Hi guys and girls, I am back from Thailand. Yesterday when I came home and I on the power of the main switch in my room, I saw a very bright white flare coming out from my cable modem for 3 seconds, and seconds later, I can smell the smoke coming out of my cable modem. And my cable modem is fried.

My old modem lasted me for 6 years. I think it is time for it to RIP. Went to buy a new Motorola Cable Modem (SB5101) from Plaza Singapura’s Starhub shop. Cost me around $99.23.

Will be posting blog about my Thailand trip and uploading the photos taken (about 390) as soon as possible.

Stay tuned.

*Update* The photo gallery is ready, entitled Thailand’s Trip 2005 can be found here. Enjoy.

Sitex 2005
Went to Sitex 2005 on Saturday, it was quite crowded because besides Sitex 2005, there is also a lifestyle and Big Boyz Toyz exhibitions going on.

I finally got myself a Apple Black iPod Video 30GB for $521 with a $26 iPod accessories voucher. Use that voucher to buy the screen protector for $29, paid additional $3. When I came home I check the Internet, I found out that Martin Field Overlay is only selling for $25, felt so cheated, damn it.

LiXiang also finally bought herself a Wacom Tablet Intuos 3(A5) for about $440. It is quite cool playing with it. But I am still not that used to it.

Went over to Big Boyz Toyz which is at Hall 3, I managed to get 2 free tickets to Big Boyz Toyz from my camp mates. When I went it, I was disappointed, there was nothing to see at all besides cars and motorcycles and some other stuffs. Luckily I never paid $10 for it. If not I will surely regret.

SPL (Sha Po Lang), Dragon Squad, Sky High
Watch these movies over the week. Dragon Squad was filled with weapon actions and SPL was filled with kung fu action, both storyline was very simple and average. Sky High was average. It is quite interesting to watch but the storyline is lame.

Thailand
Will be leaving for Thailand tomorrow, flight is at 11am. Will be back on the 9th December 2005 at about 6pm. Its time for shopping!

Poor LiXiang still have so much work to rush. It really breaks my heart to see her like that. But I feel helpless because there is nothing much I can help her with besides fetching her home in the comfort of a car after a tiring day of work.

I have release GaMerZ File Explorer 1.10. If case you do not know what it is, it is a PHP script which will enables you to browse a directory similar to how Windows Explorer browse directories in Windows.

» Here Is A Demo

The date is 1st December 2005 because over here in Singapore it is 2 more hours till 1st December 2005.

Here is the changelog:
// Version 1.10 (01-12-2005)
- NEW: Now Support Nice URL Via Apache’s mod_rewrite. User Can Choose To Enable/Disble Nice URL Option It In config.php
- NEW: Rewrote The Codes That Displays The Files And Folders, Now There Will Be No ‘/’ In Front Of Any Folders Or Files
- NEW: settings.php Will Now Contain Most Of The Default Settings, So For Future Versions, You Do Not Need To Overwrite config.php Anymore
- NEW: Ability To Sort By Type
- NEW: Proper HTML Error Page
- NEW: title=”" Being Added To Almost Every - NEW: favicon.ico Added
- NEW: .mdb|.mov|.msi|.ra|.rm|.tif|.wma|.wmv Extensions Added
- FIXED: Extension Not Showing When It Is In Upper Case
- FIXED: Files Listed In $ignore_files And $ignore_folders Will Now Be More Specified. If Ignore File Is ‘test/test.htm’, Only ‘test.htm’ In ‘test’ Folder Will Be Ignored Rather Than ‘test.htm’ Throughout All The Folders
- FIXED: No More Use Of PHP Short Tag
- FIXED: Unknown Or Undefined File Extension, The File Extension Image Will Now Be unknown.gif
- FIXED: Invalid Checking Of Directory in view.php
- FIXED: Grammer Mistakes For Singular And Pural
- FIXED: No Extension Given If There Is Spaces In The File Name That Is Being Downloaded

» Download GaMerZ File Explorer 1.10
» Support

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
Caught Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire at GV Grand. I have booked the tickets about 1 week ago, luckily still managed to get it at a weird timeslot, 10.10pm show. The rest of the slots either sold out or the seats is 1st few rows from the front. The show is roughly around 150 minutes and it is quite action packed if you compare it to the previous Harry Potter series. Quite worth the money, it is good but not fantastic.

