Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight was officially launch in Singapore yesterday. Pre-ordered my copy of it last week at Funan’s challenger. Showed them my copy of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and got straight SGD$15 off the retail price of SGD$69.90, end up paying only SGD$54.90.

I love those goodies that come with the pre-order. In this case, it is 2x free t-shirts, 1x Tote bag and 1x 3D cover art. The full soundtrack and bonus mission are all digital download.

Box – Front

Box – Back

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I finally got a blogger name card to give away during blogger events, thanks to Li Xiang who designed it for me. Printed it at Tommy Print. SGD$60 for 200 pieces. The price is pretty steep because the material used is translucent plastic card. It took a month before I am able to collect it. Guess not much people print those.

I am all along a Window user and have been doing web development on Windows for years. When I started work, all the guys in the engineering team are using Mac, so I thought I go with the flow and begin doing web development on a Mac. The experience was excellent, just need some time to get used to. After intensively using Mac for more than a month, I am proud to say, I am not going back to a Windows PC. My next computer shall be a Mac. I am hoping the 27″ iMac gets refreshed next year and it I am going to get that. Even Valve is bringing Steam to Mac. With Blizzard games able to run on Mac and Razer supporting it mice with Mac drivers. There is no reason for me to use a Windows PC anymore. If there is really a need (like testing website in IE), I will just use VMWare to run Windows 7.

Here are some software I use to do web development on Mac:

IDE: Coda (USD$99) by Panic
SVN: Versions (EURO€39) by Sofa & Pico
MYSQL: Sequel Pro (Free)
FTP: Flow (USD$25) by Extend Mac
localhost: MAMP (Free)

Bought Crumpler’s Photo Neck Strap, The Industry Disgrace, at Raffles City’s Crumpler Store for SGD$25. I have no idea why the website put SGD$34.24, I think must be an error or the price was reduced.

Conclusion, it is definitely worth the money as you will feel the difference between the stock neck strap and this one. The latter is much more comfortable because of the design and the cushion padding at the back.

Front

Back

Crumpler Word At The Back

Crumpler Logo At The Front

Cushion At The Back

On My Canon 50D

This week marks the end of my second week of work at mig33. Work for me has been smooth. I like my job because it is what I like to do and what I used to do previously. Instead of coding WordPress plugins for the WordPress community, I am coding mig33 software for the mig33 community.

Today is the eve of Lunar New Year, I hereby wishes all Chinese a Happy Lunar New Year! And hope that they DO NOT take advantage of lunar new year to increase your food prices! It is ridiculous!

I have spent the first quarter of my life studying! 6 years in primary school, 4 years in secondary school, 3 years in Singapore Polytechnic (SP), 2 years and 2 months serving my nation, 3 years 6 months in National University of Singapore (NUS). Finally, it is time for me to step out to the working world and complete the other half of my life.

My last paper ended back on 3rd December 2009, went to Taiwan for my graduate trip from 7th to 13th December 2009 and went to Hong Kong with Li Xiang from 19th to 27th December 2009. Sent out my resumes to OCBC, UOB, SingTel, Matador, CSIT and Crimson Logic for the last 3 months but did not get a reply.

I was recommended by David to Andy who said his company, mig33 Pte Ltd, is looking for a web developer and David asked me to contact Andy personally. So I thought why not give it a try, so I sent my resume to Andy and Andy forwarded it to his bosses. Thanks to Andy for endorsing and putting good words for me, I manage to get an interview last Thursday, 28th January 2010 at 3pm. The interview was pretty technical which I like because it really tests your skills and experience in that area rather than just looking at your CAP or grades and judge everything based on that.

Came back at 4pm and at 5.49pm, I got an email saying that I got the job as a Web Engineer at mig33! I was really over the moon! It is my first full-time job! The feeling is definitely better than striking 4D or ToTo!

It is such a coincidence that mig33 is located at The Central Office 1 building which is just beside my internship company, Sedgwick Richardson, which is located in Office 2 building (they both share the same lobby)

mig33 is the largest mobile chat community, connecting millions of mobile friends all around the world! You can find out more about mig33 at http://mig33.com/.

On the day that I got the job, I posted a blog post entitled All Good Things Must Come To An End on my WordPress blog.

Just in case you miss it, let me paste it down here:

As you all know, I have been doing WordPress plugins and supporting it for the past 6 years. These 6 years of my life, I have been through my polytechnic education, my national service as well as my university education.

I just graduated from university in December 2009 and have been jobless for 2 months. However, things change for the better. I was offered a full-time job and will be starting work this coming Monday on the 1st February 2010.

I regret to say that I am not able to provide support for my plugins anymore due to my full-time job commitment. I will leave my WordPress plugins support forums open and let the community help one another.

