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Benjamin Lan

17 yrs old

Born on: 25/01/1992

Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Aerospace Technology

Likes Flying and being an Audiophile

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Yo suckers, im going to fly to Bangkok tomorrow. Im leaving at 10.40am. Gabriel Sng, Ian Tan, Jan Ong and Joshua Cheng are gonna see me off ( hopefully :D ).

Anyway, a quick and short post of the pictures taken from Thursday's birthday celebration at AMK Hub by Sarah Poh this time:

Uncle Ean and Ian:


Jan and Sarah:


Sarah and I:


Jerald and I:


Group photo (Joshua Cheng, Ernest, Gabriel Low and Zexun left already, so we couldn't get a FULL group photo):


Ok, i only have a few hours before flying off. See yah on Tuesday evening :D.

1/24/2009 03:00:00 AM

Friday, January 23, 2009

Yo suckas, juz came back from AMK Hub after havin a joyous time at Fish&Co. for my early bday dinner with 10ppl. I really like to thank Ernest Quek, Jerald Tan, Zexun, Gabriel Low, Gabriel Sng, Raymond Liew, Joshua Cheng, Ian Tan, Jan Ong and Sarah Poh for making this dinner a very joyous occasion.

Met Jan 1st at arnd 6pm at the mrt stn. Was so shocked she looked so nice! Her hair and her highlights, contacts and her dressing :D.

Then we met Ernest, Jerald, Zexun, Raymond and Gabriel Low at the escalator in AMK Hub up to the 2nd floor. Ian, Gabriel Sng and Sarah (she also looks more matured and nicer with her office dressing :D) followed soon after.

Exactly at 6.30pm Joshua Cheng arrived and then we went inside Fish&co:

Sarah and Gabriel Sng while chatting before the food comes:


Joshua Cheng and Gabriel Low chatting also while waiting for the food:


Yeah.... :


Anyway, these are the photos I can post now, I will post the rest when Zexun uploads the photos then i can take from his blog :D. Photos like me standing on the chair while the Fish&co. staff and friends were celebrating my bday. The photo of the cake and his other camwhore photos...
*Edit: Zexun managed to post the photos on his blog, (the next 4 photos are his, do not say its mine! :D):
Getting ready for the birthday celebration after dinner:


The Fish&Co. Stuff celebrating as well:


Me blowing candles:


A funny expression from me when Gab Sng putting a Cherry on top of my head...:


After dinner, all 11 of us went to walk arnd AMK Hub and went out later to take photo of the water fountain thing on display:
Me and Jan:


Uncle Ean:


Thank you Joshua Cheng and Raymond for the cute Monkey (im born in the year of the goat though, but monkey soft toys looks cuter than goats :D):


My sis and I at home:


Alrighty, see u next time. Im flying off to Bangkok on saturday morning. If any of you guys coming, pls sms or call me so that i know who is coming to visit. I will be at the airport from around 8 - 8.30am.

1/23/2009 12:27:00 AM

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Yo Suckas! I haven been updating for a week cuz was somehow lazy and busy with stuff.

Firstly, i shall announce my O lvl Results. From 33pts L1R5 in my Prelims, i got 17pts for L1R5 and 14pts L1R4 (which is 2 pts off my target...). I actually thought I needed 10pts to get into aerospace. But 12pts is needed to get in. I have 14pts -2 CCA pts = 12pts, in which i managed to scraped into the Requirments. So i really have to pray hard to get into aerospace in Ngee Ann Poly due to the high demand in this course.

Alright, since I did 2x better than my prelims, my parents gave me a treat. I am able to buy a phone with a budget from $500-$600. Well... These are the favourites to choose now and i'm gonna review them:

1. Apple iPhone:

Very Good, a nice and sensitive heat sensor touch screen, fast 3G, loads of apps i can buy.
BUT i have an ipod touch which is almost the same as an iphone except no SMS, 3G, GPS, no speaker, no microphone, no camera. Well... If i get an iphone juz for those stuff, i might as well stick to my N81 in which it has all of those. Not only that, the camera is rubbish (like my N81), i can't record, and iPhones are so common that I can find at least 15 different people everyday in SG... I like to be different.

2. Samsung Omnia:

Looks Good, 5 megapixel camera, Windows Mobile, Pressure Sensor Touch Screen.
BUT i seriously hate the laggy windows, the camera is not very good, and the pressure sensor is not as sensitive as i thought... Same as iPhone, loads of people have this as well.

3. Nokia N85:

A Slide phone: Very nice OLED Screen rather than LCD. It is less laggy, slimmer and slicker than the N96. It also has a 5 megapixel camera.
BUT my mum has this phone and the camera is pretty rubbish. The picture taken tends to be very blur. U have to hold your hand very very still to get a clear image (no image stabilization...).

I realized by looking at what i want from the first 3 phones i reviewed, its a good Camera and Video recorder phone.

