Black Box

Wow I LIKE this phone man, wonder if they would put it into production.

BenQ-Siemens - Black Box cellphone.

-No keypad, Touchscreen for primary navigation
-User interface - simple, pictures/symbols
-Design is just fabulous and inducing (essence of simplicity with class)

Read more of black box

Movies @ Golden Village

I m not a movie fanatic, but I do catch movies with a couple of friends over the weekends (used to catch movie regularly every Saturday, sometimes it's for the seek of doing something. Normally it's mid-night movie so we could sit down and chit chat over supper after the movie.)

Talking about movie, let us side track abit from what I intend to share,
1) Do you watch movie alone ? Well I watch movie alone BUT when I m at home. I feel weird watching it alone in the cinema.

2) Do you rent Movie DvDs and gather a group of friends to watch it at your house instead. Well you better provide good screening, sound, snacks, space, Air-condition. I think it's cost-effective, renting a DvD for a day for about 3-5 bucks, if you get 5 friends over, you will be saving ($9.5X6=$57, $57-$5 for DvD rental) $52!! IMAGINE how much snacks/drinks you can pay. If you watch the mid night shows like me, it helps to save the cab fares too -you can stay overnight at your friend's house. Lastly, you can pause the show if nature calls. Great !

Alright here's the info,
Got to know about this promotion awhile back but didnt really try it until today. The Safra Membership discount on Golden Village movie tickets. You get to save a dollar for each ticket(s) purchase.


So if you plan to watch movies at Golden Village why not look around for friends with safra membership and enjoy the discount. Get 6 person and you could use the saving to buy a combo meal =D.

How do I use the discount ?
Terms & Conditions
- Offer is valid from 1 July 2006 - 30 June 2008.
- Offer is only valid for movie sessions on Fridays (after 5pm), Saturdays, Sundays, eve of public holidays (after 5pm) and public holidays.
- Offer is not valid for phone, AXS and iMode bookings.
- Offer is not valid for Gold Class cinema, premium-priced films, movie marathons, film festivals, premieres, group bookings, special movie packages, discounted tickets for senior citizens and with any other offers or promotions except Movie Privilege for HSBC Credit Cardholders.(hmm so using HSBC card and safra card together you only pay $7 bucks ? Anyone try ?)
- For online bookings, SAFRA members have to login to www.safra.sg/safraonline to validate their membership before proceding to book tickets. The discount is not valid for online bookings which are made directly via the GV website.
- SAFRA members have to present their SAFRA cards for purchase or collection of tickets at any GV box office counter.
- SAFRA & Golden Village reserve the right to amend the terms and conditions of this programme without prior notice.


Jacky Chan new block buster film, "Rob-B-Hood" Got high expectation for it, been a long long time since the last time I watched his film.

blogger beta

Users that are blogging with blogger, you should have notice this beta version of blogger for quite sometime. Here's some new features of the beta version, you can only access these features after you switch blogger beta

1. Drag and drop page
   
   The ease of moving elements to customize your blog’s design in a snap.
   
   
2. Access Control
   
   Provide a higher level of access restriction to your private blog, only those reader that have their email address added by into you private list are able to view your blog.
   



3. Labels
   
   My most wanted feature!! Labels or catergory. Wanted this features for quite awhile but lazy to do the research on how to do it. For each post, you could specific a catergory/labels in order to group posts of relevant topic together and make it easier for reader to search.
   
   
   
   
   
   



4. More Site Feed Options
   
   Actually there's alot of other blogs with this feature built long ago, feeds for all comments and individual feeds on comments of each posts. To aid reader in tracking updates on comments of certain posts. Added support for the RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 standards.




5. Instant publishing
   
   Byebye to the long waiting "publishing...20%" No more "republish" or "republish index". Now when updates are make, be it create post/edit post/blog settings the changes is reflected immediately.
   
   Technical details,
   Dynamic Serving
   
   With the old engine, Blogger would create static HTML files on your Blog*Spot account every time you published, and those files would remain there unchanged until your next update.
   
