Update: New blog ready, it is at http://blog.weikiat.net

I guess only those without a proper channel through which to derive a sense of satisfaction would be able to afford so much time to blog extensively about tiny tiny insignificant stuff in their life, and worst, some blogs that copy and paste content for the sole purpose of what? - to generate a few cents of ad money from “make money from your blog!” scams like nuffang, advertlets and blog2you that only rewards blogs with really high readership but earns ad dollar from advertiser without really paying them out to bloggers on lower traffic blogs.

I haven’t been blogging about my life for quite some time though, so I think it is high time I do, so at least people who RSS this blog or check back frequently will not delete this from their bookmarks.

The ordeal of installing a Chassic Fan to my PC

Recently after installing a new chassis fan on my PC with a fanciful blue LED, i notice that frequent BSODs (blue screen of death) on my PC which are seemingly random (different error code and cause everytime). Thinking that it was due to a partially failed graphic card driver installation I did sometime back, and having a bout of panic attack afraid that I am have broken something on the motherboard or graphic card (due to a loose jumper I also experience inability to boot due to my graphic card popping out of position or having bad contact), I decided to reinstall my entire OS. While I’m at it, I decided to try Vista.

The installation was not smooth and I had BSOD even during the installation, which further suggests that the problem is with my hardware. I panicked more, this system is new, and I don’t have the cash ready to replace any parts. I’ve also just thrown a $350 on a vacuum tube headphone amplifier, the Little Dot MkIII.

Logic dictates that the fan could be the source of problem, because the frequent BSOD only occurs after the installation of that damned CoolerMaster fan. However, ZOMBiE insists a fan causing BSOD is impossible, and after calming myself down and thinking through the whole thing it doesn’t seem likely. While I have made some mark on the internet and software world, I am a total noob when it comes to hardware. After randomly popping out a few RAM sticks and popping them back, the BSOD problem seemed to have gone away. I was relieved at this point.

Then I noticed another problem. Although I have had 3 sticks of 1GB RAM install, my Windows was only reading 2GB. It could be a faulty RAM, or a loose RAM, but CPU-Z, a utility that shows all your hardware information, shows that I have 3 RAMs running in triple channel configuration, which is correct. This resulted in me looking high and low on the internet, and there are so many different users experiencing the same problem as me, and so many possible reasons that I had no idea what to do.

Under the recommendation of ZOMBiE and my random trial and error, I proceed to pluck out all my RAM and re-seat them again. This time, 3GB RAM showed up in Windows, and no more sleepless nights for me.
Damn the CPU-Z for detecting something that Windows cannot even see.

Development of SgZap.com and a mistake

With too much time on hand and my constant need to use my creative juice (I was having frequent headache and sleepless night where my brain would keep on having random thoughts about everything and anything in a jumbled, disorganized manner which happens during school holidays or during long periods of time when I did not do anything productive thinking again.), I decided to come up with some website.
Creating a web app beats creating a Windows app, because there is larger exposure. Also, I already paid big money for my unlimited bandwidth, unlimited space and unlimited domain support hosting, so it is good to make use of it.

Recently there was the hype of tinyurl and other url shortening services, and looking at the miserable interface on tinyurl I decided to make my own with a more user friendly and simple interface. I suck at design, I am still a newbie at PHP, so I downloaded the open source PHURL and started modifying it intensively. I need some graphics, but ZOMBiE wanted to charge me for them, so I decided to keep all graphic elements of the site as simple as possible, so that I can generate them.

And thus, sgzap.com was gone, with fantastic interface compared to that of tinyurl. I even emailed MrBrown to try using it on his twitter instead of tinyurl. One day later I realized my mistake. Twitter automatically uses tinyurl for any links longer than 30 characters. (It uses another URL shortening service now)

I was shocked. My mistake for not researching enough.

