Credit goes to JK for thinking of such a simple and easy to remember name. I still think my idea was better.
Initial D. Haha, he commented that it was lame ( I don't deny it but hey, if its easy to remember..) and so his next suggestion was project M. What the M stands for.. hahaa ambiguous now that I think of it man. Lol~
Just rearranged the order of the photos, this is 1 thing photobucket isn't that good at. There is no sequencing order for the pics you upload.
So, leave a comment =)
Project_M photobucket site
Friday, March 02, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Crazy ppl
I find that a few select people I know who embrace a certain faith, are really offensive at times.
While I claim to be a free-thinker I have no problems burning a couple of joss sticks to pray for the well being of my family members. People of other religions should just 'know your role and shut your mouth' instead of commenting that such acts are so 'bo liao'.
If every Sunday you have to go to Church I say you bo liao how will you feel? Offended right?
You too, were a freethinker/Buddhist by default before you were baptised. You want to embrace Jesus Christ pls go ahead and do so. But if you want to put down our religion and our praying acts, that is just pathetic of you. I don't care if somehow you manage to read my blog and feel offended because you kinda deserve it.
For now let's just leave it as that but for sure, you've been included to the excluding list in my little black book.
While I claim to be a free-thinker I have no problems burning a couple of joss sticks to pray for the well being of my family members. People of other religions should just 'know your role and shut your mouth' instead of commenting that such acts are so 'bo liao'.
If every Sunday you have to go to Church I say you bo liao how will you feel? Offended right?
You too, were a freethinker/Buddhist by default before you were baptised. You want to embrace Jesus Christ pls go ahead and do so. But if you want to put down our religion and our praying acts, that is just pathetic of you. I don't care if somehow you manage to read my blog and feel offended because you kinda deserve it.
For now let's just leave it as that but for sure, you've been included to the excluding list in my little black book.
Hmm
Looking at how the detailing industry works, seems like its quite simple to set up your own shop literally. I've been thinking a lot about it, the labour problem, time problem, location, resources, charges etc.
Something inside of me says just bite the bullet and get it started. Think of so many problems, you can only solve them when you actually need to solve them. Adopt the chiongster mentality and just forge ahead like a cutting edge :p
Like what Mr Shingo T said, get a master's degree for what especially for those who are not so inclined in studies? I really strongly object to my dad's asking me to further my studies. Studied for 15 years already and still see no fruits of 'labour', what for study another couple of years just for a piece of paper? I don't even know what to study? More Physics?? No thanks.. Business? Maybe but maybe not. I'll pass.
CNY is also a good fresh starting, maybe I can shut all those aunties/uncles/cousins mouths once and for all. "找到工了没有？"
Me: "没有leh, 你要不要帮我打工？"
Haha~ that would honestly be a good reply. Had a good talk with my cousin and he was telling me the secret behind his success (duh, oxymoron wahaha) and he commented that I was lucky to live in such an environment full of entrepreneurs and businessmen. About everybody on my dad's side is self employed, those who are employees are all high level management type with exception of a few.
I wonder if I followed my sis' path exactly where would I be now? Some junior accountant executive? Or if I didn't change to physics and took Matl engineering under NTU, wah.. would I be in some semiconductor fabrication plant or some lab in science park or something. Or if I went for MOE.. wonder if I would be happy and contented to teach pri/sec school kids.
Anyway, to quote somebody else..
Be what you want to be because those who matter don't mind.
Those who mind.. don't matter =)
CHIONG AH!
Something inside of me says just bite the bullet and get it started. Think of so many problems, you can only solve them when you actually need to solve them. Adopt the chiongster mentality and just forge ahead like a cutting edge :p
Like what Mr Shingo T said, get a master's degree for what especially for those who are not so inclined in studies? I really strongly object to my dad's asking me to further my studies. Studied for 15 years already and still see no fruits of 'labour', what for study another couple of years just for a piece of paper? I don't even know what to study? More Physics?? No thanks.. Business? Maybe but maybe not. I'll pass.
CNY is also a good fresh starting, maybe I can shut all those aunties/uncles/cousins mouths once and for all. "找到工了没有？"
Me: "没有leh, 你要不要帮我打工？"
Haha~ that would honestly be a good reply. Had a good talk with my cousin and he was telling me the secret behind his success (duh, oxymoron wahaha) and he commented that I was lucky to live in such an environment full of entrepreneurs and businessmen. About everybody on my dad's side is self employed, those who are employees are all high level management type with exception of a few.
