http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs Tangy Orangy Content! Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:20:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was devastating, nine days after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake killed hundreds of people in south-central Chile, relief efforts were beginning to reach those in need, rescue missions became recovery missions, and rebuilding is already under way. In the days since the February 27th quake, nearly 150 aftershocks have been recorded, ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2010/03/08/chile-nine-days-later Welcome the year of the tiger! A whole new year on the lunar calendar. There had been much talk among the Chinese group here in Cambridge with regards to the new year, particularly how it is celebrated in various countries, with experiences of their own, let be in China or ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2010/02/15/happy-chinese-new-year-of-the-tiger Cambridge University Malaysia Singapore Association organized this event last Saturday, the 30th of January which is essential and asian food festival where the society gets to prepare unique Singaporean dishes for everyone to come and enjoy. I've signed up as a helper for the food festival since early last term. ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2010/02/01/cambridge-university-msa-asian-food-festival It interesting that such technology and capability already existed ages ago, but no one seemed to put it all together for the consumer. Apple seem to always get that right, this time they are doing it again with a new slate tablet computer called the iPad. At first glance, it looks ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2010/01/27/apple-ipad-annouced-not-a-workhorse-but-hey-it-can-run-iphone-apps I had this problem with iTunes previously, but solved the problem by reverting the program, so I am posting this here in case anyone who experienced the problem on a same setup can get a solution here. After updating iTunes on my PC to the spanking new 9.0.2 64-bits to ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2010/01/24/solving-iphone-3gs-apps-unknown-error-or-file-not-found-in-itunes-9-0-2-64-bit What other cooler way to mark the end of the university's 800th anniversary celebration with a cool and ambient lightshow held at night with fire art performances? Apparently, the whole stretch along Cambridge King's parade street was closed for much of the night's last week for the event, consisting mostly ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2010/01/23/cambridge-university-800th-laser-light-show-finale Caught Avatar 3D yesterday afternoon at the Vue Cinema in Grafton shopping center. Yes I know it's been a month since it was released and everyone had already watched it, let be some even 2 to 3 times, so this rant is not new. But I had not really been ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2010/01/14/avatar-the-movie-in-3d It snowed throughout last night, what better way there is than to spend the day before touring UK with a snowy white Christmas here in Cambridge? Whoohoo! *fluffs* It had been about 8 and 14 years (if I remember correctly) since I last played with real snow. And it feels ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/12/18/snow-in-cambridge-off-to-cardiff Had some problems with my bank a few days ago. Apparently I was charged like 3 pounds from my account without any notice, clarified that with that at the branch and was told it was a stray bank charge and they immediately refunded the value in full. Scary! Banks are different ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/12/14/natwest-charged-what It's important but not Urgent! With term ended a week ago, had about a whiff of freedom and lots to procrastinate, well so as it had been now. I remembered dreading the long days in lectures and supervisions of the previous term, always hoping for some breather off so I can ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/12/12/with-this-new-found-time-comes-great-responsiblity-and-procrastination Woohoo better-than-dominos quality pizza with the same 2 for 1 offer in a restaurant, how else can it be better? Apparently it's possible with coupons! and lots of them! Headed up to Pizza express situated near Jesus College with the gang for dinner recently, the chow down was definitely not ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/12/10/spilling-the-beans-over-studentbeans Word of good buys can go a far way, well despite the financial situation of the store actually offering the bargains. Borders UK and it's current owners and joint administrators are currently working with the company's management in order to attempt to sell the business as a going concern. Much ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/12/03/borders-uk-to-wind-up-business Today is the last day of term! Two months of back to back hectic lectures, supervisions and lab, all over! well for 6 weeks of term break at least. And whoa was it hectic. Quite notably, the pace of classes going on here in the department are so fast it ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/12/02/the-last-day-of-the-term-to-end Last week was exceptionally busy, particularly with term coming to and end in about 1 weeks time. Time do pass rather fast when you are buried with work almost literally every day! I even do not have time to send out Christmas cards yet, despite having telling myself to send ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/11/27/the-week-in-photos Ah, good old San Francisco, one of my favorite cities in the world, only this showing how it looks like in the past, specifically set in 1905 before the big earthquake and fire of 1906. Well, besides the fact that