My recent video is on the front page of YouTube!

This was a print screen of the YouTube page viewed in Singapore. The Shocking reaction to major SMRT train breakdown video that I did for R3LOAD Network is on the front page of YouTube!



The video is also on YouTube's Popular page together with the great Mr Brown! Wah! With Mr Brown leh. Happy already now. It is the 2nd most watched video in Singapore today!



And here are some of the YouTube honors my YouTube channel (R3LOAD Network's companion YouTube channel) has received so far. Thanks everyone for watching and sharing!

Christmas Comet: Can we see Comet Lovejoy in Singapore?

Comet Lovejoy made the news headlines recently after astronomers predicted that the comet will plunge into the sun. It surprised everyone by surviving its close proximity to the sun and now it is surprising everyone yet again by making a spectacular appearance in the pre-dawn sky as a naked eye object.



Comet Lovejoy is best viewed from the southern hemisphere (Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, etc). Its long tail is clearly visible with the naked eye. See the video above taken in Chile. Naked eye comets with very long tails are very rare. You can call them once in a lifetime event. I've been lucky. I've seen two - Comet Hale-Bopp and Comet Hyakutake!

So can we view Comet Lovejoy in Singapore? I plotted the comet's position on this Sky and Telescope star map. See the map above. It is for viewers in Singapore facing the South Eastern sky at 7am on 25 December 2011. Note that tomorrow's sunrise in Singapore is at 7.03am.

As you can see from the map, the comet is just 12 degrees above the South Eastern horizon, making it an extremely challenging object to find. You'll need a cloudless sky, and a clear horizon with no buildings. The best time to try to spot Comet Lovejoy is 15 mins before sunrise - the sky at 7am is just too bright - but that means the comet will be slightly lower than 12 degrees above the horizon, thus making it even more challenging to spot.

Comet Lovejoy is moving sideways to the right as the days progress. Its brilliant naked eye tail is expected to grow longer and longer as New Year approaches. I will update again if I'm able to spot the comet during these few days but don't count on it.

Breaking News: Shocking Reaction to MRT Train Breakdown

I did this Shocking Reaction to MRT Train Breakdown video yesterday for R3LOAD Network. YouTube link here. It's been some time since I did something like this. The last memorable one was the Jack Neo Sex Scandal video. Enjoy! From R3LOAD Network: Breaking News! SMRT train line breaks down again. We bring you the shocking public reaction. Update: We apologise for the bad Engrish. It should be: 'run out of cable ties' instead of 'run of out cable ties'. The script writer has been fired!"

Previously: SMRT CEO gets her own Failure Demotivational Poster

HBO sends me a surprise Christmas goodie bag

I came home today and got a surprise hanging at my door. It's a HBO bag! These are the items inside the bag.



A very nice HBO 2012 calendar.



And then this bottle. Initially I thought it was a bottle of wine or something but it's an official HBO True Blood drink! They called it Tru Blood.



It's a Blood Orange carbonated drink. The label says: "Enliven yourself with uniquely carbonated, slightly tart, lightly sweet blood orange drink." I think if you drink this, you will become one of the vampires in True Blood. Will try it later tonight.



And lastly, this huge kick ass True Blood poster! Thank you HBO!

Previously:
HBO Asia sends Lemon Cake ingredients as invite to the Preview of Game Of Thrones
Game of Thrones: IZ Reloaded seizes the Iron Throne

The Search for the Tampines Lake Pontianak

Singapore Haunted: The Search for the Tampines Lake Pontianak will be out on R3LOAD Network on Monday. You can catch a preview of this episode here. You can watch all the episodes and teasers of Singapore Haunted here.

Tattooed: Host Noel Boyd gets Angry Birds tattoo!

Our latest episode of Tattooed is now out on R3LOAD Network. In episode 6, Noel gets a tattoo of Angry Birds! This episode features the first female tattoo artist to appear on Tattooed! Her name is Wendy and she's from Body-Décor Tattoo & Piercing. It's also a privilege to have the opportunity to interview its owner Richard Tat whose father is the first professional tattoo artist in Singapore, the legendary Johnny Two Thumb. Watch Tattooed Episode 6: Angry Birds right now! Tattooed is directed by yours truly.

Playing Estranged on Drums! for iPad

Me doing a drums cover of the epic Guns N Roses song, Estranged on my iPad! Watch the video above. The app is called Drums! and it is one of my favourite iPad apps. The app is also available for iPod touch and iPhone.

