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Tallest Building in the North (my Area)

Published
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Zz85
on October 8, 2006
in Biking, Hobbies, Stories and Thoughts
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Ok, I’m planning to complete the Vertical Marathon and the Standard Charter Marathon (its half for me only - 21km) this year.

Due to my lazy routine and just about just 2 more months to go, I need some accelerated training.

Here’s what I’ve run the past days.
27-Sep-2006 Tango Loop 20mins -
28-Sep-2006 Safra - Home 30mins ~4km
29-Sep-2006 Depot Loop 30mins -
2-Oct-2006 Katib - Home 50mins ~6km
4-Oct-2006 Camp - CCK 1 hour 6.8km

The exercises stopped in view of my MC for wisdom tooth op.

For the vertical marathon, the training is slightly different. 1 mission to find a suitable place to train.

30-Sep-2006,
In search of the tallest building to train for climbing stairs,
I took 1h 30mins for the round-trip of
approximate 30km
Cycling from Home to near the (Singapore’s/Malaysia’s not the shopping center) causeway and back home.

Mission Accomplished.

The latest buildings at the highest altitude can be found at the area name Causeway View, close to the Singapore Immigration checkpoints, nearest MRT being Marsling. The tallest buildings are namely 214,215,216, block 214 at 24 stories high.

The runners up were blocks around 204 (or block 7?) at 21 stories high.

That’s all for now. If you are also staying in the north like me, and need stairs training, maybe you could find the blocks I mentioned.

Broken Cup

Published
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Zz85
on September 30, 2006
in About Me and Thoughts
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I broke my favorite cup today.

As in,
I have been using this cup for years
has Waltz Disney charaters on it
easily identified
given by my mom
and I have not be breaking cups for long time
not after it fell from the table.
*Carelessness*

ajax alternatives

Published
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Zz85
on April 15, 2006
in Technology and Thoughts
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Sometimes when I wonder too much about computer technologies in mind, I wonder if I would become a computer philosopher. Just like many computing theories were already established long even before computers were practical.

You are free to feel that AJAX is just a hype, or just a overrated term. Some of you might already know that it basically revolves round the XMLHttpRequest javascript object. Nevertheless, Ajax..

1. sounds nicer/cooler. Ajax is also the name of Greek Hero of the Trojan War. Removing r from Greek, now you can Geek.

2. is changing the way people develop and use Web Technologies.

What I like to touch on now is how can you accomplish the same stuff you do with ajax without ajax (that is before ajax came about).

1. Flash. Perhaps it was more popular before to use flash for server communication, now the developers are trying to redo their implementation in ajax.

2. New window. Javascripts popup a new window, closes it, then updates the main page. Javascript controls the new window, which sends and requests information from the server, then does some checks, updates the parent window, then closes the new window. Of course, popup blockers nowadays might pose a problem to this method.

3. IFrame. The cool little feature (started in IE) that can magically changes in a corner of your webpage. Of course, this was what lead to development of the “ajax” support in browser.

Now the last thought. Its cool that the ideas of widgets are gettig “in” (even for wordpress). Now if wordpress plugin writers all were to implement all ajax codings with their different libraries, and a wordpress user were to use them all, i think the mere load of the js/ajax libraries is a killer itself. Now, how do you implement a ajax library to download other libraries only when that ajax plugin/script is needed in that page?

sidenote: the 3 giants. google, yahoo, msn are fighting closer each day. In competiting with gmail (beta?), Yahoo! Mail beta and MSN Live Mail beta throws in more eye cindy, 3 pane outlook like style, and ajax. And google fights back with their Calendar.