BobcatSysOp
Facebook me! also former fidonet BobcatSysop 6:600/231, current forum moderator of sgcaraudio.net Loft for In-Car Entertainment and Music Lover, interest also includes Photography and computing.
5/14/2011
8/25/2010
SCV MaxOnline Cable TV
My home was installed with SCV for my Cable TV, MaxOnline for my broadband subscription and one residence home phone installation with wireless connection.
Recently, my wireless phone connection has started to emit interference whenever we use the house phone either receiving or dialling out. That interference caused freezing images and scratchy broken images to my TV reception, so bad that we can hardly watch TV.
Finally installing 1 ferrite clip on the main line plus 1 ferrites (grey colored clip on type) on the cable that leads to the phone, solved the problem. Here is the picture.
10/28/2009
This afternoon at around 12 noon, I was there at Violet Oon's Kitchen in Toa Payoh North with my 2 Penang friends. 1 is a retired ex NUS lecturer and the other is an airline stewardess. Met with Violet Oon over there and we had the following dishes.
1. VO's Shepherd's pie Chicken, a traditional English dish that consists of a bottom layer of minced (ground) meat (chicken) covered with mashed potato. I must say... that this is yummy... A must try. This cost $4.90
2. Nonya Dry Mee Siam - this is very different from our local malay mee siam. I have not tried it before and this is my first time. It was served a little cold and I find this just ok.. This cost $4.90
3. Nonya Beef Lamak. This looks like our Indonesian beef rendang except that the taste is a little different because of the spices used, kaffir lime leaves, coconut cream, served with steam rice and salad with dressing. I find this delicious. This should cost around $8.80
4. This dish on the right hand side is the best. Nonya chicken Tempra dish. I loved the blend of spices mix with shredded sliced chillies, onion, lime, etc.. was my best dish, served with rice and salad with dressing. This cost $8.80
Other than the little higher pricing in an industrial estate 'canteen', the food is nice. They should be open during lunch time only.
This is Violet Oon's Kitchen in Win 18 Eating House, Blk 1008A Toa Payoh North S.318998
This is Violet Oon's Kitchen Menu for today:
1. VO's Shepherd's pie Chicken, a traditional English dish that consists of a bottom layer of minced (ground) meat (chicken) covered with mashed potato. I must say... that this is yummy... A must try. This cost $4.90
2. Nonya Dry Mee Siam - this is very different from our local malay mee siam. I have not tried it before and this is my first time. It was served a little cold and I find this just ok.. This cost $4.90
3. Nonya Beef Lamak. This looks like our Indonesian beef rendang except that the taste is a little different because of the spices used, kaffir lime leaves, coconut cream, served with steam rice and salad with dressing. I find this delicious. This should cost around $8.80
4. This dish on the right hand side is the best. Nonya chicken Tempra dish. I loved the blend of spices mix with shredded sliced chillies, onion, lime, etc.. was my best dish, served with rice and salad with dressing. This cost $8.80
Other than the little higher pricing in an industrial estate 'canteen', the food is nice. They should be open during lunch time only.
This is Violet Oon's Kitchen in Win 18 Eating House, Blk 1008A Toa Payoh North S.318998
This is Violet Oon's Kitchen Menu for today:
3/08/2009
What is Tay Wan or Teh Wan or Sng Wan in the 60's
Ice Ball at 10 cents in the 60s
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Ice ball — straight from the hands
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During the 60's in Singapore and in Malaysia (I know Penang is one place), the most popular thirst quencher at that time was to go to a roadside push cart stall that sells cendol, ice kacang, bobo chaha and ask them for this. 5 cents at that time for a syrup coated 4" round ice ball. That's what it was.
Read this in the hokkien chinese dialect. tay or teh is "To Press" and wan is like heeh wan (fish ball) or bak wan (meat ball) wan means "ball". In Malaysia, the name is more direct. "Sng" is ice in hokkien. So Tay Wan or Sng Wan is "pressed or ice ball".
It's finely crushed ice shavings with inner fillings of kacang (red bean) in the middle and rounded up into a 4" round palm sized ball with 3-colored syrup coating. During those days, where's hygiene?.. you pay 5 cents and you eat the ice ball with both hands and literally suck the ice to quench your thirst. In the end, you got yourself a sticky wet pair of hands after eating it but in a very hot climate like Singapore and Malaysia, that's a big relief thirst quencher.
3/01/2009
My childhood kampong days in the 60's.
My childhood kampong days, my family lived in Jalan Paya near Da Qiao Primary School, Kallang River (currently KPE Ventilator Building area) Opposite Lorong Tai Seng (now Tai Street Street), Airport Road and Paya Lebar Road area that has a nature reserve of coconut tree plantation at that time.
July 1964 racial riots happened in the vicinity of my kampong when I was just 13 years old in Sec 2, witnessing gang fights with open wound injuries running down the street next to our house. Weapons used were long parangs and sharpened edge long bamboo sticks. I remembered they were the secret society gangster feuds between the malay kampong with kampong tai seng, lor tai seng groups. Gurkhas in red trucks (big bells ringing) have to be called in because the local police force could not handle the riots at that time and have curfews imposed. During those days, kampong activities includes kite-flying at the coconut plantation area as well as community work of gotong-royong grass cutting and cleaning up of drainage as we got overgrown tall lallang and clogged canals that flows down to Sungei Kallang.
