If you carry your notebook around, you should use this

Carrying your notebook around increases the possibility of it getting lost. How much the possibility increases depends on how careful a person you are. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you lost your notebook? Don’t even think about the financial cost of replacing the notebook. What about all that data?

First of all, you really should have the discipline to backup your documents if you do not already do so  –Think I’ll cover that in another article. The next thing to do will be to encrypt your data so even if your notebook gets into the hands of another person, they will have no access to that data.

I highly recommend FreeOTFE for this purpose. I have been using it for a while now and its extremely stable. Think the resource footprint is also quite small as you won’t even remember you have it running until you shutdown your notebook and you’re reminded by FreeOTFE to dismount all secure volumes before shutdown.

Just out from shower after a great sports night

Manchester United won the Community Shield after a penalty shootout where Portsmouth contrived to miss 3 penalty kicks! One trophy down, many many more to go!

I also have mixed feelings regarding the U.S. victory over China in the Olympics. Although I’m a supporter of the U.S. (which neutral isn’t?), I have many Chinese friends so I empathise with them after such a devastating 101-70 loss…

Primary School Party

Every working day takes me past this place called Wollerton Park. It triggers a memory of a party that these 2 Indonesian girls (Isabella and Imelda) organised while I was in Primary School.

Think the party is mostly a haze now, but I can remember these things:
1. I was somehow forced to dance
2. Dekun did a slide across the floor while dancing and crashed into a girl
3. Johnny Mak was dressed in some spiffy threads

ICEE

This is one of those childhood things that I missed. I remember when I was a kid and my family often went to Tah Chung at Queenstown. There was a supermarket at the ground floor which sold ICEE as well. Mum and Dad usually bought me and my sister one cup each. It was really cool to have coloured tongues after drinking it.

Somehow it disappeared off the Singapore market and it was replaced by Mr Frostee from Seven-Eleven, but it is not the same because it didn’t trigger any memories.

Esh and I were ecstatic to find ICEE in San Francisco, so we couldn’t resist buying one from a Mrs Field’s booth.

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Is it wrong to read motherhood forums?

Not like there are many active forums for fatherhood and I’m just trying to find out some parenting tips for Lee-Ann…

However, it does feel strange to read about mummies and mummies-to-be discussing all the various “tactics” (doggy style, missionary, etc.) and advice about sex. Never knew Singapore women could be so open to other female strangers. Some of them even put up their photos as avatars.

Don’t think that wives will take it too kindly if men were to start a similar discussion forum. Men will probably get dirty looks and the site will be taken offline within days…

Driving at legal speed

I guess I’m one of those rare people who actually observe the legal speed limits on the roads in Singapore. When I drive on 3 lane roads, I’ll drive on the centre lane since the left lane is for the slow vehicles like the lorries and trucks, while the rightmost lane is for overtaking purposes only. (On a sidenote, it seems that many drivers in Singapore fail to remember the purpose of the overtaking lane: guess what? It’s for overtaking! Not driving)

I don’t actually feel guilty for making people overtake me because I’m driving at the legal speed, and I have to protect both my life and the lives of my passengers.

Maybe I should start a movement for all Singapore drivers to drive within the speed limits. Wonder if I’ll have better luck than the traffic police?