mornings

every morning when i go to work, i usually park my car in the multi-storey carpark at the HDB cluster nearby the office. and almost every time, i'd be sure to find at least one of this pair of resident stray cats lying about at the mini open air performance corner or at the seating around it. and everytime i'd almost certainly be letting out an "awww" to see them so relaxed there. sure perks me up first thing in the morning.

Confused Turtle Has Sex With Boot

roflmao... there's a bit of a "sian ji pua" sigh around 1:22 too!

DiamondBeer2 - iBeer for Windows Mobile

okay so somebody silly developed this simple application for iPhone that don't do much except for letting you drink virtual beer from your handphone. it costs USD 2.99 at the store. this and other apps are available with Apple at their store i think?



so along comes another genius that does a Windows version for it. not as impressive as the real McCoy as it is still under development, but i still find it very entertaining indeed lol!

Madagascar president quits, transfers power to army

I'm pretty sure the president looks nothing like this.

Singaporean wanted for S$8m Cortina watch theft surrenders

so much for the V for victory.

that joker surrendered.

Did you know?

Did you know, that for SGD $87, you can be a millionaire in the national currency of Vietnam, the Dong?

spider man is gay

yup, that's it. there's a new movie and Tobey Maguire is in it. and the movie is gay. no seriously, it's about 2 gay... religious guys... and the trailer shows one of them playing with the balls of another. hahaha... oh gosh... >_>"







hehe oh alright i know i know... it ain't real! it's a silly in-movie trailer as part of the gag on Tropic Thunder.

IE7 + WinXP bug on a very long webpage

FIX: Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 may not find the text even though the Web page contains the text

I know, I know... it's poor usability to have a very long webpage. But it so happens that the intranet web application has such a situation. And it's architecturally difficult to "upgrade" the system for pagination. No forgetting we have billion other more important tasks to attend to.

what the...

i can't any article online related to this piece of news, but the snippet on tv (channel u) mentioned this.

when the taiwanese government put up a job opening for a pest exterminator (aka rat catcher), there were 20 applicants for the one job! of which included a couple of ladies, and also an IT manager! none had prior experience with the dirty deed. wtf?!

minor bits of info

i made a call to DBS hotline for some enquiries. we wanted to find out how the process is like for payment of the deposit/final amount for the wedding dinner.

so here's how:

the dinner reservation can typically have one week "option" period (aka time for you to consider your decision) from the time you decide to book the dinner, to the time your actually make payment for the deposit.

the bank advised to me to call 3 days before the date of payment (aka for me it'd be this Friday then i'd call them on Tuesday) to request the temporary credit limit increase. they'll ask me for the number of tables/pax per table as an estimate and will revert to me on the amount they'll approve me with. yes, they might not approve the amount i'd request for.

the limit increase will supposedly last for a month.

so that's the deposit bit. now for the eventual dinner. for the final payment, again, another phone call should be made to temporarily increase the credit limit then. again, 2-3 days beforehand.

the above is just for my reference, and in case some curious passers-by are doing some research for their own wedding. :D

confirmed

we've decided on The Regent, which is sited near St. Regis at the far end of Orchard nearer to Tanglin.

the package provided is quite attractive, in part due to the wedding workshop they're about to conduct at the end of this month, and also an offer by DBS if we pay via their credit card.

we've settled on 17 Dec 2009. the original date of 10 Dec was booked by somebody else, 2 days ahead of us. :( but this date is just as auspicious anyway, not to say that i'm any more superstititous...

more details soon!

Idiots of Ants

Well there you have it. I found a new group that's entertaining (and somewhat gay-ish) that is quite enjoyable. Here's a sample of their sketch.




work has been piling up badly that i can't work out properly, but i'm still trying. and my weekends are spent sleeping away for most parts. feels like a non-rechargeable battery of late...