18/12/05 (un)

Yes the usual suspects were back at the ole' water hole yesterday. New stuff but as usual, limited for the male antelopes. Haha it was really fun, XL was as usual spoilt for choices while the remainder of us had to scramble for very sought after sizes. Well me especially. Duntouchmemuscles was cool and calm and went about it ina very quiet and orderly fashion, sipping water here and there and ending up with 2 carefully chosen ones. Familyman was all about...family. ha. Getting water for his bros and sisters. To the point of sending MMS! Highlight of day was my Green Gay piece which XL cringed and frowned upon. Duntouchmemuscles was as usual very diplomatic but his laughter was not in sync... If you get wat I mean. A little like incongruity of affect. Familyman was supportive ha. There! At least one vote for Green gay piece. Well actually highlight of the day was actually the splitting of how to buy the water. And t'was till then that i realise my math really sucks. Anyway turns out everybody got big discount except me... Oh well great day out! XL has always been self-sufficient la. He drinks a lot..... Oh oh and we saw thickset men. Em.. Correction. THICKset gays. Hahaha. I sincerely believed their arms were almost the size of my thigh. XL thinks otherwise. He thinks my thighs are smaller...

13/12/05

Was watching this programme "Intrusion Alert" over dinner just now. An intiative by CISCO apparently. Their philosophy of MAN MACHINE METHOD must have been repeated more times than the neon lights on my Xmas tree have blinked throughout dinner. What's up with the chiong hei-ness??!! Got quiz to win prize ah? In any case it got me thinking, it really seems quite absurd to me that they are spreading their strategies and modus operandi out for the world to see. Hellooo, terrorists do watch tv no? I don't know, I'm not all comfortable about them boasting their prowess even though they may not have revealed much, still, the framework of how they implement security is there. It only makes sense to divulge as little of your information as possible to the enemy. I figured maybe in such times of INSECURITY and UNCERTAINTY they want to instill some sense of security and confidence in the people. Maybe they have weighed the pros and cons before doing such a programme. In a game of attack and defense, the attacker has to take great pains to not "hit grass alert snake". They should lie as low as possible and probably spring an atttack ala WWII German blietzkrieg style. The defender has even more reason to not disclose anything for if they let slip their strategy and what MAN MACHINES and METHODS they have, it only aids the enemy in formulating a better attack based on the strength of the defense. So my whole point is that CISCO should shut their mum. Maybe just stop at their punchline - It's not safe unless it's CISCO safe.

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Even that sucks huh. Come on man. It's only cisco safe because you have not really had a trial of test mayb some terrorist try to infiltrate some MNC you are rendering your services to. Singapore is still safe enough for your "safeness" to be tested and challenged. Probably they are capitalising on the fact they have had a fairly good track record to promote their services and up their revenues. I wonder what their punchline would be if their defences were breached one day...

" It's still QUITE SAFE... because it's CISCO safe.."

12/12/05

To avoid your sump overflowing it must have room for excess water. When your sump is running, as water drains down from the tank, it is pumped back up. When the pump is off, some water will drain down into the sump. This will be water from your drain line, from your return line, and from the tank (which is determined by the depth of the weir/overflow inside the tank and how deep your return line is in the tank). You need to drill two small 1/8" holes in your return line, 1/2" below the water's surface when the tank and sump are running normally. These holes are referred to as a siphon break. When the pump is off, water is sucked out of the tank by the return line, but as soon as the water level reaches those holes, air is sucked in and stops any more water from being siphoned out of your display tank. Two holes are better than one, in case it clogs or a snail decides to park on the hole at the worst moment possible. Typically, you will only have 2 or 3 gallons drain down when the pump is off, so make sure there is enough room in your sump to hold an extra 3 gallons or more.

Oh my gosh, thanks to Wenky's reef site again, I chanced upon this website which gave me the answer to a question I have been thinking about for so long !!

10/12/05

What are the chances that you get on a bus on a very ordinary day and the bus goes on a wrong route? What are the chances that having gotten on that fateful bus, I still arrive on time to wherever I am suppose to go?

Man I should have bought a lottery ticket that day. Was onboard this 156 and suddenly from the corner of my eye i noticed a change in the surroundings. There was an air of confusion and panic. The commuters were not their usual self. Something was amiss. I looked up from my handphone where I had been busy messaging. This lady walked to the bus driver and uttered something, the she requested to alight at the traffic light junction. I figured another blur person who has missed her bustop and audacious enough to ask to be let off when the traffic light was red. But then what the... I've never seen this traffic light junction?!?!?! OMG, this IS 156 right? Apparently the bus driver had missed a turn and gone onto a wrong route, heading straight up for Lornie road.

6/12/05 Re-edited

I finally know why nobody reads my blog ha.. Cos.

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