of stay open longer

Appeal to childcare centres: Stay open longer

A handful of childcare centres are keeping their doors open longer and close later to serve working parents who need that extra bit of help with child minding...The extra service is a lifesaver, say some harried parents, whose evenings used to be a mad dash from work...

In the ideal working environment, work starts at 8.30am and ends at 5.30pm which meets MOM's 8 hour a day guideline. This leaves 1.5 hours before and after work to send and pick the kids up from the child care centre which opens from 7am to 7pm.

However, most of the time in my work environment, overtime is unavoidable. So 1.5 hours to the childcare centre could end up with just 0.5 hours. So that is when the mad dash from work begins.

Lucky for Lancerlady and I, our employees have adopted flexi-hours, the kids' child care centre are near and we've got a car to ferry us around. Imagine those that had to take long journey and switching between the train and bus.

However on the other hand, pity the teachers and the care providers in those childcare centres that open late. It means they had to start work early and end work late.

So it is a difficult win-win situation for both parents and care providers.

of lancerlad is the boss

Lancerlad is the boss in the house (not his parents).
He can cross and shake his legs while drinking milk and watching cartoon.

of there were errors

I could not post the entire day. I kept getting errors when publishing the posts as indicated by blogger which they said was fixed.

Got time to blog, also cannot post.

of terror stuff

• Iraqi Peace Activist Forced to Change T-Shirt Bearing Arabic Script Before Boarding Plane at JFK: Iraqi blogger and activist Raed Jarrar was not allowed to board a flight at JFK airport because he was wearing a T-Shirt that said "We will not be silent" in English and Arabic.


• I Am Not A Terrorist: I made this shirt, which says "I am not a terrorist" in Arabic. [via Cynical-C Blog]


• iPod prompts airport scare in Ottawa: A suspicious package found in an aircraft washroom on a flight from Chicago on Tuesday afternoon brought out Ottawa police canine and bomb-disposal units. Also see I played WoW, I became a terrorist. [via Under A TVSky]

of tough days ahead

The next few weeks will be a critical period for one of my projects at work. Hopefully my team can deliver what our management had promised. If we don't then the management will have to request to delay the project deadline. That will give us more breathing space. But then that will mean more long and endless nights.

Having to hop among the various projects I am working in didn't help either. I forsee that there will be tough and rocky days ahead.

of chinese medicine

Lancerlad: Are we going to see the Chinese doctor?
Lancerlady: No. You like the Chinese doctor?
Lancerlad: I like to eat the Chinese medicine.

After eating 2 courses of chinese medicine prescribed by the chinese physician, Lancerlad's taste buds have become immune to the bitter taste. Wierd kid. Ha!

of tgif video - 18.08.06

[via Doctor Tongue]

Life With Zagar: Bud Light advertisement. See the other videos at Zagar And Steve. Also see their Flickr site.

of xcavator

[via Seth Godin]

xcavator: Tool to help search for photos using key points on the photo instead of the traditional word search to find photos. Watch the video introducing the tool. The tool is still in demo version.

xcavator is a new and exciting technology for searching and sorting images. With all the control granted to you, it makes image searching easy and specific. It's very much like text-based searching in Google or Yahoo! but instead of selecting keywords, in xcavator you choose key points to define the type of image you are looking for.

of raidenx

[via Eli Thinks]

Raiden X: Flash version of the Raiden arcade game.

of stuff n such - 17.08.06

• COCQ: A viral for the Montreal Games. The sound in the video is NSFW. Keep volume down. [via Adland]


• Virtual Drumkit: Use your mouse or keyboard to play the drums. [via AhSoon]


• Google Maps + Google Video: On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. [via Rich]


• Ronald McHummer Sign-O-Matic: A sign generator. A parody on McDonald's and General Motors' Hummer. [via Joe Grossberg]


• Shoe Lacing Methods: The 31 different ways to lace shoes. [via The Storage Ben]


• Evolution of Desktop: Desktops from 1984 till now. [via Basic Thinking]


• C0ck-A-Doodle: Choose a c0ck to doodle. NSFW. [via s3xblo.gs]


• Mobile Weapon Assault: Game. Shoot 'em up. [via Heggle]

No Parking [via Shimmertje]

of zombie alphabet

[via Jawbone]

Zombie Alphabet: Flickr photoset of zombie letters from A to Z. Punctuation marks too.

Create your zombie wordings here.

of videojug

[via Tom Morris]

VideoJug: A cool video hosting site that acts like an encyclopedia that tells you how to do things.

