Sunday, October 30, 2011

Top countries with Internet Speed

My house is running on 10Mbps broadband plan and I have been very satisfied with this speed, because I get a download speed between 200Kb to 1Mbps 
Of course, I would LOVE to switch over to Starhub's cable broadband but I would probably wait till my home is laid with fibre broadband before I do the switch.

But these cities in Asia have mind-blowing internet speeds:
- South Korea
- Hong Kong
- Japan
- Australia

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Day 2: 1st changing my wound dressing

Changed my dressing at Healthway Clinic at Tampines Central 1.
It was really, really painful because the doctor had to stuff antiseptic gauze between my wound.
But it's done now... Until tomorrow when I have to change dressing AGAIN... >.<

Monday, October 24, 2011

First night at SGH

My leg got multiple infections >.< still waiting for my turn.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Something Funny...

Saw a fun thing at Tampines One
( not helping them to promote...)

Deepavali Lights along Little Road

Deepavali is only a few days away, and our fellow Hindu friends are gearing up for this colorful event! ^.^

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

New job: School D'Hospitality

A new job. A new workplace. New challenges ahead. A meaningful one as well.

School D'Hospitality is a forward looking school with a clear focus on hospitality education. We strive to develop our students in a holistic manner. Our programmes not only equip our students with the professional and business knowledge and skills for the global hospitality industry, but also aim to inculcate an attitude of service excellence and entrepreneurship.

Our comprehensive range of CertificateDiplomapost-graduateBachelor's and Master's, unique learning approach and caring student support creates a truly distinctive educational experience.

If you want a unique learning experience that will adequately prepare you for a successful career in the dynamic and fast-paced hospitality and tourism industry, join us now at School D'Hospitality - Where Service Becomes Nature!

To find out more about the hospitality programs we are offering, drop us an email at jonny@sdh.edu.sg or contact us at +65 6506 1297

Local Students Testimonials

School D’ hospitality is a school where your teachers double up as your friends. The lecturers will do anything to help you succeed and excel in whatever you do. SD’H is where your dreams are given a second chance. I find SDH to be a comfortable environment for me to study in and also a great place to be at.
Siti Aindinna Rooslee(Diploma in Events Management, class of 2010)

School D’ hospitality is a good institution that nurtures its student to be prepared for the hospitality industry. As for me, the hands on experience I get from the school gives me a clearer picture of what I want to be. With the guidance of professional and experienced lecturers and school staff, it gives me the motivation for me to pursue my career and to have a dream to be an Event Manager one day.
Mohd Syafiq Bin Saniff (Diploma in Events Management, class of 2010)

I am a full time student and my name is Janna Binti Rahiman aged 40years old. I am taking diploma in hospitality management in the School D'Hospitality ending March 2011. All thanks to the consultant who encouraged me to further study although my age is catching up and on top of that, I am a single parent with son still schooling at Republic Polytechnic. All the staff and lecturers are always there to listen to student's views and problems. They tried to give ideas on how to solve the problems and they did follow up on the students after that. The school trained and disciplined the student for the better future. They guided students entering the career path by inviting the managers from hospitality industry giving speech to students for job opportunities and how it goes about.
Janna Binti Rahiman (Diploma in Hospitality Management, class of 2010)

International Students Testimonials

After working in the hospitality industry for a couple of years I knew that it was time to take the next step. I decided to study event management and found an advertisement of School D’ Hospitality. The programs are structured in a way that allows me to focus on one subject at the time and leaves no room for confusion.
The school has a great location in the middle of Singapore. It’s small and after just one week you know everyone and everything. You are an individual with a name and not a number which easily happens in bigger schools. As I mentioned, the size of the school is to everyone’s advantage. The atmosphere is very friendly and “family like”. The teachers are extremely experienced in the course subject and know exactly what they’re talking about. Interaction with students is a daily event and very much appreciated. A international country gives an international crowd which also applies for schools. By studying with different nationalities I learn so much more. The students respect each other’s differences in religion and culture.
I would recommend School D’ Hospitality to all students that wants to open doors in the hospitality industry in the future. To study in this school is just as enjoyable as living in this city.
Arstrand Yvonne
Anne-Lie Iza

Sweden
(Diploma in Events Management, class of 2011)

