Last Day Of COMEX Show !!

Will be meeting my friend, Danial at Eunos, 3pm. For those who wants to go together, can call me and we meet up together at Suntec. Most probably would be spending my day there. Just woke up and feeling the after-effects of the pains flowing throughout my body. Stupid companies still don't wanna pay me yet and my credit card still not here yet. SIAN !! Hope I will be able to hoot a good item from the Show !

Look around the place, but nothing caught my attention. So didn't buy anything.

Day before, Exam. Day after, WORK !!

Just rush back home to post onto my blog, as I don't want to spolit the purpose of updating daily ! I am damn exhausted now ! Never felt so tired before ! I slept at 3am and got to wake up at 6.30am this morning ! Report to work at 8.30 am and work till 10.15pm !! OMG, non-stop for 13 hours 45 minutes !! Lunch only 15 minutes as they da bao for us ! However, after the hard work of mental and physical torture, it was a rewarding day for me. Never work through the hard way for so long before ! Since this freelance work is rated as $10 per hour. I gained $130 for just one day ! So happy ! Its hard work, not through gamble, nono, i mean the maths number game. Hehe ! Going to Comex tomorrow, as its the last day. :p

Long John Silver is selling CHICKEN RICE !!

In terms of budget and taste wise, which one will you prefer? For me, I will choose the traditional Chicken Rice rather than LJS's Chicken Rice. First of all, LJS's Chicken Rice will not be enough and its expensive. The traditional chicken rice costs about $2-$3 a plate.

Lunch @ Katong Shopping Centre

Just went to Katong Shopping Centre and ate at my favourite Western Stall. As usual, I ate Chicken Cutlet Rice. It had French Fries, Coleslaw, Baked Beans, decent amount of chicken cutlet and rice with their special sauce which cost just only $4.50. Its simply delicious and the serving was great ! I would rate it as the Best Western Food in all coffee shop in Singapore ! Botak Jones used to be good, but now its getting more worst and worst. Botak Jones' serving was like for xiao mei mei.

On the way home, passing by parkway central, I decided to go into the nearby friendly shop to look around. The softwares and games were really outdated ! Wasted my time ! I was still hoping to find some new software or games. So didn't buy anything at all and headed home.

Just received a msg from the boss of Bioslab, this coming saturday, got to work le. Though the pay was good at S$10 per hour, but its really stressful and tedious to work in. But being manipulated by the money, I need to earn as much as possible, after all, for me, weekend had always been bored for me.

HTC Touch Professional @ Comex Show

Wah liao ! My favourite PPC Phone is finally selling here in Singapore @ the Comex Show ! But rumored in the forums that this might be the export set, as the Service Providers here is still not selling it yet. Drool...

Lack Of Patriotism

Well, if the people don't know, let me tell you, it quoted as not many foreigners were staying in HDB flats. Ya right, i think this article was referring to those highly educated ang-mo ! What about those from Ch*** or In***? Make a trip down to Boon Lay MRT and look around ! Its more foreigners than Singaporeans !! Not only in Boon Lay MRT, they were everywhere ! I, myself did put up the Singapore Flag to show my patriotism. If the foreigners wrote such article on the newspaper in the first place, banned HDB flat for foreigners, don't ever let them stay in flats, let them buy private apartment or stay in hotels !

Don't blame foreigners for fewer flags this year
I REFER to the letter, 'Lack of patriotism' (Aug 9), where Mr Chua Sheng Yang rightly pointed out the absence of flags displayed in the Housing Board estates compared to past years. This has been noticed by many of my friends and colleagues as well. Let me, however, assure Mr Chua that the absence of the flags is not due to the influx of foreign talent.

First, not many foreign talent live in HDB estates. Most of them live in private condominiums. And, you may be surprised to note that more flags were seen in condominiums than in the past. I'm a permanent resident, proud to live here and I have been proudly displaying the national flag for the past two years. In contrast, I know of a few Singaporean friends who have stopped displaying the flags, and tell me, 'why bother'?

My feeling is that Singaporeans are taking things for granted. People of today's
generation have no idea what it takes to survive in other countries as they have
grown up with the basic amenities in place.

They are becoming materialistic and self-centred. An example can be seen in the ensuing debate of raising a child and the perks required to start a family.
The way things are going, it will not be a surprise if young, newly-wed couples ask for Government perks before having sex.

