Singapore 0 - 3 Australia

The scoreline didn't do credit to the game. Singapore played well and with heart and tenacity. Yes, Australia is definitely a class or two better than Singapore in terms of quality on paper and eventually on the field at the end of the game. But for much of the time in the first half and start of the second half, Singapore matched Australia possession for possession and attack for attack. Australia was supposed to have it easy but Singapore's resolute defense and goalkeeping did manage to frustrate the Socceroos. The scoreline would have been more respectable if not for Indra Sahdan's header off the bar and Khairul Amri's strike against the post. Oh well, The Lions fought admirably with a spirited display and though they lost the game which they are not expected to win, they won the fans with a marked improvement.

I like Gilmore Girls

There, I have said it out loud :p

I know, you must be laughing at how a guy gets to like watching a so-called 'chick flick'. It may be a female-targeted drama but it is really family-oriented-ly nice. I like it for the witty and yet sometimes quirky conversations, the small town setting, the eccentric characters and of course Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel).

I have always wanted to live in a small town with a population no larger than a thousand. Stars Hollow is simply my ideal place to live in. Hahaha... time for me to migrate?

Channel 5 is showing season 6 now but the station didn't announce when they started showing and couldn't stick to the scheduled timing every week. In the end I missed the first few episodes of the season. So I spent a week getting the DVD rips. Now I can watch it whenever I feel like it :D

［港剧］铁血保镖

最近迷上了港剧《铁血保镖》，一下班就赶回家追看。此剧的剧情紧凑，人物鲜明，非常精彩好看。特别是戏里那个“三叔”，绝顶聪明，充满智慧，忠奸分明。他虽然表明只是个闲人，不与人争夺名利，但却对周遭的人和事观察细微，了如指掌。他无需跟坏人硬碰硬，只需用一些计谋，便能使坏人现出原形，受牵制而无法使坏。当然，好的计谋也要有好的人施。所幸这等人物是个好人，否则后果就糟了，谁也对付不了。

How many messaging services do you use?

I am now subscribed to 5 6 (edited on 24 Aug: just found another one I was not aware of) messaging services. Thank goodness to GAIM on my Ubuntu platform, I can access all of them at the same time. It is a nightmare to install 5 messenger programs on my Windows machine so I basically uninstall most of them. Since I can access Y!M and GTalk on their respective email webpages, I don't need to install them anymore. As my company blocks almost all messaging services, I only have Skype running on my company's laptop, apart from my company's own messenger.

So what are the messaging services I use? In summary:

1. Yahoo! Messenger (userid: nghianja) - most of my friends on it.
2. Google Talk (userid: nghianja) - easy to use.
3. Skype (userid: nghianja) - finally subscribed to it because it is the only one to get pass my company's proxy, shh...
4. ICQ (userid: 77392799) - my first messenger but rarely use it now.
5. MSN (userid: james.ng@t-est.com) - forced to register when I wanted to download a software; using it reluctantly.
6. AIM (userid: nghianja): only just found out that it is linked to my netscape webmail.
7. Jabber (userid: id10836) - my company's personal messaging service, so not counted above.

But now that Y!M and MSN are linked and one can message another, we don't really need that many messengers. Hopefully that is a way for me to combine all my messaging services into one.

Shrek 3

Shrek and gang are back and they are hilarious as ever. The comedy is certainly there with the whole cinema laughing. However, the story this time round is more predictable. There is no more spoof of popular movies this time, unless I missed noticing any. Other characters got more show-time too.

Side Note: I finally got to meet Vega's girlfriend, hahaha... truly happy for him.

My Old Blog

I have finally managed to transfer all the entries in my old blog, which was a series of web pages I created. I didn't use a blogging site as I wasn't sure I will keep up the writing. In the end, I lasted a year, fulfilling one of my resolutions for that year. Seeing that I have rediscovered my interest in writing down my thoughts and was not afraid of sharing them online anymore, I switched to this site.

The links to the start and end of my old blog are given here :)

POTC3: At World's End

I had spent a fruitful Saturday afternoon. After going to the bank in the morning, I finally managed to catch the movie Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End. It was an entertaining movie though it could have been much better with more emphasize on the characters and subplots. Instead it focused a wee bit too much on the special effects. Nonetheless, it was funny in a wicked sort of way. Johnny Depp was excellent as usual with the other characters having better display. The moral of the story (yes, I always try to find a moral behind a story, and there is one even for this kind of movie) is any small fries like the pirates united can stand against a corporate monopoly, the East India Company. Think the open source community versus Microsoft :p