Just finished watching this show...
Something that i wanted to watch back then.
Review: It's a little draggy (150mins), John Woo's probably trying to let the crowd understand what happened in the past before this war. Lin Zhi Ling is stiff with her acting, don't think she is suitable to be Xiao Qiao.
Liu Bei was defeated a number of times prior to this and with Cao Cao hot on his heels, he had no choice but to relocate his civilians with him.
A short scene of how Zhao Yun risked his life to save little Liu Chan always touches my heart.
(Only to find out that idiot turned out to be a good-for-nothing when he grows up.)
Some very 'cold' scenes appeared here and there.. I thought it was quite funny though.
Towards the end, there was a battle scene of how Zhuge Liang trapped Cao Cao's land forces with his Ba Gua formation. Pretty nice, I would say.
Worst part of this show is the ending... It just ended before the strategy could be discussed for the Battle of ChiBi.
To me, the most exciting part of this movie should be the naval battle where CaoCao's 80,000 strong force collapse overnight. BUT, IT DID NOT HAPPENED !!!
Instead, a flame of fire came out and there you go again.... 'To be continued....'
So.. do I have to wait until next year or two before I get to see the Naval Battle?
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Monday, July 7, 2008
ERP rates to increase today.
Once again, the ERP rates went up today.
The rise was sharp this time... $1 instead of the usual 50¢...
5 new gantries were introduced at the same time..
The timing for all gantries into town were extended till 8pm...
ok.. I only rem the first 2 points... n didn't rem the last point..
And so when i came out of the office at 715pm.. it felt weird..
Y is there a traffic jam at this hour..?
As I waited at the traffic light junction, i look ahead... n wondered...
"Alamak, how come the ERP light is still on!? n got new design somemore..."
The manual GPS in my brain did an auto-route and realised the place that i am going to (bugis) is beyond a gantry.
Immediately did an illegal u-turn (muwahaha.. another gd thing abt riding a bike)... rode around Arab street and ended in the carpark just before the Bugis gantry.
I stopped there and realised there is a sudden change with all the human behaviour around me.
Everybody was waiting in the carpark (just like me).
All roads before the gantry was jam pack. (normally this isn't the case when i am going home)
Roads beyond the gantry was like.... 'empty'.
I wondered at this point.. Is there a need to control the amount of traffic going into town from 7PM onwards? Base on experience, the traffic that's in town at 7PM will not be so heavy until it will cause a traffic jam.
Was bored and decided to take some pics...
Look at the number of vehicles turning in order to siam the ERP.
Only the bus is moving straight.
Looks nice right the new gantry, especially at night.
ERP Version 2: It even has the pricing on top of the clock. (the colorful portion that's not clear)
If I didn't rem wrongly, at 730pm - 750pm:
Motorcycle $1
Cars/Taxi $2
Bus/Lorry $3
Tmr, I'm starting work at 9am.
With the 2 ERP gantries along the way, most likely I will leave my house at 845am instead. Most likely will reach office around 915am - 930am.
Cost of ERP: $0.00
If I were to reach my office at 9am, I will have to fork out $1.25 - $2 for ERP.
Users can click on a gantry for a pop-up speech bubble displaying its operating hours and charges. Using Google Maps technology, there will also be a tool that allows drivers to plot the route to their destinations.
The rise was sharp this time... $1 instead of the usual 50¢...
5 new gantries were introduced at the same time..
The timing for all gantries into town were extended till 8pm...
ok.. I only rem the first 2 points... n didn't rem the last point..
And so when i came out of the office at 715pm.. it felt weird..
Y is there a traffic jam at this hour..?
As I waited at the traffic light junction, i look ahead... n wondered...
"Alamak, how come the ERP light is still on!? n got new design somemore..."
The manual GPS in my brain did an auto-route and realised the place that i am going to (bugis) is beyond a gantry.
Immediately did an illegal u-turn (muwahaha.. another gd thing abt riding a bike)... rode around Arab street and ended in the carpark just before the Bugis gantry.
I stopped there and realised there is a sudden change with all the human behaviour around me.
Everybody was waiting in the carpark (just like me).
All roads before the gantry was jam pack. (normally this isn't the case when i am going home)
Roads beyond the gantry was like.... 'empty'.