SMRT CEO gets her own Failure Demotivational Poster

SMRT CEO Saw Phaik Hwa today apologised to the 127,000 commuters who were affected by one of the worst rail disruptions in Singapore to date. "Very, very sorry" she said and she would consider resigning if necessary. You know Phaik Hwa, don't need to waste time to consider, just quit now.



Here's a video of passengers stranded in the MRT tunnel being evacuated from their train last night. Shamsofcourse says: "A short video footage of how my brother made his way out of the train that broke down underground."

LTA wants you to name 4 new MRT stations. Here's my submission: Frustration, Chaos, Breakdown and Disruption. goo.gl/fkn0C
— I.Z. Reloaded (@izreloaded) December 16, 2011

And on another note, SMRT wants you to name its new stations. I reckon these four names are very suitable. What say you?

Also read: Breaking News: Shocking Reaction to MRT Train Breakdown

Local superhero comic Salvation Sam now in colour

To celebrate the one year mark since the original black and white release of the Singapore superhero comic book Salvation Sam, its creators Jove Pater Media have made available the coloured edition of the full comic online. You can watch the Salvation Sam comic writers scare themselves silly as guest investigators in an episode of Singapore Haunted.

Business People inspired by Fantastic Mr Fox

UK toy and design outfit Yum Yum made these cute Business People for Wired Magazine. They write: "Wired Magazine kindly asked us to create some characters for a feature about networking. It was super fun making little business people. These were inspired by the handmade figures from our favourite film Fantastic Mr Fox."

The Nicolas Cage Adventure Set

The fate of Nicolas Cage is in your hands! And I know how stressful that can be. The Nicolas Cage Adventure Set has two settings: tropical island and haunted castle. You'll get 3 full-body Nicolas Cage and accessories like a battle axe, skateboard and ice cream cone. Mix and match them and peel and re-peel to create new scenes.

Turn your iPhone 4S into an action sports camera

These rugged Optrix water-resistant case is the perfect companion for your iPhone 4S to capture all your action videos. The case has an anti-vibration sled which protects and limits vibration and comes with flat and curved mounting plates attached with 3M industrial adhesive so that you can mount the Optrix anywhere.

UP inspired Gingerbread House with chocolate Carl

Greg spent 3 weeks to make a Gingerbread version of Carl's house from the Disney/Pixar movie UP complete with a chocolate model of Carl himself. He says, "The front of Carl's House... the colorful siding was made out of home-made pastillage or gum paste, a mixture of powdered sugar, gelatin and water."

Superman, Batman and other Christmas Comic Book Covers

Even comic superheroes do Christmas! Geek Tyrant has put together an awesome collection of classic comic book covers that celebrate Christmas: "I find it funny that old school Batman loves the holiday, and that new-school Batman hates it."

(Thanks Mr Big)

Ride your bike in style with Stormtrooper Motorcycle Suit

The Stormtrooper Motorcycle Suit looks exactly like the real thing except that it is made in leather. Available in both Shadow Trooper black or the classic Stormtrooper imperial white, each suit features form molded details and comes complete with built-in CE-approved body armor to fully protect the motorcycle rider.

Cheeseburger Wrapping Paper makes your gifts delicious

The Cheeseburger Wrapping Paper is the first wrapping paper set from Gift Couture, a new creative and innovative wrapping paper company. The set includes 5 different wrapping paper designs that make up the cheeseburger: a bun, hamburger, cheese, lettuce and tomatoes.

Macro Cell Lens Band lets you take macro shots on iPhone

Now you can take quick and easy macro photographs on your iPhone! The Easy Macro Cell Lens Band is a sturdy band with a built-in macro lens. Just slide the band onto your phone - it fits any mobile phone - and then adjust the macro lens so that it is placed in front of your camera phone lens. Once you're done taking macro shots, just slide it back to your wrist.

Last total lunar eclipse of 2011 visible over Singapore tonight

You can catch the last total lunar eclipse of the year just after today's sunset. For those of us in Singapore, you can start viewing the beginning of the eclipse from 7.31 pm. Total eclipse will begin at 10.05 pm. The moon whll be at maximum eclipse at 10.31 pm and totality will end at 10.57 pm. Check here for eclipse times for India and North America.

Star Wars AT-AT Cupboard will make Darth Vader proud

Colin loves to work with wood and for his latest project, he's making a wooden Star Wars AT-AT cupboard that is a little shorter than his height. Presenting The Emperor's Cabinet! He says, "It still gets brass trim and guns, shelves in the bar and a mirrored interior. There will be a bannister, and all sorts of other brass pipes and such that look like they do something but don't."

