Fact #1:
My name is edwin

Fact #2:
SIM is my school and my surname

Fact #3:
My DOB is 14/11/1984 (knowing this means you owe me a present each yr hees :X)

Fact #4:
I love dancing, sports, shopping and movies

Fact #5:
I can be quite passive

Fact #6:
My motto is to work hard and play HARDER

Fact #7:
I got TWO very cute nieces called 'Han han' & 'Ying ying'

Fact #8:
Dancing is incredible once you try it, you will get hook to it !

Fact #9:
There's a cake that walks with a bun now :)

I just manage to get to this website when i was looking for a netbook review on HP Mini 110 series for cake. Hmmm seems like a good deal and i am going to check it out later at Bishan.

So how do you choose your first netbook? Click HERE to find out more ...

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Once again, I am down with another infection on my face.. It began from a mosquito bite liked spot with itchiness and grew larger to a 10 cent coin size now... Sianz.. This makes me feel so sianz, so sad... Why kana this kinda shit thing again!?!! What's wrong with my body!?!! Haiz~

When do all this appear all in a short time interval..

21st December - Rudolph nose (Cured after eating antibiotic and apply Bactroban cream for 1 month)
26th January - A tiny pimple liked infection (Managed to squeeze it out)
2nd February - Swollen 10 cent spot (Still eat antibiotic and apply Bactroban cream)

Why does this happen when it is reaching some festive seasons like this time Valentine & CNY!?!!!

No mood to do anything... Dont tell me I need to go A&E again on CNY eve... NO i dont want that to happen again....

*prays that my infection will be cure soon =|



After knowing myself for 25 years, I realise that I am capable of the following weaknesses...

1. Late for almost everything
2. Lack of focus/concentration
3. 3 minutes of passion
4. Pessimistic
5. Indecisive

Whatever I decide to do/say, did not complete.
I merely did enough to "pass" the criterias.

My new year resolution is to get rid of all these weaknesses that made me feel like a failure, can I !?

I want to try ...!!!!!!~~~



Published: January 23 2010,
The Straits Times
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Red plates are red-hot right now. Interest is revving up over cars with those distinctive red number plates marking them for off-peak use only, thanks to incentives starting on Monday.

These are longer usage hours - notably all day on Saturdays and the eve of five public holidays - plus cash rebates.

The changes are timely, coming in the run-up to Chinese New Year, when being able to drive around freely on the eve of a public holiday, instead of only after 3pm as currently permitted, is bound to accelerate interest.

Sure, owners of off-peak cars got a one-off $17,000 tax rebate, but they could drive only during off-peak hours, from 7pm to 7am on weekdays, among other aspects of the scheme.

Now that the scheme has been tuned up with features such as allowing unfettered use on the eve of New Year's Day, Chinese New Year, Hari Raya Puasa, Deepavali and Christmas Day, the brakes are off.

For some, there are obstacles to conversion. A driver who converts his normal car to an off-peak one will receive $1,100 in cash rebate for every six months it remains so, but not the $17,000 offset.

'People who are looking at off-peak cars are turned off by the high COE prices,' he says.

Although he does not expect COE prices to come down in the next three to four months, he is confident that 'customers will check out the cars once the market comes round to accepting the rates'.

Current off-peakers have a choice of staying in the old scheme or switching. The catch is that they must pay a one-time administrative fee of $100.

Monday's changes mean that these drivers, along with some new car buyers and owners of cars with no restrictions, are no doubt gearing up for some cost-benefit calculations.

Read more here



It was a week of peace without boss around.. Government and laws were out of place for now... Next week, it will be a different thing. Probably I would be expecting tonnes of "How?" "How?" and "How?"...

I finally had some breakthrough on solving the misery of my problematic codes or maybe it's not so called mine.. It's others' codes while I tried to find the light through the darkness of those coding and I DID!!! Hurrays!!!

Tomorrow is the happiest day of the week, cos can play soccer and can meet my cake. It was a week ago since I met her.. She is so occupied by school work, so tired, hope we'll have a good shopping day tomorrow hehe.

Nites my friends !!!



It was very amazing trip.. maybe an amazing moment like someone says.
I enjoyed the snow, the german buildings, the german sausages, the rosti and especially the nice warm welcome my fellow german colleagues gave to us each day, shaking each and everyone of our hands every morning. These are the things which you may never find in Singapore ...