Starting a family is not only a personal decision, but also a matter of love and caring, sharing of affection and warmth. It is not about the financial package given by the Government. If that were the case, the world population would decline. Governments of countries with large populations, which are largely poor, do not need to hand out financial packages to encourage their citizens to start a family.

Last but not the least, if the nation is facing a grave problem, then the citizens, who are stakeholders, should come to the rescue. Isn't it time for Singaporeans to stand
up and be counted, and at least have children for the sake of the nation? Or perhaps, they want the foreign talent to do it for them. If Singaporeans have enough children, they will surely be the best of talents.

Source Taken: http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_270894.html

New e-payment system and next generation card for public transit

Say bye bye to Ez-link Cards next year !!

All EZ-Link cards, the stored-value cards used to pay for train and bus rides will be phased out starting next year. Starting August 29, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) is piloting a trial of its next-generation smart cards which can be used across systems. The new cards look just like the current EZ-Link cards. But the difference is the markings on the card which shows that it can be used for multiple applications like car park or ERP payments or even to pay for shopping. Currently, public transport commuters use the EZ-Link card to pay for their fares and drivers would use a CashCard to pay for Electronic Road Pricing rates. Lim Bok Ngam, deputy chief executive, Infrastructure & Development, LTA, said: "Under today's system, public transport and the non-public transport are two separate sectors. So those who take public transport make use of EZ-Link Card and those who drive for ERP make use of Nets CashCard. "Going forward, we want to develop a system whereby one card can be used across all the systems which means transit and non-transit. Also we want to introduce competition so hopefully bring down the cost for commuters." Commuters now pay S$5 for EZ-Link cards without any stored-value. The new smart card also does not require a S$3 deposit. Currently the EZ-Link card has a S$3 travel deposit which is not shown as the card balance. The S$3 value is locked in as a travel deposit and can only be used for travel on trains and buses. But those with the new card will not be able to use it at merchants which currently offer payment by EZ-Link, unless these merchants upgrade their card readers. The LTA is pumping in about S$100 million to develop the new system. These include the upgrading of the card readers at trains and buses as well as the printing of the new cepas-compliant cards. There are now about 10 million EZ-Link cards issued. Half of them are active of which some 2.5 million are regularly in use. Mr Lim said: "All these are commercial decisions to be made by the card issuers so if they want to compete in the market and they want to ensure that their cards are widely used for all sectors, then I think they have to build up their business model." There are currently two card issuers in Singapore .They are EZ-Link and Nets. LTA said the new system can support up to four card issuers in the market. Some 10,000 commuters will be involved in the two-month trial of the new smart cards which are Contactless ePurse Application or Cepas compliant. Details of the replacement exercise will be announced later in the year. With the new Cepas-compliant card, the CashCard is not needed if a vehicle is fitted with the second generation IU. All new cars will be fitted with the second Generation IUs from next year. Meanwhile, new motorcycles will come with the new IUs from end August 2008.

Source Taken: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/371754/1/.html

Bought this korean instant noodles !

Haven't tried this noodles yet, however I bought this from Cold Storage. My friend recommended me to try as many food court korean stall are actually making use of these instant noodles to sell. It costs $4.15 for five packets in a pack. If you had tried, can leave your comments here.

The Singapore's 1st online Taxi Fare, Fuel and World's 1st ERP calculator

Just for sharing to everyone while surfing through HardwareZone ! Very informative !

Link to Singapore's 1st online Taxi Fare, Fuel and World's 1st ERP calculator
http://www.efxsoft.com/tripsum/main.html

Source Taken: http://deluxeforums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1996012

A Review Of N95 8GB Edition (By MicroBoI)

Key features
- 2.8" 16M color QVGA display.
- 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and Carl Zeiss optics.
- Massive storage capacity and increased RAM.
- Wi-Fi with UPnP technology.
- Built-in GPS receiver and A-GPS functionality.
- Nokia maps application covering over 100 countries worldwide.
- Dual-slide design with dedicated multimedia keys.
- Standard 3.5mm audio jack.
- 3G (with HSDPA), EDGE and GPRS support.
- Symbian OS 9.2 Series 60 3rd edition Feature Pack 1 user interface.
- TV-out functionality.
- 1200 mAh battery.

