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By Patrick, March 8, 2010 11:01 pm

This got to be the weekend that I’ve spent the most money, not that I’ve not spent money previously. On Saturday, I discovered that Bobby, my dog, was attacked by ticks. It was really terrible as you can see the ticks on this body and whenever I tried to get rid of it, it just seems never ending. I quickly send him to vet where he stayed there one night for “holiday”. I’m glad that he is recovering, though there are still some of him (we’ve spotted some), but with the proper guidance given, I’m sure he will be tick free soon.

Then on Sunday, Ethan was happily recording on my iPhone. He got so excited that my phone “flew”, landed on the floor and guess what, there was a really bad crack (spider web kind). The touch screen was still alright, but the glass thingy just shattered. What was the damage like, $350 and I’ve got a one to one exchange at Starhub Service Centre. Oh and by the way, did I tell you that its so good to be a Starhub Platinum Customer? It just took me 20 minutes (from registration to exchanging the phone) to complete the entire process.

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By Patrick, February 6, 2010 1:15 am

Starhub has finally posted the official photographs for the 1st Starhub TVB Awards. I was surfing and checking out the photographs when I realise that I’m on one of the photo. Even more surprising, I just cannot believe that there were so many people behind me.

You can view the full set of official photos at Starhub website.

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By Patrick, January 31, 2010 2:58 pm

I’ve posted the photos earlier and now, here are the videos as promised. Its just some short clips from the “Green Carpet”. As Starhub’s Channel 55, VV Drama will be showing the entire award ceremony, therefore, I’ll only show the short clips here. As for the entire award ceremony, stay tuned to the TV.

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By Patrick, January 30, 2010 9:53 am

Thanks for everyone who have been visiting to see the pictures, the good news is all the pictures have been uploaded, there are 325 of them so enjoy.

My wifey got some videos and I’m currently in the midst of uploading them. Once its ready, I’ll post them here. So please hang on for alittle while more.

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By Patrick, January 30, 2010 1:13 am

Its the 1st time Starhub organizes the Starhub TVB Awards, my first time attending an award ceremony and first time coming face to face with the Hong Kong actors and actresses. There are 12 TVB artistes who attended the award ceremony including their Steven Chen. Instead of the usual red carpet, Starhub has the carpet in green colour, obviously, its to suit their company’s official colour.

We were told to reach at 6.30pm and registration was a breeze. The actual “green carpet” show started at about 7.30pm and security was really tight. I even got pushed several times by the inconsiderate security who actually hit my camera lens. Anyway, the actors and actresses appeared in pairs and they included our favourites like Raymond Lam, Charmine Seah, Susanna Kwan, Sonja Kwok etc.

The actual show then started with the usual dance and performance with Susanna Kwan singing a LIVE version of 讲不出的心声. There were breaks in between for us to consume our 4 course western dinner. I personally thought the security was really tight, so much so, the security were so sensitive to the people around, asking guests to leave when they were trying to take pictures of their idol. There were no photo opportunities for the guests to take with their favourite actor or actress. BUT, I’ve got my fair share of close encounter, I actually went into the toilet at the same time as Moses Chan. But I didn’t have much to say cause I was caught by surprise!

Basically, everyone who attended brought back at least 1 award. Other than that, 杨怡 Tavia Yeung and 李司棋 Louise Lee both got an award. I believe everyone is interested with the results and here they are;
My Favourite TVB Actress:  佘诗曼 Charmaine Sheh
My Favourite TVB Actor: 林峰 Raymond Lam
My Favourite TVB Female Character: 荷妈 (李司棋饰)《溏心风暴之家好月圆》, 孙皓月 (杨怡饰) 《溏心风暴之家好月圆》, 钟笑莎/Sa姨 (关菊英饰)《溏心风暴之家好月圆》, 甘咏庆 (陈法拉饰)《溏心风暴之家好月圆》,邢晶晶 (郭羡妮饰) 《古灵精探》, 马帼英 (佘诗曼饰)《法证先锋II》
My Favourite TVB Male Character: 管家仔 (林峰饰)《溏心风暴之家好月圆》, 甘永家 (陈豪饰)《溏心风暴之家好月圆》, 柴九 (黎耀祥饰)《巾帼枭雄》, 于子朗 (郭晋安饰)《古灵精探》, 谢皇上 (马浚伟饰)《秀才爱上兵》
My Favourite TVB Drama 2009: 《溏心风暴之家好月圆》Moonlight Resonance
My Favourite TVB Variety 2009: 志云饭局 Be My Guest (TVBJ)
My All Time Favourite TVB Female Character: 好姨 (薛家燕饰)《真情》
My All Time Favourite TVB Male Character: 丁常旺 (郭晋安饰)《戆夫成龙》
My All Time Favourite TVB Drama: 《金枝欲孽》War And Beauty

The show ended with a toast of success followed by a group photo of the artistes and Starhub Senior Management.

