I bought a buffalo today!

You know i am not a big fan of laptop. The only thing it is attractive to me was size. I am using desktop all this while, but now i am going to SG soon. So today, quite impulsively, i bought a Buffalo 500GB Portable Hard Drive.

Buffalo MiniStation Lite 500GB

Instead of a laptop, i bought an external hard drive. Reason? Simple, i don't have enough money to buy myself laptop yet. Lolzz... So i will squeeze whatever i may need, videos, songs and installers in it and bring it to SG. Then later some time i will get a laptop there. :)

I tested its speed by copying a 700MB video file into it for a few times, it took 43 seconds on average. Fast or slow? I don't know... Believe it or not, this was the first time i bought an external hard drive. :D

Dimensions (W x H x D) 80.6 x 129.6 x 15.5 mm
Weight 190 g

It is a single USB powered with SecureLockMobile software for data encryption to prevent unauthorized access. It cost me Rm 295. Expensive or cheap? Again i don't know! How about you tell me?

To be a better man

I think it is time to change. If you are one of those that follow my blog you should know what i'm talking about. Erm... cause i don't want to cause any more discomfort. Either to myself or any other person.

Perhaps inferiority complex strikes again. I could have been ignored what they said about it. Ya. It was a "they". Considering the number of people talking about it, i think i was wrong. So i have to change. Some say it is just a unique peculiar habit of mine, that there is no need to change anything, and that i can just do it the way i wanted it to be. Some actually complained, and explained how it affects them, and to the extent of not caring how i was going to judge them. Perhaps the mistake was so immense that they willing to risk anything just to get their voices heard.

It is better this way. I really think so. I really wants to feel better about myself. I don't want to hurt anyone or to get hurt. It is the very last thing that i wanted to do.

Robbie Williams - Better Man

*BTW it is not a Live version as it seems to be though. :)

Singapore Cont'...

• I got off the bus that i have traveled in for 7.5 hours and i got in one of this taxi below... I mean... Wow!! I think this was the nicest taxi i have ever got on... It was very comfortable inside... and what's best was the driver... He was a middle aged male with a beard... and was very friendly indeed... chatted with me the whole journey from Jurong's stop to NUS's Prince George's Park Residences... it costs me 7SGD...

Hyundai Sonata Cab

• Well i thought the above is the nicest it could ever get... then i saw this...
  
  
Mercedes Benz Cab...

Compare with this below...



Proton Iswara Taxi

I was like OMG!! How they managed to make a business out of it...? Considering how much the car itself costs... how much they will charged their passengers...? Although it is not as many as the ordinary ones in the street but it is not so rare either... you could spot one of those quite frequently if you are in city centre... There were really demands for that...? Or the fare are just reasonable...? But if reasonable... back to the first question... how they make money...? Haha!! I don't know... perhaps i should try one this when i got a chance...


• The next thing i like was this...
  
  EZ link Card (TouchN'Go for SG)
  
  Well... This thing could be used for buses and MRT trains... no surprise... but it was its system that got me impressed... Everytime you get on a bus... you tap for the first time it is consider a "new ride"... later you get off the bus and you tap again and it would charge you according to how far you have traveled... e.g. 1SGD... If your final destination requires you to change to other bus or MRT... provided you use the card within 30 minutes... you get in and tap again... this time "transfer" would appear... and you will only be charged a few cents extra... It help you saves... the system actually recognize your cards and it connects through out the whole Singapore...
  
  
• I was on a bus with my friends... what surprised me at first was the driver was a middle aged local Chinese woman(i guess) who speaks very fluent English... I mean very seldom you will see a woman driving bus right...? Cause you know... it is a big vehicle...
  
  My friends and I were wondering whether we were taking the correct route and thus we decided to ask the driver for further information... then she explained in a very detail way... which we very much appreciated... and once my friend got the hang of it... she still continue explaining... she did seems very sincere and afraid that we might get lost... and finally we got off the bus... and while we are discussing at the bus stop about where should we go... she never drove off and she was waving from her driver's seat trying to signal us the correct direction to go for... haha...!! I mean her service was very commendable...
  
  Suddenly i realised why sometimes i will feel discomfort when i need to ask people for directions... because not all people will give so much assistance to a stranger... and you scare bothering them... but this one... it really changes my perception about seeking assistance... Next time i think i wont be so "paiseh" in seeking assistance especially in SG...
  
  
• When i am in Malaysia... i will probably be extra careful during the nights... girls are advised to not walking alone in streets... lock your door while you were out... put in some extra locks preferably... all this was due to the fact that the endless criminal acts soaring in our country... snatch thieves being the most popular... helmet gang... burglary during middle of the night... but here at Singapore i bet you will feel otherwise...
  
  Consider this... for two days i was in Singapore... i witnessed two good deeds the people there have done...
  
  first... seeing a lady dropped his cash notes as he walks off the ticket counter... seconds later a person beside who saw it quickly picked up and identified the lady and ran towards the lady to return the cash notes to her(the lady was walking quite fast)...
  