I wonder if I followed my sis' path exactly where would I be now? Some junior accountant executive? Or if I didn't change to physics and took Matl engineering under NTU, wah.. would I be in some semiconductor fabrication plant or some lab in science park or something. Or if I went for MOE.. wonder if I would be happy and contented to teach pri/sec school kids.
Anyway, to quote somebody else..
Be what you want to be because those who matter don't mind.
Those who mind.. don't matter =)
CHIONG AH!
Monday, February 12, 2007
Full detail on the ang pow chia
Recently I've acquired the long awaited Porter Cable 7424 and on Friday I detailed the 3 horizontal panels just to test out some products I have on hand.
Read more (pics on page 2 also)
Any guinea pigs?
Read more (pics on page 2 also)
Any guinea pigs?
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
W850i review
Having switched over from a Panasonic EB X800 'smart phone, it was no surprise that I was exhilarated by the speed that the SE W850i walkman phone offered me.
This is SE's first sliding walkman phone and the slider works pretty well, compared to the Nokia 6288, whose slider just had this feel of inferior quality. The screen is bright and the colours vivid, the buttons all feel great except for the directional buttons. It would have been better to implement a joystick instead of the pressure points, it feels like the plastic casing will give way in due time. If you have small and nimble fingers it should be acceptable for you.
While importing contacts from my SIM card, I found a minor niggle about this phone that bugged me to no end. the W850i simply cannot erase contacts on the SIM at one go! Despite referring to the instruction manual, I was still unable to resolve this minor hiccup and ended up deleting about 80 odd contacts manually.
The camera function is great and so far the pictures have turned out to be acceptable for a 2.0MP camera phone. 1 note though, the W850i does not come with autofocus, so people who value taking quality pictures should just stick with the K800i. Another weird limitation is with regards to the camera zoom function, you cannot zoom while in the normal mode. Zoom is available in all other modes - Paranormal, burst and frames so what's so normal about the normal mode anyway?
The phone came with a 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo and it has proved to be just about sufficient. Uploading songs from my PC was a breeze with the supporting software. The volume from the phone's speakers are above average. Just try not to annoy the hell out of everyone on the train now!
With the Mega Bass equaliser setting, I enjoyed the thumping bass on my Cresyn earphones. Listening to the radio was equally enjoyable, there are 20 channels for you to store radio stations at last count, that's even more than the head unit on the Mazda6!
All 3G functions not tested as of yet.
Final verdict, 7/10.
Everything except the camera and directional keys are great. Photo taking connoiseurs , avoid this phone. Walkman lovers, take a queue number.
This is SE's first sliding walkman phone and the slider works pretty well, compared to the Nokia 6288, whose slider just had this feel of inferior quality. The screen is bright and the colours vivid, the buttons all feel great except for the directional buttons. It would have been better to implement a joystick instead of the pressure points, it feels like the plastic casing will give way in due time. If you have small and nimble fingers it should be acceptable for you.
While importing contacts from my SIM card, I found a minor niggle about this phone that bugged me to no end. the W850i simply cannot erase contacts on the SIM at one go! Despite referring to the instruction manual, I was still unable to resolve this minor hiccup and ended up deleting about 80 odd contacts manually.
The camera function is great and so far the pictures have turned out to be acceptable for a 2.0MP camera phone. 1 note though, the W850i does not come with autofocus, so people who value taking quality pictures should just stick with the K800i. Another weird limitation is with regards to the camera zoom function, you cannot zoom while in the normal mode. Zoom is available in all other modes - Paranormal, burst and frames so what's so normal about the normal mode anyway?
The phone came with a 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo and it has proved to be just about sufficient. Uploading songs from my PC was a breeze with the supporting software. The volume from the phone's speakers are above average. Just try not to annoy the hell out of everyone on the train now!
With the Mega Bass equaliser setting, I enjoyed the thumping bass on my Cresyn earphones. Listening to the radio was equally enjoyable, there are 20 channels for you to store radio stations at last count, that's even more than the head unit on the Mazda6!
All 3G functions not tested as of yet.
Final verdict, 7/10.
Everything except the camera and directional keys are great. Photo taking connoiseurs , avoid this phone. Walkman lovers, take a queue number.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Tactful words
My dad told me the Taiwanese president (is he still the president) Chen Shui Bian better known as Ah Bian said the following words.
