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How to make a $5 DIY External Hard Disk enclosure

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I had woken up with sun shine on my face & it’s another day of my life :D

Today, I had decided to make a difference…my table is getting really untidy and it’s very very irritating to be playing & working on a untidy table.

After eating lunch while watching the latest episode of Nikita, I cleaned up my table & DIY a hard disk enclosure! :D

I had been planning for the External Hard disk enclosure for two days, I bought the plastic case yesterday at the neighborhood shops near bukit batok MRT beside kopitiam for just SGD $5!!

Then I used a heavy duty scissors to “drill” some holes on the top of the casing in a systematic design, subsequently I used a pocket knife to cut holes in between the drawers for ventilation & for the USB cables to pass through.

The design concept goal is simple, to hide all the untidy cables & external hard disk from my already messy table.

Here’s the result! :D

Most people will ask me how to solve the heat problem first I drills holes on the top & in between the slots.

Then I found a usb laptop fan that can fold the legs in so it fit neatly below the DIY HDD enclosure!

This way the enclosure heat can dissipate upwards and everything should work properly for some time.

Weird Dream 2

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Today I had another weird dream, yesterday after not sleeping until afternoon 1pm (because I slept too much previous afternoon) I was unable to go to bed due to sudden call by a client for a urgent tech support request at 1pm (Some internet failure to connect, USB problems).

Almost collapsing in the MRT from Tampinese Station to Bukit Gombak MRT (1 hour + ride), I finally reached home & quickly took a shower….while I upload a review video on to my mac mini…that I had filmed previously on the same day.

My body muscles are aching badly due to the jog I had the same day, full body fatigue.

I collapsed onto my bed & went to sleep.

The dream began strangely.

A group of my old secondary school mates & me were suddenly “transported” into a parallel universe in a blink of an eye, we were in the same “hotel” or some kind of “hostel” that have attaching “shopping center”.

How I know it’s an parallel universe? It’s the same place we are at but suddenly the public just disappeared! Leaving only my old school mates in the same place looking spooked!.

We searched high & low for others but cannot find anyone else, nobody…not even the shopping center…strangely a “kids department”.

First, we are chilling in the shopping center & I had a strange idea…to communicate with the other side.

I’m thinking if I could arrange a rows of “alphabets toys” into a series of words, will the other people in the “parallel universe” see it?

Before I can do it, I was looking at some of my friends chilling at the secret hotel open air room size balcony that only available at the corner room of this hotel.

Then I shout “I want to have my OWN ROOM!” (seemingly everyone were sharing rooms! Hmmm) as we all run out of the balcony at the same time seeking for our own room haha.

Someone ran ahead of me and opened the furthest door…he popped back out & said “This one got people!”

Then the dream flashes me back to a helicopter pilot, that was flying normally then suddenly zapped into the parallel universe and he crashed landed on some water.

The dream then ended with me opening my eyes at 2.35am (just) feeling kind of weird…uneasy but weird. Not nightmare kind of feeling but just simply weird. LOL

2012 (2009) Ultimate Movie Review

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Yes, the ultimate disaster movie is on the movie screen in Singapore today! Yes! I managed to book the ticket early at a later time of 9.45pm on a Thursday night even thou I know it’s a 2 hours & 30+ minutes movie. It’s worth EVERY PENNY that I had paid for the extra $1 online booking fees, the $17 taxi ride home and the $4.5 PC lan game I played while waiting 2 hours for the movie to start. Not to mention the popcorn & lemon tea combo & the KFC dinner that I could have avoided for a cheap meal.

Eagerly I waited outside the theater 15 minutes before the theater 3 was ready for us to enter and I can see lot’s of people holding on to their tickets with fire in their eyes almost wanting to peel the skin of the guy guarding the entrance. (A scene hard to forget too)

The moment the theater 3 light flashed we rushed towards the poor guy with outstretched hand to “tear the tickets” and rushed into the entrance like mad.

Strangely the popcorn booth is inside the entrance and I managed to buy the popcorn (sweet) combo & a non-fizzy drink and enter the theater by then is almost half filled.

I placed my popcorn & drinks onto my seat L10 and proceed quickly to the toilet in the theater knowing it will be a LONG movie and need to relieve myself before the start of the movie.

The movie have few normal commercials but I know everyone just too happy to be inside this theater to even care about the commercials, strangely I can’t remember if there is any trailers AT ALL! I don’t remember seeing any!

hahaha It was like as thou the cinema operators knew we won’t even want to watch other movie trailers and started the crisp digital theater THX sound test with effective vibration on my legs. (Cinema at Cathay Orchard)

The movie finally started………

ONE WORD! “AWESOME!”

Here come the review, the cast are excellent…the dialogues are engaging, the acting 1st class and the effects….MAN!! The effects BLOWN ME AWAY! I seldom cry at awesomeness but this movie’s special effects just convinced my tear ducts that it’s OK to cry ….it’s the end of the world after all.

I will not go into details about the plots & what happened but I may start on the theory about the movie.

If you google the word “2012″ you might get lot’s of details that might or might not appear in the movie but as you know there are lot’s of scientific theories or even documentaries to tell us the world is about to end and it all coincides on the year 2012.

One such webby is the wikipedia which gave all details possible to form almost a “convincing truth” about our coming future.

The official movie website too is filled with all kinds of music, trailers, information and even iPhone Applications!

This movie is for the theater experience and not for the torrents, it’s best watched on high definition digital theaters with loud …I mean LOUD theaters

All I can say now is go watch it and book early since after today’s 1st wave of “enlightened” movie goers, I can safely bet tomorrow’s viewers will be snapping up the tickets way earlier with online booking!

I give this movie a 10 stars over 10 stars for entertainment, special effects, background research on this 2012 phenomenal.

Luckily this is just a movie…but what comes next in the next 3 years is up to you. Just say your prayers.