Back from Malacca trip

It has been 4 years since our first Malacca trip.
Much has changed, sadly, though surprises reward the patient ones.
Photos soon...

Aiming these...

link1: http://www.xootr.com.sg/Price.html

link 2: http://www.whiteandblacktrading.com/scooters

无印良品《我找你找了好久》

无印良品《我找你找了好久》; I finally found you after a long search.

This was the song that introduced me to the group during my polytechnic days.
Enjoy.

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoLsHAkFE7k&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I have church on Sunday...

Fair enough.  Though whenever plans come up, this comes up as an immovable block of stone.
I question the enthusiasm that you showed for the event, which I had kept you in mind for so many years.
I wonder.  Does missing a session makes one a lesser person?  If so, does going to church on another day lessen the experience?
Your public display of piousness is admirable.  I question your clarity.
~

Poisoning the well

Poisoning the well (or attempting to poison the well) is a rhetorical device where adverse information about a target is pre-emptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well

SAP FICO Consultant

Wow.  Too bad I don't fill the bill.

 
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Hi JW,

We are looking for several people who fit the following urgent Job Spec. If you are interested please email a word version of your CV back to me stating Salary requirements and Availability.

If this job is not relevant to you please accept my apologies but if you could forward it to anyone you feel would be more appropriate I would much appreciate it.

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Job Title: SAP FICO CONSULTANT - Leading Consultancy -UK wide travel

Salary: £50,000 - £65,000 + Car + bonus + Benefits

Location: UK Wide

Job Spec:

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Location: Customer facing UK wide with home working

Salary: £50,000 - £65,000 + Car + Bonus + Benefits
~

Finding employment...

...is like opening a window to a hot and stuffy room

For archival: An Q&A of my likes and dislikes

1. Do you have any and if so, all of the Amber books?
Yes, I don't mind illustrated ones, or special edition ones 


2. which Star Trek series did you like best? Do you have the collection?
I like TNG best (2nd series), I own none of them They are as follow: 
TOS (Kirk's gang - fat guy) 
TNG (Picard's gang - botak guy) 
DS9 (Benjamin Seisko - Black guy gang. never watched and would like to) 
VGR (Lady captain. watched 50%) 


3. Which Star Trek movie do you like best and what don't you have from the series?
I like and own the VCD versions 
First Contact (8) 
Voyage home (4) 
Wrath of Khan (2) 

I like and don't own this 
Star Trek - the reboot (11) 

Abosolutly avoid this, and no I don't own it, and don't intend to 
The Search for God (5) - directed by William Shatner

I missing these for my collection
Insurrection (9)
Nemesis (10)
Search for Spock (3)


4. Which Marvel hero you like best?
Thor, and Wolverine 
Liked Wolverine till they scrapped too deep for his origins 


5. Which Gundam hero you like best?
None. they are either cry babies or merciless killers 
The watched series are Gundam Wing, Gundam Seed, Gundam Seed Destiny 


6. Do you have any special edition LOTR books?
Unless you mean thick budget book with thin cheapo paper 


7. Do you have a pocket edition of LOTR or The Hobbit?
Nope to LOTR.  I have a collecters' edition Hobbit which is pocket size 


8. What is your tee size in general?
M to L, leaning to L 


9. Which is more wanted? a limited edition toy, normal film item, or autographed item? (for any series)
Autographed item, limited toy, normal film item, in that order 


10. What language would you like to learn most? (contemparary earthly)
Greek or Nordic, since I can't learn Vulcan or Elvish. 


11. do you prefer an experience or an item?
Don't mind. Good thing is I don't have to store it, or find this and that to assemble it 


12. red, yellow, or white?
Used to be I liked Giordano yellow, now it's Uniqlo Blue/Red 


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Gaga: THANK YOU. :P
Kns, these answers would last you a long time
~

Macross Frontier: Episode 24

Sigh... I wanna watch it again.

