Nokia N78

Website: Official Nokia N78 Site
Gallery: Official Nokia N78 Press Photos
Specification: Official Nokia N78 Specifications
Press Release: Nokia N78 Press Release
Source: The Nokia N78, in European and North American flavors

Nokia N96

Website: Official Nokia N96 Site
Gallery: Official Nokia N96 Press Photos
Specification: Official Nokia N96 Specifications
Press Release: Nokia N96 Press Release
Source: The Nokia N96 redefines “high-end”

Chinese New Year Day 1
I think Chinese New Year is getting more and more boring because all my cousins are getting older and they have their own family to attend to and the gathering time is getting shorted and shorter each year. Last time when I was still a kid we would played till at night for the first and second day of Chinese New Year, now before the night approaches on the first day, I would already left my paternal grandfather place to return home.

We wanted to watch movie but all the movie regardless of timeslot is sold out (left the first row) and GV website was undergoing very heavy traffic and I am unable to book any movie even for the next day.

We went down to VivoCity for dinner and on the way bought tickets for Ah Long Pte Ltd for the next day at 11.20am.

Almost all the restaurants in Vivo had very long queue and end up we settle our dinner at Hog’s Breath Cafe where there was no queue and the restaurant was practically empty maybe due to the steep price. I ate the Sirloin Steak which cost $29.90 and it does not come with any sauce. it is just plainly marinated meat, salad and curly fries. The portion was huge. I still prefer Outback’s Steakhouse. I would not say Hog’s Breath Cafe is lousy.

After dinner, my mom and I paid a visit to Li Xiang house. It is the first time my mom went to her house after we got together for almost 4 years and spanning a total of 4 Chinese New Years (including this year).

Chinese New Year Day 2
Caught Ah Long Pte Ltd at GV VivoCity. The movie is kinda long about 2 hours and it was good. I have no ideas why those movie critics gave poor reviews for it. There is humor, storyline and it even causes you to reflect on the society, all in this movie. It is definitely one of the better Jack Neo movie since a long time ago. His previous movie Just Follow Law sucks.

Went to Li Xiang house after that and paid a visit to her auntie house at Bukit Panjang later in the evening.

Chinese New Year Day 3
Went to my Uncle Terry (my mom’s younger brother) house to celebrate my cousin birthday (I can’t remember how old is she, I think she is in Primary 4 or 5).

After that went to National Library to meet up with Li Xiang where she is doing her research on Art while I clear my homework which has been piling up since Chinese New Year. I don’t understand how can people study in such a quiet environment where if you made some sound, the people there will be turning their heads looking at you. Makes you feel like you are in a zoo.

Left the library at about 7pm and we went to Raffles City to have Mos Burger for dinner. The basement of Raffles City has changed a lot since I last been to there. I am not talking about the extension there, rather it is the renovation of some parts of the basement.

Got myself a new Crumpler 5 Million Dollar Home bag for $112 to replace my almost tattered Nike sling bag. I also bought a tiny Crumpler matchbox for $1 for Li Xiang.

Li Xiang bought 3 cute plastic rings (Scooby Doo, Penguin and Superman Logo) for $10 at Inbox. It is cute and very iconic.

We went to Marina Square after that to watch CJ7 as my brother has problem booking for us the tickets. I just love Visa Platinum priority queue!

We spend 3 hours walking around Marina Square and Esplanade. Li Xiang and I bought a bermuda for $21.90 each from Samuel & Kelvin (S&K). My bermuda is exactly the same design but different color to the one I bought for $43.80 2 months ago! It is really 50% off as stated on the poster. Li Xiang also got a double sided belt for only $9.00.

CJ7 was rather short about 90 minutes and I think it is a crap show. The lip syncing was way off and the only good thing about the movie is the cute little alien dog and the boy’s girl’s expressions. Just in case you are wondering, that small boy who acted as Stephen Chow’s son is a girl actually. I really could not tell it.

Chinese New Year Day 4
Had a lunch buffet at Holiday Inn Park View’s Windows on the Park Restaurant. It is a buy 1 get 1 free promotion by UOB Credit Card. And the food kinda suck period.

Dinner was together with my dad’s brother and sister at Pasta de Waraku. They changed the menu. Now every dish has 2 sizes, a mini version and a regular version.

School Resumes
This is going to be a very busy week for me (as usual) with lots of assignments and tutorials due. I wonder does the professors here know that we are NOT only taking his/her module.

Speaking of module, I regretted taking CS3216 which some of you might know it as the Facebook Module in NUS. The workload of this module is more than the workload of 2 of my core modules added together. I have like 4 assignments (with sub assignments) and 1 major project within the short span of like 13 weeks and it is only worth 4MCs. And I am taking this module as my Unrestricted Elective (UE)!

