Stumbled this article on Boston.com and would like to share it here.

It’s actually make me more curious about how to take a quality nap, how long do I need, and most important when should I take it. However, after reading through it, I find myself in between of a LARN and OWL.

So what am I? A lizard, I guess!!

PS: In order to have more productivity on my blogging life, I think I should sleep at around 2-4am and 1-3pm, just good to cover my “intense sleepiness”.

Here’s something I didn’t realise. The UK’s Institute of Advanced Motorists Limited is advocating reverse parking and they find out the following are the benefits of reverse parking rather than entering your parking bay head-first:

• Data shows it takes about 90 seconds for an average 5-year old car’s engine to warm up and reach its thermal efficiency. According to IAM, reversing out of a parking bay while the engine is cold takes up between 20-25 times more fuel than when it is warm. Apparently driving away forwards will help you save fuel. Could be related to the usually lower gear ratio of the reverse gear compared to the first gear.
• The UK’s Highway Code actually encourages reverse parking. This is because reversing into a parking bay which remains static (just an empty piece of road/cement, nothing will suddenly fill it up) is safer than reversing out into a road/lane which may have constant traffic where you cannot see easily. Driving out forwards into the road makes it easier for you to look out for incoming traffic.
• Reversing close to a wall may make it more difficult for thieves to break into your boot as there will not be enough space for them to work.
• With the amount of crime these days, it is easier to get out of the parking bay as fast as possible driving forward as it is easier for you to see where you are going in case you have to leave as fast as you can for security reasons.

Lucky, I’m reverse parking guy ^^;

What a wonderful trick, too bad I’m staying at apartment and those meter(s) are being monitored, that can’t be ‘ahem’ so easily. So anyone who are able to access their meter, could you be kind enough to verify this for me/us:

Electric Meter Hack! How To Cut Your Electricity Bill In Half!

PS: Don’t do it if you think it is ‘illegal’, I’m taking this as educational purpose ^^;