B is for Beach Road Market Opening Hours

Beach Road Market

http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_45159/travel_site_15507/

Also popularly known as Army Market, is a 2 storey houses a hawker centre on the ground floor and a sundry market on the upper floor. It is known as the Army Market because most of the shops on the upper floor sells military gear and equipment. Anything and everything that you may need in your 2 years of National Service can be purchased here, even army issued stuff like SAF talcum powder – which incidentally, was said to be effective in killing bed bugs. The only thing you cannot buy here is perhaps a life sized blow up doll of your girlfriend to bring back to camp.

According to urban legend, you could even buy sensitive equipment like parts of the M-16 at some shops. With most SAF camps having their own e-mart, the business for these shop owners have shifted to cater to travellers going on a hardship holiday, eg. camping, backpacking, hiking, disaster rescue etc. It is our very own but much smaller version of Bangkok’s Chactuchak market except that it is open all days of the week.

I remember sourcing high and low for a scouring pad known as Brillo for the purpose of polishing my mess tin to a glorified shine for standby purposes (no thanks to a sadistic platoon sergeant by the name of Brian Low – I can still remember your name cos you were an arse-hole). Tried many supermarkets and shops but couldn’t find this elusive Brillo. But lo and behold, I found plenty here at the Beach Road market. And this Brillo does work wonders, turning a matt finished mess tin to an almost glossy shine.

And oh yes, the purpose of this post is to inform everybody that Beach Road market located at 505, Beach Road is open till late at night (information provided by a reliable source). Even if your visit to the army market is futile, there is always great food at the hawker centre below to compensate for your effort.
If the food at the hawker centre is not your cup of tea, why not cross the overhead bridge to Thien Kee Steamboat Restaurant at 6001 Beach Road, #B1-20 Golden Mile Tower for one of the most authentic tasting hainanese chicken rice in Singapore and paired with traditional charcoal steamboat?

A is for Andriod on HP Touchpad

How to install Android on HP Touchpad

http://www.howtogeek.com/76960/how-to-install-android-on-your-hp-touchpad/

Ironically, the Touchpad is generating more interest for itself after being axed by HP shortly after its release. Whether its planned or accidental, it sure is a strange but successful marketing strategy.

Reasons for buying one :-

Its the best value for money tablet in the market right now, in terms of price vs product specifications. No other tablet of similar specs even come close to its price.

Dual boot possibility. When Andriod is successfully ported over, the Touchpad will be raised to “no horse run” status.

Fast dual-core processor.

No itunes required means no anal Apple restrictions. Just USB file explorer.

Capacitive screen, same as iPad. No need to press down on the screen to select.

Adobe Flash supported and can watch Catchup TV on xinmsn.com, try to beat that, iPad!

Even if the apps are crap, it can still serve as a portable media player well.

It can even be used as a serving tray long after its useful life.

I is for Inevitable by Anberlin

Nice song for a couple deeply in love…

Do you remember when we were just kids
And cardboard boxes took us miles from what we would miss?
School yard conversations taken to heart
And laughter took the place of everything we knew we were not

I want to break every clock
The hands of time could never move again
We could stay in this moment for the rest of our lives
Is it over now, hey, hey, is it over now?

I want to be your last first kiss that you’ll ever have
I want to be your last first kiss

Amazing how life turns out the way that it does
We end up hurting the worst, the only ones we really love

I want to break every clock
The hands of time could never move again
We could stay in this moment for the rest of our lives
Is it over now, hey, hey, is it over now?

I want to be your last first kiss that you’ll ever have
I want to be your last first kiss

Is it over now, hey, hey, is it over now?
Is it over now? Hey, hey, it’s not over now

I want to be your last first kiss that you’ll ever have
I want to be your last first love that you’ll ever have
Lying here beside me, palms and eyes open wide
I want to be your last first kiss for all time

S is for Sandalwood incense

If you have pests in your home – not the pesky mother-in-law but the creepy crawlie kind – and you just couldn’t get them out of your house – here is an effective and cheap, yet non-toxic way to get them out of your home. Sandalwood incense. Sandalwood incense is traditionally burnt by some races/religions because they believe that the scent helps to ward off or appease the “unseen” spirits and protect the house from harm.

Burn them in the corners of the house where pests may be hiding, for eg. kitchen corners, toilet, store rooms. Before you start burning, remember to keep all your laundry somewhere as the fumes will stay on fabric long after the incense has stopped burning. Close all windows and start to fumigate the house!

These stuff are cheap and come in packs of 25 or 50s.

J is for Jailbreak iPad iPhones on firmware 4.3.3 or below

Step 1
Check your firmware version on your device by going to Settings>General>About>Version, if it is 4.3.3, skip to Step 3. If it is 4.3.4, google for Redsn0w and skip this tutorial all together.