VideoJug is every aspect of life explained and illustrated through an ever-growing number of common sense, informative, helpful and entertaining videos. It’s like having an army of top-class experts at your fingertips 24/7 to “show you how” and to help you out.

of link pimpin

[via MENJ]

Link Pimpin: Are you a link wimp or a link pimp.

Links PimpedPimp Rank:Are you a Link Pimp?

of powered by ubuntu sticker

[via djStelios]

Powered By Ubuntu Sticker: Get the stickers.

Show your Ubuntu pride !!
FREE strip of four 'powered by Ubuntu' stickers

Send a self addressed stamped envelope to:

System76, Inc. (Free Sticker)
875 S. Colorado Blvd. #765
Denver, Colorado 80246

of this is ridiculous

[via Occasional Outbursts]

Bottle And Baby Used As B0mb: The couple arrested in the British terror raids planned to use their baby in their attempt.

Scotland Yard police are quizzing Abdula Ahmed Ali, 25, and his 23-year-old wife Cossor over suspicions they were to use their baby's bottle to hide a liquid bomb.

The theory is one of the reasons security chiefs are now insisting mothers taste babies' milk at check-in desks before allowing them to take bottles aboard flights.

of no p-o-d

[via Gary Short]

Use "POD" in your trademark, get sued.

Has Apple gone too far?

Even if the product you make doesn't look, smell, feel, or do anything remotely close to what an iPod does, and even if consumers can't buy it on the shelves in a store, that apparently doesn't mean Apple won't release its legal dogs on you if the name of your product includes the letters P-O-D.

of flickrstorm

[via Powers Of Four]

FlickrStorm: Search on Flickr with some magic.

FlickrStorm is a better search for Flickr! It works by looking for more than what you enter to find related and more relevant images....

of pleo

[via rmoan]

Pleo: Pleo is a robot created by Ugobe.

Ugobe designers and engineers studied the long extinct Camarasaurus, a dinosaur from the Jurassic period. Pleo, a Ugobe Life Form is the authentic recreation born from that study. UGOBE's designers and engineers recreated Pleo's physiology from the fossils of the original. His height and weight are consistent with that of a one-week old infant camarasuarus.

Watch the videos here and here

of famster

[via Digg]

Famster: Share photos, videos and files.

of stuff n such - 13.08.06

• President Bush Impersonation: President Bush and Steve Bridges at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner. [via Bullwinkle Blog]


• Fast Drinker: He is drinking a bottle of water in 4.88 second. [via FrashDax]


• Open A Beer Bottle With A Piece Of Paper: Video. Shows you how to fold a piece of paper into a bottle opener. [via Lockergnome]


• Sony Bravia Advertisement: Taken on location by someone for Sony Bravia "Paintjob" advertisement. [via AhSoon]


• Office Prank: A group of people gave a colleague's office a cardboard-style facelift. [via untitledlife]


• Their Circlar Life: Very cool. An Exploration About Human Behaviour. [via Grow A Brain]


• Travis Pastrana Double Backflip: First ever person to do a double backflip in X Games. [via Look At This]


• Bush Backrub: Move Bush around the table. Move the mouse to give massage rub. [via SnarkySpot]

Baby helmet [via mrbrown]

of cable car ride

So far, there are 2 occasions that I have sat in the cable car. The first was when my parents took me many many many years ago. The second one was taken today, when we brought the kids for their first cable car ride.

We parked at Mount Faber and took the 10 minute ride to Sentosa, passing the upcoming VivoCity and Harbourfront. We also got to see 2 stars, Star Gemini and Star Virgo. Star Virgo just arrived, letting off passengers, so that explained the long queue of taxis.

At Sentosa, we let the kids play sand. But when the sky started to get dark, we decided it was time to go.

Spending the whole morning at Sentosa, we were tired. We took a slow drive down Mount Faber and watched the so-called "tornado" in a distant, as reported in channelnewsasia.

of bmw, audi and subaru

[via AhSoon]

BMW, Audi and Subaru Take Stabs at Each Other: BMW, Audi and Subaru congratulating each other.

BMW to Audi: Congratulations to Audi for winning South African Car of the Year 2006. From the Winner of World Car of the Year 2006.

Audi to BMW: Congratulations to BMW for Winning World Car of the Year 2006. From the Winner of Six Consecutive Le Mans 24 Hour Races 2004-2006.

Subaru to BMW and Audi: Congratulations to Audi and BMW for winning the beauty. From the winner of the 2006 International Engine of the Year.

of web2dna

[via connecting*the*dots]

Web2DNA: Convert your website to DNA.

