Club 30's "Kill the Boredom Demon" Jive Pad 126th Edition
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Originally posted by tare:
tat just show how dumb she is ....
I think after this all future contestants will be checked for criminal records
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u mean they dun check? i tot all international contest they check de
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Originally posted by av98m:
just wear it daily and it'll be fine. the power reserve when fully wound is about 48hrs.in other news, I thought our miss singapore world was only guilty of bad english. but there's more. :P
When I read that, I was like, 19 years old, can already do credit card fraud?!?!
So I guess her reputation now is truly boomz.
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ahahaha...
i read about that but hey.. aren't such contests nothing but flesh parades anyway? they don't mean anything nor do they promote.. "World Peace" ahahahahhaha
anyway, back from servicing the car... dad was admonishing me for going to Toyota to service the car.. he does his when something in his car decides to go wrong... and at a disreputable place for a fraction of the cost...
thing is, his car drives like a bomb, is sluggish and fuel consumption is off the charts (which means something is seriously screwed with the car) but he doesn't even feel it...
hell! there was a family car in the past which somehow, got driven by him until the bloody chassis was twisted!! it was fishtailing at 30km/h (i am not kidding) and he didn't even know or feel it... so there...
i reckon in the long run, i have fuel economy and peace of mind on my side.. if anything in the car blows up, i can tell Borneo Motors to repair everything and they will have to..
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Originally posted by the Bear:
ahahaha...
i read about that but hey.. aren't such contests nothing but flesh parades anyway? they don't mean anything nor do they promote.. "World Peace" ahahahahhaha
anyway, back from servicing the car... dad was admonishing me for going to Toyota to service the car.. he does his when something in his car decides to go wrong... and at a disreputable place for a fraction of the cost...
thing is, his car drives like a bomb, is sluggish and fuel consumption is off the charts (which means something is seriously screwed with the car) but he doesn't even feel it...
hell! there was a family car in the past which somehow, got driven by him until the bloody chassis was twisted!! it was fishtailing at 30km/h (i am not kidding) and he didn't even know or feel it... so there...
i reckon in the long run, i have fuel economy and peace of mind on my side.. if anything in the car blows up, i can tell Borneo Motors to repair everything and they will have to..
what car is he using? a toyota as well? -
yah... a bigger version of my car, the Altis...
i've driven it... the engine is sluggish as heck..
anyway, the guys at the service centre did their job.. the car drives a lot smoother now.. must be the oil change.. the brakes bit a lot more now too.. car came to a dead stop instead of slowing down when i was driving out of the service centre... quickly adjusted how hard i stepped on the brakes...
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i've used japanese and continental cars and i find the japanese cars are much better, less cranky and require less "babysitting". of course so much cheaper.
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I suppose it never occured to the organisers that anyone with a criminal record will apply.
In other news I see pork knuckles flying in my head. Can't wait for tomorrow to come!
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Originally posted by cassie:
i've used japanese and continental cars and i find the japanese cars are much better, less cranky and require less "babysitting". of course so much cheaper.
no matter what the snobs say, japanese cars are much better engineered than the european cars...
and american cars are pieces of crap, ranked above the PRC and old sov bloc cars
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Originally posted by the Bear:
no matter what the snobs say, japanese cars are much better engineered than the european cars...
and american cars are pieces of crap, ranked above the PRC and old sov bloc cars
not only that, the european watchmakers are also frightened to death of the japanese!Observatory competitions were once venerable institutions. Since 1790 in Geneva and 1866 in Neuchâtel, companies vied to demonstrate their timepieces’ precision. In Neuchâtel, Ulysse Nardin, Zénith, Omega and Longines regularly squared up. In the 1950s, the competitions became marketing tools. Brands employed teams with the sole purpose of grooming their thoroughbreds for the race. In 1967, a few years before its demise, no fewer than 1,700 watches lined up to take part in the Neuchâtel Observatory competition.
The impact of Japanese brands
This is when the Japanese brand Seiko burst onto the scene, and with it the quartz oscillator. There are still people in Neuchâtel who remember the Japanese delegations that descended on the town for the entire 45-day duration of the tests. Their watches smashed existing records to smithereens even if, in a swell of national pride, first prize went to the Centre Electronique Horloger (forerunner to the Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique) for its Bêta 21, in the late Sixties. And yet with perfection only a whisper away, interest in these competitions waned. The last ones were held in Geneva in 1967 and in Neuchâtel in 1972, before quartz turned the industry upside-down.
