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It’s amazing how difficult it can be to use Microsoft World. It works for simple few pages documents. But once you have hundreds of pages, with lots of massive drawings and annotations, it becomes quite painful. It’s ...
Category: Miscellaneous
Any other thing under the sun.
Boost In Google PageRank
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I wonder if Google has become more generous with their PageRank scoring? I just noticed my homepage cum blog site upgraded to PageRank 5, with at least one other internal page even scoring PageRank 6. Is this little site becoming ...
Old Eateries Turn High-Tech
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I’m quite surprised to see some of the “traditional” kind of eateries turning high-tech. The kind of oldish places with long established fame and huge loyal customer bases. They don’t need ...
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Washing a car for one hour burns 314 calories, according to the Health Status Calculator, for a person weighing about 70kg. My 2.4km jog burns only 171 calories. It seems more fun to be washing car than to jog 2.4km. Well, except ...
Perfect Half Boiled Eggs
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It seems like getting perfect half boiled eggs is something quite difficult to ask for. I wonder how Ya Kun does it? We were at Wan Chai Hong Kong Tea Room at IMM recently. Their half boiled eggs came out way too raw. They redid ...
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One of the hassles of car ownership is having to get the car serviced at regular intervals. The 1km servicing for my new Honda Stream came up, and so I spent pretty much of my morning today at Kah Motor’s Leng Kee service ...
Downsized Christmas Tree
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This year’s Christmas tree has been downsized. Not that it was intended as a reflection of the economic downturn. It’s actually a new tree though. The previous tree isn’t that old, but I guess the new tree is ...
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Yes, sometimes you still need a heater instead of cold air-conditioning even in the hot Singapore weather. Previously my Honda Civic had a heater mode. I would have thought that it would be quite useless in our local climate. But ...
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Most people will try to negotiate some freebies with their new car purchase. One item that often gets packaged together is solar film installation. Solar films are designed to tint the glass and reduce the amount of heat absorbed ...
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The multi-purpose flexibility of our new Honda Stream has already been put to good use. We transported a clothes dryer. It was actually enough to just fold down the 3rd row seats. But it didn’t fit after padding the sides ...