My Most Memorable Brands

The good old days when English soccer matches on TV were free; Local school boys were groomed to become future soccer stars; Division 1 was the top of the leagues; Sharp and Crown Paints became my most memorable brands.

Red Hot Wallpaper on my iPhone 6

Sporting a red hot wallpaper on my 6 today!

My Favourite Less Well-Known 90s Singers' Songs

Here's the list of some of my favourite songs from four 90s female singers.

陶晶莹, while famous as a host, wasn't that super popular as a singer.

陶晶莹 - 天空不要为我掉眼泪 （1990）

徐雯倩 - 美丽的预谋 （1991）

陈冠蒨 - 你若爱我请你说出口 （1994）

侯湘婷 - 两个冬天 （2001）

I'm Recharged

Listening to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbscQj5AV6M

by the playground on a 26 degrees Sunday morning + 放空 = Total Recharge.

Haw Par Villa Revisited (21st March 2014)

Here I am at Singapore's Haw Par Villa after 20-odd years!

This is the first trip here for my daughters and the last time I was here I was about their age!

Other names for Haw Par Villa are Tiger Balm Gardens and 虎豹別墅.

The entrance stands majestically in the middle for a gentle slope.

Seems like they have maintained the structure well over the years.

The car park area at the foot of the hill just before the entrance.  Parking lots are not a lot but as the visitors here are not a lot as well, it's easy to get a vacant parking space.  Parking fee is $5 per entry.

The sign board that greeted us right after the entrance looks new and nice.

There are quite a number of outdoors displays.  Many are nice for taking pictures with them.

Here are more pictures of the outdoor displays:

Many displays come with description sign boards that explain the moral of the stories behind them.

There are nice sceneries to immerse oneself in also.

And finally, we arrived at the iconic attraction of Haw Par Villa - The 10 Courts of Hell.

Inside are the displays of what sufferings one will go through after death. The level of sufferings depend on how bad one's deeds that one has done before one's death.

The scenes are just too gruesome to mention here. I will leave it to your interpretation and imagination.

With the tenth court of hell seen, we made our way down the slope and exit out to pick up our car.

It's a memorable and educational trip for the kids while it's down memory lane for the adults.

iOS Timer Apps

I've used a few "timer" apps that allow multiple concurrent timers setting.

But I goes back to the stock Clock app for the timer because it's integrated into the lockscreen, showing the time left before the alarm sounds.

Just hope that iOS 8 opens up the lockscreen API to allow third party timer apps to display such info.

Software Project Code Names - Android vs Linux

Modern software projects like to use code names for their various versions.
You might be familiar with the ones for Android.

Just when you think that Android project code names are tasty... (and the latest Kit Kat is tempting..), Linux project code names are no less attractive than the Android desserts.

Here's a listing of all the code names used for the various Android versions:

• Android 1.0 - unnamed
• Android 1.1 - unnamed
• Android 1.5 - Cupcake
• Android 1.6 - Donut
• Android 2.0 - EClair
• Android 2.2 - Froyo
• Android 2.3 - Gingerbread
• Android 3.0 - Honeycomb
• Android 4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwich
• Android 4.1 - Jelly Bean
• Android 4.4 - Kit Kat

Yummy ...
What's interesting is that the names are in alphabetically order.
Interesting...

What you might not know is that a few years before Android came out in 2008, Linux Operating System was already adopting an alphabetically-ordered project code names.  That was 2006.

Here's the listing for the Linux project codename:

• 1.0 - Ada
• 2.0 - Barbara
• 2.1 - Bea
• 2.2 - Bianca
• 3.0 - Cassandra
• 3.1 - Celena
• 4.0 - Daryna
• 5.0 - Elyssa
• 6.0 - Felicia
• 7.0 - Gloria
• 8.0 - Helena
• 9.0 - Isadora
• 10 - Julia
• 11 - Katya
• 12 - Lisa
• 13 - Maya
• 14 - Nadia
• 15 - Olivia
• 16 - Petra

So there you are.
Now, do you prefer dessert's names or lady's names?