I needed to give sgzap a new focus and I finally found it. Traffic tracking. I notice that people love to post links to sites in forums, tagboards etc. However, unless those websites belong to them, they would not be able to find out how many people have clicked and visited the links they post. I added some code to sgzap, (first time I wrote mysql queries) and now sgzap tracks the number of time each of the “zapped” urls are clicked.

So there you have it. SgZap.com. URL shortening feature with real-time traffic tracking.

During my return, I proceed to the automated gates (the one where you scan your passport with a machine yourself), I got stuck and the silly machine just didn’t want to let me through. A staff came, spent 5 minutes clicking through her computer while I stood there anxiously, wondering what is wrong.

Then the Truth came. Due to the weight of my luggage, the system detect me as 2 person.

What an intelligent system. Fantastic waste of time.

However, with the recent appearance of Swine Flu, we were concerned.

Neverthless, after much discussion we are going ahead with the plan.

Hope all is well, I will be leaving on the 11th and coming back on the 13th.

While most headphones, even those nowadays, cramps on the head with the main pressure on the ear, causing fatigue when used for long hours, Koss pioneered the concept and technology of transferring the pressure to the temporal bones, allowing the headphones to be worn for long hours with comfort. In fact, you won’t feel that the headphone is there.

The Koss PortaPro, the third product from Koss, is one of the longest running product. Invented in 1984, it is still been manufactured and sold today with almost no change in design. Headphones produced by competitors throughout the 25 years were unable to even come close to the sound quality and durability of this headphone at the same price point. Any headphone in the market now that could rival that of Koss Portapro costs at least twice the price. Koss had invented a portable headphone that could withstand the test of time. Because of this, Koss Portapro also comes with a international no-questions-asked lifetime warranty. If your set is spoilt for whatever reason, simply mail the headphone back to their headquarters and they will send you a new one.

What other company has the confidence to give lifetime warranty, and which other consumer product (other than food) can survive for so long in the market without being overshadowed by rival products? Only Koss and its PortaPro.

I first bought a Koss Portapro 4 years ago in 2005. At that time I bought it simply based on its unique look and great sound. I did not know about its history until I went home and google. It was the BEST headphone I even owned, with sound better than that of my later purchases which costs 300 dollars upward. I later sold my Koss Portapro in 2008 due to under usage to enable others to enjoy the music. I regretted that decision ever since.

When I know about the release of Koss Portapro 25th Anniversary limited edition yesterday (Only 25000 units worldwide), I practically went crazy and I told myself I must get one ASAP. And today I took off from work and went down to Stereo, one of the most honest and great store specializing in audio equipments located at Causeway point.

Take a look at Koss Portapro 25th Anniversary Limited Edition.

From Strait Times

IT IS shape up or ship out for food outlets which do not have excellent hygiene standards - starting with those at public hospitals.

Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said on Sunday that hospital stall holders which do not get the top ‘A’ or ‘B’ ratings may be told to close shop.

‘If they want to renew the tender or take part in it, then they must deliver this minimum standard of hygiene,’ he said.

His stern stance comes in the wake of Singapore’s worst food poisoning outbreak. In Geylang Serai this month, contaminated Indian rojak struck down 154 people, killing two.

Mr Khaw believes that people here have become complacent, and said that hygiene levels have slumped to close to a failing grade.

Speaking on Sunday at the launch of a section of cycling track linking Sembawang and Woodlands, he built on his suggestion for public hospitals to lead the charge in raising hygiene standards.

‘Our food handlers are by and large A, minimum B. There were only a handful who are C. So of course a lot of pressure would be on them to improve,’ he added.

His benchmark: Japan, where food stalls are so clean that Mr Khaw said he is ‘prepared to pay a little bit more for that security’.

The private sector has already shown it is possible.

At the Kopitiam chain, which has five of its 57 food courts located at hospitals, it is compulsory to get an A grade.

Mr Khaw saying that people here becoming complacent? There is someone who is paid top dollars in Singapore to ensure that these hygiene standards are maintained and that this person is none other than Mr Khaw!

This is like a QC manager of a factory saying that the factory workers are complacent when clients came back with complains of defective products.

