PICA press conference

Waiting for PY to give me the rest of the pics would give me enough time to grow a beard. So I'll just go ahead with this post using the pictures I have.

Only interested in the client. :(

It's a bit annoying that I got so stressed up to deliver a good speech and got next to no airtime. No check that, it's immensely frustrating. Daryl pushed me into making doing it even though he knew full well that I didn't want to (I even told him flat out no) but you know ole Daryl Lim, always needs to get his way.

Su Ling interviewing Daryl

I shall say no more about this in this long overdue "Draft Post" because I feel it best to bottle up my feelings.... and save them for your family one day.

Wei Li and Gary. (Khian Ping is camera shy)

In any case, it wasn't really a press conference and was more like a launch. It was, quite frankly, a waste of time because the exposure was next to none. If there's a next one, I'll be skipping it. Let the rest of the team members stress themselves up.

Anyway, here is a link to the video of the launch aired on the Chinese News.

The Radio Interview Part 2

Khian Ping, Li Ling and mua.

Gary, Wei Li and Khian Ping

Su Ling, Gary and Wei Li

Gary, Wei Li, Khian Ping, Phui Yung and Li Ling

Nothing much to say here. It's all in the previous post. Except for the fact that I think Su Ling's cute. heh. Although for some reason, her eyes are always half shut whe she's in a photo.

As mentioned in the previous post, I don't think my voice will be inside because the recording stopped and she only has that small part of my voice(see previous post) which is like worthless even though my voice is damn nice. ;p

Podcast Part 1
Podcast Part 2

The Radio Interview Part 1

Headed down to mediacorp for a radio interview for PICA(The board game project we created during FYP). Phui Yung's supervisor was in charge of the thing so she scheduled this (She's interned at MediaCorp).

Took a taxi cuz I was late and ended up tumpang-ing Weili and Gary who I saw on the side of the road.

Me, Wei Li, Gary

Camwhore!

Entered the MediaCorp gates a.l.a "The Sum Of All Fears" and headed down to RSI. We passed by the live 93.8 studio which was basically made of glass. This made me want to see the 987 studio where Muttons In The Morning was on especially after they pulled that stunt about having Beckham on the line. Neh neh la! lol

Tap N Go (or something)

We headed deep underground and entered the studio. It felt like a bunker and my ears began to ring from the sheer quiet.

♪ Nobody said it was easy... ♪

We were interviewed by this University Intern named Su Ling.

It was all in Mandarin so I was like "huh? yea. erm.. yea".

I only said a "Hi. My name is... and I do the..." and a "What I learnt was..." in English.

The thing is, I believe the rear part of the interview was not recorded. Particularly because the timecode had stopped and because Su Ling looked a bit shocked when at the end of the interview, she went to "stop" the recording.

So that meant that the only recording of my voice was the "Hi. My name is... and I do the...".

The last I heard, my voice was totally removed and Su Ling introduced me herself.

Apparently the only cafeteria at Mediacorp

Will update with broadcast timing or podcast link once I get more info.

PHP Developers

Headed out to Brewerks for the PHP User Group meeting and as usual it was raining cats and dogs.

Starting to flood

Only 3 of us were there excluding a non-participant. I guess it was because of the rain.

An Indian national came down. He didn't know what PHP was and didn't seem interested in learning about PHP. Fulfilling the stereotype, he came only to sell his product and his services. He pointed the organiser to visit many websites on his laptop which was connected to the net and then proceeded to ask us if we were able to crack proprietary embedded software so that he could sell it, on behalf of us of course... repeatedly.

The 3rd guy, a business man familiar with the local software scene but not any good at programming came down about half an hour after the Indian national left apparently had to leave to go cook food for his roommates.

I'm becoming a cam whore.

This 3rd guy was really knowledgeable about handling an idea and with the organiser's practical experience in the field, the stage was set. There are loads of interesting things that we are hoping to start in the local PHP community.

