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A packed but exciting week passed.

My assignment was rushed and submitted on Monday, but still since then I don’t remember spending some time using the computer or online.

Tuesday physical training wet weather programme turned to be an paper airplane competition which i won.

Wednesday was some computer hardware fixing.

Thursday and Friday were visits learn about weapons. Was a nice learning experience. Met many bmt platoon-mates there too.

Friday night was SAFAC 36th anniversary dinner at crown palace restaurant in Yishun. Didn’t expect to meet two 1 year and another 2 years my senior I knew in the same course in poly.

In the afternoon, I played badminton with fellow church members. Quite rusty but still fun to be playing. On Saturday morning, was tennis and squash. Tennis was usual but it was my 2nd attempt at squash. Quite fun to play, and addictive such that I think I will be hook.

Squash is something like pinball, instead of flippers are 2 human controlled racket. Instead of letting the ball go down the drain, you dont let it bounce twice on the floor. You try not tilt the pinball machine, and you try not to hit too hard such that the balls goes beyond the red line. It enjoyable seeing the ball bounce around in so many different ways as long it goes up, towards the front wall.

I bought a samsung DVD-writer at 85bucks, 16X with DL(dual layer). These days, it almost does everything with cds/dvds at quite low reasonable prices. I havent tested them, but I tried plugging it into my external 3.5″ harddisk casing and windows could detect it. Quite an idea to convert it to be an external storage device huh?

On the news, Nokia seems to be dropping n-gage for a while. I have been thinking and discussing of getting an n-gage for some time already, yet still considering and just waiting for the right time. PSP features are much better and prices are lowering. n-gage is smaller, but so is it screen, colours and really many points its not as ideal. However, n-gage storage - an MMC is real cheap now, <$50 for 512MB, compared to sony dual memory stick. As one slashdotter pointed up, the advantage of n-gage really, is the cheapest symbian(series6) phone, which I could hopfully program. ngage QD is still on the market, maybe about $260, but I hoping I can get a still working in good condition n-gage classic for about $200. Anybody interested to sell? contact me.