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My Medical Appointments – The long interesting radioactive story

It seems that whenever you see a GP for a problem, it's very interesting of one problem to pop up another, in my case from diarrhea to kidney stones? to kidney problems? whoa read on: Dropped by SGH for a medical appointment follow-up today, apparently on a long story this case which started on early this year when...
Final Year Project

Run run run, hush on final year projects

Went for a short 16km run this evening after a week of absence from the sport, maybe I am saturated with glucose or so, but the run was totally effortless and I never felt the "wall" at all, things look good to bump the distance up by another kilometer next week runs. The Alexandra canal route was...
Sports & Runs

Track and Field IVP 2007/2008 Fixtures at Gombak Stadium

This year’s Track and Field IVP 2007/2008 will be held at the usual Gombak Stadium over a period of 3 days (20th, 24th & 27th of Oct 2007) within the timeframe spanning about 2 weeks. In the event of unfavorable weather conditions, the events will be held on the following Sunday. More details on the event fixtures...
Interesting Stuffs

Cool bike wheel LEDs

Remember those LED fans from the previous NDP which paints words on the fan blades upon turning it on? It runs on a rather old concept of frequency timing in response to the blades revolution speed- so when it blinks at just the right rate, it can paint full radial text or even images programmed using only...
Events

Old Traditions that Adapts – Riverside Mid Autumn Festival

In the light of the Mid Autumn festival going on now, noticeably would be the array of nicely made lights and translucent lantern display on along Chinatown and the Singapore river by the River Walk (specifically opposite the Clark Quay on the Central Shopping Center side). Personally in the light of the rather high standards and taste...
Family

Merchant Court Swissotel Ellenborough Market Cafe Buffet

This evening we were at Merchant Court Hotel. Tonight was the planned second part of my mum's birthday dinner celebrations with my family at the Ellenborough Market Cafe restaurant, only that theres no cake and cards planned for this round as compared to last week's round. It's an international buffet with an adequately sound spread of Local,...
Automotive

2008 Honda Odyssey Touring

What do you get when you cross the front of a Liana and the rear a Chrysler Grand Voyager? You get the 2008 Honda Odyssey Touring. Contrary to the 2007's lower and more sportier Odyssey, the 2008 model had definitely much grown up with more practically as a family MPVs it provides for. Honda's incrementalist approach to...
Sports & Runs

Viral Runs and more SP gyming out!

I was down with a slight cough over late last week, a viral infection possibly caught from my mum who is ironically gotten less hindered by it now contrary to me, but I kept it at bay with lots of fluids and that not as much rest. Nevertheless caught up with the runs this week, with nice...
Events

SPH’s omy (www.omy.sg MMS 75858) Trade Launch Party at Clark Quay

The Omy.sg launch party was on tonight and shaunchng.com was in on a trade invitation. So what else can we do on a holiday but PARTY? Held at Clarke Quay's outdoor atrium where the fountains are we see a fusion of fellow bloggers together with corporate guests all gathering to witness the sneak preview and soft launch...
Final Year Project

Radicurl FYP Simulator software working!

After countless efforts over the past few days in the workshop to get the software for our simulator force feedback calculator to work, our fruits are starting to pay off - we managed to get readings all the direct X .dll output from the games we tested today, namely Need for Speed Most Wanted and EA sports...
Computers

Intel to launch Penryn on Nov 12th, USB 3.0 proposed

With USB 2.0 starting to show it's age, the first members of the USB 3.0 promoter group including HP, Intel Microsoft, NEC Corporation, NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments said that USB 3.0 will deliver more than ten times the data transfer bandwidth of USB 2.0, which tops out at 480 Mb/s. The new interface will be designed...
Final Year Project

More darn changes to the simulator design

It turns out some projects will require constant design revisions to be perfect. Got news from my teammate that our supervisor wants another design change to the design of the simulator, namely making it more "unique" however, this means having to go a full 360 degrees into a total revamp, reason being our design is common for...
Final Year Project

Gearing up for school reopening, booth done

Popped by school today to meet up with my FYP teamamtes Khowming who was already there with other coursemates. Danson could not make it today due to some last minute issue on his part. Part of today's plan was to get our 2nd signage board up (which will be used for illustrative purposes at our display booth),...
Polytechnic

Track Camp, BBQ and Polar RS400sd at House of Times

The track camp and BBQ is on last night, well specifically the BBQ as the camp already started since Thursday. The camp saw a reunion of some old seniors, together with Juniors. There was Lan gaming at SP Moberly Hub before training from 5pm at the track. The BBQ started around 7.30pm. Besides the usual crabsticks and...
Family

Happy Birthday Mum!

Today is my mum's 50th birthday and it will be celebrated in 3 phases, namely a home celebration tonight, giant buffet dinner at Goodwood Hotel and next weekend another family dinner at our favorite eatery joint, YMCA metropolitan t Stevens road. It was like secret ops during this evening: Brought her blueberry cake with dad while she's out...
Computers

Silly MS-DOS 5 Promo Video – No PC should be without it

To spoil that moment of Zen. I can't believe that this is actually a real commercial Microsoft used for promote MS-DOS back in the stone ages. 45kb of extended memory? You can't simply stop laughing and go "what-the?" at the same time. OMG, a graphical Shell?
Polytechnic

Singapore Polytechnic 07/08 Semester 1 Results Out in full Glory!

My fifth semester results are out! Finally! a perfect score for this semester after failing to always hit the "prefect kill" mark for the last 2 semesters. This semester saw a pristine "Mon-mon-mon-monster kill" with 8 'DIST' out of the 8 Modules taken and 'A' for IS module (Internship) in which the 'A' grade is the most...
Gadgets

Shaun’s Technology Predictions in 5 years time

Had sometime, so I guess I got kinda carried away typing up a "short post" on technology changes I would expect in years to come, the end result is this post. Looking back, technology had really progressed amazingly fast over the years, not to mention price downs as well. I still remembered having paid $75 for a...
Current Issues

Remembering 9/11

If actions speak louder than elegy, it tells you where we are that the team coverage on the eve of the 6th anniversary of 9/11 alternated between General Petraeus' performance on Capitol Hill and Britney Spears' performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Osama returned to prime time, only to be mocked for his "impotence" and apparent...
Interesting Stuffs

Money money happy!, advertise with Adverlets.com!

Advertlets.com - Blog Advertising in Asia!" Earn by blogging! Interestingly, Adverlets not only provides cheques in the mail for your blog Ad earnings but rather cool stickers and badges as well! Money money happy! advertise with Adverlets.com! Well, the bloggers said it! They they got it! stickers, badges and most irresistibly, their cheques! With a minimum pay out...
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Technology and Gadgets

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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

Gadgets

Belkin 2-in-1 Wireless Charging Pad review

Gadgets

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 and Flip5 unpacked

Gadgets

Events

Events

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

Events

Cable Cars A Ride Through Time at Vivocity Mall

Events

Singapore Garden Festival 2024

Events

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European

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

Asian

Yat Ka Yan Dessert (Fortune Centre)

Asian

Kheng Fatt beef noodles Golden Mile

Asian

COCA steamboat

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Mio Fine Foods Neil Road

Japanese

Food for thought National Museum

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