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEFODMGOzFE&feature=related

Stomach cramps

Resouce links:

1. How to cure stomach cramps: http://www.wikihow.com/Cure-Stomach-Cramps

2. Abdominal pain: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003120.htm

3. Abdominal pain (contains causes by location): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdominal_pain

~

My loves

Games
They suck you in.  You puff and puff on them, feeling bliss along the way.  Kinda like a smoking addiction, if you ask me.

Books
If games suck you in, books wrap you in.  You won't have withdrawal, but once you're in it, the sun can rise and fall and you won't be aware.  Sure, games does that too but the immersion is on a different level.

The other half.
Games + Books.  Enough said.
 

picture from:  http://lynmidnight.blogspot.com/2012/02/when-man-loves-book-character-vs-plot.html
~

LOL & ROFL used at bad times

What goes through these people's head?
"Hey, I'm a happy go lucky girl.  LOL!"

Some things are just not funny.

Selling oneself

Over the last few years, I got a nagging feeling that my resume is not up to scratch.  Yet, whenever I open up the file, everything looks in order.  "It's functional and detailed", I thought, and filed it away.

Recently, I've been doing some revision on it.  The more I look over, the more I trim.  Stuffs that I used to boast are now laughingly simple to me, and not worthy of mention.  Still, something is amiss; I can't put my finger on it.

After several phone interviews, I had an idea of what I'm lacking.  Date of birth; experience in functional and technical skills; full project cycles; summary of what each job was about; expected salary; summary of skillsets.  I will work on this soon.
~

NYT: A Catholic Classmate Rethinks His Religion

JW: This is not "safe" for FB consumption, so I'm exercising my right of expression in posting it here.  I found the story of the classmate in his soul search thought provoking, so I'm sharing it here.  This however, is not indicative of my support/or hate against any religions and sexual orientations.

Excerpt:

During our recent correspondence, he said he was sorry for any impression he might have given me in college that he wasn't open to the candid discussions we have now. I corrected him: I owed the apology - for misjudging him.

He grew up in the South, in a setting so homogenous and a family so untroubled that, he said, he had no cause to question his parents' religious convictions, which became his. He said that college gave him cause, starting with me. Sometime during freshman year, he figured out that I was gay, and yet I didn't conform to his prior belief that homosexuals were "deserving of pity for their mental illness." I seemed to him sane and sound.

He said that we talked about this once - I only half recall it - and that the exchange was partly why he remembered me two decades later.

Questioning his church's position on homosexuality made him question more. He read the Bible "front to back and took notes of everything I liked and didn't like," he said.

"There's a lot of wisdom there," he added, "but it's a real mistake not to think about it critically."

Full article here: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/opinion/sunday/bruni-a-catholic-classmate-rethinks-his-religion.xml?single=1&fb_source=message
~

I'm glad we are on the same wavelength

I'm glad you did what you did.  No need for further pretense.

Sleeping early

I stopped gaming at 10pm, and fell asleep soon after.
Maybe I should do that more often.  Hmm?

Star Wars Characters React to the News of George Lucas’ Retirement

Star Wars Characters React to the News of George Lucas’ Retirement

“What do you think about the news that George Lucas is retiring?”Han Solo: I retired first.
Darth Vader (Special Edition): NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

read more: http://deathstarpr.com/2012/01/star-wars-characters-react-to-the-news-of-george-lucas-retirement/#more-720

The Bark Side: 2012 Volkswagen Game Day Commercial Teaser

The Bark Side: 2012 Volkswagen Game Day Commercial Teaser

link: http://youtu.be/6ntDYjS0Y3w

Frustrated with the state of things

This had been in the brew for about 2 years.  You think things can't get any worse, and then fate proves you wrong.
I've never had such a low in my life, yet it's good to have supportive friends and a spouse who argues on your side.  And for a few seconds, you do agree with them.
However, it matters not what the truth is, but what the larger proportion of people believe in.  I believe it is time.  You can't beat them all.
Sometimes the way to advance, is to retreat.

picture source: http://blog.smartercomics.com/blog/2011/05/what-do-the-numbers-tell-you.html

Real steel

A movie I wanted to watch, for Hugh Jackman.  One that I'm wary of, because an actor does not make a movie and the synopsis was screaming, "Lame!"
Got to admit it now, it's fairly good, if you treat it as an underdog-inspiration movie.  The human parts suck, as expected.