The Minimal Backpack is stronger than steel, floats on water

The Minimal Backpack is a roll top backpack, that's waterproof and packs down to fit into a jacket pocket. It is also featherweight and backcountry tough. Made with nonwoven Dyneema, it's 10x stronger than steel yet light enough to float on water. You can carry a whole lot of bricks in the bag! But mind your back.

Empire of the Bat is a Batman Star Wars Mashup

I love these Batman Star Wars mashup illustrations by Dean T Fraser. He writes: "When I came up with this idea for mashing up Batman and Star Wars, I thought it would be a fun project, and it really was. To create these I used my own art, some templates, and the work of others and put it all together for Star Wars: Empire of the Bat."

Space Wedding Rings are made of gold flown in space

If normal wedding rings just don't excite you anymore, then go buy the Space Wedding Rings which are the first jewellery in the world to be made of space gold. Each pair costs a cool US$17K and contains gold which was sent in outer space in a suborbital sounding rocket in Spaceport America on May 20, 2011. Rings come in a custom designed Space Capsule and include a Certificate of Space Flight.

iPhone Lens Dial gives 3 optical lens for your iPhone

Serious iPhoneographers should consider getting the iPhone Lens Dial, a complete three-lens optical system. It has three optical-quality coated glass lenses: .7x Wide Angle, 0.33x Fisheye, and 1.5x Telephoto all attached to a slim aircraft-grade aluminum case. Rotate the disc to easily switch between lenses.

Star Wars Escape from Docking scene recreated using Lego

Dude used more than 10,500 Lego bricks and took 6 months to recreate the Escape from Docking Bay 327 original scene from Star Wars Episode IV complete with LED lights! He writes: "I started building my Docking Bay 327 Escape to Falcon from scratch, only with a few screenshots from Episode IV and a picture from Google."

Star Wars Engagement pics show The Force is strong with these two lovebirds

Events and wedding photographer Michael James snapped this cool engagement photographs of two Star Wars fans fighting it out with lightsabers and then they become lovers at the end. It's a pity these two lovebirds won't be having a Star Wars themed wedding in the near future. According to Michael, they are going to have a traditional wedding instead.

Monsterbrick's Steampunk Lego Inventions

Matt Armstrong aka Monsterbrick is a big collector of all kinds of toys and he's a Lego maniac! Ok wait, I'm not sure maniac is the right word to describe him but he's one hell of a Lego builder alright. Take a look at his Steampunk Lego Inventions photoset on Flickr including this vintage telecope made of Lego!

New Notebook and Laptop Apple

New Notebook and Laptop Apple

 

Apple Inc. released their new notebook product "MacBook" which provided by interesting features Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives, and up to 2GB of memory standard. The new MacBook has designed very impressive with pixel-perfect 1280-by-800 resolution, it’s great for viewing and working with media.


The user who using Laptop MacBook, They will be able to run their applications faster than ever before. Whether they’re working on their next Keynote presentation or watching a movie before they catch a flight, every document, video, and photo on their MacBook will look sharp on the glossy 13.3-inch wide screen display. The new MacBook features a unique keyboard design that sits flush against the bed for a lower profile.

New Notebook and Laptop Toshiba

One of best selling laptop from Toshiba Inc. is Toshiba Satellite A200. The Laptop Satellite A200 is the cheese and tomato pizza of Toshiba's laptop range, It's look sound nice if we say that the Notebook or Laptop Toshiba Satellite A200 is a good all-round laptop, but it doesn't excel in any particular field.


The Laptop Satellite A200 is a strange beast, straddling the line between notebook, desktop, productivity and gaming, but because of this odd mix and while it's a fairly solid machine. It doesn't really do any one task particularly outstandingly when put head-to-head with single-function specialist products. The Laptop Toshiba A200 is available in a whopping 12 different configurations.


The Laptop Satellite A200 has features Built-in Webcam and Microphone, DVD SuperMulti Optical Drive, Fingerprint Reader (It will protect the owner information, or switch profiles, all with the swipe of a finger only). The other specification of Notebook or Laptop Toshiba Satellite A200 are pack with its 1.73GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 1GB of 667MHz DDR2 memory and a 5,400rpm 120GB hard disk drive.

New Notebook and Laptop Acer

Acer sponsorship of the Scuderia Ferrari racing team brings the compact Acer Ferrari 1000 Laptop. As far as cool, slightly over-the-top design goes though, not only has this latest Acer Ferrari still got it, it raises the bar even higher. The Notebook or Laptop Acer Ferrari 1000 featuring with Carbon Fiber lid, fierce candy red trim, and the speed-invoking Ferrari logo.


