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Polytechnic

School Reopens Monday

Well, school reopens tomorrow, Monday. You can just sense overall change in aura lately, like rushing to get last minute chores done & such, not to mention the sudden offset of school dismay & bitching you can get off your friends & classmate's personal messages in MSN. It's gonna be the end of semester for those in...
Computers

Not CoreDuo after all

With CoreDuo laptops slowly making it's way into the market, apparently some tech-savy consumers like me is fad up in waiting for such new computers to hit mainstream, whether its a new laptop for my sis or a new tablet for me. It just takes too long for any new processor release to come out, especially when you...
Sports & Runs

Shiong Training

Training was up yesterday, ran like 10 sets of 400m round the track at no more than 90secs per round, almost peng san at the last few rounds, but managed a 82secs at the last round, (though coach actually intended 25rounds). The running track will be closed 14th - 20th April, so training for this Friday &...
Blog

Chores, work… oh & pizza

Life is like a box of takeaway pizza, a single entity in a box of vastness fit for a regular pizza, just like the one I've today after lunch. You must be surprised at me eating pizza all of a sudden, well if it won't for dad & this company providing free pizza hut coupons for personal...
Computers

Memory Prices drop

Yup, on my last visit to Simlim, here are the latest prices of the Memory cards I am intending to get when the price is right late this month: Transcend 4GB SD Card - $200 SGD (As of 25th March 06, from $499 in June 05) Kingston 2GB CF Card - $97 SGD (As of 25th March...
Sports & Runs

Swift Run on April Fool’s

Today was the last cross country event for the season, being the Swift athletics association Macritchie X-Country. The run saw the standard 4.8km boys trail route though the Macritchie forest & the midway last road stretch to the finish. Generally everybody in the team did good. All got their personal PBs for the route I believe. The...
Current Issues

Progress Package

Tomorrow will be the day the registrations for the Singapore Progress Package will be open. I would expect a heavy flow of traffic on the website the moment that happens, considering almost every Singaporean who sign up for it will get $800 (on average) credited to them by May this year - a definate welcome move to...
Laughs

10 Annoying Things Women Do

Caught this on a regular surf by, interesting to share here though. Men love women. The way they look, smell, walk and talk are just some of the reasons why we consider them a divine species. Yet we can't live with them, and we certainly can't live without them... ...for the most part anyway, because perfect, they are not....
Computers

Urgent & Important?

Important but Urgent? or Important but not Urgent? These are the things which came to mind after a short chat with mum over lunch today at BM central, when considering the purchase of my laptop before school reopens. Maybe it wasn't the calories in the popular Hainanese Chicken rice we were having which sparked my mind going on the matter. Few...
Computers

Re-capping the PSU failure

Mmm didn't really get much of blogging lately. Anyway here are some worthy highlights of the last week worth noting. I did mentioned that I got myself an Antec True Power-II 480W Power supply unit (PSU) on my birthday to replace my old Antec 430W supply. The PSU's fans suddenly burnt out & stopped spinning. I only discovered...
Family

Happy Birthday to (me!)

Today is my birthday! A year older, a year wiser (as they always say). What else to but to stuff ourselves silly at an International buffet at Trader's Hotel, whats more, with Birthday compliments from Singtel, I got 20% off the total bill. The spread was cool, with lotsa my favourite lobsters, sushi & meats. I was...
Polytechnic

Track & Field Booth

Yesterday was the second day of the freshmen enrollment day, which goes in hand with the CCA promotion day as well. Interestingly after each freshie is enrolled, they will have to pass through a series of classrooms where student clubs had set up booths to promote their respective CCAs. After going through this sequence & passing through...
Computers

Laptop Dilemma

Been surfing around a lot lately to check out good laptop buys, hoping to get one before school reopens. But there are just no good Tablet PCs around at the moment. I was once fascinated with laptops in secondary school, where I got my first personal notebook in secondary two. It lasted with my till Junior college days,...
Computers

Dell buys over Alienware

You might know the Alienware brand as an enthusiast gaming laptop manufacturer. They are largely and independent producer, who core line of business involve rebranding OEM gaming laptops tailored for extreme desktop and portable gaming. After some weeks of hiding in an out of the box, its official this time, Dell had acquired long time gaming rig...
Polytechnic

Semester 2 Results Out!

The morning started at 9am with me trying to log into the all so buggy MSN messenger 7.5 only to crash 3 consecutively. I guess the notification disruptions of someone logging in & out of MSN repeated definitely leaves an impression on your contacts, explaining the barrage of messages which followed thereafter. With some telling me that...
Scuba Diving

Underwater Photos ready!

I really have to commend on how fast film photo developing is now, it only took one hour contrary to like one whole day back in the mid 90s. For an additional $3 you ccan even get all the softcopy of the images burned onto a CD-R. Call me old school if you may. Haha anyway it...
Scuba Diving

Scuba Diving at Pular Aur

Holiday update (Trip photo gallery) Ok heres quite a big update covering my weekend trip to Pulau Aur, click on the "show more" at the end of this post to read the full log of the holiday. 17th Mar Friday, the trip to Aur The last & final part of the NAUI Scuba Diver certification is to clock in 5...
Scuba Diving

Off to Pulau Aur!

I will be away this evening all the way till the coming Sunday. Would be Scuba Diving in Pulau Aur, Malaysia as part of my NAUI Scuba diver training. Should be touching down at Marsing around 12 midnight tonight, where its a 3 hour ferry ride to Aur, arriving at 3am. It will be interesting, so as...
Scuba Diving

Naui Scuba Diving Course

Today's the first day of my NAUI Scuba Diving Course. I actually remembered reading it somewhere, but till then it never crossed my mind that the word SCUBA was actually a noun, later do I rediscover that its actually an acronym- Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus S.C.U.B.A. haha talking about neat acronyms. Mingled around & made quite...
Sports & Runs

National Vertical Marathon 2006

Today is the day where we as a group from SP track & field, get to conquer the Suntec's full 43 floors of concrete at the NTU's annual National vertical marathon challenge. This is not my first vertical marathon, having conquered 73 floors at the swissotel, the stamford last year. But this 43 floors proves to be...
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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...

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Singapore Night Festival 2024

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