I love to drink Ice Cafe Latte, next time when I go out to work, I hope there is a Starbucks nearby so I can get to drink it everyday. LOL

My preference of Ice Cafe Latte (from best to worst)

1. Starbucks
2. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leave
3. Gloria Jeans Coffees
4. McDonald’s McCafé
5. Spinelli Coffee

Shooter
Caught Shooter on Sunday night, the show is more than 2 hours long and it was not that bad, slightly above average. The main character of the movie Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) is an aimbot by himself, the movie portray his shot to be almost 100% accuracy, but I wonder whether this is achievable in real life. The movie is about US government conspiracy, I wonder why US government conspiracy is so popular among directors. Prison break is also about US government conspiracy.

My brother told me that Swagger’s partner who died at the start of the show is Tweener (Lane Garrison) of Prision Break. I didn’t realize that.

McDonald’s Wifi
Wirless@SG owns McDonald’s Wifi anytime. McDonald’s should consider using Wireless@SG instead of Skynet Global because it is so damn freaking slow.

Class 95 Dedication
I want to thank my ah dear for dedicating song for me over the radio at Class 95 (Love Songs segment) while we are studying at West Coast McDonald’s. I am typing this blog post from there.

Instruction:
Each player of this game starts off by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names.

1. I do things/speak very fast.
2. I started playing with the computer when I am 6 years old, officially attended computer school at 7 (Primary 2).
3. I scored only 200 for my PSLE and I cannot get into any of my 6 secondary school choices listed.
4. I am a very light sleeper and can be awoken very easily.
5. I got 372 contacts on my MSN. I don’t know 1/2 of them.
6. I really enjoy looking at my girlfriend in her ugliest state. (Taken off Terry’s blog)

Tagged:
N/A

Caught Sunshine at GV Jurong Point last evening and the show was pure crap. Should have watch Shooter instead as they are not showing The Number 23 instead. I think this is the consecutive 3 times I have watched at GV Jurong Point where I cannot watch in peace. I have no fucking idea why it got to be Jurong Point. This time it is baby crying in the cinema and it is FUCKING ANNOYING on top of a show that is crap. Previously was some fucktards talking at the back of us and again before that was some children keep asking their parents why this and why that.

THEY SHOULD FUCKING BAN KIDS UNDER 6 YEARS OLD FROM GOING TO THE MOVIES. Unless the movie is rated G.

School has ended for me. My exams schedule as follows:

21st April 2007 - EC1301
26th April 2007 - FNA1002X
30th April 2007 - CS2250, CS1105
2nd May 2007 - CS2261

I got confidence in CS modules but not EC and FNA =(

50 memorable things for Singaporean teenagers. Sit, enjoy and think back about the past… Were you one of these?

1. You grew up watching He-man, Transformers, Silver hawk and Mickey Mouse. Not to forget, Ninja turtles and Smurfs too.
2. You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in Primary school during recess time. You will squat by a drain with all your classmates beside you, and brush your teeth with a coloured mug. The teachers said you must brush each side 10 times too.
3. You know what’s Bin(1) Fen(1) Ba (1) San(1)is all about.
4. You know what SBC stands for.
5. You were there when the first chinese serial, the Awakening was shown on TV.
6. Internet? What the hell is that? So you thought a decade or more ago.
7. You find your friends with pagers and handphone cool in Secondary school.
8. SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned. The bus seats are made of wood and the cushion is red. The big red bell gives a loud BEEEP! when pressed. There are colourful tickets for TIBS buses. The conductor will check for tickets by using a machine which punches a hole on the ticket.
9. Your favourite actor and actress is Huang Wenyong and Xiangyun. Next is Lee Nanxing and Zoe Tay and the Aiyoyo woman.
10. You’ve probably read Young Generation magazine. You know who’s Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable.
11. You were there when they first introduced MRT here. You went for the first ride with your parents and you would kneel on the seat to see the scenery.
12. Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50.
13. Gals are fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.
14. You learn to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street.
15. You longed to buy tibits called Kaka(20 cents per pack), and Ding Dang(50 cents per box), that had a toy in it and it changes every week not forgetting the 15 cents animal crackers and the ring pop, where the lollipop is the diamond on the ring.
16. You watched TV2(also known as Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you.
17. All that you know about Cantonese is from the Hong Kong serials you watched on TV2.
18. Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven are probably the thickest story books you ever thought you have read. Even Sweet Valley High and Malory Towers.
19. Civics and Moral Education was “Hao3 Gong1 Min2″.
20. KFC used to be a high class restaurant that serve food in plates and let you use metal forks and knives.
21. The most vulgar thing you said was asshole and idiot and THEMOSTEXTREME WAS ’super white’… you just couldn’t bring yourself to say the hokkien relative.
22. Catching was the IN thing and twist was the magic word.
23. Your English workbooks was made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow.
24. CDIS was your best friend.
25. The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellisedcharacters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you maths.
26. Waterbottles were slinged around your neck and a must everywhere you go.
27. Boys loved to play soccer with small tennis balls in the basketball court.
28. Hopskotch, five stones,chateh and zero point were all the rage with the girls and boys too…
29. Science was fun with the balsam and the angsana being the most important plants of our lives.
30. Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, eternalized in our minds from the textbooks. Even Mr Willy.
31. You did stupid exercises like seal crawl and frog jumps.
32. Every children’s day and national day you either get pins or pens with’Happy Children’s Day 1993′ or dumb files with Happy National Day 1994′.
33. In Primary six you had to play buddy for the younger kids like big sister and brother.
34. Chinese teachers were always old, boring and damn fiercelooking.
35. Your form teacher taught you maths, science and english.
36. The worksheets were made of brown rough paper of poor quality.
37. You went to school in slippers and a raincoat when it rained,and you find a dry spot in the school to sit down, dry your feet, and wear your dry and warm socks and shoes.
38. Famous Chinese singers were only Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai.
39. School dismissal time was normally around 1 pm.
40. There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday.
41. Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $3 or more for pocket money everyday.
42. During class gatherings, parents always tag along in case someone gets lost at Orchard Road.
43. You freak out when the teacher tells you to line up according to height and hold hands with the corresponding boy or girl.
44. Handkerchiefs were a must for both genders.
45. Collecting notebooks and all kinds of stationery was a popular thing.
46. Autograph books were loaded with “Best Wishes”, “ForgetMeNot”, and small poems like “Bird fly high, hard to catch. Friend like you, hard to forget”.
47. Class monitors and prefects loved to say “You talk somemore, I write your name ah!”
48. There were at least 40 people in one class.
49. Large, colourful schoolbags were carried.
50. You brought every single book to school, even though there was one thing called the timetable.

