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title: The Beaufort Hotel
date: 2005-09-26 10:03:12
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2005/09/26/the-beaufort-hotel/
author: Lester Chan
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  - Blog
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**The Beaufort Hotel**  
LiXiang has been busy with her conference last week at Sentosa. She stayed there for 4 days 3 nights at The Beaufort Hotel. Quite a good hotel, the surroundings is good. I dismounted on Thursday, took off on Friday. Stayed with her on Thursday night and we have American Breakfast at the cafe on Friday morning. Been very long since I last enjoyed breakfast, it is a very worth it price of $28+++ for an American Buffet Breakfast.

We checked out at 12pm, her boss fetched us back to her office to unload all the equipment. After unloading all the stuffs, I accompanied LiXiang home. Left her house at about 5pm because she is meeting her colleagues for dinner and I went to Great World City for dinner with my parents.

**Fanny’s 1 Month Old Baby**  
At night, we went to Fanny’s (her colleague) condominium, The Florida, to celebrate her baby 1 month old birthday. The catered food was not bad. Get to know most of LiXiang’s colleagues during the past 2 days, funny people.

**The Sound Of Thunder**  
Caught The Sound Of Thunder at GV Marina. The show’s plot/storyline is good, but most of the visual effects in the show sucks. It is very obvious that there are 2 different standards of visual effect in the show. The evolved ape and time wave looks good while the landscape/buildings/cars/dinosaurs looks like some polytechnic FYP project. Heard that the initial visual effect company went bankrupt while doing the movie, thus I think the 2nd visual effect company that they hired was on very strict budget.

**AJAX**  
Been playing around with [AJAX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX) (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and it is very cool. It basically allows interaction of forms without refreshing the page, thus results can be brought to the user almost instantly.