Tuesday, October 31, 2006
deal of the week!
Alot of you probably already know since the promo started like half a month ago, but for the benefit of the rest of you, Creative's website is selling the 1st generation Zen Neeon 6GB @ $149! Available in red, purple and grey.
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Of course you can already tell from the picture that you can't view photos or play videos in this, but it does have FM radio, line-in recording and a voice recorder.

Creative's constant iPod-poking was present at the Zen Neeon product site.
Life's never black or white - why should your player be any different?
Presumably attacking the previous generation nano. Maybe they should change it to life's more than just 5 colours, since the Neeon was produced in 10 colours.
Monday, October 30, 2006
one week update
It's my first time to Vivocity since it opened! If I'm not wrong it's developers are touting it as a refreshing shopping experience, and in some ways that is true. For starters the new Sentosa Rail thingy that replaces the monorail will have a stop in Vivocity.
There are shops that you don't get to see in every other mall, like the not quite fully stocked up Candy Empire,
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Pull and Bear, and the shockingly expensive GAP (check out their bags to know what I mean). There's also some oddly named and very cheena looking restaurant cum lounge slash bar. Interesting.
Vivocity's designers must've taken a page off the California style board walks coz you'll find wooden plank lined walkways by the break water. Oh, incidentally the Pacific Coffee on the 2nd level along the board walk looks pretty nicely decor-ed too.
Finally there are those er.. friendly helpers who assist you should you get lost in the big new mall.
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Much like a higher class version of the Carrefour bladers, they move around in Segway Human Transporters which costs like US$4k. Yea, just so you won't get lost in the mall. Uh, you might also think the 2 of them are so cheerful that it borders on the creepy. Haha..
Anyhow, I've got to say that I wasn't entirely thrilled by Vivocity. Maybe I haven't got to see all the shops yet, or maybe very soon the hype will die down and more people will agree with me that it's just an exercise of trying quite hard to be different.

We've got Little India, Little Thailand, etc. Now there's a little Malaysia! Go to Boon Lay Place and you'll know. Stepping into the complex is like any other er.. complex in JB for instance. Without the need for a passport! It's a nice old neighbourhood actually and you won't believe you'll find a super crowded hawker centre in such an ulu (to most people) place.
Many many handphone shops, many travel agencies like the ones you find in Chinatown, some old provision shops and even a shop that still sells LDs (or the ginormous predecessor of the VCD/DVD)! Go look for the overhead bridge and I swear the last time you saw one like that was in the '80s. It's still a warm feeling kampung place! Nice~
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bet you've never seen cakes sold in slabs like this confectionery shop @ boon lay place does

Finally I show you our gross students. This picture was taken at er.. 1am at canteen A. Uni students! Thinking there are maids in the canteen! Super embarrassing. Again, like the pee-ers-who-don't-put-the-toilet-seat-up people.. Shame on you!
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Thursday, October 26, 2006
more on hari raya
Neoprints we took during my break time! This machine kinda sucked. The one with BX and SX at Far East was nicer!


HAHA! I love the last one. I Luuurrrrvvvveee spastic pictures as much as nice ones. WOO!!

First visit to New York New York after that! Food is typical, well at least it didnt taste bad. The pasta sauce was creamy enough for my liking, the roasted mushroom cuppacino is taste like watered down Marche cream of mushroom (which I love!) with froth on top. Prices are typical for the NYDC/Cartel class. Nice decor, I like wide and open places! And of course the cabin seats attract attention too. Uniform of the staff was gross though. HAHA!


menu fun!


i only realized it was candy floss all around my plate after i sat down at the table and looked at it. my water had candy floss mixed inside while i was in the toilet too
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
bubbye tcc!
Yesterday was my last day at TCC! In memory of my 5 months there.
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my name tag.. see? still in perfect condition

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last day working, and yet moving so quickly that the camera sees me as a blur! woo!

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goodbye to some colleagues

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and my last customers sx and hy! who by the way refused to pass me the bill

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and the door closes for me and tcc cineleisure

WOO thank you everybody in TCC CNL! It was nice! From the time I refused to be transferred from Peranakan Place till now, gotta say I had quite a blast!
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Mass R(IP) Transit
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You should have guessed from the 3 pictures above. Yes, someone was killed again after being hit by an MRT. Chinese Garden was the site of the unfortunate incident this time round. According to sources, police are still investigating that matter.

Seems like the MRT track has been the choice site for suicide and murder or anything in between nowadays. Killing yourself or other people is well.. frowned upon. But it happens. What is annoying is when people create accidents on the MRT track. Potential murderers and suicide attempt-ers, please realize that everytime someone dies on the track it affects thousands of people. People get nervous as to why the train stopped suddenly in the middle of nowhere, they run late for appointments and SMRT has to arranged buses to ferry people between affected stations. All because you wanted to kill yourself or someone else. It's stupid!

So please find other places to kill. Unless you're trying to show SMRT the importance of screen doors even in above ground stations. Ha!

Disclaimer: This entry does not encourage the public to commit suicide or kill other individuals regardless of location.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
i love bad english
Yes, I love to complain about ridiculous English. And today Great Eastern has given me something to laugh about! Ok, the mistakes I picked out aren't all. There are others like the missing hyphen in All-Women Run, but I think all of you see my point. Whoever typed this: atrocious English!
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People should get people who at least don't make basic grammatical errors to type stuff that's linked to their own corporate website. This really doesn't reflect terribly well on the organization.

Anyway, I love NTU tutorial rooms. They're now open 24 hours to provide students an air conditioned revision place! Rocks. And if you want to practise your presentations, you can set up everything in here too! Uber cool. Ok, I'm back to my work. Woo!
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
wc woes
Don't call me sick for posting this picture but I was kinda surprised at how much stains this person got in the toilet bowl.
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Haha! And there was this joke thing on the cubicle wall that says that poopie that leaves alot of skidmarks are those u get on the morning you wake up from alot of alcohol! Wonder if that's true.

Anyway talking about toilet bowls, I just can't understand why people cannot lift up the toilet seat when they pee in it. The guys here are like supposedly highly educated Undergrads and at least 20 years old, but they don't have any sense of social conscience! You know how to put down the toilet seat when you shit, but when it's time to pee you can't lift the seat up. Shame! So to those people, why not shit without putting down the toilet seat next time?
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
running rocks
Woot! Running rocks. If the NTU website is to be trusted, I just ran 5km! But I doubt it was that long. Cos bus B route is supposed to be according to the site is already 3.5km. I don't believe! But whatever it is, damn shiok la! Makes me awake and gives me good mood! WOOT!
Why should I be so high when it's just a run? Well for starters it's been dog ages since I last ran 5km. Plus the fact that I attempted to push myself abit. Okok not going to kid you, I've never participated in any long distance runs or whatever. Aiya, I'm just happy that I didn't give up and blah blah blah.. It's good to have a goal and achieve it.

Good day! Next step, try as hard to do my tutorials. That will be the real challenge. Heh.
And I shall stop penguin-clapping.
Sunday, October 01, 2006
cheaters, or honest dudes?
Was flipping through Straits Times today morning and there was an article on some poll conducted by some University on its students. The survey asks if they've cheated before.

And the survey results were: Business students were the biggest cheaterbugs, followed closely by Engineering undergrads. Both had over 50% of them admitting to have cheated before. The 'saintly' ones were the Arts and Social Sciences students, figure being 30 odd %.

Well you may think, yea, business and engineering students suck cos so many of them cheat, but then again, why wouldn't you say we're honest and admitted to have cheated?

Oh yea, you should probably know I'm an honest engineering student. :)