不是不说老实话,只是有些话不能老实说.
Hmm food for thought, brings back the doubts I have over this person I met on Sunday. Oh yeah, Happy new year! Doh.
May I find a job, strike 4D and live the Singaporean dream!
不是不说老实话,只是有些话不能老实说.
Hmm food for thought, brings back the doubts I have over this person I met on Sunday. Oh yeah, Happy new year! Doh.
May I find a job, strike 4D and live the Singaporean dream!
Friday, December 29, 2006
Curious
Why do some people or guys, have to stand so close to the urinal while peeing?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that some of the pee might.. backsplash??
Gross
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that some of the pee might.. backsplash??
Gross
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
The night we tried to save a Pangolin
We went out for dinner a day back which is.. 3rd of December. My sister was driving and well on the way back, while turning into Chestnut Avenue from Petir road, we saw a Camry which was stationary. No hazard lights though, but the occupants seemed to be staring at something on the right.
At first we didn't notice it and my sis proceeded to overtake by cutting to the oncoming lane and then suddenly she hit the brakes and started with the 'ooh-ing and aah-ing'.
Apparently there was adamsel pangolin in distress and there were 2 of them! I've never seen a pangolin before and I had no idea it was called and spelt pangolin till I called the walking animal planet -->> Ivan. Wahaha~
The car in front of us moved off (they were from the same neighbourhood anyway) and we also moved on after about 3 more minutes of staring in awe to see what's happening. From what I can see, the young pangolin was dead and the parent was trying to revive its dead child.
We went back home and we decided to head back to help the adult pangolin because we kind of assumed the young one was run over, and the adult pangolin was in danger of being run over. After arming ourselves with our camera, umbrella and an unused magazine =p we drove back.
On getting back the parent was nowhere to be found, it appeared on the other side of the road about a minute later and proceeded to crawl towards the ang pao chia. *sweat + pray "pls don't scratch the car, if not I'll use your scales to cover the scratch"*
Where were we? Haa.. the pangolin crawled underneath the car with the engine still running (silly sis no sense of fuel saving in her) and fortunately reappeared on the other side -_-" Again she(assume for sake of convenience) tried to revive the young pangolin by using her snout to push against her kid but the kid was stiff to the touch. Yeah I touched it before she appeared, just wanted to know if the creature was still alive or not.
We waited and observed in awe at this display of motherly/parental love and it was frankly a very touching moment. The mother then after sniffing with its snout, pressed down on her kid with her front paws. Then she turned and looked at us, almost as if begging us to save her child. Uh uh uh it was really sad, the mother's eyes were dilated.. well actually not but you can tell she was in distress and I felt much worse than her being unable to help. I could only watch, as she tried to revive her kid, all the time being unable to express her grief through facial expressions or anything.
It was certainly a very touching moment, and tears welled up in my eyes. Ok lah got a bit lah =p
The parent then left and went into the bushes then I proceeded to roll the carcass over onto an unused magazine, and at this point of time, princess J called me. (Saving me from performing the duty of relocating the dead carcass, my sis did it wahaha)
Since then, haven't seen the adult pangolin about the area but I wish him/her/it well. It was a real eye opener in many different ways.
Edit:
#1 There are more pics, equally blur but large sized images.
#2 By saving the Pangolin, we meant moving the dead carcass to another location so that at least the parent can grieve and mourn someplace else. Kinda lame but.. what else could I do?
#3 Hai~Ren you should have called me if your friend or whoever went to try to collect the carcass, Cashew Road is not the correct add. but nvm, I'll check again tomorrow morn.
#4 Upon flipping the dead pangolin, I don't think it was a roadkill. No blood, no visible broken or oddly shaped limbs, and no it wasn't flattened.
At first we didn't notice it and my sis proceeded to overtake by cutting to the oncoming lane and then suddenly she hit the brakes and started with the 'ooh-ing and aah-ing'.
Apparently there was a
The car in front of us moved off (they were from the same neighbourhood anyway) and we also moved on after about 3 more minutes of staring in awe to see what's happening. From what I can see, the young pangolin was dead and the parent was trying to revive its dead child.
We went back home and we decided to head back to help the adult pangolin because we kind of assumed the young one was run over, and the adult pangolin was in danger of being run over. After arming ourselves with our camera, umbrella and an unused magazine =p we drove back.
