Train Disrupted between Tanah Merah and Pasir Ris

I was part of the 60,000 over people who were affected by the disruption of train services between Tanah Merah and Pasir Ris from 6am to 1245pm.
When I reach the train station, and my usual station had its gate shut closed, I thought some person had jumped off the MRT track to commit suicide again.. Oops. Sorry for the morbid thought. Thank goodness, it's just some service truck that got stuck in between the stations. (Just knew it from the 10pm news).

But saw the news and many people were complaining. I don't know what they are complaining about. I was quite impressed with SMRT people, cause I felt that they had controlled the crowd pretty well. They make sure that people don't forcefully squeeze up the already crowded shuttle services. And make sure that the drivers go to the right lanes to drop people off at the right stations.

Maybe some people have higher expectations. I heard one mother who was bringing her son to school asking the SMRT personnel.
Mother: "What time did the train stop functioning? How come the radio never mentioned anything before I left the house? Then maybe we would try a different route to go to school..."
SMRT personneL: "*Smiling* I don't know, mdm."
Gosh, everyone is late. School kids, working adults.... Where are these people rushing to when they know that teachers and bosses will let them go for being late. And the obvious reason being train disruption. If they don't believe, ask them watch the news, read the papers or just call SMRT to check.....
People reading this, appreciate if something like this happens to you next time, relax... and cooperate. Don't complain so much, because many people are doing a lot of things to help you already. You should say "thank you" instead.......

The Magic Of Chong Qing Hot Pot

I finally tried the "ChongQing Mala" Hot Pot for the first time on Friday.
It was good! My friends and I practically ordered 10 plates of everything on the menu.
There are different soup bases and we chose the chicken broth and the Mala soup. Stuff we ate that night included beef, cockles, mussels, dumplings, fishballs, mushrooms, veges, prawns, pork. These are buffet items, so we keep ordering plates after plates, and keep dumping them into the Mala Soup.

The 8 treasures tea was superb as well. Sadly, we ordered the cold tea, so we did not manage to get the waiter pouring out of the long tea pot to serve us...

Anyway, the food must be dipped into a mixture of 4 sauces, which kills the numbness of the Mala soup. I can only taste peanut sauce and sesame oil, but it was simply...... "sedap"!
Quite made my money worth because we ate a lot that night. Even the waiter keep questioning about our last orders of 10 plates of fish maw, mushrooms and prawns when he was taking the last order for the day.

Overall, it is good. But a bit on the steep side, it costs about $40 per pax eventually. Must call and book in advance, especially for large groups. Otherwise, you gotta eat quick and order a lot, cos' the last order is at 10pm. So early!!!! I find.

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I finally got the Internet working on my Wii

I cannot connect to the Forecast channel and the News channel on my Wii menu. I keep receiving the error message that " Wiiconnect24 is not switched on. Error Code: 109139." and "Wiiconnect24 is not available.."
Didn't know I have to switch the country to United States for them to work. Now it's working. So is my Shopping Channel and I downloaded 2 free channels "Everybody vote" channel and one "show mii" channel... Haha!

Want to surf internet on Wii though... like can watch Youtube on TV. PS3 was able to do that.. and it's good. But Wii you gotta download this Internet Channel by Opera. It used to be free download for people before June 2007! But I only got mine after, so I now have to pay about 500 Wii points, think it's about 5 USD to get it! Argh... so irritating...

One more advantage of the PS3 system compared to Wii, the internet browser is free........ would be great if I could surf net on tv...............

The Golden Path 黄金路: Thumbs Up!

I haven't been following local Singaporean dramas for a long time. Find them not as interesting as the Hongkong TVB dramas. I also don't like Korean and Taiwanese dramas also....

As usual, I did not want to watch The Golden Path on Channel 8. Rather watch Fei Tian Xi Shi that was going on on SCV. Amazingly, on Christmas Eve, a lot of my friends gave good reviews about this show. So being curious, I started watching and I got pretty hooked.

Interested people, please search the story plot online. Haha. Me bit lazy to write the story plot here, when it is so easy to find on websites and forums. Quite a lot of people discussing about this show!
Thumbs up to Felicia Chin. Think she acted quite well in the show and look very pretty!
Yesterday watch until the part when Jin Long's sister died... so poor thing. She's the most pitiful character in the show... Hopefully the show speed things up a little and show how the Kaijie is the most evil character in the entire show!

"Mei yi duan lu......." Now the theme song is stuck in my head. Cos' keep hearing it before and after advertisements.

Assassin's Creed

Top game in Digital Life today!

Had my first try of Assassin's Creed on the new PS3.
The story line is very engaging. You play a modern guy who tries to tap his assassin ancestor's memories. Super cool. You shuffle between modern life and ancient times to complete the story.

There are multiple saving points in the game. Which I like. All you need to do is save innocent civilians from the guards and you get to save your game. Better than those games that need you to search high and low for the safe point.

The graphics are very good also. The people and surroundings are not static, they react and respond according to your location and what you are doing. Dialogues in the game cannot be skipped. But it's nice, cos' you feel like you are part of a movie. And from there, you actually seriously follow the storyline.

Basically you can assume different types of role, which makes this game appealing to me. You can either assassinate someone quietly, or kill openly, escape from crowds by blending in with the crowd, jump and jump like Prince of Persia (easier to move actually...), eavesdrop and pickpocket. Coolz!

First day... and I got hooked for about 4-5 hours.... not bad for a start!

New Collection - PS3

Yes! The dream of owning a PS3 came earlier than expected. Technically, it came on the last day of 2007. But who cares?!

Mine is the 60 Gb version! Black in colour! Looks so cool and futuristic!
The game graphics are superb too!

Suddenly PS3 is more cool than Nintendo Wii! Let me try out the most anticipated game - Assassin's Creed first!