Main disadvantages
- No camera lens protector.
- No RDS system for the FM radio.
- Below average GPS performance, no 3rd party apps support.
- Extra charges for voice assisted navigation.
- Cannot edit office documents.
- No card slot.
- Doesn't charge when connected to USB.

My Experiences
After using my N95 8GB for nearly seven months, I had started to develop feelings with it. In my first five months of usage, i really utilised it a lot ! It helps me in my work, as in snapping shots of certain places for corporate planning. I even used it in a official corporate retreat to video the whole process for important discussion sections. I was amazed with the quality as i often compared with the company's digital camera. My phone performs way more powerful than the digital camera. :-) The 3.5mm Earphone jack was cool as it allow me to plug my favourite branded earpiece to listen to my favourite songs. No more sticking to Nokia's own earpiece. :-) Its big screen of 2.8" was great for viewing pictures and videos ! Battery life wise was also very cool, as I played with it alot and as a multi functional phone, it could lasts for two full days with a single charge. Tried the TV-out functionality, however I don't really see the need of using it. Played with the GPS during the trial period, it was somewhat not very user-friendly, but I doubt I would use the GPS function anyway. The only disadvantage that i dislike of the phone was that there was no protection for the camera lens. Being a high-end phone with good lens, I think they should include a cover just like the original N95. But overall, N95 8GB really serves me very well and till now, no other smartphones can be comparable with N95 8GB !

Irreversible Mistake Made Yesterday

Sigh.. Did a grave and stupid mistake that i couldn't forgive myself. To all who see this post don't ask me what happened, because I won't tell unless you are my great buddy. Purpose of posting it here is because I want to remind myself of yesterday. However, there is nothing I can do now. Life still goes on. Its really difficult to pick it up and move on like nothing had happened. I finally understand that how other people are feeling now..

I did my best to recover, but its impossible... Really got no mood today ! Time to work hard and increase my knowledge to fulfil my dreams.

Code and Reference from: MyBrain220808

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition

Have you installed any Anti-Virus Software to your PC?
Don’t want to spend money on these software due to low budget?
Download your Free AVG for your personal PCs here !
At least there is something free in this world !

Source: http://free.avg.com/ww.download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition#tba2

For IT Working People

Some points to note for the IT Working people in Singapore
(1) People who code, administer or test will not survive. If you write/fix any kind of code or scripts or do any kind of testing at least once a day your job is in danger.

(2) People who are unable to create something from nothing will not survive. If you need a well-defined set of requirements and design before you can do your work, your job is in danger. If you need someone else to take some vague problem from the customer/boss and come up with a solution that you can implement, your job is in danger. If, however, you invent solutions, you will be fine.

(3) People with inability to solve problems will not survive. This goes to general smartness/intelligence. If you are the kind who can use a cool-head and solve most of problems (job-related or not) through a combination of steps such as keeping a cool head, knowing what to do, who to approach etc, you will be fine. Many problems are tough but you would be surprised to see many people give up before they even take a stab at the easy ones. As an example: Here is a problem given to you by a customer: "Size the work effort that you personally will require to install DB2 on my AS400 box" Bad answer: We are a C++ coding shop. We dont do DB2 admin. We dont know how to size this.Good answer: 6 months (cuz we have to learn all the **** first)

(4) People who will survive are those who can talk to customers to elicit business requirements, design tecnhnical solutions and coordinate project activities - not people who know how to change a config file to get Linux to play mp3 files.

(5) Good-looking people who can talk with management and customers in a confident non-geeky way in perfect English will survive.

(6) If you can relate well with people and can get them to do favors for you, you will survive. If you are the type of person who ends up leading meetings and discussions, you will survive.

(7) If your job is in IT but deals with some kind of calculation involving dollars at least once a day, you will survive.

Source Taken from a book: http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/08/20/1316202

MSN Hotmail

People had been circulating this email message around to all hotmail users. First of all, I think this is totally scam ! Look at it. There is spelling mistake and I think Microsoft wouldn’t be asking people to send such dumb messages among all users to notify them of closing their hotmail accounts. This is basically an idea of a spammer who wants to collect email address from as many people as possible so as to carry on their illegal stuffs. Can't imagine why hotmail users didn't think of the purpose of this before sending it out.

Government to give out S$256m more in benefits to Singaporeans

The average Singapore household will receive an extra S$250 to S$330 following the additional support package announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the National Day Rally on Sunday night.

