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Category: Lifestyle & Hobbies

  • The Wife Shall Shop Alone

    Why one wife now chooses to shop alone
    Why one wife now chooses to shop alone

    I shall try it someday.

  • Little Hamsters!

    Our female hamster gave birth to a litter of seven pups on the morning of Aug 22, 2009! The pups are 3 days old now and mummy hamster just happened to carry them over to somewhere else where I could take some good shots.

    Baby hammie looking up with no eyes.
    Baby hammie looking up with no eyes.

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  • Inside a MacBook Battery

    The battery on my MacBook is dying so I decided to just take it apart. You know, nothing stops my curiosity. I love taking things apart ever since young, though I wasn’t able to put most of them back together… last time. Hopefully, some things improved.

    Of course, I’ve paid for my curiosity with nasty shocks – just last week, I got a nasty zap from a flash capacitor inside my Canon Powershot A70. I got so pissed I just shorted the capacitor to get rid of the current in it. Some months ago, I got super freakin’ zapped by the household 240V AC current while taking apart a Sun PSU. The house tripped.

    Actually, this MacBook belongs to my sis, but she hated it so much so I swapped my laptop with hers, so technically, I’m taking apart her battery.

    Anyway, here’s the takeapart journey. Small torx screwdrivers are needed to remove all ten screws on both sides of the battery.

    Tiny torx screws at the sides of the MacBook battery.
    Tiny torx screws at the sides of the MacBook battery.

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  • Environmentally Friendly Way to Discharge a Li-Po

    Earlier this evening, the air-con guy called me up and asked to meet up at my new house to discuss how we would love run the array of ugly thick gas pipes around the house. Since the electrical wirings are out, there’s no light in the house and we needed one.

    I keep an old Li-Po (Lithium Polymer) battery from my RC heli in the back of my car so I could use it with a 12V flourescent tube whenever the occassion requires. I’ve been using it for quite some time already and never had to recharge the 12V pack for almost a year.

    I brought the battery and flourescent light along to meet the air-con guy. We kept talking until the lights went out and drained the battery well beyond its safe minimum capacity and it puffed like a pillow.

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  • The Wife, On Top

    So The Wife knew about the new blog and then started interrogating me.

    starie6 says (2:41 PM):
    why the wife is not at the top of the blog roll?
    =(
    *kicks dd*

    Ouch! It was automatically sorted alphabetically. Oh what can I do?

    Ah, I got an idea. I renamed it (!) The Wife.

    starie6 says (4:36 PM):
    why exclaimation mark?!

    Oh please tell me what pleases The Wife?

    I’m quite sure I’m gonna get killed for this post.

  • Welcome Back, Folks

    Hello folks. It has been a long time since I last blogged. I’ve lost touch with the world. Now that I’ve found some time, it’s good to start again. I’ve had quite a lot of ideas I wanted to share, but never had the time to write about them.

    I’ve decided to migrate to WordPress for good. My old blog is still available, but I won’t be updating it.

    Since I created QQBlogs, why WordPress, some may ask?

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