Unsolicited Calls And SMSes From Chatlines
I was woken by a call at 4.34am. A guy asked if I was Lester and if I was from Chatline. I confirmed I'm Lester but not from Chatline. He asked again, I said no, and he hung up.
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Personal posts and the diary I have kept since 2002: birthdays, year-in-reviews, milestones, and whatever is on my mind.
IT Show 2008 Hoot
It seems everyone was buying at IT Show 2008 except my brother and me. My mom got a WD Passport 250GB and Canon PIXMA MX700, others grabbed Canon IXUS cameras, and Wayne bought an Asus F8Sn laptop.
TNT Service Is Lousy
I'm so annoyed with TNT's service. They said they'd collect my Nokia N81 8GB between 3pm and 5pm, and now it's 5.45pm and they're still not here. I called the driver, who asked me to wait another 20 minutes. Ridiculous!
IT Show 2008
IT Show 2008 runs this Thursday to Sunday, 6th to 9th March 2008, at Suntec City Exhibition Centre on levels 1, 3, 4 and 6. I'm planning to pick up a Canon Digital IXUS 860 IS for my uncle.
Farewell Nic & Blair
I went to Nic and Blair's farewell party at Screening Room Rooftop Bar on Ann Siang Road yesterday. The view is magnificent and I'll definitely return with Li Xiang, though the prices, especially the food, are a little steep.
Leap Year In 2008
Today is 29th February 2008, and the next time February has 29 days will be 2012. A leap year contains one or more extra days to keep the calendar synchronised with the astronomical year.
What Is Man?
I caught What Is Man? at the Esplanade Theatre yesterday; it runs just two days. The performance started at 8pm and ended around 11.30pm, including a 20-minute intermission, across 28 scenes, fifteen of them before the break.
Lunar New Year 2008
Chinese New Year. I find it getting more boring each year, as my cousins grow older with their own families and our gathering time keeps shrinking. As kids we'd play late into the night; now it's all far briefer.
Happy Lunar New Year 2008
It's the year of the rat, which is my year, since I was born in 1984, some 24 years ago, and I turn 24 next month. I hereby wish all Chinese a happy and prosperous Lunar New Year. Huat ah!
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Singapore Future MRT/LRT Map (Updated)
Update: the image below turned out to be fake; please see my August 2014 post for the real Singapore future MRT/LRT map. This was the latest track system map, including the newly announced Thomson and Eastern Region MRT lines.
My Spelling Checker Poem
I found this poem, My Spelling Checker, rather amusing during my CS2301 lecture today, so I thought I'd share it. The wrong version still passes the spell check: Eye halve a spelling chequer, it came with my pea sea.
Year 2, Semester 2 Modules
It's the first week of my new semester, year 2, semester 2; all going well, I'll graduate in year 4, semester 1, around the end of 2009. My modules this semester include Operating Systems and Business and Technical Communication.
My New Spectacles And Television
After some miscommunication, I finally collected my spectacles from Optics Today at Queensway Shopping Centre, which I've patronised since secondary school. The shop is owned by my uncle's old classmate, who always gives us very good prices on glasses.
Genting Trip
I blog faster than Li Xiang, who's only finished Day 1, so here's my version of our Genting trip. Day 1, Wednesday 2nd January 2008: we reached Golden Mile Complex and took a Grassland bus, departing at 7.15am.
Back From Genting
I'm back from a four-day, three-night Genting trip, my fourth visit. The first was in 1990 aged six, the second in 1993 aged nine, the third in 1997 aged thirteen, and now, eleven years on, I'm 24. How time flies.
2007/2008 Semester 1 Modules Grades
My 2007/2008 Semester 1 results: A- in Introduction to Computer Networks, A- in the Information Systems Development Project, B in Management of Information Systems and B+ in Introduction to Cybercrime. My CAP is 3.65. Sorry, CS3214 teammates, for our project.
Merry Christmas 2007
I wish all my visitors, readers, commenters and plugin users a Merry Christmas, and I hope you've all received your presents! I got mine all the way from Hong Kong, an authentic Louis Vuitton card holder. Thanks, mom and dad!
WordPress For Dummies Arrived
Amazon's estimated shipping date proved quite accurate: the site said it would arrive on 18th December 2007, and it really did, in fact early that morning around 10am. I've already read through the entire WordPress For Dummies.
A Busy Week In December 2007
It's been a busy week, and a while since I posted about my life, so this is a long one. Among other things, Dinesh invited me to Nokia's year-end party, Nokia Christmas Crimes 2007, held at a venue in town.
Petrol Expensive? Think It This Way
Petrol prices keep climbing; 98-octane now costs about S$2.080 a litre. Put another way: a litre of petrol is S$2.08, while a 330ml can of Coke is S$1.20 at a coffeeshop, which works out far pricier per litre than petrol.
CS2105 Is Hell
I have only two papers this semester despite taking four modules worth 20 MCs. One, CS3253, is open book and partly common sense, so I barely studied. I spent a full week on CS2105 because its workload is brutally heavy.