Yesterday, my fucked up Internet connection disconnected 5 times. When I woke up this morning and I check my IRC log, it shows it disconnected another 5 times totally to 10 times within 24 hours. S*****b, if you are reading this please do something about your fucking Internet connection.

NONE of Singapore ISP is good. They should really wake up their fucking idea. Slow downstream and upstream speed and charge so expensive and worst of all, fucked up support.

Anyway, a very ironic incident happened. Search On For For Suspected Armed Robbers On Pulau Tekong. Pulau Tekong suppose to be a military island and outsiders can get onto the island so easily. From what I heard from HWZ forums, SAF is sending lots of people down to the island just to capture those 3 armed robbers, is like a few hundred SAR21s pointing at those robbers with pistols?

*Disclaimer* What I said above is just from my point of view, if you feel offended at any time, please close this window.

Went to Funan yesterday because I thought UT2K4 was supposed to be launched yesterday, but who knows due to some airplane problems, shipment had been delayed to 19th March 2004 (Friday). I ordered my limited edition DVD version of the game at Software Boutique as it is the only store I know that sell the DVD version in the whole of Funan. No choice have to pay my NETS, sighz another $70 bucks gone. Can’t wait for my 3rd month pay.

Had lunch with my mom, grandmother and brother at Swensens and ate something light at Ya Kun later. I just loved Ya Kun Kaya Toast. Last time there was only 1 store at the very old Lau Pa Sat (it has already been demolished), now it has gone into franchise and thus, there are shops all over Singapore. Give the Ice Blended Tea Si Peng, Kaya Toast and Half-Boiled Egg a try. Don’t know why these days, I have been craving for half-boiled egg.

UT2K4 is already on BitTorrent. The file size is 4.1GB and I am only getting a download speed of 10kbps. It will take me at least 1 week to download it, but anyway since I ordered the DVD version, I just download the CD version for fun since it is free.

Anyway, Amoy Street Food Center have lots of nice food. Last timed used to go there for breakfast when I am working, but ever since it undergo renovations, I didn’t went there till today.

Went to Orchard yesterday. My brother bought lots of stuffs. My mom got herself a new handphone, same as mine Samsung s500. She used my grandfather line to upgrade and my grandfather took her old phone which is Nokia 7210.

We went to Suntec City for the Food Fair because my grandfather wanted to. It was extremely crowded. Carpark is full at Suntec, Marina and Millenia Walk. I suggested Esplanade’s Carpark and surprisingly it was quite empty. People ain’t as smart as me =p, just kidding. I went to the IT Fair 2004 for a while to get iSkin for my iPod and a 100 Imation CDRs. I realized that there are 3 different resellers, 1 is Apple Center, 1 is PA Mart and I have no idea what the last one is. I should get my iPod from the Apple Center, at least their plastic bag is nicer. I bought from PA Mart and they give me those wet market type plastic bag. Lessoned learned, always survey around and see where people buy from even if it is under the same brand booth.

Went over to the food fair which is on the 6th level. It was more crowded than the IT Fair, we just walk around the first few rows and came out.

Today, went to Funan for lunch because I want to pre-order the limited edition of UT2K4. It is 2 DVDs. But when I asked the PK Computer, they do not know what I am talking and keep telling me it will be out tomorrow and it will be 6 CDs. Damm those noobs. They do not even know their products well. I e-emailed one computer store in Funan, they got the stock but cannot pay by VISA. Damm it. What is wrong with Singapore retailers, got free gifts only must pay by Nets or Cash, if not charge you with a 2% surcharge. Stupid rules.

Looks like I have to stick with the 6 CDs version. “Please Insert Disc 1 To 6″, just give me the creeps.

Finally I went to get my hair trimed at Everton’s Park after nagging from my dad. And yes, I finally can colour my hair, been waiting for this for a long time.

While waiting for my hair to dry the natural way, I got nothing to do, thus shall blog.

Met up with my secondary school friends today after a month of no meet ups. Luckily today all of them are free. I don’t really like to stay at home on Saturdays unless I am very tired. The mood for staying at home is just not there.

