The following is the pricing for Quiznos in Singapore, which was a simple snapshot of their pricing chart.

As you can see, the prices are pretty reasonable.

Although the lunch hours is pretty crazy and you would wait up to about 20 to 30 minutes for a meal, it is due to the limited space. Other than that, it is good.


Many sides were given such as Peppercncinis, Pickles and stuff like that. I don’t have a good memory for stuff that I seldom eat
But I did gave a try!

If you love sauces (like me), you wont regret eating this, it is good and some examples include Mustard, Horseradish and the other one which I couldn’t remember about.

This is just a few assortment of what we ate on the toppings.

This is the Terriyaki Chicken sub.

(This is the footlong)
This is what I ate, which is the Terriyaki Chicken Sub, I would say that this sub is actually quite unique, due to the terriyaki sauce. From what I see, it was just chunks of breast meat with Terriyaki sauce.

This more interesting sub, and definitely one of our office favouries is this Zesty Steak sub, it taste amazing, the meat is tender and they don’t shrimp on the quality and the quantity. The sauce is far better than the Teriyaki Chicken.


As this is worth tasting, this is far better than what I ate on the top. Like seriously, this taste so good.
If you add $2.70 to your meal, you could get a small drink and chips OR a cookie (Which is pretty big) OR in total, just get a cup of soup (Which you don’t get the drink and the cookie nor chips)

The chocolate chip cookie is actually really big, bigger than my palm, an estimate is putting 2 credit cards side by side.
This is really interesting, isn’t it.

Alright, thats pretty much it.
If you have any cool subs you would like to recommend, pass it on @jeremy89632

J.

PS: It seems like there’s too much blog posts in relation to food. Will cut on it

Many people have questions about the newer iPad release, some might even doubt their purchase as many expected more from this release, some people realized that the new product fall short of their expectations. So let me clarify my take of this whole new iPad vs iPad 2 (1.5) saga.
So don’t start thinking that the iPad 2 is just another iPad 1S [Remember iPhone 3G to 3GS?]

Let me take all this new features and ergonomics inspiration as a first generation iPad user to justify for the product purchase.

1) It’s an add on.
True enough, the iPad do not have the capacity to do all things crazy and digital. No matter how Apple tries to add as much capacity on the iPad (like adding Garageband and iMovie), such as the range of apps and products, it still could not take over the entire Macbook / iMac – Mac OS X line of products. And of course, it couldn’t run Flash, which many competitors use that as a selling advantage.

2) It’s a convenient-product
This is a tablet computer (sort of), and many people expected a lot from something which is so portable and thin (Are you serious?). Bulk Vs Computing Power. Like what the old saying goes, one will rise above the other. Do you know that the new iPad 2 is thinner than the iPhone 4?
As compared to the original iPad, do you know that the iPad 2 is now lighter and thinner?

3) What are you expecting?
It’s just a tablet, In my point of view, Apple would never come out with brand new technologies in an instant, if the competition could not live up to the hype. Have you heard of any compiling tablets after the iPad? Okay probably, the Galaxy Tab which is totally reskinned by Samsung and not a native Android UI? The Motorola Xoom? Something which is still not being released to the public yet, with its traumatising pricing? (The specifications of the product makes up for it though, but who needs something that can process so much on an Android?) but in my view, there isn’t a real competitor! Although tons of tablets were released, not one managed to hit it’s sales target as strong as the iPad. And not to mention that some tablets from other manufacturers is actually slow and buggy as hell.

4) Do I totally need this features?

Camera?

Yes, iPad 2 comes with a camera. And yes, don’t most laptops do as well? ( Although I am pretty happy that Apple included Photobooth, which is a type of Neoprint and on the fly image effects and editing application). However, the camera they used is the same as the iPod Touch (4th Gen), which is totally not cutting it. The camera in the rear supports 720P HD video recording is a strong standpoint for the camera, however the image capture is terrible and some of the photos which came out of it is really pixelated and do not capture the essence of the image with washed out colours. At the same note, the camera in the front of the device is only VGA quality, if you remember, it is the same quality as my old Motorola Razr V3 phone. On the other hand, the front camera is only needed for FaceTime, unless you want your friends to see every detail (Including your pimples), you don’t really need a good camera for that. (FaceTime is a video chatting technology by Apple, and since all your video conversations will pass through Apple’s servers, they will not provide HD video calls as it will slow down their servers and increase load)
The camera is not visible, and taking videos on the iPad might need some time for people to get used to.
Final Say: The FaceTime idea is not too compiling as there’s no iOS messenger or a system to find friends who are using an iOS device which contains a camera. On the other hand, the FaceTime idea is not very compelling as it only runs only through Wifi. (Lets not talk about Cydia hacks)

