http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs Tangy Orangy Content! Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:46:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Being an avid fan of the battlemech universe, this installment to the mechwarrior franchise will sure to get any battletech fans jumping out for joy. The latest trailer released by Piranha Games shows the in game-graphics bringing out all the details of the battlemechs, far better than what I recall ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/07/16/mechwarrior-5-coming-soon-on-pc-and-360 Traveling is quite a a big part of life in the UK, it's also a way of life. Simple short trips can easily go for hours on end. Time where you can just prep your day with some coffee, a good book, your music player or a fully charged laptop ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/07/15/cambridgeshire-bus-commute-video There had been some minor inconsistent errors which always seems to come and go on the gallery. So far the site has been successfully tested on primary browsers, firefox 2+, internet explorer 7+, safari 3+ and google chrome. But I noticed however, that the images in the gallery occasionally turn ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/07/12/site-gallery-images-bug-can-you-see-them With my university term starting in October, it's very much shopping time to get the gears and stuffs in preparations for my departure. Shopping is good therapy, well, not until you see the bill! The choice of my desired system was much of a personal debated topic as well. The ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/07/07/gearing-up-for-the-all-powerful-alienware-m17x I've always wanted to digitize my old holiday photos, but knowing that they are buried in storage under years of dust made it quite a turn off to do so, till now. I recently got this spanking new Canon all in one printer which allows for network scanning and printing ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/07/05/old-amercia-canada-and-mexico-holiday-photographs-digitized Motivational signs are always well... motivational- stuff you usually see lining cubicle walls or classrooms. On the other end of the spectrum, particularly if you use them in another unintended way, come the kind of signs we call de-motivational signs. Coupled with a sense of humor these signs can get ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/07/01/team-fortress-2-motivational-signs-steamroll-and-teamstacking-sprays Today saw a sad moment and the lost of one of the greatest pop stars in history. Jackson collapsed at a rented home in Holmby Hills in Los Angeles from an cardiac arrest, attempts at resuscitating him by his personal physician and at the UCLA Medical Center was unsuccessful. Though speculation ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/06/26/remembering-michael-jackson-the-greatest-of-all-time Well the site had been fully upgraded with all the basic necessities up. The tough part is of course converting all the current articles and tutorials into wordpress itself. What's more the site is xhtml validated now, so that will put some standardization into the site itself. Strangely, xhtml seems ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/06/26/site-officially-upgraded-now-time-for-the-eye-candies Following the upgrade of the site, I've successfully integrated gallery2 with wordpress 2.8, able to call wordpress functions within gallery itself and maintain your wordpress sidebar. This was not previously achievable with gallery1 considering that some wordpress and gallery share some variables which needs to be redefined to avoid conflict, ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/06/26/integrate-wrapping-wordpress-2-8-functions-with-gallery2-with-conditional-css Heads up for the new clean design I've been working on over the past months. The site is running on WP 2.8 and I will be upgrading the photo gallery soon as well. Part of the update which took so much time was to update the various textual content around ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/06/16/a-new-post-on-a-new-revised-site-design blog/sc_cam_freshersprepWell it really had been sometime since I've posted an entry here. Haha to the extent of some of my regular readers contacting me about my absence. Haha yes of course I am still around, my apologies. So what had been keeping me busy? well much, it's only 4 months ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/06/05/there-is-not-much-of-time-left-or-it-is This is a very interesting video on open/closed mindedness. So if you always go around telling people they are closed minded or telling people to be more open minded, you should watch this. http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/05/21/are-you-really-open-minded As part of the series of "Meet the cast" in the uber cool game, Team Fortress, which sadly had saw me playing for a good ol' 10 years since 1999 with team fortress classic and now it's sequel, team fortress 2. This latest installment is an early leaked version not ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/05/16/team-fortress-2-meet-the-spy This is the second part of my guide for applying to UK universities via UCAS for polytechnic students in Singapore, covering the remaining sections, employment, personal statement and reference. 