Category: Miscellaneous

Any other thing under the sun.

Excursion to Singapore Flyer

November 4, 2008November 5, 2008  |  Miscellaneous  |  After one postponement due to bad weather, and another due to scheduling difficulties, we finally made our excursion “flight” on the Singapore Flyer. Personally, after having gone up enough ferris wheels, observation ...

RSAF 40th Anniversary

November 1, 2008  |  Miscellaneous  |  It’s the RSAF’s 40th anniversary this year. The last couple of years, the RSAF (and to some extent Mindef as a whole as well) seems to be making lots of effort to reach out to its “men” in more personal ...

Copycat Logo

October 31, 2008October 31, 2008  |  Miscellaneous  |  I was coming home a couple of days ago when I saw this at a bus stop advertisement display. I’ve been playing with Drupal lately, and I just thought how familiar the logo seems to be. For a moment, I was thinking how ...

Learning To Blog

October 26, 2008August 18, 2016  |  Miscellaneous  |  One of the cute little things that Vanessa tries to do is to type on my notebook. Here’s one of the snapshot that my Nokia N95 8GB phone managed to capture. Looking like a real professional eh? Both parents are quite IT ...

When Helpdesk Is Not Very Helpful

October 23, 2008June 4, 2016  |  Miscellaneous  |  Don’t you sometimes feel like helpdesks are not very helpful? Or wonder what is the purpose or point of having a helpdesk? I very often do. In fact, sometimes I feel like the objective of helpdesk is not so much as to help ...

I Just Won 1,575,000 Pounds!

October 20, 2008October 20, 2008  |  Miscellaneous  |  Amazing! I just got the news that I had won in a Nokia Promo draw. Nevermind that I don’t remember exactly what draw it was. I sign-up for so many things that I don’t remember all of them anyway. The news came in a ...

The Most Grotesque Baby Face

September 30, 2008  |  Miscellaneous  |  The first time I saw this baby face, my first reaction was one of disgust. I looked at it again. Definitely the most grostesque face I’ve seen. It is totally shocking. What in the world is this doing on a poster? On a shop ...

The First Ever F1 Night Race

September 28, 2008May 14, 2016  |  Miscellaneous  |  The first ever Formula 1 night race has concluded with Fernando Alonso taking the first place. Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton took the 2nd and 3rd place respectively. It’s quite an exciting race with 2 crashes, and an ...

Sometimes Our Gahmen Is A Bit Slow

September 17, 2008June 4, 2016  |  Miscellaneous  |  Don’t you think sometimes it gets a bit irritating that it takes someone, let alone our Gahmen, so much time before they state the obvious? How can it be that our Gahmen, overflowing with scholars, be capable of not seeing ...

Cunning Sony Advertisement

September 9, 2008June 4, 2016  |  Miscellaneous  |  I was rather surprised to see this Adsense advertisement on my site. The ad title was “Apple Travel Laptop”, but it was a Sony VAIO advertisement. I immediately wondered, what has Sony got to do with Apple? Sony ...