Brinno PeepHole Viewer

I want...
source: http://www.brinno.com/html/product04-phv1330.html

Karma

For the record, I don't believe in karma; I believe in retributive justice.
Not that I act it out, but that's what I hope for anything.
Some days, when someone does me wrong, I absorb it and say, "it's on his karma".
That doesn't mean I believe in karma, but in the sanctity of his soul.

Space Shuttle Discovery

View the inside of the Space Shuttle Discovery
link: http://360vr.com/2011/06/22-discovery-flight-deck-opf_6236/index.html

~

Cat: "Let me sleep.."

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drZb5oi7xuQ&feature=player_embedded
Cat being disturb by a bird.

You don't have it

The price of my loyalty is trust.
I am as disappointed as you claim you are.

Wounds

The second time doesn't hurt anymore.

There's no escaping...

... from bureaucracy

Good person? Bad person?

A good person can be a bad person.
A good person can be a bad boss.

A good boss can be a bad person.
A good boss can be a bad boss.

Logic debate

Set A has shortcomings doesn't mean set B is true.

Set B has contradictions doesn't mean set A is true.

What I've been doing?

I've posted much less in my 2 blogs for the past few months.
My father had an operation, so the family have been shuttling between hospitals, day-care centre, and now, between two homes: me parent's and my new "house".
Even though the amount of time spent on the actual caring is low, the co-ordination and traveling do take up a large percentage of my time.  Sometimes, uncharacteristically, I drop off to sleep after reading a page of story, or two.
So while it's true that my wife and I had tarried in our renovation plans, it's not fair to put blame and labels without understanding the background.

The rights of a consumer

Had two unhappy incidents recently over services rendered.

One, we went to a bar and were seated outside.  The seats were wet so we requested for a change.  However, the waiter refused, "If I change for you, I'll have to offer customer who come, wet seats.  You get what I mean?"
Sorry, I don't.  You're saying that you are going to give us wet seats, while your imaginary future customers will get served better?

Two, I directed my taxi to my lobby.  Upon sighting the main road across a block, he questioned why I didn't get off from the main road and walk in?  "Some drivers hate coming into carparks like this, and having to get out".
Well, if I wanted to walk, I wouldn't have taken a taxi.

Much have been said of demanding customers.  Yet, what was said of customers who were given bad services and kept quiet about it?  I did keep quiet.  On reflection, I wouldn't accept such crap in future.

Yahoo Mail upgrade

I had been a long time supporter of Yahoo Mail.
But admit it, they've been sitting on their laurels for too long and lost their standing.
Where Google Mail had multiple selection, I had to select my spam mails in Yahoo Mail, one by one.
Where Google Mail allows you to drag and define your calendar appointments, I had to fiddle with the start and end time in Yahoo Mail.

Now, they have a massive upgrade, with link up to Facebook and Google+.
Question is, is it too little, too late?

Dilbert: Disconnect

Communication problem.

May 20, 2011

Queue cutters

I was stuck by the road for 20 minutes, cabs all showing red lights.  Two ladies turned up and parked themselves 15m ahead of me, chatting and paying me scant attention to my killer stare.

Muttering under my breath, I walked past them by 3m and showed them my back, twirling my umbrella in play.

I was kinda hoping that they would challenge me, so I was kinda disappointed.

My Nook OS got upgraded to 1.7.

Naturally curious, I went to BN website for their faq...

"What's new in V1.7?"

I clicked..

"NOOK ver1.7 includes a minor system update."

Wow... thanks...

If you keep throwing punches...

make sure you're prepared to get one back

Gifting...

The small gifts maintain the relationship; the big ones get remembered.

-JW, 2011

Dream: Porting

Dreams as they go don't make sense. I just thought that it's amusing to log them and read at a future date. Readers might want to skip this entry.

