New and upcoming tablets to take on Apple's offers of tablets big and small are getting cheaper that they sometimes resort to impulse purchases. Look at Amazon with their Kindle Fire HD tablet lineups. It's so darn friggin cheap! Top of the line specs are not important for me, especially one who is drawn to... Continue Reading →
So this morning, as I was waking up, I got a pleasant suprise from a friend of mine. He texted me of an article that he read in the Home section of the Straits Times newspaper. The headline read; "Freeing 'Butterfly Children' from pain. The news article featured a picture of me with the rest... Continue Reading →
Now that I have written my new year's resolutions for 2017, I must say, 2017 is going to be exciting. I am starting school again, becoming a graduate student at NUS and working at the same time. It's going to be hectic, which means less TV, less video games, less everything. But I am going... Continue Reading →
Fitness Goals Get a silver in my next IPPT (Deadline: April 2017) Get my 2.4km run to under 11 minutes. Go out and run 3 times a week. No excuses. Walk if you are severely unmotivated. Just get out of the house and do some exercise. Eat more fruits and vegetables. Financial Goals Save... Continue Reading →
24 books. That was the number of books I challenged myself to read for 2016. I set my reading challenge on Goodreads, and it really does help in tracking my progress. 24 books a year roughly amount to about a book every 2 weeks. Challenging for someone who constantly have to find time to set... Continue Reading →
I am in the process of writing my New Year Resolution for 2017. Emphasis will be given on advancing my career, making preparations to embark on a new journey. While I am doing that, I am also emphasizing on doing well in school, now that I am going back to study, enrolling myself on a... Continue Reading →
As 2016 comes to a close, I am in the process of writing up my new year resolutions for 2017. One of the goals involved meeting my financial goals for next year. I am going to list two main financial goals, one of which is a milestone goal, meaning that if I achieve my first... Continue Reading →
For years I have always wanted a Macbook Pro. What started out as an experiment, plungin myself into the whole Mac OS ecosystem many years ago starting with the Mac Mini, slowly evolved into something more powerful, more mobile to the Macbook Air. As my needs changes over the years, so does the products that... Continue Reading →
The Aer Fit Pack and the Thinkpad 13 is a perfect combination. The laptop is relatively light, coming at 13 inches and fits snugly into the laptop compartment of my Aer Fit Pack. I brought my laptop to work to see how the bag would feel on my back when I carry my laptop with... Continue Reading →
As with any other big purchases I have made, I make sure that I do my research thoroughly. The research phase is especially important when it comes to buying electronics and gadgets like computers, laptops and mobile devices. There is a huge range o choices to make and one can easily get paralysed in simply... Continue Reading →
A couple of weeks ago, a put on a group order through Grouphunt for the Aer Fit Pack. I came across this backpack on YouTube and was highly intrigued by its designed. The Aer Fit Pack is designed by Aer Designs LLC, San Francisco. The bag is fairly unique; it features a compartment where you... Continue Reading →
I'm going back school in January 2017. I will start my Master Programme at NUS, taking night classes a couple of times a week. In between lessons, assignments need to be done, project work completed, reports written. I would require a laptop for school. I have been researching for quite a bit on what is... Continue Reading →
It is also doing good, productive work in the name of science. Every evening, after coming back from work, I would naturally switch on my gaming PC. On some nights, I don't play games at all. On many occasions, my PC is just idling, or working minimally, while I browse the web and listen to... Continue Reading →
Today, I have successfully built another gaming rig for a friend of mine. It was hugely satisfying. I advised him on how and where to get the various parts for his new gaming PC and for how much. We set off on one of the weekend a few weeks ago getting those parts, from Sim... Continue Reading →
I played Witcher 3 Wild Hunt on the PS4. I never completed the game. I loved the game, but for some reason, I have never had the energy or the drive to complete the game. I would start the game with great enthusiasm, but that enthusiasm fades away the longer I play. I restarted the... Continue Reading →
I got accepted! A few weeks ago, I got an email from NUS saying that I got accepted into the Masters programme! I went for the interview and it now I finally got accepted! Everything is going so fast. School will be starting in January 2017 and will last two years, since I am taking... Continue Reading →
Over the years, as our lives have gone increasingly digital and many online services offer some form of paid subscription for a digital service, it can be quite difficult to keep track of all of them. I have a number of online subscriptions from Adobe Lightroom digital services, to magazine and news subscription, cloud storage... Continue Reading →
A few months ago I applied for a Master's degree programme in NUS. It's a Joint Master's in Science Communication between NUS and Australia National University. Just yesterday I went for an interview after being shortlisted for the programme. The interview went ok. It was held in some recreation room in the School of Science... Continue Reading →
When games on Steam go on sale, they really do go on sale. I'm talking about prices of video games, some of them new and recent, others, critically acclaimed classics slashed to as much as 90% off! Like recently, Steam held a Warner Brothers games division sale, slashing titles from the Lego and Batman franchise... Continue Reading →
Almost a year ago I bought an iPad mini 4. I was excited when it came out. I bought the gold, 128 gb model and I used it primarily to read books and magazines while on my long daily commute. It served me well. It's a great reading companion while in the subway to and... Continue Reading →
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