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OK, I have decide to try out the plugs and see all the "performance claims" myself. Bought a set of it and install into my car. Previously using Denso IK24. Initial impression is, well engine felt smoother which is pretty much in tune with what happens when you install a new set of plugs (My Denso plugs are around 1000KM old only). There is definitely a little more power at low RPM (between 1-2K RPM) compared to the Denso plugs. Its not surprising since there is no 5K ohms resistor to suck power. The difference gets more pronounced when I turned on the AC. There is less vibration at low RPM esp. when dragging the engine. Overall, there is some improvement but not much. I don't know if it worth the extra premium over the Iridium plugs. I will have to monitor the FC and see what happens. Right now I am hovering at a very steady 7.5KM/L. I pump once a week and my daily routes and even traffic lights timing are very fix. So, I can monitor my FC very accurately. One thing I didn't do is to measure the gap. My Denso are using 0.8mm gap. I will have to take out to measure it at some point of time. One side effect I did notice is my tachometer gets a little erractic. It may jump a little during idle. As expected, plugs w/o resistor will produce more noise and my tacho signal is wired directly to the -ve terminal on my ignition coil. I do have a variable resistor attached to it, will have to adjust to compensate for the noise. At least the plugs didn't seems to affect my Vipec ECU which could result in erratic A/F ratio or misfiring etc. Hopeully, it stays that way in the long run. I have yet to try high RPM to see if it runs well. Thats all for my initial review of the Nology plugs. If you also using the same plugs or some other plugs, just post your experience here

Who is farking chao peasant like me who can't even earn enough to waulify to have a CC? I don't even earn enough to have a Credit Card man..... Sucks.....

Full article here Suddenly I feel so lucky.

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July 14, 2008 Man charged over fatal accident By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent A MAN was charged in court on Monday with negligently causing the deaths of his mother-in-law and son in a road traffic accident two years ago. Long Shi Pin, 37, was driving a car along Woodlands Road when it crashed into a tree, killing rear seat passengers, Madam Lee Tew Ngoh, 63, and six-year-old Matthew Long Chay En on May 28, 2006. He is also accused of causing grievous hurt to his wife, Madam Jennifer Tham Ai Ping, 37, who was seated in front, and his sister-in-law, Ms Joann Tham Gek Peng, 33, seated at the back of the car. He is said to have failed to keep a proper lookout while negotiating a slight left bend, causing the car to veer to the right, mount the centre road divider and hit the tree. His mother-in-law and son died on the spot while the others were taken to hospital. Bail of $10,000 was set. If convicted of causing death, he can be jailed for up to two years and/or fined. The punishment for causing grievous hurt is a fine of up to two years and/or $5,000. A pre-trial hearing will be held on Aug 4. http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/...ory_257578.html KNN... win liao lor.. 2yr ago case. His mother n kid died ok i can understand. his negligence. his greviences. But cause grevious hurt somemore?? machiam one of those road rage who punches some1 else. Wat's the purpose of roping additional charges? Simply amazing...

June 12, 2008 Killer litter drama at Clementi block Woman arrested for throwing an assortment of items, ranging from shoes, cartons and papers from highrise flat By Eisen Teo and Stephanie Song IT was raining papers, shoes, cartons and even tupperware at Block 331, Clementi Avenue 2 on Thursday morning. Police received a call at 9.15 am about things being flung from a seventh-floor flat, littering a playground and void deck below. Two fire engines from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) arrived at about 11.30 am and the rescuers quickly laid out an inflatable cushion at the foot of the block, as scores of residents looked on in suspense. More items continued to rain down from the flat, including hundreds of pieces of torn paper and pamphlets. Four SCDF personnel rappelled from the eighth floor to prevent the killer litter culprit from hurting herself. At 1.20 pm, police forced open the door to the flat and arrested 57-year-old Gina Ho Hock Tee. She was clad in a yellow blouse, blue and white striped shorts and yellow slippers. As the woman was being led away by police, she shouted: 'I never did anything wrong, why you handcuff me?' This is not the first time Ho had thrown things out of her flat, said her close friend, Ms Katherine Kng, 60, a factory worker. She had previously hurled pillows and blankets from her flat. Police are investigating. http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2...ry_247102.html ok.. other then the iron, no sharp object thrown.. tsk tsk. confirm is killer litter.. goto jail, lose flat. __________________ The other story French woman charged with killer-litter By Elena Chong A FRENCH national was charged in a magistrate's court on Thursday with a killer-litter offence. Sandrine Bionda Courbet, 39, a bank executive, is said to have thrown three knives and a wooden knife holder from the kitchen window of her 15th-floor flat at Ridgwood Close on Jan 27. She initially wanted to plead guilty but when told by the judge that the offence normally carried a jail term, she changed her mind. The judge had asked if she wanted to engage a lawyer. She asked for an adjournment to make representations. She is released on bail of $5,000. Her passport was impounded. She will be back in court on June 26. If convicted of the rash act, she faces a jail term of up to three months or a fine of $250 or both. ----------

