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It’s 1am. My HP PSC1210 is churning out my 40 page report like it’s chionging up Botak Hill on Tekong.I want to sleep.Now.It’s at page 6, after 15mins. WTF. Is it going to take me 2 hours to print 40 pages?!If I were back home in Singapore, I would be happily churning out stuff on ...
I was wandering around the internet, reading some photography materials when I came across the 13 Photographs that Changed the World. I felt these 13 photographs had am American bias, for I feel that a couple of other photographs are more deserving of the "changed the world" tag, such as the one with a man ...
Online communities have sprouted one after another. You can barely count them with your fingers and toes now. Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Orkut, just to name a few. Some more specialised ones include LinkedIn, Meetup. Yesterday, a friend dropped me a message "join 3gb community www.3gb.biz". Another one? I care barely keep up with the times, ...
In an unsurprising development, Justice Woo Bih Li of the High Court has ruled against Odex in this long running feud with local anime lovers. However in his verbal judgement, he also ruled that the copyright right holders will be allowed access instead, piping a victory for the Odex led lawsuit.
Kosovo declared independence on Sunday and looks forward to become the world’s youngest nation.I was in Kosovo last year, in the capital Pristina which was under United Nations jurisdiction (United Nationa Mission in Kosovo - UNMIK). It’s a land torn part by ethnic strife, distrust and war. You will probably never understand, until you see ...
Do us proud girls, get the gold this Sunday! Do us proud and bring home a gold from the Beijing Olympics! Tags: olympics, singapore, table tennis
I guess everything I have done for the past 3 years came to a halting end today, when the circle is finally completed. Today we got the provisional results for our degree, formally a Bachelor of Science with Honors and the Associateship of the Royal College of Science.Looking back, it was a long way, a ...
We have seen videos, and videos. We have seen some bad ones like the MDA one, even though I'm pretty sure it was unintentionally viral. This one, just works.
Peter Jones store in London, Sloane Square is selling one of the rarest coffees in the world for $100 a pop. Wanna try?
I'm headed out to ski this weekend for a whole week in Flaine, which is an amazing ski resort in the eastern Alps. Looking forward to it after over a year of absence on the slopes cos I chose to study over Christmas. After that I'm headed out to Greece, visiting the famed islets of Mykonos and Santorini, and hitting Athens, Olympia, Delphi and maybe Meteroa. After the Greece …
This was what the Prof told me when he emailed me to schedule an appointment to "talk about stuff tomorrow" at 4 in the afternoon.It’s not like I don’t know what it is about, just that it is a confrontation I have rather been dreading. I suspect he instigated the PhD students "inspire" me to ...
Today the projects drew to a close, and it’s going to be a week of sleepless nights writing up. I’m gonna be panda-fied.
It’s the time to bitch about the bloody project again. Not sure to cry or laugh, the reaction didn’t work, again. We had high hopes for this reaction, and I spend the whole of the last week working it up and making all the precursors to reaction grade purity. I have never been so meticulous ...
National Library Board is archiving about 100 blogs in an attempt to keep a record of online content!OME-GROWN blogs are making history, literally.The National Library Board (NLB) is adding blogs to Singapore’s historical archives as part of its efforts to retain a comprehensive record of online content.In all, the library aims to archive some 100 ...
Here in Singapore, the F1 hype is pretty much all over the place. Here, there, everywhere. Lewis H. donning his Hugo Boss parading around. But I asked myself, is it just us playing it up? Does the rest of the world even CARE about the world first's night race?
Haven’t been writing for a month or so, mainly because I was taking some personal time off to take a break before home!Most of my work’s done, had my last presentation on Thursday, and now I’m just sitting at home waiting for results which should be out some time this week. It’s been a long ...
Sometimes it may be quite difficult for people to find proper web hosting companies. With the low barrier to entry, prices are very competitive and choices can get very confusing. Some sites (like Webhostinggeeks) offer comparisions of these companies, showing how the different web hosting companies come up against each other. Others play it more ...
Time to post some photos from the recent trip to Greece! Too many photos to parse, so I’ll start with a selection from Athens and Delphi, out of a possible 400 photos from these 2 locations! ...
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