Hotter Than It Should Be

Summary of Talk on Climate Change given by Carine Seror - Director, Corporate Responsibility, WWF Singapore at NatGeo Store, VivoCity on 20/02/2010

Singapore has had a 0.4 degree centigrade increase in surface temperature over the last 40 years.

The global tolerance for temperature rise is 2 degrees centigrade, before the ecological balance is upset significantly and prominent species start being affected.

A rise in water level of 59cm can significantly affect Singapore.

Adverse affect of rising sea levels: Saline water leeching into arable land and rendering it unusable for agriculture.

2 kWh of electricity used domestically = 1 kg Carbon Dioxide dumped into the atmosphere.

Individual air travel from Singapore to Phuket = 0.6 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide

Individual air travel from Singapore to Europe = 8.9 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide

Amount of water required to make a regular Starbucks Latte (Including plastic cup, wrapper, lid etc.) = 208 litres per cup

Among various packaging available for groceries (Milk, Juice etc.), Tetrapak has the least environmental impact, compared to glass and plastic packaging.

Alpha Biofuels have an initiative in Singapore to provide Bio Diesel made from used cooking oil.

Crush Garlic What?

Interesting piece of Garlic to crush :p




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Guardian Angel

That's one hell of a dog

in reference to: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/6933888/Canadian-familys-dog-saves-11-year-old-boy-from-cougar.html (view on Google Sidewiki)

Grocery Adventure

Found some amusing labeling while grocery shopping

Pack of chappatis that said 30 pcs



On the back of the pack


I'm nervous now thinking about whether I'm gonna get ripped off!

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Icon Revived

Still think they could have done a better job with the overall design, but still, a BMW with a muscle car look? Not bad at all



Just read that they're going to release the successor to the M3 CSL too. Mean mean machine coming right up.



Alright alright, I agree that's one of the crappiest rears I've seen on a car. Just sad that it's on this one :(



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The Obliterator of Goal Posts

Nitrogen filled tyres? Hell yes!



Not a particularly flattering colour, but there's no denying the appeal of that shape.



Wish I had a close up shot of those rear LEDs at night. Sigh, one of these days :)



Get one in matte black and presto, new batmobile!

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Jaguarrr

Jaguar XK, by the chief designer of Aston Martin; and it shows :)






Nice beefy rear end, good curves too.

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Today's theme: BIG

Something slightly different today...actually very different! Quite far off from cars I guess :p. One of the good parts of working in the oilfield industry is getting to see simply gargantuan pieces of equipment and the machinery associated with them. The picture below is of a 30 Ton capacity Forklift, a mammoth of a machine, trust me on this. You don't really get a sense of scale with this picture (my bad) but those wheels are probably about 3-4 ft high.


These things are used for ultra heavy duty loads, say for example a fully loaded shipping container. The 30 Ton capacity should also give you an idea. Hopefully I'll get to see more examples of this size fixation as my work takes me to other places :)


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More humbling experiences

Again, what is it with Porsches and the humbling experiences they provide me with? I always assumed the GT3 or the GT3 RS was the most powerful iteration of the 911 Carrera, guess the numbers did the talking in my head. After reading up a little, figured that this little baby was the king of the hill as far as power was concerned. The current production GT2 develops a simply obscene 520 HP, add that to the fact that the car only weighs only 1,440 kg and you've got a streak of lightning in your hands. As far as the humbling goes, I also thought that both the GT2 and GT3 came with roll cages as standard; wrong again, thats just the track special GT3 RS. So Pavi...I was wrong.



















I'm going to go ahead and guess this was from the previous generation of GT2s (1999-2005), which had a slightly less power rating of 475 HP, still enough to tighten up your backside nice and proper. In respect of that power, I apologize to the owner of this car for making all those conclusions I did unknowingly of what the GT2 really was.

























More of the lovely Porsche hips, sigh...Although from a practical point of view, that spoiler is still gonna make looking through the rear windshield quite impossible. I think that explains why the driver parked head in :P

Classic Times

Definitely rare, I don't think I've ever seen one of these anywhere, let alone Singapore. I'm thinking this is one of early 90's models, badge at the back said 3.6 which makes sense. I don't think anyone would have wanted to import the 6.0 litre V12 version into Singapore at any point :P Thing is, with that body style, this car would still be turning plenty of heads, as it did mine near New Industrial Road.

Jaguar - XJS 3.6 (Early 90's)


















That's quite a looker of a front end, isn't it? There's just something about a long bonnet that gets to your heart.



















There's a long car if I ever saw one. As someone pointed out on facebook, I'm pretty sure it doesn't fit into a regular parking lot in Singapore. This one was definitely stretched out over a couple. Owner probably doesn't take it into town much, and that just might be a good thing. The fact that its just got two doors just makes the length all that more striking.




















Sigh...wonder what one of these would feel like to drive on a long stretch of highway. Hmmm...that suddenly gave me an image of one of these driving out into the sunset