From those few hours I learnt quite a few interesting things from the organiser(although in brief). I was going to implement them in FishingKaki the next day but my school (Singapore Poly) had other plans for my schedule so that unfortunately will come later.

Some of the things that we discussed included how PHP developers were in short supply. This actually shocked me because I thought that there would be a healthy supply of them. Now I'm trying to teach Sam some PHP but he doesn't seem interested. I also invited Chen Shan to join this user group and we'll see where this goes.

Beauty of the midnight train

Left the place very close to midnight and managed to take one of the last few trains.

New Template

I have redone the template so that I can use the new blogger beta widget system.

If you notice any problems, let me noe at fusionstream@gmail.com.

I may be doing another template change(changing the actual look and feel) soon too. We'll see how it goes. Extremely busy with fishingkaki. Can't even maintain my other sites.

New Year's Countdown 2006

Went out with the guys to catch the fireworks and participate in the countdown. Didnt go to Vivocity because the tickets were sold out by the time we wanted to get them and also because we had to pay which sorta turned us off.

Your Truly

Simon, a person Roy had met while playing Dota online and who also turned out to be jinghao's friend, was with us too.

Roy and Simon

Weili

Weili said while walking down the escalator someone suddenly came and stood in front of him and stared at him and then proceeded to ask his friend if he was Cuteworm. lol.

Hao

Ended up going to eat at MOS at Plaza Singapura and then walked over to Cineleisure to check out what free gifts we could get from the countdown happening there.

One too many Party Poppers

Saw that the gifts were nothing so we took a bus down to the National Museum to go for that countdown instead.

We were early and after looking around, we decided to go play pool at Paradiz but the tables there were full. So we decided to go play at nearby LAN shop.

The Lan Shop with No Aircon

At about 11.45pm we hurriedly pulled ourselves away from the LAN shop to try and head back to the Museum for the countdown. We reached about 5 minutes early and stood by the side of the stage while some people began to dance.

Might actually try out the dancing at these things one of these days. For now, I just like the drinks. haha

Fireworks

Fireworks

Sound: Baloons popping


After the fireworks were done we headed out of the Museum to see if we could catch the fireworks at the Esplanade.

The fireworks at the Esplanade started just as we exited the museum so we watched it from there.

Fireworks over Esplanade

Fireworks over Esplanade

The guys are pretty docile... No shouting the countdown.. No handshakes.. quite sian acherly.. lol

I think we need some girls in our group to make it more lively and what not.

After catching the fireworks, we headed down to City Hall MRT to decide where to go. The guys wanted to go to KBOX but Simon wanted to go home so he left and we headed to Marina Square.

Exodus

Masses

It was fucking crowded along the streets as everybody was trying to get home on the MRT which was about to close in 45 minutes. I swear, if Singapore ever had to perform a mass evacuation, we'd be seriously screwed.

In fact, I saw volunteers "ushers" quarelling with the pedestrians.

Meet China

Hordes of people

We Walk Alone

There is only one day in the year where you can walk against the flow of traffic on the main road.

Evacuation

KBox was also crowded so we located a 7-11 in the building that was "bounced" by 2 bangla temp employees and bot some drinks and sat at the foyer, waiting for the jam to subside so we could take a bus to Weili's house.

Litter was strewn everywhere including the secluded areas which were notw devoid of people which eerily reminded me of "28 Days Later".


The bus service that night was seriously fucked up. Before the jam subsided, the entire bus lane was filled with buses - with duplicate services - but once the jam started to subside, the buses were few and far in between.

The best part was, while there was still a jam and even after it had subsided, WL's bus still had not come. About 1.5hrs had past before we saw roy's bus coming and we decided to go to his house instead.

Once we had boarded the bus, I saw my own service coming up behind. Faced with the prospect of a long train ride home the next morning (Roy lived much further away from me than WL), I alighted at the next bus stop and boarded my service home.