Monthly Archive for July, 2007

Malay Food and Skin Medication

I love eating Malay food. They are cheap, spicy, and delicious.

Almost every meal during recess daily in secondary school was Nasi Brani.

Living at my old home, “Mee Goreng” and “Nasi Goreng” seemed my only vocab at the Indian store at the coffee shop below my flat.

However since I moved house till I entered NS, I seldom eat Muslim food, until

Thursday 12 July

Mee Goreng at the hawker centre next to Enos MRT Station.

Friday 13 July

$1.90 Nasi Lemak Set Meal at shophouses next to..


United Square.

Mentioning why I was at Novena, it was my last trip to National Skin Center due to my well suppressed outbreak of Eczema(, a kind of Dermatology disease, which I had likely received via my genetics and habitat).

Not very noteworthy, but for the record purpose here’s a list of different medication I have tried on my skin in the last 18 months.

  • Fobancort cream (which happens to work the best for me, is a strong steroid)
  • Dermasone 0.1%
  • Xepacycline
  • Dosanac Emulsion Gel (opps, not for my rash but for muscle relief)
  • Chlortralim (Another chlortertracycline cream, but seemed issue wrongly to me, as it usually for the eyes)
  • Aquarea (moisturising cream with urea (urine?) 10%)
  • Beprosone ointment
  • PP Wash(Potassium permanganate KMnO4 solution)
  • Mycoban

And some others I might not have recorded. Now for oral medication

  • Choloramine
  • Loratadine Tablet

These are usually flu/rash + drowsiness pills as a temp fix for itch.

As I recall, there are even more methods some I have tried, and others hearsay.

  • 青草油 Herbal Oil which was said to be good for open wounds. It was good for causing burns and pain when applying, followed by some relief (perhaps of the initial burn first). My friend suggested another strong chinese herb but I never tried that powder before.
  • Just leave it- (wasnt such a good idea).
  • Wearing bandage on affect areas- so won’t cause a wound when scratching at night in sleep
  • Wearing gloves
  • Apply salt water
  • Soak in sea water
  • Don’t apply soap
  • Let the dog lick
  • Apply Cow dang on affected areas
  • Avoid Seafood completely
  • Bath in Cold water

Anyway when my situation was quite bad everyone comes out with a version of remedy advice. Maybe some helped, and others worsen, I’m glad I wouldn’t need to think so much about it now.

Design My Bedroom with Simple 3D

Ever wanted to re-design your bedroom on your computer?

IKEA Kitchen Planner is a free and easy software to plan your kitchen and furnishing. At Jordan’s Furniture you could use their online flash software to design your room layout with different furnitures.

There are perhaps 1001 commercial 3D products out there (a friend recently recommended SolidWorks), but for free, open source 3d software, a list has always been blender 3d, povray etc.

This time, I tried out Google’s free 3D software, SketchUp. The last time, I used 3DS max, so relatively SketchUp looks simple and lacking, and it took me some time to adjust using its interface, shortcuts, so on. It wouldn’t take long to find out that this software could do alot (like almost all 3d software, limited only by imagination), if only you knew how. Before you could unleash its power, most users would properly want to view its guides or online video tutorials to get started.

I always relate 3d modeling to molding or sculpturing, but SketchUp is unique with its powerful Pencil tool, which makes modeling 3d like drawing. It could switch between and many different views easily, and here are some renders I have done of my room today.

My Room

Plain Top View

Bedroom Plan with X-Ray Drawing View

Coloured Perspective

View At the Door

Computer Generated Sketches Style

Autocad Style

Monochrome

Textured view

In real life…

Messed Room Photo

Not so simple or neat :X

Anyway there’s a Slashdot.org discussion on 3D software for home planning, and as one user has pointed out, the best method perhaps is still pencil and paper.

三位童年朋友的见面

看过The 3 Childhood Friends(三位童年朋友)吗?

分分离离(不是你想的那种!)的好多次,我们又见面了!

Newton Food

Life Church

Kovan Beef Noodles

暂时又告别了。

Airport Food To Africa

累的一天

二〇〇七年七月十一日、星期四、晴朗

就如当我读工艺学院,有时会疯狂通宵赶作业,在今天凌晨就像疯子班帮助朋友专电脑。

中午,约了朋友一起回中学。之前就有人说:“学校变了,校长换了,好多老师不在了,即使见到他们,都七年了,老师认不了你,回去干吗?”

AISS

不错,学校建筑改了很多,好多老师都不在(新来的老师们都很年轻)。但是,真开心(又惊讶)能见到几位教过我的老师,更动心他们都能记得我!也许我以前太坏了。。。 :$ 见到的老师们包括教我英语的、华语的、数学的、科学的。

Lunch

吃了午餐后,就配“珥尼”到SLS买电脑.

Dinner

旁晚,照常的到姨妈家练琴,这次她准备绿豆汤、炒米粉和炸鸡膀给我吃,又分享那天她如何做绿豆汤。

骑车到家了,发现眼镜留在姨妈家。但累了一天,想躺下睡觉的滋味太强了!

Online Diary

Weather: Cloudy

I stumbled across this chinese webpage (when searching some chinese terms) where user can write their diary online.

The webpage may not be well designed (visually), yet I found it very interesting because of the simple way of presenting its data/facts.

As a online diary, user selects the mood they feel for a particular post, a sad feeling? a happy feeling, a loving feeling so on. An icon shows the weather for the date- sunny, rainy, so on. The post made displayed on a background with letter lines, and writers could insert pictures or icons. As I peep around some of the posts, they are surprising short- the chinese language makes it possible to express alot, in detailed, in a few words.

I’m not a one who writes diaries or journals (even when our teachers wanted us too), but the site has gave me the feel and look of a diary. Although I suspect there would be plenty of better, nice and good webpages which provides dairy writing service, I’m not searching for them currently, but bloggers who blog entirely in the diary style might be interested to look for sites as such.