Its been a week since I watch Beauty And The Beast, and it is great. It feels so much like Frozen to me. Incredible soundtrack, just an awesome in cinema experience. Worth watching just for Emma Watson alone eh? :P

I looked around my surroundings while watching the movie and I saw MANY MANY MANY couples watching together. But, I'm just with a friend. Forever alone! :D

​Moving on...

Got myself a copy of Your Name. OST too :)
Alright, that's all for this post

As always, take care and I will see you soon! 

Watching Beauty And The Beast later at GV Suntec after work
Been a long time since I watch movie this regularly, just trying to catch up on my 'movie time'

$8.25 per ticket sound like a reasonable price to me.

I managed to contact my secondary school MT teacher, and will be meeting her next weekend (I hope). I really miss my secondary school days. Almost a decade!

Will update on the movie after I watch it later :)
As always, take care and I'll see you soon. 

In the opening address, Microsoft Singapore's managing director Kevin Wo took the stage to talk about the future of Microsoft, and how Microsoft's solution today is bringing huge revenue for many companies worldwide. 

Had the opportunity to go to Microsoft Tech Summit. My first developer conference, where Microsoft talked about their advancement in the technology space. Microsoft is heavily pushing Azure as their server host of choice, Xamarin for cross platform development, Visual Studio 2017 (of course) and security.

That's all for tonight, just a quick update
As always, take care and I'll see you soon! :)

Watched the movie again today. Same feeling, didn't came out feeling more than the first time watching it. Overall I give this movie a good rating, but not as good as I expected it to be. Given the hype, I expect it to be really really touching? Considering the fact that this is a 'Romance' movie. 

If you expect this movie to be about romance, then you will be really disappointed. Still, no spoilers for you. Watch it while you still can!

As always, take care and I'll see you soon :)

Been watching a lot of anime movies lately. Apparently I was late to the whole anime craze that have been going on for quite a while now. I watched Kimi no Na wa. (Your Name.) only a few weeks back and it was amazing. Great soundtrack and beautiful hand drawn environments.

In fact, I can't get enough of its OST and I preordered the CD online even though I can listen to those songs on Spotify :P

So on the 9th of March, I watched Koe no Katachi at GV Bishan. The cinema was packed with people. You won't expect that so many people were actually there for a Japanese anime. As for how the movie was, I don't want to provide any spoilers for you. I encourage you to catch the movie soon!

UK is getting Koe no Katachi on the 15th March. Just couldn't resist watching it before everyone else in the UK :)

Anyone of you browsing my website might have realized that there's a gap at the right of the page while in mobile view. It's a Weebly theme styling bug. Since I do know some CSS, I fixed the problem.

Just a short and quick update.
As always, take care and I'll see you soon...

Got a  new speaker system, the Logitech Z623 2.1 THX speakers. My old speaker was having some really nasty noise and I finally decided to change it with a new one. It's about time to retire that 10 years old Altec Lansing VS2421. They sound really good!!

Also, the new DVB-T2 TV box will allow me to watch TV in my room now, in full HD 1080p. Thanks to digital TV broadcast :)

With all the input devices connecting to the monitor, a HDMI switch is now needed to control which input gets displayed. Currently using the Vention VAA-S20 HDMI switch. It supports up to 4K 60fps, HDCP (very important for content streaming from devices), HDMI 2.0 (required to support 4K 60fps) and the included remote control can be used to control input switching. 

The connection from the TV box to the HDMI switch is currently using a extremely long 1M cable, when I actually only need 50cm of cable length. A new HDMI 2.0 cable (50cm) will soon replace that. 

Setup looks good and I think it can't get any better than this, other than a new laptop. For my workload of watching YouTube videos, casual gaming, and programming work, this is sufficient.

Will be going to Microsoft Tech Summit @ MBS next week, more to come on that.
Oh, before I forget. Happy 20th Anniversary to Visual Studio! Amazing IDE

Alright, that's all for now!
As always, take care and I'll see you soon!

Been a few weeks since I last posted here, hope everyone of you are doing good.
Recently, I got invited to try out and review ShopBack via an email submitted using my website's suggestion form. I personally use ShopBack even before I got invited to try it out, and it is great. Today, I want to take some time to write about them, and also to share some of my personal experience.

