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I guess it’s nearing the end! The protective covering on the floor has finally come off and we can now have a feel of how the house looks with the new floor.

Living and dining room, lights and A/C installed.

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I decided to take the Opteka 500mm mirror lens along with me today and took some shots. Note all the photos have been digitally enhanced, cropped and resized for web viewing.

As suggested in my previous post, this lens works best when taken with high shutter speeds. Try not to get +0.0 exposure on your camera or you’ll get overexposed photos. The photos will look pale, but some post-processing with Photoshop should fix them.

Verdict? The Opteka 500mm mirror lens is a good toy for some fun. The photos are decent enough for some web photos, but one should not consider it for professional use.

Enjoy the pics! Photos taken with an Olympus E-420 and Opteka 500mm mirror @ f/8.0. No tripods used.

Nothing much changed. They still sleep all day and look like tiny little sausages, though tiny little hairs and ears have grown.

Hamsters sleeping, day 7.

They’ve begun grooming themselves and eating some food. Hopefully in two days’ time they’ll wander around the cage so I can play with them!

I bought a cheap Opteka 500mm mirror lens off eBay and the UPS package finally arrived on Wednesday after two days of failed delivery attempts. Hooray!

500mm in a box.

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Why one wife now chooses to shop alone

I shall try it someday.

Skype prevented users from making calls over 3G data networks on the iPhone for contractual reasons, but I think many would love to have it working. Here’s a summarized version of getting Skype to work on the iPhone.

I’ve tested it on the 2G and it seems to work, though voice call quality is choppy.

The pre-requisite here is to have a jailbroken iPhone with Cydia installed, and also knowledge of basic UNIX command line and the VI editor.

If you do not have a jailbroken iPhone, do not ask for instructions here. You should find them online elsewhere.

1. Install or update to the latest version of MobileSubstrate via Cydia. This fixes a crash on Skype.
2. Install VoIP3G via Cydia. This enables you to make VoIP calls via 3G.
3. Install SSH and VIM Enhanced via Cydia. You will need this to edit some files in your phone.
4. Connect to a Wi-Fi network, preferably the same network as your computer.
5. Get the phone’s IP address under Settings > Wi-Fi.
6. SSH to the phone as root with the password alpine (this is the iPhone default if you haven’t changed it).
7. Go to /Library/MobileSubstrate/DynamicLibraries and edit VoIPover3G.plist.
8. You will see a line that looks like the following…
   Filter = {Bundles = ("com.Fringland.Fring");};
9. Appened “com.skype.skype” to the array (it might already be there), e.g.
   Filter = {Bundles = ("com.Fringland.Fring", "com.skype.skype");};
10. Save the file, restart your iPhone, and reinstall Skype.

Our female hamster gave birth to a litter of seven pups on the morning of Aug 22, 2009! The pups are 3 days old now and mummy hamster just happened to carry them over to somewhere else where I could take some good shots.

Baby hammie looking up with no eyes.

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Look what the postman brought over the weekend in a very nicely wrapped package. No tapes, just ropes. Neat!

Nicely wrapped package.

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Nothing much this week except partitioning work, installation of the air-con and some shopping for furnitures.

The partitions are up, but don’t look fantastic as they’re still “raw”. We’ve decided to keep it a secret until the entire partition is finished, so no photos for now!

However, here’s the furnitures we’ve bought.

Selected Sofa Design

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Lane 1 on the expressway is called the overtaking lane, not the cruising lane. If you wanna roll your way home at 80kph like a loser, lane 2 is all yours.

I commute to work daily from Bt. Batok to Tampines. On good days, I get to Tampines in roughly 20 minutes. On fucked up days such as 7am yesterday morning, I could be sitting for an hour in the traffic. It’s only 7am and there’s traffic that slows to a crawl at Paya Lebar! Thanks to OPC owners!

I’ve been at work the entire night, and god save me, I met not one, but three selfish losers who refuse to give way. Coincidentally they were all driving big cars (e.g. Toyota Camry, Merc E class, BMW 7 series) and two of them were… you guessed it – ladies.

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