I finished my Graduation in my country in 2006. Since then I have been looking for the best course to make my career more interesting. I decided to leave my job and was seriously looking for a course in Singapore. Luckily, I found School D'Hospitality and I would say I really enjoy studying Advance Diploma In Hospitality and Tourism Management here. In the beginning, I was really scared on how I would manage to live in a new place. But now I have lot of new friends and the lecturers are really helpful and kind to me. They really motivate me and they also give me tips to build career in hospitality industry. This is my first international trip and since I arrived here, I've been discovering a lot of things about Singapore. This is really amazing city!
Chanrashekar Aishwariya
India
(Advanced Diploma in Hospitality and Tourism Management, class of 2011)

I enjoyed my time in School D’ Hospitality very much. I found the faculty and staff to be very kind and helpful whenever I have needed assistance. The other students at School D’ Hospitality have been helpful, and many of the assignments given require team effort. This has allowed me to make many new friends during my short time here in Singapore. There are many interesting activities for students that also allow each student to meet others outside their own course of study. As a native Filipino myself, the varied mix of cultural backgrounds in this “international” school, allowed me to better understand the lifestyles of other students. The programs offered a well rounded education in the field of Hotel and Hospitality Management. The school has very good class room environment with lecturers that make the class enjoyable as well as a very positive learning experience. I would highly recommend School D’ Hospitality to other students who are considering pursuing education in the field of Hotel and Hospitality Management in Singapore.
Sheena Mae Tabor Fields
Philippines
(Advanced Diploma in Hospitality and Tourism Management, class of 2010)

To find out more about the hospitality programs we are offering, drop us an email at jonny@sdh.edu.sg or contact us at 65 6506 1297

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

New job. New environment

Right now working at School D'Hospitailty at Tanjong Pagar Plaza.

It's an EduTrust Certified Private Education Institute specializing in Events, Tourism, Travel, Hospitality courses.

Check out it's website
Http://www.SDH.edu.sg

Sunday, October 16, 2011

New movie: The Thing (2011)

A re-make of the 1982 film. The story revolves around a group of scientists who discovered an alien spaceship and a shapeshifting alien life form which has been frozen in time beneath the snow and ice of The Antarctica.

The frozen alien was excavated and set back to their base camp for further anaylsis. But little did they know that the slightly warmer environment within their base camp was causing the ice which enclosed the alien, to start melt. The alien broke free from the ice and started to hunt down victims.

I just came back from watching this show. Not much of a scare except the beginning part. The rest of the movie was fairly predictable but was quite gross.

The only thing which puzzled me and my friends after the show was how the people in the base camp got infected by the alien and the sequence they got infected. Anyone willing to shine some light into this? Thanks!

Overall, 6 out of 10

Below is the movie trailer. ENJOY!!!

First-hand experience on Xbox 360 Kinect

Yeah... I know I know... It's been out of quite a while now and it seems quite dumb that I only got to play with it only yesterday.

But it was FANTASTIC!!!! Went to an arcade at iluma, Bugis with my GF and Jane last night and we had a Blast!!!
It was so fun and exhilaration! All of us had so much fun that we didn't realised that one hour of game play was over in a blink of an eye...

Definitely will buy a set and play at home ^.^



Saturday, October 15, 2011

Beautiful Saturday

So bright n Sunny ^.^

Real Steel

Directed by:
Shawn Levy

Produced by:
Shawn Levy, Susan Montford, Don Murphy

Screenplay by:
John Gatins

Story by:
Dan Gilroy, Jeremy Leven
Based on "Steel" by Richard Matheson

Starring:
Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand

Synopsis:
Set in the near future Year 2020, the movie revolts around a once-famous boxer, now into Robot Boxing, went on a life's journey to learn valuable lessons through his 11 year old son.

After thoughts:
It's a simple action movie. The Plot is straight to the point. Easy to understand and gives audience a valuable lesson that "Nothing is impossible as long as you put your heart and soul to it." Towards the end, if you have been enjoying this movie, you WILL be "sucked it" and you really feel like you were punching together with Hugh Jackman.
A wonderful movie for families and friends to enjoy.

Heard that there could be a sequel! Can't wait for it!!! ^.^

Giving it 8 out of 10.


