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It’s my 2nd time to bangkok in 2 years!

Here are some photos

Day 1 - Wednesday

This time, I had a super crave for A&W’s Waffle. Throughout my 5 days there, I had waffles for everyday without fail! Sometimes, I complete the set with a root beer float! How sinful…

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Our hotel room at Samran Place. Our 2nd stay there. Cheap and really wonderful service. Met many Singaporeans there too.  Seems like this hotel is popular with Singaporeans as highlighted by some taxi driver.

Our hotel location… the central of every shopping district.

Their supermarket.. Neat and clean

We bought the royce chocolate there too!

Day 2 - Thursday

Our breakfast at hotel every morning. Many sets to choose from but this set is our favourite. With a serving of two toasted bread too.

The KFC there at Platinum Mall

A physically tired me…

A typical traffic scene in Bangkok…

Road stalls selling very tempting food…

Back to hotel after a long long shopping day… with a big bag of goodies.

and here are the things. notice the difference in the things we bought…

Heading to MBK for dinner!!

Our favourite… Tomyam…

And the aftermath…

Shopping for a bag after MBK dinner…

Day 3 - Friday

Wanted to try tuktuk since we didn’t have a chance in the last visit. and our virgin try was spoilt by this dude. Taking us to the wrong place and keep wanting us to go some of the places he recommended. In the end we got off and paid him 10 bhat. $0.40SGD. HAHAA

At Chinatown/Yaowarat/Sampang Market

Selling dog clothes.. of course, we got one for COOKIE!

A traditional bakery… this scene is dying in Singapore…

Day 4 - Saturday

Day 5 - Sunday

Leaving Bangkok… notice the size difference in my face during my 5 days here…

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Spiderman spotted at NUS Central Library during this exam mugging period. The time is 1.30AM. Yes, in the middle of the night.

How cool it is, bringing smiles to almost everyone in the library during this highly stressed out period.

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More photos at http://www.singjie.com/gallery!

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Updated this blog with new skin and added a new page to this blog - NUS Modules! The page will just list out modules I am taking/took and some brief description!

Blogging on last day of the year! Cheers! Happy New Year!!

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Before the shaving of fur…

After…

*WHERE’S MY FUR!!!!#@!#@!$#!

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Presenting to you gothere.sg! One of the best interactive road directories in Singapore!

In fact I have been relying on gothere.sg since early July. I think this site is indeed worth mentioning.

No explaination from me. Go there and you will know.

http://gothere.sg

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Instead of trying her best to hold the flag upright, she decided to wave to her fellow chinamates. Neglecting the flag and dragging it along the way……..

So much for the government for promoting local sports by importing FTs. At the end of the day, the flag is nothing to them.

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Check my previous entry… and see what happened few days after i blogged…

The following image is from http://www.cyber.sg:

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Quoting from OdinMS.de,

… Apparently Nexon is sueing us. Currently we don’t even know what claims they have against us - so far we have received a bill from a court with the information that it’s about €350,000 matter in controversy. And it’s sent from the Landgericht Hamburg.
Neither of this makes sense to us (we are not in Hamburg, neither is Nexon). Without any claims we don’t even know why they are trying to sue us.
We don’t know if or how much we’ll actually have to pay at this point.
We don’t know what will happen now. We won’t be trying to risk our financial futures for keeping this project alive (sorry).

OdinMS has been sued by Nexon, apparently asking for €350,000(Approx, $941,599SGD). In case you are wondering, what is OdinMS. Well, they created an open source java project for packet communication with MapleStory client. In short, by using their compiled code, you will be able to run your own private server while using Nexon’s MapleStory client.

By doing so, it has violated Nexon’s policy by using the client to communicate with other unintended servers.

Imagine leveling at the rate of 1000x exp rate? Killing a snail will give u 3000 exp. points. That is why so many people are obsessed with these private servers. Servers can be configured to drop items that Nexon’s MapleStory doesn’t, and/or selling rare items that are over 1000 times cheaper than the original.