WEB2DNA will take you website, analyze it, crunch it to little bits and spit it out as a graphic representation of a human DNA.

The brightness of the lines is determined by the importance of the tags in terms of structure.

This is my Web2DNA.

of speedtest

[via MaTuVu.nu]

Speedtest: Online tool to test your upload and download speed.

Speedtest.net is a general use broadband connection testing site with many geographically dispersed servers to test against.

of 11 become 21

Last night, for some reason, my 11mbps router became 21mbps.

Woke up today and tried again. No more 21mbps. Back to 11mbps.

of open your mouth and talk

Sometimes when Lancerkid wants us to take something, he would point at the object. If he points at one object then it is ok. But if he points to an area with lots of things, then we would have to take one object at a time and asked him if that was what he wanted.

So just now, when he started pointing to the table, I decided to 'force' him to say what he wanted.

Lancerlord: Open your mouth and say what you want.

Lancerkid looked at me and opened his mouth wide wide but no words came out of his mouth.

Lancerlord: No no. You must say what you want. Open your mouth, talk.

Again, Lancerkid opened his mouth wide wide. Silence. Mouth opened so wide, can count his teeth.

At least he listened. Slowly we will have to teach him to speak up.

of the really really really wide screen plama tv

[via Liew Cheon Fong]

The Really, Really, Really Wide Screen Plasma TV: The reason why we do not buy wide screen plasma TVs.

of tgif video - 11.08.06

Stolen Idea: Commercial for Federal Express.

of dungeon escape

[via Driko Land]

Dungeon Escape: Game. Escape from the dungeon with this stickman game. It is a tribute to laserdisc games like "Dragon's Lair". Need to be quick or else it is retry...retry...retry...retry...

of aol searcher no. 4417749

[via A Welsh View]

A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749: AOL's blunder in releasing search records of AOL users. Although the records only contained a string of numbers for each user, it didn't take long for people to put a face to user number 4417749.

Buried in a list of 20 million Web search queries collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417749. The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcher’s anonymity, but it was not much of a shield.

It did not take much investigating to follow that data trail to Thelma Arnold, a 62-year-old widow who lives in Lilburn, Ga.

of breach of guidelines

MPSJ acts against Absolute Entertainment: Malaysia Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Seri Rais Yatim said that Absolute Entertainment, organisers for last month's Pussycat Dolls' concert at Sunway Lagoon, was fined RM10,000 for breach of guidelines. MPSJ president Datuk Mohamad Arif Abdul Rahman said,

The Pussycat Dolls were guilty of performing sexually-suggestive
routines on stage. In terms of their eye-popping attire, well, there’s a lot of proof of that from our sources and the media

Sexually-suggestive routines. Eye-popping attire. That is the trademark for PCD on top of all their chart-topping songs.

of ahree lee

[via Digg]

Girl Takes Pic Of Herself Every Day For Three Years: Photo compilation of Ahree Lee. She takes a photo of herself everyday since November 2001. Also see the video at youtube.

Starting in November of 2001, I have been taking a picture of myself every day and I haven't stopped yet. Me was screened at a number of festivals in 2003 and 2004, including L.A. Shorts Fest, the Silver Lake Film Festival in Los Angeles, and Film Fest New Haven, where it won audience and jury awards. Music by Nathan Melsted.

of heiterkeit

[via Videos.Antville]

Heiterkeit: A cool music video by Peter Licht. Everything was shot lying down. [QT version here]

See his other videos here.

of forgotten merlion

[via A Blog on "The Ostrich"]

Forgotten Merlion: Instructional video on how to sing the Singapore National Anthem.

of national day spirit

[via HuiYing]

A group of students celebrating Singapore's birthday.
- Video 1
- Video 2
- Video 3
- Video 4

of happy 41st singapore

Majulah Singapura: Video of Olivia Ong singing the Singapore national anthem during the friendly soccer match between Singapore and Japan.

of kiss and smile

Lancerkid did something that got onto Lancerlady's nerves. Lancerlady told him to say sorry and he did. He immediately kissed her hand and then gave her a BIG BIG smile. Not bad for a 2 year old.

of multi-touch sensing

[via TED Blog]

Minority Report Becomes Reality: Jeff Han, a research scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the New York University, demonstrates "Multi-Touch Sensing" which allows multi-point GUI. The video was taken at the Technology Entertainment Design 2006. Cool stuff.

Download the video here.

