Singapore Computer Fair 2010

So what I did on my last day in Singapore? Well I'd just found out that there's an ICT show happening on the same day. It was in Suntec City so I had decided to go over and check it out. It's some sort like our own PC Fair in Malaysia. It was really a sight when I arrived. Since the mall is really large, so there were able to cope for the amount of crowd.

There were a lot of people similar to ours and there are over 3 floors of halls packed with people. But one distinct different which I noticed is that they do not have those ladies in skimpy dress like the one in PC Fair. 

I even spotted some aliens in the exhibitions. Maybe they are lost? : P 

This is one of the booth which I wanted to visit. It's the booth which display the arcade console such as PS3 and XBox 360. There are plenty of offers and promotions but after considering the warranty issue where I need to bring the console back to Singapore, deterred me from getting one. Sigh~!

Where there's console, there's games. Plenty of them if I may add. 

And here are more games which are all on sales. 

Even games from PS3 are on sales. Buy I don't have a console yet. Sigh~!!! Need to get myself one quick. 

For those audio freaks, here's a brand which you don't really see that much locally, Audio-Technica. There were so much stuff on promo and on sales. I was almost tempted to get myself another unit of iPhone dock which was on sales and not available in Malaysia but that is also the sad part as I need to send it back to Singapore for warranty. Another item would be a GPS navigator. They had Garmin and Papago on sales. But at the end of the visit, I'd just bought a cable for my iPhone and nothing else. Weird? Ya I know.

Orchard Trip (So What's New?)

It was my second day on my business trip and I am running out of place to visit. Orchard again? Oh well, what the heck. Since it's just a few block away from my hotel, so what the heck. Had the taxi drop me down in front of Lucky Plaza and walked over to the new Ion Orchard. Like all visitors do, took out my camera and went snapping away and the first would be this tall count-down counter for Singapore 2010 Youth Olympics.

I was told that this is the newest shopping mall coming up from Orchard Road. But this is my third trip over already. Anyway, the design of the place is really unique and a sight. 

As always, big designer's name like GA and CK are being shown right in front of the shopping mall.

Another view of the main entrance. Trust me, there are a lot of people taking pictures right in front of the entrance. 

 This might not be new but still a good place if you're looking for some well known brand and good food. But then again, there are a lot of good food stall in all these malls.

This is also another favorite mall for me as the exterior design of the mall is so nice and out standing. Felt like going into some nigh club while going up the escalator. hehe~!

Sentosa World Resort Tour

First day of my trip to Singapore, I had visited Sentosa island. No, not for the theme park. Since I was staying nearby I thought why not paying the new Sentosa World Resort a visit. Since it's half Malaysian own. So I took a cab and paid around SGD6 from my hotel all the way to the entrance of the resort, cheap. 

This is one of the entrance the resort. I think this is where the members register and check into the resort. 

This is the main entrance to the casino. Didn't seemed much people and from the sound of it, sound like a lot of foreigners (from Malaysia & China). Do remember that you need to bring along your passport to verify that you're not local. Work permit will also do. Why? Cause Singaporean would need to pay SGD100 to enter the casino. Didn't really get it, why built it in the first place if you don't want people to go in. Duh?!

Yes, that is me 'carrying' the world on my back like Atlas did. LOLX!!! Seemed like this is one of the main attraction of the place (for the time being) as the globe is rotating (duh!). So we need to wait for the whole UNIVERSAL to appear before snapping the picture. But I don't think that is possible though. Cause it's too long. But you can try. Thanks to the girls who offered to take the pictures for me. hehe!

Me again in front of the entrance to Universal Studio. Why am I not inside? Cause they will only start operational from 18th this month. But you can buy the tickets now and come back later. They have peak and off-peak prices. One day pass is SGD72 and two days for SGD118, children for SGD55 and SGD88 while Senior Citizen (65 and above) are SGD 36 and 5SGD58 respectively. They also have annual Fun Pass and Superstar Pass whatever that means for SGD318 and SGD1098 respectively.

Other than that, they also have this Hershey's Chocolate World outlet. What do they sell? 

A whole range of Hersey's chocolate. They has a large store so you can browse through and buy what you fancy. 

This is Hersey's Kisses soft pillow. So cute, like a piece of SH*T. lolx!! 

Just hear from the news that the response for the tickets to Universal Studio was so overwhelming that their website services on purchasing the ticket had been flooded and now down. A lot of people are very eager to pay the resort a visit even though it's not fully operational but they are not mind as they are purchasing the annual pass and can come back again when it's done. Wow~ it shows how enthusiastic of them. Does Malaysia feels the same when Lego Land open on 2012? Makes me wonder.

Are You Flying Somewhere?

One of my 'avid' reader had told me that my blog seemed very quiet lately. I said it's because my life lacks drama so I can't always have so much to write about. But I will still try to have at least 2 -3 posts a week just to make it nice and simple. So what is happening these days? Traveling. 

Everyone are traveling these days. Most of my gym mates had already booked or are planning for their trips for this year. I think for every month till the end of the year, there are someone from BKLTL group of members are flying around the globe. We have friends now in Taiwan for their honeymoon, another going over to Japan next month with her friends and mine to India for training and leisure. These are just some of the trips whereas there are some of us who are going to China, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Australia and New Zealand. In between all these, we (BKLTL) are in the midst of planning for our trip to Bali which I am not sure if any of us had anymore time or leave to spare. I think the main reason was that the tickets nowadays are quite cheap and affordable for everyone to fly. That is what they want you to think actually. 

