Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Just watched last part of Star Wars prequel trilogy, Revenge of the Sith, courtesy of Mr Goh, General Manager of my company and his wife Rosemary, at Golden Village cinema Great World City. Personally I am not a fan of Star Wars, but my another colleague is a enthusiasm of Star Wars movie. He kept reminded us that when "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." appears at the beginning of the movie, we should clapped. Indeed a lot of people clapped. This was the first time I encountered such a strange situation. Applause given even before watching the movie (I don't watch other Star Wars movie in cinema).

I personally felt the Star Wars: The Return of the Sith is just okay only. It's a very interesting movie, with all those special effects and awesome fighting scenes. But I felt that the movie moved too fast, and tried to squeeze too many stories into it. The turning of Anakin Skywalker to the dark side is not very convincing to me, so does his love to Padmé Amidala. The film simply does not portray his feeling and thought deep enough.

The movie runs for about 140 minutes. And I saved some taxi money as Mr Goh and wife were so kind again to give me a ride. Anyway, watch the movie, to be part of the history.

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith movie poster

How many "Next" will you click in Search Engine?

It's interesting to see how's the traffic comes to my blogs, especially from search engine. Frankly speaking, I seldom browse thru few pages of results from any search engine. But I did noticed a few of the traffics comes after tens of pages in search results. Here I listed a few examples.

Tale and Story of My Life:

http://www.google.at/search?q=%22gapbuster%22&hl=de&lr=&as_qdr=all&start=90&sa=N [at Page 10]

Egypt and Jordan Travelogue:

http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=blogspot&cat=Home/Family/Family_Websites/D&utf8=1&locale=en_us&start=1921 [at Page 97!]
http://www.google.de/search?q=nubian%20village&hl=de&lr=&start=110&sa=N [at Page 12]http://www.google.com/search?q=egypt%20travelogue&num=30&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&start=210&sa=N [at Page 8]

Northern Vietnam Travelogue:

All found within 1st or 2nd page of search engine's results. Seems like my keywords are quite strong for this blog.

Open Directory and Technorati

Since one of my blogs listed in Open Directory Project, there are some very few traffic that came from the directory. Not much, but the main objective to get my travelogue listed was for it to be able to be indexed by Google, the premier search engine in the world now.

To my surprise is even Technorati did send some hits to the blog. Technorati is basically a search engine for the blogs. With so many blogs listed there, and majority of net surfers utilize Google for information searching, the few hits seemed very valuable.

Am I going to lose $36,000?

It looks like I am simply too naive or trust her too much. Jacqueline's mum just called me and said want to convert our boutique business from retail to distributorship. She never mentioned about money, but Jacqueline did ask more from me few days ago by sms. I think that's enough, and what's more, I cannot afford to lose more money. I now really believe she is getting rid of me.

Story began about a year ago when Jacqueline, my ex-colleague found me and wanted to start a boutique business together. The catch is, I invest all the capital and she will put in all her effort. Things worked well in the beginning, but she started to ask for more money in November, despite kept telling me that business is okay.

I have wanted to give up, but the dilemma now is how not to lose money, or if really have to lose, how to lose as less as possible. I wanted to take up the business all by myself, but I don't have time to run it. Beside, as she runs everything, she can simply tell me that the boutique is not making money, so I might lose everything. Anyway, I have decided to not spend a single cent more. Others really on how much she going to pay back the trust I put on her. God bless!

Traffic from Google and Yahoo

One good news is my blogs are starting to get hits and traffics from Google and Yahoo search engines. It's not much, sometimes even in single digit each day, but nevertheless it's a great start.

The MSN search engine is a failure. Neither did I managed to get my blogs listed permanently or MSN spider found my blogs, even though my Egypt and Jordan Travelogue listed on Open Directory Project. Initially all my blogs have been found and indexed, but lately they're all been dropped from MSN, for no reason.

Back from Hanoi Vietnam

Arrived yesterday night in Singapore from Hanoi Viet Nam, by Tiger Airways. The plane arrived at about 11 pm. MRT to the city had departed although the MRT train between Changi Airport and Tanah Merah station still running. But there was no more connecting MRT train towards Boon Lay station. So I had to catch bus 36 that runs directly to the city. Luckily the bus driver drove the bus pretty fast, and I was still able to catch another bus home in the city. It was a pleasant journey, although now my skin is quite painful due to severe sun burnt. You can read my stories here.

Depart for VietNam

I will go to the Changi Airport shortly to board Tiger Airways to Vietnam. Hopefully the trip will be wonderful.