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Red pill, blue pill

Posted on 7 Nov 2008   by CY

Several months ago I wrote a short entry about the high-definition ‘war’ waged between the two competing standards, HD DVD and blu-ray. Now, one of the battlegrounds between both standards was the support each format had from major movie studios.

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Year In Review – 2008

Posted on 5 Nov 200817 Jan 2020   by CY

It’s coming to the end of the year again. Towards the end of each year, I’d sit back and reflect on some of the key events and decisions made in the past year or so. It’s a pretty interesting exercise

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Echoing: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Posted on 15 Oct 2008   by CY

Since I haven’t been blogging much, here’s an echo of a game review for the other blog I write for.:) Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Naughty Dog as a game development studio has been around for more than two decades now since

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Posted in Entertainment, Toys & Technology    Tagged Gaming, PS3   

Apples, PCs, and a Girl in between

Posted on 2 Oct 200814 Jan 2010   by CY

Truth to tell, one of the ongoing discussions that gives me the laughs is the Apples vs PCs’war’.:) Now, that in itself has a bit of a history, and like a few of my other stories here, there was a

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A Classical Revival: Part II

Posted on 16 Sep 2008   by CY

In the old days in the mid to late 90s when we were still using portable CD players, I had a CD wallet alongside the player in my haversack. I was commuting from Yio Chu Kang station where home was

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Posted in At Home, Music, Toys & Technology, Traveling    Tagged Classical Music   

UMPCs. Oh my… so kawaii!!!!

Posted on 31 May 200813 Jul 2018   by CY

Notebooks have to achieve balance between weight, battery power, performance and form factor, and as satisfied as I am with the two notebooks I use, the want to carry around PDA-sized and truly portable and light notebooks is always somewhere

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Posted in Toys & Technology, Traveling    Tagged Laptops   

GTA IV

Posted on 6 May 2008   by CY

There were more than a few Singaporeans who scoffed when MDA announced the new game rating system in Singapore; after all, they’ve been getting their fix of ‘disallowed’ games in Singapore through a variety of means, including from our neighbors

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Notebooks through the ages

Posted on 24 Mar 200814 Jan 2010   by CY

Cameras and HD entertainment aren’t my only two obsessions as a geekboy. I used to have a thing for PDAs, handphones and notebooks. Fortunately, the tech compulsions don’t all occur at the same time (otherwise I’d be in perpetual deficit),

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Early adoption

Posted on 21 Feb 200814 Jan 2010   by CY

No, this isn’t an entry about adopting babies! The phrase early adopter commonly refers to persons who’re enthusiasts buying into technologies that are newly emerging and before they become mainstream. Early adoption has its benefits; you get to play with

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All it took was a PS3

Posted on 11 Dec 2007   by CY

One of those little nagging things about lecturing in a Gaming course is that I’ve always felt a little left out when my students rave about the newest console title. I mean, so many of them tote around PSPs to

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