Step 2
If your firmware is 4.3.2 or earlier, upgrade your device to 4.3.3 using this method :-
First. download the 4.3.3 firmware from the links below according to your device -
iPad 1 or 2 – http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-1010.20110503.ScEp3/iPad1,1_4.3.3_8J3_Restore.ipsw
iPhone 4 – http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-1011.20110503.q7fGc/iPhone3,1_4.3.3_8J2_Restore.ipsw
iPhone 3GS – http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/041-1009.20110503.M73Yr/iPhone2,1_4.3.3_8J2_Restore.ipsw
It takes a while as the file is quite huge.
Second, open up your itunes and connect your device to your PC/Mac and then select your device on iTunes.
IMPORTANT : Ignore any prompt to update your firmware to 4.3.4
While waiting for your firmware download to complete, do a backup of your device on your iTunes. When both tasks are done, proceed next.
Press the shift key on your PC and click on the Update button. It will prompt you for the firmware file, look for the file you have just downloaded and click “Open”.
Follow the steps to update your firmware according to the instructions.
Once you have completed your update to 4.3.3, proceed to Step 3.

Step 3
Using Safari browser on your device, visit the following website :-
www.jailbreakme.com

On iphone, the site looks like this :-

On iPad, it looks like this below :-

Select the free then install button; like installing any app from the appstore. Wait for it to complete then go back to your home screen.

Step 4
Look for the Cydia icon on your homescreen.

If you see it, you have jailbroken your device successfully. Run Cydia for the first time as it needs to load all the packages for the first time before you can use Cydia as a springboard to greater things on your Apple device.

If you cant find the Cydia icon, reboot your device and then try Step 3 again. It may take a few tries before you can successfully jailbreak your device. This may happen if your internet connection is wobbly or the server at jailbreakme.com is experiencing high traffic.

Step 5
From Cydia, the first thing you need to install is PDF Patcher 2. This will protect your device from the very exploit that made this jailbreak possible. It is important because it closes up the backdoor for other malicious attacks.
Refer to my earlier posts on Cydia to find out what apps you should be installing from Cydia to get the max out of your jailbreak, eg. Adding sources, installing packages like Installous, Appsync, Winterboard, SBSettings, etc.

Welcome to the dark side.

C is for Cydia Apps

Sources :

Cydia.hackulo.us

Cydia.xsellize.com

fishbone.ge

rpetri.ch/repo/
(Add this source to find Deepend app)

Recommended Apps : (* denotes the apps that are for users who know what they are doing)

Appsync – necessary for transfer of jailbroken apps to itunes

Installous – must have for jailbroken phones, your key to the Apps world out there

SBSettings – one swipe access to phone settings

Winterboard – theme management, customization galore

Yourtube – download your favourite youtube videos easily

Frash – allows certain flash content to be viewable (may cause browser to hang at certain websites)

*OpenSSH – only required if you know what you are doing

Fontswap – change the default system fonts in your iphone

Fakecarrier – change the carrier operator name to your fancy

*iFile – file explorer for your iphone/ipad

Remove Background – remove all apps running in the background easily

xGPS – GPS using google maps

Volume Booster – boost your native iphone/ipad volume

*MobileTerminal – only if you know what you are doing

Deepend – shifts your wallpaper based on the iphone movement to create a 3D effect

*afc2add – allows USB connection for use with ifunbox or other file viewer software on the PC

List is not exhaustive, to be updated….

K is for Kit Chan – Reinterpreting Kit Chan 2011

Although she’s not a mother yet, Kit Chan has that classic MILF look.

She is the kind of woman who oozes sex appeal without trying.

Get her latest album here. Easy album formula – take a few well-known classic hits and rearrange them with new interpretation.

01. 追/今生今世
02. 兄妹
03. 浪子心聲
04. 明星
05. 你把我灌醉
06. 心動
07. Home
08. One Of Us
09. 遺憾
10. Bridge Over Troubled Water

B is for Bejeweled 3

Bejeweled is a game based on a pretty simple logic. Just swap two gems on the game board to get a match of 3 or more of the same gem and the matched gems will disappear off the board.

Based on just this simple principle, the developer is remarkably brilliant to conceive multiple ways to make this game so addictive and engaging that it is one of the most well-known game in the world. Perhaps, Bejeweled could just be the most played game in the history of computer gaming, at least for now.

Just when I thought that there is no other possible way of making this game more interesting, the developer has yet again released Bejeweled 3 which throws up even more ways of playing this game.

Sometimes the best things in life just happen to be so simple that we overlook them. Thankfully, there are geniuses to turn these wonderfully simple ideas into something worthy to be earmarked as a milestone of mankind evolution.