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btye for thought

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btye for thought

Installed my thermaltake fan controller, now my PC casing looks piffy together with my 5.25″ bay overclocker’s kr L.I.S LCD indicator with red backlight, man does it look cool! Now I can work with lower fan noise, not to mention possible lower electrical bills for pops with those fans spin slower & consume lower amps.

Spent about 2hours in the afternoon today on friendster searching for old lost friends using the school search feature & managed to find quite a handful of ’em. hehheh, even if we are all older now, somehow there will still some similar facial resemblance of I can remember almost 8 years back. Interesting to see how everyone’s getting along now, its like some old high school reunion thing!

Gadget wise, wondered why did my family get a DV camera few years, back. Video’s gonna be transferred to the computer anyway, so was film cameras back then. Shoulda gotten a mpeg4/mpeg2 video camera.. Me eyeing those panasonic d-snap series now… :mrgreen:

Nitro family is one cool FPS game, cleared 2 stages yesterday & had a break from it by playing some roller coaster tycoon & NFS underground II, finally unlocked the jackson heights area of NFS-U2 & obtained an SUV to mod. Though game progress is at an all low 10%, now one more area to unlock!

TAXI

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TAXI

Caught the movie taxi at GV PS today with my bmt friends dominic & qingrui. Met up early at the box office around 12.30 for some chit chat, catching up on times. Dom wanted to tickets for the movie taxi, but qingrui wanted to watch shark’s tale. Personally, I haven’t watched shark’s tale it yet, but dom did. In the end got the tiks for qingrui to watch seperately with his friends who were coming later while dom & me, went to watch taxi. Strange though, 2 groups in different cinemas but same building! Overall taxi is an ‘ok’ show not that spectacular but with the exception of the very beautiful cars (lemme see at least 2 BMW 760, 2 M3s & one lucky daewoo…), not to mention the ever gorgeous robber chicks.

Come to think about it, this “taxi” concept is not new either, considering me being an avid fan of the movie series of the early french movie “Taxi”. Overall I enjoyed the movie with laughs here & there & man! do Jimmy Fallon make dopey cops look bad (played as the char Andy Washburn) with Queen Latifah (known as Belle Williams the taxi driver) cracking the robbery case.

On the forefront, pixar’s The Incredibles is gonna be another good show. Hopefully would be catching it next week.

Walked to simlim from PS, using some of my “innate scout homing ability (+1)”,the sun, guitar strings & mainly catballs, I managed to navigate my way through the selegie & albert area, before wolia! SLS! mmm didn’t know the proximity between these places is so close! Singapore is small! (& I actually wanted to take an MRT from PS to cityhall then bugis, haha thx dad for recommending the walk)

Went around looking for a new graphics card, perf a geforce FX6800, aka geforce 6 series but the prices are still so high, the lowest retailing round $580. Personally I find no point in forking so much for computer equip, like handphones, the prices will soon tumble down, saving me from those remorseful jawdropping “argh I COULD HAVE ACTUALLY SAVED THAT MUCH syndrome”.

Got a thermaltake 4 fan speed controller, together with 2 new games Nitro family, a crazy serious sam style comic mad first person shooter & Roller coaster tycoon 3, this time in full 3D glory! even the box is reflective, very nice, very nice indeed…

Need for speed underground 2

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Need for speed underground 2

Man what a cool game this is.. so good, well I guess I almost forgot to blog! hehheh been playing it for 2 days now, after completeing the c&c generals zero hour 3 races campaigns in the afternoon. Anyway this new edition to the NFS universe is both a mix of GTA & street car racing found on the NFS 1 series, very much like rockstar’s midnight club II. You get to explore the city (bayview city) on your own, participate in races going on around town, or just go around exploring around town for the 9 hidden specialities parts/body/car lot/graphics shop. All parts you name it from the first NFS U series plus a few niffy extras. Furthermore, while exploring, you can get to pick on any racers you meet on the streets for some cash by going in an outrun battle, wooty! Your GPS will keep you very much well orientated in the city, esp if you are new & you cellar will keep you updated on new shop deals/parts or races currently happening. You can tune your car for specific races, but the game would be better if theres actually damage rendering for the cars, not to mention paying for necessities like fuel/racing damages/nitrous oxide refills in carrier mode, man would that be realisitc! Overall, I give the game 85/100, if you are a die hard fast & furious fan, you did better get this game dude! 😉

Would be a slack day at camp tomorrow for WOS (wing orderly sgt, aka wing ONLY sgt) duty, guess I would be packin’ my stuffs & preping for the much needed “entertainment” at camp tomorrow. During that much free time, I aim to get at least a drawing done & finish one anime DVD. In the meantime, chill catcha back on saturday.

what a PASS?

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what a PASS?

