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Issue with Mapking v 7

I punch in the Register Code


Mapking software accepts the Reg Code




After a soft reset, I get prompted with a challenge screen and the S?N has changed!!!

Other Errors

Laxative abuse

Having just consumed 90 mL of Fleet ® PHOSPHO-SODA ®, an oral saline laxative, I begin to read the label and realized that I have consumed double the recommended amount for a 24-hour period, I started to worry for my rectum. Will my ass fall off?!!!

So far, it has been 2 trips to the porcelain throne room. Make that 3 ... and more are coming.... The good thing is, these 3 are relatively quick trips and I have got a decent amount of reading materials in the porcelain library. As I ponder upon how many trips I will be making, it happened upon me that I may actually lose some weight by ingesting laxative on a regular basis! Yeah! I dig laxative abuse!

Now before I go out and spend my entire salary on laxative, I thought I’ll google laxative and find out what products are available on the market and how to spalsh my salary. To my surprise, one of the first results were from http://www.anred.com/lax.html talking about laxative abuse.

Suppose you visit your favorite aunt and she insisted to cook you a nice 5,000 calories dinner and you could not bear to break her heart... Despite your best efforts to control your intake during the meal, you still ended bloated with sinful calories. You remembered that 2 cans of coca-cola equals 110 minutes on the treadmill and you don't have 4 hours to burn off the 5,000 calories dinner. What do you do?

You could stick a finger into your throat and stimulate an itch to cause you to gag and vomit. Or you can get hold of some laxatives to get the food quickly through your digestive system? Problem solved!

No! Apparently, laxative only acts on the large intestine and most of your calories absorption happens in the small intestine, before it reaches the large intestine. The anred site went on to talk a lot more about why laxative would not help you lose weight, but in fact could give you a cardiac arrest and send you to your marker. Perhaps then you can ask HIM to make you less fat :D

I have my threshold on the number of trips to the porcelain throne to eight. Anything more than that and I might start calling the doctor, if I breach 11, I’ll be calling 995… wish me luck!

And if you were wondering how does the PHOSPHO-SODA ® taste.... it sure taste SALTY! It might as well taste salty cause you lose a lot of water by trip #4. My mind is now filled with images of the health scare I had after drinking the local water in a third-world country.

Phuket: Another word for Paradise

I never knew how much I am missing out on exercising and mother nature until my recent trip to Phuket. There's a beautiful world out there!

It is hard to imagine that this very vibrant place was hit by the tsunami on 26 Dec 2004. 75% of the shops on Patong Beach is already open and doing business. There is a lot of activities around re-building. It is just a matter of time before the crowd comes back.

Unlike other holiday photos, these shots are not touched up. The place is really what it looks like in these photos. NICE! Will defnitely be heading back to Phuket.

Hertz "Neverlost" GPS Got LOST!

Hertz "Neverlost" GPS is not so good in the city. Data entry can be a pain. Re-routing is fast and instructions are great. Absolutely necessary in Boston where the next U-turn can be 10 miles down and highways meet in a big round-about near the airport. The GPS got me to the mailing address of the Marriot Courtyard in Boston city. The actual location of the hotel is "go past the summer tunnel, go past the airport...about 5 miles down.... right after the 24 hours liqour store on the right side of the highway when you are coming from the airport... you can't miss it. No we have no street number. It's just that way. You can't miss it."

Well, I did miss it, for about 5 hours with the "friendly" Boston drivers. Traffic was so bad, I peed into my large coca-cola bottle. Unlike the truck drivers, I did not cast my urine bomb onto the highway. I handed it to the recept that gave me the directions to the Countyard and told her I would retrieve it the next day... of course I used the quick checkout option and they never saw me again.

NY and Manhatten is fine, but who wants to get stuck in NY traffic? I just drove past all the famous landmarks, bridges etc to my hotel near chinatown, get the car into a garage and take the metro after I arrive. The fact that I have to tip the bellboy each time I needed the car is of no consequence to me leaving the car in the garage.

In Chicago, Hertz "Neverlost" did not know I was on Madison Ave, it shows me as 1 street away on the parallel. Now this is fine if not for the open park and beach on Madison Ave. I meant what is there to distort the data so badly?!!!

Milwaukee is so far north and remote, it should be part of Canada, there is nothing to block anything. Never got lost in Wisconsin. Some addresses are not what you expected, but generally fine. Hertz "Neverlost" will get you to do a U-turn rathan than a left turn across traffic. I find that annoying.

Went from Mass to Connecticut through the forest roads w/o any GPS. Did fine too except for making the car look like a butcher house. No, nobody was killed in the car. Next time we will try to not put ketchup on our hot-dogs while trying to stir and eat on the road.... but time was so tight and we needed to be there and back on the same day way before the MASSPIKE becomes choked with Friday traffic.

Back in Singapore, my 32-channels Rikaline bluetooth GPS receiver works like a charm!MapKing version 7 for PPC is definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed.

My GPS setup in the van. Neat huh? Everything in the instru-panel is in view less the high revs. No big lose really, I never rev the van past 3,500 rpm anyway.

Welcome Chang!!!

Chang come into the office today. I just want to make an entry to welcome Chang back. Hopefully he'll visit this blog often. :D

MinkyPinky is so wasted after the PT session at the gym... sad sad... cannot make it to go anywhere today. Less the SAFRA mahjong rooms

Today's bowling I got a score of 74! Shame... shame... Must be the Punggol Mee Goreng or my very sore back from doing all those back crunches yesterday.

My neighbour still turns off his wireless AP before midnight... stingy burger! Tell you what, leave the baby on and I'll invite you to mahjong next time.

PDA Cases

Saw this Vaja PDA hostler on the net....

Ha ha ha! Need a bra strap too