Well, with this law suit, I believe many private servers currently running on OdinMS will have to think twice. Singapore servers, like Cyber.sg, will have to take extra precaution if they are to continue their servers. Asiasoft will not let this go easily in this “law is above all” country.

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I believe many users are new to Windows Mobile Devices, such as the recently released HTC Diamond.

Therefore, over here, I will update tweaks for the HTC Diamond, extracted from http://forum.xda-developers.com

To perform the next tweak, you will need to install Schap’s Advance Config. Schaps_AdvancedConfig_v2.1.0.0.CAB

*Boost TFL3D Performance –> Using the above Advanced Config, change File system cache to 8MB and File system filter cache to 131072 sectors

*Black/faulty icons –> Use the above method do fix the black/faulty icons.

*Disable SIM contacts –> Show SIM contacts: No

Sometimes to tweak certain stuff, you will also need this registry editor - Resco Registry Editor.

*Wake Up on New SMS –> HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL : DisableSMSWakeUpEvent: Change value to “0″

Anyway, I’ve just flashed my Diamond’s ROM to 1.37. It improves the speed of the TouchFlo interface significantly. This could be the result of a better management of RAM which hits 55%+ RAM usage after bootup compared to the 1.35 version of 68%+

HTC Diamond

HTC Diamond diamond, htc

Due to the full number portability that kicked in couple of days ago, telcos are now in war!

Singtel started by offering $498 HTC Diamond in the PC show, with Starhub following one day after.

Today, M1 comes into the battlefield too, probably late by 1 week.

But the weird thing is… on Singtelshop.com.sg, we see $0.00 price plans! Does that mean we can sign up any plan for $0.00 through out the 24 months contract!? Is this part of the war package? Or probably just another honest mistake from Singtel.

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Just sold my W950i recently, and was deciding between the Touch Cruise and N95 8GB. Price of a Touch Cruise is at $1.1k!! After many days of thoughts, i decided not to spurge so much on a phone). I might not fully utilise the WM functions in Touch Cruise yet, so dropped the idea totally and hooted a 2nd hand N95 8GB instead.

Wenya just got a N82 too.

I might do a N82 vs N95 one of these days! One thing that N82 beats N95 hands down is the FLASH! Damn. N82 Xenon Flash is no joke. The brightness and clarify of the flash allows you to take many low-light pictures that current handphone couldn’t take.

Since I’m not a fan of camera function in handphone, i decided to go for N95 8GB for it’s ultra 2.8″ large screen and unique slider design. The screen is really huge. The screen size is identical to the Touch Cruise, although you can’t really compare the two phones as Touch Cruise is a touchscreen.

Pic of my N95 8GB

Pouch i bought at MobileSquare to protect this precious N95…

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Ep: 01
兴旺砂锅饭 -
Taman Jurong Market & Food Centre
3 Yung Sheng Rd #03-123

Ep: 02
明辉鱼片汤
Dunman Food Centre
271 Onan Rd #01-07

Ep: 03
忠记加东叻沙 *Mediacorp has declared not responsible for this shop due to the disgusted performance.
Blk 207, New Upper Changi Rd
Market & Food Centre, #01-64
(beside Bedok Interchange)

Ep: 04
唐记
228 Sims Ave, Geylang Lorong 23 (beside Bee Cheng Hiang)

Ep: 05
五福西餐 -
豪华餐室
Haig Road, next to Blk 23

Ep: 06
taste.n.c -
505 Beach Road, Golden Mile Food Centre #B1-50

Ep: 07
*日式小厨 -
Blk 16 Bedok South Road #01-195

Ep: 08
Missy Muffin
Amoy Street Food Centre #02-134
Telok Ayer Street

Ep: 09
Sambal Stingray and La la -
Tampines Round Market & Food Centre
Blk 137 Tampines St 11 #01-26

Ep: 10
Indonesian drumstick rice -
Kim Keat Palm Market & Food Centre
Blk 22 Toa Payoh Lorong 7 #01-48

Ep: 11
Min Nan - Bak Kut Prawn Noodles
Tiong Bahru Market and Food Centre #02-31

Ep: 12
HK Roast - Roast Pork and Char Siew Rice -
Cathy Cineleisure Orchard #B1-01 Stall No. 8

Anyone tried any of the stores yet? Do not have the time to visit them…

* means verified by 5 major chefs.