this video is more than a century old and almost ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/11/26/down-san-francisco-market-street-in-1905 I came across this problem when doing some word processing on my new installation of Office 2007 on Windows 7. If you are running the final release build of Windows 7 (build 7600) and Office 2007, you may have this problem of being unable to use your mouse to click ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/11/12/word-random-crash-on-windows-7-ultimate-and-office-2007 In my latest email from home, it seems that there were some highlights and talk in Singapore of our PM Lee’s speech at Cambridge 800th anniversary gala dinner. Well not that I do not know of despite it happening within close proximity from where I am, but hey I have ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/11/09/work-hard-play-harder-oh-yea-theres-food-as-well No it's not an aftermath of a zombie vending machine raid, but it always seem to be the case here every weekend in school, particularly those staying within the college dorms. The college generally serves 3 meals a day- breakfast, lunch and supper (aka dinner) everyday, with the exception on ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/10/17/mystery-of-the-disappearing-weekend-food There are quite alot happening around college, chill out sessions, welcome parties, ice-breaker sessions, speed meeting sessions, performances, talks you name it. And that is not just limited to events here but around town as well. The freshers events are the highlight for this time of the year, with the ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/10/13/college-chill-out With some time to spare, let me talk about the engineering department along Trumpington street where all freshers will have to go through as a rite of passage here in the university of Cambridge before specializing in their various fields of chosen expertise here or out of the department at ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/10/12/the-engineering-department The engineering prep course was held over the course of last week, it was organised by the university department as an introductory course for all fresher engineers starting their first year in Cambridge university. There were talks on various engineering topics such as reducing airplane noise and introductory electronics by ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/10/03/cambridge-engineering-prep-week School starts in a few weeks time and it's time for my flight to Cambridge before term starts. My flight was seduled on the late night of the 27th, a Sunday at the Changi Terminal 3. After dinner within the airport with my family and a long farewell to friends, ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/09/28/aihoy-cambridge I was fortunate enough to be invited by Shell to witness the Singtel Singapore Formula 1 GP up close. I was part of a group which were brought around the track and general area by Shell technical directors from London and KL, we were given free tickets for the day ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/09/27/singtel-formula-1-singapore-gp-2009-paddock-visit-by-shell Today is a good day! And a conincidence, the day my new Intuos4 arrived in the mail as well! I brought mine off Amazon at $297 USD with a student discount. The non-academic version is retailing too at Amazon for about $320 USD which is roughly $20 bucks more, however ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/09/02/wacom-intuos-4-medium-tablet-review-a-cartoonist-perspective Excerpt from the Boston globe: 2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up the thousands of stories in just a handful of photographs. That said, I will try to do what I've done with other photo narratives here, and tell a ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/08/27/looking-back-at-the-year-2008-in-photographs Thumbdrives don't grow on trees, neither can you find them with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Find out how this minute everyday object is made by going through a tour of the Kingston memory thumbdrive production line. Interesting watch. http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/08/25/how-usb-thumbdrives-are-made It's a little more than a month before the Michaelmas term begins in October. Time do passes very fast and before you know it, it's time for studies again. I just feel that I am really running out of time for the things to do before flying abroad. My calendar ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/08/19/fedex-has-been-fed-textbooks-are-here Thanks Lyla Lin for sending me the official details of the event. Many thanks also going out to the various runners who sent me updates on the event and reporting the error I had for this event on my 2009 listings page. RUN FOR HOPE 2009 Today’s Research. Tomorrow’s Cure. Run For Hope ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/08/19/run-for-hope-2009-sunday-22nd-november-2009 Since my unconditional undergrad offer to study engineering in Cambridge, I've never really found the time to write about my experience of the selection process and the interview I went through to be shortlisted. But heck it was really competitive, going against the top dogs in the best JCs in ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/08/15/a-engineering-interview-to-remember-cambridge-university-engineering Managed to catch a web telecast of this year's national day parade 2009. This year's one is impressive in my own opinion, despite usually being a sore thumb (hehe) and a big critique to all the previous NDPs. Surprisingly, gone are the trying to hard cheesy theme songs usually evident ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/08/10/ndp-2009-happy-44th-birthday-singapore