  Second... I was in the bus sitting in close proximity to the driver... and a lady walked right through me with her hand holding a cell phone... she approached the driver and handed him the cell phone and started explaining... apparently she was giving the cell phone left behind by other passenger at her seat to the driver so that in case the passenger came back could find their phone...
  
  I don't think i will witness this kind of incidents back in Malaysia... at least not yet... most would have pocketed the cash notes and taken the cellphone they found with them...
  
  
  
  
  
  Some of my friends said most probably what i seen was just the surface and i not yet come to the down side of Singapore... Hmm... yea... probably i will see the down side... but then again... I just thought there are so much for us to learn... for ourselves and for our government... we just need to absorb the good that might benefit us...
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  Some of the other things i would like to share...
  
  
Floating Stadium

How cool was that...? Check it out here if you wanna know more...

Also... They were building this weird-angled building with sky park on top of it... almost near completion...




Check out more about Marina Bay Sands here...

It seems to me there are a lot impressive things going on there... caught me to thinking what if Malaysia was also something like that...??

Singapore

As most of you may have already know that i will be working in Singapore soon... out of boredom i YouTube-ed Singapore... these were those that caught my attention...

Construction of the MRT new subway tunnel
What i particularly like about this was it mentioned some brief history background of Singapore... and how transportation affects its economy activities... also how much they willing to go to make sure they achieve their visions...

Future of Singapore in 2015
I've seen some similar clips about high-tech gadgets of the future... Pranav Mistry... A student from MIT in the popular talk shows TED Talks... this video however integrated Singapore with the "sophisticated future" we are going to experience...

Just another month left before i'm off to Singapore... very much looking forward to it... I will come back with some experiences of my visit there for my job interview at Singapore in my coming post... stay tuned... :)

What happened 2 days ago...

Wednesday, 11pm

My roommate/coursemate, SiongKai, asked me whether i'm going to poker tonight... and i said no... then i continue working on my prestress design assignment... i called GiapHo, assignment groupmate, and he came into my room and we discussed and chatted a while until 4am... he left and i started preparing my FYP presentation... at 6am... i went to bed....

Thursday, 10am

I got on my coursemate, WeiChuang's car... on the way to school... thinking this is it... everything's gonna end real fast... reached seminar room 10 minutes later and sat there listening to other coursemates' presentation... It's my turn then at 12.10pm... i was talking and i know no one knows better than me... except my supervisor... because my topic was relatively new... i know my studies are flawed... but panels were not that good to be able to see it... they were asking super basic questions... and i was very happy to answer them...

Thursday, 3pm

Back to room after lunch... checking out my stocks prices... to my surprise Scomi jumped 10%... huge relieved... after months of stagnation... finally it moved... it got even better and closed 20% higher in price compared to yesterday... I couldn't be more joyful... :D

Thursday, 6pm

Off to HooiYee's birthday celebration... went to Penang Sri Bahari Road's The Ship steak house... ordered a set dinner and mixed fruit juice, Australian Charbroiled Rib Eye Steak... medium rare... Appetizer started with fresh shrimp cocktail (really opened up the appetite)... followed by fish chowder (taste very good)... and then main course... the steak (can see some blood in it... lolzz...)... and it ended with a scoop of vanila ice-cream with dark chocolate stick (really thought it was a stick (wooden) at first... lolzz...)... I was very full by then... and there comes the birthday cake... Secret Recipe's hazelnut cake... It was very sweet... the night costs me rm103...

I should have explain all this with pictures... but i dun have it with me right now so... haha... nvm...

Thursday, 1130pm

Arrived at campus... get changed... and went poker at KoonTeik's house... at first i won almost enough to buy me the dinner i just had at The Ship... but after finished at 6am... the amount reduced and only enough to buy me 10 plates of maggi goreng at Riyas... lolzz... It was a very nice game... i wouldn't mind if i lost though... poker to me is more than how much you win or lose... it is the game that i'm after for...

Friday, 630am

After 6 hours of poker... it was time to fill up the stomach... went dimsum at Nibong Tebal with my poker mates... which also happens to be my coursemates... we chatted a lot about our last 4 years here in this USM Engineering Campus... suddenly today is already the very last day of the very last week of the very last semester... my coursemates suggested me to come for their last class... lolzz... (i'm not supposed to go because i didn't take the subject)... we left at 730am... i took my shower and started sleeping at 8am till 330pm... :D

Friday, 530pm

Have been writing my blog post about what happened to me the last 2 days... LyeKhong skyped me at 545pm asking to go play football... I didn't play football since... i don't know how many light years... lolzz... but i will go this time... [like]

Glee... Again...

Well... It's Glee again...!!

Apparently... it was real good... until i cant resist myself to share again... :D

True Colors

My Life Would Sucks Without You

*Previous Glee post click here.