Calligraphy Exhibition 2012

Lai Meng participated for the 3rd time in Singapore Calligraphy Exhibition at her calligraphy school.

Congratulations again...!!!

(Left to Right) - President of Singapore Calligraphy School, Consul-General of PRC Embassy ( Guest of Honour ), Lai Meng and her Teacher.

My Birthday Celebration

I just celebrated my 55th Birthday at home in Singapore and together with my Dad ( his birthday is on 19 Oct ) in Penang on my actual day, 9 Oct.

I just wanted a simple sponge cake for my birthday this year as I do not like the cream in most  of the cakes.

Joint birthday celebration with my Dad in Penang.

I will be posting more photos of my Penang trip later so watch out for them.......

Watching Korean Dramas

Recently, my wife and I watched this Korean Drama, Secret Garden, on TV channel U and we thoroughly enjoyed it.

We also found out that some of our friends have been following a lot of such dramas and they even watch them online on their notebooks or PCs.

Through them, we were introduced to watch another Korean drama, My Name is Kim Sam Soon, online but connected the notebook to the TV for a bigger screen though.

When I am on the bus and MRT, I see people watching drama on their tablets or mobiles so I was curious how they did it..... online or downloaded the drama.

In particular, how to download the drama so that we can watch it on my iPhone, iPad or netbook especially when we are waiting for our flights, in the airplane and also in the hotel room.

I managed to get the names of the apps from some salesperson in an Apple store and got it working....hurray!

Now we just started to watch 49 Days and in Cantonese too..!

So far, I still like the Secret Garden drama the best and I love the songs too....... another favourite past time but we only watch an hour or two in the evening only.

Increasing My LAN Ports

During my recent trip to KL, I visited Low Yat Plaza ( their equivalent to our Sim Lim Square or Funan IT Mall )  where they sell mainly IT and mobile products and accessories.

My main router ran out of ports and I was shopping for a gadget to expand or increase the number of LAN ports so that I do not rely on wireless connection which has a slower data transfer speed compared to a LAN wired connection.

In the recent Comdex show, I saw a 5-port switch selling for S$17 and this is the solution that I was looking for.
IN KL, the same product was selling for RM22 ( about S$11 ). So I bought it without hesitation.

I managed to installed it and got it working and I thought I would make a video on the installation since the instruction that came in the box was just too brief and I have to surf the Internet to confirm how I should do it.

Hopefully, this video will be helpful to someone out there who may need some guidance.

Free n Easy Trip to KL, Sept 2012

We flew into KL for a short visit with some friends since Jason was also away on a school trip to Hong Kong.

We were in KL about 5 years ago and traveled by coach and stayed in Berjaya Times Square.

It was an enjoyable shopping and eating trip, thanks to our friends who led the way to all the good food..ha..ha...

However, I did not put on any weight as we walked a lot for food and shopping too.

We were impressed by the newly implemented GOKL City FREE Bus which travels around the central business district so we did not need to take any taxi or mono rail to places like Chinatown and KLCC.

We bought a cabin luggage bag at 50% discount and I also bought a few networking devices at the famous Low Yat Tech Mall at a cheaper price.

Congratulations to Equestrian Rider Laurentia Tan

Laurentia Tan, the 33-year-old won a bronze in her Grade 1A Individual Championship Dressage Test at London's Greenwich Park with a score of 73.650 to bag the third Paralympics medal of her competitive career.


She had also won bronze in the same event as well as another bronze in the Grade 1A Individual Freestyle test at the 2008 Beijing Games, an achievement which led to her receiving the Public Service Medal that same year.    

 

She suffers from cerebral palsy.

 

 

Congratulations to

Equestrian Rider Laurentia Tan..!

Garden by the Bay - Aug 2012

My dear wife and her friends visited the Garden by the Bay and celebrated her birthday with dinner there too.

Here is a slideshow of some photos taken with her iPhone :



I look forward to going there myself soon.

Happy 47th Birthday, Singapore!

We have our NDP 2012 at the floating platform and we watched it 'live' on TV.

 

Congrats to the Singapore Women's Table Tennis Team

The women's table tennis team beat South Korea 3-0 in an impressive fashion.


This is Singapore's second bronze medal at the Olympics after Feng Tianwei won an bronze in the singles last week.

I watch it 'live'on TV and it was again another exciting match and I am glad our women managed to overcome their opponents convincingly though there were some tense moments.

Feng Tian Wei in action, playing single in all her matches in the team.

Wang Yuegu and Li Jiawei playing as doubles team.

Congrats to the 3 women for giving Singapore another bronze medal in the 2012 Olympics; increasing our medal tally to 2 Bronze!

Congratulations to Feng Tian Wei !

Feng Tian Wei wins Singapore's first individual Olympic event medal in 52 years, an individual bronze Olympic medal for Women Table Tennis.

I saw the match 'live' on TV and it was very exciting indeed as she came out very strong and hungry for the medal.

Feng won the tense first game, in which the two opponents kept trading points, 11-9. She then followed up with three dominant games which were won 11-6, 11-6, and 11-5.

We are proud of her achievement for Singapore.....!

A very good birthday present for our 47th National Day celebration in the coming week.

Congratulations to Feng Tian Wei...!!!