However, I will still update my plugins when I can and you still can report bugs to me via email and I will try to fix it.

The comments I have gotten are very positive and I would like to thank everyone for their support and encouragement! You rock WordPress community!

I purchased my D-Link DNS-323 on the 1st September 2008 during Comex 2008.

3 days ago, my DNS-323 decided to give up on me, just after 1 year and 3 months! The warranty for the DNS-323 is only 1 year so my warranty had just ended! Argh!

I thought I might try my luck, I wrote in to D-Link saying I am a blogger blah blah blah and a huge fan of D-Link, spending SGD$519 worth of D-Link products during IT Show 2009 and to see if out of goodwill, they can RMA for me. But if it fails, at lest I tried and time to hoot a new NAS.

Here is what happen:

• I found my DNS-323 switched off and immediately power it back on.
• Works normally after powering it on, but after an hour, the DNS-323 disconnect itself from the network.
• I tried powering it off and on again by pressing on the power button but to no avail.
• I have to manually plug out the power cable and plug in back in again and press the power button to power it on.
• Works normally again, but as usual, after an hour, it disconnect itself from the network again.
• Power button still does not work, have to manually plug out and in the power cable to reboot it.
• This time round, the power LED light blinks non-stop after booting up
• I tried hard reset, swapping the harddisks, removing the harddisks, all could not work, the power light continue to blink.
• I seek help from my friend, Andy, who is an expert with D-Link products, tried some of his method but still could not get the DNS-323 to hard reset

While waiting for D-Link to reply me, I did some research on 2-Bay NAS and have narrowed down to the following 4 choices which is within my budget.

SYNOLOGY Disk Station DS210j

Price: SGD$408
Official Link: SYNOLOGY Disk Station DS210j
Memory World Link: SYNOLOGY Disk Station DS210j

QNAP TS-210

Price: SGD$514
Official Link: QNAP TS-210
Memory World Link: QNAP TS-210

NetGear ReadyNAS Duo (Diskless)

Price: SGD$429
Official Link: NetGear ReadyNAS Duo (Diskless)

Thecus N3200 Pro

Price: SGD$499
Official Link: Thecus N3200 Pro
Note: This is 3-Bay NAS, but I included it because it is within my budget.

The purpose of me using a NAS is to share files within my home network and to use it as a BitTorrent machine. I also backed up my files on it, so I will definitely run RAID1 with it. Any recommendations on which one I should settle for eventually? Please leave a comment. Thanks a lot!

Today is the last day of the year 2009. 10 years ago today, everyone was frantic about the Y2K bug. I will be watching Alvin & The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel at 10:50pm at GV VivoCity, so I will be spending the countdown inside the cinema watching the movie, first time experiencing this. Last year I was in Taiwan for the countdown, kinda miss that, that countdown was the best countdown I have ever been to so far. Singapore’s countdown is a total joke, who the heck want to watch Mediacorp’s artists perform? They are seriously overworked and underpaid.

2010

• 2010 will be the year I actually start finding a job and continue working for the rest of my life.
• 2010 will marked my 26th birthday, I am halfway through to being 30.
• 2010 will marked my 6th year together with Li Xiang.
• 2010 will marked the 8th year of lesterchan.net.
• 2010 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to take place between 11th June 2010 to 11th July 2010 in South Africa.

Wishing all my readers and visitors a Happy New Year 2010!

I created this monthly/yearly archive using WordPress shortcode so that it allows me to embed either a yearly archive or a monthly archive specified by me into a post.

Looking Back 2009

December 2009

• 31 - Looking Back 2009
• 28 - Minor Site Updates December 2009
• 25 - Merry Christmas 2009
• 22 - 2009/2010 Semester 1 Modules Grades
• 18 - Canon 50D
• 18 - SingTel Brings In INQ Chat 3G
• 17 - Taiwan Graduate Trip 2009
• 07 - Off To Taiwan For My Graduate Trip
• 05 - Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook Book
• 03 - Street View on Google Maps Comes To Singapore
• 02 - Tamagotchi iD
• 01 - Site Traffic November 2009

November 2009

• 26 - SingTel Sitex 2009 Promotions
• 20 - World’s Longest Chain Of Light-Sticks For SingTel ZoukOut 2009
• 20 - Transit And Traffic Features Google Maps Singapore
• 19 - MacPadd Aluminium Mouse Pad
• 19 - Brother’s New P-Touch Series
• 18 - All About lesterchan.net
• 13 - Last Day of School
• 12 - Happy 25th Birthday Li Xiang!
• 12 - How To Get Your First Tweet If You Have More Than 3,200 Tweets?
• 11 - DriveMultiSolar Bluetooth Car Kit Review
• 09 - Glico Christmas 2009 Products
• 08 - HP Blogger Event With Tord Boontje
• 08 - A Christmas All Decked Out
• 05 - Cool Bananas Netbook Organiser Bag Review
• 03 - SEO For lesterchan.net
• 01 - Site Traffic October 2009

