Okay Nuffnang is a part of this event called the National Famly Celebrations 2010 and I will like to take this precious opportunity to make a pledge to my dedicated parents.
Here it goes.
I pledge to go out with my family more often.
Why is that so? Well, to be honest, it was really a wake up call for me when I heard that Nuffnang is actually giving out 700 tickets to the various attractions in Singapore.
It makes me think when was the last time= I actually went out together with my family to enjoy ourselves. Unfortunately, it was all a blur. I couldn't remember.
I can't even recall when was our last outing. It might be nothing to alot of us here for we all prefer to go out with friends nowadays because we can all relate to each other. When it comes to going out with your family for a trip, everything just becomes frustrating and tiring.
This includes our different interests, our dining locations, the things we do when we are out. Everything seems to be colliding into one another and we end up going separate ways eventually. But doesn't that defeat the purpose of a family outing if we are all doing our own shopping?
So how am I going to ensure that a family outing is coming my way? Well, I think Sundays are the perfect timing for a simple outing for my entire family will be free and just a simple meal out will be perfect.
A trip to the Singapore Flyer will be the awesome because my family is basically very thrifty. They will not bear to go to attractions like the Singapore Flyer or the Sentosa Resorts for they are very conscious about money. Not that they are money-minded, but because of the fact that they are actually saving up for my future expenses, i.e. the exorbitant University school fees.
I do not wish to devoid them of the opportunity to experience the various enticing activities out there, for I believe that they more than deserve the chance to enjoy than anyone else in the world. They have been working so hard and me and my brother have not been treasuring their little effort till today.
I have always been taking them for granted and I always blame them for being stingy and stuff but I'm deeply apologetic and guilty now.
Hence, I'm going to make a commitment here, and that is to go out more often with them. They have always been talking about the Sentosa Resort World lately and I guess that will most probably be the apposite location for me to bring them to.
Yeah, so thank you Nuffnang for making me realise how selfish and insensitive I've been all these years. But, then again, it's never too late to repay your parents' favour, start now, don't wait anymore before you regret it!
NATIONAL FAMILY CELEBRATIONS 2010 (NFC 2010)
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
HP Sensors
Imagine you could know about an earthquake 10 seconds before you felt the ground shake—or figure out that a bridge was in danger of collapsing before it took commuters along with it. That’s the promise behind one of the newest products coming out of Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) labs. By installing a trillion tiny sensors to collect data about the world around us, HP is quite literally trying to build a central nervous system for the earth–a product they call the CeNSE network. This could be a big business: HP will first deploy CeNSE to help Shell (RDSA) drill for oil.
Imagine if this could help them pinpoint the location of oil reserves beneath the ground. It is brobdingnagian. It's unbelievable. Right now, the biggest oil corporations are just scanning the entire area rather than zooming in on a single spot with the help of the current technology.
The reason is simple, it is because by using the current technology, there is a high propensity that you will miss out on quite a number of oil reserves simply because they are too small or they are deep underground which allows them to circumvent detection.
Nonetheless, it is always better to zoom in on a small area of course. This will help the oil corporation save tonnes of money. If they were to drill an entire area, almost 2/3 of it will be empty and only 1/3 of it will be filled with oil. Imagine if they can save the cost needed to drill the 2/3 of the waste land, and convert the savings to consumers' savings, they can easily double or triple their earnings within a short period of time.
Of course, this new sensor has no promises yet. It is still de facto undergoing experimentation and of course the research and development cost is extremely exorbitant which is why, only Shell can afford to participate in the experimentation stage right now.
Here's how it works: Thousands of these sensors, which HP hopes to shrink down to the size of a pin, will be peppered over the area to be monitored. Tiny radio transmitters, which wirelessly send out a constant and massive amount of data, are bundled with them. Specially programmed computers look for patterns and flag critical information about, say, activity along a fault line or unusual movements on the pillar of a bridge.
Well, let's just sit back and watch how this technology develops and whether it is really that effective when it comes to the spotting of trends and anomalies.