   In the new version, adding a new post simply updates your information in blogger database. Then, when someone wants to see any of the pages on your blog, those pages are created for them dynamically, on the fly.
   


Interested in the new features

Last time First time

Saw an advertisement on TV the other day, "When the last time you try something for the first time?" It caught my attention and sent my brain cells retrieving the answer for that question. The last time I tried something for the first time, "Advance Theory" =D first attempt and passed!

Now it's your turn to close your eyes and think about it, "When the last time you try something for the first time?" Think about it, doing new things give you sense of excitement/fear, imagine if a life doing the same thing repeatedly for 10 days, 30, days 180 days, 365 days?

Standard Charted Bank

Made a quick trip to Standard Charted Bank to open up a eSaver account during lunch hours. Pretty fast serving rates by tellers. Thought the teller should be able to fulfil my request of opening an account but somehow I got referred to another person. Not sure what's his title, maybe personal banker ?

This guy was telling me about mobile/non mobile saving, how much saving I m looking at per month and displaying comparison chart on ROI of different products. I m not looking to long term saving at that point of time as I got a few saving policies on hand + no intention of reducing my current cash flow.

After I make it clear to him that I m there for only the esaver account, things became much quicker. He proceed with the registration and paper documents after getting my clear signal. Somehow I sensed sarcasm when he asked me for the amount to deposit, "How much do you intend to deposit with us today?" Follow by almost immediate, "A dollar?" I had been asked the same question before but it just feel different today.

Here's the story how I landed up in Standard Charted today.
Got this eSaver information from a friend, she showed me this $e-Saver brochure last year end and recommended me to open an account with them. Why ? She's not working for the bank. It's the attractive interest rate, 1.88% PA.

Well it didn't catch my eyes initially. But 1 years later, I started research on interest rates of saving account offered by common brand of namely, HSBC, OCBC, DBS, UOB, MayBank, interest rates varies from 0.25 to 1.25 % depending on the amount.

Well if you think there isn't much different on where you put your cash, take out a calculator and complete the problem sum.

Jaslyn has a active saving account of $5000 with Xyz bank. Xyz bank offer a interest rate of 0.25% PA. Joyce has a active saving account of $5000 with Abc bank. Abc bank offer a interest rate of 1.88% PA. If both of them did not make and withdrawal/deposit for the next 12mths,
1) What is the payout interest for each of them ?
2) What the difference in amount between their accounts?

Selling points,
* High Interest Rates, 1.88% for amount less than 50k
* NO lock-in period.
* NO monthly fees.
* NO minimum deposit.
* NO minimum balance.
* NO fixed term.
* NO statements to file.
* NO ATM cards, passbooks or cheque books to lose.

Now the crons,
1)e$aver is a Savings Account that can only be operated via Phone Banking or Internet Banking. 2)Withdrawals at branch counters will incur a $5 service fee.

More info of eSaver

Mona Lisa

A team of researchers,revealed that the Mona lisa was painted with her hair tied back in bun originally with the aid of modern 3D scan.


Reason that support their conclusion,
Old controversy because only girls or women of bad virtue wore their hair loose in 16th century Italy, said CRRMF project leader Bruno Mottin, and the real Mona Lisa was a woman of social stature.

Findings on the person who painted Mona Lisa, Leonardo Da Vinci
The research discovered lack of brushstrokes and thought Da Vinci may have used his fingers to paint but there's no fingerprint from the scan.

How he did it ?

Scans of the "Mona Lisa" revealed that darker areas, such as the eyes and corners of her smile, are thicker and "composed of a succession of thinly applied glaze layers"
It's extremely thinly painted and extremely flat.

How he did it again ?

Maybe those how to's are the reasons why "Mona Lisa" standout from the rest.

Full report on Mona Lisa 3D scan

Australia - Brisbane

Actually I like taking photos, especially the Aussie days. Here's a short 'Project Runaway' to show a few of my personal collection.

For the first 3 months in Aussie, I took pictures of almost every meals that my housemate, Andrew and I made.