[dream: act 1]
In a kind of "place" where we're studying for "something". Present were my sec school classmates, uni classmates and ex colleagues and some current colleagues. After studying, we'll go back to our dorms via a series of branching doors.
[/dream: act 1]

[dream: act 3]
Vincent was angry that I got classmate X's help and scored 1st in mathematics. Told him that I had a history of roller coaster grades in mathematics. "It could have been anyone, like Yuna. I just needed help because I wasn't paying attention in class". Vincent was satisfied.
[/dream: act 3]

[dream: act 4]
Travel can be made via "porting", someone has to accept your transfer at a booth and once payment is made, you instantly appear at the booth. Payment is made via pre-paid cards. These cards card used for MMO subscriptions, porting and telephone phones. Just ported my baby over to the amusement park and told that I could now upgrade my card after having used $1000 in total. The upgraded card now offers porting at 1000kbps. We accepted.
Checked the card and found that we only have a few cents left. Guess no MMO for baby for a while...
[/dream: act 4]

[dream: act 5]
Walking back by the series of branching doors. Realised baby not with me so let the others go ahead. Found her 2 doors back. She grumbled at not checking for her and I put my arm around her shoulder, "Baby.."
[/dream: act 5]

[dream: act 6]
In american-style alley, with Demonic-dog howls...
[/dream: act 6]

Woke by alarm (demonic-dog howls). To wake baby and go for breakfast now.

May I have some identification?

Guess I've reach the age where I look suspicious moving alone at night.
Instead of a knife or some undesirables, they found... a book.

Micmacs

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Director: Jean-Pierre JeunetRelease: 12 May
Plot Summary: A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers.
source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149361/

Reason why I'm watching: "Amélie (2001)" & "A Very Long Engagement (2004)"

Thanks to GaGa for pointing this out

After my dinner of instant noodles...

I locked my token out by typing in the wrong password a few times.
Smart move, dumb ass.

Dilbert: Intentional Billing Errors

Intentional Billing Errors
How to make money

May 4, 2011

Barnes & Noble Welcome Coupon - reply

At least there's a personal reply. However, can't help feeling disappointed that the welcome is not sincere. Still, they could have not offered me anything and I wouldn't be upset.
Lesson: Never offer, if you can't follow through later.

Barnes & Noble Welcome Coupon

 Wow thanks, but I feel tired. Another day...

I'm hurt. Don't you know me as a customer?

Your reply would make or break our future relationship...

Upgrading to Froyo for Galaxy S

http://www.samsung.com/sg/support/detail/supportPrdDetail.do?menu=SP01&prd_ia_cd=1903&prd_mdl_cd=GT-I9000HKAXSO&prd_mdl_name=GT-I9000&srchword=Samsung+GALAXY+S
Run Kies, and it will guide you through the installation process

Warning, wizard ahead

Picture courtesy of Gaga

Dilbert: TWL

Theoretical Work Limit.
What happens when you fail a deadline?

Apr 10, 2011

Emily Jane Browning

Ooo... she was Violet...

A short get-away

That was relaxing; I love you, baby

Silent Taxi Drivers

When it's late at night, my transportation would be cabs.
Getting on, I said, "Hello, going to +(destination)"
The driver would start driving without acknowledgement.

"Turn left here".
The cab turns.
"Turn right here"
The cab turns.
"Stop here"
The cab stops.
"How much?"
He displays the total with the meter.
"Okay..."

It is somewhat uncomfortable.  I can dispense with smiles and "Yes, Sir".  Silence makes me feel like I'm driving the car with my own voice.  Is he blaming me for keeping me away from his bed?  Does he resent the need to serve?  Am I missing something?

1 more day...

to reach Vpost USA
>_<

Wedding banquets

Asked to death when I'm gonna get married..
Asked to death when I'm gonna get a flat..
Asked to death when I'm gonna do my renovations..
Asked to death when I'm gonna hold my banquet..

Seriously, do you enjoy grand banquets for its own sake?
Have you come across small cosy gatherings?
Do you find banquets a waste of time and money?

I do enjoy attending my friends' weddings,
but this is an age of one-upsmanship.
How the norms are spiraling out of control

I hope that when mine comes,
there is time for everyone.

