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Tuesday, July 7
Wednesday, April 1
Last Post from the Editor
Dear loyal reader,
It has been a fun and engaging year bringing you technology related articles. However, I regret to inform you that through a corporate e-mail message, Google Inc. has made a request to acquire my blog's domain name, "techfrontiers.blogspot.com" for a lump sum of US$1,000. I had earlier decisively agreed with the terms of contract. As such, I'm bringing you this last post as my final milestone as a blogger.
I remember the day when I was talking to Bryan regarding the creation of our blog. I jokingly said to him, "what if Google buys our blog one day?" I can't believe that it's really happening. The e-mail sent to both our e-mail addresses sometime last week shocked me beyond disbelief. I initially thought Google wanted our blog because of our content, but when I realised that it was actually after our blog's address name, I chuckled. Either way, I'm glad that I'm able to earn something with our blog. Looks like we picked a good name for our blog after all; cheers Bryan!
The e-mail sent to us was laden full with details concerning the transaction. However, I don't think I'm at liberty to discuss all of the terms openly. I do hope you understand.
As of April 14 2009, all operations on our personal blog will cease and all rights to the domain "techfrontiers.blogspot.com" will be reserved to Google Inc.
Once again, I sincerely apologise for any inconveniences or difficulties caused by this unexpected move.
Keep blogging alive,
T'ang
April fools. My next post will be arriving shortly,
T'ang
It has been a fun and engaging year bringing you technology related articles. However, I regret to inform you that through a corporate e-mail message, Google Inc. has made a request to acquire my blog's domain name, "techfrontiers.blogspot.com" for a lump sum of US$1,000. I had earlier decisively agreed with the terms of contract. As such, I'm bringing you this last post as my final milestone as a blogger.
I remember the day when I was talking to Bryan regarding the creation of our blog. I jokingly said to him, "what if Google buys our blog one day?" I can't believe that it's really happening. The e-mail sent to both our e-mail addresses sometime last week shocked me beyond disbelief. I initially thought Google wanted our blog because of our content, but when I realised that it was actually after our blog's address name, I chuckled. Either way, I'm glad that I'm able to earn something with our blog. Looks like we picked a good name for our blog after all; cheers Bryan!
The e-mail sent to us was laden full with details concerning the transaction. However, I don't think I'm at liberty to discuss all of the terms openly. I do hope you understand.
As of April 14 2009, all operations on our personal blog will cease and all rights to the domain "techfrontiers.blogspot.com" will be reserved to Google Inc.
Once again, I sincerely apologise for any inconveniences or difficulties caused by this unexpected move.
Keep blogging alive,
T'ang
April fools. My next post will be arriving shortly,
T'ang
Saturday, March 14
The Good Old Days
Just a quick update to refresh my blog's main page. Yes, I know I've never posted anything for over a month now already. My ultimate reason (or excuse) for my extended hiatus is largely because of my increased workload this school term. I think I'm starting to feel the strain of taking 6 courses concurrently.
OK. So, I've installed the latest Windows Live Messenger (Build 12 or something) just a couple of days ago. In short, it's atrocious. It has a gawky new interface, a substantially shriveled messaging space, a mediocre approach to displaying custom backgrounds, and worst of all, absolutely no support for sharing folders. Admittedly, I do use the sharing folders quite often. Also, I despise the way in which my contacts are labeled busy, away etc. I very much prefer the old style where Messenger simply displays a 'stop' sign or a clock, instead of assigning coloured boxes to my contacts. It's just more convenient to read symbols than coloured boxes. So just earlier today, I've reverted back to the good old Messenger 8.5. To everyone else who has not updated theirs, like many of my friends who have already done so, I strongly recommend that you do not.