Mum & dad had been going for lots of health related course & talks at various hospitals/schools lately & man is the place filled with tons of leaflets & articles regarding all things from osteoporosis to kidney stones. Furthermore, Alexandra hospital is offering free dental checkups, maybe I would try dropping by someday.

The work day ended for me now, with me at home now typing this blog. & man do I have a bad cough, didn’t sleep well last night & to make matters worse, theres IPPT test TODAY! Argh! With all the rumbling & cursing cos I’ve got a pass (my first time) usually, a silver is my basic standard. Well partly because I wasn’t feeling well, ( I did say that I’ve got a bad cough). Got 230cm for SBJ, 14 pull-ups, 47 for sit-ups & 10.2s for shuttle run, but got 12mins for the 2.4km run. Went to the medical center to report sick after the test to get some cough medication. Got 1 day light duty status which i don’t think would be off much use. Rested in bunk before booking out around 3.30om.

Short weekend

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Short weekend

Recieved a comfirmation e-mail from the software boutique @ funan on my half-life 2 preorder. There would be life firing tomorrow, so its a sunday burnt. Stayed-in on friday night, a very rare choice but very much fueled by laziness, guess arriving in camp back on sat 6.30am is too much for me, sleeping is camp is so much more convient, not to mention more rest. Went to set the butt this morning, then booked out around 10.30am for a short weekend. Yes book in tonight at 10.30pm. The good news is that the coy would get to book out wednesday & have an off all the way till the following monday, with a WOS duty for me on friday too. *swapped from the 20th this month, duh* Would be waking up early, bout 4.30am tomorrow A SUNDAY for live firing. Oh well at least I woild be able to test out my pelican sabre light submersible tomorrow night. man its bright!

Block leave over

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Block leave over

Well, there always comes a time when, well happiness ends? lol nah I was just referring to the end of the very much needed block leave which too, ended today. Passing by orchard road in the afternoon, the subaru impreza challenge at nee ang city seems to be heating up too, starting yesterday with more cars, more people, most of the spectators staying there watching people suffering in the afternoon sun/rain while they stay in comfort/shelter.. ohhh people. Lol wonder will they have am international queuing endurance competition, bet us singaporeans are pros at that. Marina square is still under renovation (thx lest for the intel), but their cinema area is more or less completed. Took a bus to suntec, almost forgotten with nichol highway closed, buses 14 & 196 are all diverted to raffles hotel-beach road so I have to walk from the shaw tower to suntec for some “pre-meet shopping” Enquired about the dell axim x50v at the suntec dell “try-it” kiosk, the sales rep weren’t very well informed about the upcoming product either, neither about the retail price, but they do know that its coming up around this dec.

Met up with lester, david & desmond at city link mall thereafter & headed back to suntec kenny rogers ribs & steak for lunch. The bill went up to about $75 for 4 of us, thanks going to David for treating us to such a wonderful meal, well as usual he’s the one eating the most of it too. Guess army talk is very much the topic now for everyone, as most of us 1984 batch are more of less enlisted/enlisting into the army now. Education wise, desmond is still studying, lester grad from poly with a dip & like most of us are miserably serving the nation. David would be going some china university to study chinese, amazingly I always heard him talkin bout that, & I always thought that it was a joke! For me, hope I can able to get entry to a university with either australia or scottland to do computer based engineering, as local Us are so limited in choices, not to mention I hate the evident textbook style of learning here.

7 more months to ORD! & need for speed underground 2 would be out in SG 7th nov, check out for that! 😉

Halloween recaptionation

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Halloween recaptionation

Its another sunny sunday (thankfully) similar to that of yesterday morning. Its 10.30am & yea its sunday. Recapping some notable happenings of the weekend: Had steamboat dinner on Friday at Golden Mile complex & later dropped by to Geylang Serai for the festival shops & deco. They had lots of things, such as malay traditional sweets, dessert & finger food. Not to mention clothing & handiwork, quite interesting. The streets were all lighted blue/green orchard road style to the malay theming & the crowds there are humongous. Sheena got a handphone new handphone cover for her 7250i while mum got some sleveless & dad, some yummies & malay flour cakes. Drove everyone home thereafter had a fuel topup at commonwealth SPC gas station before heading home. I longed to have my own car, come to think about it, why can’t singapore be something like the states or maybe japan for instance where cars are cheap & what we youths can do are work parttime after school in some hangout or so. Instead oif being so coped up with tution, CCAs, homework & stuffs. Earn some cash so we can get some secondhand cars at dirt cheap prices (like $200-$2000, NO Farking COEs! ) from a 2nd hand or scarpyard dealer & souping it up every month bit by bit from our monthly pay, pampering it till it’s… WHOA!

