The X Files: I Want To Believe

wah tis movie quite scary. when i saw the operation, i was like, erm... horrified at wad they could actually do. hw is it possible to detach a head and put it onto a new body sia... i hv no freaking idea on how they can actually do dat. the topic of the movie is I Want to Believe, so actually it tells about the lead actor/actress believing in themselves. dats all, nth much about the movie. if u are a fan of X files, then u might wan to watch. i give it a 3/5 rating cos i dun really watch X files.

Back From Taiwan

yeah, i m back from taiwan le. going to update all the events and places dat i have been to taiwan. its going to be 4 separate posts for 4 different days. excluding today dat i m going to update on my post ah. will oso upload different pictures dat i took across the 4 days. of course not all, selected few. for the full collection of pictures, have to come get from me. :)

Taiwan 4th Day

2day is our last day at taiwan le. actually the trip is a bit short and rush of time. nx time muz stay there longer and go more places le. but nvm! the latest day dat we woke up, haha... 1030am then we wake up lor, shiok sia, slping in the hotel, haha... after getting down to check out our belongings, we walked ard ximending for our breakfast and to buy some stuff. i didnt nt get any stuff for myself as i have already finished shopping. but my gal gal was eagerly looking for her 2 most important items: a kiddy stall/shop and her watch stall. kiddy shop we didnt manage to see any at ximending, but she managed to find her watch stall after 2hrs of searching. we rounded 3 times in ximending and found her stall, 3 times! oh my... in the end i finally had my 'ice kacang'! below are some photos taken at ximending on our last day!

ximending

Taiwan 3rd Day

2day we woke up at 9+am, a bit later than the previous day, lol... slp until very shiok sia, haha. okok, 2day we went to chiang kai sheng memorial hall to take a look. the building was very big. but very far from the mrt station! we had to walk quite a distance before reaching the memorial hall itself. the place was quite grand and we also bought some sourveniors over there which amounted to NT$2000... we went down to taipei city hall to take a look at their Xinyi District. this is their so called 'CBD' area in taipei. we visited their Shinkong Mitsukoshi Departmental Store and eslite Bookstore. the Mitsukoshi Departmental Store is almost the same as our taka, only that it is bigger and has 3 different buildings over there. as for the eslite Bookstore, i can say its even bigger than Borders in Singapore and has a lot more variety of books. i personally bought 3 san guo books will my gal gal bought some labi xiaoxin comics and some female books. the total cost was roughly around NT$2000, haha... wad a shopping spree. i had wanted to buy more, but too bad, its going to be too heavy and cost me a bomb. :D

anyway we didnt manage to go taipei 101 cos of the time, by the time we finish shopping at eslite Bookstore, it was already 4+pm. so we rush down to Huaxi Night Market, at Longshan Temple Station. we went to Longshan Temple to do some praying and bought some amulets over there. as for the night market, it was a disappointment. nothing much over there, except stalls selling traditional stuffs for temples and the old. so we ate their 'tie ban' at one of the stalls at Huaxi Night Market. the food was not too bad, quite nice. :) after this dinner, we managed to see police come and chase those illegal stores away, lol... at around 8+pm, we still went over to Gongguan Night Market at Gongguan Station. the place was quite big actually, but cos by the time we walked from one end to the other, it was quite late le. we set off back to the hotel and shopped a bit at Ximen for our sourveniors and some misc items. nevertheless, we bought NT$5000 worth of sourveniors! and my gal gal herself bought two watches. oh my, NT$5k! below are some pictures taken.

