This is the chicken rice from the Kopitiam at NUH. It’s pretty good. But the chilli is too diluted and the chicken liver didn’t taste right. — Posted from my N95 Lifeblog.
Monthly Archives: May 2009
$3000 Vacuum Cleaner
I could never have imagined buying a $3000 vacuum cleaner. But we just did over the weekend. It is awfully expensive, but after seeing what it does, I think many people would be convinced they need one like it. I suppose their marketing strategy is really effective. They make you feel really bad about not having one, so that you need to buy one right away. They are certainly pretty good at helping to guide you along toward the “buy”…
Arnott’s Shapes
One of my favourite snack is Arnott’s BBQ Shapes. It’s an Australian made biscuit that has a variety of flavours. They are all known as “Shapes”, and the flavour I like best is BBQ Shapes. It’s so nice that I am always tempted to finish the whole box at one go. You can find them at places such as Cold Storage, but from time to time they run out of stock and don’t get replenished for a long time. In…
Seafood Harvest by Jack’s Place
Two Fridays ago, we had dinner at Seafood Harvest. It’s a restaurant by Jack’s Place group located at Bugis Junction. Everywhere was crowded with queues to get in, except for this restaurant. So not wanting to wait, we decided to try out this restaurant. It actually has quite a nice balcony overlooking the lower floor of Bugis Junction, and we were fortunate enough to get a seat in a corner of the balcony.
TV is down, what will we do?
Just a few days short of the expiry of the extended warranty, our TV broke down. Good thing it is not after the expiry. What are we going to do? Fortunately these days there is always-on internet access. Also, there is Hub Station to automatically series record our regular TV programs. — Posted from my N95 Lifeblog.
Seafood Platter at Seafood Harvest
This is the Seafood Platter for two at Seafood Harvest restaurant at Bugis Junction. The platter quite good. Plenty to eat. $36, includes soup, ice cream and coffee or tea. — Posted from my N95 Lifeblog.
Downgrading Safari
I upgraded my Safari 4 Beta to the latest refresh following the recent Mac OS X 10.5.7 update. A minor thing that was broken with it was still not fixed. The bug basically involved some Javascript issues when using the TinyMCE editor in WordPress. The bug made the Insert Hyperlink dialog, among other things, unworkable. I decided I have had enough with the Safari 4 Beta. There were some really cool features that I really liked. But I preferred to…
Mac OS X Update
Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard has just been updated to 10.5.7 today. It is “recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.” Some of the highlights include performance improvements on new Macs with Nvidia graphics chipsets, Finder search results for network volumes that do not support Spotlight searching, consistency with Parental Controls and application restrictions, and issues with logging into Gmail.
Understanding Earphones Specifications
Have you ever wondered what all those earphones specifications means? Many things about earphones are subjective qualities that varies from individuals to individuals. But there are certainly some specifications that can still be compared. Just like a car has certain specifications like engine capacity, torque, horsepower, 0-100km/h acceleration, etc. The difficulty with earphones specifications I had was that I didn’t know what the numbers mean, sometimes not even knowing “bigger” is better or worse. You know how it is that…
Linksys WRT610N Firmware Upgrade
I just got around to upgrading the firmware on my Linksys WRT610N Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router. At this time, the latest firmware is 1.00.02.10 (also shown as 1.00.02 B10). I decided to check out the firmware updates because the last two days I was having some random network connection problems through the WRT610N. Then, last night, my MacBook simply refused to connect to the 5GHz 802.11n channel (though it might have been a problem with my MacBook afterall, because…