So, there are 4 more phones i have tried and these are the four 8 megapixel cameras in the market right now:

4. Sony Ericsson C905:

A Slide phone. Its an 8 megapixel camera phone with Xenon Flash. Very good in taking photos in the night, pretty sharp images all rounder. The user interface is very friendly.
BUT Sony Ericsson tends to be very laggy (almost the same as the Windows Mobile). Thus, it takes a very long time to snap a photo (about 4-5 secs). Not only that, the video recording is pretty rubbish. So there is no point going for this phone...
But if you are looking for a phone with the best camera shots taken, this phone is juz right for u.

5. Samsung Innov8:

A Slide phone. Symbian S60 software, very good in taking picture outdoors, close up shots, very nice sliding feel when you slide the phone, excellent video recording, very little lag.
BUT it has a LED Flash, which makes it difficult to get a bright picture at night. And it does not take photos fast enough though... (faster than LG Renoir and C905).
This is an excellent all rounder 8 megapixel camera phone. In Fact, i think its the best 8 megapixel phone so far.

6. Samsung Pixon:

A Pressure Sensor touch screen phone. Touch Wiz Software from samsung (same as the Samsung F480 Tocco) which as abit of lag, but not as bad as the SE C905 and slightly better than the LG Renoir. Good in taking very fast shots (ONE Second without image stabilization and 2 Seconds with Image Stabilization), one of the most sensitive pressure sensor touch screen i have ever tried, excellent. Very nice eye pleasing shots. The user interface while taking photos is extremely user friendly and easy to use. One of the best video recording out of the four 8 megapixel camera phones and it can play DivX movies as well.
BUT it has a LED Flash, which makes it difficult to get a bright picture at night. The camera is slightly (very slightly) less detailed than the Samsung Innov8 and the SE C905 (the pixon has almost the same detail as the LG Renoir). It also does not have GPS and Wi-Fi (No Wi-fi, WTH!)
The Samsung Pixon is not one of the best all rounder 8 megapixel phone, but it is one of the best Pressure Touch Screen phones in the market right now (although one of the ugliest).

7. LG Renoir:

A Pressure Sensor Touch Screen Phone. Has a software almost the same as the Touch Wiz software from Samsung, thus, it's not very laggy. Has pretty Sharp shots. Has pretty nice detail (almost the same as the Pixon). It has Xenon Flash. Good Video Recording and the looks of the phone is pretty nice and it can play DivX movies as well.
BUT the Xenon is extremely useless at night. Even the LED Flash phones from Innov8 and Pixon is brighter than the LG Renoir's Xenon Flash. The pressure sensor touch screen is not that sensitive, and i have to press the screen pretty hard to choose applications. The fullscreen camera viewfinder doesn't show the entire frame and the camera tends to over-sharpen shots.
Still, the LG Renoir is a pretty good phone i must say with the looks and feel. But it does not have the user friendliness from other 8 megapixel phones have.

Conclusion:
The Samsung Innov8 is nice, but i prefer touch screen phones and Shaun Lai already has this. So thus, it's down between the 2 touch screen phones. Both share the touchscreen form factor and both appeal nice to me. Choosing between them is a tough call. The Pixon has more camera-centric looks and is certainly a match for the Renoir imaging skill. Both costs around the same price and, while the Pixon lacks Wi-Fi connectivity, it makes up some with slightly bigger screen estate, better widgets, WVGA video recording and quad-band GSM support (which most Renoirs on the market reportedly lack).

So i bought the Samsung Pixon in the end. heh!

Last Saturday, the School had a CCA Display for the Sec 1 students. We demonstrated to both the parents and students with Flight Simulators, RC helicopters and high speed Combat line-control planes. A Total of 32 students signed up. 22 from express and 10 from NA.

These are like only some pictures and a video recorded during the CCA display with my Samsung Pixon:

My Trex 450XL CCPM Align Helicopter before take-off for demonstration:


RC Helicopters and planes on display before the CCA Display starts:


A 1/2A F2B "P-51 Mustang" Stunt plane:


A photo of the F2D Combat Plane before taking off:


The 30000rpm Zorro Engine (watch the video to see how powerful and how loud the engine it Screams):


A Video F2D combat plane doing high speed stunts flown by Kevin Su (recording using Samsung Pixon WVGA 720x480 but sadly the quality of the video on the blog ain't that good...):


Lastly, i would like to apologize to Sarah Poh for missing her 17th Bday celebration due to the large amount of preparation i had before the CCA display last saturday. Happy Belated 17th Birthday Sarah! :D

1/20/2009 07:19:00 PM

Monday, January 12, 2009

Yo suckers! Juz had dinner and received my O lvl results and i did.... Well, not to bad. Arnd my target. but i shan't tell u the score i got and as well as which course im going to. Heh!

Well... only a few days to decide wat course im gonna go. Time flies really fast. A few months ago, it was the start of Os. In a blink of an eye, the O lvls results are out.

Alrighty, pretty high and busy now, will blog more some other day. :D

*Random Note: Stupid Singtel, the handphone that i wanna get still out of stock after 1 week and 3 days. £$@!.

