Success finally with reading light

Finally I discovered a practical position to place the USB LED reading light. For many nights I had tried to placed it between the wall and the head board. All the experiments were unsatisfactory, leading me to buy the light panel (worse).

Early this morning, I decided to route the USB cable across my lap and surprise, it worked!

John Piper's book: The life of the Mind and the Love of God

I am very keen to pick up this book by John Piper but I know I am not prepared to make the time to read it yet. It is not so simple as I feel a little tug of war going inside. Who knows, in the next few days I might drop what I am doing for this book.

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Kindle space update

This is the amount of space 188 books occupy on my Kindle 3. You can understand why Amazon discontinue providing a slot for expansion memory cards.

The noise from the funeral

Here is a phone video of the noise (some call music) of the wake I was blogging about earlier.

The noisy funeral wake

Damned noisy funeral. Most wakes are not this one. They make so noise in the day too. I hope they are preparing to go to the columbarium today.

Prior to this one, there was another noisy wake too, which was held at the next block. It was a curious situation. Lots of high end German marques were parked along the road every night. I was jesting that it might be some loan shark kingpin who had passed away.

Back to this noisy one, I think this is a big bucks set up. They even hung obituary blankets on the fence of the MOE headquarters. Unfortunately the entrance to my MSCP also were ungraced with a gigantic blanket. Never seen anybody went to such extreme ever.

Teochew Porridge and Parking woes

We had dinner late last night. Went to the Teochew Porridge stall along Upper Bt. Timah road across from Bt Timah Shopping Centre.

Impossible to find parking. The lots along the road were all consumed by the MRT works. I was taken aback how much has changed since the last time we ate there. To be fair it was quite a few months ago. (I just checked. It was in Sep 2009)

Finally, I decided to park at the shopping centre across the road costing me $2.15 per entry. Never mind the car was parked there for slightly over half an hour.

I don't think we would be returning any time soon.

A Reading Lamp (mis)adventure

The reading light I ordered via eBay a couple of days ago arrived via SingPost today. This is my $6.90 experiment. The the photos report the results in visually: Failed.

So far so good out of its box. It runs on 3 AAA batteries and purportedly good for 50 hours using alkaline cells. 

And kicking the tires time! You can see the panel is easily scratched. I wonder if it is made of soft eraser plastic :-( It had deteriorated so quickly as I tried to fix the end guard (see the piece of the right) to the device. It was ill fitting and so not easy to get it on. Only simple man handling and this is the result. 

The light shoots across the panel and indirectly lights up the paper or Kindle surface. The result is unsatisfactory. Produced a useless and unhelpful glare with little light illuminating what I am interested in: the page I want to read. 

$6.90 is cheap but when it fails, it feels expensive. Better to solve this problem the old fashion way.