The reason why I said so was because I am booking for my trip to Taiwan for end of the year and found out that AA is having this promo for RM512 (inclusive of tax) two ways. I was so excited but that is not the end. As there are so many cost which are not included into the price. After including the excess baggage check in, meals, insurance and miscellaneous charges, the price are almost the same as MAS, which is close to RM700. So at the end I had booked for MAS. I am not saying whose cheating who or whose bad or good but just take note that what you see is not always what you think you will get. Look at the time, it's almost time for lunch. Singing off now

My S.H.E Concert 2010

 

Finally the day is here, S.H.E is the One Live in Malaysia 2010 Concert. It was my second S.H.E Concert in Malaysia. The first would be 5 or 6 years ago on their maiden tour outside Taiwan. But this time around I was bringing along my babe and my gym buddies. We arrived early and walked around checking out the tents and all before entering. Almost got my camera confiscated by the guard but we got through at the end.

 

The seating wasn't as we expected but the stage was really close to the seats so it wasn't all bad. But if we could be one floor down, it would really be close and I could take better pictures too. The crowded started to come in as early as 7pm and I can say that it's 99% full when the show starts. The crowds as always goes wild whenever they saw a big MPV pulling up next to the stage.

Suki and Kay (our local talents) started the show as the show starter. But the crowds really go wild when the three girls or women (now) walked up to the stage. They opened the show with Superstar which really make the whole crowd goes wild. Some futuristic meets Alice in Woderland costume for most of the songs. The selections of songs are good and their vocal control was superb. They really did improved (not saying they are bad previously but really good too) in terms of dancing and showmanship too. There were a part where they sang some other singer's songs like Ella singing Jay Chou, Selina on Fish Leong and Hebe singing Faye Wong's song. Ella as always cracked a lot of jokes on stage with Hebe being more and more sexy on the side with her dress and Selina as pretty and ladylike as she always be. 

 

Finally, they wrapped up the last song with their first song that shoot them to stardom but I do not know how to write the title of the song in Chinese though. lolx~! So anyone, please be my guest. The show ended with a bang with a lot of glitters around 11.30pm. This is their third leg of a 6 countries tour with Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan being the last. Totally love every minute of the show. Sadly my camera's memory stick wasn't able to record the whole show. But still, I managed to record some of the memorable songs which I like. Not sure if I can post it up online since they forbid people to record it in the first place. 

Correct Or Not??

The enemy of art is the absence of limitation. A friend of mine throw this sentence to me yesterday and asked me what it mean. I gave it a thought and finally concluded that it's actually contradicting or rather wrong. I mean how can you put a limitation to art as art can me limitless as far as the mind can go. I hope you do get what does the sentence or quote means in a glance. I googled it and found that it actually do exist. I mean the quote. It's by Orson Welles. If you think about it, it's a bit counter-intuitive. But finally I got what the Orson fella was really trying to say. 

Let me put this in an example. If you look at it from art point of view, if a painter have a set of colors and a fix size of canvas, he would try his best to draw or portray what he is trying to say. Imagine if he has a canvas few times larger and more color, there wouldn't be a limitation to brought out the best in him in drawing the picture. Still don't get it? OK, let's say in life, it would be better to have a limit of numbers of partners you had in life rather than having lots of them. Make sense? OK, I break it down to you in a more plain and simple way. Everyone FB nowadays, and you know everyone are now busy updating each other with their status updates. Here's the catch, the developer had limit each user with a certain numbers of letters which could be type in each update. So the user must use their creativity to try to convey the message that they are trying to express. Get it? OK la, maybe this is too much for a Tuesday morning post, but I hope it make you all think. Cheers~!

iPhone 3GS Goes DIGI

Finally the iPhone is coming to Digi or any other telco other than Maxis. It's been close to a year since Maxis got their exclusive sole distributor of the phone. I got my phone on the first day it landed on shore which is 31 June last year. So I guess their contract for one year exclusivity would end around that time period. I am not saying that their (Maxis) service is bad or anything, Oh wait a minute, I am saying their service SUX big time. I think a lot of my friends and readers do agreed with me on this. The constant lost of signal and cutting off half way during a conversation or receiving a miss call even though my phone didn't even rang. I think the last problem is the most common for me. I would just sit on my table and my phone next to me and out of a sudden I received a SMS informing me that there's a miss call just a moment ago. WTF??!!! 

Anyway, Digi had finally secured to be the next telco for the iPhone and I am not sure if I am able to change to other telco with my existing contract with Maxis? Their FAQ page didn't really help that much as they wasn't able to disclose much of the details and everything will need to wait until they publish the actual launch date and even that is unknown. But they did said it was on the first half of the year. You can register your email not and let them update you with any news on the iPhone. You can do that here. This is similar with Maxis when they launched the iPhone 3GS last year. Another question I had in my head would be the new iPhone 4G which is rumored to be out on the second half of the year. What would the people who bought the 3GS from Digi think when Apple launch the 4G few months after that? Anyway, nothing is concrete now, it's all just rumors and speculation. So we will just need to wait and see how the year will go. Cheers~!!