Credits -cnn, -astrographics, -kezi, -infovis
Imagine if this could help them pinpoint the location of oil reserves beneath the ground. It is brobdingnagian. It's unbelievable. Right now, the biggest oil corporations are just scanning the entire area rather than zooming in on a single spot with the help of the current technology.
The reason is simple, it is because by using the current technology, there is a high propensity that you will miss out on quite a number of oil reserves simply because they are too small or they are deep underground which allows them to circumvent detection.
Nonetheless, it is always better to zoom in on a small area of course. This will help the oil corporation save tonnes of money. If they were to drill an entire area, almost 2/3 of it will be empty and only 1/3 of it will be filled with oil. Imagine if they can save the cost needed to drill the 2/3 of the waste land, and convert the savings to consumers' savings, they can easily double or triple their earnings within a short period of time.
Of course, this new sensor has no promises yet. It is still de facto undergoing experimentation and of course the research and development cost is extremely exorbitant which is why, only Shell can afford to participate in the experimentation stage right now.
Here's how it works: Thousands of these sensors, which HP hopes to shrink down to the size of a pin, will be peppered over the area to be monitored. Tiny radio transmitters, which wirelessly send out a constant and massive amount of data, are bundled with them. Specially programmed computers look for patterns and flag critical information about, say, activity along a fault line or unusual movements on the pillar of a bridge.
Well, let's just sit back and watch how this technology develops and whether it is really that effective when it comes to the spotting of trends and anomalies.
Credits -cnn, -astrographics, -kezi, -infovis
Monday, May 3, 2010
Pratt & Whitney PW1000G
Pratt & Whitney is the new manufacturer in the house when it comes to engines.
It is a new revolutionary leader in the making aircraft engines today. Many airplane makers are flocking to this company named Pratt & Whitney. I wouldn't call it an overnight fame for Pratt & Whitney has been in the industry for a very long time. In fact, it has spent decades just by revamping this fabulous engine of theirs.
Right now, it's PW1000G engine is touted as the ne plus ultra of the aircraft engines.
Four decades ago, Pratt & Whitney dominated the jet-engine market with sales of its JT8 family of engines, still used on about a third of the world's commercial fleet, according to data from flightsupport.com.
This will only its competitor General Electric, under more duress. Right now, General Electric will definitely have to step up its game or it will be abandoned by many aircraft makers for Pratt & Whitney is definitely going all out on this revolutionary engine.
Pratt & Whitney said its engine could fit on either the Boeing 737 or AirBusA320 and still provide the same benefits of fuel efficiency and less noise, but couldn't speak specifically as to how it might impact the planes' design.
The key of their engines lies in the fact that its quieter and best of all, more fuel-efficient as highlighted above. As we all know, the quiet factor is actually insignificant as compared to its' functionality which maximises the use of fuel.
Right now, as always, the oil market is extremely volatile and oil prices are fluctuating all over the place. Such changes in price level of the oil will definitely have a huge impinge on companies which relies severely on oil.
One of the industries that is most impacted by the price changes is definitely the airline business for they consume a gargantuan amount of oil constantly.
Of course, this will mean that the airlines like Delta and British Airway are going to seek to buy aircrafts that helps them save energy and is more efficient when it comes to consumption of oil. This in turn, will help them save a lot of money which allows them to improve their profit margin. As a result, they will be able to translate some of these savings down to their customers and clients and naturally, it will increase their competitiveness as well.
So for aircraft makers, it is of pivotal to make one that is energy efficient because the energy industry is extremely bouyant right now. There has been a lot of hype surrounding the energy market right now. So all the players involved has to watch the market carefully. Of course, if an engine maker which can help them save energy efficient comes by, it will definitely be grabbed in a flash!
Credits -marketwatch, -enginehistory, -zdnet, -arabiansupplychain
It is a new revolutionary leader in the making aircraft engines today. Many airplane makers are flocking to this company named Pratt & Whitney. I wouldn't call it an overnight fame for Pratt & Whitney has been in the industry for a very long time. In fact, it has spent decades just by revamping this fabulous engine of theirs.