On getting back the parent was nowhere to be found, it appeared on the other side of the road about a minute later and proceeded to crawl towards the ang pao chia. *sweat + pray "pls don't scratch the car, if not I'll use your scales to cover the scratch"*
Where were we? Haa.. the pangolin crawled underneath the car with the engine still running (silly sis no sense of fuel saving in her) and fortunately reappeared on the other side -_-" Again she(assume for sake of convenience) tried to revive the young pangolin by using her snout to push against her kid but the kid was stiff to the touch. Yeah I touched it before she appeared, just wanted to know if the creature was still alive or not.
We waited and observed in awe at this display of motherly/parental love and it was frankly a very touching moment. The mother then after sniffing with its snout, pressed down on her kid with her front paws. Then she turned and looked at us, almost as if begging us to save her child. Uh uh uh it was really sad, the mother's eyes were dilated.. well actually not but you can tell she was in distress and I felt much worse than her being unable to help. I could only watch, as she tried to revive her kid, all the time being unable to express her grief through facial expressions or anything.
It was certainly a very touching moment, and tears welled up in my eyes. Ok lah got a bit lah =p
The parent then left and went into the bushes then I proceeded to roll the carcass over onto an unused magazine, and at this point of time, princess J called me. (Saving me from performing the duty of relocating the dead carcass, my sis did it wahaha)
Since then, haven't seen the adult pangolin about the area but I wish him/her/it well. It was a real eye opener in many different ways.
Edit:
#1 There are more pics, equally blur but large sized images.
#2 By saving the Pangolin, we meant moving the dead carcass to another location so that at least the parent can grieve and mourn someplace else. Kinda lame but.. what else could I do?
#3 Hai~Ren you should have called me if your friend or whoever went to try to collect the carcass, Cashew Road is not the correct add. but nvm, I'll check again tomorrow morn.
#4 Upon flipping the dead pangolin, I don't think it was a roadkill. No blood, no visible broken or oddly shaped limbs, and no it wasn't flattened.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Why I like soccer
Most of the time, goals are created from 'nothing.' Teamwork, vision, timing, opportunism, practice. Perhaps these are all attributes we can use in real life. Hey I'm starting to sound like CoI! =P
A few attributes can be found in this short clip.
1. Opportunism
Will you sit back and enjoy a 3 goal lead or go on to try for something spectacular and out of the blue? Is there that predatory instinct inside of you?
2. Timing
When do you make your move? When is the right time to call for checkmate and get in the finishing move? Are you willing to risk getting yourself into a (offside) trap?
3. Practice
How could Xavi and Ronaldinho have known and predicted each other's movements such that the goal was successful? No verbal communications or physical gestures. Just pure body language.
Ahh, the beauty of soccer. The game of life.
Edit: youtube.com is down ATM so nothing I can do about it.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Due to my limited knowledge on HTML alignment..
I have to create a new post to describe the previous one. WTF! Here goes..
***
Today I will photo blog! Get ready to be bored to tears!
This first pic is obviously that of a dog. That has come to my place to seek refuge.
Its a real long story, basically owner A found it and one day after 2 months of happily staying at A's house, it barked non stop for 1 night. Perhaps he could see those stuff, lol. Neighbour complains and its now at owner B's place. Owner B is not even a Singaporean (neither is A) and stays at a rented condominium. Landlord doesn't like it so here it came.
I believe its a Yorkshire terrier but from the bark its more of a Yorkshire terror. Muahaha not funny.. :/
Some quick facts, his bark is rather fierce, his name is 'Ah boy', he hasn't poo-ed or pee-ed in our house which is a good thing but he barks to get us to take him outside for a pee/poo. I've picked up his shit twice already in 2 days (NB..)
He obeys commands in English (subject to ah boy's level of hype) such as 'sit' and 'stay' commands. Highly attention seeking and whines non stop (hence the nickname Mr Whiner/ Whiney) and failing to respond to his whining leads to loud, ferocious and deafening barks. (KNN, KPKB)
2nd and 3rd pics and just what I spent the past 2 days with, detailing the car. The bonnet, roof and boot isn't really that well detailed but these flat, vertical surfaces are usually much more attractive.
Process was simply
1. Rinse
2. Shampoo
3. Rinse
4. Claybar
5. Rinse/dry
6. Autoglym SRP(horizontal surfaces only)
7. Fusso99 12months sealant (horizontal less rooftop due to time and light constraints)
8. FK1 #425 quick detailer. (produced a very good shine with anti static effects/ increased slickness to the touch)
When I get my machine, I'll finally get rid of the stupid uneven issue with the sealant! Then its time to whack my arsenal! Whoo!!
