I took a trip down to my aunt’s place at Clementi today (which is almost at the other end of Singapore from where I live) to take a look at my cousin’s PC, which was apparently not working. (It turns out that it was because the video card was loose.)

Anyway, while I was walking from the MRT station to her house, I passed by some places that gave me some kind of a feeling of nostalgia. I used to live with my aunt when I about 4 I think. Walking through those places really made me feel how quickly 10+ years have passed.

My cousin had an operation on her knees (because of reasons I can’t remember) and can’t walk around. So she had to stay at home everyday for a few weeks until she can walk fully again. She just returned from working in New York.

She lent me the box set of Lord of the Rings Extended DVD which she bought at only USD 40+! I was simply amazed! Damn, I want to get my hands on this box set for myself! It’s sold at (I think) nearly SGD 200 at shops locally!

On a side note, my recent attempts at combating SPAM bots seemed to have worked. I now use two plugins for this purpose: Bad Behaviour to block any spam bots from sucking my bandwidth try (i.e. blocking their access) and Akismet to filter any comments that bots which has passed through the first layer of defence post.

Somehow, this seemed to have worked to a pretty large extent – only 6 spam posts in two days compared to the 30+ per day from before!

Anyway I’ve added some form of advertisement on the site, powered by Adsense. I would call it a subtle way of placing it because you only see it if you view the posts on its own page. (i.e. when you click on the post title link.) I wonder how much I can earn by placing it like this. We shall see.

Tags: Lord of the Rings