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This was shared on my facebook. Many kids nowadays are privileged, important thing is they recognised, utilize it and help those who are not as privileged. https://www.facebook.com/doctorkiki/videos/2070923123127225/

OK guys, before you all start to flame me....i did use the search button and google to find out more but dun understand tons and din really find the answer. Background. Have one of those taiwan guages, "Auto garage", installed in this old mit lancer. The GLX model. Manual. 5 plus year old. Car also have those open pod air filter. When idle the needle states, slightly below 10, din fluctuate nor jump around or even wiggle. just stays there. Steps accelerator, the needle will move towards 0 and rather responsive to the pedal. Search all over, seems that the needle should be showing 14-22, but mine is below 10. And i dunno if it is because open pod air filter is affecting it. Dare not really bring to a mechanic as i dunno if there is any problem, dun have much money to pay for repairs and rather paranoid if mechanic use fear tactics on me. Please help me with some advice as to what i can do to check if anything is wrong, or if anything is wrong at all. BTW, car drives smoothly. Thank you very much.

Quite a lot of questions this time round on "what ifs?"... "What if Ah Loong loses?" Sharing some basic knowledge about the whole "democracy" in Singapore. Other more enlightened brothers feel free to chip in or correct any errors. _____________________________________________________________________ The whole process roughly goes like this: 1) PM proposes to the President to dissolve parliament. 2) President gives the go ahead and dissolves parliament. 3) Nominations of candidates. 4)Campaigning... Mudslinging... Character assassination... 5) Appointment of Prime Minister by President based on majority confidence in Parliament (typically the winning party with the most votes). ***so to answer most of the queries, Ah Loong can lose his position and still be appointed PM by Prataman. However if the other parties hold most of the seats in parliament, he will not be able to rubber stamp anything. 6) PM designates and appoints his own ministers. NMP or NCMP can be appointed as ministers technically, but they usually will at least be an MP since they are in the winning party. _____________________________________________________________________ We have 3 branches in goverment: 1) Executive - The cabinet of ministers, generally controls and holds most of the power in the government. They pass laws like 10% GST, etc... 2) Legislative - The MPs, they vote on bills, question the ministers, etc... 3) Judiciary - The legal branch, they interpret laws, pass judgements, set precedents, etc... No one is above the law and so on and forth... Theoretically, the 3 branches are able to check each others power and prevent abuses. However, some are more equal than others. _____________________________________________________________________ Even if PAP were to be totally voted out in the next GE, they will still exercise tremendous power via their statutory boards, civil & public service. The "Elected" President can also appoint alot of powerful positions, CDF, COA, Chief Justice, AG, CPIB Director, etc... unless overruled by at least two-third of Parliament. Oh, and who determines who is eligible for Presidency? The Presidential Elections Committee, comprising Chairman PSC, Chairman ACRA, a member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights. Disclaimer: Some of the statements made be made in error, it is just roughly how I remember it. http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/

If you have difficulty understanding the current world financial situation, the following should help... Once upon a time in a village in India, a man announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10. The villagers seeing there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10, but, as the supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their efforts. The man further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to $25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it ! The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now act as buyer, on his behalf. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers: 'Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when he returns from the city, you can sell them back to him for $50.' The villagers squeezed together their savings and bought all the monkeys. Then they never saw the man or his assistant again, only monkeys everywhere ! Now, welcome to WALL STREET. And now that is what's happening to the world finance crisis.... causing a big giant bubble brust....in thin air....... Cheers!

During wide open throttle (WOT) or heavy revving, the reading should be RICH (or yellow LED reading). During deceleration, the reading is either not visible or at the LEAN (or red LED reading). So, if it's normal cruising, the reading should be moving from RICH-STOICH-LEAN-STOICH-RICH repeatedly right?