October 2009

• 27 - Yahoo! Launches YOUREKA!
• 26 - Incipio Orion
• 24 - 5th Anniversary
• 22 - Are You Being Served? Mission Outcome
• 22 - Windows 7 Pricing In Singapore
• 21 - Apple Refreshes iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook & Added Magic Mouse
• 18 - Sony ICF-C1iPMK2
• 16 - Citibank’s Mobile Banking Platform
• 09 - SingTel Launches Acer’s New Windows Phones
• 08 - Canon Second Blogger Event
• 07 - External Backup Battery Charger For iPhone 3G
• 05 - Bluetooth Pico Dongle Review
• 02 - Are You Being Served? Mission
• 01 - Site Traffic September 2009

September 2009

• 30 - Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch
• 25 - F1 Rocks Concert 2009 Day 1
• 23 - F1 Rocks Stage Tour
• 23 - Sony VAIO W (VPCW115XG) Review
• 21 - Sanyo Eneloop Mobile Booster KBC-E1S
• 20 - INQ Mini 3G Review
• 18 - Want To Win F1 Bay Grandstand Tickets?
• 16 - Want To Win F1 Rocks Tickets?
• 15 - INQ Mini 3G Unboxing
• 14 - SingTel Launches INQ Mini 3G
• 10 - Apple Refreshes iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano, iPod Classic
• 07 - Are You Being Served?
• 04 - HTC Sense Debuts On New HTC Hero
• 04 - Sony’s iPhone/iPod Dock
• 02 - Nokia Announces N97 Mini, X6 & X3
• 01 - Site Traffic August 2009

August 2009

• 29 - Apple Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
• 28 - Apple’s Push Notification Is Godsend
• 27 - Nokia N900 Officially Announced
• 24 - Motorola SURFboard SB6210 Cable Modem
• 24 - Nokia Booklet 3G Mini Laptop Announced
• 20 - Sushi Tei’s 15th Year Anniversary Menu
• 19 - Winners Of Wii Birthday Party Bash Give Away
• 14 - Hong Kong Here I Come
• 13 - Dell Vostro 220 Mini Tower Desktop
• 12 - Gmail With Push On iPhone Using Prowl And Your Own Webserver
• 09 - Birthday Party Bash Review
• 08 - HP’s City of Dreams
• 07 - LG GM730 Unboxing
• 06 - Year 4, Semester 1 Modules
• 06 - Filed For Graduation
• 06 - LArobe 2Color Netbook Sleeve Review
• 06 - End Of My Internship
• 05 - Teach a Technophobe – Challenge #4
• 04 - Cool Bananas Netbook Envelope Case Review
• 01 - Site Traffic July 2009

July 2009

• 31 - 5 Copies Of Wii Birthday Party Bash To Be Given Away
• 30 - Microsoft & Yahoo! Take On Google
• 30 - Wii Sports Resort Giveaway At qisahn
• 29 - Brother Charity Auction
• 29 - Windows 7 RTM
• 28 - Free Mattress For The Needy
• 28 - Leadtek PX9800GX2 RMA
• 27 - Best Ramen In Singapore?
• 24 - Nokia Ovi Store Showcase
• 23 - Teach a Technophobe – Challenge #3
• 23 - Fabrix Netbook & iPhone 3G Cases
• 22 - Infocomm123 Features
• 22 - Cool Bananas & LArobe Netbook Cases
• 22 - Wii Birthday Party Bash
• 21 - Desaru Trip
• 21 - Tampines 1 Official Opening
• 20 - Teach a Technophobe – Challenge #2
• 17 - What I Like About Infocomm123?
• 17 - Li Xiang’s Blog Moved
• 16 - Cybercrime Uncovered By Symantec
• 16 - Reminder: iLike.iLink & X-Box Xtravanganz Contest
• 12 - Teach a Technophobe – Challenge #1
• 11 - SingTel iPhone 3GS Launch Event
• 10 - Command & Conquer 4 Announced
• 09 - Tampines 1’s SWOP Party for Charity
• 08 - Infocomm123 iLike.iLink Contest
• 08 - Google Chrome OS
• 06 - SingTel iPhone 3GS Price Plans
• 03 - SingTel Launches iPhone 3GS On 10th July 2009
• 02 - SingTel iPhone 3GS Teaser
• 01 - Site Traffic June 2009

