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Earthquake tremors in Central Singapore

It rocked today at work, well literally - Sumatra today was hit by earthquake measuring 6.3-6.6 on the Richter scale at about 12 noon today. I recalled a moment when I suddenly felt dizzy, like desk started swaying, then I noticed the floor was swaying TOO! Then I thought: "Why am I so disorientated? Am I really...
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Designo SHINGJI “Xavier” Pocket PC Phone

The thing with almost all PDA device manufacturers out there, they just do not seem to get the recipe right or simply just do not listen to consumers. For me, the perfect phone is very hard to come by it's always either this or that in terms of features. Never have there been a single phone with...
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Car and Fuso Pancakes

After a breakdown last week, being fixed with a new solenoid our family car was up and running again, bringing my family for a hearty dinner yesterday at Goldenmile and safely back home. Glad to see it back and and running again. Little do I know it was short lived - received a call today in office...
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Events leading up to 2007 National Vertical Marathon

Internship With that in a flash marks the end of the Chinese new year week and into week 3 into my internship, with my Liason officer coming to visit the my workplace the following workweek. Yusheng Madness Notable events would be YuSheng with my company on Thursday as Siam kitchen restaurant, at Cousin Gordon's home (with both our families) and...
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Shutdown Day 24th March 2007

24th March is shutdown day folks. Just like "don't drive your car day" or "no smoking day" or "kill the girbills in the trash day", try to do as the name suggests ya? Like not turning on your desktop/laptop without the mouth-foaming withdrawal symptoms. 24th march is the date to mark on the calendar falling on a...
Sports & Runs

Running update, Revised Tiong Bahru Park Runs

It's 2007 a new running year and new resolutions to meet as well. With that, it's time to revise the 2006 usual running patterns. 2007 Revised Tiong Bahru Running Route My usual favorite bi-weekly running route will have a revised distance, so not only make my lap and distance counts easier but it will be more accurate to do...
Family

Post 2007 CNY

Chinese New Year is rather short this year, but very much more enjoyable than last year. Namely because it's the first time in about 5 years where all our families come together under one roof at my grandma's place, lunch and dinner included. Previously one of my Uncles kinda like went down in a family contractor business....
Gadgets

Toshiba g900, Samsung f520, f700, i-Mate Ultimate at 3GSM

As part of the new phones announced at 3GSM in Barcelona, here are few of the few interesting phones which should be coming out within 1 or 2 quarters time. HTC and Nokia didn't really steal the show though, as most the products on show are actually announced products ages ago. But Toshiba also came out with...
Current Issues

Happy 2007 Chinese New Year!

Oinks going out to all celebrating the Lunar New Year Today! Wishing prosperity, success and good health this new year of the pig. Now to eat the new year goodies in moderation...
Sports & Runs

Juggling work, play and Training, KL Marathon

Work had definitely eaten not only my personal time but much of my usual run and training schedules - I had not been running regularly, (clocking awfully low week millage in the process) nor attending track training in school last few weeks. Furthermore, if it's not hitting my personal weekly distance requirement of 30km, it's beating...
Polytechnic

First Week of Internshp (ITP)

Hello I am Shaun, just like Assok the intern in the comic Dilbert, I am the lowest possible life form in the corporate ladder - having the profound ability to "not know anything" and the "noob-rights" to hang around like a complete idiot. ITP this holidays is a unique one, being only 9 weeks short, not many...
Automotive

Is owning a car beneficial in Singapore? 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer

And yes, on Cars. Dad came around one day with mum asking about plans for our next new family car. Despite all his talk on Renaults previously, he was considering the 2006-2007 1.6L Mitsubishi Lancer which is going for a dirt cheap $43,000 with COE at C&C, which is close to half of how much we paid...
Current Issues

Its holiday! But only for this week…

Despite the sun coming out quite nicely these days, the whether and ambient temperature is still holding out nice and cool in my area. In fact so good I do not even need to sleep with regular air-conditioning on for a few weeks! Morning temperatures are around 25 Degrees Celsius (readings from my desk clock), with rather...
Site Updates

New Video and Portfolio Section up

Site Updates As part of my planned holiday chores, spent time over the last few days revamping and fixing up parts of the site. The videos page now has the videos streamed from youtube and google video, so no hassles to download them for viewing anymore, freeing up alot of server space for the site as well. Did...
Asian

Lor mee and Laksa at AMK Ave 10, Chong Boon Market

One of my favorite lunch spots in the Ang Mo Kio area will be the Lor Mee and Laksa store at Chong Boon Market along Avenue 10 . This hawker store had old beginnings being in the business for over a decade, or at least since I first tried their dishes in the late nineties. Their trademark...
Computers

Windows Vista – Slow! Bill Gates: No No No!

With all the hype and publicity on Windows Vista going on in Singapore, I guess I can only commend on the efforts MS Singapore is putting into promoting the OS. However in that limelight, definitely the main selling point and MS broke in sales will tell you that it's "safer", "more secure", "looks fabulous" and has "excellent...
Polytechnic

Too easy to score, Engineering Materials II

With some new found time before dinner today, let me just spend some time talking about the paper I had today. Engineering Materials II. It's TOO EASY! wahahah it's really a disappointment, studied and researched so much out of the box and the questions which came out are all repeated from the class! A typical case of overkill? Like...
Laughs

No Pok! No Pork! Coffeeshop & More…

In the mist of all this exam madness, let just catch some local laughs with these ol' hawker audio clip pranks. No POK! Kopi Yi-Pei! School Time had been very tight on my side, this semester is very very very short, too short to even breathe I guess, with me just barely making through on most of the modules I am...
News

Formula 1 in Singapore 2008?

With all the rumors and such going on for years, finally theres some official word... Singapore may join F1 in 2008 Singapore is the latest country rumored to be hosting a new Formula One event, with news that F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone is in negotiations with at least two Singaporean groups about a deal to host the grand prix...
Polytechnic

*Bleep* Please hold Life, incoming Exams

😐 Well it had been a very very fast hectic week for me & it will get worse - before I know it, it's 2 weeks left to the exam week. With no running millage for this week (I won't see myself running, gyming or training so often these weeks now). Sometimes in this mess, I just...
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