Freedom...

starts from having a free press.

Political correctness?

When facts are too far from the truth, is a white lie an outright lie?

Superfish in IE Tab Plus

Some firefox extensions add a certain "Superfish" that activates when you start the browser.
Some extension like IE Tab Plus.
Damn you...

bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605104

removal insturction: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2014247&start=15

Abt time...

..to dust it off

Android 2.3 Features

source: http://www.android.com/media/

Darkest hour

Monitoress said this was the darkest hour of her career.  That set me wishing I could say, "Me too!"

What kills the most number of people?

a) Wars?
b) Malaria?
c) Others?




source: http://yourheartsontheleft.blogspot.com/2010/12/from-henry-ford-to-rob-ford-auto.html

Don't Chicken Out!

Ads from Burger King, SG.

#1: Vs Cab Stealer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fMSxedQtDDw

#2: Vs Crotch hitter - my fav:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4j1BBoR_Bw&feature=related


#3: Vs Ulu Pandan Bear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYMZF-SjXh4&NR=1

Enjoy

RIP, Winters of Easy Company

Band of Brothers' inspiration Winters dies at 92
read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110110/ap_on_en_tv/us_obit_winters

Low Fertility Rate and Cost of Living

Fertility Rate is such a useful tool.  It can be used by the Government to justify a restoration of the immigration rate.  It can be used by mothers to demand payouts for their unborn child, even though they have already *made* the decision to have one.  It can be used by the Opposition to cry about the Cost of Living.

We are perhaps one of the most prosperous Island states in the world.  That comes at the price of a high inflation rate and a volatile economy.  Most newly formed families cannot afford to rely on a single source of income.  Inflation will erode their earnings over time, and what is job security these days?

Perhaps that's the ill of a modern society.  We're on a canoe, in a mad ride, and the way to survive is to plow ahead.

Married, 20.12.2010

It's been a long road, getting from there to here.
It's been a long time, and my time is finally near.

Hard to imagine it has been 3 years since we're together, and 5 since we met.
To many more, dear.

Samsung's U.S. Galaxy S pages showing Froyo, but updates still missing

Note that the news says U.S.
Not sure about SG though.
read more: http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s-us-froyo-updates

Anime I'm watching or have watched

1. Marvel Ironman
JW: The early episodes are stand alone and the show came to an end too quickly.
Disappointing.
http://jwitworker.blogspot.com/2010/10/ironman-goes-japan.html

2. Code Geass
JW: It has its typical share of teenager-with-special-powers, and eye candies for boys.  The dark tone of this anime later warmed up.  I liked the deep thought behind the strategies, but the impossibly fast and powerful Gundams Knightmares put me off.
Overall, I enjoyed this series.
http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

3. Kemono no Souja
JW: Was hunting for a new anime to watch and came across this.  Slow paced story telling and drawn with simple lines.  It tells the story of a little girl working behind the lines with her mother, in a land guarded by giant lizards called Touda.
Looks promising =)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemono_no_Souja

Push Your Automated Android to Awesome Heights with These Tasker Setups

It's an app to allow you to setup automated tasks, if you can dream it.  For example, you could set your handphone to silent once you check into a library.  Or you could lower your phone's volume when you're in your house and louder if you're outside.
What interests me in this article is they described how you could set it up to reduced the frequency your sms are checked, thereby saving battery power.

read more: http://lifehacker.com/5601133/push-your-automated-android-to-awesome-heights-with-these-tasker-setups#data

Faces

Don't be an ass one day, and be a nice guy on another.  Make up your mind.

Top 10 beach destinations, as posted by Asia one

link: http://www.relax.com.sg/relax/media/524202/Top_10_beach_destinations.html

10 misconceptions learnt in school

what the...
http://edvantage.com.sg/edvantage/photos/520214/10_misconceptions_learnt_in_school.html
~

27 more hours...

counting down...

Some suggested apps from AsiaOne

http://www.digitalone.com.sg/multimedia/photo/multimedia/580
fyi...

