Euro 2008 Finals

30 06 2008

Very un-eventful Euro Finals. Germany didn’t put up enough fight to Spain, and Spain was no-doubt the worthy winners.

As expected, felt VERY sleepy in office from morning, hahaha…… my fault nonetheless :p

Later tonight, Federrer vs Hewitt at Wimbledon, must be a good match !!





Stunning photos from Mars

21 06 2008

What do you think this is?

This thing that looks like a zoomed out version of a rock found on the road side, turns out to be one of the two moons Mars has, Phobos.

Check here to see all stunning photos taken from Mars. I like the blue-ish sunset photos.





Firefox 3 downloaded

18 06 2008

As of the writing of this post, almost 20 hours since the Download Day started, there has been almost 6.5 million downloads of Mozilla Firefox 3.

Singapore has contributed a mere 22,692 downloads, of which I contributed three. I installed one in office, one in desktop PC, and one in my Macbook. Let’s see how many they can get in the remaining 4+ hours.

Have you downloaded Firefox 3?





Firefox 3 Download Day 2008

17 06 2008

Mozilla Firefox 3 will be released tomorrow (Wednesday 1.00 AM SGP time), and they are gathering as much support as they can to set the new Guiness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.
Download Day 2008

If you have been using Firefox 2 all the while, or still using any other browsers, join in the download from tomorrow morning. The window is open for 24 hours, so you’ll have plenty of time.

I’ve been using Firefox 3 for a couple of months both in Windows and Mac, and undoubtedly it’s the best browsers out there. Performance is good, the awesome location bar is awesome, ah….. just download it tomorrow and try it out. :-)





Long Weekend

15 06 2008

As any other weekend, it started on Friday night, I went for Kung Fu Panda movie, which I highly recommend you to watch. It’s hilarious. On Saturday morning, I went for Heryanto (Nyile) and Christine (Santos) wedding until around 2PM, then I headed straight to PC Show at Suntec. I accompanied a friend to get a highly discounted new, just-released HTC Touch Diamond. Retail price is $1,098, but Singtel is selling at $498 for 2-years contract. By the time we reached there about 2.45PM, everywhere in Singtel booth, they put up this sign that read: “HTC Touch Diamond Out of Stock. Contact us for reservation details“. No choice, my friend had to reserve a set which Singtel will only have it ready by Thursday earliest.

For me, I managed to buy a pretty decent $5 laptop sleeve case for my Macbook, as well as an in-ear headphone in Sony MDR-EX32LP for $38.

Few hours later, we arrived back at NBC for young adults fellowship, and after that, we dropped by CK Tang for a while before went to watch The Incredible Hulk. The movie was pretty slow, and there wasn’t enough action to thrill us, the viewers. Only three smiles from me for Hulk :D :D :D :( :(

Movie tickets

I didn’t even realised I was sitting at the same seat number in Lido and GV for different movies on different day, cool coincidence eh?

Today, a friend from Australia came, so I’ll meet her with Dian at Vivo City for lunch, before heading to church for cell group and Sunday service. Hopefully I’ll still have energy to spare to accompany my colleague to Newton Life Church for Mandarin Sunday service. Now I need The Incredible strength :D

Now, if we think that is tiring, imagine our pastor, Rev. Dr. Stephen Tong, who cares so much for us, that he, at the age of 67, will have session for teens at Cibubur from 5 AM today, then preached in Indonesian language at Jakarta at 7 AM, followed by 9.30 AM sermon in Mandarin, then fly to Singapore for Indonesian language sermon at 5 PM (which usually ends about 7.15PM), then continued to Newton Life Church to preach at 7.30 PM. Early Monday morning, he’ll fly back to Jakarta to teach those teens again in Cibubur, and rushed for an afternoon flight to Kuala Lumpur, and continuing his usual journey to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and back to Jakarta on weekend. Phewwwww….. Now, that’s tiring !! If it is not for God and His truth and all of us, no one in the world would ever done that.





Kung Fu Panda

13 06 2008

:D :D :D :D :D

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!





PC Show 2008

13 06 2008

Anyone going to PC Show 2008 this time round?

On top of my wish list are:

1. In-ear earphone (after I gave mine to my brother). Considering either Sony MDR-EX32LP @ $38 or Creative EP-630 @ $36. Non PC-Show prices are $42 and $45 respectively.

2. A new digital camera to bring for my trip in September. Using 3.2MP camera phone for a trip just doesn’t cut it. Considering Canon IXUS 860IS. The promotion in PC Show is $599 with 2×4GB SD card.
I asked other shops. Cathay Photo selling @ $560 with 1×4GB SD card, while Alan Photo selling @ $535 with 1×4GB SD card. INK was suggesting to get a dSLR like Canon 1000D, or at least a Canon PowerShot G9, but feels quite big and bulky to me. I may delay this purchase until sometime nearer to September, hopefully the prices will come down a fair bit in a couple of months time.

All deals come with the usual Canon gifts like camera bag, and if paid by UOB credit card, can get an extra battery (worth $68). Alan Photo person mentioned there will be an additional 2% if I paid by UOB credit card, but considering I can get an extra battery for $10, it’s worth it.

Anyone ever used any of the items I’m considering? Sony earphones? Creative earphones? Canon Powershot cameras? Canon IXUS cameras? What do you think?