Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Visa & Mastercard Smartphone credit cards coming soon!

The Nokia 6131

In the not so distant future, you will be able to use your smartphone as a credit card. In fact, you will be able to carry your entire wallet in your phone, paying for products by waving the device near readers.

Sound cool? Check out these exclusive videos in which market leaders Visa and Mastercard demonstrate the technology and talk with mytreo.net about the rapidly developing mobile payment industry.

Highlights from the interview with Visa:

New mobile payment platform from Visa demonstrated
No need to swipe cards - approaching with card or phone is enough
Visa has developed a rich client experience on devices
Mobile phone is better for payments than credit card: phone can show balance of the bank account and interact with bank.

Highlights from the interview with Mastercard:

Mastercard claims to be two years ahead of visa in the development of this technology.
Some mobile phones will be equipped with mobile payment ability practically removing the need to carry any card
Mobile payment ability available only in few selected handsets
Smart tags are low-cost tags (stickers) that store data and can be placed in magazines or other public places to that contain information about products, such as a customer service number.
Smart tag can be attached to business cards so that people can call owner of given business card just by moving their phone close to the business card
MasterCard is cooperating closely with Nokia
Mobile payment extender will be available also as SD card usable in smartphones

Cho Seung-Hui

DARKNESS FALLS

Vagina Powerrrr (Youtube)

Warning: NSFW. Not for kids. Contains sexual language.

We should get our own Public Access tv channel, man. We're missing out on hilarious gems like this.

Citizen broadcaster Alexyss Tylor hosts a talk show with her mom, about Vagina Power and Penis Power. And from the looks of it, she's talking from personal experience. You can visit her websites here and here (this is down, I think)

The whole clip is full of great quotes like:

"If you wanna earn yo man, you gotta learn yo man."

"She insane, her mind ain't good because the penis done ejaculated in her brain."

"Some men, they have so much heat and intensity in their penis, that you can feel it radiating through their clothes, just to touch the penis, it's on fire, like fire underneath their skin!"

Bizarre stuff. Watch it before it gets removed again from Youtube.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Lau Pa Sat Food Centre/Esplanade

On Sunday, April 22, 2007 ,we arrived at Lau Pa Sat Food Centre located in the heart of Singapore's business district- Boon Tat Street around 6pm. parked our car along the Robinson Road .In my opinion, the dining experience wasn't that great !…Hot and Humid and expensive.. Some 20 family members indulged in a meal of about 200 satay , 4 plate of Rojak ,some mee goreng. fried rice and clam .Satay seems to be the anchor meal . The fried rice was horrifying, soggy and think that gave me and my family some “unresolved internal affairs” that we keep wanting to purge the next morning ! Think food not hygienically prepared . The side street of Lau Pa Sat is closed to traffic and transformed into “Satay Street" with more than 10 satay stalls that grill and serve satay in the open air - the old fashioned way. We occupied 5 to 6 tables at stall 13.

To round off the perfect evening, we visited the Esplanade, which is a prime waterfront land at Marina bay. Car park was @ $5.50 per entry .We hired a River Taxi cruise down the Singapore River from the Esplanade. This was memorable. The whole bunch behaved as if they have just arrived in Singapore. From a distance there stood the magnificent Merlion of which we wish we could BBQ the merlion for our supper. Is there such a creature in the world ~ a cross between a mermaid and a lion???

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Cannot find Greenridge ??

Click here to view map
Greenridge

Where on earth is Greenridge ??

翠綠岗弯

Greenridge Crescent in Chinese Character

Taxi Driver cannot find Greenridge ??

Location Map

This Spot is located near Eng Kong Place; near Greenridge Crescent; near Eng Kong Place; near Eng Kong Place; near Eng Kong Place; This Spot is geographically located at latitude (1.334104 degrees) 1° 20' 2" North of the Equator and longitude (103.766496 degrees) 103° 45' 59" East of the Prime Meridian on the Map of Singapore.

