Almost the end of 2013

It's coming to the end of the year 2013.

It seems just like yesterday when people were talking about the millennium; 2000. And without realising, it's been 13 years since then. It's also a year down the road since the famous Mayan calendar which some believers noted the end of world (21st Dec 2012).

I won't be doing a summary/review of 2013 in this post. Somehow i'm pretty much over the good years of being able to focus on writing a proper blog post. Thoughts will stray away and i get distractions from the soccer match.

Another year down, means another year added to my milestone. A lot of ups and downs and some times you just wonder what will unfold next. But as the old saying goes, life is short, what will come, will come. So instead of going through the what-if, let's just look forward to the years ahead.

Short post for this. Enjoy the last weekends of 2013!

Updates

Been a while since my last post. Time to do a quick update before i got back to not posting anything again.

Rest yesterday from work after extracting my 2nd wisdom tooth; good time since i'm just starting another project at work.

Back in August 2013, i extracted my right top wisdom due to pain and x-ray showed that the tooth was decaying. So i extracted it on the spot and paid around $250+? Not long later in November 2013, my right below tooth starts to ache as well. This time it's decay on my molar (the one nearest to my wisdom), so i did fillings on it. As the same time filling on my left 2nd molar as well. Another $250+ burned.

While i was quite certain that i wish to extract all the rest of my 3 wisdom tooth at the time, i wasn't really keen to fork out the money and not to mention the pain that comes with it (FOC).

So on Tuesday while i'm savouring the food at my friend's solemnisation, i start to feel ache at my below right tooth again. During my last visit in November, i was advised to remove the right bottom wisdom tooth as it's at an angle which is creating a void (a bad spot to clean, a good spot for food to stay there and cause decay). I was hoping to do it after January 2014, but seems like nature has it own desire.

And so, i extracted this time round, thinking i better do so before christmas and new year. Else if it starts to ache too much, i may just have to do during the festive period. This time round, i'm paying around $150+ after $350 Medisave claim. The extraction cost this round is $450. Had some stitches as well to close up the wound.

That's about it. I still have 2 more wisdom tooth on my left. But for now, i just hope they are not going to rebel any time soon.

Another thing that i have been working on lately is this program called DS Domination: http://dsdomination.com

Click on the link at the top and check out the video of what it does.

I haven't set my pace into it completely. But i do hope next month i can share the experience of how to earn money online by copy and paste. Literally copy and paste from Amazon to eBay. Basically tapping on the internet to get some money. So far i managed to sell about 30+ items and earn about USD130. Not bad, but since i'm a starter, i did spend quite some time for the past 1 month to get this result. Definitely not fantastic, but well, not bad for passive income.

I'll probably write up a post next time on this to elaborate, but if you have question or is interested about this DS Domination, just drop me a comment here and we will see how we can work things out.

It's saturday today, i hope everyone is having a good time chilling out.

Thanks for reading and stay tune for more updates!

MINDEF banned singing Purple Light

"Purple Light", a marching song sung by many NSmen, which included the lines:

"Booking out, see my girlfriend

Saw her with another man 

Kill the man, rape my girlfriend

With my rifle and my buddy and me."

Can't help but decided to post this after reading it. Though it's just another move by the institution on something insignificant to the well-being of the nation, i just feel angst for the halt of the song.

Maybe it does sound rude and un-gentleman, but man, a song is a song. You can't ban a culture which went through generations of NSFs.

There are tonnes of other more detrimental issues in the institution, which calls for more review and actions and not this which is really a show of bad faith with the guys who put their body and soul into the National Service.

I'm not against National Service, and i understand some of the measures they do to keep the national security intact, but this? Come-on, give NSFs a break.

IPPT for NSMen are causing more deaths then singing a song like this. Where is the review and ban for that?

Only in Singapore.


Source: http://therealsingapore.com/content/mindef-banned-nsfs-singing-purple-light-because-lyrics-are-degrading-towards-women

New blog up

After 2 evenings of codings (sorta convinced myself that since i'm doing less programming at work now, this is a good reminder of how i should minimally get myself some revision) to get it back and running with a new template, i finally managed to get this blog "revived".

Not a fanciful one, just like the simple look and feel. Spent most of the time working on getting the initial template which i got online into cleaner look and feel. Most importantly to "host" the necessary background and images myself. For those who had experience with blog would appreciate that. Because after you ripped someone's template, the hosting of the images for the blog to appear, may just be gone any day without notice.

So advice to all, do host your own images if you're just as lazy as i am, taking free template which uses icons/images to create the look of the site.

I'm pretty distracted now. Reading some internet stuff. Will share it if i happen to dwell deeper into them.

Till then.

Revival of Blogging

It's been eons since i last blogged. Yes, despite attempting to move away to Wordpress, i guessed i still didn't want to ditch my 10 year old blogging channel. And boy, how time flies. It's been a real solid decade since i started this humble blog. Blogging has never failed to make me ponder over life and definitely is one of the key factor that contributes to making more sense with my language.

I'll probably attempt to revamp this site over the coming weekends. Time to give the blog a new look. It certainty feels like an abandoned site. With dead video link and stuff. Not to mention the odd layout which is eating up the middle content portion.

Ok, a good start for now i hope. Wish me luck to have the discipline to update it this weekends.

1 quick share; i finally convinced myself to spurge on a MacBook Air. I'm typing on it now. Still getting myself familiar with Mac OS.

That's all for now. Will be back (Fingers crossed).