Posts from ‘April, 2010’

I got a pair of tickets to the opening night of the 20th European Film Festival for the screening of Broken Embraces (from Spain). The screening is on 6th May 2010 at Vivo City Golden Village. I would really love to attend this screening as I’ve enjoyed watching other films from the European Film Festival. [...]

I was invited to the European Union Film Festival’s Blogger Movie Night held at the Spain Embassy. Spain is the current EU Presidency. This is not my first time attending the EU Film Festival. This year, we have the pleasure of watching Irina Palm from Luxembourg.
Irina Palm is about a 50 year old widow who [...]

VOILAH! The annual French Festival in Singapore is back with a rich spread of culinary, arts, cultural and sporting events from 15 April to 21 May 2010. The Festival, organized by the French Embassy and sponsored by leading French companies in Singapore, presents over 25 events. There’s too many for me to list them here. [...]

In case you still don’t know by now, Facebook has disabled the “Become a Fan” option on Facebook Fan Page. Before you start running around the house, pulling your hair in horror, calm down. It’s merely a “language change”. So instead of clicking the “Become a Fan” button on a Fan Page, you click the [...]

HTC launched the HTC HD mini in Singapore recently. I managed to grab a quick look at the phone during the launch event. It seems to be a growing trend for phone makers to release a smaller version of their successful phone. The HTC HD mini is the smaller version of the HTC HD2.

I [...]

I know the parliament is debating about some amendment on the election bill. Personally, I’m against the cooling off day. I think NCMP Sylvia Lim covered all the points that I wanted to say.

While she brought up a good argument, I can’t help but sit in front of my computer feeling hopeless. Like it [...]

Found this torture test video on Engadget.
Lenovo’s ThinkPad Edge and Dell’s Vostro V13

I know, I know. Some people might say the video is from Lenovo and how do we know they didn’t use a faulty Vostro to begin with. Or use less energy for the Thinkpad. Blah blah blah blah blah……. But then, having [...]

If you do a Google on Prof Stephen Hawking, you will notice that lots of news outlet and blogs talking about his warning against making contact with aliens.
In a series for the Discovery Channel the renowned astrophysicist said it was “perfectly rational” to assume intelligent life exists elsewhere.
But he warned that aliens might simply raid [...]

Do you remember the Hitler parodies on Youtube with clip from The Downfall (Der Untergang). Well, all these are going to be gone soon, thanks Constantin Film (the movie’s producer and distributor). Constantin Film has issued take down notice to Youtube for all the Hitler parodies using clips from The Downfall.
Whoever came up with [...]

Thousands of Windows XP (Service Pack 3) computers running McAfee Antivirus software couldn’t use their PC after a faulty virus definition update was pushed to the computers on Wednesday. According to reports, the faulty update causes computers to shut down within a minute of starting up. The problem was caused by virus definition file 5958, [...]