Right now, it's PW1000G engine is touted as the ne plus ultra of the aircraft engines.
Four decades ago, Pratt & Whitney dominated the jet-engine market with sales of its JT8 family of engines, still used on about a third of the world's commercial fleet, according to data from flightsupport.com.
This will only its competitor General Electric, under more duress. Right now, General Electric will definitely have to step up its game or it will be abandoned by many aircraft makers for Pratt & Whitney is definitely going all out on this revolutionary engine.
Pratt & Whitney said its engine could fit on either the Boeing 737 or AirBusA320 and still provide the same benefits of fuel efficiency and less noise, but couldn't speak specifically as to how it might impact the planes' design.
The key of their engines lies in the fact that its quieter and best of all, more fuel-efficient as highlighted above. As we all know, the quiet factor is actually insignificant as compared to its' functionality which maximises the use of fuel.
Right now, as always, the oil market is extremely volatile and oil prices are fluctuating all over the place. Such changes in price level of the oil will definitely have a huge impinge on companies which relies severely on oil.
One of the industries that is most impacted by the price changes is definitely the airline business for they consume a gargantuan amount of oil constantly.
Of course, this will mean that the airlines like Delta and British Airway are going to seek to buy aircrafts that helps them save energy and is more efficient when it comes to consumption of oil. This in turn, will help them save a lot of money which allows them to improve their profit margin. As a result, they will be able to translate some of these savings down to their customers and clients and naturally, it will increase their competitiveness as well.
So for aircraft makers, it is of pivotal to make one that is energy efficient because the energy industry is extremely bouyant right now. There has been a lot of hype surrounding the energy market right now. So all the players involved has to watch the market carefully. Of course, if an engine maker which can help them save energy efficient comes by, it will definitely be grabbed in a flash!
Credits -marketwatch, -enginehistory, -zdnet, -arabiansupplychain
Sunday, May 2, 2010
coming soon.
one final exam tomorrow and then it's summer time!
i can't wait to be a part of it. new york, new york.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Mini mini games
Minigames.com
Ever heard of this website? The website we used to visit in the past to play stupid lame games? But at the end of the day, it helped us to de-stress and we end up having lots of fun.
But it died down as the time pass, why is that so?
1 reason: There's not enough new games. They come in infrequently and they always sucks.
As the time past, people are sick of the their new games, they lose confidence in them and have decided to abandon it altogether.
However, facebook and iPhone have both managed to revive the dead-old minigames.
They have revolutionized minigames altogether.
How else do you think facebook has managed to sustain itself? I hear from people that they are actually sick of facebook already.
They stare at random status messages, with the same old people posting the same old emo messages daily. It's kinda draining away all our energy when you see people getting upset and stuff. They are like black holes sucking up all your personality and energy.
But the difference is that there's Mafia Wars, Farmsville, Restaurant City, Sushi Bar and of course the all time favourite Mouse Hunter.
Then let's take a diversion towards iPhone.
I'm sure that I do not have to say much about it when it comes to the myriad amount of applications it possesses. There are too many and the best part is that the number will just keep increasing by many, many folds in the years to come.
It's incessant.
In fact, I will have to say that iPhone is the ne plus ultra of mobile phones. Do you notice the way people use their phones?
1. To call.
2. To SMS.
3. To check facebook, windows live messenger, twitter and emails.
Only a small group of the public actually use it for business purposes. But, how often do you actually witness people opening up Microsoft programmes on their phones ? Very seldom I would have to say, I mean people have their laptops to do that. Why would they stare into a small screen just to write an essay?
So what do we use our phones for? Well, when we are bored.
When we have absolutely nothing to do, we will take out our phones. When we are bored by the people around us, we take out our phones. When we are alone, we take out our phones.
At least, that's what I always do. Do you?
But the problem is this, once you are done checking whether you have any incoming SMSes, emails, facebook updates, you are practically left with nothing to do!
However, thank god, that's a problem of the past. Now, with the iPhone, you can actually play some brainless yet enticing games alone, or with a friend, it is even possible with many friends.
