List of Formula 1 Models I am looking to sell if you live in Singapore

EDIT: MAY 21, 2014 Brawn GP Brazil GP 2009 sold.

The following is a list of Formula 1 model cars in 1/18 scale that I am looking to sell, if you happen to live in particularly the west side of Singapore, you may contact me to have a look at the condition before committing to buy.

Items will be sold on: eBay SG
(NOTE: If item is not available online, please contact me via eBay to check availability of items.)

As of May 10, 2014
Year	Model	Item No	Remark
2000	Ferrari F1-2000 M Schumacher	26737	HW
2001	Ferrari F2001 M Schumacher	53956	HW
2003	McLaren Mercedes MP4-17D K Raikkonen	530031806
2005	McLaren Mercedes MP4-20 K Raikkonen	530051809
2006	McLaren Mercedes MP4-21 L Hamilton 1st Roll Out Silverstone Sept 19, 2006	530061884	SOLD 1, left Qty: 1
2007	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-22 L Hamilton	530071802	Normal Box
2007	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-22 L Hamilton	530071802	w Lewis signature (Not for sale)
2007	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-22 L Hamilton 1st Win Canada GP 2007	530071822	Ltd 7,999 pcs.
2008	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-23 L Hamilton	530081822	Normal Box
2008	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-23 L Hamilton	503081822	Vodafone Collectors Box
2008	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-23 L Hamilton World Champion 2008	530081832
2008	Scuderia Toro Rosso STR3 S Vettel Winner Italian GP 2008	150080015	Ltd 4,999 pcs.
2009	Brawn GP BGP 001 J Button Winner Australian GP 2009	150090122	Ltd 4,002 pcs.
2009	*SOLD* Brawn GP BGP 001 J Button Brazil GP 2009	150090622	Ltd 4,209 pcs.
2009	Red Bull Racing Renault RB5 S Vettel	150090015
2009	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-24 L Hamilton 2009	530091801
2010	Red Bull Racing Renault RB6 S Vettel	110100005
2010	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-25 L Hamilton	530101802
2011	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-26 L Hamilton	530111803

Lego Simpsons Minifigures Series 2014

2014 marks the 25th season of The Simpsons, and with the recently concluded Lego Movie, the creators of The Simpsons teamed up with Lego to produce their 550th episode entitled "Brick Like Me", which was an amazing way to market the Lego Simpsons minifigures. With the recent February release of The Simpsons House (71006) set by Lego, The Simpsons Minifigures Series (71005) are the next in their lineup of promotional material for the 25th anniversary.

The Lego Simpsons minifigures series just arrived at the Bricks World JEM store today (May 7, 2014) and I collected 2 boxes this evening. Thankfully, I had placed and paid for my orders last Friday, because I didn't see any boxes open on display for people to buy.

On the shipping carton, it states "Do not put on shelf before May 1st, 2014". Upon opening the box, you are presented with 3 columns of 20 packets. Since I was distributing 2 sets to friends, I cut a small slit to check for the character in the packet and recorded down the distribution.

The distribution in the box was as follows:

	Left		Right
Back	Krusty	Bart	Scratchy
	Krusty	Itchy	Ralf Wiggum
	Nelson	Itchy	Milhouse
	Homer	Bart	Flanders
	Homer	Marge	Flanders
	Homer	Scratchy	Apu
	Homer	Chief Wiggum	Mr Burns
	Maggie	Chief Wiggum	Apu
	Maggie	Chief Wiggum	Flanders
	Homer	Marge	Grandpa
	Marge	Scratchy	Lisa
	Marge	Itchy	Lisa
	Krusty	Scratchy	Lisa
	Nelson	Itchy	Mr Burns
	Krusty	Bart	Mr Burns
	Nelson	Milhouse	Flanders
	Grandpa	Lisa	Apu
	Grandpa	Bart	Milhouse
	Maggie	Bart	Ralf Wiggum
Front	Maggie	Marge	Ralf Wiggum

In total, you get the following quantities in 1 full complete box:
Homer 5
Marge 5
Bart 5
Lisa 4
Krusty 4
Itchy 4
Scratchy 4
Flanders 4
Maggie 4
Apu 3
Grandpa 3
Nelson 3
Mr Burns 3
Ralph Wiggum 3
Chief Wiggum 3
Milhouse 3



Hope this helps. I will post more photos later!

Cheers!

Lewis Hamilton wins Chinese Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton won a dominant Chinese Grand Prix and lead team mate Nico Rosberg to a third consecutive 1-2 finish for Mercedes. Alonso completed the third step of the podium, ahead of Ricciardo and Vettel.

The pace of both Mercedes was amazing as they were almost a second faster per lap. Hamilton had lead at the start and opened a gap to the chasing competitors of Vettel, Alonso and Ricciardo, and was the last of the leaders to pit with a gap of almost 31 seconds when the Brit pitted. Rosberg didn't have the best of starts and got bogged down and was overtaken by Felipe Massa and in the Williams and Fernando Alonso in the Ferrari on the first hundred of metres.