I wondered at this point.. Is there a need to control the amount of traffic going into town from 7PM onwards? Base on experience, the traffic that's in town at 7PM will not be so heavy until it will cause a traffic jam.
Was bored and decided to take some pics...
Look at the number of vehicles turning in order to siam the ERP.
Only the bus is moving straight.
Looks nice right the new gantry, especially at night.
ERP Version 2: It even has the pricing on top of the clock. (the colorful portion that's not clear)
If I didn't rem wrongly, at 730pm - 750pm:
Motorcycle $1
Cars/Taxi $2
Bus/Lorry $3
Tmr, I'm starting work at 9am.
With the 2 ERP gantries along the way, most likely I will leave my house at 845am instead. Most likely will reach office around 915am - 930am.
Cost of ERP: $0.00
If I were to reach my office at 9am, I will have to fork out $1.25 - $2 for ERP.
How to avoid ERP gantries?
This website has a feature to help you to avoid or plan a route to avoid ERP gantries.Users can click on a gantry for a pop-up speech bubble displaying its operating hours and charges. Using Google Maps technology, there will also be a tool that allows drivers to plot the route to their destinations.
Pagoh Challenge 2007
Saturday 24 March 2007
A unique experience for motorcycle touring.
You get to ride, eat, sight-see all together.
Where is Pagoh?
It is roughly around 150km away from Singapore.
The game plan was to topo and find check points in this area.
Pagoh-Labis-Segamat-Tangkak
There are 5 objectives to find and take a photo of them.
I was in a team of similar bike model.
Presenting Hornet team B (2 hornet 900 and 1 hornet 600)
We spent the whole day moving around this area which is even bigger then Singapore.
We managed to discover the 5 locations.
Before moving off, we had a briefing at Ayer Hitam kopitiam.
Spectrum (moto-v leader in blue) always like to go to this place for breakfast.
After breakfast, 3 of us decided to go to Pagoh for
Check point 1 - The Chendol of Pagoh Jaya
Proof of our food (1RM each)
After finishing it, we rushed to the next check point.
By the time we reach this place, the weather is already super hot.
Parking our bikes under the shade.
Check point 2 - Hot Spring of Labis
This place is made up of hot spring water in swimming pool.
Proof that we were there.
Rested for a while and off we cheong to the next checkpoint.
Check point 3 - The Armour Vehicle of Kepong
This is an abandoned AV that is parked at a police post.
Check point 4 - Nanyang Kaya Roti at Segamat
They serve really traditional kaya toast on charcoal and good kopi/teh.
Best of all, it's delicious.
By now, my stomach is already very full with all these eating.
Next and last place.
Check point 5 - Beef Noodles at Tangkak
This is a very famous beef noodles stall in Tangkak.
The proof.
Met up with everybody here and we prepare to go back.
A backview of the hornets. I am on the most left.
Goodbye Tangkak and Pagoh Challenge.
See you next year!!
Yes!! Pagoh Challenge 2 will be held on this Saturday 12th July 2008.
A unique experience for motorcycle touring.
You get to ride, eat, sight-see all together.
Where is Pagoh?
It is roughly around 150km away from Singapore.
The game plan was to topo and find check points in this area.
Pagoh-Labis-Segamat-Tangkak
There are 5 objectives to find and take a photo of them.
I was in a team of similar bike model.
Presenting Hornet team B (2 hornet 900 and 1 hornet 600)
We spent the whole day moving around this area which is even bigger then Singapore.
We managed to discover the 5 locations.
Before moving off, we had a briefing at Ayer Hitam kopitiam.
Spectrum (moto-v leader in blue) always like to go to this place for breakfast.
After breakfast, 3 of us decided to go to Pagoh for
Check point 1 - The Chendol of Pagoh Jaya
Proof of our food (1RM each)
After finishing it, we rushed to the next check point.
By the time we reach this place, the weather is already super hot.
Parking our bikes under the shade.
Check point 2 - Hot Spring of Labis
This place is made up of hot spring water in swimming pool.
Proof that we were there.
Rested for a while and off we cheong to the next checkpoint.
Check point 3 - The Armour Vehicle of Kepong
This is an abandoned AV that is parked at a police post.
Check point 4 - Nanyang Kaya Roti at Segamat
They serve really traditional kaya toast on charcoal and good kopi/teh.