Things You May Not Know (1-30)
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the worlds largest zipper manufacturer.
2. 40 percent of McDonalds profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3. 315 entries in Websters 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
4. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dogs heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as a medicine.
7. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
8. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisas lips.
11. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. Thats the opposite of the norm.
12. The original name for the butterfly was œflutterby!
13. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cant sink in quicksand.
14. Mosquito repellents dont repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquitos sensors so they dont know youre there.
15. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
16. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
19. Adolf Hitlers mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
20. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
21. To escape the grip of a crocodiles jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
22. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
23. The œpound (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
24. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
25. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26. The average persons left hand does 56% of the typing.
27. Dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends in œmt.
28. Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. In Chinese, the KFC slogan œfinger lickin good comes out as œeat your fingers off.
30. A c0ckroach can live for 10 days without a head.
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Found in JB pirated discs bust: Database of S’pore buyers. List of names, phone numbers, addresses in shop’s PC to be turned over to police here

A RAID by the Malaysian authorities on a shop in Johor Baru has turned up a list of its Singapore customers, which will be given to the police here.

The customer database containing names, telephone numbers and home addresses was found in a computer seized in the raid.

The shop in Holiday Plaza was busted three weeks ago by DVD-sniffing dogs Flo and Lucky, which belong to the movie industry watchdog Motion Picture Association (MPA). They were, at the time, on loan to the Malaysian authorities.

The list is now still with the MPA. Its senior vice-president Michael Ellis said ‘a lot’ of Singaporeans were on it, and that the list would be given to the police.

The police, when contacted, would say only that they had not received the list.

Shops selling pirated movies here have all but disappeared in the last few years, following a crackdown on syndicates supplying them, said Mr Ellis.

Some Singaporeans now order movies online, call or visit pirated DVD retailers in Johor Baru to place their orders. Runners from these syndicates then smuggle the discs in and deliver them to customers here.

It is illegal under the Films Act to possess uncensored films. The penalty runs up to $100 a film.

Offenders caught with five or more pirated items can also be charged under the Copyright Act, which could bring up to $100,000 in fines and five years in jail - although nobody has yet been charged.

Mr Ellis told reporters at the launch of the MPA’s first Internet piracy education campaign at Maris Stella High School yesterday that enforcement, while necessary, had to be coupled with public education to effect a mindset change.

To this end, he said, the MPA was giving out 200,000 brochures on the risks of illegal downloads and protection of intellectual property rights to schools and libraries.

The principal of Maris Stella, Brother Anthony Tan, added that public education aside, content providers also need to price their products ‘reasonably’ and supply them in the formats their customers want so they will not see the need to visit illegal sites.

Meanwhile, software industry watchdog Business Software Alliance (BSA) will launch a soft-touch anti-piracy programme next week.

Together with regulator Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, the BSA is encouraging companies to sign up for a free, self-administered software audit.

In the audit, the company declares the number of computers, software and licence details it has. If illegal software is found, the company is expected to delete it or get the legitimate version.