The feeling is great to go on a trip, with everyone envious of you.. (okays that's what I think only =x) Well, I can count on my luck that I entered a project team which deals with an overseas project. I really got to thank god which has taken good care of me.. Actually I expect myself to catch a cold over there in such a extreme weather but I didnt.. I am always afraid of cold but I survived... Thanks god!

I had a good time walking around with Marine (my colleague) because I and her were the only "excited" fellows over there.. The other have had their exciting moments before and were no longer excited about such trip... Well who cares.. We did! =) Thanks Marine for walking around with me!

On the last day home, I left my Camera on the cab but my boss managed to help me find it back. I can feel that he is a responsible person. Although everyday, the only question he will prompt to us is "How?" but at least I know he is taking good care of our over there. Thanks James!

Jason had his Birthday yesterday.. Wanna wish him Happy Birthday too! Hope he enjoy his stylo color badminton racket! *hahas

As Darren will be away for quite sometime, my gang jioed me for Badminton weekly on Wednesday and I have promised to turn up. It's gonna be fun! Hope I can fare well in badminton too. Gw and Beng beng must teach me huhs!!!

Maybe I should start some plans today!!!



Thanks for all your wishes, I will be fine!!!

This will be the first time I ever experienced a cold weather with SNOW!!!

Thankie Hairol for lending the winter wear and Beng Beng for helping me get the audio adaptor and power adaptor.

A few hours more I will be on board a 12-13 hours flight to Germany..!!

Hitler here I come !!! lols~~~

Take care my friends :)



Hello all friends, Happy new year to all of you!

I wanna thank you all for being part of my life. My life though not so smooth but compared with alot other unfortunate people, it should be quite okay already. I should be satisfied with it and try to work out some formula to become a better man, a better friend, a better son and a better boyfriend. Let's not just say and get some action going. I got alot alot of goals this time round and I hope this year all of them will come true.

By the way, I will be going away on a official business trip to Germany soon, and I hope it will be a really fun one. I hope I will be of help to my colleagues and I will try my best to aid them in this project. So happy and excited about this trip. Because of this trip, I rushed to sign up for my first credit card! Citibank Clear Platinum yeahss!!! Really very excited! I would be using this card for my trip so I can claim those outstanding amount from my company. I hope they can deliver the card to me by Wednesday because I would be flying off on coming Sunday.

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* Goals 2010 *
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1. Change blogskin
2. Get driving license
3. Get my body into shape
4. Be more proactive & confident
5. Sleep by 2330hrs
6. Exercise daily @ 0630hrs (wish)
7. Go Taiwan for holidays in June
8. Revamp my room/Reorganise my stuff
9. Give 101% to everything
10. Cherish everyone around me :)

*************************************************************************************

Well after I have said mine... What about you?

If you have not started thinking, why not start now?

Hope you will have a great year in 2010 & thank you so much for being my friend :)



Not sure if you have seen this .. *faint lols!







Brand: Samsung
Model: Samsung LA40B550
Price: $1099 (Price inclusive of delivery & wall mounting)
From: Courts @ Sitex November 2009
Free gifts: LCD Cleaning kit, 1x HDMI cable

Main Specifications
Type: Full-HD
Screen Size: 40" inch
Resolution: 1,920 x 1,080
Response Time: 4ms
Sound Effect System: SRS Trusurround HD & Dolby Digital Plus
No of HDMI port/s: 4
No of USB port/s: 1

This is TV is cool! But however Full HD tv are better are receiving digital tv signals. Therefore, I may be considering getting the Starhub cable tv because it comes with digital setup box, and now it also have a Full HD setup box which can provide HD signals through the HDMI cable to your Full HD tv. Wow! He told me about the new DVD player with HDMI port to connect to this tv so it will higher quality video. If you plug in the olden kind with RCA connector(red, white, yellow kind), the video output might be blur on your HD Tv.

Didnt know the Tv industry has develop so fast over the past few years and now finally some cool Tv for us to view. I am certainly please with the new Tv @ home. Yays!!!



