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Hans @ great eastern building

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Hans @ great eastern building

Went for dinner at Hans @ great eastern building, partly as it was conveniently located near mum’s workplace and we were really hungry at that time after a long day of work. Also, on a note, I guess Hans had shifted their main bakery operations here from their old Thomspon branch. Think they had decided to “go-public” like breadtalk, good to see more competitors around and hopefully we consumers will benefit with prices wars.. 😀 hehe *grinz*

The place, though spacious and posh looking (the floor area is even bigger than the citibank branch next door) the food standard is still not there yet.. And the pastry prices are definitely outrageous- $1.30 for a bagel? Argh! Still prefer the old tradiitonal Hans kitchen style setting, mostly seen at other branches particularly @ Marina Square.

Walked around the nearby Far East China Square area after dinner and noticed a Marche style resturant called “village” in the basement of the shopping area, quite interesting. Mmm, and how did I get to notice that? well, its mostly Follow-the-Plastic-Advert-Bulls, you won’t miss them in the vicinity! Might consider goind there one day… Well, my sister’s is off for a class BBQ with her friends, would be coming back late. House so quiet now, must appreciate the tranquility. Now *fumble* where are my Linkin Park cds…

~Peace~

Currently Listening: Nothing!

25 Dumbest moments in gaming

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25 Dumbest moments in gaming

Check out this funny article I came across at gamespy today, simply hilarious. Check it out at here.

Currently Listening: Nothing!

Phone Firmware upgrade

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Phone Firmware upgrade

Watched “Finding Nemo” today at GV marina with my NS friends and our happy ORDing Platoon Sgt. Went to Breeks buffet dinner thereafter after window shopping around the marina-suntec area. Finding Nemo turned out nicer than I expected it to be, and I can say its quite worth every of my $6.50 spent, and yea I kinda like the sea turtle character dude.. 150 years old? no problem!

On some updates I’ve missed- Upgraded my phone’s firmware yesterday, had lunch with my mum at Wisma Jacks place and brought a not-very-new game ‘Freedom Force’ at PK computers Hereen while my phone’s off for 3 hours at the Orchard serivce center. And guess what? they’ve upgraded my SL45 to the SL45i firmware. Coupled with the 128MB TwinMOS card I’ve brought previously, now I can virtually save and run tons of any Java game or application I get my hands on. Not to mention the ablity to store load more songs for my listening pleasure. Didn’t know my phone is so expandable. Lolz!

Mmm its time I updated the downloads page too, its really freakin old, bout 3 years old as a matter of fact! will be working on that tml. Stay tuned!
Currently Listening: Evanesence- Bring Me To Life

Phone Modification

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Phone Modification

BMT has ended, so its more shopping, shopping, outings and it again… Watched Bruce Almighty on friday afternoon with my NS friends @ GV marina, then went to the PCshow 2003 in the evening. There is nothing new in this year’s PCshow, always the same old booths and companys, maybe the only new intro is dell computers setting up a booth for the first time in an exhtibition. After that met my mum at orchard for somemore shopping and dinner. And off, off to simlim yesterday, one of my favorite Simlim bargain stores, G2 is closing down, went there yesterday and they are franticially trying to clear stocks. On a brighter note, hey! I am completed with my mod mod, now with a newly added 3.5mm audio plug the connections would be endless anywhere on any device all for a cost of $2. Furthermore with a new TwinMOS 128MB MMC/SD card upgrade for my phone, more MP3s on the move here I go!

For more mods on the phone check out this mods page.
Currently Listening: Linkin Park- A Place For My Head

Shopping

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Shopping

Updated site to suit 1152×864 res better. Also updated my wallpaper and nothing else. :p

Would be dropping down to simlim to get a twinmos MMC card @ $79 for my phone, as I couldn’t find it at the PCshow2003 yesterday. Chaos
Currently Listening: Nothing!

New Camera

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New Camera

Dropped by Orchard today… again! this time quite late after dinner to purchase a new Nikon 35mm film camera, all in time for next week’s Passing Out Parade (POP). My older Canon camera had been giving problems with night shots and blurry pictures, and yea.. its time I’ve got a new film camera though, enough of digital ones for the time being too!

After making my purchase at Plaza Singapura, Best Denki (They had a good bundle too, the Litetouch 110SQD with a free tripod and Nikon dry camera storage box all for $218), I cannot imagine the amount of renovation works going on there now- though Liberty supermarket had been closed sometime early this year, yet the basement is still undergoing major works, so are the 3rd and 4th floors. Hereen had already given me so much renovation blues, now its PS’s turn.. grrr! On a lighter note, there are some new stores around, & though its around closing time.. yea, many are sadly of course, closed. Kopitiam food court had also undergone a recent facelift.. good though I like the new bright & cleaner look, better than the previous “dark adventure land theming”

Oh well, I guess thats all for now, heard from one of my NS friends (aka 2nd T-shirt IC) that the platoon T-shirt would be out tomorrow.. whee.. my design’s on it!..Moreover, will be bringing in lots of tibits and food for our “happy hour” this week, courtesy of our sgts… Party Time Dudes! BMT is coming to an end!