Credits to the stove that produce all these fabulous dishes

Potato & Chicken Stew, Steam fish, tofu with egg and stirred fired cai xin with oyster sauce

Western Delight - Chicken Chop with Creamy chicken mushroom soup

100% no MSG Soup Noodles with made hand meat balls

Chicken, egg mayonnise with spaghetti

pan fried pork cutlet, Soya sauce long bean and char siew

perserve cai xin, bake bean mix eggie, luncheon meat, sardine fish

Tuna swimming in noodles

Beef Stew

Triple Stirred fried


Other interesting pictures,

Got it off from "Corvette exhibition"

Snapshot of Mr Long D*** from Ekka fair

Which is bigger ?

Sunny Girl

Added this Mahjong addict & hamster fanatic, Sindy.


Scrolled through her blog and discovered that I had been lazy with adding personal photos or rather, photos taken via my Nokia 6280. Will work out on something to maximize the phone feature and make my money spent worthwhile.

keyword Tools

Got to know this keyword searcher, Google Keyword Metrics, I had tried Inventory Overture and Pixelfast. Their primary feature is to track how much search are done on the selected keyword worldwide.

This Google "Keyword Metrics" has much more features, did a search with 'money'
Details for: money

Max Bid: $3.02
Estimated Daily Search Volume: 765844
Estimated Monthly Search Volume: 22975348
Estimated Daily Clicks: 11487.67 (This is for the top AdWords Position)
Market Value: $1040782.90 (This is how much the top AdWords Position would pay for all the monthly clicks for this keyword)
AdSense Effective CPM: $90.73 (Assumes a 60% revenue share from adSense, and a 5% CTR on ad units)
Number of AdWords Ads: 8

Follow by
1)Trend Graph on keyword growth over time
2)Number of Search on Google, yahoo
3)Adwords listing
4)Potential Adsense Ads


Access to this tool,"Google Keyword Metrics Tool"

Miami Vice

Well first thing that came to my mind, those cops are earning good man, Why ? Ferrari with nitro!

Next is gong li, despite her age, she still possess the charm and sexiness.

Pretty neat idea - They used a private jet to smuggle the goods. In order to avoitid the destination country air space radar detection, the pliot, maintain the jet litude just below an official aircraft. On the radar, the two dots(representing the aircraft) sync.







Official Miami Vice website

Unplug handphone Nokia Energy Conservation

Are you one of those that leave your mobile phone charge plugged? I m one of those that leave the charger plugged unless I saw the battery fully charged icon. Sometimes I failed to check and will just leave it until I picked it up.

A mobile industry task force led by Nokia announced on Thursday that it has agreed to do its part for the environment--by reminding you to conserve electricity.

The members of the task force, a project of the European Commission (EC), agreed to include alerts on the cell phones they make that will remind people to unplug their charger once a phone is fully charged.

If 10 percent of the world's cell phone owners did this, the group's final report said, it would reduce energy consumption by an amount equivalent to that used by 60,000 European homes per year.

Nokia announced that it will have the alerts in place on its phones by the middle of 2007.

Unplugged Mobile Phone to conserve energy

Disk Bag!

Think most of us are past the 1.44MB diskette age. With the advance technology, ppl are using high capacity storage devices. So what to do with those 1.44MB diskette. Check this out,


How to create a "Floppy disk bag"

Google User Experience Research

Google is formally calling for paid participants in “User Experience Research” studies and hiring User Experience Researchers.

User Experience Research FAQ
You'd be helping us to improve Google products, both existing ones and those that are still in development. For example, we might ask you to try out a prototype and give us feedback on it, or we might interview you to help us plan a new product.

Yes – it depends on the type of study, but typically we pay $75 for each hour that you spend with a Google researcher, either in person or on the phone. Most studies last for one to one-and-a-half hours. We don't pay for your travel time, or travel expenses, though. For online surveys, which you complete from your own computer, the amount varies, depending on the length of the survey.

To participate in User Experience Research Study

Social Development Unit

Heard of it before ? SDU alias Social Development Unit, promoting marriage among graduate singles and inculcating positive attitudes towards marriage among all singles in Singapore to achieve strong and stable families in Singapore.