Best of all, it's delicious.
By now, my stomach is already very full with all these eating.
Next and last place.
Check point 5 - Beef Noodles at Tangkak
This is a very famous beef noodles stall in Tangkak.
The proof.
Met up with everybody here and we prepare to go back.
A backview of the hornets. I am on the most left.
Goodbye Tangkak and Pagoh Challenge.
See you next year!!
Yes!! Pagoh Challenge 2 will be held on this Saturday 12th July 2008.
UniSIM Orientation
Went for the sch orientation on Sat, 050708.
Pretty impressed with what they do nowadays for orientation... maybe it's because this is an all-working-adults uni, that's why they don't have things like 'Orientation Groups lead by OGLs'.
In fact, it was just a simple affair during the afternoon from 1pm - 530pm.
There was a goodie bag waiting for me at the registration counter.
A file consisting of some items in it.
There's even a $10 NTUC voucher..
A donut. I wonder why.
SIM notebook
A name card holder. hmm... i shall bring this to office and use it.
The orientation took place in a hall with some activities like simple icebreaker, identity game, lucky draws and etc.
The top prize was the Asus EEEpc, can you believe it?
But alas, it wasn't meant to be mine.... (never was lucky in these lucky draws)
Once the whole event ended, we went out for some refreshments at the Atrium.
There are some fringe activities going on as well.
Got these 2 for free as I had 2 coupons.
Sign up for some HP survey and I got a HP goodies pack.
HP had a booth selling 2 laptop models at student price.
With the kind of specs that they are offering, I was quite tempted to get the high end model at $1649.
The other model is the entry level model at $1299.
The ger was tempted too.
In the end, we both agreed that we don't need to get it yet, hence no impulse buy was done.
Anyway, the offer is until end of 2008, I can still consider... hmm....
After which I went to collect a sch polo tee.
And finally, my course materials.
FYI, I will be going for 4 core modules and 1 core elective this semester.
Not sure if that's really a clever choice but I thought this would be a good time to clear more now than later when I run out of steam or have more projects later on in work.
Had to bring all these back.. it's not very light.
Core Elective - Effective Communication
Business Module - Organisation Behaviour
Business Module - Management
IT Module - Foundations in Modern System Design
IT Module - System Modelling in Object-Oriented Design and Analysis.
Time to start sch soon..
hmm... how will I fare...
Pretty impressed with what they do nowadays for orientation... maybe it's because this is an all-working-adults uni, that's why they don't have things like 'Orientation Groups lead by OGLs'.
In fact, it was just a simple affair during the afternoon from 1pm - 530pm.
There was a goodie bag waiting for me at the registration counter.
A file consisting of some items in it.
There's even a $10 NTUC voucher..
A donut. I wonder why.
SIM notebook
A name card holder. hmm... i shall bring this to office and use it.
The orientation took place in a hall with some activities like simple icebreaker, identity game, lucky draws and etc.
The top prize was the Asus EEEpc, can you believe it?
But alas, it wasn't meant to be mine.... (never was lucky in these lucky draws)
Once the whole event ended, we went out for some refreshments at the Atrium.
There are some fringe activities going on as well.
Got these 2 for free as I had 2 coupons.
Sign up for some HP survey and I got a HP goodies pack.
HP had a booth selling 2 laptop models at student price.
With the kind of specs that they are offering, I was quite tempted to get the high end model at $1649.
The other model is the entry level model at $1299.
The ger was tempted too.
In the end, we both agreed that we don't need to get it yet, hence no impulse buy was done.
Anyway, the offer is until end of 2008, I can still consider... hmm....
After which I went to collect a sch polo tee.
And finally, my course materials.
FYI, I will be going for 4 core modules and 1 core elective this semester.
Not sure if that's really a clever choice but I thought this would be a good time to clear more now than later when I run out of steam or have more projects later on in work.
Had to bring all these back.. it's not very light.
Core Elective - Effective Communication
Business Module - Organisation Behaviour
Business Module - Management
IT Module - Foundations in Modern System Design
IT Module - System Modelling in Object-Oriented Design and Analysis.
Time to start sch soon..
hmm... how will I fare...
Sunday, July 6, 2008
nothing much happened during these few days except..