Do I need the faster performance on the iPad?
Probably, I notice that Apple tried to shrimp on the RAM (Which is a component which temporary memory is stored) by providing only 256MB which caused many applications to crash and run out of memory really fast. Especially when they are intensive games or applications that involve heavy processing power. So their answer to that is an Apple A5 chip, which is better than the previous A4 chip as it’s duo core and have double the processing power. However, Apple did not announce and release the specifications for the iPad’s 2 RAM.
From what I understand from other sources, Apple’s point of lowering the RAM is for developers to write better and ‘cleaner’ code for the Operating System to run. The processing power on the iPad is significantly bumped up, but the RAM is still crucial on the device which Apple is keeping quiet about.
Final Say: Unconcluded, despite the better processing power of the device, the RAM is not justified, yet. (Until we see those iFixIt photos!)

Battery Life.
I believe it’s a signature for Apple products, increase all the features and keep the batteries strong and steady is something which Apple took pride in since day one. I currently own an iPad and their claimed 10 hours of battery life not only hits its target and even went further, I have been getting close to 2 to 3 days worth of usage, which is really constant and amazing. Other phones, especially those running on the Android platform, do have quite an issue with the battery usage due to many factors such as multitask and options like that.
Final Say: Leave Apple running in it’s hamster wheel on the power management! It’s doing a good job!

iPad Smart Cover.

In short, its an accessory, but it gets so much attention because it’s made by Apple and the design is in it’s essence. So the quick idea is there’s this cloth you put on the iPad and the device will sleep, you take the cloth out, the device will turn itself back on again.
Final Say: This is actually another sub product of a product for users to purchase, consider all options before you intend to get one.

HDMI output (High Definition Video output to Televisions or Display outlets).

Yes, its important, and once you know that it’s important. Apple would charge you for an optional accessory to go with it, because not everyone use this feature. So it will cost you about another $50 to get the cable to route the video out. However, one feature you get is Video Mirroring, which is finally resolved as its a really big issue on the first generation of the iPad as many people thought that they are able to broadcast any content they see on the iPad to the big screen. However, seldom knew that it will only work for certain supported applications, such as the video app and Apple’s iWork suite, Keynote (Powerpoint), Pages and Numbers.
Some Android tablets have a HDMI port out of the box, but to keep the product slim and the profit higher, a HDMI cable is being sold, but not everyone would need it anyway. Definitely my grandma won’t!
Final Say: You don’t need to be concerned if you are a regular user. If you are a business user, the HDMI cable come with a charging port while you are doing presentations, so it’s quite a trade off even for the price you are paying.

Gyroscope and features like that.

I understand that the strong factor for the iPad is about applications. If you do not have apps, you can probably forget about getting the iPad. Which is why Apple emphasizes a lot on Application development and API usage, which is to utilize all aspects of the hardware that the device have, while maintaining the game in it’s field. Gyroscope is a technology which could be really hard to implement as it is have to do with gravity, and adding so many features into a game could delay development and increase pricing due to the R&D involved. So many games developers actually do not use the gyroscope technology yet, which is quite disappointing as it is such a huge potential. However, the compass is a genius when you are walking around the town area with Google Maps and the accelerometer is a no brainer, almost all the functions rely on it, including changing the device orientations and stuff like that.
Final Say: As compared to the first iPad, a new gyroscope is added, might not be useful, yet.

5) Why I am still a little disappointed.

(I am on the road and this happens, Now do you see the whole big issue)
Many people say the Wifi version of the iPad is a poor man’s device. Although that’s quite true, but they should have added more features to the product. As compared to the 3G iPad, the Wifi iPad do not include GPS and 3G. I mean 3G is definitely justifiable as its a mobile technology which would definitely cost more. But GPS? I mean, it will be awesome if I am able to use the iPad as a GPS unit while driving instead of my phone, with its miniature screen size and a small squeaky speaker. And there’s so many GPS applications on the app store such as Sygic Aura, Tomtom, among many other GPS Navigations applications. Most of the maps is downloaded and use offline anyway. On top of that, many hoped that there will be newer display technologies, such as the Retina Display for the iPad, but given the jump in cost price if that happens, they might hold it off for another product release. Some were hoping that there will an SD card slot for importing music and images, high capacity (apart from their 16GB, 32GB and 64GB), a smaller version of the iPad (Probably something of the size like Galaxy Tab) or many people simply label it as a iPad Mini or Nano and finally the crappy mono speakers, which they really need a bump to stereo speakers this time round. But again, is that really needed? (A bump would be good, nevertheless)
Final Say: If you want to get an iPad, look for one with 3G, even though the price point is slightly steeper and since most telco’s provide a free data card (Mobile broadband) all you need is a MicroSIM cutter or a new MicroSIM from your Telco. If you are not willing to spend, just go with iPad (first generation), most users do not need the new features, we have our mobile phones for them, or more specifically the iPhones and the Androids.