***
Today I will photo blog! Get ready to be bored to tears!
This first pic is obviously that of a dog. That has come to my place to seek refuge.
Its a real long story, basically owner A found it and one day after 2 months of happily staying at A's house, it barked non stop for 1 night. Perhaps he could see those stuff, lol. Neighbour complains and its now at owner B's place. Owner B is not even a Singaporean (neither is A) and stays at a rented condominium. Landlord doesn't like it so here it came.
I believe its a Yorkshire terrier but from the bark its more of a Yorkshire terror. Muahaha not funny.. :/
Some quick facts, his bark is rather fierce, his name is 'Ah boy', he hasn't poo-ed or pee-ed in our house which is a good thing but he barks to get us to take him outside for a pee/poo. I've picked up his shit twice already in 2 days (NB..)
He obeys commands in English (subject to ah boy's level of hype) such as 'sit' and 'stay' commands. Highly attention seeking and whines non stop (hence the nickname Mr Whiner/ Whiney) and failing to respond to his whining leads to loud, ferocious and deafening barks. (KNN, KPKB)
2nd and 3rd pics and just what I spent the past 2 days with, detailing the car. The bonnet, roof and boot isn't really that well detailed but these flat, vertical surfaces are usually much more attractive.
Process was simply
1. Rinse
2. Shampoo
3. Rinse
4. Claybar
5. Rinse/dry
6. Autoglym SRP(horizontal surfaces only)
7. Fusso99 12months sealant (horizontal less rooftop due to time and light constraints)
8. FK1 #425 quick detailer. (produced a very good shine with anti static effects/ increased slickness to the touch)
When I get my machine, I'll finally get rid of the stupid uneven issue with the sealant! Then its time to whack my arsenal! Whoo!!
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Long time no blog :/
Hehe lazy me, blogging should have been a fun and personal thing but now its becoming more and more like an obligation.
Been to Bangkok and back, its good to be alive wahaha! Fearful cab drivers (bonkers + drug addict drivers to spell it short)
Went for dinner and drinks today at Brewerkz.
Long story short, it was expensive and expensive. Haha but still can afford la at this point of time though I wouldn't want to visit it on a weekly, monthly or even yearly basis. The different selection on beers was interesting though!
Its been a long time since ang pao chia has been washed. She needs a makeover soon. I was thinking, if I have money = I am working = I can invest in tools to do up the car.
But if I am working = I don't have time = I no time to do up car.
Where do you draw the fine line? Where do you find the balance?
Hmmm although my English at this point is a bit muddled, but I hope you get my point.
Life is confusing, sleep is... comforting (quote of the month of October)
Peace out!
Been to Bangkok and back, its good to be alive wahaha! Fearful cab drivers (bonkers + drug addict drivers to spell it short)
Went for dinner and drinks today at Brewerkz.
Long story short, it was expensive and expensive. Haha but still can afford la at this point of time though I wouldn't want to visit it on a weekly, monthly or even yearly basis. The different selection on beers was interesting though!
Its been a long time since ang pao chia has been washed. She needs a makeover soon. I was thinking, if I have money = I am working = I can invest in tools to do up the car.
But if I am working = I don't have time = I no time to do up car.
Where do you draw the fine line? Where do you find the balance?
Hmmm although my English at this point is a bit muddled, but I hope you get my point.
Life is confusing, sleep is... comforting (quote of the month of October)
Peace out!
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Just a small change
I've done away with the tagboard due to it malfunctioning. Perhaps too much bandwidth for them, can't keep up with the rising costs.
It was good while it lasted though, sayonara tagboard!
It was good while it lasted though, sayonara tagboard!
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
A good taxi driver and a really rotten one
I went to J's ex-colleagues gathering one Saturday back and from there (Sixth Ave), we took a cab to Jurong Point to catch a movie.
Flagged a Skoda Octavia cab and the driver whizzed off without much fuss. I was a little surprised by how briskly the cab accelerated from standstill, more like pinned to the backseat ya know?
I observed his driving and to be honest although he wasn't driving in a dangerous fashion, he was clocking on average 110kph on 90kph roads and 90kph on 70kph roads.
