This time marks the death of Taiwanese actress 许玮伦. She just passed her 28th birthday 2 months back.



She was sitting in a white Mini Cooper yesterday. It supposedly scores well in the safety rating. The car was travelling on a difficult road. They say there's not much accident on the road, but when there's one, it's mostly fatal.

Her car was knocked from behind and the air bag in the dashboard did not activate and her head knocked against the dashboard and went into coma. They suspected that she did not put on her seatbelt as it would have prevented her head from knocking the dashboard. She's finally declared dead today at 17:09. Her heart finally stopped beating today at 17:09. She was declared dead on 19:37.

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The archive links on my side bar is growing a bit too long. Time flies and I've been blogging for 27 months. Each month will take up 1 line. I decided to rearrange it 4 months a line using Javascript. How does it look?

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Show how I do it:

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First, add in the following javascript.

<script type="text/javascript">
  var montharray=new Array("Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr",
  "May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec")  ;
  var aryear = 0;
  var arCurrCount = 0;
  var first = true;
  function displayArchive(arurl, arname) {
    var tmpyear = arname.substr(arname.length-4);
    if (tmpyear != aryear) {
      aryear = tmpyear;
      arCurrCount = 0;
      if (!first) {
        document.write("</table><br>");
      }else {
        first = false;
      }
      document.write("<table class=\"calendarTable\"><tr>");
      document.write("<td colspan=\"4\" class=\"calendarYr\">");
      document.write("<b>"+ aryear + "</b></td></tr>\n");
    }
    if (arCurrCount % 4 == 0) {
      if (arCurrCount != 0) {
        document.write("</tr>\n");
      }
      document.write("<tr>\n");
    }
    var currMth = arname.substr(0, 3);
    while (currMth != montharray[arCurrCount]) {
      document.write("<td class=\"calendarMth\">");
      document.write(montharray[arCurrCount] + "</td>");
      arCurrCount++;
      if (arCurrCount % 4 == 0) {
        if (arCurrCount != 0) {
          document.write("</tr>\n");
        }
        document.write("<tr>\n");
      }
    }
    document.write("<td class=\"calendarMth\">");
    document.write("<a href=\"" + arurl + "\">" + currMth + "</a>");
    document.write("</td>");
    arCurrCount++;

    var today=new Date();
    var todayy=today.getYear();
    if (todayy < 1000) {
      todayy+=1900
    }
    var todaym=today.getMonth();
    if (aryear == todayy && currMth == montharray[todaym]) {
      var tmp = 4 - (arCurrCount % 4);
      if (tmp < 4) {
        document.write("<td colspan=\""+tmp+"\"> </td>\n");
      }
      document.write("</tr></table>\n");
    }
  }
</script>

2nd, edit your display of archive to

<BloggerArchives>
<script type="text/javascript">
  displayArchive("<$BlogArchiveURL$>", "<$BlogArchiveName$>");
</script>
</BloggerArchives>

3rd, create 3 style classes named calendarTable, calendarYr and calendarMth. calendarYr is to specify how the overall table should look. eg. You can set the border and background colour.
calendarYr is to specify how the Year should look. eg. The fonts, colours, borders, background, etc.
calendarMth is similar to calendarYr, except that it is to specify how the Month should look.

eg.

<style>
.calendarYr {
  border: 0px;
  padding: 0px
  font-weight: bold;
}

.calendarMth {
  border: 0px;
  padding: 0px 6px 0px 0px;
}

.calendarTable {
  border: 1px solid #000000;
}
</style>

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This Denis Ng guy say that housing loan is a good loan. While we should strive towards being debt free, housing loan should be the last that we clear. When you have the spare cash, should invest it rather than paying it off. Read the article to find out why he say so. I am not endorsing his view, I am not qualified to say whether what he say is good or not. Just to provide you guys some food for thought.

I came across this in Jurong Entertainment Center. I had seen this around for some time, but only today then I really looked at it. I was bored while waiting for my friend, who is in the toilet.



With a corny name like Mouth of Truth, I don't think there's much credibility to the machine. Seems like trying to hard to sound exotic. And how do a mouth look?

There is a bowling tournament organised by my company. I am not into bowling, but since it's free, and my HOD say that we should send a team, and that the rest of my department do not want to go, I am there to make up the numbers.

We played 2 frames each. The first frame I got 94 points. The second frame I think I did better, but it's still 94 points.



I am TM, the 4th bowler. Looking at my scores, you'll know what a big waste I am...

I saw this ad at the bus stop while waiting for the bus to bring me to work. Looks gay to me...

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This link supposedly gives you 40% off 1 book. Valid till tomorrow. My friend told me he just bought a book, so I guess should be for real...


Update (The next day): I printed the page and all set to go claim it after my soccer session. Then I forgot to bring it along...

It's RT/IPPT. It's the last session of my RT. Unfortunately, my fate is in the balance. I missed last Sunday's session due to overslept. Normally, I can arrange for a make up session, but since it was the last weekend session, there's no more time for me to do any make up. I don't know how well will my unit take to my not completing my session, but well, it's out of my hands.