It would be an understatement to say that Cécile Aguillaume is intent on resurrecting an entire slice of Switzerland’s watchmaking heritage, in what promises to be a super production. The competition will officially begin on May 23rd 2009 with the formal submission of the timepieces to the Musée d’Horlogerie du Locle. Competitors must have assembled, adjusted and timed their watches themselves, in-house. Trials will be conducted at the Besançon Observatory, the Bienne office of the COSC, the Haute Ecole-ARC Institut d’Horlogerie et Création in Le Locle, and again at the COSC. In addition to testing precision at different temperatures and in different positions, the watches will be tested for their capacity to withstand shocks and magnetic fields.
Europe only
The competition is only open to European manufacturers. Were the organisers afraid that international brands might sweep the field? "Not at all. It’s a question of logistics. Opening the competition to the entire world would have meant communicating in Chinese and Japanese, and we don’t have the resources for that."
(Excuses, excuses, the japanese and chinese today speak and read/write english)
Results will be announced in early 2010, following which the watches will go on display as part of a temporary exhibition at the Musée d’Horlogerie du Locle, until August 31st. By which time the committee will have decided to organise - or not, as the case may be - a second competition.
The first 13 competitors â–
The final list of entries will be announced at the end of the year. Thirteen competitors from three countries have so far registered to take part. They are:
Chopard Manufacture SA, Fleurier with the L.U.C. Tourbillon Steel Wings Classic 16/1906, calibre Tourbillon 4 T/F
Le Petit-Fils de L.-U. Chopard & Cie S.A., Geneva with the Tourbillon 1869, calibre L.U.C. 1.02
De Bethune with the Auberson mechanical calibre DB 2005
Doxa SA, Bienne with the Doxa Sub, 11½ 2892 ETA Chronometer
Fabrication de Montres Normandes, Brionne, France with a hand-wound calibre
Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre, Le Sentier with the Master Tourbillon, calibre 978
Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre, Le Sentier with the Reverso Gyrotourbillon, calibre 174
François-Paul Journe, Geneva with the Chronomètre Souverain, calibre 1304
Urban Jürgensen SA, Bienne with the P8
Olivier Randin, Vufflens-le-Château with the Christian W et Olivier R, new bidirectional self-winding movement CLARO
Swatch SA, Bienne with the Swatch Diaphane, calibre ETA 2824
Tissot SA, Le Locle with the Tissot Le Locle, calibre ETA 2824-2
Christian Umscheid & Thomas Gneuss, Austria with the ME1, ETA A07.111 base
Kari Voutilainen, Môtiers with the rectangular calibre 27 -
this reads like CSI...
with intrigue, power-play and politics thrown in...
=> Game Brain
about 15 pages long but a very compelling read
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Originally posted by av98m:
I suppose it never occured to the organisers that anyone with a criminal record will apply.
In other news I see pork knuckles flying in my head. Can't wait for tomorrow to come!
It shows how terrible the vetting is...
Can't wait for F1 free practice sessions later!
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this story is... really.. FAIL!
=> rescue services run over victim they were mobilised to assist
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well for timepieces, my pick would be the swiss
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an oil change is always good.
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where is the nearest carpark for lavender mrt?
going to F1 later
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Y dun take public transport home. for event like F1, U park anyway also exp coz long hr. my 3 cent thought
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i'm on a bike
its free
i'm just looking for a carpark so i can park at the pavement
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Originally posted by kopiosatu:
where is the nearest carpark for lavender mrt?
going to F1 later
there is one beside the mrt station...
and another across the road near the hdbs...
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Originally posted by kopiosatu:
where is the nearest carpark for lavender mrt?
going to F1 later
Bear's workplace.
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yah.. just throw a coupon on.. coz the certis cisco wardens are damned siao-on there...
anyway, for you guys...
=> Baywatch.... then and now...
unfortunately, the whole thing ends with The Hoff
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
Bear's workplace.
bear workplace in North? or i outdated -
bear's workplace i think no access after 11pm.
fark, spend a whole damn day at F1
my uncle says i have to buy him dinner because we got good seats... i have no idea what good seats are
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Originally posted by kopiosatu:
i'm on a bike
its free
i'm just looking for a carpark so i can park at the pavement
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Originally posted by GHoST_18:
there is one beside the mrt station...
and another across the road near the hdbs...
okay... i will go look see.
tank u~