Mech-nostalgia
I have also longed to play my favourite childhood game, MechWarrior 2, since last week. I remember when I was about 5 or so, the game which ran on Windows 95 was so enjoyable that even my dad used it as a pacifier to subdue my lust for going on a vacation to Sydney, Australia with the rest of my family. I guess I was too young to go on a lengthy holiday then, partly due to me leaking occasionally as I slept. But now, 13 years later, I can't seem to be able to run MechWarrior 2 on Vista or XP natively. I've heard about DOSBox, but I haven't got the time to try it yet. For those who have played the game before, here's the incredible opening scene to ring a bell:
T'ang
(image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechwarrior_2)
OK. So, I've installed the latest Windows Live Messenger (Build 12 or something) just a couple of days ago. In short, it's atrocious. It has a gawky new interface, a substantially shriveled messaging space, a mediocre approach to displaying custom backgrounds, and worst of all, absolutely no support for sharing folders. Admittedly, I do use the sharing folders quite often. Also, I despise the way in which my contacts are labeled busy, away etc. I very much prefer the old style where Messenger simply displays a 'stop' sign or a clock, instead of assigning coloured boxes to my contacts. It's just more convenient to read symbols than coloured boxes. So just earlier today, I've reverted back to the good old Messenger 8.5. To everyone else who has not updated theirs, like many of my friends who have already done so, I strongly recommend that you do not.
Mech-nostalgiaI have also longed to play my favourite childhood game, MechWarrior 2, since last week. I remember when I was about 5 or so, the game which ran on Windows 95 was so enjoyable that even my dad used it as a pacifier to subdue my lust for going on a vacation to Sydney, Australia with the rest of my family. I guess I was too young to go on a lengthy holiday then, partly due to me leaking occasionally as I slept. But now, 13 years later, I can't seem to be able to run MechWarrior 2 on Vista or XP natively. I've heard about DOSBox, but I haven't got the time to try it yet. For those who have played the game before, here's the incredible opening scene to ring a bell:
T'ang
(image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechwarrior_2)
Sunday, January 4
New Year's Post
2008. It has been a wild ride that’s for sure: 2008 was the year in which I moved to Canada; 2008 was the year in which I attended a high school; 2008 was the year in which I enrolled into a university; 2008 was the year in which I met the most Caucasians in my life; 2008 was the year in which I attempted to loose my Singlish accent and vocab; 2008 was the year in which I was finally freed from the ‘short-hair policy’ of Singapore; 2008 was the year in which inexpensive and good food was no longer accessible to me; 2008 was the year in which I got tired of English songs; 2008 was the year in which I was no longer required to wear uniforms, and the list goes on.
Now, onto my New Year’s resolutions.
I don’t think I'm a person who progresses through a list of aims and targets. I remember those days in primary and secondary school where our form teacher will force us to pen down a list of resolutions (especially our grades) on the first day of school every year. I would just write anything and everything I could think of and then chuck it aside, never to be revisited again. So, I’ll not be filling this area with phrases labeled 1,2,3 and so on. I guess my life is shaped by whatever that comes my way. Of course, there are the ‘standard’ goals of doing well in school, making new friends, staying healthy and sort. But I feel that these have come to a stage where I would say, are customary.
And so, I shall be meeting 2009 with a sense of optimism.
Bring it on!
T’ang
Now, onto my New Year’s resolutions.
I don’t think I'm a person who progresses through a list of aims and targets. I remember those days in primary and secondary school where our form teacher will force us to pen down a list of resolutions (especially our grades) on the first day of school every year. I would just write anything and everything I could think of and then chuck it aside, never to be revisited again. So, I’ll not be filling this area with phrases labeled 1,2,3 and so on. I guess my life is shaped by whatever that comes my way. Of course, there are the ‘standard’ goals of doing well in school, making new friends, staying healthy and sort. But I feel that these have come to a stage where I would say, are customary.
And so, I shall be meeting 2009 with a sense of optimism.
Bring it on!