Foreign is better

It offends me somehow, though it's none of my business.
When some men speak of how docile foreign wives are, I think, are they buying livestock?
Are you sure your lady friends are as mercenary, demanding and willful as you labeled the female half of the population to be?

12 more days

=)

Bryan's wedding tomorrow

Bryan's wedding tomorrow.  The first after the hiatus after Cheryl's wedding many years back.  Morgan cried foul, claiming the coming weddings to be a conspiracy to get married before the end of the world.  For me, the day couldn't come fast enough.

Work die us

Just realised that I have been so busy with work, that I have not explored new flash games for some time.  It's toning down now, and time to get busy.

All I Want For Christmas lyrics

I don't want a lot for Christmas
There's just one thing I need
I don't care about presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you.

I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
I don't care about presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I don't need to hang my stocking
There upon the fireplace
Santa Claus won't make me happy
With a toy on Christmas day
I just want you for for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you
You baby

I won't ask for much this Christmas
I won't even wish for snow
I'm just gonna keep on waiting
Underneath the mistletoe
I won't make a list and send it
To the North Pole for Saint Nick
I won't even stay awake to
Hear those magic reindeer click
'Cause I just want you here tonight
Holding on to me so tight
What more can I do
Baby all I want for Christmas is you
You

All the lights are shining
So brightly everywhere
And the sound of children's
Laughter fills the air
And everyone is singing
I hear those sleigh bells ringing
Santa won't you bring me the one I really need
Won't you please bring my baby to me

Oh, I don't want a lot for Christmas
This is all I'm asking for
I just want to see my baby
Standing right outside my door
Oh I just want him for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
Baby all I want for Christmas is
You

All I want for Christmas is you baby
All I want for Christmas is you baby.

Are COV prices really coming down?

Whenever I mention my oncoming purchase, people are sure to comment on the steep Cash-Over-Valuation.

"I hear prices are already coming down" (I've heard that prices have gone down)

"Are they?"

These are the median COV values posted by HDB.  They're amazing low, considering how most units I've visited, got sold for more than $60k. Nevertheless, even if their maths is flawed, as long as they are consistent in their calculation, we have a picture.

Compiled by yours truly,
source: http://www.hdb.gov.sg/fi10/fi10321p.nsf/w/BuyResaleFlatMedianCOV?OpenDocument

This graph is from HDB site
source: http://www.hdb.gov.sg/fi10/fi10321p.nsf/w/BuyResaleFlatResaleIndex?OpenDocument#Weights

Sheets of rain

Why do you have to fall?  I had plans for this week!

Preparations

We've found the flat we're to live in.  Just some more paper work, and lots of money, and we'll be done.

Who are we trying to convince? Ourselves?

Why are we repeating things to ourselves, as if they're true?
Does that make them happy?
Maybe yes; maybe no.

Childhood was...

doodling on the walls...
playing with real dough...
running around the neighbourhood...
playing hopscotch...
lying on the bed...
lying on the floor...
bouncing the ping pong ball against the wall...
going to the playground...
staring at the ceiling lights, till they get imprinted...
staring at the rain...
launching paper boats in the drain...
tapping into private radio channels...
turning the living room into a "snow-field"...
play out imaginary adventures with my toys...
construct a lego town and stare at it till dusk falls.  Set a torchlight behind it as night falls and stare at it some more...
read the entire collection of ladybird books at home (again)...
dream of a house filled with train tracks...

Ironman goes japan

http://www.animeseason.com/iron-man-episode-1/
prime universe, but movie storyline
Ironman goes japan

Eat, Pray, Love

*Warning: Mild spoilers alert*

Watched the show with ST last night.
Supposedly based on a true story, the movie contains some like-able and inspirational characters. It took its own sweet time to tell the story, which was fine with me.  Julia Roberts put up a good performance and the lines were pretty good, most of the time.
What didn't smell right was that despite the loving attention given to the preparation, cooking and eating of food; not a single bit appealed to me.  For all the mediation she had done; I don't feel her becoming more spiritual.  The love part? Eye contact; hug; sex.  Pfft.