I was chatting with a colleague the other day and we had a casual conversation in the car, was asking about his work and family, How SDU came in ? Well I asked how he got to know his wife, Nah not through SDU. He knew her since their poly days. Then he asked if I got a gf, I replied "single now". And he continued with a few other questions and he told me one of his friend actually register at SDU. For a second I found that term very familiar think i heard it before somewhere, but no idea what's that. He did explained SDU's purpose and oh I was thinking (are you implying meto go register too ?). That somehow trigger me to go research about this SDU.

For those interested, visit SDU

Torpark

A new web browser have been launched. It promises to protect the privacy of Internet surfers from "hostile governments" or "data thieves."

"Torpark," a modified version of the popular Mozilla Firefox browser, enables computer users to travel the Internet in a way that "leaves no tracks behind," Hacktivismo said in a statement.

Some claims from the creator, Hacktivismo
For example, someone could go online using a home computer in Ghana and it might appear to websites that they were at a university computer in Germany, according to Hacktivismo.

Torpark also hides computer users' identities from companies providing the Internet services, according to its creators.(Good for downloading mp3 and leave no trail? =D)

Osama's 'death'

There was news from French intelligence memo suggesting Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden might have died. It was reported in the French regional newspaper l'Est Republicain and Sunday in Le Parisien.

Background of Osama
Born in Saudi Arabia to a wealthy family with close ties to the royals, bin Laden allegedly funded and directed the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington that killed around 3,000 people. ( Saw the Sep 11 program from Channelnewsasia the other day, it's was chaotic and I remember a scene: 3 Executives were escaping from the building and thought it was a 'normal' fire BUT their face turned when you met the fireman. They asked them on some stuff and the reply they got "We are at war". How would you react upon hearing that?)

His Al-Qaeda organisation has also been linked to several other attacks, including the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa, a 2000 suicide bomb attack on a US warship off Yemen, and the 2004 Madrid train bombings.

He has been successfully avoided capture despite the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan, which toppled the Taliban regime that had provided him refuge and protection, and a 25-million-dollar bounty on his head.

There are still alot in the world doubting about the creditability of this information including myself.(Bin Laden has several times been rumoured to have died in the past, only to appear later in audio or video recordings.) Maybe this the reason.

Second Life

Hey what's that ? Beat me when I first came across it, read the brief description and thought it was a another program to make WoW (World of Warcraft) raid planning better. IT'S a VIRTUAL WORLD of anything!

Here's what is all about, Sound pretty interesting, will get my hands on it these few days,

Second Life, a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by 322,621 people from around the globe.

3D building Guitar

* From the moment you enter the World you'll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Once you've explored a bit, perhaps you'll find a perfect parcel of land to build your house or business.

* You'll also be surrounded by the Creations of your fellow residents. Because residents retain the rights to their digital creations, they can buy, sell and trade with other residents.

* The Marketplace currently supports millions of US dollars in monthly transactions. This commerce is handled with the in-world currency, the Linden dollar, which can be converted to US dollars at several thriving online currency exchanges.

Here's some videos from Youtube,
0.o wooo like playing Sims =D, QIQI!!! MUST CHECK THIS


OMG I M GONNA get my hands on it, you can build anything as long as you can imagine it

Bingo!

Nah it isn't the Bingo game this time, was posting on the kukuclock a few posts back. Now something related to time again, the Bingo Watch


How do I read it ?
Here's the instruction,
The outer dots are numbered 1-12 for the hours and the inner dots for minutes - there's a small red marker on the inner track which points to the minutes in a traditional manner.

Unlimited Bus Ride - SBS

Car owners, may skip this section as it might not be relevant to you. SBS Transit has a new offering that give SeasonPass gives users unlimited trips on buses for $98 a month.

This new pass will benefit commuters who pay more than $3.30 a day for bus travel.
My personal case study, I would spent $2.50 on SBS bus to/from office.
Taking average of 23 working days per month, $2.50 X 23 = $57.50

Comparing it with another user, which pay more than $3.30 per day,
$3.30 X 23 = $75.90

Hmm, to make it worth the $98 bucks, unless you travel on both weekends,
$3.30 X 30 = $99
or a minimum travel fee of $4.30 per day,
$4.30 X 23 = $98.90


Promotion
(1) SBS Transit is offering a discount of $30 to commuters who buy three months worth of season pass stamps.

