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Yearly Archives: 2009

Snow in Cambridge! Off to Cardiff!

It snowed throughout last night, what better way there is than to spend the day before touring UK with a snowy white Christmas here...

Natwest charged what?

Had some problems with my bank a few days ago. Apparently I was charged like 3 pounds from my account without any notice, clarified...

With this new found time, comes great responsiblity (and procrastination)

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...

Spilling the beans over studentbeans

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...

Borders UK to wind up business

Word of good buys can go a far way, well despite the financial situation of the store actually offering the bargains. Borders UK and...

The last day of the term to end

Today is the last day of term! Two months of back to back hectic lectures, supervisions and lab, all over! well for 6 weeks...

The week in Photos

Last week was exceptionally busy, particularly with term coming to and end in about 1 weeks time. Time do pass rather fast when you...

Down San Francisco Market Street in 1905

Ah, good old San Francisco, one of my favorite cities in the world, only this showing how it looks like in the past, specifically...

Word random crash on Windows 7 Ultimate and Office 2007

I came across this problem when doing some word processing on my new installation of Office 2007 on Windows 7. If you are running...

Work hard? Play harder! oh yea there’s food as well!

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...

About Cambridge colleges and formal (nomming) halls!

With some spare time to spare between classes, I will talk about the college culture here in Cambridge. I believe I touched briefly on...

Mystery of the disappearing weekend food

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,...

College matriculation formal!

Enrollment in the university of Cambridge is like a ritual in this traditional university. It's like almost going back into time as well, with...

College chill out!

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...

The engineering department

With some time to spare, let me talk about the engineering department along Trumpington street where all freshers will have to go through as...

Cambridge engineering prep week

The engineering prep course was held over the course of last week, it was organised by the university department as an introductory course for...

Aihoy Cambridge!

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...

Singtel Formula 1 Singapore GP 2009 paddock visit by Shell

I was fortunate enough to be invited by Shell to witness the Singtel Singapore Formula 1 GP up close. I was part of a...

Wacom Intuos 4 Medium Tablet review- A cartoonist perspective

Today is a good day! And a coincidence, the day my new Intuos4 arrived in the mail as well! I brought mine off Amazon...

Looking back at the year 2008 in photographs

Excerpt from the Boston globe: 2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up the thousands...

How USB thumbdrives are made

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...

Fedex has been fed, textbooks are here

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,...

Run for Hope 2009 (Sunday, 22nd November 2009)

Thanks Lyla Lin for sending me the official details of the event. Many thanks also going out to the various runners who sent me...

A engineering interview to remember (Cambridge university engineering)

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...

NDP 2009 Happy 44th birthday Singapore!

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...

Dover Park Hospice Sunday Walk 2009

Here is a charity related event event, they are kind enough to send me their press release, so I will post it down here...

Onboard the Singapore flyer with an experience article on the article page!

I always wanted to get this article written since late last year, but didn't get much to publish it as a work in constant...

Scheduled system maintenance

The site will be down about 10 minutes at around 3pm SGT today for a system RAM change and reboot sorry for any downtime...

Mechwarrior 5 coming soon on PC and 360

Being an avid fan of the battlemech universe, this installment to the mechwarrior franchise will sure to get any battletech fans jumping out for...

Cambridgeshire bus commute video

Traveling is quite a a big part of life in the UK, it's also a way of life. Simple short trips can easily go...

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