At home, I am working on a notepad replacement using Microsoft’s latest .NET framework, version 3.5 SP1. While notepad replacements are very common, my design goals are quite unique:

-Learn from notepad. It works exactly like notepad, while adding some features for conveniences:
-Make full use of the latest GUI improvements, including icon inside drop down menu, textbox (yes, you can enter text into a menu!) inside dropdown menus, etc
-Lag free. This is the core reason why most people use notepad. It is the thinnest fastest text editor out there. However, due to the nature of the .NET framework, one might not enjoy instant launch, but I have made various improvements, including no program freeze when opening/saving large text. (Notepad will freeze when saving or loading large amount of data, my program will just churn along happily.
-Keep things to the minimal. While most notepad replacements add more and more features with the consequences of having a very cluttered GUI, i kept things to the bare minimal. I have also removed all pop-up windows (e.g Find/Replace window) and instead tuck everything neatly under the menu system.
-Connectivity. I intend to make the program capable of peer to peer collaboration (2 person can work on the same file at the same time.) However, this still need works and I am still assessing how practical it is to implement this.

These are the features already implemented:
-100% working emulation of notepad features (with the exception of wordwrap and font selection, which is fixed by default)
-Rename/delete/change the read-only attribute of the opened file directly in the program.
-Ability to make the program window transparent, and also to set it to be on top of other opened windows.
-Support drag and drop and shell command to open multiple files at the same time
-Insert date in varying format
-Wiki, google selected text right from the contextual menu
-Instantly change selected words to lower case, upper case, or raNdomiZe iT
-Insert text from existing file into current opened file.
-Save selected text as another file

More to be announced soon.

I had always believed that this “life” thing that we were all given, was to allow us to use it to pursue happiness and something enjoyable, so life can be lived fulfilling before we become fertilizers for weeds.

When I was young I wanted to grow up quickly, to live those dreams and to be successful. That is everyones’ dreams too.

But then as we grow older, dreams were discarded. We are all not free, not free to enjoy life at all.

We humans are slave to many needs, and these are the very needs that were used by authority to bind us.

We have to work to earn money to fulfill our very basic needs. Everything we do, we need money in one way or other to do them. We become slaves to our jobs.

Those with money to give are hence able to exploit those who have a empty pocket to be filled.

Customers must be treated with respect. Employer’s requests must be strictly followed. To make life comfortable we need money. To enjoy the service from others we need money. To feed we need money. To love and to have a relationship we need money. To travel we need money.

When I was young I always thought that we get to choose our jobs and choose those that are enjoyable for us to do, and while doing these enjoyable jobs we get money as a form of compensation. I thought that job satisfaction was the most important to me as job is something that occupies so much of your life, and most of us probably spend more time at our jobs then at home or with loved ones.

When I stepped into the working world for the first time I only see sadness. The dreams had long been abandoned and there is this certain look on everyone’s face. The look of being imprisoned in a virtual jail. A confinement of the body and soul. There is no dreams or freedom of happiness. Everyone have to force himself or herself to work to have money to survive and to feed and support loved ones. A job, something that you spend most of your life doing, is something that is sad and miserable and the only reason that forces you to continue doing that is money.

The above may not be true for everyone, but it is true for just about everyone.

There is something wrong about this. Because of money we do not live life fulfillingly. We are not really living. A machine operator. A customer service operator. A receptionist. A doctor. A lawyer. A waitress. A sales representative. Is that living? Is that why we were given life? What is our purpose?

There is no purpose for life because at the end of the road, what do we get? Death.

If there is a paradise waiting for us after death, why not get there right now. Why struggle?

If there is no life after death, then why should we not end it now? Why carry on the struggle when sooner or later it comes a day when nothing matters anymore. Just like in a dreamless sleep, we won’t even be aware of our own existence or inexistence. Isn’t that good?