For the test stations, I always have problems with my chin-up and 2.4km. I should not have any problems with passing 2.4km after going all the RT sessions. The chin-ups remains a problem. For this test, I managed 3. I need 4 to pass. Too bad.

After failing my chin-up, I don't really have to finish my 2.4km, I only need to run a token distance. However, Phillip managed to do 4 chin-ups. He has chance of passing this IPPT if he passed his 2.4km and asked me to pace him. Even though I've failed, I can still do with the work out, so I decide to go for it. I managed a 12:35, and Phillip got 12:32. Phillip clocks a faster time because I started 10 seconds before him but I waited for him to run together. The passing time for this station is 13:00. This timing is useless for me, but Phillip passed his IPPT, so things are not too bad. I'll just try again.

This is just some food for thought.

How do you people normally split the taxi bills when you share cab with friends. Normally what me and my friends do is just take the final bill and divide equally. Unless we live in very different directions, most of the time it works out to cost saving for all parties. However, I ever share a cab from Chinatown with a friend who lives in Jurong. We are definitely travelling in the same direction, but Jurong is actually quite far. It would have cost me $10 if I took the cab myself, but the total bill that night is $20+. So I ended paying about $11. The money is a small issue, but it just do not feel right.

Anyway, 1 day, I went to some party at my friend's place in Yishun. I left after midnight and have to take a cab home. Normally, it would take me about $25 to reach home. But I saw another friend flagging for a cab too. Although it's not directly on the way, but if we are to share a cab, it is only a slight detour to her place. Definitely worth it to share. So I took her cab.

When the cab reach her place, it's about $10.80 and she paid me $10 which I happily accepts. t that moment in time, I only thought that she saved $0.80. When it reach my place, it's about $26. Minus her $10, I saved about $9. I was glad that I share the cab with her.

Now the question is, should I have taken only $5 from her? Is it fair that I save $9 while she saved only $0.80. Some says that we should split the savings. But some says that to her, whether I am in the cab do not change anything for her. It's still the same route. There's no inconvenience for her at all. Whereas for me, I sacrifised a bit of time.

Anyway, the $5 does not matters to me. Noe did she ask me for the $5. I am just interested in what other people think.

Was told a disturbing story recently.

My friend was offered a tuition job recently. a 18 yr old Sec 3 guy who just underwent circumcision and is on a long MC. His mum doesn't want him to lag behind his peers, hence the tuition.

The catch is that he may not be wearing any bottoms while having lessons. And she is supposed to apply some medication to his penis before and after tuition!!! How come my parents never arrange such good tuition for me

No prizes for correctly guessing if she took up the assignment.

I bought 2 jade lucky charm from Taiwan. The big 1 is to be placed at home, the small 1 is to be carried around. I accidentally damaged the small 1 and 2 legs are broken. Since then, I noticed that I lost a lot of stuff, including my handphone. I decide to put the damaged lucky charm aside. Since then, I've not been losing things. Yesterday morning, I look it out to have a look. I lost my handphone again that night. #$%^!@

I was watching some Taiwanese variety show where 张韶涵 is the guest. She's only 158m and very thin. She's 35kg now, and she has never gone more than 42kg before. Must be the envy of lotsa lotsa lotsa girls.

The whole day today is spent in meetings. I attended a total of 7 meetings, all with different persons. The 1st meeting works out alright. The 2nd meeting is just a reporting of what we done to the boss. I am not sure, but I get a feeling he is not satisfied with what I report to have done for the past week.

The 3rd went out alright, but it took too long and causes me to be late for the 4th.
The 4th meeting did not go on too well. I am not equiped with enough information for it. The 5th meeting did not go very well either. A very large spanner is thrown into the works and affected a lot of stuff that we wanted done.

The last meeting did not go too well either. Again, I was not equipped with enough information.

To make it worse, I had a white board which is supposed to mount on the wall behind me, but the contractor had to arrive when me was at the meetings, and he mount it at the wrong place.

2 good thing out of the day is that I left my staff pass and book in the toilet and someone found it and returned to me. And of course, the last meeting of the day, a dinner gathering with Crystal, Sharon, Thierry, Clarice, Wizardman and Ivy.

The last time I played in a soccer match with my this group of friends, I ended up scoring the only goal of my team with the last kick of the game.

This time, I head down a ball into space which allows Sim to chase into the box and subsequently fouled. Sam converted the penalty for our only goal of the game.

You know you are old when...

There is this organisation called Habitat for Humanity. They get volunteers to build proper for houses for those who can't afford it. I signed up to go on 1 such trip recently. I will be going to Batam in February to help build a house for the poor.

Before going, we have to take some immunisation jabs. 1 of it is the Tatanus jab. I was told that the validity for it is 10 years. So if we had taken 1 during the past 10 years, we don't have to take it again. I remembered I had taken it during army time, so I am safe there.

Then I realise that army is more than 10 years ago...