(2) NTUC members get a bigger discount, and get an additional $24 discount, paying $240 for a three month pass.

SK-II

Gosh, this will be a major impact to the reputation of the famous skin product, SK-II. Are you one of the SK-II user, heard of the news from China ?

What:
"SK-II is suspending sales of its skin care products line in China and temporarily
closing its SK-II counters", note posted at a consumer refund location in Shanghai said.

Why:
Last week Chinese authorities discovered traces of the two toxic metals in nine SK-II products including powder, foundation, lotion and cleansing oil products. Shanghai health officials added three more items to the list Friday.

Shanghai health authorities said Friday they found chromium and neodymium in three more SK-II cosmetics -- a facial cleanser, a wrinkle treatment mask and a whitening product.

Chromium can cause eczema, while neodymium irritates the skin and can damage the lungs and liver if inhaled.

Screaming obscenities, an unruly group of consumers kicked down the front door of the Procter and Gamble office only hours after the company said it would stop selling its Japanese-made SK-II line.

SINGAPORE : The Health Sciences Authority says it has completed its testing on the six SK-II products sold locally, which have been reported to contain harmful ingredients.

HSA says its results showed these two substances are present in the products as trace impurities and are at levels which do not pose any safety concerns.

HSA adds that it will continue to closely monitor the situation and keep an eye on the safety of cosmetic products sold in Singapore.

Point of views,
A, I m gonna stop using SK-II products after hearing this HARMFUL substances!!
B, Well, it's reported that the contents are at a levles which do not pose any safety concerns.
C, I m scare of the side effect who know I might be the unlucky one.
D, The result of the product is great, that all I care.

Cyril Magic "string"

Do you enjoy watching magic trick ? Personally I like it, all the "WoW", "How he did that", "That's amazing" and somehow it would be great if the magician actually teach you the trick =D. Check this video, How to move a ring diagonally upwards?

Cyril's magic lesson

Check this "cap in the bottle" too, if only I know the trick behind. awesome!!!

Alarm

RINGggggGGGG!!!!!DU DU DU DU!!!! Time to wake up. How many of ya actually wake up immediately upon the alarm alert ? That's a tough task for me 5 times a week man. My bad habit, tendency to hit the snoozes button. Since University days, I have been using my mobile phone alarm function till now.

Gotten my worst record today, pre-set the alarm at 0800hrs and snoozed it for an HOUR (held my mobile phone in my palm and keep pressing the snooze =\). I purposely set the interval of the snoozing alarm to 1 minutes prevent myself from getting too deep into dreamland again. It used to work but somehow today it failed terribly. Unwillingly, I drag myself off bed with a half-awake brain and get a wash up which help alittle.

Experience the above ? Any personal tips working together with one of the human best friend "ALARM" devices ? Came across this awhile ago, "kukualarm"

It base on the theory of waking up the mind first.

Kuku Alarm ClockHow about collecting eggs then? That is after all what they do on the farm. This funky, but highly practical Kuku Alarm Clock forces you to do just that.

Set its alarm and then be greeted every morning by your Kuku Alarm Clock laying eggs...and because it won't stop chirping until you've returned its eggs(0.o what if you couldnt find the last egg =D), this clock will not only wake you up, but keep you up. Just imagine how difficult it’d be trying to return to your slumber after crawling around the floor and looking under your bed, sheets or pillows for each and every last egg.

A whole lot more effective than tropical waterfall sounds or cute chirping birds, the Kuku Alarm Clock makes it difficult, if not impossible to go back to sleep. In fact, after this clock's five eggs and crowing sounds, you'll probably have to restrain yourself from throwing it against the wall.

Waking up is always hard to do, but this alarm clock actually makes it fun to get out of bed.