c.k.s memorial hall

Taiwan 2nd Day

1130am: 2day we planned to go dan shui's fisherman's wharf and dan shui old street. apart from these 2 main places, we oso planned to go to the hongmao castle, huwei fort and white palace. act there were nth much to see at these 3 'side' places. i actually missed the dan shui old street and went to 'hike' at the main street. still nt too bad la, still managed to walk into one of the small street of shops. i was trying to walk all the way from the dan shui station to fisherman's wharf, but was too far, lol... actually, we managed to walk all the way to hongmao castle and white palace. after which we took bus 'red 26' to huwei fort and fisherman's wharf. too much of walking le, convert to taking bus, lol... n the valentine's bridge at fisherman's wharf was soooo grand! i like the bridge very much cos of the scenery, the wind n the structure! took quite a few photos there of the scenery. :) there was nth much to buy or shop at fisherman's wharf cos we went there in the afternoon. by the time we finished walking dan shui, it was 4+ le. we quickly set our foot down to wufenpu and raohe night market. it was from one end of the mrt station to the other end. (dan shui station -> hou shan pi station)

wufenpu was soooooo big lor, even bigger than the shopping area in bugis. but b4 going to wufenpu, we went raohe night market. (cos we were very hungry...) we had to actually walk 15mins from wufenpu to raohe night market, crossing the taiwan train tracks. it was quite far from the mrt station. had quite some food over there: pig leg mee sua, hot smelly beancurd, big dumb wok noodle and bubble tea! then bought some clothes over there too. after which we came back to wufenpu and continued our shopping spree. :D below are some of the photos taken at the above mentioned places.

danshui - misc places



danshui - hongmao castle / huwei fort / white palace



danshui - fisherman's wharf



danshui - raohe night market / wufenpu

Taiwan 1st Day

touched down in songshan international airport at around 540pm. the airport looked normal to me. it doesnt compare to our changi airport which is more grand and more shops to look around. went to look for bus service dat will take us all the way to ximen. the single bus trip there cost NT$140, it took us around 1hr to reach ximen. then we walked in frm the bus stop to our hotel and checked in directly. our hotel was right in the middle of the whole area of the 1 'patch' of ximen, rainbow hotel. by the time we finished everything and got rdy to set off for our first destination, shilin night market, it was already 8pm. we went to buy the 25 mrt coin initially to take from ximen station to shilin station. below are some photos taken during the tour around shilin night market and shilin night market circle.

shilin night market

shilin night market circle

jiantan station

Kena Caught..

last nite as i was going home at 7pm after a short discussion wif darklight on the pocky on migration, i waited for cancan wif midnite and baby. then juz nice, ming ming was walking past the lobby. he saw me! then ask me about starting the migration. the migration files were act in my hdd la, but of course i cannot tell him dat... cos i had to bluff a bit ard the thing to try to go off if they had taken the files frm the pocky lappy. but in the end, their portable storage all nt enugh space... zzzzz... so in the end i had to use my hdd to copy... even if i took the files to the r&d room for migration to start, i still had to wait! the sharepoint server wasnt even up and the linking to the sql server oso a bit cocked up. so wait wait wait... 830pm, start copying files into the server and then at 9 we started testing 1 file. ok, everything seems gd n i went off... haiz, had to make baby, midnite and cancan wait for me for 15mins b4 they went off for dinner. then they still wait for me for dinner, so paiseh... haiz...

Concuss Straight on Bus

wah 2day i on bus totally concuss straight after i sat down. too tired to open my eyes to keep myself awake. during the journey, a lot of ppl were boarding the bus and walking towards the back. i was sitting in the middle of the bus. then cos i was in a slp state, my body couldnt support my posture. so i tend to sway towards the 'corridor' of the bus. then a lot of ppl walking pass ma, then i opened my eyes n went back to my original position. :\ furthermore, the most interesting thing is dat, when the bus was coming to a stop in a bus-stop, it turned direction and i swayed all the way left! (almost fell out of my seat man!) luckily i woke up in time n used my footing to stop me frm falling off the seat. then i look back to the guy sitting to my right and smiled to him. :D then i went back to slp again, lol... embarrassed sia... the whole bus was filled wif ppl... :\

New testing on MOSS

ahhh, this whole wk will be testing on the performance of the migration part. on how fast will the system be able to migrate for each different file sizes. i was tasked to do the program dat uploads the file to MOSS. it was so achieving after i finally completed the program, wif the help frm godly and baby, hehe. thanks to the both of u. ;) 2day OT till 10+ to finish up the program and to have my dinner. luckily gt baby ard oso, then at least i m nt so lonely, haha. so heng dat she oso had to OT today. :D

Myself?

