Monday 28 November 2005

of milk and coffee

I wanted to make milk for Lancerlad this morning and instead of putting milk powder into his bottle, I put coffee powder. Usually Lancerlad takes 4 scoopful of milk powder. After putting 2 teaspoons of coffee into his bottle, I then realised what I was doing.

A sign that I still have not recovered from a persistent flu. Also a sign that I have been working too much.

Thursday 24 November 2005

of run for funds

This is my part to spread the word and create awareness of the Run For Funds Project after reading JayWalk's posts.

The Run For Funds Project was started in 2002 by Adrian Lee. It is non profit and its aim is to raise funds for the needy in the Geylang community. I applaud what Adrian and his Superfriends are doing. As of 2004, over S$28,000.00 was raised. The money was put into good use. The Run For Funds website gives a breakdown on how the funds were spent.

This year the target is to raise S$40,000.00. In 2 weeks time, the Run For Funds Superfriends will don their running shoes and run in the Stanchart Marathon. To contribute, simply pledge an amount for every kilometre Adrian and his friends run. If $1 is pledged and if Adrian completes 42 kilometres, $42 will be contributed into the fund.

Visit Run For Funds. (Also go to the old site at www.runforfunds.com for more background information).

If you are interested to contribute to the project or join in the run or have any queries, kindly email Adrian at adrian@runforfunds.com

Spread the word. Spread the cause.

of owning singapore

An article at Sploid tells us what to do in order to own Singapore.

US Dominates Nerd Olympics: We Owned Singapore

It links to an article at New Scientist about the US taking the most number of Golds in the 2005 World Cyber Games that was held in Singapore recently.

of superkid returns

SuperkidSuperman returns.

Wednesday 23 November 2005

of mansion impossible

[via Strippedbar3]

Mansion Impossible: Game. Buy and then sell properties. Earn enough money to live in the big mansion.

Monday 21 November 2005

of watch lost can get lost

[via TV Squad]

TV Squad lists the 5 biggest questions that remain unanswered on Lost.
5. What is the Dharma Initiative?
4. What is "The Monster"?
3. What's up with the numbers?
2. Who are "The Others"?
1. What the hell is going on?

Whenever Lancerlady and I watch an episode, the "What the hell is going on?" is bound to be asked. Watching lost can get lost.

[via abctvstore]

of what is secret

Lancerlad has started to pay more attention to words and sound that are being played over the television. In the past, he would just sit still and watch quietly. I guess he just watched the pictures and filtered out the sounds.

Yesterday when we were watching the "Dirty Little Secret" music video by The All American Rejects, Lancerlad asked what was the meaning of "Dirty Little Secret". I think I failed to convey the meaning to Lancerlad because he kept asking over and over again...until he gave up asking.

Sunday 20 November 2005

of waited so long for nothing

Last week, I had popped into a bank to open a CPF investment account. When my queue number was up, I approached the counter. Unfortunately they do not have the application forms at the bank.

lancerlord: Hi, I like to open a CPF investment account please.

CSO: Investment account. Sir, let me check if we have the application forms.

* CSO goes to the back, talks to the bank manager and returns *
CSO: Sorry sir, we do not have any forms. If you drop by our XXX branch, they will have the forms there.

lancerlord: So your bank does not allow customers to open CPF investment accounts?

CSO: No, we can open an account. It is just that we need to request the forms to be sent to us from XXX branch. Then when the forms are completed, we need to send it back to XXX branch for processing. If you go to the XXX branch, it will be better. You can get the account on the spot. It will be faster that way.

Does not make sense but consider me unlucky. I spent half an hour waiting and just spent another 2 minutes with the CSO and I was out of the bank. I should have checked with one of the counter staff in the first place.

Anyways, I have opened an account with another bank on Friday.