People are just waiting to die. But they are not capable of ending it themselves. When I was young I would always go down with my grandmother when she chit chat and play cards with other old folks living in the same block at the void deck. Day by day, the same seat, the same chat, the same activity. But the headcount gets smaller over the years and it as a fact of life. The remaining ones only asked quietly, “When is my turn?” There is no regret, no sadness, only inevitability. One day there was not enough headcount left for a game of card. They stopped meeting.

When you retire from your job what you get is not freedom but weariness. There is nothing else for you to do except wait for death.

The old man of the elderly couple living next door to me passed away a few years back. The remaining lady passes her time with the 4 walls of her barren flat as her companion, wondering when she will get to join up with her life partner. But she was not able accelerate the process herself.

Why do we value life so much when we are slave to jobs and money. When we have been cheated from young that life is fulfilling and has purpose, just like how we had been scammed about the existence of Santa.

Death is the ultimate reward of our struggle and nothing else. Why work so hard, why delude ourselves that there is a purpose and meaning and happiness when at the end there is only nothingness?

Why does job takes up more than 50% of our life? We live 70 years but we have only really lived for 20. The other 50 years were spent to acquire money to meet basic needs. What took the 50 years away? Money. Jobs. The simple process of those without money selling their body, mind and soul to get some from those with money. 50 years spent this way. What is the purpose?

I want life to be enjoyable again. I want to have a purpose again. I am lost in the desert and I need help. I need someone to guide me back on the road again.

Show me the way.
Show humanity the way.

I once earn a four digit sum for 4 hours of IT related work, so I have always thought that money is easy to make and I spent them equally easily.

What I first got my current temp job I was like, WTF, only $60 dollar a way and I will have to sit there one whole day from 8am to 5.45pm, and what was worst was that due to the nature of my workplace no handphones are allowed. But under pressure from girlfriend and parents, I decided to give it a try. After all they are so confident with my qualifications that I was awarded the job without even an interview. My father also work in the same office, but in a different department so I can get free ride to work, so I accepted it.

The first 4 days was spent at one of their factory plants going through some paper work. This is went I see all those people I disliked; lowly skilled middle aged workers operating the production machines, doing meaningless and boring work, can getting paid lowly. On the first day there I was thinking why the hell would they work here? And many of them looked like they have been working here for YEARS already. Why couldn’t they get a different job?

But slowly, when I look at their faces, their sad but determined face to carry through their work until the day ends, until the week ends, the constant determination to get on with their shitty job, the occasional peek at the photos of their family in their wallet or on their work desk, I understood everything.

It is for the sake of supporting their families. For their children. To buy food. To give them clothes. To buy them the MP3 they always wanted. To buy them the hot wheels set they wanted. Such shit work. Everyone in the factory all endured it. Just to support their families. Doing such boring and meaningless work to earn that miserable 1k+ to support the family. I am touched. I have always been ignorant and silly. I was childish. I felt like I have grown.

I immediately thought of my father. How little I know about him. How when the first time I visited Toy R Us I made noise when he bought be a cheaper Power ranger toy where the zord could not transform, compared to one that could. He told me he could not afford. I don’t understand how hard it is to make money until recently.

I wanted to know more about my father. I only know that he has worked in the same company for more than 25 years, because he got those 1000bucks coupon that were rewarded to long term employees. How he endured 25 years I did not know.

I started to find out.

My father was a chicken rice stall assistance before he landed a job at the current company. He used to be covered with oil the whole day, and always wanted to quit but did not, because he has to support his big family, and he could take all that hardship. He landed a job in the current company after that and was a lowly technician, one of those doing shitty work that I have always disliked and could not comprehend. One of his ex-coworker, who was still a technician, told me that my father “chiongs”, that is he works very hard and do his best in everything. Eventually, my father was slowly promoted over the course of 25 years into his current position, a Chief Associate Engineer, which is an office job. He no longer has to work at the factory plants. He told me he could never be able to become a Chief Engineer, because he his only qualification is O Levels. Everyone else in the same office has at least a University degree.