• HSDPA 2100/850, GSM Quadband, EDGE
• Length/Width/Depth: 103mm x 55mm x 18-20mm
• Volume: 92cm³ (Similar to N95 8GB)
• Weight: 125g
• WLAN with UPnP/DLNA support
• 16 GB internal flash memory AND memory expansion via hot-swappable microSD memory cards
• 256MB system memory
• 128MB RAM
• QVGA TFT 2.8 inches display (240 x 320 pixels) with 16.7 million colours
• S60 v3 FP2
• TV-Out in SDTV resolutions
• DVB-H-based mobile TV with integrated antenna (Class C, 470-750 MHz)
• 5MP camera with Carl-Zeiss optics with dual LEDs that can act as video lights
• GPS with AGPS support
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• microUSB connectivity
• Battery: BF-5L (950mAh)

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It is the year of the rat, which is my year. I was born in the year of the rat in 1984 which is like 24 years ago (I am turning 24 next month).

I hereby wish all Chinese a happy and prosperous lunar new year. HUAT AH!!!

Nokia N82 Black

Product Information: Nokia N82 Black
Source: Engadget

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Busy With School
I am so god damn busy with my school. My assignments and tutorials keep coming, I hardly has time to breathe. As Chinese New Year is just next week, I got like 1 assignment (1x CS3216) and 4 tutorials (2x CS2301, 1x MA1312 and 1x CS2106) due on Tuesday. Damn stress. This is definitely my most busiest semester in NUS and it is only the 3rd week of school!

Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000
Got myself a webcam, a Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 for SGD$89. I was quite skeptical about the whole webcam thing when it first got popular. I was like, why the heck do I need a webcam for, it is like invading my own privacy. But ever since Li Xiang got a 3G phone, I would video call her at least 3 times during the weekdays as we don’t get to see each other for the whole 4 to 5 days. Then the day has come that Li Xiang desktop computer was rather unstable and hence she switched to her laptop which as a built-in camera. So instead, she video called me over WLM, and I am able to see her on the video, but she can only see what I type. So I decided it is time to invest in a webcam and save on my mobile phone bills.

PS: MSN has been known as Windows Live Messenger (WLM) for quite sometime. So try not to use MSN abbreviation anymore, instead use WLM.

The Mist
Caught The Mist today, and I think this is so far the best movie I watched for the year. The plot, acting and suspense are all good. The visual effects was just average but still acceptable. But the best part of the movie was the twist at the end, IT WAS FANTASTIC. I was going WTF and I really didn’t expect that to be the ending.

Cloverfield
Personally, I find the show is not that bad. I know many people after watching it is feeling unwell or even vomited due to the filming techniques used is the Blair Witch Project. Worst still, I witness some of them after 15 minutes into the show, they just walked out of the cinema. I think that the sickness is called motion sickness. Even Li Xiang after watching it, was feeling giddy for the whole night. I think guys like us who play FPS games have no problem adapting to it.

Michael Clayton
This is the first time I went into the wrong cinema. I went into the cinema showing The Darjeeling Limited by Owen Wilson. Apparently both of the movie timeslot just differ by 10 minutes and also the seats are also not taken in the cinema that I went wrongly and hence we did not know we went into the wrong cinema till the movie actually starts and I see Owen Wilson name instead of George Clooney. But anyway, I think this show kinda suck. I don’t understand what is going on.

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The latest MRT & LRT Track line system map. This includes the latest annouced MRT route, Thomson MRT Line and Eastern Region MRT Line, by Transport Minister Raymond Lim on 26 Janurary 2008.

Singapore Future MRT/LRT Map (Updated On January 2008)

Source: Wikipedia

The first major update to HTML in 10 years. HTML 4 was back in December 1997. I am really looking forward to this update.

HTML 5 is designed to reflect this, with APIs for drawing two-dimensional graphics, embedding and controlling multimedia, managing client-side data storage and editing parts of documents. Turning to more bread-and-butter stuff, HTML 5 will also make it easier to represent familiar page elements.

HTML 5 is designed to inject more consistency into the ways vendors and end users have gone about building today’s generation of sites. According to the W3C, HTML 5 will: “Improve interoperability and reduce software costs by giving precise rules not only about how to handle all correct HTML documents but also how to recover errors.”

Source: Major HTML update unveiled

And now for the juicy part, here are some new elements that will be available:

• dialog
• figure
• audio
• video
• m
• meter
• time
• datagrid
• datalist
• progress

Full List: HTML 5 Differences From HTML 4