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Recently my 5-year-old “gaming rig” died on me. There was no forewarning - I wake up the next day, turned it on… and nothing happened. So, off I went scanning Sim Lim pricelists on Hardwarezone, and realised that a typical PC costs about $800.Since I’m only going to get some components and re-use other existing ...
Recently my 5-year-old “gaming rig” died on me. There was no forewarning - I wake up the next day, turned it on… and nothing happened. So, off I went scanning Sim Lim pricelists on Hardwarezone, and realised that a typical PC costs about $800.Since I’m only going to get some components and re-use other existing ...
Image via Wikipedia Some time last week, my PC died on me. That would kind of explain my disappearance from Plurk, as well as the sudden dearth of updates on this blog.Due to some unfortunate circumstances, I'm also currently a little tight on budget, hence I couldn't spend too much to replace my dead PC. Thus began my trek down to SLS (Sim Lim Square), the Holy Shrine Of All …
A couple of posts ago, I wrote about gothere.sg. In a nutshell, it's replacement to Streetdirectory.com, especially now that the latter has splattered adverts everywhere, including right smack in the middle of the map you're looking at. Irritating as hell.As a quick update, since Monday, 18 Aug, gothere.sg has introduced a new feature - embeddable maps! Now I think some of …
I was reading this article over at Channelnewsasia.com - Work-Life Balance, and I had a thought."Isn't it obvious?"Ok I am not claiming to b a model employee, far from it. However I do have a personal policy - don't stay and do "overtime" when you don't need to. And when I do leave the office, I do not even think about work. Work can wait. Once I am out of the office, work is …
Here's a test for you.On a weekday, or even on Friday nights and Saturday nights, try this. Around 10pm or so, try to get a cab.Notice anything?Yeah, not a single available cab. Every one that passes you will be lit up in red, with the words "Hired" or "On call". Even those that are empty, zoom past you.So, did the recent price hike "help" us consumers to get a cab?The same …
Whenever you are to embark on a weight loss or muscle building program, you always see that part of the requirements is that you must "eat right".For example, many people just think that to build muscles, all you need to do is just work out at the gym and the muscles will grow.The truth is, "working out at the gym" is only half the equation. What happens at the gym is that …
As I may have mentioned in earlier posts, lately I have been entertaining myself by creating missions in the Armed Assault Editor and playing them.In the past I have created a series of missions in Operation Flashpoint, the forerunner of Armed Assault. In fact the missions I did had many “advanced features” which I have ...
Image via Wikipedia For the older people among us, we remember the days when we used to dread the journey up to Dempsey Hill, the site of the old CMPB, or Central Manpower Base, to report for our compulsory 2 year stint in the SAF (Singapore Armed Forces).(Yes, male Singaporeans are required by law to serve 2 years in the army here in Singapore).We remember the lost looks …
I just got myself a nice spanking new Samsung Camcorder, FREE, just because I am such a loyal Starhub customer :)Ok I'm kidding. It's only because I just renewed my contract with them for my Internet services. Seriously speaking, I don't take a lot of videos. Yes I do MAKE alot of movies, but they're all machinima's. For real-life stuff, I hardly record anything on video. …
Almost everyone knows by now, that the expansion pack for Mass Effect has been released on 29 July 2008.Almost everyone, except me. I didn’t know about it till a couple of days back, when I thought I’d just pop by the Mass Effect website and have a look-see. When I saw that the expansion pack ...
Some time back I wrote that Streetdirectory is somewhat back, minus some useful features that us Singaporeans have come to take for granted. When it went offline, I am sure many of us must have felt really lost.Until recently, I have been manually using Google Maps and cross referencing with SBS and SMRT manually to find out how to get to a location.After reading dk's post on …
Image via WikipediaIn my previous posts, I had talked about how surprising it was to me when I first discovered that soy products wasn't good for me, and then much later, about how clinical results seem to prove that the benefits of soy products were overhyped.Now, it seems we have yet another reason. You may become impotent if you continue to consume large quantities of soy …
You know, I never fail to amaze myself at how forgetful I can be at certain things.In IT, one of the first and most basic form of troubleshooting any network connectivity problem is - to check the cables! If it's not plugged in, you won't see anything. Of course this doesn't apply to wireless networks that is so prevalent now.Anyhow, recently I had thought that the battery …
Normally I don't hang out at Clarke Quay. However, recently a friend told us that Barfly was closing down (whether for renovation or permanently, I have no idea). It was important to her to visit it one last time before it does, have have dinner while we're there.On the appointed date, we congregated at Clarke Quay. The original plan was to hang out till the wee hours. As we …
Image via WikipediaI received an email today, pretty late in the day actually. It was from the PR firm of Streetdirectory.com, and it says, in essence, that Streetdirectory.com is up and running with new maps and satellite pictures.So I went over and had a look.I came away pretty indifferent. Well you can't really blame me. In its current state, Streetdirectory.com is nowhere …
Relax, this isn't a woman-bashing post. It's a genuine question.See, recently a newly-acquired female friend started to want to hang out with me during my weekly sojourn to sleazy pubs. "Newly-acquired" meaning she only just managed to get my number and we have no friends in common. She's totally from outside of my normal circle which I "hang out".Initially her SMSes were …
Image via WikipediaI am sure many of you out there have played Fallout, and its sequel Fallout 2. I remember having a blast with both of them, and turning up the gore to see exploding heads and me shooting arms and legs off the enemies.For those who have no clue about the Fallout series, here’s ...
Saturday, 19 July. A date where many people will remember for other things. My drinking buddies and I however, remember this date for a different reason - the birthday of a drinking buddy.The original plan was to have a nice simple dinner, after which we'd adjourn to a nice quiet pub somewhere and just chill and recount tales of yore when we were young.Of course, everyone …
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