chillycraps' Activities

chillycraps has read Around the World in Eighty Days (Puffin Classics).

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps has read Around the World in Eighty Days (Puffin Classics).

chillycraps has read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Puffin Classics).

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps has read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Puffin Classics).

chillycraps has read To Sir, with Love.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps has read To Sir, with Love.

chillycraps wrote a review of The Nest Home Design Handbook: Simple ways to decorate, organize, a...

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wrote a review of The Nest Home Design Handbook: Simple ways to decorate, organize, and persona....

Home design is one of my favourite casual reading genres. I flipped through this book and saw that the author has made home design "systematic". Or some sort of "formularised". Unlike interior design magazines that show you pho...

chillycraps wants to read The Nest Home Design Handbook: Simple ways to decorate, organize, and p...

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wants to read The Nest Home Design Handbook: Simple ways to decorate, organize, and personalize your place.

chillycraps wants to read Inclusive Design Toolkit.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wants to read Inclusive Design Toolkit.

chillycraps has stopped reading Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps has stopped reading Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival.

chillycraps wrote a review of Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wrote a review of Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design.

It's an interesting book that talks about design in everyday life's objects. Things like how paper bag evolved into plastic bag, how the paper cup was made, how WD-40 got its name, why our doorknobs are at this height, why stai...

chillycraps is currently reading Soldier: The Autobiography.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps is currently reading Soldier: The Autobiography.

chillycraps wrote a review of Euclid's Window (Penguin Press Science).

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wrote a review of Euclid's Window (Penguin Press Science).

Was reading Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow. It's a very interesting maths book talking about the evolution of geometry "from parallel lines to hyperspace".

Do you know that the x-y coordinate system that we so take for gran...

chillycraps has read Euclid's Window (Penguin Press Science).

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps has read Euclid's Window (Penguin Press Science).

chillycraps is following cobaltpaladin.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps is following cobaltpaladin.

chillycraps wants to read The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wants to read The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story.

chillycraps wants to read Universal Principles of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influenc...

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wants to read Universal Principles of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase App....

chillycraps wrote a review of Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Ott...

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wrote a review of Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius (....

The author was an ace tank commander of the German army during World War II, having destroyed more than 150 enemy tanks and was the youngest soldier to be awarded the "Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves" (a very prestigious award i...

chillycraps wrote a review of The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wrote a review of The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT.

It's the author's personal account of his master's degree course in mechanical engineering at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) written in a diary form. Talking about the world's top technological university.

It's real...

chillycraps wrote a review of The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wrote a review of The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

This book is about a guy Eddie, who was the maintenance man at an amusement park. One day he was trying to save a little girl from a falling cart, and he got himself killed, then he went to heaven... There he met 5 people, the ...

chillycraps wrote a review of Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest ...

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wrote a review of Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson.

It is a true story about the author's last lesson with his dying professor Morrie Schwartz, 16 years after they last saw each other at Mitch's college graduation.

This final class is on meaning of life, topics include the world,...

chillycraps has read The Defence And Fall Of Singapore 1940-1942 (Battles & Campaigns).

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps has read The Defence And Fall Of Singapore 1940-1942 (Battles & Campaigns).

chillycraps wrote a review of Physics (Good Mark's Study Guides).

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wrote a review of Physics (Good Mark's Study Guides).

Ok this isn't really a book, but I saw it at the local bookstore on the Science section shelf. It is more like one piece of paper folded into a brochure, with contents similar to what you can find on the back of your Physics te...

chillycraps has read Physics (Good Mark's Study Guides).

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps has read Physics (Good Mark's Study Guides).

chillycraps wants to read It's Not Rocket Science: And Other Irritating Modern Cliches.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wants to read It's Not Rocket Science: And Other Irritating Modern Cliches.

chillycraps has read And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem So...

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps has read And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving.

chillycraps has read Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps has read Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited.

chillycraps has read Hirschfeld: The Secret Diary of a U-boat.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps has read Hirschfeld: The Secret Diary of a U-boat.

chillycraps has read And We Shall Shock Them: British Army in the Second World War (Cassell Milit...

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps has read And We Shall Shock Them: British Army in the Second World War (Cassell Military Paperbacks).

chillycraps has read Between Two Oceans: A Military History Of Singapore From First Settlement To...

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps has read Between Two Oceans: A Military History Of Singapore From First Settlement To Final British Withdr....

chillycraps is following luvyun.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps is following luvyun.

chillycraps wants to read Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wants to read Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World.

chillycraps wrote a review of The SAS Survival Handbook.

2008-02-27T03:00:08+08:00

chillycraps wrote a review of The SAS Survival Handbook.

A very useful survival guide that is being regarded as "bible" by many outdoor enthusiasts. It not only covers outdoor survival skills but also urban aspect such as self defence and how to react when there's an attack.