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Kuala Lumpur Trip: Return Travel Day

27th Dec 2005 Woke up at 9am, never had a good long sleep of 7 1/2 hours long in a row. Breakfast was the same at the hotel 1st floor café, but had more fruits this time & the buffet closed at 10.30am allowing us to finish breakfast at a rather comfortable pace. Raided the hotel room for...
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Kuala Lumpur Day Three, Cosmo Themepark, Berjaya, Jalan Bintang

26th Dec 2005 Wokeup at 9am for a relatively late breakfast at the hotel coffeehouse. Its the usual American breakfast for 4 with a moderate spread. Made our way to Berjaya timesquare taking the backlane route we took last night. The size of times square never fail to impress me till now even being my second visit. Not...
South East Asia

Kuala Lumpur Day Two, MERRY CHRISTMAS from Petronas towers

25th Dec 2005- On the way to KL The morning call didn't wake us, so was the phone call from mum. But dad at the door did. Checked out at 8am for breakfast at the themepark hotel happy valley mini cafe before heading to the Cable cars for the connecting bus trip to KL (10.30am). There is a...
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Kuala Lumpur Genting Themepark Trip Day One

Holiday Trip to Genting and KL, Life Update. The travel journal, for now. Click on Read more at the bottom of the post to read more. Trip to KL, Day 1 23rd Dec 2005- Night time We started off taking 961 to beach road konsortium to catch our direct bus to genting, later do we know we have to...
Polytechnic

E-Learning Lagging week

Its a first attempt, an attempt leading to a possible bleak eventual future where students have to learn all from home and have wires or so plugged into their brains to communicate, study & retrive data. Not to mention the birth of crimes such as brain jacking or cyber cheating... ahah its the e-learning week for starters. The...
Interesting Stuffs

Ice Skating

Its time of the year again for a class outing & they nominees were - trekking at pulau ubin, day at wild wild wet or ice-skating at fuji ice palace. Apparently, not too many were in favor of going for a public fat-exposure-parade at downtown east, nor would any appreciate nature on the tracks, so the Ice-skating...
Gadgets

Dell PDA exchange

It came first as a call to dell yesterday morning as I got too fed up with the online technical support getting me nowhere, except the default answers like "please upgrade your operating ROM to the latest version & try again, thank you". After getting through like 5 layers of call menus & such, I finally managed...
Family

Chill out

With our own private transport, very much spent the last night on a search of the up & coming delsey chill-out area, just around the outskirts of town near the Botanical gardens. The place was actually an old CMPB administrative army camp, with most of its land area, transformed, including its parade square into a few pub...
Family

Parents Overseas

Today is the day where my parents are flying off for their intended break/holiday with grans. They would be away for 5 days & back early Thursday morning. With that, its only sis & me in the house, duh! Not to mention, having to do house chores & stuffs... grrr especially looking after dad's plant collection! huhuh,...
Blog

Geoff’s visit from Melbourne

Geoff's back in Melbourne now, on a flight last Tuesday. But I didn't actually found time to update (because of tests & such) on the gathering last Saturday: Its the time of the year again when my old classmate Geoffery come through thousands of kilometers back to Singapore to meet up & catch up on time as...
Sports & Runs

Standard Chartered Marathon

It was already 10.30am, the time where most marathon runners would start finishing. A very hot day last Sunday, with the sky clear blue & only a thin streak of white in sight - a morning scene to behold too at the Padang. Only thing is that I am not clad in my running attire, neither was...
Polytechnic

Day at the Boys Brigade

Located near Zion road is where the Boys Brigade (BB) HQ is. The class pretty much spend the whole friday afternoon there. Part of the CIP hours programme thingie, most of our time packing boxes clothing, toiletries, foodstuff & toys collected/donated into the Sharity Gift Box 2005 onto pallets going out to various homes such as the...
Sports & Runs

SP Mini Triathlon

This was old news last saturday, but didn't find time to update the site due to a small fever coming out since last friday. Yes I ran a triathlon on the 27th Nov with a FEVER hahaha, slight though & came in the 10 top too. A mini one though: 200m swim, 6000m bike followed by a...
Interesting Stuffs

MRT no petrol ah?

No, its not your typical excuse to give when you are late. Apparently the MRT I was on today "broke down" because one of it's 48 doors refused to close, resulting in a 15min delay on a train packed no other than a can of sardines similar to that of Tokyo's rush hour. The staff all tried...
Polytechnic

Ending November

School's rather manageable this week, with the exception of a few hiccups here & there, not to mention training in the rain last tuesday... still good, luckily didn't catch any fever or cold whatsoever, like what most people I know are having now.. eww "mucus-maximus" Highlights of the week includes workshop. Finally managed to get almost most of...
Interesting Stuffs

Singapore Waterless Washing Machine

Got some time up on surfing today, & see what our peeps in the university had came up with: A waterless washing machine that removes stains from garments in a few minutes has been developed at the National University of Singapore, the facility said on Wednesday. The appliance uses negative ions, compressed air & deodorants to clean clothes....
Computers

Tablet Research

Ahh Notebook research.. Been doing alot about it over the last month or so, though I always hate surfing & drooling over items which ultimately... I COULDN'T even afford in the first place. You know its something like Pictures---> wooo! *scroll**scroll* Specifications ---> wahh! *scroll**scroll* ---> Price: DANG! Its the love for technology I guess *grins* which always keeps...
Polytechnic

Semester 2 Barghah!!

I guess I had been away for quite sometime, duh been quite busy lately, as usual with life, business & training. Nevertheless, semester 2 started rather slow & easy. Though I am taking EIGHT modules including GEMS bawrr! But I guess its gonna be quite a managable semester as subjects such as Character Development & Critical Reasoning Skills...
Blog

Weekenders Work – Nil!

Well its Sunday now, but I will just ramble about saturday 1st as I didn't actually had time to talk about my day trip to Johor - Malaysia yesterday! Saturday The whole of saturday was more of less spent at johor where dad brought us to his favorite western-chinese coffee shop some where in johore. While crossing the causeway,...
Computers

Workstation MIA

Yea, you guessed that right, my personal workstation blew up today. Duh! & here I am posting for the 1st time on my family living room computer.... 🙄 My system had been acting up the past few days, restarting randomly at first, I needed to get work done but heck how can I work on a system which...
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