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It's a good bye to Google reader

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:36:00 +0000

So, it's a good bye to Google Reader on 1st July.

I started using RSS since years ago, I stumble upon Google reader and never look back again. It had been my daily routine to read up some blog posts by others - fashion, photography, technology and such.

The outlook may not be the best, but it is the best reader after all.

When the news struck about the closing down, the first thing I locate online is another reader.

After reading up, using them, checking it... I finally can rest my head and worries.

FeedDemon and Feedly are my two readers from today onwards. Feedly work like cloud base, it can detect what you had read, but navigation is a bit tough for me, but the look is so niche and clean. I have no idea where to locate all the unread and read them individually.

Like I had said, I have no time to locate them yet.

Whereas for FeedDemon, everything was straight forward like Google Reader. I like the interface and the look. It is able to tell me straight at my face on articles that I have not read. It took me less than a min to get used to it.

What say you, huh.

Nice site. nuffnang

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:09:00 +0000

It had been a long time since I was in nuffnang page. I just realised that there are so many cool features!

There's NuffnangX, which allow you to read what sorta blog you preferred. Unlike in the past, you have to manually post it in order to get viewers. Now, it seem like it is auto? Erm... I am not sure of that.

But on top of that, I can see a big changes on their site. The navigation are much cooler and friendly than before. It took me less than 5min to understand the entire flow. Now, this is what I call end user feedback.

By having it so sophisticated, it might look nice in a wrong way. It can be so difficult to use, and at the end of the day, you lose your customer.

I had just claim the blog of this, photography and parenting to NuffnangX.

Oh yea, I had just set up my photography blog , which I will tell you everything about the tips on photography, audio and video. I may not be a real guru, but I am willing to share with you.

Apart from that, I will want to share what are the wrong move I had took for my career. I am literally learning by myself, with a little help from here and there.

Tough, but I like this kinda challenge.

I know I will make it.

Swee lah.

Am I awake?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:52:00 +0000

I was surprised to see that I have 36261 views on this blog.

Partly everyone is looking for a good laugh, or some information.

Oh yes, if you are looking for some products, like Torco Oil, please come here instead.

All prices stated in this blog had been updated in the new place, so please kindly ignore it. I appreciate that.

I was looking around and whether should I post something here... And there or here I am... another nonsense post.

There are a lot of thoughts running in my mind, and it is begin to spill! Not a good sign huh?

Time is 12mn, and I am still working hard. Delivery of work on time or earlier is a good thing, Client will love you more, but it depend on what sorta situation it is going to be. Stay firm and be more up front; I tend to lose out on that.

Let me think of some post to write and share soon... I shall revive this boring blog tho. Ha!

Meanwhile, please kindly support some advertising clicks. Make my blog traffic high till 1000 views everyday. =P

I wonder...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 14:33:00 +0000

I have no time to blog as like before, same goes for the kids entries.

Busy is the only word I can say now. After turning full time and work for myself, there are a lot of commitment I need to do, and it is all by myself. Glad that my wife is helping too.

Being an own boss is not a bad idea, depending on which way you want to look at. There are a lot of ideas we can do, but with limitation. There's no shortcut to every path; by working hard might not even bring you what you want.

Importantly, play smart is the key word to survive.

Think business first, creative will come after that. Without business, you will face lots of problem; without creativity, you cannot win the clients over (maybe a little). Which is important?

Let's all be truthful to ourselves... what is it we should look at.

Maybe I should kill this blog and restart all over again... rubbish, I will say. =)

New Gift - Intuos 5

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:44:00 +0000

Would like to thanks my wife for giving me such a big present for my work!

It really help me a lot on the photoshop I am using now. Just turn on the review, you will know why Intuos 5 rocks.

I cannot imagine using graphire before, and to mouse. It is pretty pain in da ass because my wrist ache after a long period of usage.

Oh yes, this Intuos 5 size is medium, and I am happy that my wife bought the wireless kit for me too! No more cabling!

The next step is to get myself a new USB hub, there are too many cables dangling around, and it is pretty annoying.

I shall update more on other stuff real soon, stay tuned.

Last but not least, thanks my darling baby for the gift. Love you always.