Currently Listening: Girls Aloud- No Good Advice

Long Weekend

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Long Weekend

Yup, I would be booking in this monday afternoon, extended weekend you may say, yea and thats good baby. Passed Ippt & Soc this week, and hey! I can safely put them behind my back now- Its all well deserved rest and relax, with 2 weeks remaining till POP (passing out parade). For those who did not pass the first test this week, dun worry, try your best in the retests to come and we will POP together in june dudes- There are no limits to your abilites!

Went to Nooch noodle bar for dinner with my family at Paragon, Orchard. Window shopped around around the area. Went to look and research on some new handphones, thinking its time I upgraded my SL45. Maybe considering an improved version of the Sony Ericsson P800 PDA phone, just hope a newer improved version comes out.. or should I wait for 3G then?

Been surfing around lately and this kinda caught my eye for a while, the Samsung’s Matrix Phone, woo neat!

“This is a CDMA phone and comes with a pop-up earpiece that snaps open at an instant. A button located on the side of the phone releases the spring-loaded earpiece when pressed…”

It runs on a CDMA network, so don’t expect it to be used here in Singapore. Also, when you come to think of it, yea… you can call it a souped up nokia 8910i with an overloaded Matrix theme… oh well, check out more here.

Currently Listening: Perfect 10- Party Hits All Day (Net Radio)

Maxtrix Reloaded

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Maxtrix Reloaded

Went to Le Meradian, Orchard to play Counter-Strike with my NS friends, it had been sometime since I’ve played at a lan shop too. Long before then, the impression of lan shop computers are, wow! this comp kicks ass! But now, haha no more envy- my home comp rules now! Lol! Went to monster pool for some rounds of pool before heading to heeren to get “Busted CD” at HMV, wanted to get a new dance CD, but just can’t decide on one, may be considering WKRZ Dance mix Vol2 or The Best of Ministry of Sound CDs in the near future. As I carried on my shopping spree, I was quite disappointed they are renovating the 4 floors of heeren and PK computers is closed because of that, hope they will return after the renovations….

Took a short bus trip to Greatworld Food Junction to meet the rest of my friends for dinner, had my usual chicken chop rice.. ($4.30), my fav after the japanese food store. hehe. As usual before the movies, we all take the trouble of getting lots of excess food into the cinema (3 Matrix popcon Combo sets plus an upsized McChicken meal, two large fries, lots of curry, BBQ and mayo sauce and 6 drinks all to feed all 15+ of us) all done professional style! The cinema is packed to the max but luckily we got “relatively good seats” esp on a sat evening peak period. The Matrix Reloaded is much better than the first series in terms of action and takes on from the last series, allowing us to know more about it. However, as usual we eagled eyed people can recognize computer generated scenes everywhere, quite fake you can say. The movie ended with a matrix revolution preview at the end, oh well thats december madness to come…

On Camp stuffs, BMT is almost completed officially, as I’ve already passed the 3 main objectives in the syllabus (Ippt, fieldcraft and markmanship), the only thing left is to pass the SOC (standard obstacle course), pass the final Ippt test and go thru the SIT test (Situational test) which would be a 3day, 2night “holiday” outfield, aimed primarily is gauging one’s leadership ablities and stuffs. My BMT batch will be graduating on the first week on June and whew! time really flies, before you know it, BMT is over. Oh well, will be looking forward to it too, one hurdle completed. All that matters now is that after the SIT test, things will be very much easiler and relaxed in the weeks to come.. Yea!

Currently Listening: One Heart- Celine Dion

Saturday

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Saturday

Woke up this morning at around 6am to preapare for the visit OCS (Officer cadet school) and Singapore Discovery Center (SDC) tour, though its complusory and the facilites are kinda nice (ocs is almost like a holiday resort) its really boring and we kinda spent most of our time at the SDC cafe muching away hotdogs, drinks and icecream. One of my friends brought his Nokia 7250 phone and its really cool with the built-in camera, its completely hidden and you won’t notice anyone taking pictures, the only drawback? No flash and manual zoom is needed!

Will be meeting my friends later again at around cuppage area for some LAN Gaming, followed by the movie Matrix Reloaded in the evening at GV grand.

