How do you thread a mobile strap?

I just bought a Sony Xperia Arc. The phone is great but that's digression. the phone is quite light and is ideal for carrying around with a mobile strap. ( the phone does comes with a mobile strap hole at the bottom of the phone )

The hard part is the threading of the strap through the hole. The usual way we would go about it is an exercise in luck. We try to push the strap through one hole and hope that it will come out of the other. But usually it won't. It will get stuck right at the bottom.

Now, they should really design the strap wall with a rounded inner wall so that a simple push is all we need to thread the strap.

But no, they have to make it perpendicular, causing the strap to jam right against the wall. This being so, we need to use the right tool for the job. Comes the dental pick to the rescue ( or dental scalper, the more official name. ) See the image of the tool.

You might have tried the maneuver before using a toothpick, or a paper clip. But I'm sure it is still a frustrating experience. Not so with the scalper. The scalper is design to work in the narrow cavity between your teeth and it adapt easily to the narrow mobile strap hole.



Save the frustration, have fun carrying your mobile in a strap.

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The mystery of the muddy shoe in urban Singapore

Look at this pair of muddy shoes and take a moment to ponder why in the mostly concrete and pathway Singapore do we still have a pair of muddy office shoe.

Perhaps it might help if I tell you tick this only happen roughly once every 4 years.

Perhaps it would help if I tell you that the shoe had made its way ?halfway across a muddy field in the late evening.

The astute reader might be able to guess that the shoe had, along with its owner attended opposition rally in the pre electional run up.

With this revelation comes the real question - why are opposition election rallies conducted at unsheltered muddy fields while the incumbent's rallies are at the relatively comfortable sports stadium.

It could be that the opposition are skimpping on the rental cost and had opt for the cheap and perhaps free open field.

Or it could be that the incumbent had arrange for this inconvenience to the opposition.

Whatever the cause, it seems to me in poor taste. This seems to indicate that the incumbent is unsure about their own popularity and must resort to trickery to win the votes.

There has been calls beseeching the citizens towards a graceful society.

Yet when the callers themselves are ungracious, it is hard press to heed those calls.

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