This is on top of the benefits they are already receiving to help them cope with inflation and higher living costs.

Details of the additional support package were released by the Ministry of Finance on Monday.
The enhancements comprise a 50 per cent increase in the remaining instalment of Growth Dividends which is scheduled for payout on October 1, as well as a 50 per cent increase in Utilities—Save (U—Save) rebates given out.

Lower and middle—income groups, as well as senior citizens, can expect more in Growth Dividends.

For example, a person living in a one, two, or three room flat who received S$200 in the first round of payout will receive S$300 in October.

Overall, most Singaporeans living in public housing households will receive between S$75 and S$150 more as a result of the enhancement.

The enhanced Growth Dividends will cost the government an additional S$190 million.
As for the increase in Utilities—Save or U—Save rebates, this will range from an additional S$40 to S$110 depending on the HDB flat size.

A low—income family with elderly members living in a three—room flat could receive an additional S$500, bringing their total benefits this year to over S$5,400.
A typical middle—income family living in a five—room HDB flat could receive benefits of about S$3,880.
These additional U—Save rebates will cost the government S$66 million.
Altogether, the government will be distributing an additional support package amounting to S$256 million.
More details are available on the Ministry of Finance’s website.

Source taken: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/cna/20080818/tap-454-government-give-s-256m-benefits-231650b.html

HP 2133 Mini-Note

Finally, my father had bought himself the HP 2133 Mini-Note from the initial Starhub offers. Make me damn 'gian'. Haha, it sure looks cool and nice !

HP 2133 MINI-NOTE

My Acer Laptop behind, my dad's laptop one the left and my Asus Laptop on the right.

Idiotic People

Received some idiotic's sms who claims that I 'pang sei' him without even arranging with him to meet up. F***ing pissed off by such people ! Brainless idiot who like to curse people are simply retards scolding people without thinking ! Damn pissed off today ! These people are f***ing retards who are spoliting Singapore's image and always destroying things ! Didn't provoke anyone and yet they f***ing provoke me, don't know whats the f***ing prob with them ! Usually these are the f*** up people who contributes to office politics.

Some helpful links for those who wants to get cheap handphones !

Mobile Square
http://www.mobilesquare.com.sg

WhyMobile
http://www.whymobile.com/

Iposh
http://www.iposh.com.sg/

Subarumobile
http://www.subarumobile.com/

Still Not Prepare For Final Paper !

My first paper, Fundamental Electronics is coming soon !! Problem is I'm not prepared for it yet ! Oh no, don't even understand a single thing yet. Sianzz...

My Friday Sausage & Chips

Cook my own food for Breakfast and Lunch ! Sausage & Chips

Before

After

Marks & Spencer and My Toy Car

Bought the above Organic biscuits for my mum and my friend respectively.

Bought this toy car for myself. Want to find bigger and the model that I want, but the salesgirl said that Tomy didn't provide stock for Isetan to sell. So too bad, bought this instead, as I like Mitsubishi Lancer Cars. :-)

Top Ten Fears Of Human Being

Listed below are the top ten fears of human beings, however, it can be trained to overcome the fears.

1. Fear of Failure - This is wide spread and can stop people from even getting started, the cure is action. Going into action produces results, not always the results you want but in producing results you was able to feel that you are not failing.

2. Fear of Rejection - One at the top of the list for lots of people, Rejection, we all dread it, have to face it sometimes in life even if it's just a rejection of our ideas. Again keeping going will carry you forward with this one.

3. Fear of Public Speaking - Some say this is No 1 with lots of people, simple action step again here join a speakers club where you will be encouraged and mentored.

4. Fear of Criticism - When ever you step out you, try to make a mark chance is you will be criticised, for you to progress grow a thicker skin. Accept that others are entitled to their opinion.

5. Fear of what others think - People will think what they think and there is nothing we can do about it. One question, how do we know what they are thinking?

6. Fear of being Alone - Real one this, you can join a club, a class, a voluntary organization they are out their for all ages.

7. Fear of Financial Collapse - In the present climate all the sub prime talk and failing banks I have to say focus on your own financers not getting to hung up on the media and there coverage.

8. Fear of Failing Health - Again a big one, no sweeping statement to cover this one, most people try to address this when it becomes critical try addressing it on a daily basis, all things in moderation.

