Youth Olympic

February 25th, 2008

Few weeks ago, I noticed someone hacked into my blog, and posted some rubbish titles, and dun know why would he or she do that. Anyway I have deleted the post and reedited it, and changed my password.

Last thursday, International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Youth Olympics to Singapore, thousand of supporters cheered and the first time  Olympics flame will be in Singapore stated by PM. The national effort and the people effort made it possible for us to be the focus of a new era for sporting development.

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Picture from CNA

I would congratulate everyone and the ministers whom have put in much effort to win the right to host the inaugural Youth Olympics in 2010. Preparations are already underway as Singapore is proposing 24 venues, with four being built as temporary facilities, including one large cluster of 13 facilities in its Marina-Kallang area.

The Youth Olympic Village will be located at a new multi-million-dollar student residential complex at the National University of Singapore, slated for completion months before the event.

All boys have toys

February 16th, 2008

Just received my package from Vpost, and I have ordered a toy only sold in the States. It is an Air Hogs Storm Launcher, the latest craze in air, land and water remote control craft.

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Irresistibly cool

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…and opened up

The shipping is more than 60% of the S$250 total cost but there is a slight problem.

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The 120V adapter is useless

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and the 12V plug is removed

Adapters from the US are made for 120V and the mains is 240V, so I did some modifications to the 12V plug and replaced with another 12V plug.

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I saw the green light :)
Use another adapter that has about the same output ratings to charge the batteries. The batteries are 7.4V lithium polymer ones.

Finally I wanted to enhance the storm launcher with added wheels, washers and plastics protectors on the sides. Wheels are required to make the storm launcher move smoothly on the flat ground and plastic protectors are to deflect the impact by the front black sides of the storm launcher.

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Click it for bigger image

You would need these items, some small light plastics washers found in hardware stores, a straw “borrowed” from 7-eleven, transparencies, a wooden stick and double side tape.

Some Boring Events

February 14th, 2008

Just finished my CMA01 on Web Basics. Still have a report to submit, and many seminars to attend.

I had visited my relatives, and ya there are too many of them and had to missed out a few. But my cousins are all very busybody, asking me funny questions, which I would give them funny answers. We went over to River Hongbao and Changi Loyang Tua Pek Kong at midnight, and it’s crowded too.

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He is the Fortune God

Basically he is talking about the twelve animals zodiac and I recorded in my handphone. Listen to recording by clicking here, and I wondered how true is it.

The much awaited 恶作剧2 has released and I am gona watch it, there another one suspense drama called Kyle XY about a genetically created person, not to be missed too.