T’ang
Monday, October 20
Saturday, October 18
A Pack of Smarties
Oct 19 update: Oh well, case closed. My parents have decided to purchase the Samsung Omnia. No, actually, it has already been purchased. Specifically, it's the 16GB model; My parents just couldn't pass up the 100 dollar for double the memory capacity prospect. They weighed the features of the respective phones and believed that the Samsung delivered the most features per dollar. Well I have to agree with them, as the Omnia has the finest camera, one of the largest built-in storage, a standard 3.5mm jack (albeit requiring an adapter) and the longest battery life. However, I just felt that the Omnia simply lacked the oomph present in most of the other phones, such as the prevalent iPhone. In fact, I was originally vouching for the Apple :)
However, truth be told, the Omnia will be going to my brother, not to me. It seems that he is the one that is in real need for a smartphone, not me. Well, for starters, he's still using the ancient D-Cube MP3 player that used to be mine a long, long time ago. That was in secondary 2, if I remember correctly. I bet my bottom dollar that most of you haven't even heard of that brand before. Well that's mainly because the company has gone into liquidation shortly after its introduction (I guess). That obsolete piece of hardware only deserves to be in one place: the recycling bin. After roughly 3 years of handling, the D-Cube has started to show its age; the 'record' button has gone faulty, the connectivity of the 3.5mm jack has degraded, and the red LED which used to twinkle from time to time has shorted out. Speaking of MP3s, my music player has changed dramatically in just 3 years. I've outgrown the measly 512MB (the D-Cube), to a 1GB Nano, and finally to a 16GB Touch that I currently possess.
So, 500 to 16,000MB will be a huge leap for my brother. Also, if that doesn't satisfy him in the long run, the Omnia has a contingency plan: it features a expandable storage capacity with a MicroSD card slot. So that doubles up to a 32GB music player with the currently limited 16GB max microSD.
Additionally, he has frequently nagged about his need for a better camera. All his b'day party photos taken with his current 3.0 mega camera phone didn't turn in the quality of images he expected. Hopefully, with a 5.0 mega model, he would be pleased. However, I doubt it; I think the Omnia would most probably perform as dreadful in low-light conditions.
Lastly, with GPS, he'll never fear getting lost in the city center of Vancouver ever again :P
The poll will still be up for a couple more days though. For those who haven't casted their vote, it would honour me by doing so. I'd sure like to know collectively, whether the Omnia was the right road to take.
I've recently been on a hunt to find which touchscreen smartphone is best for me. Why do I need one you may ask. Well, I need a quad band phone as my tri band nokia's reception is starting to get on my nerves. There are times where the reception drops to zero in school, rendering the cell phone useless. There was one occasion in which a call was barely audible - the sound was crackling incessantly. Even rudimentary text messages took 10 seconds to transmit, whereby in Singapore, it barely took 3 seconds.
Complaints aside, I could've just gotten a basic, no-frills phone with bona fide quad band reception. But that's easier said than done. Of course, I cannot just blindly pick such a phone and call it a day. When it comes to cell phones, they have to be design oriented. I absolutely disgust phones which should rightly be called bricks and paperweights. What's outrageous is that even Samsung, my primary source for elegant looking phones, didn't carry a model that qualified for my tastes, let alone the Nokias and Sony Ericssons. The current Motorolas are not bad, but they are just too common here in Canada.
So, what's left are the models which reside in the category of smartphones. I emphasize again that these are touchscreen smartphones. Not the ones with a monstrous mechanical QWERTY keyboard on their faces (cough, Blackberry, cough). Such phones are no different that the ones I described earlier on. Out of hundreds of webpages, I managed to round up 6 models that allured me. They are as follows:
1. Samsung Omnia
2. HTC Touch Diamond
3. Apple iPhone 3G
The above three handsets are widely available today. On the other hand, I can also wait these for upcoming models:
4. HTC Touch HD
5. Nokia 5800
6. HTC G1 (if it really lives up to its hype)
And here they are in pictures (in order from left to right):
There's a poll up above the tagboard. Do let me know what you think.
