Manhattan Fish Market
Met up with Kenny and his girlfriend on Monday last week for dinner, we ate at Manhattan Fish Market. It is similar to Fish & Co, but the prices there are relatively cheaper. For examples the fish & chips at Manhattan is $9.90 whereas at Fish & Co, it is $13.90. In terms of quality of the food, I think Fish & Co is much better.

Poseidon
Caught Poseidon at GV Grand on Thursday at 11.30pm. My dear cannot tahan weekday midnight movie, before the movie starts, she fell asleep, I think this is the 2nd time she fell asleep on a weekday midnight movie. LOL

Poseidon was kinda action packed, my eyes was glued to the screen throughout the whole movie, though it was a bit short, about 100 minutes long. It is different from Titanic because in Poseidon, there was not much of a love story involved. The movie CGI was good. There are 2 things I still don’t understand. They can hold their breath for damn long, even a child who is about 6 years old. And the other thing was, everytime after they escaped from the ship, help will then arrived. But on the other hand, if you think, so what if help was there? I don’t think they can do anything to a sinking ship. LOL

IMM
Went to IMM yesterday. Been about 3 years since I last been to IMM because IMM always give me a impression that there are not much things there to shop. But I was wrong, actually it has quite a lot of shops to shop and it was crowded maybe because parking there is free and there is a Giant Hypermarket there.

Imation 1GB Mini Flash Drive
My mom bought a Epson LQ590 Dot Matrix Printer for about $616 from Funan’s South Asia Computer. For every $100 and above spend, I can get a Imation or Sandisk 1GB Mini Flash Drive for $69.90. I bought it and pass my previous 256mb Iomega Mini Flash Drive to my mom. Finally I got a 1GB thumb drive.

Hope I am not too late to say this: To All Mothers Out There, Happy Mother’s Day.

I am trying to get the site to be XHTML Transitional validated by W3. So far so good, the blog main page and the comments page passed the validation. More to come soon.

Mission Impossible III
Caught MI: 3 on Saturday at GV Grand, the movie was not bad, I think it is better than MI:II in terms of everything. But the movie is rather short. They did not mention what the rabbit’s foot is and how Ethan Hunt went into the building and retrieve it. Had some coffee and cake at Spinelli before the movie start. The new banana cheesecake at Spinelli is very nice, all banana lovers should try it.

Uberburger
Uberburger at Millenia Walk is famous for their $101 burger, which consist of 180g wagyu beef patty with a piece of seared foie gras embedded inside, truffle cream sauce and salad greens tossed in champagne dressing. Of course I am not so rich to eat that and I don’t really like foie gras. I ate the $32 wagyu beef burger, which I mistaken it for $22. The menu can be quite misleading if you do not read it carefully. Don’t believe me, go to the site and download the menu and you will know what I mean. Anyway, LiXiang ate the double d chicken breast burger. We drank the soup of the day where they call it soup kettle, it is some cold tomato soup and it taste weird, I don’t think soup is meant to be drank cold.

Besides the burger, they also serve a lot of beverages, the ambience is good. Quite a good place to chill out apart from eating the burger. =D

Maxtor’s 300GB HDD
Got a new Maxtor’s 300GB HDD for backup purposes from PK Computer for $268 including external casing. It is nescassary, if you computer blows, money can get you a better computer, but the data in it will be gone forever.

May’s Movies
This month has lots of good movie to watch:
» MI:III (3th May 2006)
» Poseidon (11th May 2006)
» The Da Vinci Code (18th May 2006)
» Over The Hedge (19th May 2006)
» X-Men III: The Last Stand (25th May 2006)

EXACTLY 3 MORE MONTHS TO ORD

DotA Allstars v6.32b has been released. As usual, I have mirrored the map.

» DotA Allstars v6.32b (right click, save target as)

Here is the Changelog.

The Wild
We had dinner at the usual pasta stall outside Ngee Ang’s City, but the standard drop =(

Caught The Wild at Orchard Cineleisure, been sometime since I have been there and that place change a lot from having a damn huge Apple Shop (yes that is how long I have not been there) and a Nike shop. We caught the digital version of the show and there is no advertisements at all. I just hate those advertisements, I don’t mind if they are new and I have not seen it before, but it is always those few like Warner Brother, Visa etc.

Buffet
Been eating 2 buffets for the past weeks. 1 was on Thursday eating the Steamboat Buffet at Joaquim and 1 was yesterday eating the Porridge Buffet also at Joaquim.

