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Celebrated my 26th Birthday at Resort World’s Chilli’s yesterday. It was my second time at Chilli’s, first time was at Tanglin Mall branch. Chilli’s food is fantastic but it is a bit pricey. Love the free flow of Tostada Chip for only S$6.90. The steak is very expensive, S$41.90, totally not worth it, don’t bother trying. But the Fajitas is very nice.

Total bill is S$107 including Li Xiang’s Strawberry Lemonade (S$4.90) and my Bottomless Beverage (S$4.90)

I love my Dell 2408WFP Monitor because it has not 1 but 2 DVI ports! This allows me to connect to my Windows desktop as well as to my MacBook Pro without physically switching the DVI cables from my monitor.

As I have been using Mac a lot during office hours, I wanted the same setup I have in my office at home which is 1 external monitor and dual screen it with my MacBook Pro. In order not to clutter my desk with too many items, I bought the Apple Wireless Keyboard for S$98 and together with my Apple Magic Mouse paired using bluetooth to my MacBook Pro, I am able to have both Mac and Windows environment with just a single monitor but having 2 separate sets of keyboard and mouse.

I checked & verified it with BizFile. I paid S$5 and extracted more information on it.

Registration Number: 201004959C
Company Name: FACEBOOK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
Type: LIMITED PRIVATE COMPANY
Description: ADVERTISING SALE
Address: 1 TEMASEK AVENUE, #27-01, MILLENIA TOWER, SINGAPORE (039192)
Paid Up Capital: S$1 (WTF?)

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight was officially launch in Singapore yesterday. Pre-ordered my copy of it last week at Funan’s challenger. Showed them my copy of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and got straight S$15 off the retail price of S$69.90, end up paying only S$54.90.

I love those goodies that come with the pre-order. In this case, it is 2x free t-shirts, 1x Tote bag and 1x 3D cover art. The full soundtrack and bonus mission are all digital download.

Could not make it for this event as it is held during office hours, but nevertheless, I want to see how LTE can take mobile network to the next level. With the increasing number of smartphone users in the market, the demand for faster bandwidth and speed for mobile data transfer have also increased. I hope they do eventually trial the LTE in the MRT as I can’t even get a proper 3G signal in the MRT (blue and red line).

Press Release:

Introduction
Be the first to get your hands on the Nokia N900 and get a free Nokia Extra Power DC-11, worth SGD156, when you pre-order. Customers also qualify for the ‘Sure Win Dip’ upon service activation. To pre-order go online and visit www.nokia.com.sg/n900/preorder via your PC or www.nokia.mobi/n900/preorder on your mobile from 13 to 26 March 2010.

The Nokia N900 is priced at SGD 999. Collection of your pre-ordered Nokia N900 can be made on 27 and 28 March 2010 from Nokia Stores at the following locations: ION Orchard, Parkway Paradise S.C., Century Square S.C., Funan DigitalLife Mall, Causeway Point S.C., Suntec City Mall and Jurong Point S.C.

I finally got a blogger name card to give away during blogger events, thanks to Li Xiang who designed it for me. Printed it at Tommy Print. S$60 for 200 pieces. The price is pretty steep because the material used is translucent plastic card. It took a month before I am able to collect it. Guess not much people print those.

This is my only hoot from IT Show 2010. Bought it from Headphones Gallery booth at Level 6 of the IT Show 2010. Usual price is S$55, got it for only S$30. Going to use it in my office.

I am all along a Window user and have been doing web development on Windows for years. When I started work, all the guys in the engineering team are using Mac, so I thought I go with the flow and begin doing web development on a Mac. The experience was excellent, just need some time to get used to. After intensively using Mac for more than a month, I am proud to say, I am not going back to a Windows PC. My next computer shall be a Mac. I am hoping the 27″ iMac gets refreshed next year and it I am going to get that. Even Valve is bringing Steam to Mac. With Blizzard games able to run on Mac and Razer supporting it mice with Mac drivers. There is no reason for me to use a Windows PC anymore. If there is really a need (like testing website in IE), I will just use VMWare to run Windows 7.

Here are some software I use to do web development on Mac: