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Ladies and Gentlemen, feast yourselves to the largest Ferris Wheel in the world! The Singapore Flyer! Well for a year at least. =x It officially started spinning today but unfortunately you will not be able to sit on it for the next 4 months or so as it is fully booked. You may have a chance to sit on it on Valentines Day though. They may have a few seats left.

 I read up on its details and discovered that Singapore spent S$240-Million to develop this long awaited Ferris Wheel! Another discovery I made is that there is a strange liking for the number 28 for this development.  Not sure if you realised it but heres how it goes.

FAQ of The Singapore Flyer:

• There are 28 capsules on the Wheel
• Each capsule can accomodate 28 pax
• The full rotation takes 30 mins each. 28 mins rotation + 2 mins change over.
• The operating hours is from 0830-2230 hours. Last ride at 2200. That makes 28 shifts!

Amazing isn’t it? It is mathematically designed to fit with 28. May be a simple design but I think its cool. :D  Too bad the price of the tickets is S$29.50 for adults. Else it would have been another 28!.  So lets do the maths. If the Singapore Flyer is fully booked for the whole year, how much would it earn?

Assumption: All riders are adults.

S$29.50 * 28 persons * 28 capsules * 28 shifts * 365 = S$236,368,160

Singapore will earn back her capital within a year. Lets hope that the Singapore Flyer is fully booked for the next 5 years or so. I hope to get some Singapore Tourism Board Shares (If there is any =x) for me to clear some of my student loan when I graduate! Why isn’t education free in Singapore again? Okok that’s another topic.

Signing out,

Deen Yusoff

P.S:
Do visit the following sites to know more about the Singapore Flyer. http://www.singaporesights.com/virtual-tours/attractions/the-singapore-flyer

http://www.singaporeflyer.com.sg/

Firstly, I want to apologize to all the guys that were present for the guys nite out. I am really sorry that I didn’t stay at the club with you guys. I just don’t have the mood… I do have great friends around. Khairil, Ikram and Faisal especially, thanks for trying to cheer me up by treating me and trying to get my mind off things…but i guess my mood was just not right…I really hope that you guys had fun after Khairil and I made our move…Won’t forget your efforts to cheer me up..

Khairil of course, still tried to make me feel better by taking me to the movies, paid for the tickets and even bought snacks for us to munch on while we wait for the show to start. Caught Ah Long Pte Ltd. As corny as the show was, I think it did the trick. I felt better after the movie.

Thanks guys for being such a great bunch. Will try to be there when you guys need a friend too.

If you are a Singaporean, you would have probably heard about the ever famous Singapore Zoo icon, Ah Meng. I remember growing up hearing about Ah Meng and had even visited her at the Zoo many times. The ever famous primate that I know of other than Bubbles (The chimp that lived with Michael Jackson for many years.)

Today however, is a sad day for Singapore. Our dear Ah Meng had just passed away. She died at the age of 48 human years. She died out of old age and Singapore’s Zoological Gardens will be holding a memorial service for her this coming Sunday at 11am.

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If you feel for her death, you might want to visit the memorial service. Read more about it at ChannelNewsAsia.

Click here to read Ah Meng’s short life story.

Who would have guessed that SMRT’s 188 service would break down when I took the bus back home earlier this evening after school? Well, it happened. Somehow I was kinda excited about it. The last time I was in a service that broke down was like more than 5 years ago. It is such a very rare incident!

Felt vey privilege then. Lol! Well actually, all that I could hear was, “Hen Suay lei!”. Pronounced something like this, “Hn Su-way Lay!”. Simply means “Damn Unlucky ‘man’!”. Well anyway, the Bus Captain compensated all of us with a complimentary ride.

The best part is it lasts till 5th of March 2008. Of course there are some limitations to the ticket. Can only be used on SMRT buses and not Express services. I am just happy I got this little ticket. I am using season pass so it doesn’t really affect me. It’s either I keep the ticket for a rainy day or give it away to someone who needs it more than I do.

Can’t believe that a service breakdown made my day. Lol!

Signing out,
Deen Yusoff.

Happily doing my school work at the wonderful forum when there was a sudden blast of Line dance music. Almost blew my brains out…You don’t even know where the crowd came from. It is like a blood rush when you a person gets excited.

Well since I couldn’t concentrate on my work, I decided to snap a pic of the dancers. They weren’t in sync but everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Well…guess everything is fun when you do it with a certain group of people. Here’s how they looked like….

Time is money. I am sure, for most of you, this is not the first time you are hearing this. This is a big issue for me. I want to do so many things but I am fighting for time. Too many commitments. If only I don’t need to sleep. Then I could do things in that 8 long hours.

I’ve once argued with a guy, shall not mention his name here, about how multi-tasking affects work output. The fella mentioned how he could multi-task doing all the things without any worry. The things he says he does:

1. Web Design
2. Programming
3. Photo shoots
4. Photo Edit
5. Filming
6. Video Edit
7. 3D Modeling
8. Socialize.
9. Daily routine activities.

I honestly think this guy was just crap. He said he does his web design while filming and taking pictures. It is just total bullshit to me. How is that possible? I argued, even if he does so, it is gonna be crap output. As humans we are only given 1 pair of hands. How does he snap a photo while designing on his notebook? Where will his eyes focus at? The pinhole on his still camera, camcorder or his laptop screen? This fella is just crap to me.

But as crappy as he is, he managed to steal 30 mins of my time to argue with him. Well enough about him. This is suppose to be about me. I don’t have enough time to clear all the things that I want/need to do.