Over the years, I've learned to be less of a critic and accept these kinda of movies as a weekday show.  The good performance by Julia Roberts and two old men made it passable.  A wonderful companion made the evening wonderful. =]

Scary dream

Had a scary dream.  Was back with my army mates, carrying stores and washing ourselves at a common bath-pool.  Foo was worried that the water I fed him was dirty, but I pointed out that he was in it anyway.  Then we were told that we're going to have keep the stores we've drawn, cos we're NSMen.
Woke up with a shiver.  That was scary; I didn't want to keep those stores.

Joe the doc

Joe got to serve X number of scheduled patients of day.
When he does his rounds, patients call to him, he has to attend them.
Sometimes their wounds fester, he has to attend them.
At the end of the day, he couldn't meet his target and resolved to work harder.
"I must serve X number of scheduled patients today"
But the same thing happens.
And again.
And again.
What is Joe to do?

Sianz

Not fulfilling

This is called, wth?!

We signed our OTP with our agent on the evening of 28th Sep.  This was made known to the seller party.
They updated their unit for sales, presumably on the afternoon of 28th Sep.

Android 2.2 Froyo features

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29

On 20 May 2010 the 2.2 Frozen Yogurt (Froyo) SDK was released.Changes included:

* General Android OS speed, memory, and performance optimizations
* Additional application speed improvements courtesy of JIT implementation
* Integration of Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine into the Browser application

* Increased Microsoft Exchange support (security policies, auto-discovery, GAL look-up, calendar synchronization, remote wipe)
* Improved application launcher with shortcuts to Phone and Browser applications
* USB tethering and WiFi hotspot functionality
* Added an option to disable data access over mobile network
* Updated Market application with batch and automatic update features

* Quick switching between multiple keyboard languages and their dictionaries

* Voice dialing and contact sharing over Bluetooth
* Support for numeric and alphanumeric passwords
* Support for file upload fields in the Browser application

* Browser can now display animated GIFs (instead of just the first frame)
* Support for installing applications to the expandable memory
* Adobe Flash 10.1 support

A common enough tale

source: http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/OnlineStory/STIStory_582713.html
Someone had their BlackBerry stolen.  They message their own unit to appeal for a return.  All they got was a smiley before being deleted / blocked.
Why do people theive when their bread and butter is not at stake?

Kiasu?

Kiasu?
that's too broad a brush.

there's greed - to the point that they must have all the comforts their money paid for
there's selfish - no one else shall have it
there's rude - no one shall separate me from their heaven bestowed gift of a seat.

Almost secured

Hindsight will tell if we made the smart move, but nevertheless, I'm happy that things are going ahead.

One of the most sensible civil servant

Cheers to our CJ.

No jail for French m-cyclist
mr brown's article: http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2010/08/the-chief-justice-gets-it.html#more
original ST report: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_571605.html

Updates

It has started.
We've made our offer on our 3rd unit.  Keeping fingers crossed.

Samsung Galaxy S Android 2.2 update coming in September

read more: http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-s-android-2-2-update-coming-in-september-708120

Samsung has announced the Galaxy S will be upgraded to Android 2.2 next month (Sep), and will land on all networks.


This means we won't see a repeat of the staggered firmware release that is currently plaguing the HTC Desire update.

Catious mood prevails?

My foot...

"Let me think about it"

Then the day after, he sold the pancake we're interested in, to someone else at a higher price. =(

WTFs/m

The measurement of a good code, with permission from Thom Holwerda.

Progress

I'm happy that things are finally moving.  Onwards!

Six degrees of separation

Clicking randomly among Chinese-looking friends of my friends, I found that many of them are linked to me in some way.  Either I have too many Facebook "friends"; or my friends have too many links; or Singapore is just too damn small.

Development charges to go up - a cooling measure?

Our press has always been supportive of our government; the news they publish will be in tune with our leaders' wish to improve the mood of the people, or to caution them against overspending.
In the recent flurry of feel-good reports, I noted a curious article.  It says that as a further move to curb spiraling prices, development charges will go out.  The article went on to say that as a result of the recent changes, developers will hold back new projects.

Come on.  Seriously?