If you did not attend the award, you can still watch the show on Starhub TV Channel 55 on 14 February @ 7.45pm.

For those who of you who are interested in saving the photos and posting it elsewhere, appreciate you can credit the blog. I’ve came across several sites which are irresponsible and shamelessly claim that the pictures were taken by them. For those who have credited, THANK YOU!

Lastly, all 325 pictures that I’ve taken has been uploaded in the gallery.

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By Patrick, January 29, 2010 12:20 am

The countdown has begin and in less than 19 hours, I’ll be attending the Starhub TVB Awards. I’m getting really excited, though I might be abit late for the event as I’ll be rushing down from Choa Chu Kang to Ritz Carlton. Stay tuned for the pictures and some of my exclusive insights for the event. In case you are wondering how I got the tickets, well, Starhub had a competition for their platinum club members, I submitted my interest and then I won the tickets.

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By Patrick, December 10, 2009 12:36 am

Since Singtel launched the iPhone 1 year ago, I’ve decided that I’m going to have 1. But due to my mobile contracts and really bad experience previously with Singtel, I’ve decided to hang on and wait for Starhub to start selling it. 1 year plus later, finally Starhub has launch it.

I got my HTC Magic as a replacement previously and since iPhone is launched, I’ve decided to change it and trade in my HTC Magic, its not that the Magic is no good, but I thought, I just want to own an iPhone. This time round, not only I’m having 1 but I’m getting wifey 1 too. She was alittle hesitant cause she is really worried that she doesn’t know how to use it. Well, who knows how to use it when they first touch it, so we gotta LEARN!

We are getting the same colour, which is white, but I’m getting a 32 gb while hers is 16gb. She is really excited about it after seeing mine so I’m really looking forward to see her expression when she get hers. For info, she had not collected hers yet cause Starhub couldn’t process her re-contract voucher in time, so ended up, they are sending the phone to us. Excellent service I will say.

In the meantime, I will say that Starhub has done extremely well in terms of customers relations. They know that their 1633 line will definitely burst, so what they did was to engage their customers via Facebook and Twitter. And of course, it will be better if you are their platinum customer, as a platinum customer, my wait was just 10 minutes before I had my hands on my iPhone.

For more details on Starhub iPhone, you can visit this section that I’ve created to update all the related stuff.

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By Patrick, November 17, 2009 11:54 pm

Heard this song, 分享爱 by 郭富城 on TV yesterday and it reminded how catchy the tune is. Really enjoy this song and I hope you like it as much as I do.

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By Patrick, October 19, 2009 10:59 pm

We are now officially one more step closer to Australia. We’ve collected Ethan’s passport and we’ve applied for the Visa. We are now left with getting our luggage repaired (it was faulty after our HK trip) and checking through the itinery that Jingyi has planned.

On the passport, we collected it from ICA like 2 weeks back. It was surprising and shocking cause when we collected our queue ticket, it was indicated that there were 200 people in front of us. We can’t be sitting down aimlessly and I suggested going for a quick meal. We had ours at the coffeeshop which was located opposite ICA since the canteen was closed for renovation. We’ve waited for 45 mins before it was our turn to collect Ethan’s passport (including the time taken to eat).

As for the Visa, we’ve got it from Pricebreakers. It was about $20 Singapore dollars per visa which I thought was already quite cheap since it cost $20 Australian dollars per visa if you applied it online.  But I was told by my colleague that we can actually get it for $10!

I’m now also thinking how should I tweet, facebook and update my blog in Sydney. I was advised by Starhub not to bring my Max Mobile to Sydney otherwise I’ll be incurring thousands of dollars for my bills. If you know how to surf, do let me know.

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By Patrick, September 3, 2009 12:33 am

The Moment You Believe was used for a Starhub commercial recently to promote their upcoming TV commercial for VV Drama. Its really heartening to know that the Spice Girl song was used for the commercial as its not really often that you can hear her song on TV since she hasn’t really been concentrating on this part of the world.

The video was directed by Tim Rayes and was shot in one continuous shot. It’s impressive. Enjoy the song, enjoy the video.