Went over to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia over the weekend (Friday, 23rd March 2012 – Sunday, 25th March 2012) for my birthday celebration! Stayed at Piccolo Hotel located right in the heart of Bukit Bintang.

The location is fantastic, it is just in between Lot 10 Shopping Mall and Fahrenheit 88 and just 5 minutes walk from Pavilion. The price is pretty reasonable as well. Paid a total of MYR 566.08 (SGD$232) for 2 nights (SGD$116/night).

We took Jetstar there, paid a total of SGD$196 (return trip for 2) for the air tickets. We took the first flight out on Friday (7:05am) and the last flight back on Sunday (9:20pm). One thing I prefer Jetstar than AirAsia is that it lands in Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) instead of Low Cost Carriage Terminal (LCCT) which is nearer and more convenient to the city.

Breakfast at Changi Airport Terminal 1′s Delifrance

Piccolo Hotel

1st Day Lunch At Sun Fong Bak Kut Teh

1st Day Dinner At Duck King

1st Day Movie – Hunger Games

2nd Day Launch At Wah Kiow Hakka Yong Tou Foo

2nd Day Dinner At Outback Steak House

Caught The Vow on the 2nd day and the movie is nice and touching and not forgetting it is based on a true story!

3rd day lunch was at Kim Gary! I always make it a point to go to Kim Gary when I am in Malaysia because the food taste the same at 1/2 the price when compared to Singapore!

Birthday Wishes On My Timeline

Thanks for all the birthday wishes through Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Whatsapp and even SMS! Thanks guys and girls!

Thanks to my Parents for fetching us to the airport and of course bringing me up!

Thanks to my Wife for organizing this trip (and paying for it!). Muack <3

Looking Back

• 27th Birthday
• 26th Birthday
• 25th Birthday
• 24th Birthday
• 23th Birthday
• 22nd Birthday
• 21st Birthday
• 20th Birthday
• 19th Birthday
• 18th Birthday

WordPress 2.8 has been released!

Here is the quote from Matt:

I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.

Major New Improvements
First and foremost, 2.8 is way faster to use. We’ve changed the way WordPress does style and scripting.

The core and plugin updaters in previous versions of WordPress have been such a success we decided to bring the same to themes. You can now browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.

If you make edits or tweaks to themes or plugins from your dashboard, you’ll appreciate the new CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor. Also there is now contextual documentation for the functions in the file you’re editing linked right below the editor.

If you were ever frustrated with widgets before, this release should be your savior. We’ve completely redesigned the widgets interface (which we didn’t have time to in 2.7) to allow you to do things like edit widgets on the fly, have multiple copies of the same widget, drag and drop widgets between sidebars, and save inactive widgets so you don’t lose all their settings. Developers now have access to a much cleaner and robust API for creating widgets as well.

Finally you should explore the new Screen Options on every page. It’s the tab in the top right. Now, for example, if you have a wide monitor you could set up your dashboard to have four columns of widgets instead of the two it has by default. On other pages you can change how many items show per page.

Download: WordPress 2.8

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