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Being stucked in hotel room most of my time in Papua New Guinea, I turned my whole nightlife to television. One of my favourite tv program was “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?“, in Star World channel. It was actually a Fox TV program, but for cable tv in Asia you can watch in Star World.

The setting is in a huge classroom (tv studio set), watch by many people. There are 5 classmates, each is 10 year-old boys and girls. Original cute and smart classmates were: Laura, Spencer, Kyle, Alana, and Jacob . An adult contestant bring to the show can choose classmate to accompany him to answer questions. There are 10 questions, ranging from social science, animal science, earth, grammar, 1st grade spelling, etc, all are subjects taught to grade 1 to grade 5 students in primary. Each question given will be also answered by all classmates by writing to their ‘worksheet’. From here you might think that it must be a very easy question? You’re wrong.
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I am in project business trip to Papua New Guinea from 14 Apr - 5 May. Hope still have time to post some blogs.

Now I am in transit at Singapore. Having arriving in noon at Changi, spend some hours walking without destination in city, now I am sitting in Terminal 1 Departure Hall. And shit, my flight is delayed one hour. Check-in counters haven’t open yet, so I just stuck in the hall. I plan to have dinner in the transit hall, so I just keep my stomach quiet

Luckily there’s Wireless@SG Free wireless facilities in entire building. Unfortunately I entered wrong GSM number link to my correct passport number so my registration was stuck in the middle of nowhere (they sent password to GSM number worldwide, but I typed wrong country code!, no way to correct this).

Then I switch my GSM to StarHub, type *WIFI in the phone, and an SMS sent to me immediately with username and password). Then pointed my laptop wifi to “ACCESS-StarHub”, and yes now I typed this blog using free internet while downloading some video clips.

My Rating: 8 of 10

No need for synopsis. All people know Romance of The Three Kingdom is very complicated story. This film starred by Andy Lau, Sammo Hung, Maggie Q, tries to present one part of the story, that is General Zhao Zilong (Zhao Yun). Although there are still Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, but the focus of the movie is in Zhao Zilong.

Andy Lau stars as Zhao Zilong, a top general of the Kingdom of Shu who takes a last stand against the invading forces from the Kingdom of Wei. Maggie Q is fictional Cao Ying, a granddaughter of Wei warlord Cao Cao, whose eldest son Cao Pi becomes the first emperor of the Wei kingdom.

Yep, there will be another movie titled ‘The Battle of Red Cliff’ that will be launched later this year.

Story is good, actors are good, so there’s no reason not to watch it.

You can check the movie website at here. 

My Review: 9 of 10

Finally come again film by Jack Neo, a reputable film director as well as great comedian from Singapore. It was released on W2 March 2008 in Singapore and Malaysia and quickly became a box office on the two countries. Although many viewers seems not to cheer this film, but I can say that this movie is a kind that ‘don’t bother any critics and just watch it’.

Played by Mark Lee and Fann Wong with plot similar to “My Wife is Gangster 3″, sissy man with a gangster wife, almost 2 hours of film packed with full laugh and singlish words. Movie in 5 language: Singlish, Hokkian, Mandarin, and a bit of Cantonese and Malay. I don’t think it will available in Indonesia, so I just luckily enough to watch it on KL Golden Screen Cinema last week.

“Ah Long Pte Ltd” is a light-hearted black comedy about the triad world and the money-lending business. Following the retirement of her triad leader (Richard Low), a young lady, Li Hua (Fann Wong), tries to restructure her money-lending triad into a professional and ‘loving’ triad that stands against the use of violence. She also suffers a nagging mother and gets involved in a romance with Mr Fang (Mark Lee), an effeminate dance instructor cum image stylist.

Finally I arrived at Jakarta after traveling for 22 days. From Feb 29th to March 22nd, started from Jakarta to Singapore, Shanghai, London, Rome, Florence, Venice, Paris, Amsterdam, Mainz, Frankfurt and return back to Shanghai, Singapore, Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, and back to Jakarta. It was quite a long journey, involving many cities and transfer. From airport to other airports, from one railway to others. Exhausting? A bit, but it was a great and unforgettable experience since it was my first time to Europe.

The weather in March was still cold, from zero to 12 Celcius, so almost all of my photos were in leather jacket and sweater. Luckily I had a chance to see rain water turned into snow drops although just less in a minute in a freezing cold night.

Here I upload some photos taken using my Sony CyberShot DSC-T1. The camera have been serving for almost 4 years and something, producing 5000+ pics and yet to be replaced. I brought a tripod so I could take picture together with my wife without asking for person’s help. As T1 owners might know, the camera didn’t come with a tripod hole, that means it was not design to work with all tripods. With a bit tweaking (I’ll explain it in later blog), it could be done.

Enjoy my highlight photo. I’ll post more detail trip of each city in next post!

Me at London Big Ben
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