Category: Life

Had a lot of internet disconnections. The ADSL signal on my modem would light up and in 3 minutes, go off. At first I called up Singnet, my ISP. Firstly, a woman answered and asked me to troubleshoot it by connecting the modem directly to the wall without a microfilter. She said if it didn’t solve the problem, she would assign a technician to come to my house and do a line test.

The problem didn’t go away. So I called again, this time, a man. To keep the story short, he checked the logs and could tell I kept disconnecting. So he assigned a tech to come on Tuesday to do the line test. I was thinking, what if the problem went away Tuesday morning and came back Tuesday night?

I give up anyway. This isn’t the first time they’ve been giving me an instable connection.

So I decided to open up my modem since it’s 3 years old, warranty’s probably expired. And since I never used the wireless feature, I removed the PCMCIA wireless card inside. And proceeded to leave it running on my desk. Hmmm… No more disconnections.

Which reminds me of a similar case which happened in my office a few months ago. Our ADSL modem kept losing signal and disconnecting every 3~5 minutes. I called up the ISP, who immediately sent a technician down to do a line test. The technician didn’t have any problems and we concluded it was the modem that malfunctioned. We had it replaced and the problem was gone.

Perhaps my modem is failing too. Nice timing, I was going to upgrade my connection plan to a 10Mbps ADSL2+ line soon anyway.

I think overheating is causing the problems.

This morning when I came into the office, I noticed the earbuds of my earphones are being eaten off!! There’s no clue of what the suspect is… Perhaps termites? I immediately discarded the cardboard box that my earphones were resting on…

I just received a replacement for my debit card that’s expiring this October. To make it valid, the cardholder must sign on the back of the card.

Now for the past 3~4 years since I graduated, I haven’t used a pen / pencil for more than 10 minutes. So nowadays when I try to write some notes, it takes a lot of strength and effort and my handwriting is very ugly.

I guess that’s what you get for being a web developer / gamer where the keyboard is a good friend of yours. (´д｀)

So I spent 30 minutes last night practicing my signature again and again but I still couldn’t sign the way I used to.

Haha, a few days ago when dining at Cafe Cartel with my mum and her friend, when I went to pay the bill using my debit mastercard, I had to sign on the receipt and my signature was so ugly it’s definitely obviously different from the back of my debit card. But the cashier did not bother to verify my signature.

Met up with a few guys from #animemedia of Galaxynet. We’re mostly just a bunch of people who like animes, games, etc. We use to host anime videos there for others to download but with the advent of bittorrent technology. There’s no point running fserves via IRC anymore unless you’re a fansub group and you have a high-speed connection.

Anyways, BUZZ, CosmoNova, Joachim, Sollanon, Kyu and me had dinner at Marche. I had Sirloin Steak and Rosti with cheese pork sausage. Expensive but very delicious. [:D]

After dinner, we made our way following the crowd to the open space outside Marina Square(not sure), just in time to see the fireworks begin. Note that this happened on August 8th and is not the same as the one during Singapore’s National Day (Aug 9th). This display of fireworks seem to be part of a fireworks competition.

Ah… The lights, the sound… This is the second time I’ve seen fireworks in Singapore. The first was a National Day preview back in my secondary school days.

 

I also took a video using my phone. It’s a .3gp file, requires quicktime to play. 

Orange morning sun today.

O$P$ = Owe money pay money. Taken inside the lift.

The building I live in, is made up of 2-room apartments. In other words, very small homes. My family is poor so we can’t afford bigger homes. Thus, a lot of families in my building are low-income families.

Therefore, a lot of people here tend to borrow money from loan sharks to gamble, etc. When they can’t pay up, loan sharks will begin harassing them by writing their apartment number(line 1) and their contact number, in this case, the person’s handphone number (line 2, partially censored for obvious reasons.) and line 3 is the message. They write in places like inside the elevators, staircases where a lot of people pass by.

Other tactics include splashing paint at your door, chaining up your door. I think in Hong Kong, they hang pig heads in front of your door.

A nice quite resting spot I found in Ann Siang Hill. Near Maxwell hawker centre.

Had sushi for dinner last night with a friend at Sakae Sushi. One of Singapore’s popular sushi restaurants.

Meet Bob.

Some of my teeth is sensitive to cold drinks and sweet stuff.

Thus, I cannot enjoy chocolate without experiencing pain.

I guess it’s because I only brush my teeth once every 1-2 days. 

/sigh /cry

Going to try Sensodyne’s toothpaste soon.

So kids! Remember to brush your teeth everyday!