Thanks to my friends, buddies and family, I had a great birthday this year. I was so happy, shocked and surprised by these people! Initially I was stoning and I didnt realise that cake has turned up for my celebration too hahas! OOps~!

You all ah, very bad, ask me go feel the chocolate cake lor... I thought it was some disgusting animals you all hide in the box lor! End up I feel the thing why so slimey then realise it was my chocolate cake.. *faint

Hahas this year my birthday, my present was the pair of shoes I saw at RiverIsland. Wow! Hahas.. Love it man..! Thanks alot alot~ ! :) It was a good time to gather all those busy working adults, those who are still struggling to get rid of UOW life and those who are still looking around for opportunities.. I hope in no time, we can ALL find a job and work hard together. Good luck guys & girls!!!





As for my buddies, we went Butter Factory on Saturday night. It was my first time there but I realised it wasn't that big anyway. I dun understand why they like to squeeze at such a tiny place. There were just two rooms to accommodate the huge crowd. The queue was very long too if you went at the peak hours, you may even need to queue for 1 hour++. Crazy!!! But that's what I heard from my friend. Well it's a good enough for drink some alcohol.. I puked twice that night. hahas!! As usual a lousy drinker like me will only waste money drinking alcohol. I think we share a bottle of Jack Daniels. Not bad but I think we will never drink with green tea again, the taste sulked big time! lols~


Then on Sunday, my kor's family came over to celebrate with me. It is the first time in my whole life, he is there on my birthday. Sad right? But then it's the fact. Well, at least it marked a good start to our family bonding hahas.. I bought 8 pcs KFC chicky meals, he bought a huge pack of Sakae Sushi and mummy cooked alot alot of nuggets, fries, fried rice and spring rolls. We still got a cake given by KBox during our KTV on Friday evening and the IceCream I bought from the little girl hahas.. We ate like crazy that night!!!

The happy thing about that night was I finally get a chance to carry my newborn niece. She's ying ying hehes! She felt so comfortable when i carry her, unlike my older niece who got a phobia of me carrying her wahahahas :X




Well thanks to everyone, this year I had a memorable Birthday! :)



Sometimes I wonder am I wrong to be kind ...

I was sleeping soundly in the evening earlier when I was waken abruptly by a young girl. She seems to be at most primary age. She had been pressing and pressing my doorbell until I wake up... I was quite angry initially and I thought it was my mum so I wake up to see who is that. End up it was that the young girl standing at the doorstep. She ask me if I would like to help her buy ice-cream. Actually I said no, but she ask me to consider and I gave in ... She showed me that big block of ice-cream 1 litre (Chocolate flavour) and I bought it. It costed $10.70. However, the box of ice-cream feels sticky, because the entire block is packed into paper box, not like a tub form. I felt a little regret when I bought it.

I think she is the one who had been constantly sell ice-cream at my areas. Occasionally, I would hear my parents say no to her. I told cake about it and she thought that I was blur blur. She thinks that I should say no to the girl. My mum also think likewise, even reprimanded me for buying the ice-cream.

Well I dunno why I bought it, probably because she was so young and at this age, she had to start selling ice-cream to earn money. I am not sure whether it was for her parents, herself or what... I just feel that when I was her age, I am still ignorant, enjoying my childhood, watching tv, playing game etc ... And maybe that is why I gave in ...

so ...

Am I wrong or stupid to act this way ...



This is the theme song of the Channel 8 drama @ 7pm which has just ended on last Friday. I was attracted to this song sang by Luo Yi Shi and I would like to enjoy it with you my friends.

Hmmm I cant seem to find the ending song named 幸福彩虹 by 陈俐茗. Any kind soul has this song, please send it to me thanks :)





My first camera ended up to be Fujifilm J27. It costs me SGD $219! It quite an affordable camera with most basic functions. Comparing with those of Canon Ixus 95, Casio EX Z90, Sony T90:

1) Compare with Casio EX Z90 (SGD $269). This camera is kinda flimsy, not solid at all. The salesman was pretty quiet, he told me certain features for a while and diverted his attention to other customers. So I left...

2) Compare with Canon Ixus 95 (SGD $319). This camera is slightly thicker than the rest. I tried the display set which was slightly laggy in recognising the scene automatically such as from normal scene to macro mode. The body was plastic, feels like a toy. Initially the first salesman promised an additional battery, but subsequently when I returned, the next salesman was not able to do so, so I feel a little disappointed..

