Time to crack the brains again

Setting the MST MCQ now.

Sigh, I always need so much time to set papers :(

Didnt waste $12 afterall

Based on the recommendation of NRZ’s colleague, we placed an order for this Wii Remote Charger which seemed very attractively priced at $8.39USD with free shipping.  After conversion to SGD at an exchange rate of 0.697423 USD, it costs only SGD$12.03.  Considering the package comes with a Wii Remote Controller Charger + 2 x 2800mAh batteries, it was a real bargain.

I placed the order on 06 April 2010 and patiently waited for the package to arrive, expecting it to come within 10 to 14 days at most.  However,

Configuring ASP.NET 2.0 Application Services to use SQL Server 2008

Oh well, I keep forgetting the steps and keep needing to do this again.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/08/25/423703.aspx

To the Zoo again

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Love my new 10x zoom Fujifim F70EXR!

Got my new compact camera at our favourite camera shop, SLR Revolution, Funan Centre this morning, thanks to the recommendation of friendly sales executive Ray Lim (rayslr.revo@gmail.com).


I tell you, the camera is really power!

• 10 times OPTICAL zoom
• automatic EXR sensor (auto detects whether you are taking a close-up pic, a landscape pic or a night pic etc)
• Credible pro-low light mode
• Superb dual image stabilization

The 10x optical zoom is really impressive. I tried it out by first taking an unzoomed photo of a construction site just opposite the old People Park's Complex and then zooming in with the maximum 10 times dial. Woooosh... the camera could detect and capture the faces workers who were at least 200+ metres away. See the photos below!

New tablet laptop! :)

Got my new Lenovo Tablet X210T notebook installed with Windows 7 just now : )

No chance to use it until tomorrow as the notebook harddisk is configured to be encrypted and the config process is expected to last at least 4 hours!

Haha, never used a tablet laptop before, even the ability to twist the screen around like this is fun for me ;). Looking forward to using the writing / journalling feature, though I heard usually tablet pc are usually on the slower side.

We succeeded in cooking an egg with the SUN!

Lesson learnt: Don’t give up till the last minute.

Just half an hour after I posted my last blog entry about how I anticipated our third attempt to cook an egg with our solar cooker will fail again, the sun started to shine its powerful rays very strongly and at 12:20 pm, we started to see some signs of the egg white starting to cook!

To think I nearly wanted to give up just some minutes ago!  Fortunately NRZ said we should eat lunch first, then pack up only after we have finished lunch.   So while he went to ‘tapow’ our lunch and I waited for him to come back, the miracle happened!

Haha, we are very pleased with the whole thing, but none more than Edison who has to bring back this contraption back to school on Thursday for his Science Project and do the experiment in front of his Science teacher and classmates.  We hope the miracle repeats that day! ;)

 

Solar cooker

The "exciting" thing about being a parent is that when your child comes back with a challenging project from school that will daunt even adults, you learn something along with them as well.

Today is the THIRD time we are trying out our "home-made" solar cookers which NRZ painstakingly constructed with assorted materials like shoeboxes, aluminium foil, black paint etc. Our aim is to try to cook a cracked egg using the solar cooker by just leaving the apparatus in the sun and using the principles of light and heat such as heat conduction, absorption, green house effect, reflection etc to enable the cooking of the egg.

As I am typing this, we have been "baking" in the sun for 40 minutes already, but the situation does not look promising. :(

Sadly, the sunlight is not strong due to an overcast sky with several gray clouds and we are not heartened by last night's evening weather forecast that thunderstorms are expected over the next few days.

So I expect the experiment is probably not going to succeed again..

But strangely, we are enjoying the process and I think this experience is probably going to be something that will stay in our minds for some time. :)

Learning his 听写 for tomorrow while waiting for the egg to cook

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Gladiator!

Kekeke.. my first pair of GLADIATOR heels at $10.00 only!

You are my sunshine

Our sunshine boy made a sun and cloud and sang along with the song.

Look how colorful our walls are ;)

We got a new DSLR :)

Bought a Pentax K-x with dual lens kit (18-55 mm and 55-200 mm) at SLR Revolution during the weekend.

NRZ set the timer and took two family pics with it just now.

$129.60 of books

Don’t have much time to do up a long blog entry, but I think NRZ is feeling rather accomplished about our trip to the MPH fair at Expo on Good Friday (yesterday), so I will just post a couple of photos of it.

There are some very good buys at the fair, e.g. softcover books going at $3 or $10 for 5, and hardcopy for $8 or $35 for 5.  Naturally, we could not resist!

I would recommend you to drop by there if you love to buy books, you would be one happy girl / boy / man  / woman when you see the huge array of books available there, and at such attractive prices too!