It is now slightly pass midnight and I am officially 23 years old =D

Been so busy for the past 2 weeks, end of semester is coming and hence a lot of assignments is due. Been doing my CS2261 EJB at Starbucks while LiXiang does her drawing. Now I know where to find power outlet seats in certain Starbucks. LOL.

Caught Music & Lyrics at GV VivoCity, at first I thought the show was quite boring, but after watching the show, I must say that the show is good, simple and clean love story and to add on, the soundtrack is excellent. If you watch this movie, you need to get the soundtrack, it comes hand in hand.

Tried No Signboard seafood at GV VivoCity. When it comes to seafood, normally my family would go to Long Beach at Marina, but this time we wanted to try something new. The price at No Signboard was more towards the expensive side, the crab was nice especially the white pepper crab, but the chilli crab cannot beat Long Beach.

Finally handed in my CS2261 Assignment 1 - EJB, I still have an assignment 2 for it which is using JSP and servlet. I did a module on that in polytechnic and was disappointed that I never get an distinction, just got an A. I was looking through the code and realized that I am good in JSP/Servlet during my polytechnic days, now I can’t even recall a single thing after 2 years and 2 months of brainwashing.

Serious, Java Entity SUCKS. Long live SQL queries.

Found this nice little site from HardwareZone Forums, dnScoop. dnScoop is a many domain tools wrapped into one convenient package. A domain traffic tool, a domain whois tool, a domain history, a domain popularity, domain appraisal (site value report), a link value appraisal (link value report), pagerank check, an inbound links count, an indexed pages check and more.

My site is worth: $45,630

Been so busy with my school work. End of semester is coming and hence lots of projects going to be due. 2 reports and 1 programming assignment left to do. Just submitted my CS2250 video assignment. The lecturer was very strict about the requirement. The video cannot even be a second longer than 5 minutes. It must be either under 5 minutes of exactly at 5 minutes.

Started on my programming assignment for CS2261. It is programming in Java Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0, and for the assignment 2 for tis module I will be using JSP.

I always think that Java sucks, and till today, I still take my stand. I have no idea why Universities and Polytechnic in Singapore teaches Java and not .NET.

If I can use PHP to do this assignment, I can finish it within a day. With all those Beans and JavaDB, it just makes my life more difficult. To add 1 data entry to the JavaDB I have to like code 4 classes just to do one simple thing. Grrr.

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Wishing all Chinese a Happy Chinese New Year 2007. It is the year of the pig, the last animal of the Chinese Zodiac.

Been so busy lately, my parents and brother went for holidays in ShenZhen, China, while I stayed in Singapore to look after the household.

Chinese New Year is the same every year, same old routine, nothing much of a interest here other than my dad’s youngest brother came back from LA for 2 weeks to celebrate Chinese New Year with us. He bought for me a Kenneth Cole Messenger Bag, Emporio Armani Jeans and a GAP t-shirt. My mom and my brother got an Armani Exchange Belt and some clothes.

My uncle came on 9th February 2007 and went back today. Fetched him to the airport early in the morning like 7am and my family also came back today, thus making 2 trips to the airport.

Caught Ghost Rider and Just Follow Law (Singapore’s Production). Ghost Rider was very average, the animation is good, but the storyline kinda suck. It makes Blackheart looks so weak.

Just Follow Law is not bad, another Jack Neo’s movie. Been laughing throughout the whole movie. But I think Fann Wong cannot act in comedy films because she still look so stern.

After not switching off my computer for 2 weeks, I finally off it today and to my surprise after I came back from the airport, my monitor cannot power on. Argh. My busiest period is coming due to lots of report to type and assignments due. Of all times, my monitor gave up on me today.

Going to send in for service tomorrow at Commonwealth. This monitor will be 4 years old when November comes. If the servicing fee is above $100, I am going to get a Samsung 20″ WideScreen LCD monitor from IT Show (8th to 11th March 2007) instead of servicing it.

My brother is also going to get a new computer soon after my grandmother “persuade” my grandfather to buy him one when he is drunk in China. Budget, $3000 including monitor.

UPDATE: OMG, my monitor works now

Celebrated our 3rd Valentine’s day together. Gave her a heart shape chocolate ice cream cake from Swensen and a bouqet of 6 pink roses. Bought the flowers from a reseller in HWZ and they are reliable. Cheers to Flora De Petals. Flowers were delivered within time frame unlike last year where I also bought from a reseller in HWZ and the flowers are 1 hour late.

She gave me a home made Crystal Ball which is very nice and another present I like the most is the stack of miniature’s photos that shows the process of us from friends all the way to become couple. She is going to frame it up for me. Thank you dear <3

Went to Jurong Point for dinner, wanted to eat pizza hut, but after calculating the price I think Fish & Co will be more worth it. But end up I am wrong. The waitress told me that there is ala carte menu available but after ordering my food, the manager came and tell me they only serve Valentine Day’s menu and they jacked up the price by like more than $10.

There are only 2 menu, set menu for 1 at $29.90 and set menu for 2 at $60. I ordered the set menu for 2 and it came only with Seafood Platter for 2, 2 glasses of 3/4 filled drink and 2 tiny slices of cake and of course 2 pairs of valentine day key chain. After GST and all sort of charges, paid close to $70 for it and after calculating the price taken from the ala carte, the most it is only $55. Stupid Fish & Co, this will be my first and last time I will visit Fish & Co at Jurong Point.

Should have went to Millenium Walk to eat Outback instead like what we did last valentine’s day.

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I really like this quote:

When road pricing is going to be introduced in UK, more than one million signed an online petition. Source: Yahoo News.

When road pricing was first introduced in Singapore, more than a million people sucked thumbs. Source: HWZ Forums.