Poll Service

Yeah, it's rather easy to find a polling service afterall. Just took me a couple of minutes and got this free polling service from Web Poll Central. Here's some of the features,

Key Features
1) No HTML knowlegde needed
2) Unlimited Polls
3) Unlimited votes
4) Up to 9 options
5) Various presentation formats
6) Fits in your current design
7) 100 % FREE service
8) Ability to have a random poll
9) Ad free version available now !

Will be testing it, if it's good, I will add it to my permanent links. Will be sorting out my link into catergories for ease of navigating.

Google Inc

Got my regular mail updates from Jobstreet. Normally, I will only spend less than 30 sec to browse through the offers in the market within my preference. Check this job adv - Google Adword Associate - Singapore. This gonna be a GREAT experience, if you are hired.
1) Being part of the most popular brand in the world.
2) FANTASTIC area of expertise, Adword, well from my experience 95% of the websites I visit contains "Ads by Google"
3) Broaden your network with advertisers
4) Profitable knowledge from the experiences accumulated(write books and put the knowledge into personal business(if it's allow =D)
5) Understand market trend

Most Viewed Video - YouTube

No idea what I did and landed up with this video. BUT he's really GREAT especially the robot part and he's moves match the music well (most of it)



YouTube - Most Viewed (All Time)#1

Evolution of Dance

Thailand Unrest

State of even greater uncertainty and confusion are happening in Thailand. Just when I thought the rainy days are over for Thailand after the King helps to resolved it's political unrest over the Thai PM, Thaskin. Thai Military had seize control of the Constituion, Senate, Cabinet. Message from BANGKOK - Thailand's coup leader, General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, said Wednesday the military needed to seize power in order to unite the nation after months of political turmoil.

You might consider adjourning your travel to Thailand for the time being,MFA advises Singaporeans planning travel to Thailand to monitor developments and take precaution.

Performance on the share market are affected too, from the
"Singapore shares lower after Thai military coup" article.
There is an additional concern in that the devastating 1997 Asian financial crisis had its epicentre in Bangkok when the Thai government allowed the baht to float freely in the face of a sharp deterioration in the country's balance of payments.

More info from wiki, East Asian financial crisis
The currency tumbled, sparking a collapse in Thailand's financial system which then spread across Southeast Asia and the broader region and required a massive International Monetary Fund-led bailout to halt.

Tracking Clicks on Link

Thought of adding the tracking features on link clicks statistic by users. Did a search on google and one of the search points to google analytic. If you have the an account with google analytic and you wish to track the clicks on the links of your website,

Here's the example, additional codes in [a href] tag by adding this codes 'onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outgoing/example_com');"'

<a href="http://www.example.com" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outgoing/example_com');"/>

Important: if your pages include a call to urchinTracker(), utmLinker(), utmSetTrans(), or utmLinkPost(), your Analytics tracking code must be placed in your HTML code above any of these calls. In these cases the tracking code can be placed anywhere between the opening <body> tag and the JavaScript call.

To verify if you have done it correctly, check your Top Content report 24-48 hours after the updated tracking code has been executed.

Any idea how do I display the number of clicks behind the individual links.

Check support for using track clicks on outbound links

Forbidden City

Been seeing tracks and prints of the Singapore Made musical play, Forbidden City from multiple sources, such as mobile TV, News, Tv, radio. Just saw the high rating reviews from some mediacorp artists on this musical play.

Synopsis
A historical retelling of the story of China's Empress Dowager, the story is seen from the eyes of an American painter, Kate Carl, who is commissioned to paint the Empress's portrait. The Empress recounts her amazing journey from a young imperial concubine to become the Empress of China and the pressures she faced. The musical explores the myths surrounding her reign, from the controversial death of her only son to her ambitious tussle for power. Having played to 60,000 people in 2003, Forbidden City is Singapore's most successful musical to date. Starring Asian sensation Kit Chan.