T'ang
(all cell phone images taken from GSMArena.com)
However, truth be told, the Omnia will be going to my brother, not to me. It seems that he is the one that is in real need for a smartphone, not me. Well, for starters, he's still using the ancient D-Cube MP3 player that used to be mine a long, long time ago. That was in secondary 2, if I remember correctly. I bet my bottom dollar that most of you haven't even heard of that brand before. Well that's mainly because the company has gone into liquidation shortly after its introduction (I guess). That obsolete piece of hardware only deserves to be in one place: the recycling bin. After roughly 3 years of handling, the D-Cube has started to show its age; the 'record' button has gone faulty, the connectivity of the 3.5mm jack has degraded, and the red LED which used to twinkle from time to time has shorted out. Speaking of MP3s, my music player has changed dramatically in just 3 years. I've outgrown the measly 512MB (the D-Cube), to a 1GB Nano, and finally to a 16GB Touch that I currently possess.
So, 500 to 16,000MB will be a huge leap for my brother. Also, if that doesn't satisfy him in the long run, the Omnia has a contingency plan: it features a expandable storage capacity with a MicroSD card slot. So that doubles up to a 32GB music player with the currently limited 16GB max microSD.
Additionally, he has frequently nagged about his need for a better camera. All his b'day party photos taken with his current 3.0 mega camera phone didn't turn in the quality of images he expected. Hopefully, with a 5.0 mega model, he would be pleased. However, I doubt it; I think the Omnia would most probably perform as dreadful in low-light conditions.
Lastly, with GPS, he'll never fear getting lost in the city center of Vancouver ever again :P
The poll will still be up for a couple more days though. For those who haven't casted their vote, it would honour me by doing so. I'd sure like to know collectively, whether the Omnia was the right road to take.
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I've recently been on a hunt to find which touchscreen smartphone is best for me. Why do I need one you may ask. Well, I need a quad band phone as my tri band nokia's reception is starting to get on my nerves. There are times where the reception drops to zero in school, rendering the cell phone useless. There was one occasion in which a call was barely audible - the sound was crackling incessantly. Even rudimentary text messages took 10 seconds to transmit, whereby in Singapore, it barely took 3 seconds.
Complaints aside, I could've just gotten a basic, no-frills phone with bona fide quad band reception. But that's easier said than done. Of course, I cannot just blindly pick such a phone and call it a day. When it comes to cell phones, they have to be design oriented. I absolutely disgust phones which should rightly be called bricks and paperweights. What's outrageous is that even Samsung, my primary source for elegant looking phones, didn't carry a model that qualified for my tastes, let alone the Nokias and Sony Ericssons. The current Motorolas are not bad, but they are just too common here in Canada.
So, what's left are the models which reside in the category of smartphones. I emphasize again that these are touchscreen smartphones. Not the ones with a monstrous mechanical QWERTY keyboard on their faces (cough, Blackberry, cough). Such phones are no different that the ones I described earlier on. Out of hundreds of webpages, I managed to round up 6 models that allured me. They are as follows:
1. Samsung Omnia
2. HTC Touch Diamond
3. Apple iPhone 3G
The above three handsets are widely available today. On the other hand, I can also wait these for upcoming models:
4. HTC Touch HD
5. Nokia 5800
6. HTC G1 (if it really lives up to its hype)
And here they are in pictures (in order from left to right):
There's a poll up above the tagboard. Do let me know what you think.
T'ang
(all cell phone images taken from GSMArena.com)
Monday, October 13
A Moment to Spare
Was clearing my camera's memory card a while ago, so I thought that it might be a good time to see what I had accumulated in the past few months. Most of the photos are trivial; with little to showcase about. But a couple of them looked kinda striking. This was what I could unearth:
Note that the following images are in their raw form. I haven't got the time to edit them just yet.
Moonlight Serenade
This is the view from outside my room. It's a pity that the position of the moon forced the horizon to be a tad too low. Love the lens flare effect of the moon though. The shot is a little overexposed as well.
Zoom Zoom
Nothing laudable here. It's just my first try at traffic photography. Gotta say that I really like the color composition.
Glow
Just a typical lampshade. I took the shot while testing my lens, but for some peculiar reason, I somehow fancy the image.