6) Why I am pleased.
Pricing point, no change in pricing at all, in fact Apple has lowered the price point for the first generation of iPad by $200 and for the refurbished about $300 SGD. So if you want one, it’s good to get it first and help Apple to clear their inventory.
The battery life is rated at 10 hours, despite all the new astonishing features being added to the iPad 2, the battery life is still the same as the first generation iPad.

The lovely iOS 4.3 is an update to their slightly dated iOS 4.2
Which I appreciate Apple for not charging for the update for the entire line of Apple iPad, there is some tactful new features such as AirPlay, which is an over the air streaming protocol between Apple products. Probably one of the most worthy update is to the Safari web browser on the iPad with the new Nitro Javascript engine which claims to load pages twice as fast as it’s previous Safari browser on iOS 4.2. Other annoying features fixed is the preference for the iPad Side Switch, iTunes Home Sharing extended to the iOS device and a slightly improved mail client.
Final Say: iOS 4.3 is just a fix for some of the annoying bugs that iOS 4.2 face, luckily they added the better javascript engine which many would really benefit from it. The price drop for the older generation iPad is what I call as a lady killer. Yeah, go for it!

7) Upgrade?
Many sources have mentioned that existing iPad owners should not upgrade to the iPad 2 as its improvements is not exactly really huge. Trading in your iPad at the current moment is not a variable option as the resale value has already dropped. Do you need the newer features, is it really necessary? If not, stick with it, if yes, consider your budget and all your options that the new iPad got to really offer.
Final Say: Think twice if you want to upgrade your existing iPad to the newer iPad 2.

Price Point?
New users on a budget constrain should probably look into the refurbished section of the Apple site for the first generation iPad (It changes from time to time, so stocks and quantity is limited) or wait for the upcoming weeks to get your newer iPad. As always, if you order your iPad through Apple’s online store, you will get a free engraving and shipping! (But your iPad casing would probably cover off the engraving like what my colleague have said and it would decrease trade in value, unless you use Apple’s new smart cover case)
Final Say: The first generation iPad fits within most budgets (You could get one for as little as $450 SGD, if you get the time right), if not just settle for the second one. (If you find a budget surplus that is)

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All comments and opinions expressed are solely of Jeremy Goh.
Questions, Opinions and Thinktanks?
Leave your comment below or tweet me @jeremy89632

All Image credits: Apple Inc

Opening Hours:
Chinese Garden: 6am to 11pm
Japanese Garden: 6am to 7pm
Apparently there is a Japanese Garden, which I did not have time to get to, but you can visit there yourself and share with me your experiences there, which I can help you to link to your site if you do put up something cool.

I hope I gave you a cool perspective of the place and hope you do have fun there. Do share with me if you have any photos taken there.

Leave a comment if you have something to say!

Jeremy.

(A view of Ngee Ann Polytechnic)

I really have to apologize that this is a late update of the blog, since its Christmas, I believe that it’s good that everyone could do some digital cleanup of their media devices. Nevertheless, all the content here is taken from March 2010, which is pretty recent, just a few months back from now.

We arrived in school, and the good thing is that there is no school on that day itself. We are visiting the media faculty of Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s – Film and Media School. Which is going to interesting and fun. For those media inclined that is.

I still remembered why I took this photograph, picture tells a thousand words. We are the class which always takes the last bus, its like all the classes had already left the transport bay, we are still there waiting for a bus to come. This is the day which happened that we were one of the first classes that took the very first bus. As a matter of fact, we were 30 minutes early, and had enough time to hit the canteen at the polytechnic.
Our programme is held at one of the lecture theatres, which is spacious and obviously air conditioned. Here for some career and education planning talk.

You dive straight into the differences between the tertiary institutions paths, either JC or Poly. Which is either way, you could go. As in, literally they are showing the cards on the table to you.

There’s this professor which is telling us the advantages and benefits of their poly instead of the others and how poly operates as a whole.

After that we head over to the Film and Media School, which is a place where we’re touring today!