For the first time in my life I admire my father. I now understand the important of money and how hard he had to work to provide me with all these. How much he cares for me and love me despite the fact that we seldom speak to each other. 4 years ago with his 4k profit from company shares he bought me a 2.8k laptop. This year with his 7-8k of bonus pay he bought me a 1.7k desktop.

I love my father and I admire him for being able to endure all that and raise up in ranks to better support the family. I admire all the plant workers I see during break and lunch time at the canteen.

That is also when I decided against quiting the job. I was attached to QA department, sitting on a large comfortable office chair just doing some simple paper work., earning $60 per day. My father could not even match my pay when he was my age and he had to work so much harder. I felt ashamed to want to quit just after 1 day.

I understand more now. Thank you father. And sorry to all the factory plant workers that I have offended with my childish thoughts.

I want to stay on and learn more. See the world. Get out of my shell. Throw away what remains of my elitist thinking. I never understand hardship as I never subject myself to it. Even in studies, I didn’t have to study much to get my results.

Now I think I understand what hardship is.

Now the main issue.

As like many other Singaporeans who have either just finished Army or JC and are waiting to start their term in University in August, I landed myself a job, 5 days per week, normal office hour. Having a job is necessary, unless one’s parents are rich and gives out pocket money like no tomorrow. Me, along with many others in the same situation as me, we are working our ass off to earn money to feed ourselves, trying and learning to be independent at the same time.

Now SMU comes along, ask me to go for this briefing, which they bolded and underlined in the letter is COMPULSORY, and is scheduled on a Tuesday or Wednesday (a working day) and begins at 3.30pm (during office hour).

What are you trying to do, SMU? This is very ignorant of the situation of students who have to work to earn their pocket money. What is more alarming is that SMU is renowned for offering all kinds of financial help to students, (I believe much more than the other 2 Universities), and hence should be more aware of the situation of students with no gold mines at home.

I have blasted them an email, hoping for a prompt reply. Here is an extract.

Hi,

I received the mail regarding community service briefing, and there was a mention of registering for it on the ontrac system. I have logged in to the system but could not find any page/links with regards to the briefing.

Also, would like to know if this briefing is ABSOLUTELY compulsory, as me, and I believe a significant amount of other matriculated students are working while waiting for school to start. Setting this briefing on a weekday and during office hour, would no doubt cause lots of problem for me and many others.

I have work to do and would prefer to report to work rather than go for this briefing unless it is ABSOLUTELY compulsory.

Thank you so much, looking forward to your prompt reply.

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Tay Wei Kiat

Weikiat.NET
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The core ingredients of SAF Foot & Body Powder are Talcum Powder, Boric Acid and Camphor. Lets look at them in detail.

Talcum Powder

Extract from Wikipedia
A coarse grayish-green high-talc rock is soapstone or steatite and has been used for stoves, sinks, electrical switchboards, etc. Talc finds use as a cosmetic (talcum powder), as a lubricant, and as a filler in paper manufacture. Talc is used in baby powder, an astringent powder used for preventing rashes on the area covered by a diaper (see diaper rash). Most tailor’s chalk is talc, as is the chalk often used for welding or metalworking.

Also from Wikipedia,

Several studies have established preliminary links between talc and pulmonary issues,[4] lung cancer,[5][6] skin cancer and ovarian cancer.[7] This is a major concern considering talc’s widespread commercial and household use. In 1993, a US National Toxicology Program report found that cosmetic grade talc caused tumours in rats (animal testing) forced to inhale talc for 6 hours a day, five days a week over at least 113 weeks, even though it contained no asbestos-like fibres.[5] Scientists have been aware of the toxicity of talc since the late 1960s, and in 1971 researchers found particles of talc embedded in 75 percent of the ovarian tumors studied.[8] However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers non-asbestiform talc, that is, talc which does not contain potentially carcinogenic asbestiform amphibole fibers, to be generally recognized as safe (GRAS) for use in cosmetics. [9]

The study in question can be found here.