June 2009

• 30 - Firefox 3.5 Released
• 30 - PHP 5.3.0 Released
• 26 - YOURLS: Your Own URL Shortener
• 26 - Michael Jackson Pass Away At The Age Of 50
• 24 - My Top 20 iPhone Apps
• 22 - Nokia E75 – Teach a Technophobe
• 17 - LG Press Conference at Communica Asia 2009
• 15 - Lester Chan’s WordPress Plugins June 2009 Update
• 15 - Video Games Live Singapore
• 14 - SingTel AMPed
• 13 - PC Show 2009 Hoot
• 11 - WordPress 2.8 Released
• 09 - Apple iPhone 3G S
• 08 - Samsung Lapfit LD190G Review
• 05 - Nokia N97 Released
• 02 - Site Traffic May 2009

May 2009

• 29 - 2008/2009 Semester 2 Modules Grades
• 27 - First Case Of H1N1 In Singapore
• 24 - Singapore Food Expo 2009
• 20 - Nokia N97 Blogger Preview
• 15 - Internship At Sedgwick Richardson
• 15 - Acer Aspire Timeline Series
• 11 - headporter.sg
• 09 - Fail Whale T-Shirt
• 08 - Nintendo Wii
• 01 - Site Traffic April 2009

April 2009

• 25 - Dell Swarm
• 22 - Nokia Messaging
• 21 - Blogger Race on the SingTel F1 Simulators
• 18 - Iluma
• 16 - WordPress For Dummies 2nd Edition
• 12 - Tampines 1 Blogger Mall Tour & Meet Together Session
• 11 - SingTel Huawei E180 Modem
• 08 - Mirroring Files + Databases From DirectAdmin To cPanel
• 08 - Tampines 1
• 04 - Site Traffic March 2009
• 04 - SingTel Delivers Nokia Messaging To Singapore Consumers
• 02 - Canon First Blogger Event

March 2009

• 30 - Plastic Acrylic Sheet Of lesterchan.net
• 29 - lesterchan.net Back Online
• 25 - Notice For Scheduled Maintenance 27/03/2009
• 24 - Happy 25th Birthday To Me
• 19 - Lester Chan’s Resume
• 18 - iPhone OS 3.0
• 16 - 2K XBox 360 Games
• 13 - IT Show 2009 Hoot
• 11 - Gifts From Japan
• 11 - Apple Refreshes iPod Shuffle
• 07 - BlogOut! 2009
• 06 - Logitech 2.4 GHz Cordless Presenter
• 04 - IT Fairs Date In Singapore 2009
• 03 - Apple Refreshes Mac Mini, iMac, Mac Pro
• 01 - Site Traffic February 2009

February 2009

• 28 - Site Traffic January 2009
• 28 - Launch Of Nokia XpressMusic 5800 & Nokia Comes With Music
• 26 - BlogOut! 2009
• 25 - Safari 4 Beta
• 23 - Deuter AirContact Pro 50 + 15
• 20 - SingTel Launches HTC Dream aka G1
• 18 - Casio Scientific Calculator FX-992S
• 17 - Samsung Touch Event
• 16 - Showcase Nokia 2009
• 15 - WordPress Olive Green T-Shirt
• 14 - Happy Valentine’s Day 2009
• 13 - Comes With Music Singapore Launch
• 12 - Street Fighter IV Calendar Exclusively For Xbox360
• 11 - Street Fighter IV For Xbox 360
• 10 - Nokia Comes With Music
• 09 - Lenovo Blogger Nite 2009
• 05 - SingTel To Bring In 1st Google Android Phone In Asia – HTC Dream
• 05 - Forward Hotmail To Gmail
• 03 - lc.sg
• 02 - lesterchan.net 3.30

January 2009

• 31 - Lunar New Year 2009 Is Almost Over
• 25 - Happy Lunar New Year 2009
• 23 - SingTel Flagship Shop @ Jurong Point 2nd Extension (JP2)
• 19 - Belkin Auto Charger For iPod And iPhone
• 12 - Creative EP-630i Stereo Headset
• 10 - Year 3, Semester 2 Modules
• 05 - First 100 .com Domains To Get Registered On The Internet
• 03 - Site Traffic December 2008
• 02 - Back From Taiwan
• 01 - Happy New Year 2009

This is the second Christmas I spend outside of Singapore, the first was in Taiwan last year, and currently I am in Hong Kong!

I wish all my visitors and readers a very merry Christmas!

2009/2010 Sem 1 Examination for COMPUTING 4

» CS1280 Java to C++ S
» CS4259 Legal Aspects of Information Technology A
» CS4266 IT and Customer Relationship Management A-
» GEK1001 Place, Environment and Society B+
» SSA2211 The Evolution of a Global City-State B-
» CAP: 3.79

I will SU my SSA2211. Nevertheless graduated with 2nd Class Honours (Lower) in BComp (Information Sys). Woot!

*UPDATE* After SUed my SSA2211, my CAP rise to 0.02 and my final CAP is 3.81.