I also liked the way he slowed down when lanes were merging and he anticipated what another driver's behaviour was before he did any action. In the end the other driver was kind enough to let us pass so the cab driver went 'pedal to the metal' mode and we overtook with no fuss even on an upslope.
Just what a 2.5L diesel engine with a light pressure turbocharger (LPT) can do! Wee! I love Skoda cabs! For flag down its $2.80. Not that sure about the per km charge as it was too dark to read.
Warp to today, where I was driving around my neighbourhood waiting for the green arrow to make a right turn.
As the arrow came on, I depressed my clutch, shifted to gear 1 and 1 unclefucka taxi driver started honking me. Nvm, I curse and go thru the bend on 2nd, making sure I slow down as much as possible to make his blood boil even more.
Sure enough, he was behind me again on the next right! Yahoo! This time I turned right on 1st gear, which was like 15kph to annoy the shit out of his shithead.
He honked another 3 times and this time I seriously felt like getting out of the kawaii-no-berlingo and just ask him wtf he wants by honking.
Why do they honk so much? Is 1 or 2 seconds so damn important? If I were really carrying heavy or fragile goods then how? I really have to go that slowwwww can't you have more patience?
If not for the single crooked line and the long line of traffic waiting behind I woulda gotten out of my vehicle after I jam my brakes and stand in front of his cab. Perhaps sit on his bonnet and see what he wanna do.
Driving in Singapore needs some big improvements. Not so much about the illegal mods, the roads or anything. It has to do with the drivers' mindsets, these fuckanathans have to understand that the horn is used only in emergencies, not for slow van waiting to make a right turn!
Fucktards, they probably won't understand, I'll just trace them down and probably become some sort of vigilante myself :x
Flagged a Skoda Octavia cab and the driver whizzed off without much fuss. I was a little surprised by how briskly the cab accelerated from standstill, more like pinned to the backseat ya know?
I observed his driving and to be honest although he wasn't driving in a dangerous fashion, he was clocking on average 110kph on 90kph roads and 90kph on 70kph roads.
I also liked the way he slowed down when lanes were merging and he anticipated what another driver's behaviour was before he did any action. In the end the other driver was kind enough to let us pass so the cab driver went 'pedal to the metal' mode and we overtook with no fuss even on an upslope.
Just what a 2.5L diesel engine with a light pressure turbocharger (LPT) can do! Wee! I love Skoda cabs! For flag down its $2.80. Not that sure about the per km charge as it was too dark to read.
Warp to today, where I was driving around my neighbourhood waiting for the green arrow to make a right turn.
As the arrow came on, I depressed my clutch, shifted to gear 1 and 1 unclefucka taxi driver started honking me. Nvm, I curse and go thru the bend on 2nd, making sure I slow down as much as possible to make his blood boil even more.
Sure enough, he was behind me again on the next right! Yahoo! This time I turned right on 1st gear, which was like 15kph to annoy the shit out of his shithead.
He honked another 3 times and this time I seriously felt like getting out of the kawaii-no-berlingo and just ask him wtf he wants by honking.
Why do they honk so much? Is 1 or 2 seconds so damn important? If I were really carrying heavy or fragile goods then how? I really have to go that slowwwww can't you have more patience?
If not for the single crooked line and the long line of traffic waiting behind I woulda gotten out of my vehicle after I jam my brakes and stand in front of his cab. Perhaps sit on his bonnet and see what he wanna do.
Driving in Singapore needs some big improvements. Not so much about the illegal mods, the roads or anything. It has to do with the drivers' mindsets, these fuckanathans have to understand that the horn is used only in emergencies, not for slow van waiting to make a right turn!
Fucktards, they probably won't understand, I'll just trace them down and probably become some sort of vigilante myself :x
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Monday, September 18, 2006
Running
Running is fun and challenging. Its good to have resumed running after a brief hiatus, and seems like our group is getting bigger and bigger now.
Yesterday we ran at ECP again, this time we took a different route and didn't run towards Bedok Jetty. We ran towards Fort Road and the coniferous trees (I think) were kind of a welcome relief compared to the numerous tents at 'Malay Village' if you know what I mean.
