Archive for February, 2009
Every duty day I spend less than an hour for traveling to Teck Whye from my estate. How did I do that? Let me show you how.
Way 1 / 58 mins
-Take the 5.40am bus 25 from bus stop (outside Block 637) to Kembangan. 10 mins
-And from Kembangan, take west bound MRT all the way to Choa Chu Kang. 45 mins
-And finally switch to bus service 190/975 or 985 to Teck Whye. 3 mins
Way 2 / 58 mins
-Take any bus service 25 before 5.50 from bus stop outside Block 637 to Ang Mo Kio. 25 mins
-From Ang Mo Kio, take north bound MRT all the way to Choa Chu Kang. 30 mins
-And finally switch to bus service 190/975 or 985 to Teck Whye. 3 mins
Way 3 / 48 mins
-Take bus service 5 of bus stop outside Block 660(6.10am), or outside Block 637(6.13am) to Jalan Toa Payoh. 15 mins
-Switch to bus service 966 to bus stop opposite Pending. 20 mins
-Switch to LRT service and take to Phoenix Station. 10 mins
-Cross over to take bus service 190 to Teck Whye. 3 mins
Way 4 / 48 mins
-Take bus service 5 of bus stop outside Block 660(6.10am), or outside Block 637(6.13am) to Jalan Toa Payoh. 15 mins
-Switch to bus service 151/153/154/105 to after 3 stops, alight at SCGS. 5 mins
-Cross over to take bus service 190 to Teck Whye. 30 mins
Way 5 / 49 mins
-Take any bus 2 stops from outside Block 637(Before 5.45am) to Eunos Link. 6 mins
-Cross over to take bus service 966 to Pending. 30 mins
-Switch to LRT service and alight at Phoenix. 10 mins
-Cross over and take bus service 190 to Teck Whye. 3 mins
So after reading the above and you understand there ARE so many ways to reach camp before 7 from my estate, why can’t a similar case, who live only 300m away from me, claims that he CAN’T reach camp in time before 7. Utterly crap. (Oh! most probably he can’t wake up in time cause he’s gaming ALL night long. HAHAHA)
HTC Dream
Yes I’ve ordered it! Let’s head on the progress of the order now.
Estimated Delivery date to my US Address: 27th February 2009.
Feb 23 10.36AM Placed Order (Evening time, Feb 22 as of US Time)
Feb 24 01.15AM Received notification that my order will be sent out from warehouse this afternoon, whereby this afternoon = morning time in Singapore
Feb 24 02.08AM Fedex picked the package up from Brightstar Warehouse.
Feb 24 09.01AM Received notification that my order has been shipped and Fedex should be on the way to collect my parcel!
Feb 24 10.52AM Package arrived at Wheeling(IL) Fedex location!
Feb 24 15.26PM Package left Wheeling(IL) Fedex location.
Feb 24 19.59PM Package arrived at Chicago(IL) Fedex location!
Feb 24 11.06PM Package left Chicago(IL) Fedex location.
Feb 25 10.35AM Package arrived at Lenexa(KS) Fedex location.
Feb 25 20.38PM Package left Lenaxa (KS) Fedex location.
Feb 26 15.33PM Package in transit at North Salt Lake (UT).
Feb 27 10.35AM Package arrived at Portland (OR) Fedex location!
Feb 27 19.52PM Package departed from Portland(OR) Fedex location!
Feb 27 21.59PM Package arrived at local Fedes facility.
Feb 27 22.14PM Package on FedEx Vehicle for delivery!
Feb 28 04.55AM Package received at US address!
Feb 28 09.15AM Onenow received packaage and sent for shipment to Singapore!
March 3 08.08AM DHL picked up the package.
And skipping thru the many updates from DHL, the package touched down at 18.15PM on Thursday! Coming soooonn.
HTC Dream
Singtel released its version of HTC Dream (In US known as the T-Mobile G1) and was named after its brand, the Singtel Dream.
If you have recalled, Singtel ALSO got their exclusive rights in selling the Apple iPhone last year, which force you to sign up for their tariff plans if you wanna get one.
This time, it’s NO difference, and the plans were ‘upgraded’, you don’t really wanna use what you really pay for. Check out what I meant.
For people who want to maintain their plan and get the phone, you’ll have to pay an additional $13 for a BBoM Plus every month, which cost you about $38/mth and $488 for the phone.
For new subscribers, it’s THE SAME too. The rational about having you to compulsory sign an additional data plan is CRAP. People want to use WiFi, you don’t want them to use is it!
If you compare between the prices between Singtel’s Optus and the prices here, you’d fly to Aussie to get the phone instead.
Now let’s see if I should get it from Google’s dev site instead. It’s about the same price, the whole cost will cost me $720.
I’d better think through carefully =X
(P/s: why can’t you guys just ALLOW us to get the phone, without the plan? think profits.)