Apple and Orange

In a letter to ST's Life!Mailbag today, a Mr Jonathan Boon wrote that rising diesel prices is not an excuse for the sneaky tactic of waiting for booking during peak hours and quote "consumer shouldn't pay for the driver's inability to negotiate with the taxi company for lower rental" unquote. Then he went on to [...]

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Republic of Singapore Mosquito Force

The mosquitoes over at Lim Chu Kang are sure damn fierce… Had a two day exercise there on Thursday and Friday and didn’t slept a wink on Thursday night… The mosquitoes were all over me, literally… I tried applying SAF insect repellent, didn’t work… Smoke out, didn’t work. Those damn things are pretty persistent. Not [...]

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Basic Theory

Finally hauled my lazy ass over to BBDC tonight to sign up as a private student to take my theory tests. Waited quite long for the registration and booked a test date on the 8th of May. Still quite a while away and since I’ve taken the Highway Code test in the Army, it shouldn’t [...]

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Attack of the O RLY? owls

Was searching for the O RLY? owl when I came across this pics at O RLY OWLS. Pretty funny. (Yes, I do have *that* much time)

*Update* The old link went down… Here’s another site http://www.orlyowl.com/
PS: Sorry for the missing pictures… I forgot to relink when my webhost went down… Now its up! Hosted by wordpress

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Burn baby, burn

A couple of stuff got burned today. Firstly, its my saturday… It was taken up by the battalion field live firing which I was involved in firing the GPMG. Went to Kidney Hill at SAFTI Live Firing Area this morning to shoot the GPMG. As usual with SAF doctrine, we were told that the bus [...]

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Bird flu blues

Saw these two ads on Banter yesterday when I went to Harry’s at Esplanade with Hairol. The ads are about AIDS awareness and the captions are pretty funny.

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Exercise your music muscle

Kenny sent me this interesting wallpaper the other day from Virgin Digital. It is made up of the graphic representation of different musical band and artistes. So far I’ve made out a couple of them. Bands like Sex pistol, Gorillaz, Pet Shop Boys, Scissors Sisters, Smashing Pumpkins etc. See how many can you spot :D

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Enjoy the run

The battalion conducted a 10KM run at ECP today so we booked out from camp at around 2pm and headed to ECP.
It started off pretty normal, with the usual waiting and safety brief and such. Quite shagged out from the 10KM run actually, since the last time I ran anything more than 10KM is eons [...]

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Physiotherapy

Went to TTSH this morning for my first physio. The therapist there first asked me a couple of questions regarding my injury, how I sprained my ankle, how many times did I sprain it, etc. He also made me do a couple of exercise to observe my ankle and checked my ankle. What he told [...]

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IDed by an iPod

Saw this on HardOCP:

iPod Identifies the Unconscious
Apple saves the day yet again when some poor girl was hit, rendered unconscious, and thrown from the road. How did the authorities identify her? Her iPod of course!
Various San Francisco-based news outlets reported this week that police identified an unconscious jogger, who was an apparent hit-run-victim, by contacting [...]

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