Having no serious runs in 2 weeks had its toll on me. By the 3.5km mark my abdominals were really feeling the strain, had to stop and pause for a breather but by then all momentum was lost =(
Won't be joining the Standard Chartered marathon or half marathon in any case due to lack in finances. I could but I don't want to spend that kind of $ anyway. Have a lot of other 'poisons' to invest on x_x
Yesterday we ran at ECP again, this time we took a different route and didn't run towards Bedok Jetty. We ran towards Fort Road and the coniferous trees (I think) were kind of a welcome relief compared to the numerous tents at 'Malay Village' if you know what I mean.
Having no serious runs in 2 weeks had its toll on me. By the 3.5km mark my abdominals were really feeling the strain, had to stop and pause for a breather but by then all momentum was lost =(
Won't be joining the Standard Chartered marathon or half marathon in any case due to lack in finances. I could but I don't want to spend that kind of $ anyway. Have a lot of other 'poisons' to invest on x_x
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
How much is too much?
If you had to wash a car and the car gets dirty every week, would you
1. Wash until its 100% clean, noting that the last 20% requires extra hard work and effort
2. Wash until 80% and live with the un-noticeable 20% difference.
My dad is number 1.
I was number 1.
Note: this is an analogy, not actual car washing!!!
1. Wash until its 100% clean, noting that the last 20% requires extra hard work and effort
2. Wash until 80% and live with the un-noticeable 20% difference.
My dad is number 1.
I was number 1.
Note: this is an analogy, not actual car washing!!!
Friday, September 01, 2006
DLink router
Recently my wireless router from Dlink (DI724P+) started giving me slower and slower connection speeds. So under constant bugging from my sibling and being a tad irritated with that piece of crap, I called Dlink.
The first lady who took my call gave me some simple instructions but because I'm not a noob I knew it wasn't going to work so I just had to perform basic troubleshooting processes which I had done a gazillion times =/
Then 2nd lady who took my call seemed to be multitasking tremendously because she had like 2 seconds delay when replying my questions. Ultimately after many many steps of troubleshooting I was still unable to rectify the problem and was getting very perturbed >_<
Then I sent her the file and she said she would simulate my situation, using their own DI724P+ router in their service center to see if they have any problem. Well that's the most stupid suggestion I've ever heard. Was she suggesting that my attachment file (my resume ~400kb) is causing the slow speeds/unable to email as attachment?!?!!
After another delay of 2 hours I called them and told them I was going down. Went to their Jurong svc ctr and the guy checked my router. After 5 mins he came out and told me 'Your router is obsolete and we will have to replace it with a new model'
Whooo!!! So now I'm with a DI524UP which is exactly the same as my old router, a little smaller and with a USB port for USB network printer connection. DLink's lifetime warranty.. I like... =D
The first lady who took my call gave me some simple instructions but because I'm not a noob I knew it wasn't going to work so I just had to perform basic troubleshooting processes which I had done a gazillion times =/
Then 2nd lady who took my call seemed to be multitasking tremendously because she had like 2 seconds delay when replying my questions. Ultimately after many many steps of troubleshooting I was still unable to rectify the problem and was getting very perturbed >_<
Then I sent her the file and she said she would simulate my situation, using their own DI724P+ router in their service center to see if they have any problem. Well that's the most stupid suggestion I've ever heard. Was she suggesting that my attachment file (my resume ~400kb) is causing the slow speeds/unable to email as attachment?!?!!
After another delay of 2 hours I called them and told them I was going down. Went to their Jurong svc ctr and the guy checked my router. After 5 mins he came out and told me 'Your router is obsolete and we will have to replace it with a new model'
Whooo!!! So now I'm with a DI524UP which is exactly the same as my old router, a little smaller and with a USB port for USB network printer connection. DLink's lifetime warranty.. I like... =D
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
New Balance Real Run results!!!!
Haha I was thinking of doing the mean and median thing but looking at the position of the scrollbar, mine is wayyyy down.
MO3567 SINGAPORE MEN'S OPEN 00:29:52 00:52:29 01:12:44 01:28:07
There are 3 other timings and those refer to the timing I took to cross the 1st, 2nd and 3rd checkpoints.
Looking at the timings, the fastest guy can run twice and still have to wait for me to complete the race.. his timing was 34:41.. wtf!
Hope to improve myself I'll go for 01:15 next time!
MO3567 SINGAPORE MEN'S OPEN 00:29:52 00:52:29 01:12:44 01:28:07
There are 3 other timings and those refer to the timing I took to cross the 1st, 2nd and 3rd checkpoints.
Looking at the timings, the fastest guy can run twice and still have to wait for me to complete the race.. his timing was 34:41.. wtf!