Need A New Webhosting
Frozened will be closing down in September 2006 due to the fact we are making too little profits for too much effort used. Thank you Zeus for all your effect put in. I really appreciate it. I have already found a new Webhost recommended by my friend in my department. It is 27 Hosting Company. It is the best and yet it is so value for money. I will be applying for it after May 2006. There should only be a few hours downtime depending on how fast can the DNS be updated.

Thailand
I will be going to Thailand on 2nd December 2005 (Friday) to 9th December 2005 (Friday), so for those who need my support on my WordPress Plugins, I can only reply to your queries after 9th December 2005. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Original games and original Levis jeans in Thailand are only half the price of Singapore, just for your information =p

Sitex 2005
Sitex 2005 begins tomorrow all the way to 27th November 2005 (Sunday) from 11am to 9pm at Singapore Expo Hall 4 and Hall 5. Thinking for getting an Apple iPod Video (Black) (30GB). Hope there are promotions for it. Then I can have different songs for 8 hours straight listening and doing Lectora at the same time.

INTEC
I really enjoyed my life there. It is really the best place to be in NS.

increase In Site Traffic
Recently I have been getting like 1k hits per day as compared to 200 hits last time. My bandwidth was suppose to be less than 5GB per month but now it is almost 10GB per month. After checking Google Analytics and Extreme Tracking, I found out that Google Image is indexing my uploaded Playstation 3 image. Don’t believe? Use Goggle Image and search for “playstation 3″, my site is the very 1st results. LOL. The O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei (Chicken Little Dancing) video is getting alot of hits too.

Our military is cracking down on blogs that post negative comments on them.

So better be safe than sorry, I have password protect my previous blog post. The password will be the same across all password protected blog posts. And the hint to the password is my girlfriend full name (not hanyu ping ying name), all in small letters and without spaces. Drop me an email if you can’t figure out the password and would like to read my blog post.

Here is a clip of Chicken Little dancing to O-Zone famous song, Dragostea Din Tei. It is often shown before movies to ask the audience to silent/off their handphone.

Chicken Little Dancing To Dragostea Din Tei (3.2 MB).

Argh, fuck this, I type a long post and when I click post, it prompt me to a login page and my long post is gone. FUCK.

Doom
Caught a sneak preview of Doom at GV Grand. The storyline to this movie is pretty simple and straight forward. No idea why some of the reviews give it bad ratings. From my point of view, I find it is quite average and not as scary as it seems. The last 15 minutes of the movie features the first person shooter view. It is cool but funny at the same time. LOL

Tom Yum Goong
Caught Tom Yum Goong during Hari Raya Puasa at Gv Tiong Bahru. The storyline to his movie is also similar to Ong Bak, just that they replace the Buddha’s head with an elephant. There are much more fighting scenes to this movie and the final fight scene you can see Tony Jaa fighting against alot of people and breaking their bones one by one. The sound effect makes it look realistic. There is this one scene in the airport where Tony Jaa accidentally bumped into a person who look like Jackie Chan or is that person really Jackie Chan? Anyone care to share?

Changing Appetite
Changing Appetite (CA) is a restaurant in Marina Square which is quite similar to NYDC. But it has much more variety of food/drinks/cakes to choose from. Prices are quite reasonable and food tastes quite good. I like the orange sofa chair there, it is very comfortable. I recommend you all to try CA when you are at Marina Square.

Esplanade Makansutra
Had dinner at Esplanade Makansutra today. It is like a mini hawker center in Esplanade featuring good food from Makansutra. If you thought so, then you are really wrong. The food there is freaking expensive and it sucks. What a disgrace to the Makansutra name. I rather walk across to Marina Square and dine at Changing Appetite where the price is almost on par with it. Disappointed with the food.

Sugih’s Gathering
On Sunday, had a secondary school friends gathering at Fish and Co at Wheelock Place. It is quite a special occasion because Sugih stop by a day in Singapore for a transit from Shanghai to Jakarta. He met up with us for dinner. Been at least 3 to 4 years since I last saw him. Nothing much has change about him, just that he speaks English more fluently now. LOL The Fish and Co at Wheelock Place is abit different, it has much more variety of food to choose from. Try the New York’s Fish and Chips there. Also try any of the Big Fish Drink for about $6.50. The drink really lives up to its name of Big, it is the biggest drink I seen so far.

LiXiang’s 21st Birthday
On 12th November 2005, LiXiang turns 21. Happy 21st Birthday Dear.

