The Blue Danube Has Arrived

 My midnight blue Inspiron 1420 arrived on Thursday evening, and the first thing I did was “try” to use Vista, and found that besides the nice desktop wallpaper, everything else is pretty much the same as Windows XP, aside from a few additional stuff. After half an hour of playing around with it, [...]

Pre-CNY Shopping

 

Forgot to post about my pre-Chinese New Year shopping spree last week – spent a total of about $140 on shirts at Junction 8 and Wisma with my military buddies. I saw two interesting tees at the Giordano store in the basement, but it was near closing time, so we had to leave the shop.

Went [...]

她的背影,我永远不会忘记

Another week of the new year has gone, and I have solved lots of problematic issues that cropped up at work – faulty projectors, PCs, etc. and now my workload has more or less gone down to manageable levels. Thank goodness for automation, I can’t live without it. One thing that can’t be automated however, is [...]

First Week Of School

The yearly ritual of academic pursuit begins anew, and this means everyone is busy – busy waiting at the bus-stop for the bus, waiting for the bus in front of you in the car, waiting at the MRT station for the train, and waiting for the taxi before the 35% peak hour surcharge. As a techie, [...]