1/12/2009 07:52:00 PM

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Hi ppl, long time nvr post. Haha. Lots of fun stuff, yet some sad things happened. But still, it was a pretty busy week :D.

I would like to start off by apologizing to a friend of mine whom i shall not name. I made my friend very angry cuz i kaopei (u know what im talking) at my friend. We are still very close friends. But I muz really be sincere in saying Sorry to my friend in public.


Ok, i juz had a class chalet at Pasir Ris Costa Sands yesterday and today. I haven slept at all till now (so now im probably 3/4 dead) except the morning whr i dozed off when my classmates were playing PS3 and pool in the morning. Played Halo3 like 3 hours, winning eleven for 4 hours. BBQ as well, made pretty delicious Chicken wings, sausages, satay and crabstick. Jedidiah Chia thought me how to BBQ properly. So now i finally know how to make a juicy BBQ chicken wing :D.

Alrighty, will posts some photos in the chalet:

The photo of the room in the chalet. Very small and old. But i can't do anything cuz my class got budget for the chalet:


This is 3am in the morning, about 15ppl are in the room watching and playing Winning Eleven on Ryan's PS3 (most of them are either behind or on the left and right of me):


After this, some of the guys went to sleep. So Joshua, Shawn, Jagbir, Nigel Chen, Joachim, Jitesh, Jedidiah and I went to the seaside for 2 hours, played Truth or Dare and enjoyed the sea breeze till morning:


Yup, that's about all for the Chalet. Had a very fun time with my classmates. And that will probably be the 2nd last time as a class le... :((

Oh btw, being abit random here. It was my first time seeing this in the MRT:

Totally no seats at all!

Ok, i gtg. Tmr there is SYFC and im very tired. Heh, See ya!

1/08/2009 10:44:00 PM

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Yoz ppl. Didn't blog yesterdady cuz i was technically tired and lazy. Ok, lets start off with yesterday, then today. :P

Friday:

Woke up at arnd 9am and headed down to orchard road at 10.30am to see my orthodontist and remove my braceys!!! =D She did it pretty fast. Used some plier thing to take out the metallic brackets and she used some mini sandpaper thing to grind and remove some of the cement thing on my teeth which was used to stick the metal brackets to my teeth. Then she polished it and i'm done, Haha. Still, my teeth are slightly yellow in color =(( . Not white at all. Maybe cuz we r asians thats why...

Anyway, met Ian and Sarah to play badminton with them. Can't play properly, so i juz anyhow play XD.

Finished at 2pm, met gabriel sng later to hve fish&co. All 4 of us ordered the same set menu. I ate the fastest, followed by sarah, then gabriel and lastly ian (he was the second fastest, but couldn't finish).

We then headed down to orchard road to walk arnd for 2 hours and then spent the last hour at Subway and doing nothing (well... almost). I left at 6pm from Far East plaza while the other 3 went to walk arnd somemore.


Saturday:

Woke up, had breakfast, helped my dad scrape the peeling and loose paint at the back of the house, had lunch, paint the back of the house, bathed, had dinner, then met Ernest, Gab and Sus at CHS.

From there, Gab, Ernest and I headed down to PS to see the 2 of them buy formal clothes. After that, we had dinner (supper for me) at Carl's Junior and headed back home. LOL!

Ok, today was abit boring except the evening. Still, not as bad as weekdays stuck at home sometimes....

Alrighty, time for me to go. Needa watch vids and chat in 2 Audiophile forums. Haha, see ya!

1/03/2009 11:03:00 PM

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year guys!! Couldn't post yesterday i was celebrating at Suntec City there to see the Fireworks from the Marina Bay, v nice. But i lazy post the fireworks on my blog. And even so, all fireworks looks the same so.....

Met Ian Tan, Gab Sng and Sarah again yesterday, went to Vivo City to see the countdown which was 3 hours before 12 midnight, then was playing arcade to kill time. But only 1 hour had passed. Pretty bored, then Gab and Ian suggested to go to Suntec City to see the fireworks instead. At least it killed time, so it's better to travel then. =D

Chilled at Starbucks in Suntec for an hour till 11.50pm. Then the last 10mins we rushed all the way to the Esplanade to see the Fireworks, very nice indeed =D.

After that, with much delay, Ian left at Clarke Quay to see his cousins. So Gab, Sarah and I travelled up to Punggol to see raymond after his job. We arrived at 1am, and the last train is at 1.38am. So after half an hour, raymond wasn't at punggol mrt yet. We had no choice to go down to the last train back to potong pasir. Instead, we met raymond at Potong Pasir for "supper" at Macs. LOL! then we went to Gab's house to slp over and raymond left at around 3.30am. Sarah and I slept at arnd 5-6am, and had no choice but to wake up at 7am cuz gab had to go to church.

When I woke up. Felt V sick. Dunno why, heh! But after breakfast, I felt much better.

My arm is much better now, i can stretch my arm at some angles without much pain though. But it is much much better. I would like to thank those of my friends who prayed for me and that i'm better now. Praise the Lord! =D

I wish everyone a Happy New Year!!

1/01/2009 10:48:00 PM