Samuel Liew’s Blog

Never been in such a freaky situation before but I was amazed at my calmness. Went to Cicerellos for lunch, and after the meal walked back to the car, on the way noticed that my wallet wasn’t with me >.< Should have just put it back in my pocket directly after ordering the food. Thank God a kind soul found it and pass it to the shop owner instead of taking it (there wasn’t much money but had my student card, atm, ezlink and licence).

Okay, I have been very lazy considering the long break from the previous update since I got back to Singapore last year, so here’s a bumper-update that I have been thinking of doing for a long time already (point-form to avoid being long-winded).

1) Youth Camp – had a great time connecting and catching up with the people I rarely see nowadays.

2) Bryan & Siaw Tze – hosted them in Singapore for a few days, brought them sightseeing.

3) Family Cruise – family went on a cruise to Penang & Phuket. Enjoyed all the great food and bonding.

4) Back to Perth – new accommodation, new friends, bought a car. Looking forward to a more exciting year!

Photos have been uploaded to Facebook, but here is a few of the nicer ones:

Out of curiousity, I checked my website’s stats and totalled the number of hits on my Word Scramble game since it’s launch in 2008, which totalled over 2 million at 2,074,766 (for both the main and widget versions, which can be placed on Google’s personalized home page, and on Facebook).

Why don’t you try the game yourself?

Up to 60% Discounts!

Happening from 11th to 17th Jan 2010, get up to 60% discounts on Nike and Fila apparel, footwear and accessories. Happening for a week only so mark your calendars!

Event Details:
Venue: Isetan Orchard, Event Space L1
Date: 11 – 17 Jan 2010

Fila & Nike Sale @ Isetan | Great Deals Singapore.

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UBeat (pronounced you-beat, spelled “jubeat” in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau), is an arcade music video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBeat

Have been playing Jubeat recently for fun at Bugis’ Virtualand arcade. Here are my real-time stats:
https://www.ea-pass.konami.jp/contents/jubeat/ripples/play_top.do?fid=14400023376575
http://massda.dyndns.org/jubeat_ripples/14400023376575/

Here are some of my favourite Jubeat videos on facebook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tkhRkRhIvg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fhOYw0Dp_g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGaEQAST4m4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VP2PZanKCE

Today I went into the NPC zone in Freesky for the first time.

War Reports:

http://174.36.72.37/CielLoader.swf?sceneStatus=0&reportURL=http://174.36.58.140/&id=1039245

http://174.36.72.37/CielLoader.swf?sceneStatus=0&reportURL=http://174.36.58.140/&id=1039437

http://174.36.72.37/CielLoader.swf?sceneStatus=0&reportURL=http://174.36.58.140/&id=1039935

http://174.36.72.37/CielLoader.swf?sceneStatus=0&reportURL=http://174.36.58.140/&id=1040205

http://174.36.72.37/CielLoader.swf?sceneStatus=0&reportURL=http://174.36.58.140/&id=1040869

http://174.36.72.37/CielLoader.swf?sceneStatus=0&reportURL=http://174.36.58.140/&id=1041419

http://174.36.72.37/CielLoader.swf?sceneStatus=0&reportURL=http://174.36.58.140/&id=1041863

http://174.36.72.37/CielLoader.swf?sceneStatus=0&reportURL=http://174.36.58.140/&id=1042195

http://174.36.72.37/CielLoader.swf?sceneStatus=0&reportURL=http://174.36.58.140/&id=1042770

http://174.36.72.37/CielLoader.swf?sceneStatus=0&reportURL=http://174.36.58.140/&id=1043197

http://174.36.72.37/CielLoader.swf?sceneStatus=0&reportURL=http://174.36.58.140/&id=1043538

Today I had planned to do three things after my SEES lecture. Visit job fair in uni, participate in a free lucky dip, and get free hotdogs at the guild AGM. By the way, all three were advertised in the uni email, and the events happened to coincide at the same time at 12pm.

My lecture finished 15 minutes early at 1145, and I decided to visit the free lucky dip first as it was nearer. Guess what? About 100 people were already there, EARLY, in one BIG crowd with no form of order at all. Not even a simple queue!! When the booth opened (actually just a table), everybody just started surging forward at the same time to one poor person manning the counter. When the organiser gave instructions to form a queue, it was not heeded and everyone still wanted in. EVEN SINGAPOREANS KNOW HOW TO QUEUE WITHOUT BEING ASKED TO!!!! (cannot take that for granted >.<) I omg-ed and lol-ed, watched the crowd grow to about 200+, and then got sick of the way the event was handled and decided not to participate.

I went on to get free hotdogs for lunch, then walked through the job fair. Nothing interesting there, mostly health and engineering companies. Also met with half my group for SE discussion (the other half pon/awol the meeting).

1) Exam results were released last wednesday. Working backwords from subtracting accumulated result before exam from final result, I just realized that I got FULL MARKS in one of my exams last semester, which contributed to a HD. PTL!

2) I also received my experts exchange tee shirt. Photo:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2321096&l=8911e87b4e&id=526186234

3) Have been learning driving. Done 5 lessons already, and only left parking to learn.

4) Tried out an ‘answering machine’ for MSN. Try talking to me lol ^^

5) Went to uni today to change and confirm the units I’m going to be studying this semester. Updates on my studies page at http://www.samliew.com/school.php

Finally exams are over! I am so relieved but still hoping and praying that nothing bad will go wrong.

After my last (and hardest) paper yesterday, my cell group had a pot luck dinner.

I have shifted my website from w3hub.com to flexihostings.com as the previous hosting plan wasn’t sufficient to cope with the exponentially increasing traffic. My site was down for a few hours as the domain name was re-pointed to the new hosting provider.

On the Facebook app Friends for Sale, I have finally accomplished what I have started out for – managed to max Azaac’s value!

There was a thunderstorm last night and this morning, and a temporary power outage in some areas around noon. Now it’s still drizzling. Hope tennis won’t be cancelled later.