OK. It has been a real painful experience migrating the blog entries. It is even a more painful experience migrating the articles. What is the difference between blog entries and articles you may ask. To me, articles are not time sensitive, don’t have to be arranged chronologically, may contains a great number of words and [...]
Entries from December 20th, 2007
My Site Is Almost Back Up, Last Installment From Our Mount K Trip, And Our Upcoming Trip
December 20th, 2007 No Comments
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A Roller Coaster Ride With Hyflux Water Trust
December 19th, 2007 4 Comments
My virgin foray into the stock market is best described in the following analogy. Once upon a time in a remote village, a young boy grew up listening to the legendary war stories of his ancestors. How those legendary heroes won battles, pillaged other villages, and took home the women as their own. Barely able [...]
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Hero, Enchanted, and Warlords
December 18th, 2007 4 Comments
I thought “Hero” and “Enchanted” are both not showing in cinemas now but I am wrong. So, what the heck. I will do a three-in-one review then. Takuya Kimura was great in the samurai movie Love and Honor. In “Hero”, he plays a rather usual prosecutor who doesn’t dress up like a typical lawyer and defies [...]
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Okay, My Today’s Blog Entries Will Probably Read Silly 10 Years From Now
December 16th, 2007 No Comments
Ever since I changed the blog engine not too long ago, every night I painstakingly convert one blog entry after another. Then I stumbled on stuffs that I wrote 10 years ago and I got goose bumps all over my body. Tempting not to convert those old articles into blog entries but I think, perhaps what [...]
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Nanking – A Powerful Documentary Inspired by the Late Iris Chang’s The Rape of Nanking
December 15th, 2007 4 Comments
When I first saw the bombs landed on Iraq’s capital Baghdad on CNN, I felt the tears at the back of my eyes. I had the same feeling when I watched the Japanese in “Nanking” dropping the bombs onto the city of China, Nanking – even a more intense feeling. I was gasping for air. [...]
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Re-categorize My Blog Entries
December 15th, 2007 10 Comments
Since I have been handed this golden opportunity by the hackers to re-organize the contents of my site, I have taken the liberty to re-think most of the entries I have written and to come up with a new set of category. After all, we are unable to migrate the old category structure into the [...]
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Site Maintenance And Seeking Of Feedback
December 14th, 2007 2 Comments
After my site has been hacked three days in a roll, the team at Osbob.com and I have decided to adopt a different strategy and go for a more robust blogging focused engine rather that the content management system we used to have. We are still in the mist to try out new things and [...]
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See You Whenever We See Next
December 13th, 2007 3 Comments
So my site got hacked again. One of my friends texted me and asked, “End of your blogging career?” I am tired of this daily battle against the unknown hackers and the way things are going, I am not sure when I will start focusing on writing something fun rather than worrying that my site [...]
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A Ridiculous S$1,000 Claim Against My Friend By Her Ex-Landlady
December 10th, 2007 16 Comments
Previously I wrote about my friend filing a police report against her ex-landlady for harassment. On the same day, her ex-landlady filed a S$1,000 small claim against my friend for something totally ridiculously trivial. Upon receiving the Notice of Consultation from the Small Claims Tribunal, my friend contacted me if I know of anyone in [...]
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The Golden Compass – A Promising Beginning Of A Potential Trilogy
December 9th, 2007 3 Comments
When Nicole Kidman first made an appearance in the movie, the dinning hall scene struck a certain sense of familiarity. I whispered to Cynthia, “That dinning hall reminds me of my University days.” Turns out that some scenes were filmed in Oxford, UK (not sure if that particular scene was). As far as I can [...]
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