Author: wyred

This is where I stay.

To the south is a park, named Bishan Park. That dark green patch is actually a pond/whateveryoucallthat. And erm… Nothing else interesting. lol

Red dot marks the spot.

Click here for the Google link.

For those of you who aren’t afraid to be stalked, feel free to locate your neighbourhood in Google maps and post the link in the comments of this entry!

To copy the link, right click on "Link to this page" and copy the link there. It’s located above the top right corner of the map.

A few months ago, I received a few phonecalls from Oriental Travel saying I’ve won their lucky draw which is a trip to Thailand and a few other free gifts. I rejected their offer because at that time, I don’t really like travelling.

Then they would slam the phone on you rudely.

I think I’ve received a total of 3 calls.

Then for the 3rd call, when asked for my age and occupation, I replied "14, student". The caller said, "ok thanks" and slammed the phone.

Just now when reading a friend’s blog, one entry sounded like she was going to get scammed. Which made me remember this incident. Thus, I went to search HWZ forums and came up with 2 threads.

HWZ Forums thread #1

HWZ Forums thread #2

I’m surprised. Those were exactly what happened to me. I recall the person saying that I have to attend a 2 hour presentation in order to collect my prize.

My lack of interest in travelling overseas back then and addiction to FFXI saved me from scam.

Scamming is slowly becoming a serious problem here in Singapore. My mother’s friend already received 2 mails from overseas (the stamps were in euros) saying she won a lottery worth a few hundred thousand US dollars but need to first give them a few thousand USD to proccess the transaction.

So yea, be very careful when you receive a phonecall saying you won a lucky draw prize but you don’t rememebr when you participated in any lucky draw. 

Delicious, spicy, fragrant asam fish. Cooked by my mum. Soft juicy fish meat.

I bought a bunch of The Pillows album. I like this band a lot.

I also bought albums by Go! Go! 7188, Fairy Fore and Penicillin. They are very good rock bands!

Also grabbed the OST for Final Fantasy 3 DS. This is the first Final Fantasy game I played. Back then, I played it on the Famicom platform and it was in Japanese. But somehow I managed to play through a few levels (Weird eh?) and I liked the gameplay. I guess this is how I ended up liking RPGs a lot.

I’m very glad SquareEnix is remaking in the game. This time in 3D and with CG cutscenes and for the NDS and in English! 

Lastly, owe money, pay money! ヽ(｀Д´)ノ

 

After like 5 or 6 years of 256kbps/512kbps ADSL internet, I’m finally moving on to 10Mbps ADSL2+.

The activation date is on the 13th of October 2006, Friday. There will be downtime as they upgrade my line to ADSL2. On the next day in the morning, a Singnet representative will come down and give me my ADSL2+ modem router and configure it for my PCs but I intend to just tell him to leave and I’ll configure it myself.

10Mbps, roughly 20 times faster than what I have now. My upload speeds will be 1Mbps, 4 times faster than what I have.

Excited, I am. More harddisk space, I need.