A scrap on the opening lap between Massa and Alonso would lead to consequences for the Williams as they had a problem with the left rear hub during the pitstop which took almost a minute, the end result dropping Massa almost close to last position. Bottas in the other Williams had contact with Nico Rosberg too. As for the Red Bulls, multi-31 was the order of the day as Vettel was told to move over to let teammate Ricciardo pass.

Hamilton & Mercedes dominate 2014 Malaysian Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton dominates race day Sunday at Sepang. Did it come as a surprise or was it expected? No fluke for sure. Rewind back to September 28, 2012 when Lewis Hamilton had just announced that he would be leaving McLaren, the team he had been with since 1995 when he was just a young lad. Questions were asked, why was he not loyal to the team that raised him from a youngster, was he frustrated that after winning his first title in 2008? Bar 2009 when Brawn got a head start with the double diffuser, was Hamilton finally fed up with the prospect of failing to win the drivers championship in 2010, 2011 & 2012? Or was it the money that drew him towards Mercedes? For sure the rumor of a fat multi-million dollar pay check at Mercedes was highly likely to be the reason Hamilton had signed for Mercedes. From another perspective, the prospect of teaming up with Ross Brawn at Mercedes was a good bet, Brawn was the man who helped engineer a team around Michael Schumacher at Ferrari and delivered consecutive titles from 2000 to 2004.

Fast forward to today, Ross Brawn is no longer with Mercedes, but Hamilton having been at Mercedes for a year could have given significant inputs to the development of the 2014 car to suit his style. Looking at the pace he has, setting fastest lap towards the end of the race just showed how much in control he was at the Malaysian Grand Prix, even during the wet qualifying on Saturday showed the Mercedes had a significant advantage. Pulling away in the opening laps and creating a gap to Nico Rosberg in the other silver arrow, he demonstrated that the had the capability to control the pace of the race. Two weeks ago at the season opener, he was forced to retire at the end of lap two in the race because of electronics problems. However, no repeat if such an issue was present at Sepang this weekend.

The only thing that could derail the silver arrow train would be Adrian Newey & his Red Bull. If they eventually get the fuel sensor issue sorted by the time the championship goes back to Europe, they will be a serious contender for the 2014 title. In qualifying, Sebastian Vettel showed that the Red Bull was strong and competitive in sector 2, the section with the twists & turns which traditionally is Red bull's strength.

Game on, the 2014 Formula 1 championship is looking highly probable for Mercedes & Lewis Hamilton. Don't discount his teammate Nico Rosberg as he is also equally quick if he manages to put everything together on race day!

Apple MacBook Pro Retina Display and it's grumblings

Alright, so I got a MacBook Pro 13" with retina display towards the end of 2013. However, some applications do not support running in High DPI (retina) mode. For example, Adobe Bridge CS6 does not support the retina display, hence the text, icons, and interfaces all look blurry and such. Since Adobe Photoshop CS6 does support retina display, I thought this shouldn't be much of an issue.

However, all this is getting very confusing! Here, I show the 100% previews of an image to the dimensions of 960 x 640 pixels. In Bridge, it recognises the "viewed-as" resolution of my screen to be 1280 x 800, which if I was using a similar 13.3" screen of the same size, my image would look exactly like that.

However, in Photoshop, the app recognises the resolution to be 2560 x 1600, hence the image looks half of what it looked like in Bridge! Essentially, in Photoshop, the working space uses 1 pixel to project 1 pixel, while in Bridge, it is using 4 pixels to represent 1 actual pixel on my image!

Unfortunately, as the retina display has been out for more than a year, I don't see anything that developers may do to fix Bridge CS6.

So much for first world problems huh?

Angry Birds Character Mallows

I was at the supermarket the other day and I came across this interesting product from Rovio, the makers of the Angry Birds series. If you loved the Angry Birds, I would reckon that you would want to give this bag of treats a try. It's marshmallows made in the shape and design of Angry Birds characters, or Angry Birds made to look like marshmallows.

Introducting, the Angry Birds Character Mallows! Inside the bag, you get 12 Character Mallows, although there are only 5 designs, the flavours are pineapple, blue raspberry, strawberry and lemon.

So if you do not like the green pigs from the series, you could eat them out! Here's how they look like when they loose parts of an eye and their mouth, etc.

The eyes and mouth are made of hard icing candy, and those with sensitive teeth may find it harder to chew on!

Give them a try, the bag of 12 costs about slightly less than S$7!

X-Rite i1 Display Pro Calibration - iMac 27" Late 2012 Model (with 2GB graphics)

I just bought an X-Rite i1 Display Pro colorimeter. On my 27" iMac, the default suggested setting was CCFL, which turns out to be less accurate compared to setting to WhiteLED.

Take a look at the colour accuracy after calibration:

Fig 1. Using WhiteLED setting which gives DeltaE avg 0.74

Fig 2. Using CCFL setting, which gives DeltaE avg 4.9

So the calibrated profile in iProfiler also shows the calibrated temperature:

Contrast ratio of 500:1 was set, based on White Luminance of 100cd/m2 and Black Point of 0.20cd/m2. Apparently, target black point achieved was 0.17cd/m2, while white point achieved was 99cd/m2.