Hope to improve myself I'll go for 01:15 next time!
Monday, August 28, 2006
Rollerblading
Blading is something that I've been doing for a long time. I got my first pair of blades courtesy of my cousin when I was in Primary 5. That's 1993, 13 years ago. It wasn't just any pair of blades, it was frickin' Rollerblades! Woo! Brand new! I think it was bought at Parkway Parade in some big departmental store. There was a TV showing an ang mor 'cai' doing the slalom backwards and I was like WOW (slalom involves criss crossing several cones in a straight line)
Went home and tried blading around the void deck. After 3 rounds I pretty much got the hang of it. I remember it was about 9 or 10pm at night and we kinda attracted curious stares from passing people! Haha!
Well it took about 5 or 6 years for my first big fall. I was practising turns and my right foot which was leading the left turn, went over a green algae patch on the concrete floor and down I went, hard on my right hip. I struggled to smile sheepishly as a family who had just alighted from their car with badminton rackets asked if I was ok. Well, at that point of time I was wondering if my hip bone was gone and did I have a fracture or something because the pain was.. ahhhhhh super duper incredibly intense. Heng I was alright.
In Nan Hua, after managing to 'poison' Xinyan to learn how to blade, we started doing more dangerous stuff like jumping off a flight of stairs, going down staircases(backwards) and doing a lot of sliding/braking. I remember a particular accident where XY with his old blades (c/w pathetic plastic wheels with a low rubber content), he attempted to do a fast turn which became a hockey brake and he couldn't control it and he ended up sliding on his thigh for like 5 metres. LOL
His thigh skin + some of the butt skin was injured/abrased and it sure wasn't a pretty sight. Think average knee scrape, the amount of plasma + pus and multiply all of it by 10. The pain... >_<
Along the way he got more and more pairs of blades, Oxygens, california pro and God knows what else before he got his Majestics.
He dumped the Oxygens at my place and trashed the Cali-pros. I bought my Roces Chapter 322 together with his Majestics and after that I was kinda disappointed. With the more rigid, heavier and uncomfortable boot, I couldn't slide as well and my feet got tired faster. Although I could try new stunts like grinding railings (never tried though)
Until now with my new blades I still don't think its as good as my first pair of blades. Somehow the camber angle is too rigid for my liking =(
For those who dunno what is sliding, when I finally get used to my blades, I'll show you what's a slide! You know like Takumi in Initial D? Well this is the closest thing to it if you can't afford a car =D
Went home and tried blading around the void deck. After 3 rounds I pretty much got the hang of it. I remember it was about 9 or 10pm at night and we kinda attracted curious stares from passing people! Haha!
Well it took about 5 or 6 years for my first big fall. I was practising turns and my right foot which was leading the left turn, went over a green algae patch on the concrete floor and down I went, hard on my right hip. I struggled to smile sheepishly as a family who had just alighted from their car with badminton rackets asked if I was ok. Well, at that point of time I was wondering if my hip bone was gone and did I have a fracture or something because the pain was.. ahhhhhh super duper incredibly intense. Heng I was alright.
In Nan Hua, after managing to 'poison' Xinyan to learn how to blade, we started doing more dangerous stuff like jumping off a flight of stairs, going down staircases(backwards) and doing a lot of sliding/braking. I remember a particular accident where XY with his old blades (c/w pathetic plastic wheels with a low rubber content), he attempted to do a fast turn which became a hockey brake and he couldn't control it and he ended up sliding on his thigh for like 5 metres. LOL
His thigh skin + some of the butt skin was injured/abrased and it sure wasn't a pretty sight. Think average knee scrape, the amount of plasma + pus and multiply all of it by 10. The pain... >_<
Along the way he got more and more pairs of blades, Oxygens, california pro and God knows what else before he got his Majestics.
He dumped the Oxygens at my place and trashed the Cali-pros. I bought my Roces Chapter 322 together with his Majestics and after that I was kinda disappointed. With the more rigid, heavier and uncomfortable boot, I couldn't slide as well and my feet got tired faster. Although I could try new stunts like grinding railings (never tried though)
Until now with my new blades I still don't think its as good as my first pair of blades. Somehow the camber angle is too rigid for my liking =(
For those who dunno what is sliding, when I finally get used to my blades, I'll show you what's a slide! You know like Takumi in Initial D? Well this is the closest thing to it if you can't afford a car =D
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