Entries from August 2006

August 29, 2006

wireless router with built-in BT client and 160GB HDD

Saw this at boingboing. A very good device to suck up internet bandwidth. I can easily download more anime than I can ever finish watching, just keep it running. This will be tempting if I see it at comex this weekend.

August 16, 2006

Residents of my town

When I first moved into Tiong Bahru, I had expected to see old folks at every turn. This is after all one of the oldest housing estates on the island, with the famous 4-storey high, white-washed “Tiong Bahru flats” that even NTU hostels are nicknamed after. Only old folks will want to live there, surely.
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August 1, 2006

Tying the flag

One of the things that are expected of a HDB resident is to display the national flag as a show of your patriotism. You are supposed to do this for a couple of months around the 9th of August, so that everybody can look up and see how united we are and how much we [...]