Went for a swim on saturday morning, cos I said it was nice & sunny right? Anyway spent the rest of the sat at home coding, debugging the site & finally uploaded all the new stuffs, whats more? finally completing need for speed underground (70/111) & finally touched c&c generals zero hero with a few USA campaigns after almost 1/2 year+ the DVD box is all dusty now. 😛

Well payday would be in 10 days time. Would be looking forward to my Geforce FX6800 purchase next month. Hopefully I can get only within my budget. Would be dropping by suntec later around 1pm, to do some shopping & check out the newly renovated marina square (its is completed that is) before meeting up with David & gang for his farewell lunch. Would be bringing my camera. 😀

New site template

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New site template

Ok, as promised the new site design would be up for all by tonight. You can check it out here.

DO NOTE that the new template is not fully up yet. Therefore there might be some visual problems/inconsistencies between pages. But they should all be fised by saturday. 😉

Ups a daisy!

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Ups a daisy!

The site would be undergoing a makeover starting today afternoon, during this period there may be some mismatch of colours, images due to the new css styles. But the site would still be up nonetheless. Would see everything up by well, tonight. In the meantime why not check out these cool sites I came about:

Bunny music video: Everyone’s having more sex with me

Some chick on her bike to the Ghost Town- Chernobyl “dead zone”. Includes some very creepy footage of the immediate area around ground zero.

Jog da round

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Jog da round

Mum finally succumbed to my constant bragging of going for runs & exercising. & mind you I don’t take excuses such as a long day at work or “look its 8pm & I just came back from work” When health is concerned. My parents are starting kinda starting to get out of shape now, so I guess me as their ‘personal trainer’ would see to that. & so, we (dad & mum) ran to tiong baru park for some laps & static workout at the park. While I did a 5 round run round the park, totalling about 3.5km I guess, nothing compared to what I run at camp though.. The training ended around 9pm with us heading to brickworks hawker center for some loh mee, porridge (literally they ate back all the calories!) I would see to a healthier lifestyle now. Dragging either them or better, both of them out for a run whenever I am free & at home home for at least once a week.

& so..

Site updates: Lots of debugging going on now, everything is at least 50% done. With some coding & template customization to do. I am including a few nice eye candies which can be handled on IE browsers, yet to test the scripts on Netscape though. Come toNetscape always gives me lots of headaches when it comes to compatibility, with so many features unsupported, wonder why do people still use it with mozilla & opera.

& hey, this is news there would be an inital-D movie coming out afterall, in 2005 to be exalt. With Jay Chao as Takumi… mmm

Coasting to a stop

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Coasting to a stop

Just came back from a visit to granny’s. Went to abc market for supper thereafter, had chicken cutlet while the rest of my family had a more muslim type meal with satay & mee siam.

The more I drive, the more some habits start to show, such a “dishwashing the wheel”, not keeping left & coasting on neutral to a stop. Actually the coasting part is very much something dad wanted me to do, so as not to wear out the clutch linings so soon. Such freewheeling is particularly good esp when coasting to a stop, just gain enough speed then shift to N & coast to a stop at the red light. I wonder why don’t they teach that at school, well because it dangerous?

D12 is making great progress now (not one the new site project will be known as D12.V1.0: design type 12, version 1.0), I try not to be so coupled up or being much of a slave to the computer now, doing all my work bit by bit everyday & try to spend lesser time in front of the computer working, considering it being off days for me. The pr0ject is roughly 30% done with most of the graphical elements created awaiting upload, this time we should be able to see a much larger space devoted to the shoutbox, not to mention finally a working & functional poll. The tough part would be updating the css & converting the current colour scheme to suit the new orangy theme (yea orange is back!). Would see more updates on that tomorrow.

New site design comin’ up

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New site design comin’ up

Just came back from my WITS leader course at Toh Payoh, HDB hub, its a 9am-5pm workshop held today & tomorrow teaching mainly on skills & knowledge about being a wits team leader. Very much looked forward too are the 2 tea breaks at 11am & 3pm, not to mention the 1 hour lunch break from 12pm-1pm where, maocheng & me had lunch at a nearby foodcourt, fat ben met & caught up with us (as he had some chores to do) at the entertainment center’s arcade for a few round of nameco’s time crisis III. Brought a new PC game, Robot Wars Arena of destruction at a bargain of $25 at popular bookstore before heading to the Hub’s taxi stand where my dad was waiting. As usual, dad just wants me to drive. The traffic was ok, considering it around the end of work peak period timing. Was not used to driving with my Nike ACG trekking trainers as I couldn’t feel those pedals at all, settled that & drove back with feet on pedals in the end. Vertical parked at my home carpark for the first time since I got my license, parking was a little off center but otherwise still in the lot. Back home, dinner was great had been once in a while since dad prepared some very nice dinner, had steamed fish with salted vege & ginger together with celery, rice, sunday setup egg & mixed fishball, lettlute & beancurd soup, very healthy yet tasty, very yummy.

Would be working on a new site deign (v12) over the next week week block leave, we should be able to see it up around mid week or so. 😉

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