Friday, July 11, 2008

HiPhone iClone - the reverse engineered


"HiPhone" - iClone
I am so impressed by the reverse engineering in China. Everything looks and feels the same! Except for the thickness as the real iPhone requires very high-end precison engineering. But nevertheless, this is good enough!Only at half the price at what Singtel is going to sell and able to play with it before its even launched! Even the camera is better than my HTC's, and it even has MP3 playback function!

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

BBQ food and Vitamin C

I came across this article, and believe it or not is up to you! But there are so little research done, as to what is the minimum qty that one needs to consume for it to be considered carcinogenic, what is the half life of the carcinogen? (if there's any) etc. But knowing more is better than knowing less... so here it goes...

extracted from Testosterone Nation July 09 2008


When you cook meat, fat drips off and hits the coals. The hot coals form a carcinogen known as benzopyrene, which floats up in smoke and embeds itself in your burger. Likewise, when the hot grill comes into contact with the meat, other carcinogens known as heterocyclic amines are formed.

To make things worse, if your host is grilling hot dogs or some other preserved meat, they're soaked in nitrates. Once nitrates are eaten, they combine with amines in the mouth and gut to form nitrosamines, which are yet another class of carcinogen.

Put them all together and you've got...well, bad news. Granted, the odds of developing esophageal or gut cancer from just a few servings of burnt meat are very low, but why take a chance, especially since it's summer and you'll no doubt be eating more charred meat than a hungry Neanderthal?

Soooo, when you know some charred meat is on the way, eat something high in Vitamin C before so much as touching your lips to a burger. Foods that are high in Vitamin C that might reasonably go with a barbecued food include red peppers and broccoli.

Barring that, pop a Vitamin C tab before you chow down.

The biggest "Burger"

A Burger Cake
Look at the oozing "cheese" stacked between the "burger bun" topped with so much "sesame"... i wonder how it taste like...

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Black Pepper Chicken @ AMK S11

Used to patronise this stall back in my JC days... and they are good for their fried food! Especially the Chicken Cutlet!

Their array of western dishes

I love meat! Black Pepper Chicken Chop! Do you realised that there's no fries? Cos i ask for more beans to replace the fries ( dun wanna clog my arteries) Remove the chicken skin and you get a much much muchhhhh less sinful meal, about 80% of the fats will be gone! The salad is another killer with all the mayo, it will be better if it is replaced by steamed veggies, but for that small portion of mayo, it still ain't that bad after all... the garlic bread is very well toasted.

Anyway the portion used to be bigger, has the chicken has shrunk in size?

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S11 Ang Mo Kio
530 Ang Mo Kio Ave 10
(S)560530

Monday, July 7, 2008

I swam, it rain

19 laps, and then there was lightning =(