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December 2003 - Posts

Happy New Year!
Wednesday, December 31, 2003 7:23 AM

An early Happy New Year to all of you. Let's hope 2004 will be even more exciting than 2003!Though I'm not sure if I can top this previous year... to think that at the beginning of the year I was living my quiet life back in Seattle, Washington...

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Singapore TV
Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:03 PM

First let me say that Singapore is a fantastic country - I love living here.Now let me say... Singapore TV makes me want to cry.I miss my American TV shows... yes, I know Singapore has a lot of the same shows - alas, they are all 2 or 3 seasons old!

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Burning from the beach
Monday, December 29, 2003 3:42 PM

Merry belated Christmas to all of you again. I’m back from a wonderful (albeit short) vacation to the beach… beautiful Bintan, Indonesia. My first time there. Bintan is a small island about 45 minutes away from Singapore –

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Wednesday, December 24, 2003 8:35 PM

Well... there's nothing really to say today other than... MERRY CHRISTMAS!Hope you're all having some wonderful holidays and are looking forward to 2004.I am off to the beach... Bintan, Indonesia. A few days of relaxing, sleeping, and generally

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I AM ON VACATION
Monday, December 22, 2003 7:20 PM

I AM ON VACATION!! I AM ON VACATION!! I AM ON VACATION!! I AM ON VACATION!! I AM ON VACATION!! I AM ON VACATION!! I AM ON VACATION!! I AM ON VACATION!! I AM ON VACATION!! I AM ON VACATION!! That's

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From Taiwan with love
Sunday, December 21, 2003 6:42 PM

It has been a great trip to Taiwan… I went to Taipei, Nantou County, Tainan, and Chia Yi during my short trip there. Slept in a different place every night! Kind of tiring, but a really great trip… had so much fun and met many new

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The drink...
Monday, December 15, 2003 5:37 AM

So... I'll write a longer blog entry when I get some more time here in Taiwan, but I wanted to make this quick observation.One of the best parts of going to the different Microsoft offices in the world is to see what kind of drinks they have in the refrigerator.

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Rush, rush...
Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:46 PM

Good morning!My alarm went off at 6 AM this morning... I laid there, feeling really tired, but feeling kind of good... however, as I lay there, I was thinking to myself, "Hmm... why did my alarm go off so early??"Then I realized it was because I had to

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Can't sleep
Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:08 PM

Now I'm wondering what's going on. I went to bed around 3:30 am... and then woke up before 6 am. I can't figure out if I even fell asleep during that period or if I just tossed and turned in bed.This lack of sleep is really starting to get

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Well, actually...
Tuesday, December 09, 2003 6:20 PM

I watched the movie “Love Actually” tonight. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it and how funny it was. For a movie that really overloads on the sweet, sappy, and feel-good stuff, it still manages to draw you in. I think

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Another feature that drives me nuts...
Monday, December 08, 2003 1:30 PM

Another feature that drives me absolutely insane because it almost never works (well, to the average user it seems to never work), is Outlook's "Recall this message" feature. The logical assumption is that on an Exchange server (i.e. work e-mail),

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Might have been or never was?
Monday, December 08, 2003 1:21 PM

I'm so infuriatingly mad right now because Word crashed (twice) and took my blog entry with it - I was writing it in Word and going to transfer it over to theSpoke.I'm gonna e-mail my friends on the document recovery team and rip their heads off.Not the

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My new gadget!
Friday, December 05, 2003 7:15 PM

Santa Claus came early today. I am now the happy user of an O2 XDA II.Let the fun begin!More on this later...

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Vietnam student ambassadors
Wednesday, December 03, 2003 6:06 PM

I think some of the student ambassadors from Vietnam will be joining theSpoke very soon. I am quite excited to have another country in Asia jump onto theSpoke and try it out!Blogs are pretty new to Vietnam and to a lot of the countries in Asia.

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theSpoke is in the news!
Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:51 PM

I just saw an article about theSpoke in the news.http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1401512,00.asp I wonder if I'll ever make the news."Howard Lo becomes a star in Bollywood!"It's about time a Chinese-American made a splash in Indian film.

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Figured out what happened with the blog entry
Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:17 PM

So it looks like pagination is not working (at least not when I view my own blog).When I add blog entries, the oldest entry moves to a second page - however I'm not able to access the second page.When I delete the newest entry, the old entry is displayed

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When you're young and idealistic...
Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:04 AM

Stanley Tan is the new hire on our Asia Pacific team. He's technically gifted, very bright, and quite excited to get going here at Microsoft.So, I'm full of positives about him that he hears enough, so let's talk about a negative...When you're

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An American Thanksgiving Abroad
Monday, December 01, 2003 6:35 PM

A little background about myself... I'm born and raised in the US, and about 9 months ago moved to the other side of the world... to lovely Singapore. Tropical weather and good food...I love celebrating the holidays. The week before Thanksgiving

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Asynchronous web service...
Monday, December 01, 2003 4:54 PM

A Masters student just sent me this interesting site - explaning how to call a web service asynchronously. Looks pretty easy!I think I might just boot up VS and go through this chapter.

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