I have too many commitments I guess… school, a job, entrepreneurial work, relationships (including family and friends). I don’t have time to manage all… sometimes I feel like isolating myself from everyone just to clear my school and entrepreneurial work. Yes, it is that important to me. Now I realize that I can’t achieve big things without “hurting” or letting down the people around me.

I hope someday, everyone will understand what I am going through. Everyone needs the space and support to achieve their dreams. Instead what I get are complaint about me not spending enough time with everybody. I don’t wish to work for the rest of my life receiving SGD2.5K every month till I die. I wish to be a millionaire by the age of 30.

Probably many of you are saying, “Yah right, dream on Deen!”. Well, call me a dreamer. It takes a man to imagine big stuffs I would say. If Michael Dell could make Billions I don’t understand why I can’t dream of Millions. For those in my position, you’ll know exactly how I feel. Well, hope I could make it big someday soon…

Ok, this really pisses me off. I should not have ran Sony Ericsson’s Update Service. The thought of keeping up with times should not have crossed my mind at all coz now, it had destroyed one of my favourite funtions in P1i!

Business Card Scanner doesn’t work as it used to. Now it scans ONLY in  Macro, Black and White! What the F! Not ony does it take a picture in Greyscale, when I browse for a picture I had taken in colour using the camera function, the Business Card Scanner converts the picture into black and white and then reads it. I can’t change the mode into anything else.! No, none of it works. Negative, Sephia, Solarization and default None doesn’t work! What the hell is wrong? It was working fine in colour before the service update!

Whats the point of taking a picture of a Coloured Name Card when the phone saves it as Black and White? Sony Ericsson developers! I hope you hear me. Now I feel lost with my phone…it is like walking around in Laced Shoes without the laces…

My rating of Sony Ericsson’s Software just dropped to 2 out of 10! It works but not working the way it should be!

I am so upset over Sony Ericsson’s PC suite for SmartPhone. Every since I used it, I realised that Sony Ericsson needs to employ better developers. I’ve had Sony Ericsson’s P1i for a couple of months now and honestly the phone is great.

I used to carry 3 items (iPod, HP IPaq and W810i) around with me all the time. Now, I have a 2GB memory stick on my P1i which has every almost every function those items have. In fact now I have a QWERTY pad along with me all the time.

Well besides having to carry one instead of three, I have a built-in function called the Business Card Scanner. It is honestly a great function. It works like my Flatbed Scanner with the OCR but instead, I have to take a picture of the Business Cards I want the system to add to my contacts.

Well everything was perfect until I decided to upgrade my software. So I did these following steps:

1. Installed Sony Ericsson PC Suite for Smartphone, which was included in the box.
2. Downloaded and installed the Sony Ericsson P1i Update Service software.
3. Used the Backup Manager that came along with SE PC Suite to backup every single content of my phone.
4. Ran Update Service following the steps provided in the software.
5. Lastly tried to Restore my backup onto my phone.

Guess what? It didn’t work!!! Ran a full backup and the PC Suite froze at like the 30th percent with a message “Mobile phone not responding….”. I selected all these to restore:

1. Contacts
2. Calendar
3. Notes
4. Unified Inbox
5. Settings
6. Multimedia
7. 3rd Party Applications

Bull Poop!!! I tried to run it 3 times and still didn’t work. When did the phone stop responding? When the PC Suite rebooted the phone and P1i screen prints “Restore in progress”. Its a piece of shit I tell you.
I googled in hope that someone would shed light on me. That was when I discovered previous versions of Sony Ericsson SmartPhones had a similar problem too. In case you are wondering, the phone models I am talking about are SE’s P990i and M600i and their variations. I am so bloody disappointed. I can’t believe it could hang on me when I feel the phone had been great all the time.

Well now comes to the shitty part of trouble shooting. I can’t possibly let go of my backups. I’ve already lost all my Contacts and stuff 2 months ago. Can’t let this happen again. So I tried to restore one item at a time.

I went down the list of priorities as such:

1. Contacts - Success!
2. Calendar - Success!
3. Notes - Success!
4. Unified Inbox - Success!
5. Settings - Success!
6. Multimedia - Success!
7. 3rd Party Applications - Success!

Wierd isn’t it? It works when you try to restore one item at a time but not when you select all. How can this be? Software problem!!! Developers at Sony should look into this. I didn’t have this problem with Nokia E65 when I helped my brother do an upgrade.

What’s the point of having a full restore function when it doesn’t work??? And if the problem had been surfaced by the users of the previous models, why isn’t the problem solved still? Can’t possibly blame Symbian for Sony Ericsson’s PC Suite, could we?…

Can’t believe this. First I hurt my right shoulder when I took my IPPT…now I got a bad sprain on my ankle when I was playing soccer! Been so long since I worked out I guess that every time I attempt to do so, I end up hurting myself in some way.

The worst part of it all is tomorrow is my first day of the semester. Aaarrrgghhh!!! How the hell am I gonna walk around school now? Gotta visit the doctor I guess. Need a quick heal but I doubt I’ll get that…

Been 5 days straight since I started with setting up my own email server. I would have used Windows if it was totally free… Linux is definitely not for Windows home users. I had everything set up. But mails couldn’t go through to hotmail. Found out that I need a PTR record or a Reverse DNS as well as an SPF record.

Tech jargons right? Who the hell understands all that without doing any studying?! I actually got a couple of books from the library on Red Hat Linux and DNS administration. And so it all seemed to work out fine. But it didn’t! Everytime I fix one error, another error pops up. How irritating can it be??! Haiz…Once I’ve set it up well, I think I can make my own guide and put it up online for those that might have been in my position.

=sigh=