The locations related to This Spot are represented by the flight path Superman would take between two points and may not be nearest by road. For example, This Spot is located 0.1 kilometre from Greenridge. This Spot is located 0.2 kilometre from Savoy Park. This Spot is located 0.4 kilometre from Bukit Timah Primary School. This Spot is located 0.4 kilometre from Kismis Lodge. This Spot is located 0.4 kilometre from Brookvale Park. This Spot is located 0.4 kilometre from Savoy Park Playground.

Clementi Arcade 1.2km, Clementi Park Shopping Centre 1.2km, Beauty World Plaza 1.4km, Beauty World 1.4km, Cold Storage 1.4km, Bukit Timah Plaza 1.4km, Bukit Timah Shopping Centre 1.4km, IMM Building 2.2km, are places to shop (shopping mall, shop houses) located near This Spot.

Syonan Shrine (Japanese WW2) 1.9km, Visitor Centre 1.9km, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve Visitor Centre 2km, Old Ford Factory 2.1km, Bukit Timah Hill 2.5km, Rock Climb 3.1km, Singapore Science Centre 3.4km, Jelutong Tower 4.8km, are places of interest (attraction) located near This Spot.

Upper Bukit Timah Food Centre 1.2km, Shophouses along Cheong Chin Nam Road 1.4km, Mcdonald's 1.4km, Turfcity Food Court 3km, Teban Garden Food Centre 3km, Yuhua Village Food Centre 3.4km, Ghim Moh Food Centre 3.5km, Eskibar @ Holland V 3.9km, are eating places (food court, cafe, hawker food) located near This Spot.

Bukit Timah Primary School 0.4km, Canadian International School 0.7km, Ngee Ann Polytechnic 1km, Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School 1.1km, Yusof Ishak Secondary School 1.2km, Canossian Convent 1.3km, CHIJ - Bukit Timah 1.3km, Methodist Girls Primary School 1.4km, are places of learning (school, college, university) located near This Spot.

Savoy Park Playground 0.4km, Eng Kong Terrace Playground 0.4km, Highgate Walk Playground 0.7km, Sunset Heights Park 0.7km, Sunset Way Park 0.7km, Sunset Way Playground 0.9km, Clementi Neighbourhood Park 1.2km, Lorong Pisang Playground 1.3km, are parks, playgrounds, open fields or commons located near This Spot.

PROPERTY PRICES IN GREENRIDGE ! WANT TO SELL !

Nice place ....
but do you agree that airing laundry in front of driveway
isn't very nice to look at ??

For the past umpteent years almost every night neighbours have had to put up with late night "outdoor" mahjong session. Friend park their cars INDISCRIMINATELY and when we are unable to get into our driveway they say you are a "Kayu driver" The voices and the sound of mahjong tiles stretch into the middle of the night are frustrating when you are tired and just want to get a good night's rest.
An expatriate neighbour once stormed over to the house when level of noise became unbearable . End Result "Boh Chap" We shall continue to play our mahjong and you go to sleep lah -Chow Angmoh you dare to complaint hor ! LOL

We heard "胡 , 自摸 , 雞和 , 九張包 ,十二張包 "

w.e.f . 麻雀 till early hours of the morning !

Greenridge houses are huge with a minimum floor area of 2,045 sq ft . Why not bring the mahjong game in-door and spare the neighbour the noise pollution ?? Hence this is a GREENRIDGE BANANA EXPERIENCE . This blog and the writer bears no anger or resentment to our good neighbours !

Can you teach a crab to walk straight ??

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have good neighbors.

TO-DAY 22 APRIL 2007 "YOUR STARS"

"Singapore is a place I can called my Home . This is the place where I don't have to worry about who I am because I am who I am here ."

