Gadget Freak

I'm a bit of a gadget freak. God knows how much moollahs I've spent on gadgets.

There's good and bad about living in Singapore. The good is that gadgets are easy access here, a lot easier to get than back home, and a lot more choices too. All those unnecessary things that was suppose to make our lives bearable in this modern world we're living in now.

Take the pda for example, short for personal digital assistant. 10-15 years ago, a pen and a note book was all we need. Its a whole lot cheaper too and can do almost all a pda can do. Sure you can tell the time with it (which you can do with your watch) or write notes (again pen and note book) or keep your phone numbers in place (so that it matches with whats in your mobile phone), but you got to look cool..

Mind you I had about four pdas in my life time. Haha!!

The bad thing about being here is that its easy access. I can picture me now blowing my hard earned cash on something stupid every month.

Who cares..? As long as you're happy right? Hehe.. Yeah.. riiiight...

My newest gadget is the almighty xbox from Microsoft. Its got three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 ghz, 512mb ram, you can play online with other gamers, 20gb hard drive (not included) to put your songs, photos, videos in, you can play music cds, dvds.. Its one heck of contraption..


By the way, I don't really play video games. I got this one for free when I subscribed for my broadband connection. Hehe!!

Another great reason for being here.

What Was That??

Its faster than a train!! Its faster than a speeding bullet!! What is it? Its.. Its.. Singapore Taxis!! Hehehe..

Have you ever ride on a Singapore taxi before? Man!! They can scare you half to death! (Hmmm... just a thought, but what happens when you get scared half to death twice? Back to taxis...) Yes! They can switch lanes without much difficulty. Even when they are cars around, you can be sure that your taxi driver will drive around every single one of them with the blink of an eye, which is why now passengers are required to use seatbelts.

*blink* you're in the second lane, *blink* you're in the fourth now..

You can never be late, I'll give you that. But you'll lose your breakfast, lunch and dinner at the same time.

They are not like that all the time. Sometimes they are the gentliest of all creatures. They would start moving their car and get you to your destination without you even feeing a bump. And that usually happens when you are FREAKIN LATE!! Hehe. And funny enough, I find it happening when there is no traffic around too.

But to be fair, its not just Singapore taxis. I've been to Abd Dhabi, Cairo, Dubai, Germany to name a few, they're all the same.

If you are an adrenalin freak, taxis are a must ride! For the weak hearted, take the bus.

<-- I miss my friends. We had a hell of a good time when we were young. And now age is catching up on us, we hardly ever have time for us anymore. This photo would never have been taken if I weren't starting a new life elsewhere. Hehe.. I love you guys.

One Liner

If barbie is so popular, why do we have to buy her friends?

No News Is Good News

Well all is well in Singapore and its Wednesday evening and I didn't hear from anyone from work. So I guess it means we all passed our exams..

I should start by mentioning that when I moved here to start my new job, I.. well we (cos there were 6 of us altogether), were given tests to see how well we would fit in. Our last theory examinations was on Friday, oh how we dread the day. And now that its all over and done with, we dread it even more because of the waiting.. for the results that is.

Wednesday, which is today, was to be the day of judgement.

Anyways, like I said earlier, no news is good news... I think. Does seem to be anyway to get a positive answer.

*edited* Ok change that. I just talked to JOE and he told me that everyone passed. Woohoo!!

Picture Perfect

I told my friend about my blog and asked him what he thought of it. 'No bad' he said of my first try. Though he seem to think that I got suckered into this world of blogging, to look cool and be up to date with the so called younger generation.

He did mentioned that I should put in a photo or three cos "a picture is worth a thousand words.." Ok. So there it is..


Just something I picked up from work...

Murphy's Law Strikes Again

Dude.. If there is one time I do not want to be right is at 6 o'clock in the morning, when I've been up since 3 am.

If you look closely on the previous two chapters, the fonts are not quite right. Some small, some large, and I can't seem to fix them.

Sod this... I'm going to sleep.

*edited*.. managed to get some of it right... i think.. 6.26 am.

About This Blog...

Maybe I should have been abit more precise about why i write this blog. Its not like I have important things to say or talk about, nor am I someone angry who's out to bit*h about what's wrong with this world we live in.

Nope. I am just someone who's been pressured into writing one (you know who you are..) about my new life in a new country with a new job but the same old jokes. Ok, so you're laughing now, but after one or two posts, you'd be erasing my blogsite from your favourite list and wished you never had came across it.

However after all that being said, I will, if I am still motivated, share with you the life I lead in good old Singapore and how Murphy's Law sneaks up on me when I least expect it..

Who The Hell Is Murphy??

And why is he making all this stupid law?!!

It's only when you're late that you find yourself stuck behind a car going 40kmph on a one lane street. Never in a million years would that happen when you have all the time in the world.

Just who is Murphy? And why the laws?

Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") was born at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 at North Base.

It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash.

One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."

The contractor's project manager kept a list of "laws" and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law.

Actually, what he did was take an old law that had been around for years in a more basic form and give it a name.

Shortly afterwards, the Air Force doctor (Dr. John Paul Stapp) who rode a sled on the deceleration track to a stop, pulling 40 Gs, gave a press conference. He said that their good safety record on the project was due to a firm belief in Murphy's Law and in the necessity to try and circumvent it. Aerospace manufacturers picked it up and used it widely in their ads during the next few months, and soon it was being quoted in many news and magazine articles. Murphy's Law was born.

Some more examples, if you're interested..

• When you need an item that is in a heap, it will always be the one at the bottom.
• The day you forget your umbrella, it pours with rain.
• When caught in a traffic jam (or a bank, supermarket, or other business where the customer has to wait in one of multiple lines), the lane that you are in will always be the slowest to move.
• Junk will grow to fill the available cupboard space.

.. and my personal favourite..

• Smoke always goes towards non-smokers.

It's funny isn't it, when things happen at times you don't want it or don't need it to happen. You can't fight it, you just have to embrace it. And if you know how to, tell me.. please.