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You may drive a Porsche, be nicely suited in your Armani in your comfortable black Porshe Carrera.But that doesn’t give you the right to be an ass in Singapore and not learn some road manners. The speed of your car doesn’t give you the right to tailgate people and prevent them from parking. And furthermore ...
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
The Straits Times Interactive site had a makeover today, and I like the new fresh layout, but I hate the many other parts of it.The advertorials are out of place and ugly, the rednano stuff is just fugly. To top it all off, the WORST is the stupid razorTV which autoplay and it’s audio seriously ...
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 ...
In a discreetly worded mail, such a teaser? Am I right to say my 22 Aug prediction was correct? So you have not forgotten me Singtel? Tags: 3g, iphone, iphone 3g, singtel
To the people who cannot appreciate what Singapore is today, and those who feel the grass is greener on the other side, I will leave you with this song, composed by Rony Tan. The Singapore Song.Tags: singapore, song
This post is in memoriam Professor Randy Pausch.In Aug 2007, Randy was told he had 6 months to live. He beat the clock and lived close to a year, inspiring students from CMU.This is something that everyone should watch. Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture. Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave ...
Well, after all the anticipation and expectations and uncertainty over the last month, I guess it’s finally settled and I actually know where and what I will be doing.It’s been a week or two at NIE, and well, lets just say I’m still getting used to the Singapore way of tertiary education. I am not ...
I cannot believe how hardcore my group of trainees are. No one seems to need to sleep, and term hasn’t even officially started yet!It’s bloody past midnight, let me sleeeeeeeeeeeeep. Stop the email bouncing! There has to be a better way of coordination between 23 people.Tags: nie, school
Even as it struggles to meet demand in existing markets, Apple plans to introduce the iPhone 3G to new countries next month. The company said that the latest iPhone would go on sale in 20 additional countries by August 22.The announcement came during a quarterly conference call with financial analysts in which chief operating officer ...
With the increased cost in driving recently, I sometimes have problems trying to decide if I should drive or take public transport. I have thus come up with several rules to decide between public transport and driving.
Click here to find the parking rates in some parts of Singapore. Find the best (and cheapest) parking in Singapore!Now everything also up. ERP gantries up. Petrol up. Parking up. I just got back to Singapore, and am a bit out of touch with the driving scene in Singapore. I resorted to public transport in ...
We were formally informed of our degree results today after the university formally released our numerical grades for the final. We already knew our degree classes informally since the last week of June, but nothing beats the formal notification and the numerical results.My numerical grade was waayyy above the borderline, and to think I was ...
With the iPhone 3G being release globally soon and with some free time in hand, I thought I might write about how the iPhone will change our mobile habits more than what everyone has expected. To many people, the hype of the 3G iPhone is all about the 3G. Faster internet speeds, yada yada yada. ...
Oh yea, that’s a picture of Ridz and his dad in Digital Life!Caught it just before I left for the airport.
A few hours late, but I just managed to get home after a good afternoon out at the pub, and I’m happy to find that Blizzard has announced information about Diablo III, my all time favourite game! They demo-ed gameplay with multiplayer aspects today, something which should be watched, once the Blizzard servers stop overloading.A ...
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 ...
Now that the dust has settled over packing, I went into the serious business of getting all my data and my finances in shape and organised. One of the biggest problems I had in the past was backup. I used to burn DVDs of data every week to archive, but I kinda got lazy and ...
For anyone’s that’s used to zooming mouse cursors, you might be extremely irritated by the extremely slow maximum cursor speeds of the Mighty Mouse. I have to admit it’s a rather good mouse to use, but the slow cursor speed was close to driving me nuts and I was contemplating going back to my Logitechs.Thankfully ...
I was catching up on some TV series I have been wanting to watch since the exams ended, and one of the more recent ones was the on BBC Money which had a documentary on Bill Gates.Titled "Bill Gates: How a Geek Change The World", it gave a good interesting prespective on Big Bill, his ...
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