Objective:
We sought to determine whether the use of talc in genital hygiene increases the risk for epithelial ovarian cancer.

Methods:
We interviewed 235 white women diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer between 1984-1987 at ten Boston metropolitan area hospitals and 239 population-based controls of similar race, age, and residence.

Results:
Overall, 49% of cases and 39% of controls reported exposure to talc, via direct application to the perineum or to undergarments, sanitary napkins, or diaphragms, which yielded a 1.5 odds ratio (OR) for ovarian cancer (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.0-2.1). Among women with perineal exposure to talc, the risk was significantly elevated in the subgroups of women who applied it: 1) directly as a body powder (OR 1.7, 95% CI 1.1-2.7), 2) on a daily basis (OR 1.8, 95% CI 1.1-3.0), and 3) for more than 10 years (OR 1.6, 95% CI 1.0-2.7). The greatest ovarian cancer risk associated with perineal talc use was observed in the subgroup of women estimated to have made more than 10,000 applications during years when they were ovulating and had an intact genital tract (OR 2.8, 95% CI 1.4-5.4); however, this degree of exposure was found in only 14% of the women with ovarian cancer. Conclusions:
These data support the concept that a life-time pattern of perineal talc use may increase the risk for epithelial ovarian cancer but is unlikely to be the etiology for the majority of epithelial ovarian cancers. (24 Refs)

In SAF, it is common practice for soldiers to use SAF Foot & Body Powder for “powder baths” when out in the field without running water to take proper showers. I still remember when I was a recruit, we were all made to put so much powder on ourselves, including our private part, that we have to ensure that when the elastic band around the waist of our undergarment was pulled and then released, there would be smoke. I am not sure about female soldiers, but it they were to do it, talcum would come into contact with their genital tract. It is reassuring to note that, according to the study quoted above, ovarian cancer risk is high only when there is very large and frequent to talcum powder, and while there is a relationship between exposure and ovarian cancer, it is not a main cause of ovarian cancer.

Boric Acid

Extract from Wikipedia
Boric acid, also called boracic acid or orthoboric acid or Acidum Boricum, is a weak acid often used as an antiseptic, insecticide, flame retardant, in nuclear power plants to control the fission rate of uranium, and as a precursor of other chemical compounds. It exists in the form of colorless crystals or a white powder and dissolves in water. It has the chemical formula H3BO3, sometimes written B(OH)3. When occurring as a mineral, it is called sassolite.

Also from Wikipedia,

Based on mammal median lethal dose (LD50) rating of 2,660 mg/kg body mass, boric acid is poisonous if taken internally or inhaled. However, it is generally considered to be not much more toxic than table salt.[4] The Thirteenth Edition of the Merck Index indicates that the LD50 of boric acid is 5.14 g/kg for oral dosages given to rats, and that 5 to 20 g/kg has produced death in adult humans. The LD50 of sodium chloride is reported to be 3.75 g/kg in rats according to the Merck Index.
Long term exposure to boric acid may be of more concern. Although it does not appear to be carcinogenic, studies in dogs have attributed testicular atrophy after exposure to 32 mg/kg bw/day for 90 days. This level is far lower than the LD50.[5]

I did further research into Boric acid, and it was mentioned that,

A study (Tarasenko et al. 1972), summarized by Moore (1997), found a decrease in sexual activity in 28 workers exposed to very high concentrations of boron (10 mg/m3). Examination of the semen from six of the workers demonstrated a reduction in semen volume, a decrease in the number of spermatozoa, and decreased sperm motility.

As discussed in the section on Absorption, boron has been detected in the urine after exposure to boric acid via the dermal, inhalation, and oral routes.

Developmental toxicity appears to be the most sensitive endpoint for boric acid.

http://www.strobel.com/boric_acid_risks.htm

From the same source, it was further mentioned that,

Human studies have shown that boron can be lethal following short-term exposure. The minimal lethal dose of ingested boron (as boric acid) was reported to be 2-3 g in infants, 5-6 g in children and 15-20 g in adults (Locatelli et al. 1987; Wong et al. 1964).