LiXiang’s New Watch
She finally got a new watch after 5 years and it is from Swatch. I told her to buy a cheaper watch first to see whether she is used to wearing a watch before getting her $365 CK watch. =D

She still do not know how to read the time if there are no indications. So need to train her, when you see her, just keep asking her what is the time now. LOL

When you ask her 1 year how many days, she will say 300 days + 2 months. Weird right? But technically she is correct. LOL

Triple Boot
Managed to get my Mac OS X to dual boot with my Windows XP. The problems lies with that the Mac partition. The Mac partition must be after C:\ (Windows Partition) and it must be primary. Previously, my Mac partition was primary but was after C:\.

I managed to install Windows Vista and make it triple boot. But I need to do something about the 14 days activation of Vista. Here is a screenshot.

Windows Vista rocks man.

Cafebiz
Celebrated our one and a half years yesterday at Cafebiz located in Trader’s Hotel. I got the Singtel birthday voucher which entitles me to 20% discount. The brunch buffet is $35+++ per pax. Buffet spread there was quite good, quite a lot of variety. As it is brunch, the food there was mostly normal local food, no expensive food like lobster, abalone etc.

Went to Kinokuniya and bought 2 books (DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM and HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS)

Inside Man
Caught Inside Man at GV Grand, the plot is good, I wonder did anyone thought of that idea to rob a bank before. But maybe thinking is one thing and executing it is another.

16 Blocks
This show kinda suck, about some corrupted police trying to kill a witness that is going to testify against them in the court. Bruce Willis is one of those corrupted police and he is trying to save the witness.

Mac OS X On X86
I managed to install Mac OS X 10.4.5 into my IBM PC, I can run both Windows XP and OS X, but I just can’t get it to dual boot. Whenever I want to use either OS, I have to set the particular drive to active. Still trying very hard. I am going to try triple boot with Windows Vista.

5 more days to my $900 =D
105 days to ORD.

DotA Allstars v6.32 has been released. As usual, I have mirrored the map.

» DotA Allstars v6.32 (right click, save target as)

Here is the Changelog.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 20, 2006 - The epic struggle between the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) and The Brotherhood of NOD continues¦and the third Tiberium War is about to begin. Welcome back, Commander. Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that Command & Conquer„¢, the groundbreaking series that put the Real-time Strategy (RTS) genre on the map, is returning in full force with Command & Conquer„¢ 3 Tiberium Wars*. This highly-anticipated next chapter takes the popular series back to its roots in the Tiberium universe and features the fast, fluid gameplay that Command & Conquer is known for and a gripping story that will redefine storytelling in RTS games.

It is 2047 and the stakes could not be higher. Tiberium-a self-replicating alien substance that has infected the Earth-is spreading like a radioactive ice age. The GDI, a high-tech alliance of the world’s most advanced nations, is fighting to contain Tiberium, but Kane, the megalomaniacal leader of The Brotherhood of NOD has other plans for Earth. Kane’s secret society turned superpower is bent on using Tiberium to take control and transform humanity into his twisted vision of the future. All-out war rages over Tiberium and the fate of the planet rests in the balance.

“Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars combines fast-paced gameplay with new ways to tell a story in an RTS game,” said Mike Verdu, Executive Producer at EA Los Angeles (EALA). “We’re building a next generation Command & Conquer game that is true to the spirit of this classic franchise, but is updated with state-of-the-art visuals, added strategic depth, and gameplay innovations that will move the genre forward. I am very excited to be working on this amazing game.”

“We have been waiting to reveal this game for quite some time and are thrilled to bring the series back to where it all began,” said Louis Castle, VP of Creative Development at EA Los Angeles (EALA) and co-founder of Westwood Studios, creator of the Command & Conquer series. “The Tiberium universe is a personal favorite of mine, and this saga’s new direction will prove to be a worthy addition to one of the most celebrated RTS franchises.”

Experience a revolution in RTS gaming with a breakthrough single player campaign that rewards you for your gameplay style. Add layers of strategy to your gaming experience by building mobile bases, wielding the power of terrifying Ion Storms on the battlefield, or customizing your armies by combining units. Battle it out online with native voice-over IP, integrated clan support, and new spectator modes that let you play RTS games like a sport.

Currently in development at EALA, Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars will ship in 2007 for Windows PC. This product is not yet rated by the ESRB.

Official Homepage: Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

DotA Allstars v6.31 has been released. As usual, I have mirrored the map. I had also mirrored the 6.27b AI map by Cloud_str.

» DotA Allstars v6.31 (right click, save target as)
» DotA Allstars v6.27b AI v1.71 (right click, save target as)

Here is the Changelog.

DotA Allstars v6.30b has been released. As usual, I have mirrored the map.

» DotA Allstars v6.30b (right click, save target as)

Here is the Changelog.