2nd - 4th July
YUP!! Nothing much happened these few days... just trying to drag myself through these last few days..
feeling easily irritated whenever this idiotic user drops by or with my overseas colleague's constant bombardment...
Decided to move my desk on Thurs and Fri... i m ready to move in on Monday... YEAH.. although i m still stuck to this current job for alittle while more... *just a little while more* but hey.. that's a first step right~?
Shall post a pic once i have arranged everything nicely..
Discovered and dumped alot of items which were hiding in my drawer for the... past 4 years?
It's amazing how many things can you hide in your drawer... haha...
YUP!! Nothing much happened these few days... just trying to drag myself through these last few days..
feeling easily irritated whenever this idiotic user drops by or with my overseas colleague's constant bombardment...
Decided to move my desk on Thurs and Fri... i m ready to move in on Monday... YEAH.. although i m still stuck to this current job for alittle while more... *just a little while more* but hey.. that's a first step right~?
Shall post a pic once i have arranged everything nicely..
Discovered and dumped alot of items which were hiding in my drawer for the... past 4 years?
It's amazing how many things can you hide in your drawer... haha...
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Do u know how many ppl goes there...?
According to wiki, there are 2,179 parking lots in there....
When i reached there... the number of cars in Q was so much until i can't even squeeze in...
i wondered how long they have been waiting to go in.. i decided to wait since i can't move on...
turn off the engine... waited for 2 or 3 mins.. realised that the carpark was full.. the 2 gantries are not even opening...
then i tot... "y m i waiting? I m not driving u know..." looked ard n try to plot a route in... started the engine again... n with a friendly car's willingness to reverse.. i managed to squeeze my way into the carpark... (hey hey, that's the best thing abt riding..)
Once in, i just went to my usual parking area n stopped there...
When i was walking to meet the ger, i tot "luckily i didn't have side panniers, or else i will still be stuck in that horrible jam with all the cars...". This tot put off my desire to get the side panniers for awhle... only for awhile...
Went to had Hagan daz ice cream because Ben & Jerrys was too crowded and alittle hot...
It has been a long time since i had Hagan daz ice cream...
Ok, this is what I had.
Cookies n Cream
This is called Flower Bosom if i didn't rem wrongly.
I love eating ice-creams... they nv fail to cheer me up whether it's a good day or a bad day... =)
Friday evening
Went out for a little chill out session at Vivo City..Do u know how many ppl goes there...?
According to wiki, there are 2,179 parking lots in there....
When i reached there... the number of cars in Q was so much until i can't even squeeze in...
i wondered how long they have been waiting to go in.. i decided to wait since i can't move on...
turn off the engine... waited for 2 or 3 mins.. realised that the carpark was full.. the 2 gantries are not even opening...
then i tot... "y m i waiting? I m not driving u know..." looked ard n try to plot a route in... started the engine again... n with a friendly car's willingness to reverse.. i managed to squeeze my way into the carpark... (hey hey, that's the best thing abt riding..)
Once in, i just went to my usual parking area n stopped there...
When i was walking to meet the ger, i tot "luckily i didn't have side panniers, or else i will still be stuck in that horrible jam with all the cars...". This tot put off my desire to get the side panniers for awhle... only for awhile...
Went to had Hagan daz ice cream because Ben & Jerrys was too crowded and alittle hot...
It has been a long time since i had Hagan daz ice cream...
Ok, this is what I had.
Cookies n Cream
This is called Flower Bosom if i didn't rem wrongly.
I love eating ice-creams... they nv fail to cheer me up whether it's a good day or a bad day... =)
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
1st July
Today is supposed to be the day I moved to the new job...
but.. no... u guess wat?
I kena extra time like those teams during Quarter finals of Euro Cup...
wat to do... when the referee says play on... u play on loh... if not wat? go back to dressing room meh?
extra time nvm leh... somemore got so many things to do... plus... somebody is going on leave...
got to cover that somebody's work too...
well.... that's the real reason y i m still ard...
but.. no... u guess wat?
I kena extra time like those teams during Quarter finals of Euro Cup...
wat to do... when the referee says play on... u play on loh... if not wat? go back to dressing room meh?
extra time nvm leh... somemore got so many things to do... plus... somebody is going on leave...
got to cover that somebody's work too...
well.... that's the real reason y i m still ard...
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