Martin Jr

Frog porridge and beef kway teow at Geylang

Martin Jr — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:42:20 +0000

If you’re up for frog porridge and beef kway teow you can get them at the junction of Lorong 9 and Geylang. Both stalls are opposite of each other but you can sit at any end and let them know where you sit.

Takashimaya Mid-Autumn Festival

Martin Jr — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:08:24 +0000

Posting some photos taken from Takashimaya’s Mid-Autumn Festival, bought a few assorted varieties of mooncakes to give away back home. Free tasting available from all stalls and I particularly liked the snow skin durian flavored mooncakes, yum yum!

Tansek’s Siew Mai has arrived!

Martin Jr — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:37:34 +0000

Siew Mai arrived in Vietnam last night by Lufthansa Airlines from USA, it took us more than 2 hours to bring him out, snail pace and greedy eyed officials prevented us from speedy pick up. He was a bit nervous at first but was much calmer after introducing him to our 3 other Chows, he’s certainly energetic and extremely curious with his new surrounding. He doesn’t seem to have much appetite at the moment, could be jet lagged! Here are some of his photos after reaching home

Tansek’s Siew Mai on his way to Vietnam!

Martin Jr — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:27:29 +0000

After waiting for more than 2 years for a specific litter from Forestway Chows kennel the long wait is finally over. Tansek’s Siew Mai, a handsome cream male chow chow, will be making his way to his new home this Wednesday. A journey that will take him across the globe from Detroit USA to Frankfurt Germany and finally to Saigon Vietnam, he will depart tomorrow (Wednesday) and expected to arrive this Friday, a gut wrenching 35hours and 20mins travel.

Fingers crossed and hope all the paperwork is in order for his flight tomorrow, looking forward to receiving him!

File is too large for destination file system error message

Martin Jr — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:51:59 +0000

Whiles trying to move a relatively large file (4.3GB+) yesterday to my external Western Digital HDD storage system I encountered an error “File is too large for destination file system” message. A quick check online and I discovered that my storage system was under Fat32 system which only support 4GB max per file, to rectify this I will have to change the file system to NTFS. Further reading shows the procedure to be relatively easy and painless but as a precaution always make a backup!

The error

Fat32 file system

Using command prompt heck the volume name (in my case it’s “My Book”) by typing vol d: and type convert d: /fs:ntfs to start converting

It will prompt you to enter your volume label before conversion, mine was “My Book”. Press enter and after a couple of minutes it’s done. Easy

Let’s give it a go….. perfect

Samsung SyncMaster P2370H

Martin Jr — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:48:41 +0000

My new monitor was delivered to my office today, Samsung’s 23″ SyncMaster P2370H for VND$4,750,000 (with 10% VAT). The good thing is it has HDMI option which unfortunately is the only video port my Alienware M11x supports. Another cool thing I like about this monitor is the menu option besides the power button, it automagically appear when you touch the transparent screen. It’s touch sensitive! The downside is the glossy frame, at each corners you’ll see your screen’s reflection… I know it’s nothing but it bugs me!

Samsung SyncMaster P2370H box

Available ports at the back of the monitor, power, DVI, HDMI and Audio

Connected to Alienware M11X

Touch sensitive menu and power buttons

Damn reflection!