May 19, 2008 No contact from S'pore consulate during quake I LIVE in Chengdu, China, because of my husband's work. When the earthquake struck Wenchuan county on Monday, telecommunication lines were down for several hours. Wenchuan, 150km north-west of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, was at the epicentre of the earthquake. There was uncertainty and fear. No one from the consulate-general office in Chengdu contacted me with news updates or advice for Singaporeans here. Telecommunication lines were up and running after a few hours and e-mail and the Internet were working. I am also registered with the Sichuan-Singapore club here, which, to my knowledge, has an extensive list of Singaporeans living and working in Sichuan. The consulate-general could have made use of that list to contact Singaporeans here. From the expatriate club here, I have received e-mail updates from the United States embassy and calls from German, French and Scandinavian nationals to register at certain contact points. My question to the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs is, what are its protocols regarding reaching Singapore citizens when disaster strikes? I am aware that the ministry has an online registry for Singaporeans but not everyone is registered there, I am positive. Are other means taken to reach these Singaporeans in a foreign country? Perhaps, for instance, an e-mail message to expatriate clubs or a message on the ministry's website? The ministry and its missions should leave no stone unturned in reaching and helping all Singaporeans abroad in times of crisis. Ashley Wai Leng Chang (Ms) Chengdu, China http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Sto...ory_238767.html Obviously she dunno MIW like to give false hopes...

'Why not do all the repairs at the same time?' Letter from Mickey Chiang I thank the Director of the Hawkers Department (National Environment Agency) for his reply, "Adam Road food centre is open again" (April 4) to my letter "Why weren't hawker centre closures better planned?" (March 21). . Unfortunately, the reply did not answer my queries, namely: Why were two popular hawker centres close to each other closed simultaneously; and why was the Farrer Road wet market also closed, making it inconvenient for already hawker-food-deprived residents to cook meals at home? . The reply talked at length about the Hawker Centre Upgrading Programme (HUP) and HUP working committees for various districts. What is needed is the assurance that there will better co-ordination in the future between adjacent HUP working committees, so that simultaneous closures of nearby food centres and wet markets do not recur. . It is also disturbing to read that the Farrer Road Hawker Centre, which was renovated only two years ago, needed further upgrading because during that renovation "only some repainting and minor repair works" were done, and yet the closure of the Adam Road Food Centre was for precisely the same kind of repairs. . Does this mean that in two years' time, the Adam Road Food Centre will again be closed, for major renovations? . Would that not cause double hardship to the hawkers and residents relying on the food centre? Why not do all the repairs and renovations at the same time, this way, it helps save public funds while minimising hardship to those affected? http://www.todayonline.com/articles/247343.asp solution: another FAQ to answer him! mebbe the district 9 peasants comprain too much abt polis condon off area last month so they now kena retribution. comprain = u kena.

Man sues govt for RM6.9m over excess caning A Singaporean is suing the government for around S$3mil (RM6.98mil) in damages for mistakenly caning him three more strokes than he was sentenced to, court documents showed yesterday. Dickson Tan, 21, who was jailed for nine months and sentenced to five strokes of the cane last year for helping an illegal moneylender, was beaten eight times instead as a result of an administrative error. According to court documents filed by the plaintiff on Wednesday, Tan attempted to point out the error before his caning on March 29 last year, but was told that the