A Storm is Coming
A menacing storm cloud not to be trifled with. Thunderclouds here in Canada can get as ghastly as in Singapore.
Twilight Zone
Saving the best for last, this one's my personal favourite. It's a spectacular view outside my balcony. I spotted it one fine evening and was lucky enough to get a shot of it. As this was unexpected, I didn't have the opportunity to prep for a proper landscape shot. As you know, sunsets last no more than what? 10 mins? And the colours change real quick too. Thus, I propelled the ISO to 1600 and enlarged the aperture to a not-so-landscape-friendly f2.8. I just love the way the mountain range is silhouetted against the fading light. Somehow, the orange colour formed a distinctive streak across the sky. To sum up what the scene was like, it was magnificent. Like Bryan said, I don't suppose I'll ever get to see one of these in S'pore. Lucky me!
That's all, for now,
T'ang
Note that the following images are in their raw form. I haven't got the time to edit them just yet.
Moonlight Serenade
This is the view from outside my room. It's a pity that the position of the moon forced the horizon to be a tad too low. Love the lens flare effect of the moon though. The shot is a little overexposed as well.
Zoom Zoom
Nothing laudable here. It's just my first try at traffic photography. Gotta say that I really like the color composition.
Glow
Just a typical lampshade. I took the shot while testing my lens, but for some peculiar reason, I somehow fancy the image.
A Storm is Coming
A menacing storm cloud not to be trifled with. Thunderclouds here in Canada can get as ghastly as in Singapore.
Twilight Zone
Saving the best for last, this one's my personal favourite. It's a spectacular view outside my balcony. I spotted it one fine evening and was lucky enough to get a shot of it. As this was unexpected, I didn't have the opportunity to prep for a proper landscape shot. As you know, sunsets last no more than what? 10 mins? And the colours change real quick too. Thus, I propelled the ISO to 1600 and enlarged the aperture to a not-so-landscape-friendly f2.8. I just love the way the mountain range is silhouetted against the fading light. Somehow, the orange colour formed a distinctive streak across the sky. To sum up what the scene was like, it was magnificent. Like Bryan said, I don't suppose I'll ever get to see one of these in S'pore. Lucky me!
That's all, for now,
T'ang
Sunday, August 24
School's back, but with a twist
Once again, a 2 month holiday is drawing to an imminent close. It's September the 2nd to be precise. It's weird though, as time really flies swiftly during the holidays when compared to the school terms.
But this time round, it'll be a little different. On September 2nd, I'm off to a university. That's a post-secondary institution. I've always dreaded a university, as to me, it implies a strenuous period of unmitigated 'suffering'. My friend from my university once told me that most students who score for their provincial exams, usually flunk their university ones. I certainly do hope that wouldn't be the case for me, fingers crossed. He added that in our course, more that half of the undergrads fail the course, with only a handful acing it.
As for the university itself, it is the University of British Columbia. I've also been awarded a few scholarships too, but I shall not delve deeper into that :) Currently, I've been admitted into the engineering faculty. It's general engineering for now, and I'll get to choose the specifics after my first year.
Just yesterday, I made my first trip to the university to get a number of things done. Of which, one of them is to purchase my textbooks. Oh my! The textbooks are inexorable! Not only thickness wise, but also by the dire sticker shock. In total, I've splurged close to 700 CAD worth of remorseless books. And that's only for my first term, which typically lasts for 4 months. The journey there was also exhausting. It took me a grand total of 1 hour and 10 mins worth of train and bus commuting to arrive at my destination.
So now, I better cherish my last week of my holidays before my doom commences.
The ginormous campus
It ever awaits me,
T'ang
(UBC logo from http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~jecorbet/UBC%20logo.jpg. UBC campus image from http://www.ubc.ca/about/campus.html.)
Friday, August 15
It's Not the Wind! It's the Yeti!
20 August update: Just like I suspected, the 'Bigfoot' found in Georgia turned out to be a hoax after all. It wasn't even a gorilla or some ape, but was someone's comical halloween party rubber suit.
