Today is the eve of Lunar New Year and also last day of the Rabbit year. Tomorrow will be the start of a Dragon year! Expect lots of babies to be born this year as the Chinese love the dragon year!

I hereby wishes all Chinese a Happy Lunar New Year! May you all HUAT till no tomorrow!

Lunar New Year on 2013 will happen on Sunday, 10th February 2013!

Today is the eve of Lunar New Year, I hereby wishes all Chinese a Happy Lunar New Year! May you all HUAT GAO GAO !

Lunar New Year on 2012 will happen on Monday, 23rd January 2012!

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!

In a blink of an eye, this year Lunar New Year is almost over. Tomorrow is the 7th day of Lunar New Year which is also called “Ren Ri”. In English, it means people day aka everybody birthday. Lunar New Year celebration normally last for 15 days.

Lunar New Year is getting a little repetitive and boring as we grow up, sooner or later, the current or next generation of people will just treat it as another public holiday.

When we are young, we are carefree, used to play with our cousins, running around below the void deck and playing with fireworks and crackers. When we grew a little bit older, we will gamble a little a bit and perhaps play console game. When we are even older, we have our own things and we would rather go home and do our work rather than hang around at our relative place. Once upon a time, we spend like 2 days of Lunar New Year at my grandparent place, then it become 1 whole day and then it becomes a few hours only on the first day. And normally by the first day, we are done with visiting. The second day is normally used to watch movies as well as to catch up with sleep/rest.

The number of shops in shopping centers opened throughout the Lunar New Year are increasing, as I believed that earning money is definitely much more important than visiting especially in the year of recession, further more the pay on public holiday is suppose to be double according to Labour Law in Singapore.

When I was young, I always look forward to Lunar New Year because of red packets as I can use the money to buy the stuffs that I liked. When I grew older and has the capability to earn money, the enthusiasm gets lesser but of course I still like the money inside the red packer, lol. This is the last year I will receive red packet as a student as next year onwards I will be working and I suppose to give red packet to my parents as well as my grandparents.

Anyway, next week onwards, I shall be extremely busy because the 1st deadline of my projects all falls on the 2nd week of February and I also have a midterm around that time as well.

This week is my second week of school. Tutorials going to start next week and projects are already started coming in. Going to get real busy after Lunar New Year. That basically sums up my school life so far.

JavaScript In My WordPress Plugins
I have been making use of some of my free time last week to convert 5 of my plugins that uses JavaScript to use jQuery JavaScript Framework instead and also replaced the SACK AJAX Framework to jQuery as well. Instead of including packed JavaScript using Dean Edwards Packer, I replaced it with minified JavaScript using YUI Compressor. Minified JavaScript has better performance even though it is slightly larger in file size when compared to packed JavaScript because the browser do not need to unpacked the packed JavaScript. Also, I have moved the JavaScript from the header down to the footer as it gives better loading times. You can read about it in details on my WordPress Plugins Blog.

Changeling
Caught Angelie Jolie’s Changeling last week. It was a pretty long movie lasting about 2 hours and 30 minutes. The start and middle part of the movie is pretty good, but as it gets towards the end, it gets pretty draggy.

Blogout’09
I was invited by Claudia who is a member of The Digital Movement to give a talk about “Using WordPress as a blogging tool” in the upcoming Blogout’09 which will happen on the 6th and 7th March 2009 at the 8Q Sam. The first day (6th March) is a trade event. I will speak on the second day (7th March) which is open to the public. Tentatively my slot is from 12pm to 1pm. Expected turnout should be about 200 to 300 people. I am going to be so nervous!

Today is the eve of Lunar New Year, I hereby wish all Chinese a very Happy Lunar New Year!