Russian farmer sues space agency for falling rocket Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:40am EDT By Natalya Sokhareva BARNAUL, Russia (Reuters) - A shepherd is suing Russia's space agency for compensation after he said a 10-foot-long chunk of metal from a space rocket fell into his yard, just missing his outdoor toilet. Boris Urmatov, who is asking for 1 million roubles ($42,000) from the Roskosmos agency, lives in a small village that lies underneath the flight path of rockets taking off from the Baikonur launchpad Russia leases in nearby Kazakhstan. "Something woke him up in the night, like something exploded. Since he's visually handicapped he didn't notice the fallen rocket parts," Urmatov's sister Marina told Reuters from the village of Kyrlyk, in Russia's Altai region. "But in the morning in front of the shepherd hut he saw this enormous metal casing, as smooth as an egg," she said by telephone from the village, which is 2,175 miles east of Moscow. "It nearly crushed the outhouse." She said her brother was seeking damages to compensate him for the stress he suffered. Residents in the neighboring village of Ust-Kan said rocket pieces regularly rain down on their area. Parts of the surrounding countryside are designated special zones where people may not go during the launches. "Sometimes it's smooth metal casings, sometimes it's bolts. I remember something like an engine fell once," said Anatoly Kazakov, an Ust-Kan resident. "THEY FLY, THEY FALL" Roskosmos said it regularly warns residents when a launch is scheduled, and in a history stretching back over 50 years and 400 rockets, only a few space-bound rocket parts have fallen outside designated areas. "Technologically speaking, these parts are supposed to fall off during a launch. They fly, they fall, they fly, they fall. It's how they work," said Roskosmos spokesman Alexander Vorobyov. He said Roskosmos regularly sends out an investigation team to check on reports of damage from rocket parts, but it could only pay compensation if a court rules for damages. "If a court determines that, yes, those are rocket parts, they fell on his land, then for sure he will be compensated. No question about it. We live in a civilized, law-abiding country," Vorobyov said. Izvestia newspaper said Roskosmos had only once paid out compensation over rocket debris to a private individual -- 10,000 roubles in 2001 -- when a piece fell on his yard as he was outside chopping wood. "What is abnormal is when somebody gets greedy, and it turns out the parts did not fall on his land, but that they were dragged there. Those moments are not good," Vorobyov said. "But those are individual instances. We in no way refuse to pay out compensation. It just has to go through the court system." (Writing by Chris Baldwin, editing by Richard Meares)

March 26, 2008 Have $50 notes with 'KF' mark? MAS says they're worthless By Esther Tan WHEN Mr G.S. Lee withdrew some money from an OCBC Bank ATM at Compass Point earlier this month, three of his $50 notes seemed a bit strange - the letters 'KF' were on the top right hand corner. The bank told him then that there was 'no problem with the notes', he said, but the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has since clarified that such notes have been mutilated on purpose and are therefore worthless. The letters looked 'legally imprinted', said Mr Lee in an e-mail to The Straits Times online portal, Stomp, asking what the letters might mean. But 'KF' is not part of the $50 note's design, said MAS' spokesman, adding it did not know what 'KF' stood for. 'Notes with such markings are considered to be deliberate mutilation and they command no value,' she added. Anyone who has notes with the markings can take them to the banks to be exchanged, she said, and MAS will take the notes back as an 'act of grace'. When contacted, OCBC's head of group corporate communications Koh Ching Ching said currency could have become defaced while being circulated. She said the bank's ATMs will be checked so any other mutilated notes can be retrieved. She added that OCBC's tellers are 'trained to look out for defaced or mutilated notes and handle them as per guidelines provided by MAS', and that it has reminded its staff to be vigilant. Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times. http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/...ory_220782.html

Watch out! Speeding heavy vehicles ahead Letter from JOSEPH YEE I REFER to the report, "53 hurt in chain collisions" (Jan 18). . I am surprised that the antics of the drivers (and perhaps the owners, too) of heavy vehicles ?lorries, tippers, bulk concrete carriers, container prime movers, trailers and coaches ?do not seem to catch sufficient attention of the authorities. . Drive along any expressway or major multi-lane road during off peak hours and you will find heavy vehicles keeping pace with you at 80 to 90kmh or worse, tail-gating you. . Stand on a pedestrian overhead bridge over one of these roads for 10 minutes and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that many of these heavy vehicles are speeding beyond their 40kmh to 60kmh vehicle speed limits. . By the way, heavy vehicles are supposed to be fitted with speed limiters. But the observations on the roads will suggest that there is widespread tampering of these machines between vehicle inspections. . Heavy vehicles may form only a small proportion of the total vehicle population, but their bulk and their large number of passengers mean that accidents involving them tend to be more serious. . The authorities are correctly concentrating their enforcement efforts on drink driving. Keep up the good work. . But please take a closer look at the antics of the heavy vehicle drivers or owners. For too long they seem to have been winning this cat and mouse game. http://www.todayonline.com/articles/233019.asp