To all Bigfoot believers: better luck next time guys!
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Looks like mysterious old Bigfoot has found it's way into our cameras again. Here's a recent photo of the alledged Bigfoot found in Georgia:
It still looks like another gorilla to me though. So now, there's supposedly more evidence to prove that 'frame 352 from the Patterson-Gimlin film'.
Remember this from History Television?
Feel free to read more on this here.
Still feels like a hoax to me,
T'ang
Thursday, June 19
Notes From The Lab
I was reading a couple of magazines from my school library the other day, and this was what caught my eye:
Cruelty-Free Bacon
Scientists in the Netherlands have grown minced pork in a dish by adding water, glucose and amino acids to pig stem cells. Expect artificial ground meat by 2012 and bacon within the decade. (Rena Marie Pacella, from Popular Science)
What?! We can now grow meat? This is something unheard of! Darn, we are messing with mother nature big-time I assure you. I presume that in the next 5 years or so, we can be expecting something called "home-grown meat" lying in the "Instant Aisle" of a grocery store. Inside the pack will include all the necessary nutrients, conditions and space for harvesting your very own slice of meat. On the 'Instructions' at the back of the packaging, it'll simply read, "Just add water!" I guess animals can prep for a sigh of relief.
Another note, the US military have a new weapon at their disposal (what a surprise indeed) - a humongous flying laser turret. It is a laser cannon built into a C-130 Hercules. It uses a mixture of iodine and oxygen to produce a pernicious beam of light. After the beam has been readied, make sure nothing other than the intended target gets in its way. For everything in its path will be sizzled and obliterated within seconds. My sympathies, birds. To the pilots in the plane, fret not. The beam of laser itself isn't hot, and is only capable of heating things up.
If you're interested, feel free to read more on this here and here.
Well, that's it for another weird day at the office. Your comments are greatly appreciated.
T'ang
(image from http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2008-03/how-it-works-airborne-laser-cannon)
Cruelty-Free Bacon
Scientists in the Netherlands have grown minced pork in a dish by adding water, glucose and amino acids to pig stem cells. Expect artificial ground meat by 2012 and bacon within the decade. (Rena Marie Pacella, from Popular Science)
What?! We can now grow meat? This is something unheard of! Darn, we are messing with mother nature big-time I assure you. I presume that in the next 5 years or so, we can be expecting something called "home-grown meat" lying in the "Instant Aisle" of a grocery store. Inside the pack will include all the necessary nutrients, conditions and space for harvesting your very own slice of meat. On the 'Instructions' at the back of the packaging, it'll simply read, "Just add water!" I guess animals can prep for a sigh of relief.
Another note, the US military have a new weapon at their disposal (what a surprise indeed) - a humongous flying laser turret. It is a laser cannon built into a C-130 Hercules. It uses a mixture of iodine and oxygen to produce a pernicious beam of light. After the beam has been readied, make sure nothing other than the intended target gets in its way. For everything in its path will be sizzled and obliterated within seconds. My sympathies, birds. To the pilots in the plane, fret not. The beam of laser itself isn't hot, and is only capable of heating things up.
A mean little sucker huh
If you're interested, feel free to read more on this here and here.
Well, that's it for another weird day at the office. Your comments are greatly appreciated.
T'ang
(image from http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2008-03/how-it-works-airborne-laser-cannon)
Thursday, June 5
I Need A Vacation
I sincerely regret to announce the following... I'll be taking a short break from posting articles, due to my impending provincial exams. They'll officially be over by 25th June though, so it shouldn't be too long a hiatus. Hopefully Bryan will be able to fill the empty spaces in, but I doubt it. We've haven't seen a post from him for months now lol!