Other videos of his invention:
- Shown at Siggraph 2006
- Shown at ETech 2006
- Multi-Touch Interaction Experiments

of bump keying

[via Groovy Mother]

Bump Keying: Your house is not safe anymore.

an unbelievable security flaw in locks, this is a very good lockpicking technique, works on at least 90% of all pin locks, very interesting,... This is a relatively old concept...

of singapore videos 3

Featuring some Singapore made videos hosted at youtube.

• La La Attack Town: Heroes of LaLa Land goes to Marang, Clarke Quay, Padang and Little India. Also see Schizoalley and Fireflys. [via Ah Mao]



• Idol On Demand Taxi Driver: Funny taxi driver.



• Arrival of President NDP 1997 - 2003: Compilation of Arrival of President segment. [via Kok Yong]



• BB Fancy Drill: 33rd Boys Brigade Fancy Drill, performed at Orchard Road. [via Cai]

of adnan hajj photo

[via Pundit Guy]

The most talked about photo in the internet. It all started with Charles Johnson of LGF describing details of the doctored photo by Adnan Hajj.

Reuters admitting altering the Beirut photo and the agency also tells Adnan Hajj that it will not use any of his photos.

Update: Youtube has a video of the photos.

of stuff n such - 06.08.06

• Japanese Basketball Shadow: Video. Japanese talent show, a girl playing a basketball and someone is playing as her Shadow. [via AhSoon]


• Amazing Stop Motion Video: Many many frames. Very cool video. [via SnarkySpot]


• ManWash: Swedish Lynx video. [via Mrs Palmer]


• Lightning Doodle Project: By pikapika. Using light and camera. More videos at Youtube. [via Gari@Suta-GUTI]


• Cylinder Chased by Soviet MIG-21: Video of a documentary showing a Soviet MIG-21 chasing a fast-moving, cylinder-shaped UFO. [via LinkFilter]


• Ivan Pacheco I & E Solo: Ivan Pacheco playing the snare drums during the Drum Corps International Finals in 2004. [via Digg]


• Tiny Pinocchio: A tale of one tiny dog, the tiniest in the world in fact. [via CodeWolf]


• Absolut Search: Game. Find the 82 Absolut shaped bottles in the picture. [via Gari@Suta-GUTI]

Congrats. Well Done! [via Macbiff]


Race Day

of bikely

[via MetaFilter]

Bikely: Uses Google maps to make it easy to learn new bicycle paths.

It can be quite tricky traversing a car dominated city by bicycle, particularly when you need to travel an unknown route to a new destination.

But the chances are, someone has cycled that way before you. Bikely makes it easy for him or her to show you the best way.

There is only 1 entry (Pasir Panjang to NUS) from Singapore.

of dicewars

[via Kukujiao]

DiceWars: Interesting flash game just like Risk.

of goggles

[via CodeWolf]

Goggles: The Google Maps flight simulator. Using Google Maps of London, New York, Toyko, Paris and Washington.

of how to write...

Lancerlad: What is the chinese word for "frog"? How To write?
* Lancerlord refers to chinese dictionary *

Lancerlad: What is the chinese word for "hippopotamus"? How To write?
* Lancerlord refers to chinese dictionary *

Lancerlad: What is the chinese word for "shark"? How To write?
* Lancerlord refers to chinese dictionary *

I feel pressured. This is the result for not taking my Second Language seriously in school.

of workFRIENDLY

[via Gizmodo]

workFRIENDLY: Make any site SFW. Removes all photos and pictures to make any NSFW site SFW.

of mentos geyser video contest

[via Micro Persuasion]

Mentos Geyser Video Contest: Create a Mentos geyser and submit to this contest.

You could WIN 1000 iTunes downloads and a years supply of Mentos!
Or other great prizes…plus get a Mentos T-shirt, cap, or towel just for entering! Join the craze…create your own Mentos Geyser video and enter today!

The full details are posted at Youtube.

Too bad this contest is only open to LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 U.S. STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF RESIDENTS OF AZ, MD, NJ, TN, AND VT.

of tgif video - 04.08.06

[via weltregierung]

Roddick Vs Pong: American Express commercial featuring Andy Roddick and Pong.

of feed me

[via David's Blog]

Feed Me: Guide the venus fly trap safely through the greenhouse avoiding dangerous thorns and poisonous insects! Use the mouse to grab onto walls, floors and ceilings to pull the plant (and pot) along.

of we are the web

[via OuthouseRag]

We Are The Web: Fighting for net neutrality and internet freedom. By Tron Guy, Leslie Hall and Peter Pan. Watch their video.