mounting position is typical for phones which feature optical zooms (yup no pixelated digital zooms for...
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Your Santa’s Christmas fact of the day

Christmas is hectic for all but particularly for Santa, who must live in Kyrgyzstan and make his rounds at lightning speed if he is to deliver gifts to all the world's children on time, a Swedish consultancy has concluded. Between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, Santa Claus's route around the planet includes stops at 2.5 billion homes,...
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The days after the marathon

Was around the esplanade area yesterday, I never thought that I would myself back at the hot spot so soon as I was very much recovered and walking around normally. The area was left very much in the shadow of the big event the day before, with barricades still lined all round the roads, alone excavator doing...
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Standard Chartered Marathon (SCM) 2007 Post Race Report

Update! - Race results are out! (select your category from the link) - Marathon Photos (coming soon) The Standard Chartered Marathon (SCM) was on this morning and this year's race is no exception, considering the last race for the season with Stand Chartered as the title sponsor. You can't deny that 42km is not an easy feat but that didn't...
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Tomorrow – Singapore Marathon! (My Marathon Plans)

Tomorrow is the big day for all running the event held at the all prominent Padang and Esplanade. Let it be another finish in your pocket or a first for many as well, this year's race will be hopefully be better and more memorable (in a positive manner) considering it's Stand Chart last official year of the...
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N95 8GB sample photos

Had been testing the camera out lately, and I am say I am quite impressed by the N95 8GB camera, the starting up takes a modest 3 seconds which is so much better than my previous HP rw6828 which can easily take 10 seconds. While the HP rw6828 takes 2 minutes to save a 2 Megapixel image,...
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Nokia Wifi SBS Bus – There is real free wi-fi!

Its not like skynet global which is impossible to surf in or Singnet@wireless for only singtel/net subscribers, apparently there had been few mobile internet stations roaming round Singapore- Boarded service 147 today and hey it's wi-fi enabled! Got up on my phone and hooked up to my mail inbox and mobile MSN messenger for the trip. Though...
Sports & Runs

Running with the sore throat that won’t run away!

Had not been running alot for the past one week, as I wanted to fully recover from my minor sore throat that had been irritating me for days. It's not exactly serious, a very mild one in fact which I can completely mask with fisherman's friend or woods cough drops, but its just simply bugging me and...
Gadgets

1st few days with the Nokia N95 8GB

After using my N95 8GB for a few days, finally got the hang of numeric pad SMSing again, it had been almost 5 over years since I used a phone with a proper numeric keypad... no more funny side keypads with my old SX1 or having the need to use a stylus with my HP rw6828. ...
Gadgets

Got my new N95 8GB! (Singapore edition)

Got my spanking new N95 8GB today! Would be setting my newest phone addition to charge overnight, in the meantime, I can post of what you can expect in the box in the traditional "unboxing ritual". Will get to play more of it tomorrow. Its all over the box! Greeting upon opening lid Thats all in the box As you can...
Sports & Runs

Standard Chartered Marathon (SCM) 2007 rackpack collection and items

Collected my Standard Chartered Marathon (SCM) race pack today, as usual for every year, collection is fast and a breeze, hardly took 10mins to collect my bag which included custom items such as my race bib + champion chip and singlet of my size choice in as well. Just like every year, I collected my pack without...
Computers

Spam Karma 2 “get recent comments” bugfix on PHP 5.0 and MySQL 5.0.12

There had not been any talk or bugfixes regarding this bug, so I why not share this. For those who are running the rather good spam filter "Spam Karma" on your blogs and have not actually upgraded for sometime, there are some incompatibility the existing code have with PHP 5.0 and particularly MySQL 5.0.12 on the admin management...
Events

Singapore Changi T3 Airport (Terminal 3) – Skytrain, Immigration & Arrival Hall

:: Singapore Changi T3 Airport Report Page 3/3 Gate holding rooms A380 aerobridges come ready with a third arm to facilitate boarding and disembarking of both levels of the jumbo craft a the same time. There are even paired gated hold rooms with mezzanine levels in some of them. The passenger holding area, though vast, leads to 4 B independent...
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Singapore Changi T3 Airport (Terminal 3) – Skylights, Departure & Transit Hall

:: Singapore Changi T3 Airport Report Page 2/3 Departure Hall & Skylights You will be greeted by sunlight upon entering the 2nd floor departure hall area, which the benchmark set by Japan on their "floating airport", this is no exception given the favorable sunny conditions of Singapore. Scale model of whole terminal The computerised skylight system The emigration counters The terminal upper...
Events

Firsthand experience of Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 3 (CAAS T3) – Layout, Subway & Getting Around

Got a firsthand experience of Terminal 3 today before the scheduled grand opening on 9th Jan 2008. Went around with a guided tour courtesy of CAAS staff not only covering the general public accessible area, but the restricted departure and immigration areas as well. For those who want to see and know more about the 1.75 billion...
Blog

It’s heaty waterworld for me, still gyming and running

Got quite a bit of the "heaty" lately but kept that down very well with more intake of water (not to mention toilet visits) and cooling "liang" tea brewed by mum. For those who know, I have quite a high metabolism rate and have to go with almost a full Med bottle of water every 2 hours...
Interesting Stuffs

Fun with QR codes, thanks Japan!

QR codes had been around for sometime, but I guess since with the wave of talk about it and the use of it in advertisements not only in the papers but busstops as well, guess I will just talk about this little Japanese wonder which succeeds it's older brother, the barcode. Quote from wikipedia: A QR Code is a...
Sports & Runs

Swissotel Vertical Marathon Post Race Report

Swissotel Vertical Marathon Post Race Report The annual Swissotel Vertical marathon was held this morning and the race was great and well organised just like every year. Unlike open flat races, vertical marathons are definitely one which also caters to a niche group of sports enthusiasts, so the smaller event size and given strict registration cap from the...
Family

Bugis day out, new wallet, new fyp parts, new eating place

Popped by Bugis today and if you are there, you will come to understand that the traffic lights in front of bugis street leading to Parco is the ultimate display of the phase "no man's an island" - just think close to 60 people packed onto the lane divider crosswalk island. Unreal! Even the cars are afraid...
Sports & Runs

Found the case to my runner’s diarrhea (Runner’s trot)

No that's not a picture of me shitting in my pants, but had abit of the runner's trot yesterday (therefore the article in my previous blog entry). Now I finally come to realize that my previous past sudden flatulence and diarrhea problems which strangely always comes and go occasionally or every 3 months or so, was due...
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Galaxy Ai 2024 new Fold 6 and Flip 6

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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...

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