Anyway, before I take my leave, I would like to post something about my life in Canada for a change (credit goes to my buddy, Mok). My high school prom was on May 10th (a little too little too late to point this out I believe, but better late than never! XD). In case my fellow Singaporeans aren't able to comprehend what in the world a 'prom' is, here's a little scoop of enlightenment: A formal dance held for a high-school or college class typically at or near the end of the academic year. (Source: thefreedictionary.com) Ha! Like the definition said, it's formal! So no shorts and flip-flops are permitted! Hmm.. I've never been able to envision myself in a suit back then. But after my first hand experience, at least I now know I don't look too bad in it, don't you think? (pictures coming up in just a moment) LOL! But don't get me wrong, I assure you, I'm not a narcissist.
Like I promised:
Also, I just had my graduation commencement (ceremony) on June 1. A really boring one I must say! No one 'cept for my brother to watch me shake the hand of my vice-principal! I've managed to graduate with Honors too :P It's a fine goal to be sure! Plus, I've won some British Colombia Science Council Medal for having the best overall score for the 3 sciences. Again, I emphasize: I don't mean to boast. You guys want to know more about me in Canada right? Well, here you go then!
A grad breakfast was held earlier today. Though the food was not the best I've tasted (yuck!), it's free, so who cares?! The 'best' from the smorgasbord of dishes served has definitely got to be the french toast. It was close to eating stale bread that has been laying around in the arid open for an entire week to solidify. Yes, in other words, it was rock hard. We had a rowdy time of marking one another's yearbooks soon after. I count roughly 20 autographs so far.
One last thing. Permit me to digress back to tech stuff, I apologise. I had just purchased an Ultimate Ears Super fi. 5 Pro earphones from ebay. This is the first product that I have bought online too. It is well on the way onto my grasp, with an anticipated shipping time of 3-5 business days, sent from Pennsylvania, USA. The procedure has been pretty smooth so far, with paypal giving 'speedy' confirmations and all. I'll see how well it goes. A review of this product will be arriving shortly, perhaps after my exams. So keep a weather eye on the horizon.
See ya soon!
T'ang
Anyway, before I take my leave, I would like to post something about my life in Canada for a change (credit goes to my buddy, Mok). My high school prom was on May 10th (a little too little too late to point this out I believe, but better late than never! XD). In case my fellow Singaporeans aren't able to comprehend what in the world a 'prom' is, here's a little scoop of enlightenment: A formal dance held for a high-school or college class typically at or near the end of the academic year. (Source: thefreedictionary.com) Ha! Like the definition said, it's formal! So no shorts and flip-flops are permitted! Hmm.. I've never been able to envision myself in a suit back then. But after my first hand experience, at least I now know I don't look too bad in it, don't you think? (pictures coming up in just a moment) LOL! But don't get me wrong, I assure you, I'm not a narcissist.
Like I promised:
From left to right: myself; Darren Pereira; Robert Straw
Gino Lara; myself
Simon Chiarello; myself
Also, I just had my graduation commencement (ceremony) on June 1. A really boring one I must say! No one 'cept for my brother to watch me shake the hand of my vice-principal! I've managed to graduate with Honors too :P It's a fine goal to be sure! Plus, I've won some British Colombia Science Council Medal for having the best overall score for the 3 sciences. Again, I emphasize: I don't mean to boast. You guys want to know more about me in Canada right? Well, here you go then!
A grad breakfast was held earlier today. Though the food was not the best I've tasted (yuck!), it's free, so who cares?! The 'best' from the smorgasbord of dishes served has definitely got to be the french toast. It was close to eating stale bread that has been laying around in the arid open for an entire week to solidify. Yes, in other words, it was rock hard. We had a rowdy time of marking one another's yearbooks soon after. I count roughly 20 autographs so far.
One last thing. Permit me to digress back to tech stuff, I apologise. I had just purchased an Ultimate Ears Super fi. 5 Pro earphones from ebay. This is the first product that I have bought online too. It is well on the way onto my grasp, with an anticipated shipping time of 3-5 business days, sent from Pennsylvania, USA. The procedure has been pretty smooth so far, with paypal giving 'speedy' confirmations and all. I'll see how well it goes. A review of this product will be arriving shortly, perhaps after my exams. So keep a weather eye on the horizon.
See ya soon!
T'ang
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