DURATION
Approx 2hrs
Interval: Approx 20 mins

Language
English With Chinese Subtitles

More info @ sistic, Forbidden City

Java script

Just discovered that there's this short Java script in my blog template along from the inital setup. The primary function set restriction on right click function. YUCKS, now that the reason why I cant open a additional tab within my firefox. For those who want this function add this codes into your template, do at the arrow brackets '<>' to 'script language=JavaScript' in the first line and '/script' in the last line

"
script language=JavaScript

//Disable right click script III- By Renigade (renigade@mediaone.net)
//For full source code, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com

var message="";
///////////////////////////////////
function clickIE() {if (document.all) {(message);return false;}}
function clickNS(e) {if
(document.layers||(document.getElementById&&!document.all)) {
if (e.which==2||e.which==3) {(message);return false;}}}
if (document.layers)
{document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);document.onmousedown=clickNS;}
else{document.onmouseup=clickNS;document.oncontextmenu=clickIE;}

document.oncontextmenu=new Function("return false")
//
/script
"

National Serviceman - Dead

GOSH!!! Another National Serviceman pronounced dead.

SINGAPORE: A full-time national serviceman was found unconscious at the foot of a four-storey building in Hendon Camp(I remember the last death case happened in the same camp. An officer drowned.) early Monday morning, and later pronounced dead.

Not much details given for this case, have to wait for the investigation report.
National serviceman death - CNA.

Examples

Came up with these 2 examples awhile ago,

1) If you wanna go hougang from tampines and only mode of transport is bus. You choose to take bus 10, will you reach hougang ? Everyday you take bus 10 and expect to reach hougang.

If the current actions does not bring you what you want. CHANGE your action!

2) Have it happen in your life before, you wanted something so dearly, eg a wallet that can purchase with $10. Will you be attracted to it or treasure it ?

If this wallet need you to pay $5000, take 1 week of leave, take flight to Nepal, swim for 10km to get it. How will you treat this wallet ?

Mua Ji

Oh it should be "Home-made" Mua Ji. Those who have yet to try this sweet base snack, you can get this for a price of 2-3 bucks at some coffee shop stall or the night markets. If you are free, how about a try of it for your love ones (the ingredient are rather and easy to make) ? The only tough part, IT's the stirring of the flour patties in the pot, when they start to cool down, it become super duper STICKY. But this process will determine the elasticity and chewing feel of the end product. Sob, though we made a whole pot of it, I only get a small share of it. The rest were distributed to my neighbours by my mum. Wanna be my neighbour ? haha.

Here's the recepie, "Mua Ji"

Ingredients
glutinous rice flour
water
roasted peanuts
sugar

Mua Ji - 9 Steps
1) Mix glutinous rice flour and water thoroughly until a smooth batter is formed.
2) Boil a pot of boiling water.
3) Prepare another pot and add some cooking/onion oil.
4) Make small patties from the batter, put them into the boiling water.
5) When the patties are floating, scoop them up into the other pot with oil and keep stirring the patties until they form a single entity.
6) Add enough sugar to the roast peanuts to pass the taste test
7) Cut up small portion of the glutinous rice cake and roll it on the peanut-sugar mixture.
8) Further cut the portion into bite-sized and mix well with the peanut-sugar mixture.
9) Ready to serve =D

Drink/Drive? Drink&drive

If you belongs to the second catergory, Drink&Drive, Japanese automakers are accelerating their efforts to develop cars that will not start if the driver has taken alcohol.

Nissan Motor Co. is considering developing a car that will not start unless the driver correctly inputs a long pin number, a difficult task for a person under the influence of alcohol.

The automaker is also considering developing a car, equipped with an alcohol detector, that would not start if there is alcohol on the driver's breath.

Industry leader Toyota Motor Corp. is also developing cars that will not move if the driver has taken alcohol.

In the United States and Europe, a system that locks the engine if alcohol is detected on the driver's breath is already in use, and a Japanese nonprofit organization is promoting such a system in Japan.

With all the above said, they miss out one point, there are lots of other automotor makers around. Consumers could easily switch to a "non-alcoholbuster"friendly car.