This is indeed quite a dangerous chemical. I would never use SAF Foot & Body Powder for powder bath or near my genital areas anymore.

Camphor

Extract from Wikipedia
Camphor is a waxy, white or transparent solid with a strong, aromatic odor.[3] It is a terpenoid with the chemical formula C10H16O. It is found in wood of the camphor laurel (Cinnamomum camphora), a large evergreen tree found in Asia (particularly in Borneo and Taiwan, hence its alternate name). It also occurs in some other related trees in the laurel family, notably Ocotea usambarensis. It can also be synthetically produced from oil of turpentine. It is used for its scent, as an ingredient in cooking (mainly in India), as an embalming fluid, in religious ceremonies and for medicinal purposes. A major source of camphor in Asia is camphor basil.

In larger quantities, it is poisonous when ingested and can cause seizures, confusion, irritability, and neuromuscular hyperactivity. Despite the rather low skin absorption it may still lead to hepatotoxicity in extreme cases.[10] [11] Lethal doses in adults are in the range 50–500 mg/kg (orally). Generally, 2 g causes serious toxicity and 4 g is potentially lethal.
In 1980, the United States Food and Drug Administration set a limit of 11% allowable camphor in consumer products and totally banned products labeled as camphorated oil, camphor oil, camphor liniment, and camphorated liniment (except “white camphor essential oil” contains no significant amount of camphor). Since alternative treatments exist, medicinal use of camphor is discouraged by the FDA, except for skin-related uses, such as medicated powders, which contain only small amounts of camphor.

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It is important to note that while the ingredients used in SAF powder may cause ovarian cancer and shrinking of testicle (testicular atrophy), I am NOT saying that SAF powder WILL DEFINITELY cause ovarian cancer and shrinking of testicle. Boric acid, talcum powder and camphor are still considered safe and are approved for use in many other cosmetic/healthcare products in the market.

I am not against SAF Foot & Body Powder, in fact I use them on a daily basis as it does indeed work very well to prevent & help with fungi infection on my feet that is kept in army boots or shoes for more than 9 hours everyday. I have very sensitive skin that rashes and itches whenever in contact with most foreign chemicals, and SAF Foot & Body Powder is my savior.

I think that some simple precaution can be taken when using the SAF Foot & Body Powder:
1) Avoid inhaling it
2) Avoid contact with your genitals
3) Definitely don’t ingest it.

All 3 ingredients in SAF Foot & Body powder are quite fatal when ingested. It is indeed lucky and a miracle that no suicidal soldier has thought of consuming the powder yet.

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Since the beginning after they knew of this matter, David’s mother, father, and brother couldn’t believe that David would do this kind of things and hurt others and himself. David was smart, friendly, and kind. But David once told his mother that there was a “killer teacher” (exact term used: “dosen killer” - ed) in the school. It’s not clear what David meant by the term “killer teacher”.

What could David have meant?

So it is time to do a little investigating.

On his blog, he was quoted to be saying:

will be sharing with you some tips!
On how I increase my blog traffic!
How to make your blog like a brand!

For this Monday,Tuesday and today which is the Wednesday.
I’ve this amount.After having every tips applied.

Here’s the tip

1)Comment on others blog
-Comment on someone blog humorously or make it interesting that visitors of the other blog would want to check out your blog.

2)Social Media Sites
-Submit your posts on Social Media Sites.You are able to get an instant boost of your blog’s traffic

3)Forum
-Posting in forum and advertising your blog in a forum works well as it is a forum with large amount of visitors and it will boost your traffic and do add a signature with your blog url to widen the chance of getting your blog visited by the members of the forum.Some of the forums I would suggest would be Hardwarezone - EDMW , SGCLUB , VR-ZONE , Playpark & STOMP !

