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Singapore Airline

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Singapore Airline

I am flying Singapore Airline to India this time instead of Lufthansa.  The flight takes longer, but unless you are really in a hurry, I would recommend taking over Lufthansa any day.  Singapore airline is voted as the best airline in the world and I am really impressed by its service.

The seats of SQ is more comfortable than other airline with more leg rooms and wider seats.  The SQ plane feels so spacious compare to the planes of other airlines.  There are also more space in the toilet and the kitchen area.

The food service is super.  It is the first flight meal actually taste close to a real meal on ground.  Once on board, they hand out a menu listing all food and drinks available, so I know what I can order when the air hostess come by.  The air hostesses serve drinks more often than other airline.  They run the drink cart down the aisle twice back to back every time, so I can refill my drink.

I think the crown jewel of SQ is their entertainment system.  Not only each passenger has a mini TV, there is a huge collection of movies and TV.  This plane probably have more movies than the downloads in my hard drive.  All movies and TV are on demand, so you don’t have to work around the movie schedule.  You can start watching anytime you want and you can pause or fast forward in the movie.  On top of the in flight radio broadcast, the system also keep a library of complete CDs.  There are over 10 Chinese CDs of the latest albums from famous singers in HK or Taiwan.  The entertainment system is so overwhelming that I don’t know what to watch.

The ticket of Singapore Airline is more expensive, but extra comfort definitely worth the premium, especially when the ticket is paying by the company.

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Wedding Preparation

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There are two ways for wedding preparation. One way is the dream wedding way, try your best to prepare a perfect wedding. Search many places around before deciding what is the perfect decoration, the perfect dresses, the perfect reception, the perfect banquet, basically everything has to be perfect. The pro is you will have the wedding you truly desired if everything goes as planned. The con is Murphy’s law always gets into your way. Unless you have a deep pocket to hire a really good wedding planner or have lots of free time to plan the wedding, the dream wedding way usually result in lots of stress.

The second way is the engineering wedding way. In term of engineering, everything has to be practical, and the result is judged only by the end.  Having the perfect or having a pretty good wedding makes no difference to most of the guests.  In the perception of the guests, a wedding is yet another wedding, unless it is really screwed up. Like studying for exam, it is quite easy to get 90%, but it takes a lot more extra work to get the remaining 10%. The same principle also applies to wedding planning. It is relatively easy to get a pretty good wedding, you can reuse the experience and tips from friends married ahead of you. However, trying to customize the wedding to be your perfect wedding is like getting the remaining 10%, it takes lots of time.

The return of investment for a perfect wedding does not justify its cost. Probably other than the couple themselves, no guests would pay any attention to the small details that make the wedding a the prefect wedding.

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Blog about serious things

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Someone asked me why don’t I blog about serious stuff, such as politics, social issues, lately.  I took a look at my recent entries in the past month.  Indeed I wrote a lot more about TV, movies, Anime than usual.  I guess my work at India really disturb my routine writing schedule.  I am so tried after work every day that I don’t want to think about any thing seriously.  I still catch up with my daily newspaper and weekly Economist, so I am aware of what’s happening around the world.  It is just that I lost interest in making comments on the news.  Taiwan election, riots in Tibet, Bear Stern crisis, all of them are interesting topics to blog.  The normal me would happy to jump in and make me mark on those big issues.  I still leave a comment or two in other people’s blog, which doesn’t require much effortless.  However writing a well thought blog entry takes too much brain juice.  I lack the discipline to organize my thoughts, so I rather remind silence than write something not up to my standard.

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Old chinese songs in Youtube

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Tonight I and Pat were searching for a song to sing in the wedding banquet.  We would like to pick a Chinese duo song with sweet meaning.  We searched the internet for songs sing by male and female singers together.  We come across a fairly big list on some Chinese music site.  However just having a list with name and singer is not very helpful.  We don’t know much of the songs on the list and even for those we sorta heard of, the memory is quite rusty.  To our surprise, we are able to find every single song we want to check on Youtube.  From my quite diversify search samples, I suspect Youtube actually has every single Chinese songs ever made into a MTV.  Isn’t Youtube amazing?

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In the memory of Arthur C. Clarke

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Today Arthur C. Clarke passed away at the age of 90. He and Issac Asimov are two of my most favorite science fiction writers. No only that he is a great writer, he is also a prophet of science. He wrote about many modern day inventions, such as satellites, moon journey, super computers, long before we see those become reality.

I read lots of his sci-fi novels when I was young. I always fancy by his world of possibilities. Although I don’t have much time to read novels these days, sci-fi is still my most favorite gene in movies or books. Actually, I don’t like his most well known novel, 2001 Space Odyssey, that much. I think the 2nd book in the series, 2010, is much better. The theme of the book is much easier to understand. Childhood’s End is another book I like very much. He warned us in the book that the human race may evolve into a dead end. Maybe so-call modern day green or pacifism ideologies are exactly following the dangerous path of evolving to extinction.

I always wanted to read his Rama series, maybe reading his novels is a good way to tribute to my second most beloved sci-fi writer. (P.S. I think Asimov is better than Clarke)