A Weekend A Photo - 15.07.2012

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:39:00 +0000

15th Jul 2012, Sunday

Hay Dairies, Lim Chu Kang

Educational trip for Cait and Clar - to the Goat Farm!

A Weekend A Photo - 07.07.2012

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:39:00 +0000

7th Jul 2012, Saturday

A&W, Batam

Missing the Float so much, was happy to find it in Batam! Yummy for sure!

A Weekend A Photo - 15.06.2012

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:01:00 +0000

2 weeks had passed and I was too busy with the kids; they had fever and such. I have no time, literally no time to do a shoot on them.

That's bad.. but that goes for my Weekly Project as well.

15th Jun 2012 (Friday)

Waterfront Park, Woodlands

Big playground - Rope lining for climbing.

New blog for selling of torco engine oil

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:43:00 +0000

I had separated the selling of engine oil to another blog:
http://sellengineoil.blogspot.sg/

This is to prevent people who get confused and wanted to keep track on the promotion date stated by me.

Please kindly spread the words around.

Appreciate.

A Weekend A Photo - 19.05.2012

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:23:00 +0000

19th May 2012 (Saturday)

Guan yin temple

Wifey with the girls...

A Weekend A Photo - 13.05.2012

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:19:00 +0000

13th May 2012 (Sunday)

Junction Ten

Performers dancing on stage

My graphic went bonker

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:24:00 +0000

Bye ATI and Hi nVidia

After having so many issue with my PC, which caused the BSOD and such, I am quite determined that this is due to my graphic card.

Thanks to my two buddies who mentioned that my graphic card ram might be causing the main problem, and I also saw on the BSOD message that it did stated display driver etc...

Today, I went to Ban Leong and had my card check. I was hoping for one to one exchange until the nice CSO told me that it only happen for card that is not more than a year. Apparently, my card was bought on the year of 2010 Oct, so there's no chance at all.

However, I was given a choice to send this card for RMA, which is located in Taiwan. Most probably the waiting time will be 4 weeks to 6 weeks!

Oh dear, I said. I need it for work! But there's nothing they can do because there's no stock for them as well.

Taking a deep breathe and I agreed upon sending for RMA, and what they counter offer me is to rent me a card. And the CSO said that, the card is not the top notch and not suitable for doing any production stuff. Hence the new graphic card kicks in.

I definitely will sell it off once it is back in Singapore.

So, my wife and I went to Sim Lim Square. According and swear by many, we went to PC Theme and found out that, most of the card that I wanted are either too low spect than my current ATI 6870 by Powercolor, or out of stock.

Hesitating for a long time, I decided on Palit GTX 670 by nVidia. Reason being: GTX670 is consider an upgrade from my 6870, and GTX560 are consider on par or slightly below than the ATI I am holding on. The price isn't too nice either. I got it at $568 for it.

Asus and MSI GTX670 had went out of stock for 670 series, and the only left is by Palit.

ATI is definitely out for me. Accordance to the guy at Ban Leong, he said that all ATI do have issue with the error message popping out on driver had since stopped working had responded (IIRC)

Furthermore, I am quite a fans of nVidia since back then, and this time round, it is my second bad experience with that manufacturer.

Right now, I am running this graphic card, and it should looks and feel good too.

Big slashing of price for Hassey!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:29:00 +0000

Check this
#1
#2
#3

I am surprised for the drop of price by them!

Bravo bravo! I wish I am one of the lucky person to own this! =)

The tragic accident

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:30:00 +0000

The recent car accident between Ferrari and the Sonata cab had brought up a lot of hype around the news and social networking.

The most disgusted that I read in forum was a guy who robbed the injured passenger in the cab!

Further to add on, one netizen also blamed on the cab driver who start off fast upon the green light; isn't the driver suppose to check the traffic (left and right) before moving off.

With this comments given, I guessed that netizen have no sense on what is actually going on at all. Coming at such high speed from Ferrari, the driver would have came from Illuma, then beating the red light, and where the accident had been occurred.

It is not as if the cab driver had some sorta long distance eye power. How would he anticipate the oncoming car at the speed? If he know, such tragic accident will not happen at all!