Friday, October 14, 2011

Ding Cha 鼎茶

Ordered Aloha Fruit Tea and it's very nice ^.^
at Far East Orchard

Duke Nukem Forever (PC Version)

After so many years; so many delays; so many re-developments; the game is finally launched!!!

Excited about it, I quickly grabbed a copy of it and installed it on my Asus 1215B. Thankfully, my powerful netbook was able to handle the graphics easily and I was able to play it on "Medium" setting.

The introduction was kind of abrupt (Started out in the toilet...) and Duke Nukem (DN) taking a pee. Once done, there ain't much you could do in this scene, because not everything is interactable and usable. Roaming around, you will reach a make-shift "comand center" and you can express your hidden "Picasso" on the whiteboard.

Walking out from the room, you will see some fierce exchange of fire and of course, a little bit later, you will be caught in a blast and you will be required to pick up a destructor weapon and kill a HUGE monster. This one should be a piece of cake actually. Because it fires and moves very slowly, which gives you ample time to move around and kill it.

Once it's down, you will be needed to climb onto top of it and plug out a "Y-Shaped" cable (Probably it's life line). You will be required to knock it down twice before you can plug that cable out.

Once you killed the monster, only then you realised that DN was actually playing his own video game, and surprise surprise, two chicks "attending" to him.
The cut scene is quite irritating though. A big bunch of trash talk and you are unable to skip it. Just bear with it for 5 minutes...
But do take note of two videos happening on the television screen, it willtell you where to go and what will be the main plot of this game.
1) A variety show wants yOu to be their Guest
2) News reporter talking about an alien invasion (well well well... This sounds more DN right?!)

From here, you will proceed to a lift and go to ground floor to attend that variety show, only to find out from te host that it has been cancelled due to that alien Invasion... (Don't be sad... At least we can kick some alien butts!!!)

To be continued...

New movie: Shark Night 3D

Synopsis:
A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to shark attacks.


Directed by: 
David R. Ellis 


Written by: 
Will Hayes, Jesse Studenberg 


Starring: 
Sara Paxton, Alyssa Diaz, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack, Katharine McPhee, Sinqua Walls, Christine Quinn, with Thalles Fernando, Joel Moore