4)Blog Directories
-Submit your blog on Blog Directories : Submit your blogs to Technorati, Techmeme, Blogcatalog and other blog directories. Blog directories are also a place where you could submit your blogs and get traffic and when your blog is fairly new to everyone.

5)RSS Feeds
-Syndicate RSS through feedburner.Because it’s the best. Syndicating feeds also results in increasing traffic, as the people who are in list of your feed will come back.

6)Link others.
-Yes,linking of others will definitely helps alot.By linking more people and more people liking you back you will get a higher chance of increasing your blog’s traffic.If you wish me to link you,post a comment :)!

7)Technorati tags
-Tagged every key word in each of your posts.I found that by tagging my post effectively they were getting a lot more attention then their untagged counterparts, and it’s definitely an advantage.

8)PING
-Ping your blog with websites like PING.SG & BLOGEXPLOSION

9)Title tag
-Based on default, Title tags in blogger can only show the first title set in the blog.
It will be hard to increase the blog traffic and Search Engines Optimization, because the keywords appeared would not match the Post title.
Then, how to make the title tags appear as the Post titles?

It is simple. Some steps you have to do:

1. Log in to your Blogger Account.
2. Go to Layout > Edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard.
3. Search (CTRL+F) for this tag:
4. Add this code (Bold) with the following:

Note:Remove the spacebar for tit le.

10)Blog!
-Yes,you do have to blog something interesting that will attract visitors to your blog.Make sure you update your blog at least once every week.Make your blog like an entertainment station Jokes,riddles,etc are proven to increase your blog’s traffic.

What is so interesting is point number 3 and 4.

In point 3 where the cloner (lets call him a cloner, he is not a blogger, he copies all his content from other sources with no original input from himself at all) says to post the blog links on forums such as hardwarezone, I promptly went over and did a search for “howcomeyouarehere”. This is what came up:

Someone is already warning us not to visit the howcomeyouarehere blog! There is also some mention about blatantly using the blog to earn money, but lets leave it for the moment.

Next we look at his next tip for increasing blog traffic, point number 4. Submission to blog directories. I think this is something that the cloner did very well.

Ping.sg works by promoting blog entries that has more user clicks (or pongs) to the top 10, and by being the top 10, that blog entry gains even more exposure and hence translate into tonnes of free traffic. This is what howcomeyouarehere did:

Pongs can only be given by registered users on Ping.sg, and it is not uncommon to see that a blog entry can have a dozen of reads but only 1 or 2 pongs. However, howcomeyouarehere’s entries get ponged as soon as they appear, and have almost the same number of pongs and reads. What is more, the first 5 people who pong those entries are the same, in the same exact order.

6 pongs and 4 reads!

It is quite obvious that he had created multiple accounts to ping his own entries. This is how he get so much traffic.

Next, remember the experiment I conducted earlier on Ping.sg, where I posted an entry with the title “Singaporeans only care about sex, and here’s why”. It immediately become the top story on Ping.sg, hence proving my point that Singaporeans only care about sex.

And how is the content in howcomeyouarehere like? All about rapes, penises and testicles. I expect he go to google news everyday to search for those obscene words and just copy and paste whatever latest sex related story he can find. This greatly boasted his traffic too.

Now we know how did howcomeyouarehere get so much traffic. The remaining question is WHY?

The answer is obvious:

Advertisements are meant for allowing products/services to gain more exposure. In this case howcomeyouarehere has trampled on this very fundamental definition of ads by essentially saying,

“Come on sucker, let me earn some $, click on all the ads you can find on my blog.”

Update 130309: The cloner has since removed the pop up alert.

According to HWZ.

A GROUP of National University of Singapore (NUS) undergraduates who ran naked from one hostel to another on the campus have been expelled from the hall at which they were staying.

The nine, all male sportsmen mostly in their first year, are being put through a disciplinary inquiry, the outcome of which is due at month’s end.

Meanwhile, they are still attending classes, though they have been barred from seeking places at the other hostels.

Read the full report in Thursday’s edition of The Straits Times.

Local Universities are such happening places nowadays..