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Day out at the Botanic Gardens

11:30 AM on Saturday 09 December 2017

We had a great day at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

Singlish driving modes

09:44 PM on Tuesday 21 November 2017

As I was stuck in a traffic jam today, I turned on the ECO mode just for fun. Then I thought about how would one say ECO mode in Singlish and I came up with this (translation in red).

So there is apparently an initiative (the National Steps Challenge ) to get Singaporeans to be healthy and walk around more. The initiative gives people $5 if they can accumulate 750 healthpoints which translates to walking 10,000 steps daily for 19 days. So I tried to figure out how much energy i ...

Home surveillance

06:53 AM on Saturday 21 October 2017

Always wanted to set up a home surveillance system. Especially now that we have Donut, it would be nice to check up on her. We already have a DLINK DCS-5222LB1 which works really nicely. It has a pretty wide view which is useful and the image is not too bad. And it is rather cheap. Pauline got a che ...

Visit to the zoo

10:43 AM on Sunday 15 October 2017

After a long time, we are visiting the zoo again. Thanks to Pauline's free tickets :-)

Dinner at Masizzim

05:20 PM on Thursday 12 October 2017

We tried out a new place at Westgate called Masizzim which serves Korean food. They had an interesting dish where you make rice balls with the ingredients that they supplied. It was quite fun and delicious. They tasted like Japanese maki but with more ingredients. The pancake was also quite good. We ...