My 26th birthday celebration was the most memorable in my entire life. I feel truly blessed. Blessed that I get to celebrate with some of my best friends. Who would have thought that coming down all the way to Palawan Beach at Sentosa to play beach games under the scorching sun, and then heading to... Continue Reading →
My take on the iPhone 5S, TouchID and iOS 7
On the 18th of September, Singtel opened the floodgates, by allowing Sngtel mobile subscribers who registered their interest on the new iPhone 5S to reserve their phone for collection. The website for reservation was up at precisely 4pm. At 4.04, the gold iPhone 5S was sold out. 4 minutes. That was all it took to... Continue Reading →
Starbucks card and more
A card with a prepaid value in which you can top it after you use it. You can use it to buy anything from Starbucks. I've been meaning to get that card for a long time. Now with an iPhone app, you can tag your Starbucks account to the card and keep track of the... Continue Reading →
Brand new battery for my Macbook Air
After 3 days of servicing, I finally collected my Macbook Air, with a new battery inside. Last week, I sent it for servicing, after my battery capacity dropped drastically to around 60%. The "Service Battery" indicator was turned on as well, reminding me to send the Macbook Air for servicing. Now it feels like I... Continue Reading →
The Name of Wind
Having completed my second read through of this amazing novel by Patrick Rothfuss, I am still at awed by the way it is written. Beautiful, engaging and the characters filled within the pages are believable and as real as it gets. I am so emotionally attached to the characters in the book, that I will... Continue Reading →
The Five Dollar Savings plan
I read this wonderful savings plan from someone else's blog, called the 'Five Dollar Savings Plan". It's a simple activity that anyone can do. Basically, you commit to yourself that every time you encounter a five dollar bank note in your day to day cash transactions, you keep it and refrain from using it to... Continue Reading →
Travel plans
So I haven't got a job yet. It is going to take a while till I land a job, but I am optimistic that it will come soon. I just have to keep on searching. I was chilling with my friends when one of them broached the subject of travelling plans in the coming months... Continue Reading →
Starbucks at Rochester Park
Today, a couple of my friends introduced to me to an amazing new Starbucks Cafe at Rochester Park. After having a late dinner at Jurong, we decided to drive down to Buona Vista and from there, decided to chill at Starbucks. But lo and behold, I never knew they had a Starbucks outlet there.... Continue Reading →
Pandemic, the board game
Saboteur is a great card game that can accommodate up to 10 players. Its a great and fun party game where two teams compete against each other, preventing each other from reaching their goals. Such board games and card games that can accommodate such a large group of people is hard to come by. There... Continue Reading →
Selling my games and my books. (some of it)
I was looking at my bookshelf, packed with trinkets, figurines, souvenirs from friends around the world, and a couple of figurines. It is currently jam packed with stuff. So I decided to sell some of my books, especially the old ones, those that I would never read it again. It was hard to choose the... Continue Reading →
The PS4
I already own a PS3. It is my second set. The first one gave way after using for about 4 years. I bought my first PS3 on the second year after it was originally released. Since then I had my fair share of games played on the console. Lately however, it has been a drought.... Continue Reading →
NTU photo album
I recently selected 40 photos to be developed that best represented my time in NTU. It has been a wonderful 4 years in NTU and I felt that it would be good to search for photos, either from my own collection or through my Facebook photo gallery that would reflect my wonderful time there. As... Continue Reading →
Professional family photoshoot
So my family decided to book an appointment with Serangoon Broadway photostudio for a professional photoshoot, now that I have graduated. It is the same place that I collected my graduation gown for the graduation ceremony. So we went there, wearing formal and all, and the service was fast, good and efficient. We prepped ourselves,... Continue Reading →
The things I miss most about school.
While graduation was officially over just last week, I completed school a couple of months back, after my completion of my FYP poster presentation. That was officially the last day that I needed to go back school for any formal assignments or lessons. After that, it was a blur. I had to prepare to continue... Continue Reading →
Post graduation BBQ chalet
It was a success, even though we planned a little late and did not manage to reserve the ideal chalet, we still had a lot of fun and the turn-out was good. Slightly more than 20 people came for the chalet and it was a good turnout, since we predicted and bought food for... Continue Reading →
Happy 11th Anniversary blog!
I don't usually do this, but today happens to mark the 11th anniversary of my blog!! Actually, that is not accurate. The entries on this blog is a culmination of all other blog websites I have accumulated over the years. It is only recently that I managed to export all my entries from the other... Continue Reading →
Convocation
31st of July was the day of my convocation. After 4 years of study in NTU, I finally get to graduate. And graduate with a second class upper division. I am truly happy right now. I not only achieved my goals I set out at the beginning of school when I first started out... Continue Reading →
Writing is therapeutic
It helps me to keep me sane, in times like this. Especially when I need to gather my thoughts, pick up the pieces where I have left off, and chart my course into the future. A better future. Hopefully. It's been a week since I officially ORD. I have been doing well, so far. Nothing... Continue Reading →
Officially ORD
I collected my pink IC on Friday. I have officially ORDed. Although the exact date falls on a Sunday (14 July), I got the chance to do the necessary paperwork to declare the end of my National Service, a total of two years. The collection of my pink IC signified that I am no longer... Continue Reading →
Migrated all my blog posts
I have successfully migrated all my blog posts that I have written from various blog services to this blog. That amounts of 11 years of blog posts, or more than 800 entries. Now my entire collection of blog entries that surmounts to an account of 11 years of my life is complete and in chronological... Continue Reading →
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