Plot:
Set in Louisiana, seven Tulane undergraduates – Sara (Sara Paxton), Nick (Dustin Milligan), Beth (Katharine McPhee), Malik (Sinqua Walls), Maya (Alyssa Diaz), Blake (Chris Zylka) and Gordon (Joel David Moore) – drive to Sara's family vacation home on a secluded private lake near Lake Pontchartrain. At a local bait shop, Sara encounters her old boyfriend, Dennis (Chris Carmack) and his redneck friend, Red (Joshua Leonard). Dennis and Red make racial taunts to Malik and Maya, his Latina fiancee, but Sara diffuses the situation. Sara drives a speedboat recklessly to the vacation home, attracting the attention of Sheriff Sabin (Donal Logue). He chases her, frightening her friends, but then happily shares a beer with them. He tells Sara he is happy to see her back after a three-year-long absence.
While Gordon tries to seduce Beth and Sara sunbathes, Nick, Blake, Malik and Maya go waterskiing. A shark pursues Malik and attacks him. Nick, Blake and Maya try to rescue him, but he swims back to shore – missing his right arm. When Nick swims out into the lake to retrieve his arm, he is stalked and pursued by the shark. Nick barely makes it back to shore. A pre-med student, he stabilizes Malik, then goes with Sara and Maya to take him to a hospital. However, blood dripping from Malik's wound attracts a shark that attacks the boat. Maya is knocked into the water and eaten. The shark then damages the steering column of the boat. It crashes into the gas pump in front of the boathouse, exploding, leaving everyone stranded. Sara, Nick and Malik barely make it to shore. Because their cell phones have no reception and the house has no landline, they cannot call for help.
Dennis and Red arrive and agree to take Beth and Gordon to the mainland. Nick refuses to allow Malik to be moved. On the boat trip, Red suggests the sharks have entered the lake due to a storm surge from a hurricane – then offers a more ominous, vague theory that someone put them there. Dennis reveals that he and Red have put the sharks there and feed uppity college students to them. Dennis forces Gordon into the water; he manages to swim to and climb a nearby mangrove tree but is devoured by a mako shark when it leaps from the water and picks him off the trunk. Red and Dennis then feed Beth to cookiecutter sharks.
When Blake tells Malik that Maya was killed by a shark, Malik arms himself with a harpoon and ventures into the water to kill it. His bloody wound attracts a hammerhead shark; he kills it but is further wounded in the process. Nick and Blake pull the shark to shore, and Nick realizes that it wasn't the shark that took Malik's arm. He also finds a camera attached to its belly. Blake decides to take Malik to the mainland on a jet ski. When Malik sees them being pursued by sharks and realizing that Blake can travel faster without him, Malik sacrifices himself. But Blake is killed when an enormous great white sharkbreaches from the lake and plucks him off the jet ski.
Sheriff Sabin visits Sara and Nick. He gives them soup to calm them, and appears to use his police radio to call for help. Nick then passes out. When Sara goes to the kitchen to get a towel, she finds her dog has also passed out after eating the soup Sabin brought,revealing Sabin to be shady. Sara takes a knife and is about to attack Sabin when Dennis arrive and disarms her. Dennis and Red take Sara out on their boat, while Sabin takes Nick to the boathouse and prepares to dunk him into the lake where tiger sharks await. Sabin reveals that he, Dennis and Red have been inspired by the Discovery Channel's Shark Week and Faces of Death videos to film and make available to thrill seekers on the Internet live footage of people being eaten by sharks. When Sabin is distracted by the CD player, Nick frees himself then ignites an overturned can of gas. Badly burned, Sabin plunges into the lake and is eaten by the tiger sharks.
Dennis reveals he is still bitter at Sara for leaving him after their last diving date three years earlier. Sara was unnerved by two accidents that occurred that day: her sudden loss of air (and Dennis's apparent lack of concern), and her slashing his face open with the boat propeller when she tried to escape him. After throwing her dog into the lake, Dennis and Red lower her, in a shark cage, into the lake. A ravenous mako shark appears, but so does Nick, who tries to hold Red hostage and force Dennis to free Sara. Instead, Dennis throws a knife into Red, killing him. Nick and Dennis struggle in the water. The mako eats Dennis then attacks the cage. Sara's dog brings a spear to Nick, and he uses it to kill the shark and free Sara. Nick, Sara and the dog swim to the boat. Just as they think they are safe, the great white breaches the surface and lunges towards them.
Credit: Wikipedia
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After thoughts:
When I saw the trailer, I was expecting this movie to provide a good scare. (Since it's a Shark show) but roughly 20 minutes into the show, I found it was a simple waste of time and money.
The plot was simple. Starting with a group of college students who just finished their exams and wanted to head off to a quiet town to chill and party away the weekends. In-between, there was a side twist to the story when one of the lead actresses seem to have a dark past with one of the guys (He has a scar underneath his right eye) living in that town. 
After which, the scares were WAY too easy to spot and predict, which took away the thrill of watching a scary movie.
Overall, I give this show 4/10.

But for those who still want to give this show a shot, here's the trailer:

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Quake off Indonesia Bali

OMG!!! Another earthquake just hit Bali, Indonesia. Luckily no injuries or death now... Phew....

Future Singapore MRT network?!

Singapore's MRT (Mass Rapid Transport) network has came a LONG way since 1988. Back then, the network was only a simple 3 set network and each represented by a different set of colours.
  1. EAST-WEST Bound (Green & Blue)
  2. NORTH-SOUTH Bound (Yellow and Red)
  3. NORTH-WEST Bound (Dark Orange and Brown)

Over the next 20 plus years, our Government expanded the network even further and making it very convenient for the people. And of course, the colours have also been changed. The Government also added MRT's "younger brother", called LRT (Light Rapid Transport), which is represented by Grey lines.
These trams are fully automated, compared to MRT, which requires human operations.

Current Singapore MRT system (With the new Circle Line)
mrt map of singapore



Then again, could this be the future?

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

New game: Dungeon Siege 3

Playing a new PC game: Dungeon Siege 3 on my beloved Asus 1215B netbook =)



Back to blogging =)

hi everyone!!!! I'm back to blogging ^.^

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