Ubisoft recently announced a new Assassin’s Creed game, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. The latest in the long line of games from the wildly successful Assassin’s Creed franchise, Valhalla, a Viking themed Assassin’s Creed, will follow the footsteps of Bayek from Origins, which takes place in ancient Eqypt, and Alexios (or Kassandra if you chose to play... Continue Reading →
Right now, I am staying in a serviced apartment in River Valley while waiting for my new apartment to finish renovations. In fact, renovation hasn’t started yet and will not start until the circuit breaker is lifted in the beginning of June. Which means that I will temporarily be staying in the serviced apartment for... Continue Reading →
This might sound sudden but last week, I bought the new iPad Pro 12.9 inch, space grey, 256GB model. And today, it arrived at my doorstep. With the whole lockdown and circuit breaker measures currently in place (and for the foreseeable future as the measures are slowly lifted over a period of time) I am... Continue Reading →
It’s been close to 4 months now since Covid-19 exploded all around the world. I first heard of the virus infecting people in China sometime before Chinese New Year, back in January. But just a few months before that in 2019, my family just went on a trip to Iceland in October, Morocco with my... Continue Reading →
First thing I notice about the Apple’s trackpad: It’s huge! When it was announced that Apple is going to update iPad OS to feature trackpad and mouse support, I was pretty excited. A new, but familiar way of interacting with our iPads will certainly be a game changer. Most importantly, if implemented well, it will... Continue Reading →
With the extension of the circuit breaker now official. All essential services including home renovation will be on hold till 1st June 2020. Because of that, we are now forced to move into a serviced apartment which just our daily necessities, while putting all our stuff on storage until our house has completed renovation and... Continue Reading →
Wow. It just got extended to 1 June 2020. Today, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave a public announcement on TV announcing a number of new circuit breaker measures, one of them, is the extension of the measures till 1 June, but another one whole month. That is 4 more weeks! We have currently in... Continue Reading →
I have read the reviews. I have watched the unboxing videos. I have watched all the first impressions of the device. And almost everyone said that the new Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro is one solid (and heavy) accessory that gives a superior typing and trackpad experience for iPad Pro users. It is really... Continue Reading →
With the month-long lockdown in place in Singapore, the schedule to renovate our new house has gone off the rails. We were originally slated to move into our new apartment by the end of April. However, the lockdown will only be lifted on the 4th of May. During the month-long lockdown, no renovations can be... Continue Reading →
So the other day, I did a small mention in my earlier post that with the Covid-19 pandemic and the ‘circuit breaker’ measures in place (also known as a lockdown) I bought a Lego Technic set online. It arrived a few days later and soon afterwards I started building the set. This 2573-piece set is... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, sometime in the middle of the month-long circuit breaker in a midst of a global pandemic, (or lockdown, depending on how you define it), my friend and I completed the entire story campaign of Borderlands 3 from start to finish. It took us 44 hours to complete the entire campaign. I bought the game... Continue Reading →
Should I order? It’s very tempting, especially when they included the trackpad into one near little package with backlit keyboard an a generous 1mm key travel just for the iPad. And the cantilever that floats your iPad pro makes any fans of minimalistic desktop set-ups drool. But it is so expensive. I will most likely... Continue Reading →
The coronavirus pandemic is raging all around the world. With more than two million infected so far as of this writing, Singapore is not spared either. Today the government reported an additional 728 new cases, most of them are foreign workers, who live in tight, confined spaces in their respective dormitories. The labourers who kept... Continue Reading →
I am a sci-fi buff. I had my fair share of sci-fi novels that I have read throughout the years, like Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Series, or Orson Scott Card’s Enders Game series. Recently, my all time favourite, Liu Caixin’s epic trilogy, Remembrance of Earth’s Past series and James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse novels. But strangely,... Continue Reading →
My next gaming rig will not come so soon. In order for me to make the upgrade, two things must happen; the release of the Ryzen 4000 series desktop CPUs and Nvidia (or AMD) release of their next generation GPUs. Will it happen this year? Most signs point to the imminent release of AMD new... Continue Reading →
With the Covid-19 pandemic not improving anytime soon and that Singapore is suffering with the rest of the world, struggling to contain the spread of the virus. Singapore, like half of the world’s population right now, is under lockdown. Well, it is not technically a lockdown. The government called it a circuit-breaker. A series of... Continue Reading →
It happened once in my lifetime as far as I can remember and as far as global repercussions are concerned. It was on September 11, 2001 when two planes were hijacked and crashed through the World Trade Center in New York. Instantaneously, the future trajectory of the world changes. If we could invent a dimensional... Continue Reading →
What does these two have in common? Well, for my family at least, it seems that this is the second time we are moving house in a midst of a global calamity. I remember moving house to Woodlands from Yishun in late 2001. I remembered moving to our new house with some furniture still missing... Continue Reading →
Apple suddenly announced a pair for brand new iPad Pros, coming sometime next week. It features an updated CPU with more horsepower than the previous model, even promoting as being faster than most computer notebooks currently out there on the market. It also features new cameras and LIDAR technology all packed into a tiny package... Continue Reading →
When I read that headline, I was relieved. Let me tell you why. Back in December sometime during Christmas, there was talk with my travel buddies to plan for another road trip. They wanted to go somewhere, anywhere, for a road trip during the first half of 2020. I tentatively agreed to the idea at... Continue Reading →
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