Good Read for ICE Newbies... [/size] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Understanding Car Audio Systems Part One of a Five-Part Series By Scott Memmer In the last decade or so, automakers have placed increasing importance on in-car entertainment systems. The core of these technologies has always been the audio system -- the noisemaker, if you will. What appeared in our dashboards more than 50 years ago as a tube radio the size of a breadbox now rivals the technical complexity of a 767. This series is not written for aficionados, but for the average consumer who wants to gain a working knowledge of the basics of car audio design. By the end, we trust you'll have a better understanding of this technology. What are the basics of car audio systems? How does each of the separate components operate? In the series to follow, we'll address these questions in a user-friendly and approachable format. One note before we get started. This series will cover only original equipment manufacturer's (OEM) systems, the ones that come in your car from the factory. Unfortunately, in our limited space for this column, we're unable to deal with the vastness of the car audio aftermarket, which changes every day. Perhaps in future Tech Center articles we'll delve into this area. The good news is, most of the design concepts we're discussing here apply all the way up the line to really loud and pricey systems. A car audio system is composed of four different groups of components. These are: head units, amplifiers, speakers, and auxiliary input devices (such as a CD changer or a graphic equalizer). Let's take a look at each. The Head Unit This is the heart and soul of your system. Without this component, your car audio system can't and won't work. The head unit, or, more simply, the radio, is the central processing device in the system. Consider the way your mind works. Let's say you want to shout at somebody. Your brain tells your vocals chords to raise to a certain volume level. The words form in your mind, your mouth opens, and out comes a shout. In a similar fashion, the head unit controls all the functions in your car audio system. Music too loud? Turn down the volume. Too soft? Turn it up. Want more bass? Add bass input. All changes and controls come through the head unit. If you could see behind the radio in your dash, you'd find a dozen or so wires going off in all different directions to other systems in the car. These are like the nerves in your body, transmitting signals to and from the various components. In addition to volume, bass, etc., the head unit may contain other systems within its casing. These include: tuner, cassette, equalizer, CD or amplifier. Some of these words look familiar? That's because we mentioned them above. You see, in a home music system, where you have much more room, many stereo setups will include a separate box for each one of these components -- CD, cassette, etc. You may have a home system like that yourself. In a car, with its space limitations, these components are often crammed into one box -- the head unit. This depends upon a number of factors, such as heat, space, cosmetic design and other concerns, and every car is different. The Amplifier All car audio systems have an amplifier, even if it's a small one (and based upon the factory systems we've been listening to lately, a lot of them are really dinky). Occasionally the amplifier will be attached to the rear of the head unit; however, in most systems it is hidden elsewhere in the car to better dissipate heat. Signal amplification is actually a two-stage process, handled by two separate components. These are the preamplifier and the power amplifier. The preamplifier (preamp, for short) is like that little voice whispering in your ear not to eat ice cream at midnight. It's a very tiny signal coming directly from the radio (in fact, the preamp resides inside the head unit). Whether it's reproducing a cassette signal, a CD signal, or an FM broadcast, the preamp puts out a signal inaudible to the human ear. This is where the power amplifier takes over. It's the power amp's job to take the signal from the preamp and boost it into the audible range. We'll cover this in more depth in our Amplifier column in this series. Again, because of heat, most amplifiers are located away from the head unit. The Speakers The speakers take the boosted signal from the power amp and deliver it to your ears. The way loudspeakers work is a fascinating process and will be dealt with at length in our Speaker column in this series. Essentially, loudspeakers transform electrical energy (the amplified signal) into mechanical energy (the motion of the speaker cone). For now, know that all sound is vibration. When you snap your fingers, this action sets off a chain of frequencies in the air that eventually vibrate the membranes in your eardrums. You hear: "Snap!" Sound energy is measured in wavelengths, known as hertz, and goes from 20 to 20,000 cycles. A cycle is the distance from the top of one wavelength to the top of the next. Traditional loudspeaker design calls for three components to reproduce sound energy: woofers, tweeters and midrange drivers. As the name implies, the woofer reproduces the lower frequencies, such as a large dog barking. The tweeter, also aptly named, replicates the higher register -- a bird singing. The midrange handles the frequencies in between. Car audio manufacturers use various assortments of these drivers to achieve the sound they want. We'll go into this at length in a future installment. Auxiliary Input Devices Components such as CD changers and equalizers, not to mention cell phones, navigation systems, MP3 players and many of the newer technologies, interface with the head unit for amplification and signal processing. We'll delve into this area in our final installment. We hope this helps you gather a basic understanding of car audio technology. Look for an in-depth view inside the head unit in our next column. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Understanding Car Audio Systems: The Head Unit Part Two of a Five-Part Series By Scott Memmer http://www.edmunds.com/ownership/techcenter/articles/44842/article.html Understanding Car Audio Systems: The Amplifier Part Three of a Five-Part Series By Scott Memmer http://www.edmunds.com/ownership/techcenter/articles/44841/article.html Understanding Car Audio Systems: The Speaker Part Four of a Five-Part Series By Scott Memmer http://www.edmunds.com/ownership/techcenter/articles/44843/article.html Understanding Car Audio Systems: What to Buy, What to Avoid and What to Add Part Five of a Five-Part Series By Scott Memmer http://www.edmunds.com/ownership/audio/articles/44900/article.html

For those who lazy to read...standby your keropok and watch this movie. Nice graphics http://i.tnpv.us/tn/2005/07/06/NP4_Engine.mov

How to read these figures? (looks a Campbell's Alphanumeric soup to me ) API Service SL/CF ILSAC GF-3 CCMC-G5, PD2 ACEA A1-98 SAE Grade 0W30 <<< this one I know :) Viscosity, Kinematic at 40 deg C, cSt 53.56 at 100 deg C, cSt 9.90 Viscosity, Apparent at -30 deg C, cP 5000 Viscosity Index 174 Base Number (mgKoH/g) 8.0 Sulphated Ash, (% wt) 0.73 Specific Gravity, 15/15 deg C 0.868

Hi All, Me trying to understand the above amp ... As specs mentioned, it can have following config : a) 4 X 65W RMS (4ohm) b) 4 X 105W RMS (2ohm) c) 2 X 210W RMS (4ohm) d) 2 X 65W & 1 X 220W RMS (4ohm) If I wanna bridge it to 2 channel to drive my front comp spkrs, means I am taking config © ... but 210W/ch ? really so much meh ? Also it mentioned for front channels got hi-pass, but rear/sub channels got lo-pass ... means rear/sub channels no hi-pass ? then if I bridge them to 2 channels, 1 ch got hi while the other got lo ah ? me confused (as usual) ... not sure if this model can be bridged as 2ch ... Any guru care to share? Thanks in advance. Cheers ... HUNGEE

Dunno whether this is the right folder....think we are ALWAYS trying to better our fuel consumption and one of the tools we ALWAYS use is the fuel gauges....here is a great site that teaches me HOW COME I THOUGHT I USE UP TOO MUCH FUEL...hehehe...from SLC....enjoy...wonder BERNARDSIA from SLC is here also... The site below has an article on why fuel guages are so cxxk up. On the CK models, the first and last quarter will last very long. But the 2nd and 3rd will just zip thru. Many cars have this problem. Just that the CK models are especially obvious. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-gauge.htm