Lights, Camera, Action!

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Lights, Camera, Action!

Its Vesak Day today and hey, wishin all those celebrating the occasion and alike a very happy vesak day.

And yea, it was a very tiring day yesterday. Some guys came down from some music company (most prob saf related) to film a short intro clip and advert for their new CD ablum, titled SAF songs- from our army. And whew, ya guessed that rite, my platoon was involved in it. And when possible dumb fame is eminent, this will also be my second-th time on TV in-camp since I enlisted in Feb this year. Didn’t know acting can be so tiring too- when you have to retake shots, NGs NGs (esp doing run pass shots again and again!). The acting kinda went on for sometime and it kinda all topped everything up with a dance (yea, dance man!) for the advertisment of the 2 CD product. A few old stars from, the movie Army Daze were there too and they kinda “stole the show too” heh… They do better issue us complimentary CDs for our hardwork…. :p

Passed hand genade handling tests later in the day, so live throws will come sooner or later… Ended the day with IPPT tests, maintained my silver standard with 21 points, would be going for gold the next time. Booked out around 8pm where my dad fetched me to wampoo hawker center for supper (their fish & chips rocks dude!) and back home thereafter.

And what’s there to end this week? Well, I would be awarded marksman for range shooting (hehe so much for Counter-Strike and Time Crisis arcade games) having achieved a 82% successful hit rate with my rifle. Heheheh… more badges for my uniform!

Well, thats all for now, tomorrow will be a short day at camp, will be booking in tonite and bookin out tomorrow night for the weekend again. & hello! Matrix Reloaded on saturday!

Dreams of getting this 6 Disc CD Changer Baby.. Drools…
Currently Listening: MoS- London Digital Dance Floor

Mother’s day tml

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Mother’s day tml

Came back from camp around noon today, got changed and stuff, then got my dad to fetch me to woodlands MRT station @ Causeway Point after lunch, at home, all to collect some freshly baked mother’s day brownies I’ve ordered from one of my bunkmate’s girlfriend, hehe. Came back and finished gift preparations and wrapping for mother’s day. Would be giving my mum brownies, a card and photoframe with a specially printed family photo in it. Man will she be surpirsed!

Later in the day, went for dinner, shopping and more coffee! – Had an early mother’s day dinner with my family at Happy Pay steamboat resturant, Bugis. The food is just “ok” with fish head the place is also very crowded during dinner time, so we did some shopping at Parco before heading back there again. Brought a Bilabong wallet to replace my previously Damaged burberry’s, got a new pair of Sony street headphones too. After dinner and armed with some starbucks discount coupons, (courtesy of the starbucks counter girls.. hehe thx!) treated my family to some starbucks coffee, (2 rasberry mocha, a standard mocha fap and a coffee of the day plus cookies) had quite a chat there to keep up on the times (and to make up for time lost in-camp).. all till bout 11.30pm before heading home.

Wishing all those staying back for RT (remedial training) – have a good time at camp :p and pass your next IPPT! Will you enjoy your bookout tomorrow morning! LOL! *evil grin*

Currently Listening: Some unknown song on Perfect 10 (98.7 FM WinTV radio)

Dad’s Brithday Dinner

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Dad’s Brithday Dinner

Just came back from dinner with my family- Had an early birthday dinner for my dad @ Swensens Liang Court. Ordered their chicken chop and chicken baked rice (yea had been eating alot lately), all topped with a topless 5 ice cream for dessert to share with my sister. Had been sometime since I had Swensens baked rice too. And yes it all went really great, awesome indeed, my dad all happy as usual, good for him 🙂 . Will be going to buy a present for him tomorrow at Suntec after watching X-men2 with my friends. Furthermore, with Diamuru departmental store closed recently at Liang Court, the place is really kinda quiet and empty now, compared to that last month where everybody’s all frantically rushing during the closing down sale, even you can get parking lots within the shopping center now (and not 2 blocks away previously), not to mention the major renovation works going on there now, due to excessive shop space left by the “defunct major tendant”. Shopped around after dinner and brought may’s edition of PC gamer and popular science at Kinokuniya. This issue of PC gamer have a nice article on grand theft auto vice city.. hehe very interesting indeed… :p *reads it well* And yea, here are some news and screenies on Halflife 2. Though I say, the improvements in graphics and eyecandies are not very great too, compared to UT2003 and the yet-to-come-DoomIII.

Oh well, thats all for now, hope I can wake up early to meet my friends tml, 10am at city hall MRT? argh!! *snooze*

(ohhh is that a card in the mail? hehe I am a safra club member now.. hehehahe *evil grin*)

Currently Listening: Robbie Williams- Man For All Seasons

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