The Notebook and Laptop Acer Ferrari 1000 is a new ultra-portable model and with the supplied 6-cell battery weighs in at 1.75Kg, not super light but it's not bad. The 2GHz AMD Turion X2 ML-60 is AMD’s fastest dual-core mobile processor and as we’ll see it does offer impressive performance. However, the Thermal Design Power (TDP) is a hefty 35W compared to 31W for the competing Intel Core Duo.


The Notebook Acer Ferrari 1000 provided InviLink™ Nplify™, a high-throughput wireless solution features a data rate of up to 300 Mbps3 and delivers superior performance and reliable connections while enabling emerging voice, video and data applications; Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™, it is compliant with 802.11a/b/g standards.

DoubleClick Publisher Blog: Take a walk on the sell-side

DoubleClick Publisher Blog: Take a walk on the sell-side

Juliana and Me on Michael Bay's official website!

Nelson from the Michael Bay's official website has posted a photograph of Michael Bay posing in front of the new Autobot Evac at the Transformers The Ride Launch Party. Look closer and you can spot me and Juliana in the photograph! Both of us were there to cover the World Premiere for R3LOAD Network. You can watch Transformers The Ride World Premiere Special on R3LOAD Network. The video is also on Transformers Live Blog!

Previously: Transformers The Ride World Premiere and Launch Party

Transformers The Ride World Premiere and Launch Party

On Friday, I attended the Transformers The Ride Press Conference and Launch Party at Universal Studios Singapore at Resorts World Sentosa. I was there to cover the event for R3LOAD Network.



Here's Juliana who's the presenter for our Transformers The Ride Launch Party coverage. Great job, Ju!





The press conference was attended by the man himself, Michael Bay!



After the press conference, we then headed inside the Ride to try it for ourselves before it opens to the public the next day. It was awesome! The Battlestar rides at Universal Studios Singapore are definitely scarier and the Mummy is really good but Transformers The Ride is indeed very special. If you love the Transformers movies, this is the ride you should take because it lets you experience what it's like to fight the Decepticons. It's in 3D. You move in a car that's on a track. There's some water splashing. Lots of twists and turns. Great visuals and sounds. It's a ride that you have to take when you are at Universal Studios Singapore! Watch the video of the entire ride here.



The launch party was held later that evening and Michael made a grand entrance in Bumblebee in Camaro mode!



But the highlight of the night for me has to be this very special moment when Michael Bay walked towards me and talked directly into my camera. He didn't do this to anyone else but me that night. Thank you Michael! You've made a fanboy very, very, very happy.

Watch the full 12 minutes plus Transformers The Ride World Premiere, Press Conference, Launch Party and Full Ride Walkthrough video on R3LOAD Network!

MACBOOK UNIBODY LAPTOP APPLE CARE UNTIL 2012

 

 Description

MacBook Unibody in excellent working and cosmetic condition.

It has Apple Care Warranty until April 14th, 2012!

Let me do the math for you.  A brand new laptop with Apple Care will cost you $1200 $100 tax $300 apple care which is $1600.  That's not including Wireless Mighty Mouse and Microsoft Office 2008 install DVD that comes with this deal.

It has a huge 250GB hard drive, 2.4GHz Duo Core Processor, 2GB RAM. It also has a 13 inch screen and a DVD-RW/CD-RW drive. This will read and write CD-R and CD-RW discs, and will read and write DVD's. This PowerBook has a fresh install of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and all the programs and gadgets that comes with it such as Garage Band, iChat, iMovie HD, iTunes, iWeb, iPhoto, Quicktimes, Safari, Chess etc...

It also has  Microsoft Office 2008 with install DVD and 3 unique serial numbers.

Cosmetically the laptop is gently used, well maintained.  It has some very minor scratches but overall in great condition.

It comes with an a/c adapter and a replacement battery that holds an excellent charge, well over 6 hours!  The laptop has two USB ports, a Firewire port, and jacks for Ethernet, Modem, VGA, and audio.

This Macbook is wireless capable with built in airport card included and ready for you to connect to any wireless network and surf the web.  It is also bluetooth capable and can sync with bluetooth capable devices.

It comes with a nice backlit keyboard.

It also has an iSight webcam built in for iChat, Photobooth or any programs you like to use with a webcam.

Comes with original box, adapter and wireless mighty mouse.