Saturday (the day after my school day)

Day started off with me making pancakes, which were essentially the same as the previous ones, except I added sugar and cinnamon and used the butter in the pancake batter rather than on the pan. Tasted quite a bit better, but still, not eggy or fluffy enough. Plans: more cinnamon, less flour, more baking powder.

It's a Bayesian inference kinda thing, doing the same thing over with variations here and there and observing the outcome, so that the variables such as amount of ingredients, cooking time, etc, get fine-tuned so as to correspond to the appropriate end-variables such as fluffiness.

Geeky, but that's the way I see it. It's all about mathematics and probabilities. Create hypothesis, test hypothesis, use data to revise hypothesis. e.g. "More egg might make the pancake fluffy" to "more egg probably made this pancake fluffier" to "I've done this thrice so the probability that egg makes pancakes fluffier is high."

EVERYTHING is scientific. Screw the naysayers. Hey, I still do use A-Level Physics and Mathematics and all in my daily life.

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On the way to Orchard!

Well apparently they had this Nokia advertising stint on several SBS Transit buses some time back, and here it is, in its full glory. Everything's stylishly carpeted in red, white and black. And as for the protrusion into the cabin, they smartly turned it into a faux bartop, with a corny poster of a bartender to boot.

Rather than TVMobile, they had music videos playing but it wasn't working to well as it kept on stuttering. What more, they kept on broadcasting advertisements of popular music groups via Bluetooth.

The kids love it. And me, I do appreciate good, in-your-face advertising.

And hey, it's my favourite bus SBS2812L, the bus that normally plies 162 (this is the VERY first time I see a Volvo Mk4 bus on service 54).

Literally froze my fingers off playing Pokemon on this bus. And got off the bus at Orchard where it was so swelteringly hot, I just felt horrible, moving from hot to cold to hot. Not to mention, I'm already feeling under the weather. Bleagh.

Hung around Orchard with Ryan!

There's a ueberly weird iPod accessory in Gramophone Orchard, that's shaped like an alien doll. Spent a couple of minutes trying to figure out it was ("hey, those eyes look like they're supposed to move", "oh there's a line input at the back", "is this a button?") before giving up. A Google shows that it's some kind of toy where you can create your own beats and melodies, and it bops to the music that's sent to it. But the battery was probably out on the unit demonstrated.

Lunch. A Mos burger, that doesn't really look like a burger, but hey, it's tasty anyway. A patty with lotsa prawns embedded inside. Quite OK, but nothing mindblowing.

And mussels! (Note: Mussels don't magically give you muscles.) Fried! Yay! It's seafood, which happens to fall into the see-food diet ("I see food, I eat it.").

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And since I brought my Canon camera, I tried out some cool tricks! You know The Matrix where you get a 360 degree view? The background zooms past while the foreground just rotates around. Set the camera to a long shutter speed, turn it in an arc, and the background blurs out, leaving the foreground relatively unblurred.

Here's more photos along the walk to Plaza Singapura.

Failed experimentation. Bah.


Panning!


Little bees!


Bob the Builder! Can we fix it? Yes we can!


Camwhoring!

Walk, walk, walk.

And thus, we reached Plaza Singapura.

Windows crashes alot. It's embarrassing when that happens to the computer that's connected to a huge plasma display advertising panel.

Checked out the shops there for DS accessories (the comic shop upstairs doesn't sell the DS stuff cheaply). And The Creative Zen Stone's displayed in their showroom already. It's this iPod Shuffle equivalent - no display, 1 GB memory, except that it's at this really low price of $70, which would make every single MP3 player on earth look expensive. On the other hand, we have no idea how good/bad the sound quality and controls and reliability are.

Laments are the 10h battery life and that it doesn't come in 2GB. Yesterday, on MSN, I suggested to Richie that it'd be wise getting 2 instead of a 1GB player, considering that 10h battery life would be insufficient. Richie thinks it's spastic, sorta like a RAID0 implementation where you get some data on one drive and other data on another.

Bought this black T-shirt at $16, need some cheaper, B-list stuff to fill my wardrobe!

And finally, tired and sleepy, home it is, and lots more Pokemon on the way home!