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Here’s some good news for anime lovers in Singapore. PacNet does not have to reveal names of subscribers who downloaded fansub of the Japanese Anime. The Subordinate Court had handed down its decision on Thursday. If you are still in the dark about what is going on, read more from here and here.

But that doesn’t mean downloading the fansub is legal. District Judge Ernest Lau believes that Odex is not the right party to make the application despite having the go ahead on the behalf of the Japanese anime studios. At least this have confirmed what some of the netizens been speculating.

The Odex saga not only bring about the unity of Singapore netizens, it had inspired creative works from talented people. Here’s a short video of NCH85 uploaded on Youtube.

If you think this is not talented enough, some netizens came up with the idea of selling T-shirt and a recycling event to dump your Odex products in exchange for a black ribbon. The blog seems to have been taken down when I tried to access it. I wonder if the event is still on this Saturday.

Oh well, there’s always another site to seek help and opinion should you receive that wretched letter from Odex. Try keying in Odex in your search engine and I’m sure there are thousands of blogs/websites on this topic.

Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I was rather busy last week. Had to juggle between work and attending free movie screenings. Couldn’t imagine that I had watched 3 movies last week.

I caught the latest block buster like Rush Hour 3, The Bourne Ultimatum and local production 881. The best thing to happen last week? All the tickets for the movies were FREE.

So how did I do it? I must give all the credits to my wonderful friends and their associates for sharing. Free tickets to Rush Hour 3 and 881. As for The Bourne Ultimatum, I won the tickets by taking part in the contest organized by The New Paper.

The screening was at Vivo City GV Max yesterday. I had been told that GV Max was more comfortable and much better than those normal cinema theatre. More leg space. Wider screen. Moreover there was a draw for those who attended. A brand new Acer Gem Aspire 7720G to be given away. How could I gave up such a hard to come by chance to experience GV Max and walk away with a free notebook?The Bourne Ultimatum wasn’t as interesting as the previous Bourne movies in my opinion. Maybe it was the way parts of the movie was filmed. I couldn’t make out who was being hit by who and who was being chased by who. I got a little dizzy during the show because of the effects and maybe because of my heavy lunch before the movie. Especially, the part where Bourne and Desh was engaged into a cat and mouse chase. In case you were wondering who the hell Desh was. He was one of the assassin being sent after Bourne.

As for GV Max theatre, it was indeed comfortable. Lots of leg space and the screen was real wide! I wasn’t sure if I would pay more just to enjoy the wide screen and more leg space though. Sorry no pictures of the GV Max theatre. I didn’t dare to take any in case GV thought I was trying to record the movie.I didn’t win the notebook to DD dismay. In fact, we watched 30 minutes of advertisements while waiting for the movie to start. Something which rarely happen since I was always the one being late. No matter, I’m already a winner for attending the event. Got to watch The Bourne Ultimatum and got a free goody bag. What more could I asked for?

After much consideration and research, I have decided to move my blog from the present blogger platform to wordpress. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that the blogger is not good enough. In fact, I prefer blogger to wordpress. I am not sure why. Maybe I have grown attached to it? Maybe I just like to get my hands all dirty and go straight into the codes to tweak them.

As you can see here, this site is still under heavy construction. Blog entries from blogger will not be imported here. It is just too complicated and time consuming for a busy guy who eat 6 meals a day. (Nah I am just plain lazy to read the help file.) Alot of preparation are needed before you can just abandon the old blog and start anew.

There are emotional issues you have to tackle if you are an emotional guy like me. Throwing away years of blog memories are not easy as learning your abc. (I know someone must be on the ground by now laughing so hard that tears are free flowing.)

After you have over come the emotional issues of starting everything afresh, let us start with a to-do list.

1. Blogging Platform

2. Hosting

3. Installation

4. Customisation

There are quite a few out there in the cyberspace. We, bloggers are spoiled for choice over here. Just to name a few of them.

• Blogger

• WordPress

• Typepad

It’s really up to the individual preference over here. Someone’s meat might be another one’s poison. My advice is to play around with the plateform before you settle down on one or better still, Google a few reviews to help you decide.

So, you have decided on the blog platform. Now, time to decide between free hosting or paid hosting. There are always some restrictions when using free hosting. So decide if you can live with the restrictions. For me, I have decided to try out the paid hosting. As usual, Google a few reviews on the hosting companies and through word of mouth I shortlisted two of them.

• Dreamhost

• Awardspace

In the end we (the hosting is shared between a few of us) chose Dreamhost for it’s wonderful tech support, weekly increasing bandwidth and hard-disk space and the discount if we sign up two years. (not too hard to digest for you at this point of time?) Another plus point for Dreamhost is that they have a function called One Click which automates the installation of wordpress for me. Makes my blog shifting a hell lot easier.

There are still plenty of stuff for me to learn and get used to. I am still coping with my loss. Once in awhile I still go back to my old blog and take a look at it. Afterall, I have spend many years blogging there. All good things must come to an end. Let’s look ahead to the future and the joy this blog is going to bring.