Recent content by noelle

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    Real Monk or Fake Monk

    was at the reclining buddha in bkk a few years ago and a monk about 100-150m away from me and my friend pointed his dslr + l lens at us. after taking a few shots, he even smiled and waved at us. :confused: was trying to explain to my friend that the lens he was using was crazily expensive and...
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    Singapore health watchdog/ombudsman

    uh been away from singapore for too long... does singapore have a health watchdog? that is, an organisation that works similar to for example the Office of the Health Services Commissioner in VIC, Australia which "receives and resolves complaints about health service providers with a view to...
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    Olympic diving gold medallist

    can't help gushing... this is so cute!
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    It's tough being a Singaporean overseas sometimes

    really? i think singaporean chinese is fine though it does sound a bit "chor lor" compared to how other nationalities speak chinese. i have some taiwanese friends and god when they speak chinese, i CRINGE! way too whiney for me. same.... a plate of fried kway teow here is $8.50-$9 and bubble tea...
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    a [schon] a day - 2008

    just went through your whole thread, awesome captions. my favourites would be the toilet cubicle one and this one. where's this?
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    It's tough being a Singaporean overseas sometimes

    i've lived overseas for 50% of my life but when i'm back in singapore or around my singapore friends in singapore or around singapore friends here, i will speak in singlish which is still v authentic! ;p when i'm around my asian friends here which aren't singaporean, i will speak in my overseas...
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    Desktop for Photoshop

    ah gotcha thanks for the explanation! ;)
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    Desktop for Photoshop

    Helloseattle, yea i agree (re: the mouse) the apple mouse is FREAKING ANNOYING. Deswitch, I've used 2 mice on 20 inch imac. one of them doesn't have a scroll bit in the middle :o and the other mac mouse i used has a scroll bit but it is really pathetic and TINY. it is like maybe...
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    Desktop for Photoshop

    thanks parka! anyone has any idea whether i can add more gb to my hard drive (dell desktop) in future? not sure whether 480gb combined total of 2 hard drives is enough.
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    Desktop for Photoshop

    thanks! so better to have 2 hard drives. i'm planning to either get 320GB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive with Native Command Queuing for the hard drive and then the additional hard drive 160gb instead of buying just 500gb for 1 hard drive? would that be better?
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    Desktop for Photoshop

    in order to create the scratch disk, i would need to have 2 hard drives on my pc right? :confused:
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    Desktop for Photoshop

    wow thanks for the detailed explanation. :D ah, i think i kind of understand what you mean now. when i used to have my vaio, everything on default went to the C: drive and i kept getting that low disk space warning. and then i discovered that there was another drive that was not utilised and...
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    Desktop for Photoshop

    Would this be a better deal for $2.1k? Inspiron 530 Processor: 2.4GHz Core 2 Quad Q6600 Memory: 3GB (2x1GB/2x512MB) DDR2 667MHz Storage: 500GB Monitor: 24" Graphics: GeForce 8600GT (256MB) Warranty: Dell Care Premium Plan includes 3yrs Night & Weekend Warranty, Plus Phone Support...
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    Desktop for Photoshop

    ah yes, i see it starts at sg$2.1k. unfortunately, i'm living overseas... so the T3400 will set me back $2.8k in local currency. :(