On our way, we saw some interesting places, one of which is Makan Centre. Which is their uber stylish canteen, air conditioned one that is. I heard that this is their biggest air conditioned canteen building which serve to the majority of the students in their campus.

So this happen to be our destination, the film and media school. On the first floor, which is the news broadcasting studio, we get to see some really cool stuff on air. They also have a studio apartment for dramas and television shows.

This is how it looks like in the control station in the news broadcasting center. When broadcasting, a typical setup would be 2 guys mending the control station.

All the prearranged cameras which is ready for shoot. Camera’s will be arranged to the best location when needed, it could also be moved live, with the director switching to the other camera, of course. Picture from the newscaster’s view.

After going up the lift to some high level, we went into their television and special broadcasting studio. Which is really cool, the computer is showing all the lighting positions in the room which we are going into. This is just the control station. It also shows all the available camera’s in the room so the lighting tech could adjust accordingly.

This is also part of the big control station in the television studio. This shows all the available video streams in the studio itself, so the director can choose the right scene in the right time for audiences to see.

This is the television studio itself, which is really nice and very bright. It’s really hot too, especially with the spotlights which generates lots of heat. Luckily the air condition is really strong. So it managed to subdue the heat issue.

This is just the entrance of the studio, its filled with headlights and its really bright. Again, the heat issue.

This is one of the mixing studios and controlling stations for the broadcasting centers, which is basically like an editing station. In brief that is.

This is the audio recording studio, which basically have this giant mixer full of line in’s, which is .. mindblowingly huge for just an audio production. A normal mixer would just need 5 to 10 line in’s.

This is Ngee Ann’s Poly radio called Radio Heatwave, which is their own in-house radio station.

J.

Lets start off, the pricing for this product is relatively affordable. You could find it online for less than hundred dollars and it offers relatively good packaging, with no obvious cheap cardboard box for lower end music / video players.

The player with the packaging in the background. Unfortunately, they do not provide a carrying case. To make it up, An instruction manual is provided. Ironically, a PDF version of the manual is available in the player as well. (You have to plug the player into the computer to view it, as the music player do not have a PDF viewing function) The USB Cable is too, provided. If you dont find that really convincing, here is a good catch for this product. You get a pair of very decently sounding in ear headphones (Better than Apple’s), which is really good for such a competitive product. They provide many ear tips as well, so that’s a added bonus.

A mic and a normal 3.5mm earphones jack is provided, and a non-proprietary MiniUSB port comes with the device. Which I find it really supportive of the open standards.

The volume rocker is on the top of the player as compared to the side, which could be quite annoying to us at times when we are on the move. However, to make things some how worse, the off and on switch and the lock slider is placed together. Which sometimes confuses me (I know, its my fault for this), as I accidentally switch off the device instead of locking it. On the brighter side, a small hook is included, so you could actually attach this player with a lanyard and exercise with it.

Phillips provided a 4 button navigation with a play/pause button in the middle, together with a back button on the top left and a menu button on the top right corner. The keys feels a little cheap and ‘plastic-ky’ for our taste, but it’s really a idiot-proof device to use it. Its also quite resistant to sweat and grime, making it good for outdoor use.

The navigation is fast, quick and intuitive, and it shows no obvious signs of slowdown and lag. The player provided solid sound and its good for an average listener. The menu interface is simple to use with the large icons which makes it easy to navigate on the move. The battery life is good, giving us approximately 2 to 3 days with long playing hours. Overall, there is no obvious flaw with the product and if the capacity could be increased with a better price point, it would be a better bonus. Good iPod Contender. J.

iSpace is one of the main events for the Infocomm Club Ambassadors year, which is started in 2006. The event is held yearly in Science Center for Primary School students to engage them into the unlimited possibilities of Science and Technology. The mindblowing exhibits allow students to learn more about day to day products and services in the commercial world.

After 1.5 months of planning, its finally execution day for all ambassadors and secondary facilitators (From outside schools). Lets dive in and take a sneak peek on what it is like to be part of the planning division on the day before iSpace!

The meeting, as usual, for the whole board in the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) office.

The emcee’s rehearsing their lines and speeches.

Like every company, our boss is there to screen thru it.

Preparation of papers and stickers for tomorrow’s (D-day) distribution.

Preparation and calibration for media devices and logistics packing.

A small night meal for some ambassadors, (Some left early).

A link for last year’s iSpace.

Another link for the previous major iSpace meeting.

Cheers!
Jeremy Goh.