Saturday 19 November 2005

of what age do you act

[via MonkeyFilter]

You Are 24 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.
13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.
20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.
30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!
40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.
What Age Do You Act?

of stuff n such - 19.11.05


Movie Teaser: Superman Returns

Vandalism at WWI Monument [via Crimsondebotchka]

Friday 18 November 2005

of anything also open

Lancerlad likes presents. When he was at a shopping centre, he saw a Christmas Tree with presents at the bottom and was tempted to open them.

At home, he would even open the Christmas decorations (decorations that looked like presents) that are hanging on the Christmas tree.

of dancin doughboy

[via Open Source Poor Man]

Dancin' Doughboy: Make Doughboy dance. Customise your dance moves and add a song, then watch Doughboy dance.

of christmas lights

Drove along Orchard Road. There were so many cars that I had enough time to snap a few photos. But I did not have time to take a photo of the Killiney Post Office.

Thursday 17 November 2005

of tgif video - 18.11.05

[via Aces Full of Links]

Kung Fu Fark You: A film by The Ministry of Unknown Science. Three martial artists unleash their 'dancing finger style' in a bird-flipping battle royale. Warning: Rude gestures.

of eat pie

[via My Right Eye]

Let's have some pie: The object of this puzzle is to eat the entire pie in just 15 bites.

Monday 14 November 2005

of enjoy first suffer next

A week of vacation ended up with more stress from work. More last minute work and new work requirements cropped up when I was not around.

This year is a different picture from the previous years when most people were clearing their annual leaves and the office was like a ghost town.

I still cannot feel the "end of year" Christmas mood yet. I think this year I can only feel the festive mood on Christmas eve.

Thursday 10 November 2005

of tgif video - 11.11.05

[via Dump-A-Link]

Mutated Rat Boy: Video from the show "Scare Tactics", a show where "victims" are set up by friends. In this video, a guy got scared by a person dressed as a mutated rat in a science lab. If I was the victim, I could get a heart attack.

Other videos from Scare Tactics hosted at FileCabi.net.
- Pr0n Dorm Massacre
- Animal Testing

Update: Tempest Blue has a good compilation of Scare Tactics videos.

of vip gym

[via Frederik Samuel]

Advertisement posters from a gym (not sure which country) stuck at the back of chairs in restaurants and bars.

of blog consolidating effort

Remember Wandie's SG Bloglocator, Kevin has now created a Frappr! Map for Singaporeans living in North America. It is a cool way of consolidating a list of bloggers. Those living in North America (working there, studying there or doing nothing there), can add yourselves into the map.

Wandie has expressed interest in expanding the SG Bloglocator. With the large number of Singaporean bloggers, Singapore can be a huge red dot on the map.

Click is consolidating a list of Singaporean blogs under the Singapore Weblogs Directory. There are close to 60 blogs listed.

of 7806 feeds to go

I have been clearing my Bloglines feeds for the past 4 days.

I was expecting the huge number of new feeds when I logged into my Bloglines account. Two thirds of them are mostly from sites like boing-boing, engadget, Digg and LinkFilter.

The remaining 3000 feeds are from blogs that I have subscribed to. The blog that contributed the most feeds was from Singabloodypore. 51 new feeds. Champion! Followed closely by 0811 with 44 feeds. There are also a lot of you that posted at least 1 post each day. Some even up to 3 posts.

7806 feeds to go. I will continue to clear the feeds from those sites first then I will move on to read your blogs. In the meantime, can you all stop posting so that can give me a chance to clear my feeds? :)




Wednesday 9 November 2005

of nice holiday

After spending a week at the 'undefined' location, we are safely back in Singapore.

Lancerlady, Lancerlad and I spent 5 days relaxing and 'rotting'. Enjoyed ourselves alot. Unfortunately Lancerkid could not be with us. We will bring him on another trip when he can sit quietly alone in his seat.

We bought lots of stuff and managed to do some Christmas shopping. Now my mind is still in a holiday mood.

Thanks to those who left comments in my previous post and also thanks to those who consistently visited this blog to check for updates (even it was not updated) while I was away.