3) Compare with Sony's T90 (SGD $449), J27 is not touch screen camera. I dont really like touch screen stuff or maybe I never enjoy touch screen gadgets. The Sony salesman who looked so uninterested talking to me, was reluctant to tell me more about the camera when I ask about it. He is simply not sincere in selling it to me. Was very angry when I ask about how much is the battery and he was not able to tell me, moreover, he said "If you want to buy the camera then I help you ask lah...." What the ... That makes me even more displease with his service. Actually I wanted very much to buy this because it was a very good price $50 off from usual price and it was a slim camera which was a dream camera of mine. However... I am still quite bother by the touch screen...

4) Finally, Fujifilm J27 ... Main reason for getting this camera was it was more affordable, not touch screen, the body feels solid, the design is great, it was quite compact and last but not least, I like the pictures taken by this camera. The colours of the pictures are quite vibrant but however I have not taken it with a night scene yet.

As a camera idiot like me, I am still exploring so I hope this might be a good basic camera for me to start with and enjoy shooting parts of my life. Hopefully I can share more pictures with you all next time. Enjoy :)

Review available @ http://www.buy-n-shoot.com/content/view/1469/

Here's a picture of my camera:





Hello guys,

I just got my pieces for the Mcdonalds Monopoly.
Do anyone has the rest? Wanna trade? :P

[Brown]
1) Joo Chiat Rd
2) Geylang Rd (2x)

[Light Purple]
3) Ang Mo Kio (3x)
4) Toa Payoh
5) Bishan (4x)

[Pink]
6) Queenstown (1x)
7) Farrer Rd (3x)
8) Thomson Rd

[Orange]
9) Bayshore Rd (3x)
10) Amber Rd (2x)
11) Tanjong Rhu

[Red]
12) Shenton Way
13) Robinson Rd (1x)
14) Raffles Place

[Yellow]
15) River Valley (4x)
16) Newton Rd (2x)
17) Scotts Rd

[Green]
18) Holland Rd (1x)
19) Orchard Rd
20) Ardmore Park (2x)

[Blue]
21) Marina Bay (2x)
22) Sentosa Cove

[Misc]
Apple Pie
Sausage McMuffin



Felt depressed today really. Was shoot by a old bird this evening just before I was about to go home. I try to seek help from him to understand about some plug-in features but I guessed I am just wasn't good enough to talk to him about programming yet. So boring ... Whatever we learnt in school were like probably one tenth of what you gonna face in real working life I guessed. Hope it just applied to me. There is this protocol where the whole team of mine dont really know and my boss tasked me to go and implement it. Wow! Headache... I have been reading documents, going through codes which is written by others hoping to find out what is it all about. Not only that, there is alot of services involved, like database, some authentication service blah blah blah... Headache sia! I really hope someone can shine some light on me although this old bird is cruel with his words, he has been the one who has tried to make some sense in the codes I am reading...

His words were hurting but it's true ... I just need to buck up perhaps ...
Come to think of that, I am just 1 week old in the company... What wonders can I do really? ...

Awww... feels so bad, so lost and so depressed ...

Can someone save me ...



Time for me to face Eclipse...

Previously, I kept using basic IDE like JCreator while missing out on using Eclipse and now I need to get myself to familiarise with the application soon so I can program a API out. It's cool but I think I need to take quite some time to explore it independently. Pray hard that my brain can process it fast.


I also didn't manage to get my shoes from RiverIsland because there is no sales for the shoes I wanted. Sobsob! The male section literally has no discount at all except a cluster of shoes. It is so pathetic. I wonder how is the situation at other outlets. Hmmm


My ankle has been slowly recovering I hope. Mummy gave me a plaster to paste on the ankle part. It feels quite good, has a cooling effect and it restrain my ankle movement. This stack of plasters is bought from a physician in Korea. I hope it helps because I cant wait to play soccer!


My mind are tired now but I hope I can overcome this obstacle that I am facing and become a better person or rather a better programmer. Hope I can succeed...


Sleeping with a worried mind tonight ...