Read the full article

MP3 Fighter

ROUND 1! Fight !
There's lot of MP3 manufacturers around and this is a big consumer market. Thus everyone is trying to grab a share of it. The more well known ones are IPOD (by Apply), Zen(by creative). With the ending of lawsuit between these two major players, the software gaint, Microsoft pop and rolling out their brand of MP3 player, 'Zune'. Here's some of the features of the player,
The Zune MP3 player will feature wireless technology;
1)A built-in FM tuner
2)A three-inch (7.6-centimeter) screen designed for displaying music, pictures and video.
3)Colour, available in black, brown and white.
4)Zune devices were also designed to connect wirelessly with each other so users could share music or play "DJ," according to Microsoft.
Shared songs would automatically erase from borrowers' Zunes after three days or being played three times, Microsoft said.

Well as a consumer, which MP3 player do you prefer? How about a poll ? (arghhh how do I create a poll)

H.I.G.H

Are you searching for place to hang with friends ?
What's your interest?
Alcohol?
Projector screen soccer matches?
Pools?
Table soccer?
Photo hunt?
High perfermance gaming stations(xbox, lan/internet games)?
Need private rooms group competition on games like Dota, Counter-strike etc?

You gonna drop by this highly interactive gaming hub - H.I.G.H located beside katong shopping center.
The first impression on the PC was, PROFESSIONAL. You are prompt with a custom make GUI for the games avaliable and together with a short description of the game. Incorperated with msn messenger and Team speak programs for more effective communications.

PS: Toilets within the hub.

Pinky

0.o a new layout from qiqi blog, MUCH BETTER compare to the previous one =D. It's more reader friendly and organise now. I like her scrolling photo banner. Oh ladies smokers ,will you spend on this?



PS: Got some problem with my warcraft3, can't connect to bnet. In the mist of finding the resolution, Look! Haha, used to use this phase "get a life man" on those hardcore gamers in game. If you didnt get the meaning/ for non gamers, in all games, generally you can keep living as long as you play. Even some games with game over, with a game restart, you can do it over again. !Endless life!

Now once again, you can look at things/subjects from lots of angles. And individual's perspective on those things/subjects might varies too. Which might leads to constructive outcome(positive competition)or destructive conflict(eg war)due to different ideas.

How much is it ?

Do you have google adsense on ya website ? Check out how the cheque might look like =D. Click on the photo to enlarge it, How much does it says?



By the way, that guy site is shoemonkey, http://www.shoemoney.com

I feel that the tagboard is missing some attributes, compare to cbox, it doesnt have the date/time stamp, and you cant go back to older posts. Got a couple of other ideas to add too. Thus there will be another revamp to my blog these couple of days again.

Just browsing

Did a little surfing during lunch, found this website which rank blog base on traffic, the Number 1 site, has over 1 Million of visitors per day. Gosh. Oh here's the url, http://truthlaidbear.com/TrafficRanking.php. For those who know about xiaxue blog, she's ranked 112th,a round of applause for her!

From that blog ranking url, I landed on this cool Gadgets blog, http://www.gizmodo.com/. It feature some of the latest and interesting gadgets in the market. One of those, a linux phone by motorla, E690, not sure of it's details. Had checked the motorla website, yet to be release in your product page.

Reports

Just a quick sharing with you guys, hear/see google adsense? If you are wondering what's that,it will flash relevant advertiser's ads on your website and you make some revenue. Advertisers pay either when users click on ads, or when the advertiser's ad is shown on your site. Upon the birth of my blog, I had implanted the adsense codes . Actually I started with blogging because I wanted to try out how google adsense works? Unknowningly, I saw tones of website putting up google adsense. Out of curiousity, I stumbled upon blogger and they offer simpify methods of getting adsense up and running with a few simple clicks. Here's the report generated after 3 months,

yucks, what can I do with $0.46 ? Taking a positive mind set, I earned the $0.46 in a passive way =D? For those guys which have high traffic to your website, I strongly recommend registering with adsense.

In the initial phase of blogging, I prompted myself with the following, "who will be reading this ? how many people are actually interested?" I found a free and simple visitors counter, but it isn't informative for me. Ended up with another service by google, Google Analytics. It's a interesting, detailed and user friendly service with statistic monitoring that generate graph output for easy digestion/comparsion. Take a look at the report, I get to know the source of visitor referral to my site.

If you wish to find out more about adsense, check out this Google Adsense. For Analytics, check out this Google Analytics