We went to Sim Lim Square and then Bugis. Tried the new shrooms burger from KFC. It is kinda cheap, $2.95 for a set meal which includes that burger, whip potato and a small pepsi. Normally people will not be full after eating that burger because it is so small, but I expected it since it is only $2.95, can’t really complain much.

Went to Bugis and it started raining very heavily. Didn’t know one of my friends was so afraid of the thunder noise, or rather I would say phobia. We was imaging things, imagine a lightning struck on the glass roof of Bugis Junction, then the glass was shattered. Imagined all these actions in slow motion. Woo, kinda like Independence Day.

While taking the MRT back with them, I also saw a woman carrying a child. All those seated was all adults and none give up their sits for her.

Met up with them again at 12.30am for supper. There are like 7 of us, thus we need 2 cars. I drove my dad’s car after missing in action for almost a month. I really love driving late in the night because there are not much cars and thus not so much phobia.

Need to wake up at 11am to go to Heeren, which leaves me with 7 hours of sleep. =(

Take a look at this video. It is work safe. I was like WOW, when I watched it.

Take a look at this forum thread. It is very funny.

Played with my iPod this morning, feel abit dumb because I do not know how to use it because the user manual ain’t helpful at at all, but luckily there is the Internet and there is this site called iPod Lounge.

While having lunch with my mom at Hans in Great Eastern Building saw Patricia. Didn’t know she and WeiLin is working in the same company.

Met up with XiuYu at Suntec City. It was really crowded from CityLink all the way to Suntec. Really have a hard time walking to the IT Show 2004. XiuYu bought help her company buy 2 external Iomega 80GB HDD for $259 each and she bought herself a Iomega 4x DVD Writer for $199. She is the first female friend I know that have a DVD writer now.

Went to the new Suntec City food court, quite spacious and the design is quite nice. They put mirrors on some walls to bluff us in believing that there are alot of sits and people because everything will x2.

Ok, here comes the interesting part where I think it will be my most vulgar entry.

I was taking bus 14 home from Suntec, during the journey, there is this lady carrying a child boarded the bus. It is a double decker bus. She boarded and just stood by at the staircase there. I was sitting at the first sit near the 2nd door and below the TV Mobile. I was looking at her and thinking, “ok if she look at me, I will give up my sit to her”. 5 minutes pass her back is still facing me. So I just heck and carry on watching my TV Mobile because AMI3 is starting. Then suddenly, there is this fucking fucked up bitch came down from the upper deck and immediately shouted at me and ask me to give up my sit to that lady who is about 2 meters(I roughly measured) and her back is facing me. I was fucking shock and dumb-folded that I stood up without realizing it. For just 5 minutes I was just so fucking dumb-folded. I was watching TV Mobile and listening to my iPod and suddenly that fucking bitch just shouted. And she said I got no common sense. After that when I was sober, she did not even look at me. I keep staring at her. When that bitch alighted at the bus stop behind Cineleisure, she never even look at me. I am no fucking chance to point my middle finger at her which I planned to. I am sure she is above 40 years old and she sure have a fucked up face. I will definitely remember her fucking face and I will fucking shout at her if I see her on the street.

Just because we are fucking teenager, doesn’t mean we always have to fucking give sits to the needy when the adults do not do it. Every time when there is a “Give Up These Seats To The Needy” and when there are adults and teenagers sitting, people always stare at the teenagers and like indirectly telling them “Please give up your fucking seats”, while the adults just sit there and fucking pretend.

I am so god damm fucking pissed.

On a lighter note, life is confirmed unfair, look at William Hung, he is getting all the girls.

Met up with my Pixel-Junkies friends, Zeus and Ownage for the IT Show 2004. We met at 11.30am and there was quite a crowd outside the hall that is waiting to be opened.

Once opened, the scene is like water going through a funnel, the bottleneck is the door as they only opened the first door at that time, but later on they opened both halls the door.

This time the exhibition is quite huge as compared to IT Show 2003. It took up both halls, Canon booth is one of the most prominent one. There are basically 2 long queues. 1 queue is buying the TDK DVD 8x Writer for $229, this is the longest queue and I can confirm that it will be out of stock on the first day, no idea whether they will replenish or not. The other queue is the X-Box queue where you buy 5 games at $69.90 each and you get a free X-Box. Both queues are very very very good buys.