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PET LOVER PRICE IS $27.20

BEER IS EXPENSIVE IN SINGAPORE !
I had a long night and to cut a long story short,ended up smashed. Imbibing alcohol does that to you. As I would expect drink beer before bed time makes you wanna take a leak in the middle of the night . Leaking 4 times last night ! Arghhhhhh...

Bukit Timah Market & Food Centre
1 & 2 sell same stuff "Chai Kway Teow" but one long bloody Q !
Picture 3 My regular fruit seller ! Obiang and Obscene .
Butterflies at the back
of her bra strip .

PLASTIC MAN

Save plastic bag save the world !

BAK CHOR MEE MAN

Price Hike ~ Top Dollar for Top Talent

Singapore Sat 21 2007 6pm Shaw Centre 8th Floor Car park Lot 823/824
Mercedes SGQ 5958 G ~ "Big Car but small heart " You did NOT pay for Lot 824 ??
why deprived MY "SMALL" car of this lot !! Argh...

Johnny … It is Too Late to Pray

Mr John Howard said Australians should hope and pray for rain, heavy rain, over the next six to eight weeks. Valencia oranges were yesterday selling for between $3.99 and $4.99 per 3kg bag at the markets, but stall holders feared the price could top the $13 mark. WINE prices are expected to rise by up to 30 per cent over the next 18 months as the drought wipes out the grape oversupply that fuelled widespread discounting over the past two years.

IF IT DOES NOT RAIN …

■ Grapes, citrus, stone fruit and apple industries will be devastated.

■ Next year's wine vintage will be crippled.

■ Prices of milk, meat and vegetables will soar.

■ A jump in food prices might push up inflation.

■ Heavy job losses predicted.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Do you keep an eye on your neighbours?

screening for nosy neighbors! help me keep my sanity!!
Nosy neighbours can be a pain, but like someone said,
noisy neighbours are as well.

This is my neighbour's car quite similiar
to the BELOW CAR -Guess Wat ?

On 19 April 2007 at 5pm , while I was in the car I took this picture using my Nokia N80 as a test as how nosy my neighbour was . The neighbourhood was rather quiet but I was wrong ! My opposite neighbour have been watching us like a hawk everyday ! Even before I could reached Eng Kong Road I received an SMS from him .Here it goes :-

ROLAND -- Tao interestingly just saw you took picture using cell phone ? Anything I can help ?
Cos on Stomp saw a red Peug smashed so took 2 see if same
ROLAND -- Mine is green and is the number the same ?
Not very sure will email you the car later !
Any prob me taking picture of your car on public road ?
ROLAND -- I can send you better picture haha not a problem .
I am blogging on exotic car !
ROLAND -- Good n yours more exotic n have funs with blogging
Do you have any other interesting article .
When done email you the URL .Tks
This is what I took awhile ago ! U offended !
ROLAND -- Nice Pic.No offence at all.Just curious .

What is your judgement on such SMS ??
ANSWER : NOSY NEIGHBOUR !

hit-and-run driver

There were holes and massive dents in the car body, a punctured tyre and smashed windows and she believes that the accident might have caused a considerable amount of noise.

While waiting for the police to arrive at the scene, her colleague asked around at the coffeeshop and the company opposite the accident site, but no one there had witnessed the accident.

The 30-year-old Asia Pacific Breweries executive told STOMP that she would have to pay at least S$30, 000 to repair the damages.

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz

TO LISTEN

Wolfowitz's Girlfriend Excuse The 'Riza affair' isn't the only reason behind the World Bank president's downfall !The "Riza affair" might not have grown into such a big scandal for Paul Wolfowitz if it hadn't happened at such an inopportune time. Wolfowitz, an ex-Pentagon employee, was allegedly involved in transferring his companion, Shara Riza, to a high paying job at the State Department after he took over as president of the World Bank. The case popped up right as Wolfowitz was carrying out a political campaign against corruption both inside the institution and among its beneficiaries, the countries that receive help from the bank in the form of development projects. In many cases, a good part of that money is pocketed by local officers and contractors.