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Ever since I started blogging about the ebook reader, I’ve received quite a bit of enquiries on buying an electronic ink device in Singapore. My usual answer would be to buy it from either B&H or Amazon. Shipping in ebook readers in this manner has a problem. The lack of warranty coverage in Singapore might ...
Sony released a new firmware for the PRS-505 over the weekend. This firmware releases brought new features to my ebook reader; and it also gave me something very interesting to play with. If you botch a firmware update in the past, you’re basically stuck with a brick. This firmware update allows you to recover from ...
Just attended Jia Hao’s final send off. It was solemn, yet tinged with emotions. I felt his dad’s sorrow as he sat alone at the table, mourning his passage. I saw his friends crying as his coffin was carried past them. I felt the pain of his buddy who was with him when he collapsed. ...
Having been inactive in the Ubuntu Singapore scene for almost the whole year, I’ve recently gotten involved in the design of the Logo for Ubuntu Singapore.The initial variations of logo designs started out with just color variations of the logo, but using red/white combination meant that the logo will look damn ugly against white backgrounds. ...
I’ve taken some time out to write a guide for hacking the Sony Ebook Reader to get Unicode fonts working. I’ll be adding more guides for the reader as I go along.http://xp.sg/hacks/unicode-support-for-prs-505/
I took part in the New Balance Real Run 2008 this morning. As usual, the shuttle bus service starts very early in the morning, which means that I have to wake up even earlier than usual for the shuttle bus.I got up at 0430hrs this morning to take a cab to Jurong East MRT to ...
It is hard to accept a death in the family. It’s even harder to accept two of your extended family members departing within the span of 30 days. The hardest part is the face that they’re both in the prime of their youth.James Phang Yung Heng, my cousin-in-law left us on the 16th of May ...
I chanced upon a thread in HWZ’s Book Nook about a bunch of students who are collecting books for Sri Lankan kids and decided to do my part by donating my old books to them. Most of my books are science fiction and fantasy novels, written by the likes of Sir Arthur C. Clarke and ...
I’ve been listening to .977 the Hitz Channel for more than three years already. It’s a internet-based radio station which I discovered in the Shoutcast directory back in 2005. The songs played on this radio station is mainly Top 40 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/R&B, which includes artistes like Black Eye Peas, Daughtry and Rihanna. Occasionally, they’ll play hits ...
Looks like Amaranthine from SGRunners worked his magic and stitched up the panorama we took yesterday. He has also created a Flash VR version of the photo. I sure hope that I can get a high-res image for keepsake p/s: I am one of the few wearing red in the photo Forum threadSingapore ...
I’ve finally got about to using the twitter account I registered back in February 2008 to update my facebook status. Of course, I wouldn’t be satisfied with just updating my facebook status using twitter. I reckoned that this blog’s “description” is kinda boring, so I decided to display my latest twitter status as my blog ...
I’ve been away from blogging for awhile as life becomes significantly busier towards the end of the year. I’ll be doing my 2nd marathon this coming weekend and I hope I will not get injured or overstrain myself. I am seriously considering micro-blogging using twitter and Lifestream, which is more useful for me since I ...
By the end of today, I would have completed 26 orbits around the sun.I do not really feel anything special about birthdays, except the ones that give you certain legal rights. Having been past the age of 21, there is nothing I really look forward to as I’ve gotten all my legal rights.I’ve finished 3 ...
Got up at 5am this morning for Saucony Passion Run 2008, packed up my gear and my dad drove Kelvin and me down to East Coast Park. My dad wanted to try the 15km with me, so he decided to run without a number tag. I was almost late for my race as we only ...
So the phone’s out of the bag now. I’ve been eagerly anticipating a phone that can replace my n95 8gb and I can say that I’ve a mixed bag of emotions when I saw the new specifications.Screen SizeAt 3.5″ with a resolution of 480×320, it’s the same as the old iPhone. Having said that, it’s ...
My legs are still aching from the Tiger Trail, a 16km trail run organised by the 3 Div of the SAF. I took part in the run as part of my NS battalion, which is in turn part of the NS brigade. I ran a total of 20km that day, due to my inpromtu run ...
Having rested myself for 3 days since PAssion run, I decided to head out for a 6km on my usual route. Around 1km into the run, I started feeling pain in my right shin. Memories of an earlier case of shin splints flooded back into me. I quickly stopped and made my way home. So ...
Took part in the Wave Run this morning. I ran to the start point from JY’s place. Her place is approximately 1km from Temasek Poly. The route is certainly squeezy in the beginning, widening by the 3km mark. I felt that I still lack the old stamina I had 6 months back, and that I ...
I’ll like to congratulate my fellow clan member Matthew(aka [CR] Hyoga) who got hitched on 16th June 2008 to a beautiful lady by the name of Tang. Our hunk met his beautiful wife when he was posted to Bangkok to work on a permanent basis back in 2005. Now happily married, they will continue to ...
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