Your Brain is 47% Female, 53% Male

Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female You are both sensitive and savvy Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve

What Gender Is Your Brain?

1 week b4 Taiwan!

2day finally met my galgal after 3wks of no meeting. she was so busy on her schedule and my schedule dat we didnt manage to see each other for 3wks. we went to change our taiwan dollar at 1:22, tink the rate shld be quite ok. we went for lunch at suntec at nydc. ordered When Pigs Fly and Roast Chicken Spaghetti. we wanted to order the chicken wings and the other dish, but nydc didnt have both today. disappointed... nvm, actually wanted to go pizza hut for drumlets, but was too full, hehe... after lunch we went to a temple in bugis to pray for our trip to taiwan. tis has been our practice to pray b4 and after our trip.

then we bought duck rice + pig organs soup frm upper serangoon for dinner. tis is actually to pre-celebrate my galgal's mom's bday. then we had dinner together at her house. there were so much food dat we couldnt finish. lol... even threw away ard 1/10 of the food left. then i stayed over at my galgal's house to help her in her studies, a maths and statistics. a maths i still ok, cos i know hw to do. statistics, i read until head hit the wall oso blur. simi population standard deviation and sample standard deviation. i had to read so long b4 i actually understand it. n the worst problem is, i dun even know whether its correct when i explained to my galgal. -.-''' quite sad de lor... i left her house cos tml we wont be going out together. she will be going out wif her fren for a movie, so i left for home ard 1030pm. nth much for the day after dat too.

Decided

i have decided not to think so much anymore in the future. i will proceed wif my life with the following goals which i wan to achieve for this year 2008.

Programming
Specialise in Sharepoint
Specialise in AJAX
Specialise in vb.net and C#

Gaming
Complete battletanks/battleships without dying (Completed!)
Reach the highest league in PES (Completed!)

Language
Learn Japanese (to go japan)

Application
Create an application that can store problems and solutions

Seminar + Trip

today's seminar on infopath was a total crap... the presenter was a total crap... he onli knows the surface of the infopath and sharepoint. most of the questions the 'students' ask, he cant confirm, everything have to test. even if he does answer, he always give the wrong answer. then everyone was like repeating their questions and getting the same answer. ask until dun wan ask le... i still even had to direct him on hw to create a list in sharepoint... nvm, it was juz total crap for a $15 seminar... everyone of us was like nlh... then 2day while going to hail cab, 2 of the drivers wan to have lunch, dun wan to send us to our work place... nvm, we still got on a kind driver who would send us back. but... his driving, through the NUS, was crap! when the cab was going over all the humps, i was trying to avoid getting my head onto the ceiling of the cab. who knows at the last hump... i hit my head onto the handle juz above the door... -.-''' wt... gt so suay or nt, last hump oso tio... argh~~~~~

Chi Bi Storybook

wow, 2day when i went to popular to see see, i found this Chi Bi storybook! i see the chapters in it, it was sooooo detailed! woooo, my fav story wif more details on the battle. ahhhhh, hope this book will be gd. it comes along wif a big poster and a free movie ticket to the movie. ;) i will update again after i have read thru the book. then you all can know more details on this battle.

Fustrated or Restless

2day (1/7/08) i felt quite restless and fustrated. i dunno y, dunno wad got into me 2day. was so tired and emotionless 2day. its like everything/everyone has left me and given up on me. the feeling is somewhere there. has it got to do wif something dat i have been tinking all these while? has it got to do wif something dat i m preparing for in the future? or has it gt to do wif something dat i hv had in the past? dunno leh... weird n heart scratchy feeling. juz dun seem to be myself 2day. hw i hope i can really understand wad is happening to me. lets hope tml wont be the same for me again...

2day (2/7/08) i m feeling restless/listless/fustrated/emotionless again... dunno y again. act last nite i dun even hv the mood to play game wif my frens. i dun even get to slp well last nite. keep pondering wad is happening nwadays. lets see wads going to happen for the whole day 2day ba.