All posts for the month September, 2008

Peter Chan takes a walk around the Singapore F1 circuit

Peter Chan, a Friend of Yesterday.sg, took a walk around the Marina Bay Street Circuit this afternoon. He emailed me the photos and kindly gave me permission to post them here. So, here goes! The first two corners. Hmm… possibility of an accident as 20 cars come flying through? Chicane near Singapore Cricket Club. Armco [...]

Anticlimax

I received my new refurbished iMac on Thursday. As you can see, I unboxed it and fired it up. What happened after the fancy Welcome clip? Nothing. There are a few things to fill in to set up OS X. At Select a Wireless Service, the computer froze. So, I restarted and tried again, this [...]

School Days at SJI

Ordinary Guy wrote a post about SJI, where he studied in the late 70s. The first thing that a student had to brace himself was the incessant noise from the traffic during lessons. SJI was bordered by busy Bras Basah Road, Waterloo Street and Queen Street shown in the map below. It was a challenge [...]

Lighting Test

Stamford Road lit for the F1 race in Singapore, Singapore Recreation Club behind the lights.

Snakes & Devils – A History of the Singapore Grand Prix

I attended a talk by Eli Solomon on Sunday at the National Library. He talked about his book, Snakes & Devils – A History of the Singapore Grand Prix. History of the Singapore Grand Prix? But it hasn’t even happened yet, right? Well, the F1 race hasn’t taken place yet, but there was racing in [...]