Recently, you guys may know that there are problems around recently. I am not going to mention where this problem first started off or what happened. But as you read on, you may guess where this may have occurred.
I don’t usually have a blog post full of text, but this will definitely be one worth writing, and probably get your viewpoints onto it. (Twitter:@jeremy89632)

Recently, one of the 2 big pumps which pumped water was down and had problems. Actually, no student was informed about this, until the person in charge came to told me about it as I am digging for more news about this.
One perfect day, we went to the water cooler to press for water, and when we see what came out, we looked in awe, it was ‘cloudy’ water, like some kind of chalk-like looking substance in the water. We immediately advised everyone to go to the water cooler on the first floor instead. Imagine the poor guy which has drank the contaminated water, bless that poor soul.
Than we went to the toilet and pressed for water, and guess what came out, it was air! All of us were like stunned, and no one said anything, not even the staff/teachers nor the management.

It was a total inconvenient, all water related issues, like drinking water all had to be done on the first floor, where we are on the 3rd floor. (Imagine those people on the 5th floor)
Only the water for the urinals (I guess), was working, the rest was totally out of service.

So we were discussing today during lesson that why the water went out and we gathered a few possibilities.
1) Person in charge did not pay water bills
2) Maintainance was not done promptly.
3) Water pipes was out and probably had some flooding somewhere
4) In an desperate attempt to cut cost.

Option 1 is definitely out, and we were all thinking on Option 2 and 4.
Reason being so is because no one actually mentioned that the water is down except for one of our subject teachers.

After that, I asked the in-charge he said that the pump is down and this relates much back to National Education and we must not take water for granted and treasure every single drop of it.
I agree to it, learning takes place it real life.

So, that is all about the water saga that happens in school.

Well, after those 3 to 4 days of living in the desert and getting drinks from the canteen (Uncle Robert), one of the pumps is back running and the repairman will be fixing the problem this Saturday, which means, if everything goes fine, and there will be no flood, if not all students will be swimming to school, the water should be back next week. (25/1/2010)

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One more small annoyance,
The next thing is about the electricity to my block of classrooms, the power has tripped more than 10 times in a month last year. Which basically means, when you study / teacher teaching halfway, the lights and fans will just be mysteriously switched off with no warning.
And when that happens, you know the whole block of classrooms have their power cut off too, as you will hear people shouting ‘WAAAAAA!’ from all the neighboring classes.
My Point: The switchboard is too old, and re-wiring is somehow crazy, but too bad, you have to stay with it until we leave the classrooms.

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One last point, sometimes opinions really matter, what may seem good on one end may be different from the other.
Well, in the end, it all adds up to calculated risk.

If all could change..
BYE Annoyances.
HELLO PRIME.

No names mentioned.

Jeremy

Cheers.

I have a friend and the parents has been extremely tight to the daughter. Lets put it in this way, the parents usually used to restrict her in using the PC, and among many other stuff.
In my point of view, No parents should restrict their childs or daughters on using the internet, as internet provide users with universal access to information and there are more and more e-services and commerce which is done online.
Tell me something which is not on the internet yet!

I have also known about countries blocking internet materials to citizens (China Blocking Facebook)
Because of the open nature of Facebook, several countries have banned access to it including Syria,China,Iran,Vietnam,
Africa and Middle East (Wikipedia)

All these types of Social Networks and media should not be blocked as it will prevent and cause inconvinience to many users communicating through the internet, especially friends which is living in different countries and timezones.

So back to my friend, as much as the parents tried to stop the daughter from using the computer, the harder she tried to gain access to it. The reason why I came to know about it was, she was actually pleading for help when her parents had a password on the computer and the parents said nothing about it.
I obviously managed to bypass the encryption the parents had done to the computer and tried many other ways to assist into ‘cracking the password code’.

However, years passed and the parents seemed to be more well informed about the internet and how technologies is meant to be ‘open’ and ‘easily accessible’. The parents has been really easy with her accessing the internet on the computer and the parents bought her a laptop.

A few days ago, we finally kept in touch and she actually told me that the computer is actually pretty boring now and there is nothing much to do on it anyway.

So as time changes, demands changes and once a wish has been fulfilled, many wishes for greater things will pop up in a matter of time.

That in turn, will create an economy of people, buying and selling goods and trading of items with one common goal – to possess more materials.

Jeremy

This is the review of the fake iPhone, done it live via Qik, if you are on Qik at 11pm last night, you should be able to see it.
Well, I will be doing an in depth video review on it a day later, so do check back soon.

Sorry for the video quality, the Qik application has a pretty bad autofocus, however, as mentioned earlier, there will be another video which I will put up on YouTube about it.

Cheers,
Jeremy