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*Picture from VR-ZONE.com

Just saw this review today at Vr-zone. Basically the big screen itself is already the ‘excuse’ to upgrade to the EEE 900. Running at resolution 1024 x 600 compared to the former 800*400. It comes with a 1.3MP webcam too, but how often do i use them? Instead of the usual 4GB, it comes with a total of 20GB! With 4GB SSD + 16GB mini PCI-E SSD. Although the 20GB looks tempting but in reality, my 4GB still doesn’t get filled up yet(even with WINXP SP2(FULL) + MS OFFICE 2007 + WAMP + Projects). It comes with a bigger touchpad too, but duh. Who needs it.

The same old processor and build. No bluetooth, no IR, no nothing. How much can you ask for? at the price of $798(LINUX version with 20GB).

Still considering of this upgrade… The only attraction for this upgrade is the big screen. It will allow me to see lines and lines of codes better with the higher resolution and bigger screen size. With the bigger screen, maybe I will drop the idea of getting a proper laptop for my uni. This ASUS EEE PC 900 might just be good enough to guide me through the 3-4 years there.

We shall see…

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Starhub is retailing N95 8GB @ $398 at all starhub shops, with 2 years contract!
Additional $50 discount if you buy it from Raffles City Roadshow this weekend!

Really tempting offer! Getting this as my post-ord phone? Hmm…

*Update 27 April 2008: Seems like it’s a print error on the papers. The price suppose to be meant for N95 instead of N95 8GB. However, Starhub did honor the deal, but of course… with limited sets.
All N95 8GB sets are back to normal price now, $688. No chance for me.

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I needed a printer quite urgently as i need to prepare scripts for my interviews. So I went SLS hunting and came back with a Canon LBP 2900 @ $180. It comes with one additional toner on top of the starter toner provided.

It comes with a $30 NTUC voucher that I can claim from Canon.

But after I reached home, I noticed that the warranty card has been stamped - CLAIMED. What does it mean? Somebody used my warranty card to claim the voucher?! Yet to confirm as I will need to head down to Canon ASAP one of these days.

*Update 23rd April 2008: The $30 NTUC voucher is indeed unclaimable. I called Canon and they told me it’s EITHER a toner or a $30 NTUC voucher. But Skylet definitely told me that it’s a toner AND a $30 NTUC voucher. I still reconfirmed with the guy as the offer seems unbelievable then. But now… they denied they said such thing…

Canon seems pretty innocent here, so did not bother to argue with them. Now, adding to my blacklisted shop: Skylet.

Also, this printer does not provide VISTA x64 drivers! Canon DID NOT RELEASE a VISTA x64 driver for this printer. Damn.

I tried searching for other sources, but could only come to this conclusion: Canon feels that Vista x64 is not the mainstream market at the moment! So they did not bother to release!

So… I have to uninstall my VISTA x64 (installed 2 weeks ago) and reinstall a VISTA x86 (32-bit)!

What the hell… Now i finally understand why many users still WANT to stay in WinXP - for its wide drivers support!

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Just upgraded my computer recently to a E2160. Did not aim for high end processors I believe E2160 can squeeze out a lot more juice.

E2160 default clock speed is at 1.8Ghz. I managed to overclock it to hit 3.15Ghz. Vcore is at 1.30V, of course with the help of a 3rd party cooler, the Noctua NH-U12P!

Settings are as follows:
FSB: 350
Multiplier: 9
VCore: 1.30V
VDimm: 2.00V
VTT: 1.40V

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My third or fourth time starting a blog… Always tend to close my blogs because i seldom blog…

But finally decided to start a blog, a platform for my personal news & interests!

Cheers!

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