Musings…


My trip home…
July 29, 2006, 1:53 pm
Filed under: Lost in Singapore

It was the day I was waiting for a long time. I was really very anxious to go back home. Last time I went home for a holiday was last Feb. I went to Orchard to have my lunch and do some last minute stuf. I finished at about 3PM.

My flight was at 510PM so I had to go back home and proceed to the airport. I left home at about 4PM and arrived at Changi airport terminal 2 by 420PM. I checked in my baggage and I was out of the immigration at about 435PM. Hmmm…that was very efficient. No wonder that Changi is one of the best airports all over the world. The efficiency bought me time to have some SG dollars exchanged to the Phil. peso. I boarded the plane at about 505PM. After a few minutes the plane took off. Singapore Airlines(SQ) was really punctual.

For while I was wondering why SQ was the most expensive flight going home. It was my first time to fly SQ and I was excited when I saw that every seat has its own tv screen. Cool! Hmmm… Another thing, the flight attendants were realy cute! I was really impressed! hahahaha :D Food was not so great though. I didn’t like the main course. Well, it was good anyway since I was also hungry. The ice cream was really good. Plus, the red wine! Red wine’s really nice with choco ice cream. hahaha!

I had the chance to play around with Kris World. This is what they call their in-flight entertainment system. There are a lot of stuff to watch in Kris World. I watched Firewall starring Harrison Ford. The movie wasn’t that nice so I didn’t finish it so I watched The Simpsons and Discovery’s Super homes alternately. The selections were also cool. They had some famous TV series like CSI NY and House. For I moment I wished that the flight was longer. At about 830PM, the pilot announced that we were landing Ninoy Aquino Int’l Airport(NAIA) in a while. Flight was generally smooth. There’s just some turbulence but it was just normal. SQ’s service was really great. There was really no dull moment.

At about 9PM I was out of the Phil. immigration. It was really good that there were a good number of immigation officers to serve us. Service was also efficient! NAIA is better compared to PAL’s centennial airport. I just wish Terminal 3 would be opened soon since the facility’s size really rocks. It looks like a truly world-class airport. I hope when I get back for the Christmas holidays I would arrive in that airport ;-)

We went straight to Gerry’s at Jupiter to have dinner. I haven’t tasted real Mango shake for a while now. After dinner, we went to Coffee Bean in Greenbelt 3 to cap the night off.

It’s really nice to be back home!!! There’s really no place like home! :-)



Playing around with Rails
July 13, 2006, 2:30 am
Filed under: Musings on Tech stuff, Java, Linux and Open Source

I was curious on how fast is it to do a web application with Ruby on Rails. They say it is really fast compared to creating a Java web application.

After some searching over the net, I found Locomotive. Locomotive is a pre-packaged application which bundles all the requirements of a Rails web application. It aims to get you started with Ruby on Rails minus the headache. It is self-contained. It can even run with the other ruby installations. Too bad it only runs on a Mac. I didn’t wait any longer and installed it in my machine. Installation is a breeze. Just click and drag it to the applications directory. The interface to control running instances of rails apps is straightforward.

After that I looked for some tutorials, I found this article the easiest to understand.

http://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~matuszek/wiki700/index.php?n=Main.Locomotive

It took me maybe less than an hour to create my first Rails application. Hmmm…I don’t even have background with Rails! I was amazed how fast it can be done. Actually, I was stuck because my crappy text editor couldn’t save the proper filename. Dang! It could just have been a few minutes. Haha! The sample is not just the simple Hello World thingy but it has some database stuff wherein the users are able to do the usual CRUD routine from the web browser.

Rails is very interesting. I think I’ll use this thing for my pet projects. hehehe :-)



Lemongreen SMS appliance – Acclaimed Small and Medium Enterprise Practice
July 4, 2006, 3:44 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized

Fresh from Taiwan, my colleague has brought us some good news. Our product got APECrecognition! http://www.lemongreen.biz.
APEC Plaque



lost my photos!!!
July 1, 2006, 10:10 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized

I shot some 400 photos during our photo clinic this afternoon…When I went home my CF was corrupted!!! I lost all of my photos…