Snippets of Hendrik Christian Daily Life

After last month outing in Zouk Wine Bar, this month we had a BBQ last night somewhere around Clarke Quay. Satay, sausages, chicken wings, fried rice, fried bee-hoon, string-ray, prawns, corn, garlic bread, and such are on the food menu, and a lot of varieties of alcoholic drinks and fruit juices for the drink menu. Last night, I virtually had most alcohol in one night ever, in my whole life. I started with what we called

Avanade plus, a mixture between Sparkling Wine and Sunkist, followed by Tequila Shot, Jack Daniels, Whisky Cola, Vodka with 7 Up, closed by Red Wine with 7 Up. Wow ... that was close to my maximum already. Amazingly, I was still quite sober last night, albeit a bit high. hahaha...

Sorry, I don't have any photos since the one who took the photos is now overseas, will post as soon as I have it.

Today, for lunch, we went to Amara hotel for $50++ buffet

, I had a lot that starts with "S": shark fin soup, sashimi, salmon, sushi, scallop, shrimps, salads, and those that doesn't start with "S" like lobster, beef, chicken, mango mousse, etc. etc. A very filling lunch indeed.

But today, they didn't have a discount for Citibank credit card holder, which they usually have, just because this week is the so-called Secretary Week. yeah right ...

However, this week may still not comparable to what I may have next week. As of now, there are three dinners and one lunch already arranged for next week. Hahaha... so happy ... Bring it on ...

Posted at 04:24 pm by hendrikch
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I have been waiting for its released for a while now, but finally Opera 8 Browser has been released.

It's a browser, it's an email client, it's a RSS newsfeed reader, and it's an IRC client, all packaged in a 3.6MB size that's smaller than Firefox browser alone. It's the fastest, most standard compliant, highly customizable, most secure (compare with IE or Firefox), works in Windows, Mac, Linux, you name it, and the most full-featured browser we have now (unlike Firefox, in Opera, everything is built-in). Opera also received PC World's Best Browser Award in 2004.

No kidding, no exxagerating, it's just something good, and something good, like Bible, must be shared, right?

I will post my review in a few days, but in the mean time, compare Opera with Internet Explorer (Browser 1) and Firefox (Browser 2), read all the buzz about Opera

, or 30 Days to become an Opera8 Lover (a very good article to highlight all Opera features), or check why Adobe chose Opera for its latest Creative Suite 2.

So, download the browser now, and try it for yourself.

Posted at 01:15 pm by hendrikch
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Think I would share this, especially to those who are having their exam right now. All the best!!!

Posted at 03:03 pm by hendrikch
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Does Adobe and Macromedia sounds familiar? They should, coz every Internet user should more or less have used their product, be it Acrobat Reader, or Macromedia Flash. Adobe has just announced that they are going to acquire Macromedia for $3.4 billion, and it will be very interesting to see what the new company can come out with, given the resources, technology, and money these two companies have.

Quoting from Gizmodo, "it's a safe bet to say that soon, we'll be able to generate PDFs from Flash movies with a ColdFusion backend that plays back video edited in Premiere wrapped in an interface laid out in Dreamweaver, designed in Fireworks and colored in Illustrator. All within a single company's product lineup. Get ready for a productivity suite that leaves you winded, for sure."

Posted at 12:02 pm by hendrikch
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It so happened when I went to Novena Square, there are people who are doing line dancing. And it so happened that I brought my camera with me, so I took a quick snap of them. Kinda reminded me of the time when I organized the longest line dancing in front of Takashimaya few years back. Any of you know how to do a line dancing?

Update: The longest line dancing in front of Takashimaya few years back I was referring to was Dance Fiesta 2001. It was four years back, but it is one of those unforgettable memories. Thanks Dian. See media coverage from Channel 8.

Extract from WorldRemind: Dance Fiesta is Singapore largest dance extravaganza ever organised by a student body. The event was held at Civic Plaza on 21st of July 2001 from 10am to 10pm and was jointly organised by NTU Cultural Activities Club - Modern Jazz and The Next Stage, School of Performing Arts. Programme for the event includes dance performance put up by schools and charitable organisations, dance classes for public, a largest friendship dance (mass dancing), skits and open air bash (Jam and Hop).

Posted at 04:20 pm by hendrikch
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Yeah right, yesterday I received quite a number of links from my MSN Messenger buddies, giving me a link to a picture of me, with a link to download an executables. Knew straightaway that this was a virus/worm/trojan, whatever.

I searched through Symantec's website, but the information was not there yet. So, being a curious bit, I downloaded a copy of the executables, and scanned it using Norton Antivirus. Clean, it said.

Never mind, I copied the worm to a separate system running in Virtual PC, ran it, and see what it did. Nothing much I could discover except that the virus kept spawning msnsched2.exe every 2-3 seconds which I presume slowed down one of my friend's friend's machine. After satisfied with seeing what the virus/worm/trojan did, I closed the virtual PC and discarded all changes. Being a virtual PC, so no harm was done. One of the thing I love about Virtual PC

If you happened to click on that link yesterday, please help yourself and your MSN buddies by cleaning your system. Get the removal tool from Symantec. You can also read further information about the worm from Symantec.
Now, who's so, forgive me, DUMB, to click on that link yesterday?

Posted at 11:48 am by hendrikch
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Date: 02 April 2005. Time: 0900 hours.
Plan A: Go to Pulau Kusu. Status: Cancelled. Reason: Late and Raining
Plan B: Arcarde at Harbourfront. Status: Cancelled. Reason: The arcade was not there anymore.
Plan C: Play pool at Harbourfront. Status: Cancelled. Reason: Pool is located at the same place as the arcade. So...
Plan D: Go Sentosa. Status: ON.
Here are the pictures when we went for outing at Sentosa. We started early in the morning, went there to play beach volley ball, some went kayakking, then played pool, had chips and brownies for lunch, and went to Magic Wok at Novena Square for dinner. Weekend well spent, despite it being Plan D. Nuff said.

Gathered in Harbourfront Tower.

Arrived at Siloso Beach at Sentosa. It's a nice beach now, though the sands are imported.

Kayakking, burning some calories.

Enjoying themselves.

Now, who's at the other end of the phone? hehehe...

Aftermath from Sentosa, though it was not the end of the day, yet.

Posted at 11:14 am by hendrikch
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Following up from my post last week, I tried the "transparent" screen trick on my own. Not so perfect yet, you'll notice the wallpaper is off a bit, but not bad for a first try, isn't it?

Posted at 07:13 pm by hendrikch
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Last Thursday, my colleagues and I went to Zouk Wine Bar for get-along day, to know each other better, accompanied of course by food and drink. Here are the pictures.

My table, but from my face expression, I look as if I was drunk while I was not.

The other table.

Finger foods and drinks.

That's Lychee Martini I was holding.

Posted at 04:26 pm by hendrikch
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Today, 7th of April, Microsoft has released the final version of their latest MSN Messenger 7, build number 7.0.0777, with download size at 7 MB, about 7 months after it entered its beta testing stage since September 2004. Now what's up with 7's ???

Download MSN Messenger 7 now from MSN Messenger or Microsoft Downloads
View Microsoft Press Release

Posted at 05:06 pm by hendrikch
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