The usual big companies are all there. Those companies are damm smart. They ask a reseller to do it and they just provide the goods. Like PA Mart For Apple and Harvey Norman for Sony (last year Sitex 2003).

The hall was quite crowded even though it is a weekday and I can foresee that weekends will be much worst. There is also a food fair going on just beside the IT Show 2004. Normally IT Shows and Food Fairs are very packed when it comes to weekend and you will always have difficulty walking around.

Anyway got myself an iPod 20GB after a few months of consideration and waiting. The promotion is not that attractive, but at least there is something extra given to you. The promotion is as follows:

15GB: $548
20GB: $748
40GB: $928

15GB Promotion: Buy it and get a iPod Accessories Voucher (Worth $40) (I Think)
20GB Promotion: Buy it and extend one more year warranty(ACPP) for just $1. (Worth $109.20)
40GB Promotion: Buy it and you can buy the 15GB iPod for just $200 (Worth $548)

Met up with Laily and co, Jacky and Terry could not make it because there are not feeling well. Take care guys.

We went to the food street in China Town for dinner. Food there is expensive but is quite ok as in average. From now onwards, we will meet it a point to meet up every week. It is really enjoyable.

No time to touch my iPod, it is still sitting in the box, shall play with it tomorrow.

Anyway, I have installed a forum, if you are interested you can just registered, I will add in more forums when there are enough people. http://forums.lesterchan.net.

Last night was helping my friend to render some stuff in 3DS Max 6. It took me 2 hours just to render one frame in 1024 resolution. While waiting, decided to watch Stuck On You, since there are no nice TV shows at 3am in the morning.

I didn’t had a chance to catch Stuck On You in the cinemas. It was a nice show. Is very touching and heart warming show. It is about a life of a conjoint twins starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear who was joined together since birth and as they grew older, one of them wanted to get separated as they want to lead their own lives. But after being separated, they are not as happy as they thought they will be. I watched the show till 5.30am in the morning.

Today woke up no electricity, not used to it. I feel like a caveman or rather Flintstones, basically I can’t do anything. Luckily my mom is free to bring me out for lunch, if not I will be bored at home. Imagine life without electricity. Thanks to Benjamin Franklin who discovered electricity and many other scientists of invented electricity.

Luckily those are fast workers and they managed to complete it an hour earlier before 5.30pm. One thing for sure, I don’t think anyone can stay at home for 1 day without electricity.

Today, as usual is raining cats and dogs, such an excellent weather to sleep, hope throughout this week will be this type of weather.

Yes just one more day to the IT Show 2004.

These few days really got inspiration to do my ITP. But before the work is complete, another workload is added. Now I need to code a simple forum for my ITP. I really hope I got enough time to finish it. Left 2 months more to ITP and I need to complete lecturer backend, user frontend and forums, installer file and lots lots lots of bugs to fixed. I do not think there will be enough time to do testing and “cleaning up”, so I shall let the next semester ITP student have the honor of doing that. Whoever he/she is, I wish him/her luck.

No electricity for my house from 8.30am to 5.30pm, which means no Computer, Internet, Television, Hi-Fi and whatever electric appliances. They are changing my house electricity meter (so that the meter can move faster and thus PUB will earn more, joking). I hope it will take less than 9 hours as they state 9 hours is for the whole block starting from the 12th floor to the 1st floor.

Just 2 more days to IT Show 2004 and my beloved ipod.

I applied online for NTU/NUS admissions on Saturday night. Their online system is quite good, but the filling up the form is abit user-unfriendly. My first choice for NUS is Computing, first choice for NTU is Computer Engineering. My second choice for NUS is Computer Engineering, second choice for NTU is Computer Science.

Went to the Educational And Career Fair at Suntec City, nothing much to see. I did ask NUS about the Computing course regarding admission stuffs, but they does not know anything about it. Really waste my time there. There is also a Popular Sale and Tour Fair going on there and it makes Suntec City really crowded.