By checking left and right, yes a must to do that, but isn't the car supposed to stop at red light instead of beating it? Everyone will have the mentality that the vehicle will come to a stop, be it whether it is going to do an E Brake or not. But at that speed to stop, the chances of hitting the cab is still very high. But, maybe smaller impact? It is hard to say.

So, what rights do that netizen pointing the deceased cab driver is in wrong when the video already shown that all vehicles in that lane have the right of way? It is show as green, means you can move off.

It is horrifying and heart pain to see this car crash from another fellow cab driver, who had the DVR installed. At least, this cab driver is able to provide some evidence!

Thanks god that he and the passenger are safe. If they were in line with the other cab, I am pretty sure that the injured and death toll will rise.

Rest of the comments, I do not want to say on any further.

There will be a lot of debating between the two class and nations. Surf on forum, you find a lot of ridiculous comments. Read on this morning Strait Times as well, there are fellow people from the same nation are disgusted as well.

Rest in peace,
Cheng Hock Teck (cab driver)
Shigemi Ito (passenger in the cab)

A Weekend A Photo - 05.05.2012

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:53:00 +0000

5th May 2012 (Saturday)

Home

My grandma; happy to see her great grand children coming to her house. Although they made a lot of noise, but it does liven up the whole house.

A Weekend A Photo - 28.04.2012

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:52:00 +0000

28th Apr 2012 (Saturday)

Kids Swing, Changi Airport Terminal 3

A great place to hang out in T3, especially for parents have no idea where to go!

A Weekend A Photo - 21.04.2012

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 02 May 2012 09:24:00 +0000

21 April 2012 (Saturday)

Central, Clar Quay

Balloon sculpture

Loving what I do

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:26:00 +0000

It had been a long time since I last sat down in front of my computer doing some work - photos related.

I felt happier doing things that I like/ love a lot, despite losing of sleep tho. I guessed that goes to lots of people out there as well.

Although this is not a paid job, I felt rather relieve helping out doing the photo montage for my coll, whom is going to get marry in a week time. Yes, now then he ask me for help. But of course, taking this as a wedding gift to him since I am unable to attend his wedding at KL, Malaysia.

Most of the colls from the site office will be heading up! Look like there will not be anyone in the office on the following Monday. Good grief!

Anyway, I am unable to finish the task due to lack of certain requirement which I will continue tomorrow. This is interesting, he was asked to place 2 songs on his photo montage; typically in Singapore, we use 1 song unless client requested.

So, anyone who want to do photo montage for their loves one; wedding, kids or any other matters, feel free drop me an email: boon[at]pboong[dot]com

I will be more than happy to do photo montage for you.

Cheers

A Weekend A Photo - 15.04.2012

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:25:00 +0000

15th April 2012

Playground, West Coast Park

Been there for the first after so many years

A Weekend A Photo - 08.04.2012

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:36:00 +0000

8th Apr 2012 (Sunday)

Wild Wild Wet, Pasir Ris

Water from the pipe

A Weekend A Photo - 02.04.2012

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:30:00 +0000

2nd Apr 2012 (Monday)

Jurong Point

Peanuts and Chilli

A Weekend A Photo - 31.03.2012

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:11:00 +0000

31 March 2012 (Saturday)

Toa Payoh

Qing Ming Festival

Going on

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:40:00 +0000

Going on strong, going on hard.

I had decided to use the name: pboong, as my photography.

Why pboong?
Because of my name. P. Boon Ong. With the combination, I decided to have it as pboong, announce as Boon or Pong. just to make it real simple.

Life is short, we should grab the chance if there's any. Should it fail, at least tell myself, I done it before. Of course, I must stay positive and be more optimistic.

The decision made bring myself a smile on face. Now, what's next? I have 2 weeks left to get it done, need to be fast and time must not be wasted at all.

Something in my mind that I want to speak out today.

Torco Oil Promotion

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:53:00 +0000

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SR 5 - 4 bottles of 1 litre each: $155

MPZ - 1 bottle: $42, purchase with 4 bottles of either SR: $38

Free delivery - only for customer who buy a carton and above. If not, self collection at West Area.

Promotion:

There’s 10% off promotion (per carton) for this week.

Think

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:45:00 +0000

I require to rethink, is this the path.

Yes, I am truly worried.

That's all, and peace.