On passing the audit, the company gains for itself a one-year exemption from BSA-initiated enforcement action.

Recently I found out about Ping.sg by accident.

I realized that it has the potential and hence, I registered my blog and my development blog with it. I think it is so much better than Tomorrow.sg.

I realized that my site ranking in Alexa is higher than Ping.sg and Tomorrow.sg. LOL

lesterchan.net Alexa Rank: 23,774
Ping.sg Alexa Rank: 89,298
Tomorrow.sg Alexa Rank: 112,803

Celebrated my birthday with my polytechnic classmates last Thursday at Glass House Fish & Co. Wanted to eat Tao’s Restaurant at Paradize center at first, but last minuted I decided that it was a bit expensive, $28.80++ for a 7 course set dinner, whereas Fish & Co the most will be about $24 without any ++. We waited for like 30 minutes for our seat, it is crowded and they do not want to open up the 2nd level. And there are like 4 birthdays going on there, because the live band sang the birthday song 4 times while we are there. The ambiance was so noisy due to the live band and the loud music that we cannot even hear each other properly. I think next time we will avoid going to the glass house at night for Fish & Co. It is the worst experience I have with them.

Prison Break Season 2 ended last night, I was a late comer, I only started watching Prison Break last month and I manage to finish 2 seasons (44 episodes) within a month. There will be a Prison Break Season 3, but I have no idea when they going to end it. I find Prison Break better than Heroes because of its unexpected twist and every episode is very exciting. Heroes will start airing again on 23rd April 2007.

Next week will be my last week of school before my exams starts on 21st April 2007 to 2nd May 2007.

Birthday Celebration With Family (23rd March 2007)
Celebrated my birthday with my family at Vivo City at Dian Xiao Er one day in advance because my parents, grandparents and my uncle will be going to Vietnam for a business meeting.

My birthday cake was an ice cream cake from Ben & Jerry and they ran out of dry ice and expect to me to take home an ice cream cake box which is wrap in aluminum foil. Even my place is near Vivo City, the cake will melt before I get home. Poor service.

My uncle bought back this candle from China which is interesting, take a look here. And yes the ice cream cake design from Ben & Jerry suck. I think I will stick to Swensens ice cream cake next time.

Birthday Celebration With GF, Bro, Bro’s GF (24th March 2007)
After sending my parents to the airport, the 4 of us went to Outback to celebrate our birthday, my brother birthday is on 28th March. First time tried the $29.90 sirloin steak there and boy does it taste good, it is better than Jack’s Place, no doubt about that.

As usual, no matter how many times we eat at Outback, the food we ordered can never be finished. LOL. 4 of us ate 4 main courses along with 2 soup, 1 plate of chicken fillet, 1 Bloomin’ Onion and 1 Bushman ‘Shrooms

After the filling lunch, we proceed to Tiger Live at St James Power Station, my mom got the tickets priced at $18 for free because she bought some tiger beer from the airport. The thing is like a heritage tour of Tiger Beer and I love the 4D segment of it, it was very well done. The last top was Tiger Cool, a bar where they serve Tiger Beer between -2°C to 2°C. And it taste really different from outside, it is so much nicer.

After the Tiger Live, we spent like 4 hours waiting for our movie TMNT to start because I miscalculated the time and book a 9.45pm show. TMNT was just average, but the animation was fantastic and it is very very loosely based on TMNT 2003 (Cartoon) with Karai in it. I am a huge TMNT fan by the way.

Launch Of C&C 3: Tiberium Wars
I went to Funan to collect my Pre-Order card from The Software Botique on Sunday because I figured if I go to the launch party, I will have more freebies.

I went there at 1.30pm to Lido level 5 and the number of people there is crazy, it was so crowded, considering the fact that it will not be launch till 2pm. And Lido space sucks, it is so cramp and I think they did not anticipate the crowd. But overall it was orderly. And they should have more booths to redeem the game because there are only 2 booths, 1 booth for GDI and 1 booth for NOD, so which ever faction you prefer you can redeem your freebies according to your favorite faction. I am not the first 300 customers because I did not receive the poster =(

I got the Kane’s Edition and the box that contains the CD is VERY NICE, I think it is the best designed game CD cover I have ever bought. One of the freebie is the Razor Mantis mouse pad which I like a lot. I think I am going to get a Razor mouse soon so that it can match the mouse pad.

Crumpler Laptop Bag
Saw this nice Crumpler Laptop Bag at the Crumpler Shop at Wheelock, it cost $216 and it is called the The Part and Parcel and it fits a 15″ laptop. I am thinking of getting that using my donations I have got so far when the exchange rate is better =D

I am a bag lover and I have lots and lots of bag, till my mom and LiXiang keeps nagging at me to stop buying bag. LOL

BTW, this site also turned 5 on 24th March 2007 =D