Tale and Story of My Life

Thursday, May 05, 2005

Valuair Giveaway Free Air Tickets

Valuair turns 1 this month. They're having 1st anniversary promotion at Caltex House at Raffles Place and giveaway some freebies and air tickets in lucky dip and games. They are also having promotion of 1-for-1 deal, that's mean buy 1 air ticket and get another for free. Unbelievable is if you used to travel Valuair before, just bring the ticket and get a air ticket for free, although it's limited to 50 tickets only. After queued up for about half an hour, I won $100 cash voucher in the lucky dip. Most likely will sell it, if possible.

Finally in the Google

Finally my 2 new blogs Northern Vietnam Travelogue and this one appear in Google. I never submitted these 2 blogs to "Add URL" of Google, so they must be picked up by Google through links to them somewhere somehow. What I did was basically posted them in signature of Blogger Forum, submitted them to Travel-Library and Best Blogs in Asia directory. I also submitted the blogs to BlogShares industries. All blogs also link to each other, and so after a few weeks, Google automatically picks them up and index them.

The main problem now I faced is so called Search Engine Optimization. So far, only main index page is indexed. And Google seems to crawl just once and never returns. I will try to add more fresh contents to make Google spider comes back more often. Hope that it works.

Monday, May 02, 2005

MSN Search Engine Observation

MSN picked up all my 3 currently active blogs all once on 27th April 2005. Of these, I had submitted 1 of them to MSN Search Engine URL Submission. Yet I really could not understand why all of them been indexed and cached by MSN on the same day. Anyway, I did submit all of the RSS to My MSN.

Istana Open House

Istana (mean 'palace' in Malay) Singapore is the official residence of the President of the Republic of Singapore. Every year, on Chinese New Year, Deepavali, Hari Raya Puasa, Labour Day and National Day, the Istana will be opened to the public fro 8.30 am to 6.00 pm.

This year Labour Day Istana Open House has been scheduled at 2nd May 2005. I was unaware of it but I was there because I have volunteered for President's Challenge 2005 Launch Ceremony that also held in Istana. Since I was not for the Istana Open House, I did not walked around too much, and even did not bring my camera. However, I still took some shoots with my camera phone.

If you're early, or at the right timing, you will able to meet with the President (currently President Nathan) close up.

Bouvelard in Istana after the entrance.

Performance for visitors.

Google Search Engine Update

It has been a week or two my 2 new blogs, including this one, into my Blogger Forum signature, yet they still haven't been noticed by Google yet, although Google has indexed some of the forum web pages that link to my blogs, yet my blogs not been included into index yet.

What puzzle me more is I also put Northern Vietnam Travelogue into same travel directory with my Egypt and Jordan Travelogue, yet it's not yet been noticed by Google. It seems like may be the "Add URL" in Google is actually working, since I had submitted the later blog to Google. Anyway, Google supposes to do a deep crawl every month, I think I wait for a while to see whether Google can find my 2 new blogs or not.

Sunday, May 01, 2005

David Tao 陶喆太平盛世音乐会

Thanks for courtesy of Jennifer Kuah, I been to David Tao 陶喆太平盛世音乐会, held at Singapore Expo Hall 1. A bit far from city and even from Expo MRT had to walk quite a distance, but the mini concert was enjoyable.

Songs List:

1. Susan说
2. 就是爱你
3. 爱我还是他
4. 月亮代表我的心
5. 爱,很简单

Before David Tao appeared, all female band Wild from London, England performed 2 of their songs. Their songs not bad too.