What did our family do for a living?
My dad (now deceased) and mum runs a push cart selling cendol, bobo cha-cha, 4" (10cm) round syrup coated iceball, ice kacang (red beans ice shavings) and made a name for it being the most popular in the 60's. Our regular patrons were primary school children from Da Qiao Primary School, the neighborhood and some come from as far as airport workers from the old Paya Lebar International Airport that never fails to patronize our stall that is situated at the junction of Jalan Paya and Airport Road facing Lorong Tai Seng and that was like orchard road shopping to us and there was also a big wet market there for our fresh meat and vegetables.
July 1964 racial riots happened in the vicinity of my kampong when I was just 13 years old in Sec 2, witnessing gang fights with open wound injuries running down the street next to our house. Weapons used were long parangs and sharpened edge long bamboo sticks. I remembered they were the secret society gangster feuds between the malay kampong with kampong tai seng, lor tai seng groups. Gurkhas in red trucks (big bells ringing) have to be called in because the local police force could not handle the riots at that time and have curfews imposed. During those days, kampong activities includes kite-flying at the coconut plantation area as well as community work of gotong-royong grass cutting and cleaning up of drainage as we got overgrown tall lallang and clogged canals that flows down to Sungei Kallang.
What did our family do for a living?
My dad (now deceased) and mum runs a push cart selling cendol, bobo cha-cha, 4" (10cm) round syrup coated iceball, ice kacang (red beans ice shavings) and made a name for it being the most popular in the 60's. Our regular patrons were primary school children from Da Qiao Primary School, the neighborhood and some come from as far as airport workers from the old Paya Lebar International Airport that never fails to patronize our stall that is situated at the junction of Jalan Paya and Airport Road facing Lorong Tai Seng and that was like orchard road shopping to us and there was also a big wet market there for our fresh meat and vegetables.
2/26/2009
Bobcat BBS - Home of Utilities and Shareware
For those old BBS modemmers, I was the former SysOp of The Bobcat BBS System - Home of Utilities and Shareware (a licensed BBS by TAS) during the early 90's thereafter, internet wiped out the existance of BBSes. My son Asst SysOp Edwin Chan TC who was 15 years old at that time, was helping me maintain the BBS.
From my recollection of those early BBS days, fidonet was formed sometime in 1986 when it started off in the USA.
1987 Oct, Wing Lee and Lam Siew Hong started with a region 51 for Asean under fidonet 6:600 with 12 nodes. At the same time, Malaysia also started under Asean.
1992 expanded with more hubs like 200 (Lai_Zit_Seng), 300 (Kelvin_Khoo), 400 (Kelvin_Goh) and 500 (Ivan_Leong).
1993 Sept - Bobcat BBS joined fidonet under Hub 200 as 6:600/231 and more hubs 600 (Teo_Chee_Kian) and 700 (Paul_Chatfield) were added.
During this time, Bobcat BBS was also a registered member of the Association of Shareware Professionals ASP# 454 [04/21/93] ASP Membership Listing (http://www.textfiles.com/bbs/aspbbs.txt), BOBNet HQ, DMLiNKS, DoorNet, U-NInet,
1996 July - Bobcat BBS was registered with TAS as a licensed BBS in Singapore.
With the emergence of internet, time-based phone call charges and worldwide web, BBSes existence has been exterminated. Bobcat BBS finally closed it's doors sometime in 2001 after seven (7) years.
Modems used during the final years were 19200 V32B ZYXEL Modem and USRobotics 9600 to 52k HST Modem.
From my recollection of those early BBS days, fidonet was formed sometime in 1986 when it started off in the USA.
1987 Oct, Wing Lee and Lam Siew Hong started with a region 51 for Asean under fidonet 6:600 with 12 nodes. At the same time, Malaysia also started under Asean.
1992 expanded with more hubs like 200 (Lai_Zit_Seng), 300 (Kelvin_Khoo), 400 (Kelvin_Goh) and 500 (Ivan_Leong).
1993 Sept - Bobcat BBS joined fidonet under Hub 200 as 6:600/231 and more hubs 600 (Teo_Chee_Kian) and 700 (Paul_Chatfield) were added.
During this time, Bobcat BBS was also a registered member of the Association of Shareware Professionals ASP# 454 [04/21/93] ASP Membership Listing (http://www.textfiles.com/bbs/aspbbs.txt), BOBNet HQ, DMLiNKS, DoorNet, U-NInet,
1996 July - Bobcat BBS was registered with TAS as a licensed BBS in Singapore.
With the emergence of internet, time-based phone call charges and worldwide web, BBSes existence has been exterminated. Bobcat BBS finally closed it's doors sometime in 2001 after seven (7) years.
Modems used during the final years were 19200 V32B ZYXEL Modem and USRobotics 9600 to 52k HST Modem.
2/23/2009
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