Aside from that, new games just keep popping up all the time. The craze just keeps going and it's perpetual.
Once you are bored of it, another new game pops up and everyone starts to download it and it becomes the talk of the day.
That's the power of facebook and iPhone.
They made use of ever-green new mini games to keep their users addicted, so that they will never be bored of the device per se.
Just an interesting fact I thought of as I was running through my own thoughts.
How do you feel about that?
Do tag your opinions :)
Credits -cygnett, -amazonaws, -behlerblog, -tinypic
Ever heard of this website? The website we used to visit in the past to play stupid lame games? But at the end of the day, it helped us to de-stress and we end up having lots of fun.
But it died down as the time pass, why is that so?
1 reason: There's not enough new games. They come in infrequently and they always sucks.
As the time past, people are sick of the their new games, they lose confidence in them and have decided to abandon it altogether.
However, facebook and iPhone have both managed to revive the dead-old minigames.
They have revolutionized minigames altogether.
How else do you think facebook has managed to sustain itself? I hear from people that they are actually sick of facebook already.
They stare at random status messages, with the same old people posting the same old emo messages daily. It's kinda draining away all our energy when you see people getting upset and stuff. They are like black holes sucking up all your personality and energy.
But the difference is that there's Mafia Wars, Farmsville, Restaurant City, Sushi Bar and of course the all time favourite Mouse Hunter.
Then let's take a diversion towards iPhone.
I'm sure that I do not have to say much about it when it comes to the myriad amount of applications it possesses. There are too many and the best part is that the number will just keep increasing by many, many folds in the years to come.
It's incessant.
In fact, I will have to say that iPhone is the ne plus ultra of mobile phones. Do you notice the way people use their phones?
1. To call.
2. To SMS.
3. To check facebook, windows live messenger, twitter and emails.
Only a small group of the public actually use it for business purposes. But, how often do you actually witness people opening up Microsoft programmes on their phones ? Very seldom I would have to say, I mean people have their laptops to do that. Why would they stare into a small screen just to write an essay?
So what do we use our phones for? Well, when we are bored.
When we have absolutely nothing to do, we will take out our phones. When we are bored by the people around us, we take out our phones. When we are alone, we take out our phones.
At least, that's what I always do. Do you?
But the problem is this, once you are done checking whether you have any incoming SMSes, emails, facebook updates, you are practically left with nothing to do!
However, thank god, that's a problem of the past. Now, with the iPhone, you can actually play some brainless yet enticing games alone, or with a friend, it is even possible with many friends.
Aside from that, new games just keep popping up all the time. The craze just keeps going and it's perpetual.
Once you are bored of it, another new game pops up and everyone starts to download it and it becomes the talk of the day.
That's the power of facebook and iPhone.
They made use of ever-green new mini games to keep their users addicted, so that they will never be bored of the device per se.
Just an interesting fact I thought of as I was running through my own thoughts.
How do you feel about that?
Do tag your opinions :)
Credits -cygnett, -amazonaws, -behlerblog, -tinypic
*Fashion: Hair Trends Spring 2010
Messy braids and long, bohemian hair was ever-popular on the runways.
Thats why I really loved the Photos of the Vogue Germany May Spread, based on the current hairtrends. Patrick Demarchelier catalogues the hair trends of Spring. The unique vision of this fashion photographer is instantly recognizable in the pages of fashion and culture magazines across the globe. Central in his work are the multi-faceted artistic statements and iconic images he creates. Starring models Aline Weber, Cato Van Ee, Irina Kulikova and Joan Smalls, ‘Hippie Yeah’ in German Vogue starts and ends with massive, blown-out coifs. Hairstylist Luigi Murenu gets to flex his creative hair muscle.
The black and white spread also features a smattering of boho- and tribal-inspired outfits.
Enjoy the pictures with their 70s, hippy-inspired feel, long flowing locks and lots and lots of volume...
*Tell me what you think*
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Fashionising
Patrick DeMarchelier
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