Marina’s Metro and Ponderosa is gone and soon it will be the whole Marina Square. There are doing a major renovations to the mall. Had an early birthday celebration with my family at Shima-Aji located at Esplanade. Ate the Yakiniku buffet, $28.80 per person. The price is cheaper as compared to weekend prices of Shima at Goodwood Park Hotel. Food is pretty much the same but I really like the ambiance of Shima-Aji. The table is outside(open air) and it is quite a windy day. And when evening came, they projected Channel MTV Asia on the wall-screen. As we are the first customer at around 5.30pm (they actually start at 6pm), we became the center of attraction, whenever people walk pass, they will definitely look at our table. Saw one of our fellow SP lecturer, Mr Lee KS with his wife. He is also the judge of WSC: Web Design Trade and he told me that he THINK that I am one of the top 3, which I doubt so.

I tried one of the drink from The Chocolate Bar, can’t really remember the name but I know it has quite a long name. The drink is fabulous. Initial drinking will taste funny, but the after taste is very good.

Met up with James Ang today, got my 2nd pay, just in time for the IT show 2004 which starts on Thursday. Also got back my SAT book from Geargina. I don’t really think I will study it unless I really have nothing to do.

And yes it is raning the whole day. Nice weather.

Woke up and it is still so dark, 6.20am. I doubt any of you woke up earlier than me. Mom fetch me to NYP reached there around 7.45am after having breakfast at Ang Mo Kio Central.

They started quite early and I was the first one to register but the third one to reach, because I was in front when they say you can start registering. We started 30 minutes late instead of 9am we started at 9.30am, I think must be because of those damm late comers. They informed us to come at 8am and actually the registration starts at 8.30am, but seems to me that 30 minutes grace period is not enough.

My sit was B02, and I was in the tutorial room where they split A and B people. Was there for more than an hour. There is this guy from NP who is damm bloody talkative, he was early so he came in early and he chatted his friend throughout the whole hour. I have no problem with him being talkative but he talk damm bloody loud and was disturbing the peace and quietness of the room and the worst part he is sitting 2 sits away from me. Feel like telling him to shut the fuck up.

When there is bad, there is also good. There is this girl, I think her name is WeeMin, from NYP sitting in front of me. She is the chioest or rather cutest looking girl among all the girls in this competition. I think she is our age accompany to my friend who is studying in NYP.

The first session was 4 hours, followed by the 30 minutes free lousy lunch, followed by another 4 hours. The lunch is free and it sucks, I rather pay to get better food instead, still can’t imagine some guys actually eat 2 rounds, while I cannot even finish mine share.

The two word to describe the computer lab is freezing cold. Throughout the 2 sessions, the only phrase I said was “go toilet”, it was so cold that I have to go a few times for each session. I feel like a prisoner when going to the toilet because there is a person following you like a guard.

Lots of food stuffs are given during the 2 sessions. Coffee, tea, mineral water, cakes, sweets and kueys. I did not take any of that because I hardly have time to finish the website, let alone eating.

My computer is good, didn’t hang or crash throughout the 8 hours.

At 6pm, like what LiXiang said, I became relieved. I will not qualify, that is a confirm because I only finish 90% of it and I doubt many actually finishes it. It was just so much to do within this 8 hours, and I feel so helpless without the Internet and for that 8 hours Dreamweaver is my best friend.

Our topic was to create a CMS plus frontend website for Asian Aerospace. The CMS is easy, there are 3 sections to it. Add/Edit/Delete News, Add/Edit/Delete Users, View Statistic. I managed to finished the News and Users section but not the Statistic section. For the frontend, I finished everything beside to create a pop-up disclaimer window. I just need another 2 hours to complete the whole thing. But I believe Hang Wei can finished it on time and it is SP lost not to nominate him for this competition.

Thumbs up to NYP. They played a very good host at the WSC. Everything went on smoothly.

I must say this, my mom bought back Mee Rubus and Mee Soto from Bedok. It is recommend by Makansutra. The Mee Rubus tastes godly, it is the best I have ever eaten.

And yes, I am officially sick of programming.