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Stock prices of RBS crashed 70% in London today, with similar sentiments to hit European banks in general. This follows many unfavourable news over the past week, most notably HSBC which almost tanked the Hang Seng. Such crashes drive retail investors into the safety of super-safe investments which offer almost no returns. But what really ...
One of my favourite musicals, and possibly a song describing how I wish I was back studying for my BSc. again. Even with all the explosions and studying for my exams at 4am, I wish I could go back to college!I wish I could go back to college, Avenue Q.KATE MONSTER:I wish I could go ...
Apparantly the Ad spammers have found a new way of spamming ads, through social engineering. Security company Sophos discovered that one such app called Secret Crush downloads adware into PCs.Widespread Facebook application installs adwareSecret Crush leads to unwanted advertisingIT security and control firm Sophos has warned users of the popular Facebook social-networking …
For some reason, this is the song of the moment. You know, the song that soothes your mood and brightens you day no matter how gloomy it is. The song that will have you bobbing up and down your chair and rockin’ on your chair, shaking your head to the stupid tune? Yep.Empty Decorations, by ...
I’ve been a fan of TED every since Ridzuan introduced them to me a few years back. Today, I’m going to share a gem about education as presented by a leading thinker in creativi …
Ouch.The only spark of this week was the date I had on Wednesday. But it was worth it. We’ll do it again. And again. I will write about it sometime this weekend when I recover from a tough week of 9 to 5 everyday.Ouch. School work’s piling. Remind me IIIA course is the toughest course ...
I started my first blog 8 years ago. I was in school then, and there was no such thing known as a blogging system then. Windows 98 was hot, mIRC and ICQ were cool. I started out blogging at http://www.singnet.com.sg/~XYZ/, the local hosting site for Singnet. At that time, blogging meant hard-coding your blog post, ...
My biggest nightmare was not the huge amount of information I got. It was the lack-of. I have never been to corporate site which is so bloody difficult to navigate. Welcome to SingTel's website. The search function sucks, even when powered by Google. The singtelnamelogy sucks. Do you understand what all the terms in this page mean without clicking on the page? I have never …
This is an advertisement, my disclaimer is available here.I’ve been an avid photographer for a pretty long while. I started working on film a while back, but got too caught up in the hassle and cost of working on film. Recently I started work on photography again,mainly doing work on a digital canvas and using ...
Ok, just got back to London, in the midst of a lot of academic hassle so I’m kinda very busy at the moment. But I thought, might as well share some photos I took in Portugal in JUNE. Yes, JUNE. Well.. -guilt- Yep, the trip with Yun Lei, Jeff and Winston. Click on the photos ...
One of the most contentious items during the feedback process centred around Section 377(A), which criminalises homosexual sex. Even though the Government said this item was not up for change when it released the proposed changes last November, public feedback on this subject came in 'emotional, divided and strongly expressed'. The majority, said MHA, called for its retention.
Spider pigSpider pigDoes whatever a spider pig doesCan he swingFrom a webNo he can’tHe’s a pigLook OutHe is a spider pigWe went for a movie night out, and caught the Simpsons last night. Oh. My. God. It was freaking hildarious. We were laughing our guts out, after a crazy dinner of Sushi, Sashimi and whatever ...
Finally, Google released Picasa for Mac at Macworld today! iPhoto is good, but not so good. For someone who has been using Picasa since it came out, the functionality of iPhoto is just not enough compared to the ease and integration of Picasa into the Google applications. Get Picasa for Mac here. Remember, it’s still ...
Ok, now that vacation’s over, it’s time to return to planet Earth to start work and making sure I don’t need to depend on a viva voce for my honors.Bratislava, Vienna and Prague was lovely, the weather was amiable, the people I met along the way were absolutely fun. Maybe more about them when I ...
It’s high noon, Apple and AT&T — we really hate to break it to you, but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made possible: right in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of our iPhone with a small piece of software. It’s all over, guys.iPhone unlocked: AT&T ...
It was a simple decision 5 years back. "I will not do medicine," I proudly proclaimed. I just refuse to mindlessly memorise pages and pages and pages of text. I think my experience with Biology scarred me for life.5 years later, I’m stuck here doing almost the same thing, studying for a module in Bioinorganics, ...
You know, there’s a recent thing about having yourself unplugged for 1 day, like away from Twitter, Facebook and the rest of the internet? (P.S. mail is included as well.)There was something a while back (via Lifehacker) which featured an article about an unplugged Forbes editor for a week.What happens when you take a grown ...
My first foray out onto the streets with my camera, I decided my first mission was to get used to the controls and settings of this new baby of mine since I have done front-end work for quite a while. As I like all my shoots to have a theme, I dedicate this shoot to ...
A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. On Sunday I attended a performance by Verve Enharmonics (VnH) at University Cultural Centre. It’s been a long while since I attended any such events in Singapore, the last being an ...
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