What is ShopBack?
ShopBack is a cashback site that provides cashback for shopping with more than 500 merchant stores. ShopBack acts as the 'referral' to your favorite shopping websites. When you shop using ShopBack, ShopBack gets a commission from your purchases and part of the commission earned from the 'referral' is given back to you instead. 

​Popupar merchants available at ShopBack includes, Courts, Apple and Lazada

You will be getting back cold hard cash, back from your purchases. This is one of the ways many YouTubers earn from their videos. For eg. YouTubers recommend/reviews a product, then providing a link with their affiliate code so that they will get a monetary kick back from your purchases. The difference is that now, you get to keep part of the commission! 

My personal experience using ShopBack
I will be sharing my experience using ShopBack with Lazada today.
By now, most of you should know that I'm an Application Developer and I use an OnePlus 3 as my daily driver. I got my OnePlus 3 from Lazada as Lazada is the only authorized reseller of OnePlus products in Singapore. The phone itself costs SGD$649, but with ShopBack (and coupon codes), I got my phone at just SGD$600~

You must be thinking right now, WHAT?? ShopBack works with coupon codes? YES! It does, but of course every merchant site have their own terms and conditions that you have to read at ShopBack website and Lazada does support stacking coupon with cashback. 

So if you're looking to enjoy even bigger cashback on top of discounts from, say, AliExpress coupons, ShopBack is the place to go. They even have a page listing down all the available coupons you can use. Very convenient

First, I created an account with ShopBack using my Facebook account. It is quick, simple, and fuss free. Within a few clicks, you should be ready to start earning cashback off your purchases. 

Search for your products, brands and stores indicated in the blue box above in my image. For me, I searched for Lazada as I wanted cashback for buying my phone

This page will provide all the information you need to start getting your cashback. From the above image, you can see that it takes 2 days for ShopBack to track your Lazada purchases, and your cashback can be cashed out within 75 days. Below that, you see the ShopBack tiers for different categories of purchase. For eg. If you are a new Lazada customer and buying Electronics, you will get 2.50% of cashback, so on and so forth. 

Once you have read all the important information regarding your favorite merchant, it is time to start getting cashback. Click on the red/orange Shop Now button and you will be redirected to your merchant page in a jiffy. 

Shop as per normal, add your products to your cart, apply whatever coupon codes that is available at your time of purchase, and check out your items. It is as simple as that, you are earning cashback from your purchases!

Next, you want to fill in your payment details so ShopBack can pay you your cashback from all your shopping. Go to the top right corner of the ShopBack home page, click on your profile icon and select 'My Account'. You will then see the Payment Details box for you to fill up your payment method. 

Payment methods like PayPal, and Bank Transfer are supported by ShopBack. Bank Transfer support all local banks from the most common ones like DBS/POSB, OCBC to HSBC and Maybank. So it is almost impossible for you to not get your cashback from ShopBack. Of course, you can also forfeit your cashback and transfer your cashback to my bank account instead :P

SGD$634.00 - SGD$36.70 = SGD$597.30!!

Once the redeemable period expires, it is time to cash out your cashback, go to your cashback information page. Check the amount available for payout and proceed with a payout to your configured bank account/PayPal. It's that simple!

Tips to ensure that you will get your cashback
Nowadays, people like to use AdBlock on their browsers while surfing the internet. Please make sure that you either whitelist ShopBack or disable your AdBlock plugin when shopping with ShopBack. When you click on the Shop Now button on ShopBack site, the website will inject a cookie in your browser to be able to track your purchases on your favorite merchant site. With AdBlock enabled, the cookies are blocked. With cookies blocked, ShopBack will be unable to track your purchases correctly.

I used ShopBack and I'm not getting any cashback from my purchases, you must be lying!
There are many reasons as to why your purchases are not getting tracked on ShopBack, but fret not. ShopBack have a page for you to report your missing cashback.

Thank you for taking the time to read this post, and I hope this will help someone out there to get more out of your online shopping experience. 

Oh yes, you can also use my referral link to help out my website. You will also get a SGD$5 sign up bonus, and another SGD$5 when you make your first purchase with ShopBack!

Referral:
https://www.shopback.sg/?raf=v2th7c

As always, take care and I'll see you soon

Spent some time updating the SGTraffic page with new information. I also opened up open beta testing for SGTraffic, so anyone can download the app from Google Play

As always, take care and I'll see you soon!