November 29th, 2007
Jeanne d’Arc is a great little SRPG I’m enjoying right now - I don’t even want to start Final Fantasy Tactics until after I’ve completed Jeanne d’Arc.
I have a Nintendo DS Lite as well and I have to say that I’m more of a PSP gamer where portable consoles are concerned. There just weren’t that many involved games in the DS (except Puzzle Quest) and coming from a big fantasy CRPG background kinda made the DS a poor companion on train and bus rides. Being able to play videos on a large screen (relative to the iPod video I carry around all the time) is awesome. It’s not an iPhone but it’s good enough for watching videos!
October 15th, 2007
One of my favorite foodie moments from my trip to Tokyo was at Harajuku where I had a crepe with cheese cake and ice cream from Angel’s Heart (need to dig that photo out). It was THE best crepe I’ve ever had. I’d even thrown around the idea of bringing it back to Singapore as a commercial venture.
Well anyway, I found that one of the crepe shops in Harajuku, Marion Cafe, that was just opposite Angel’s Heart, has opened a branch right here in Singapore at the IMM Building.
I tried their mango crepe (it had mango and ice cream in it) which set us back about SGD 5.80.
It was alright, not as good as the one I had in Harajuku of course, but still a nice treat. They have 105 different types of crepe - anything ranging for your run-of-the-mill strawberry and ice cream crepe, to tuna crepe, and even crepe with Japanese curry.
October 3rd, 2007
Got an email not too long ago from Working With Rails (my profile) entitled “WWR September Hackfest Winner - Congrats!”, and almost deleted it thinking it was spam. I read it in the end (after all, how often do you see spam with “Rails” in the subject title), and turns out that my recent patches to Rails pushed me up to 6th position in the September Rails contributors rankings.
I vaguely remember seeing Rails Hackfest mentioned somewhere but only just realized it’s a “contest” run monthly. The winners are the top 10 contributors to Rails (contribution being determined by the number of accepted patches, docfixes, and even comments). That’s really nice of the sponsors and Working With Rails, since that wasn’t really what I’d expected in return for contributing to an Open Source project (that would be a sense of satisfaction, personally-speaking).
I’m just really glad that the JSON patches went into Rails before Rails 2.0 and it is satisfying to see my code get into Rails (I’ll blog about the patches in a separate post). There’s still some more work needed though - please help to verify and give suggestions or +1s ;).
The company I work for was featured on a short “Surf Time” segment on Channel NewsAsia’s TV channel. Catch the Bezurk Surf Time video on YouTube. (1)
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