9. Fear of Success - Again some people never get started because they fear success and what they think will be expected of them, in reality success is a lot of simple principles practiced on a daily basis.

10. Fear of Death - Well lets face it there is no overcoming death, you cant get out of life alive, however trying to enjoy the day can take you away from morbid thoughts of our inevitable destination.

Just another normal day

Finished distributing the tissue papers at Raffles Place at around 1.30pm. Went to cut my hair and buy some food back home to cook my lunch. Spent $6 to buy 4D for wednesday, saturday and sunday to win some money.

Sometimes I feel that FT are taking over most of our jobs and willing to accept lesser salary, which is really making Local Singaporeans suffer and need to perform very well to stay on the job. In this current society, most people especially most of my friends are already planning to migrate to other countries. Therefore, I must really begin to make a fortune since young by not only work hard, but also depend on luck if I will to stay in this fine country.

More Good Years To Come !!

Working @ Raffles Place Distributing Tissue Paper

No choice but to work during the spare time I have for the sake to empower my luck !

INFO for my friends who are working tomorrow

Guys who are working with me tomorrow, kindly report at Raffles Place MRT Control Station at 11 am sharp, as we will need to arrive 30 minutes earlier for the briefing. Thanks & See you ! :-)

To All MapleStory Lovers !!

MapleStory Private Server In Singapore !!!

http://immortalms.no-ip.info/

Come and join me to play ! No Installation, just download and extract to your hard disk to play !! So simple !

Add my IGN: MicroBoI

Happy National Day !!

No Entry on yesterday, as I was too engrossed on playing game. Must have some time for playing as it was public holiday :p

Toto Result

A Day Full Of Emotions and Feelings

Haix, happened lots of things today, however, the key to becoming rich must go on no matter wat !! Got two more sets of Ordinary again at Eunos SGPool Outlet ! Chiong arh !!! Will post the Toto $8,000,000 Results at the next post later !!

My HOOT !! The Day b4 the Big DRAW !!

All right ! I had prepared my army of numbers to strike tomorrow set of numbers !! Just give me strike five numbers at least and I will enjoy a happy National Day :-D

Toto S$8,000,000 Draw 8/8/08

HUAT AR !! It is the time now to become instantly rich at this time of the year !! It doesn't hurt to buy it now, even though you are not the type that gamble. Like me, I don't gamble most of the time. But I urged everyone to join in the fun, and who knows, you might be the one to become a millionaire in Singapore !! I will be getting the QuickPick $30 worth of Ordinary !! Wahaha !!

Source Taken from: Singapore Pools

Practise Driving from 11pm till 3am !!

Haha ! Practised and trained by my brothers, I am now able to drive smoothly on the road using 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th gears. The training was great and fun. I always thought that Manual Transmission was always difficult to control and drive, however, after getting the hang of it, Manual car was not difficult to drive at all :p

My Remote Control Toy Car

Still yet to find the Suzuki Swift Collection Car around. Didn't have the chance to go Taka to get the display model. Anyway I bought the remote control toy car at Parkway Parade yesterday. Costs only S$9.95.

Before Assemble

After Assemble

Dinner @ Crystal Jade

Called the S$138 set for 4 people at Crystal Jade (Parkway Outlet).

1st: Shark Fin Soup

2nd: Pumpkin Stewed Chicken

3rd: Black Bean Steamed Fish

4th: Vegetable Stewed with Chicken (I think)

5th: Butter Oat Prawns

6th: Some Ee Fu Mee i guess

And one more dessert which is red bean soup, so didn't bother to take the pic.

Tissue Distributor Job @ Jurong Point

Waa today first day working at Jurong Point.. Discovered that there is going to be an ah tiong's town soon. So many Ah tiongs... Singapore really jialat already... Give out flyers and tissue papers.. Tomorrow still got to do it again.

First Time at Sakae Sushi

Had lunch at Sakae Sushi today, haha shua gu sia.. Didn't had the chance for the past 22 years, and damn, I can't eat under the teens category and forced to pay adult, cos the teens category maxed at 21 years old. But I would rate it as 7/10. Reason being because of the range were quite limited. Some of the sushi were nice and never tried the noodle as I do not want to pay more. So i paid S$19.90 for my buffet set plus hot green tea.