4. Employment If you've have any working experience, say part-time at a fast food joint or being your own boss, list them here, ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/05/14/guide-for-applying-to-uk-universities-via-ucas-for-polytechnic-students-part-2-employment-personal-statement-and-reference After my successful application as an international student from Singapore via UCAS (guess many found their way here from a dated blog post), I've been receiving quite a number of questions about the application process, particular for non-mainstream poly students like myself. I have written a small guide condensed from ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/05/14/guide-for-applying-to-uk-universities-via-ucas-for-polytechnic-students-part-1-personal-details-choices-and-education In the third year running, the highly successful Mizuno Mount Faber Run is back again, taking runners through the sights of the southern hills of Singapore.blog/mtfaber2009_route_map Race Details Venue: Open carpark space between Block 121 & 123 Bukit Merah View (There will be multiple tents erected in the carpark itself) Distance: 10km Race Start Time: ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/04/30/mizuno-mount-faber-run-14-jun-2009 Due to be launched on the 5th of May and the first of it's kind in the world, Dell Swarm by Intel and Dell is an online ordering portal targeted at students and value hunters alike. So it works like a mass order system we usually see taking "lobangs", only ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/04/25/launch-of-dell-swarm blog/site_design09Well, progress on the site revamp is rather fruitful. It started with a rather tough fight to get div containers to go fluid on percent values for a 3 column layout, fixed width divs are more predictable over a range of browsers, so I am still contemplating whether to allow ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/04/24/site-revamp-progress-right-on-track I've been receiving quite a few emails asking about my "Ad" on few popular online classifieds sites, such as 88db. Which left really really puzzled as I do not feature my freelance services anywhere else on the internet other than my portfolio pages on this website. So I went about ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/04/21/classifieds-impersonations blog/dell_servers08Am updating all scripts on my servers as I type along in this blog post, there is quite much updating to go, I guess I just sneak an update here. After much investigation of the previous hacking attempt in my last blog post, it seems that the DoS problem narrows ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/04/15/followup-of-the-hacking-situation Sorry for the 1 hour downtime last night from 12:30am to about 1:30am (Singapore time). The site is up and functional now. I jumped when I got a downtime message from my servers, strange, the server can be reached and pinged, so not a hardware or network problem, but my ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/04/14/shaunchngcom-servers-hacked Always wanted to get a site revamp up since last year, but just do not have the time and commitment to do so. I guess I has been more busy creating and building websites for my clients that I think that I am starting to neglect this very site. Bummer. Furthermore, ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/04/05/site-upgrade-planned-in-next-month It's ain't no april fool's joke, but hey Singapore does have a reputation of a fine city. And what better way to see it through the eyes of a rather chatty taxi driver. Though I think the expats have not really seen much of Singapore to make any firm creditability from ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/04/01/singapore-is-a-fine-city-of-course-arent-you-proud-of-it Vote Earth! On Saturday 28 March 2009 8:30PM local time, wherever you live on planet earth, your light switch is your vote to climate change. blog/vote_earth_switch_Shepard_FaireyThis year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of all ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/03/27/remember-to-flick-the-switch-on-earth-day-tomorrow The 25th of march is always a cool day for me, haha, but this year it's much more special as this 25th is my 25th birthday, the magical 2 numbers and I am 25 years young! A year young, a year wiser as well! For me, it's a rest day today, ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/03/25/its-the-25th-of-march-and-shaun-turns-25-today It had been sometime since I last wrote an entry in here. I am starting to think that maybe Facebook or Twitter may be taking over the possible hassle of blogs. But I do not think we will see the death of the blog, particularly this one as well. You ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/03/22/networking-site-restraints-and-blogging-compel-lance Ok we all know that the US treasury is bailing-out and boosting the economy with various economical policies using the reserves. This is so in Singapore as well. I found this photo shopped animated gif image while surfing the internet and I can't stop laughing whenever I see it. It's ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/03/15/us-bailout-funds-from-the-hood Ahh, good ol' Universal studios, and with a photo booth prank to boot as well. This one really made me laugh quite a bit, courtesy with footage on the tube from CNBC. I just wonder how cooperative people will get if we have this in Singapore, or will they simply ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/03/04/photo-booth-prank-at-universal-studios Internet ain't that covered nor cheap in Europe, I guess originating from one of the most connected nations in the world (currently 99.9% penetration in Singapore right?) I am quite spoilt for free campus internet, let be even free wi-fi on the Singapore streets and cafe. blog/tp_lpcaseWe had grown so synonymous ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/02/23/the-quid-for-the-byte-internet-is-expensive-in-uk-recommend-me-a-uk-mobile-operator IWD Fun Run/Walk 2009 Details Date: 1st March, 2009 (Sunday) Time: 3.30pm Registration; 4.30 flag-off time Venue: Bedok Reservoir Park GOH: Ms Jessica Tan, MP for East Coast GRC Registrations Closing date of registration: 27th Feb 12pm Open to both men and women can apply! Registration Website As part of IWD (International Women's Day) 2009, SCWO will ... http://www.shaunchng.com/blogs/2009/02/16/international-womens-day-2009-fun-runwalk-2009-details