Sugih’s Gathering On 6th November 2005 Gallery.

1st Year Anniversary
LiXiang and I celebrated our 1st year anniversary yesterday, codename 1024. It was my dismounting shift. We went to pray at Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple, before going to Bugis to take Neocard. It was my 1st time taking Neocard with her after 1 year. Went to Tony Romas at Suntec City for our dinner. It was our 1st time eating at Tony Romas. Food was ok, but prices was abit steep.

Last year, we was watching Ladder 49 together at GV Grand when I 1st held her hand in the Cinema. Time flies! LOL

Flight Plan
I have a stupid range on Saturday afternoon. I wonder did my OC use his brain to think. Furthermore, training shift personnels do not need to attend the range, only standby shift need to go. And furthermore we are going to mount the next day. It is seriously ridiculous. The reason my OC give? Because last range training shift personnels went for it. So it means when you eat last night, you do not eat next week? Wonder what kind of fucked up reason is this. Anyway suck thumb, lan lan have to go. Do not want to resort to take MC because they may play bastard with you and call your house every hour to check whether you at home or not. No wonder people hate the army so much.

Caught a midnight show at Cineleisure, Flight Plan. It was good, but maybe due to I knew the ending from my friend, it is not really exciting for me as compared Phone Booth. And yes, almost throughout the whole movie takes places on-board the plan.

Badminton
Been such a long time since I played Badminton, Terry, his girlfriend, Geargina, Suqin, LiXiang and I was at the Clementi Sports Hall playing Badminton for 3 hours. After that we ate Aussie’s Best Fish & Chips at Clementi’s Kopitiam, well it kinda sucks. Give me Fish & Co anytime.

LiXiang and I went to Queensway to buy badminton rackets for our future badminton games which will occur fortnightly. Both of us the rackets cost $100 exactly, so we will play more badminton to make the money worth it. LOL

Jean’s Birthday Party
Geargina, Suqin, Serene, Laily, LiXiang and I went for Jean’s birthday party at Aloha. For once, I did not lose my way to an unfamiler place. 1/2 way thought Jean’s Birthday Party, LiXiang and I went to her primary school friend birthday party, also at Aloha. After consuming some food there and LiXiang chatted with her friend, we came back to Jean’s party and have some chat. As all of us was quite tired, we went home at around 11pm+

Sep/Oct Birthday Celebrations
Terry, Geargina, Laily, LiXiang and I was at Marina South to celebrate Johnson, Serene and Suqin belated birthdays. After the dinner we went to a Cafe at Marina to Chill out, the drinks there kinda sucks.

40 Year Old Virgin
Caught 40 Year Old Virgin at GV Grand 3 weeks ago, it was funny, not so much m18 scenes, just the type of stuffs they talk about.

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Caught Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride at Cathay Cineleisure. It was quite average, I expect the jokes to be better but it turn out so-so only. Wonder why 8 Days give it a 4.5 stars rating.

There is a new Sony Gallery opened at Paragon, much bigger than Wisma Atria’s one.

Singapore Zoological Garden
Went to the Zoo on Sunday morning. Suppose to be there at 8.30am, but as you know we can’t wake up, so end up reaching the zoo at about 10.15am.

We woke at around 9am to prepare sandwiches and cocktail sausages. LiXiang and I prepared 2 loaves of Gardenia Bread, imagine 2 person eating 2 loaves of bread? LOL, but end up we can finish also.

The entrance fee is now $15 for adults and the tram ride is $4.

I think it has been 10 years or more since I been to the zoo, it changes so much especially at the entrance when I last saw it. Now there is a water fountain just at the entrance and the entrance is so much nicer now. The inside of the zoo is still quite old, don’t see that much of a changes besides some new stuffs like plasma televisions, treetop walk, mini garden, food crops etc.

The zoo is quite small actually, managed to see most of the animals within the 6 hours spent there.

Click here for our zoo trip photo gallery.

After the zoo trip, took the wrong direction on the PIE, we end up going to Toa Payoh Lorong 8 eating dinner.

While going home by CTE, just a thought that we pop by Plaza Singapura because LiXiang wanted to go Spotlight to buy some pearls. I bought a QuickSilver lanyard for my mp3 player.

Upcoming PC Games
These are the games that went gold recently and their release dates.
» Serious Sam II - 11th October 2005
» Age Of Empires III - 18th Cotober 2005
» F.E.A.R - 18th October 2005
» Quake VI - 18th October 2005