What a Saturday? I woke up quite early, almost like the same time I need to for work. It's boring to know that I had to attend a soccer match to support my company. But I think since my boss is so nice to me, I should try to do him a favour at least. I was late for the match though. It started at 0830hrs but I was there at about 1000hrs. I saw my colleague who is already there and I met my boss. He did not question me why I was late but he welcome me instead. I was surprised.

I was there for quite a while until about noon before I went to buy a non-camera phone from a online person. I was abit shocked when I saw the person. She looked like a "he" and there is tattoos all over her. We did not speak much and I went ahead to view the phone. The phone was in good condition, despite several non-obvious scratches that I can forego. It was bought in May and probably left about 7 months on the warranty. I paid her $250 for the extinct phone which is still very much in demand. Nokia has stopped its production and currently, it's few competitors only left Sony Ericsson G700 and HTC Snap. I was not interested in G700 which cost about $280 w/out plan, probably due to its design and for Snap, it was rather too expensive at the price of $398 with a Starhub plan.

Here's the picture of the phone Nokia E51:




This phone is quite similar to the Nokia E63 I was using earlier but have to give up due to the nature of my job. Perhaps I have to pass my nice phone to my cake to use haha. I have been using and loving the Nokia E51 after I got the phone. Maybe it is really the right phone for me.

I had a long day, after which I left to meet cake for shopping after getting the phone. We went Bencoolen to get her dream watch.

French Connection Watch:



This is just the only picture that resembles her watch but however, the watch itself really look alot more fashionable, classy and appealing of what it may seem on the picture itself. We manage to get 30% off for the watch from that shop by the name of WIN something .. lol which in coincidence is my nickname haha.

I had a great time walking around with her. Ate dim sum at Sunshine Plaza, but unfortunately, the dim sum is not so nice as she said. Perhaps my requirements are too high. Some like the fried prawn dumpling and the steam carrot cake still do taste very nice too but the rest is so so only.

By 2200hrs, she companied me to dash into BHG @ Bugis to look for my "type" of wallet, slim, hard cover and nice and we found one new Pierre Cardin wallet which looks wow but it costs slightly more expensive with a price tag of $73 I guessed. Hmm got to reconsider my choice or wait for sale bah.

Heard from cake that her friend said there is a Riverisland sales on in October. It has already started and so I was hoping that I can go there sometime after work tomorrow to look for the shoes I wanted hehe. *Pray hard I can get a good deal there.

Good night!



Hello everyone, I have just ended my day of work. Surprisingly, my colleagues at work are very nice, easy going and outspoken. Almost the entire office is filled with friendly people. Till now, I have not met anyone nasty and hopefully, I would not be meeting such a person.

For now, I did not want to think much, but to work hard and be a friendly person. Those it seems alot different from what we will be doing in school, but I am confident I can contribute to my team. There is alot to pick up actually, so I have to keep on going to google and wikipedia to do my research. Some terms are really out of my dictionary and some really looked alien to me.

I had a great lunch today as I tagged along with Rino and his team to lunch. They brought me to a nearby coffeeshop, which they actually want to take the shutter bus to but I think the 10 minutes walk is fine to do with. And we actually took the shutter bus back. It's free of charge. The food at the coffeeshop was nicer than our canteen at least.

Well tell you all something weird, and that is ... My project team do not actually eat together. They are all split up into different clicks, do not even dine with me. So sad. I end up have to find my colleague who joined the company with me. Hahas! Luckily, one of my team volunteer to jio the rest of the team for lunch tomorrow. Well, let's see what happens tomorrow.

Now, I am still currently look out for a reliable non-camera phone. Sianz, Nokia E51 out of stock. AM I REALLY GOING TO BUY NOKIA 1661? ...



123456 the easiest password, but I would still prefer "password" as password lol!
Well for tech savvy people like us, I doubt anyone of my kakis will use this kuku password right?

Quoted from HWZ:

Just days ago, it was revealed that thousands of Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo account IDs and passwords were leaked. A researcher has studied 10,000 of these accounts and passwords and concluded that the most commonly used password was 123456 and that a staggering 20% of users only used a password that was six characters long. Only 6% of users were savvy enough to use mixed alpha-numeric passwords.

Refer to below link for more info:
http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/news/view.php?id=14793&cid=8

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