Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?

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.

Free Wireless @ Changi Airport

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 …

Movie Review: Three Kingdom - Resurrection of the Dragon

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 …

Movie Review: Ah Long Pte Ltd

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 …

8 Countries, 2 Continents, 22 Days: My Trip was finally over

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

29 Feb @ Singapore

Finally reach my long waited day, I start my Europe journey from a small step. Taking a flight to Batam using AirAsia, continue with taxi to Batam Centre, and take ferry Penguin (SGD 27) to Singapore. Finally arrived at 2pm.

Using MRT like a mad, from west to changi to …

Going for Holiday..

Hey everyone, I've been pretty busy lately after my marriage (you know lah: just married), not to mention my preparation for honeymoon to Europe. It will be started on 29 February till 18 March 2008. 12 days in Europe plus 4 days in Shanghai, China. Need extensive internet research, hotel …

Om Farhan back to radio, now in Delta FM

It's been a while I missed Farhan, tv and radio host. Since his late night show 'Om Farhan' losts it grip and attention from Empat Mata show (hosted by Tukul Arwana), we don't see Farhan much. Since his career rose from Prambors to Cosmopolitan FM, then his tv appearance made …