We chanced upon a sale happening at Taka. We shopped around and Esh bought some items.
We’d rather walk alone
The other team wearing red can choose to “Never walk alone” all they want.
For Man U, I just hope they’ll continue walking alone as champions. Oh despair! It’s so lonely at the top…
Orchard Road Shopping!
Found a day to go to Orchard Road without bringing L-A along. Although it was more convenient to move around, we were missing her soon enough…
Basically as we started the day late, we spent most of our time at Taka then went to browse Border’s for a while.
The woman with the face mask
Just saw someone walk by wearing a face mask. Think that’s actually quite considerate of her as it minimises infection and contamination.
On the same note, perhaps a special bell helmet can be created for smokers so that pollutants and carcinogens can be self-contained. Think everyone will be happy with this arrangement as non-smokers will get to enjoy fresh air (somewhat fresh air… something has to be done about vehicles…) while smokers will be able to smoke anytime and anywhere they want.
Lunch at Delifrance
Haven’t been to Delifrance for a while. Their new menu looks quite interesting. We were at the Delifrance at Centrepoint and there also happened to be a fashion show going on at the same time. We did have a vantage point, but we were paying more attention to our food than the show. :p
Babysitting
Right now I’m sitting on a chair watching L-A sleep as I surf and update my blog using my EeePC.
Heading home
Met some of my ex-colleagues for a dinner event that was held at the ex-company’s clubhouse. They spent most of their time playing this game called “Bang” (or beng1 as pronounced by ZJ). It seems to be the craze among them now…
New place to eat
Food court just across the road, but the Indian food sucks… Big time…
Oracle 9i client causes Java problems
For a well-established organisation like Oracle, I can’t believe that they actually let this issue past their QA. As of now, there are still quite a lot of companies worldwide that are using Oracle 9i as they may not have the impetus to upgrade to the latest Oracle database. So, it is not unexpected that the Oracle 9i client will be installed on present-day machines.
When the Oracle 9i client was installed on my notebook, I immediately experienced problems with my Java applications. At first I was wondering if Java was acting up and I restarted my notebook. When the problem persisted, I ran Java app from the system console and found an exception that a particular package could no longer be found! This was strange as I did not change my Java installation.
Turns out that the Oracle 9i client installed an older version of Java in order to operate properly. I do not fault Oracle for this. What I was incredulous about was that they changed the universal PATH settings used by all Windows applications and probably broke a vast majority of modern day Java applications! And we all thought an Oracle is supposed to be all-knowing… (hmm… or did it knowingly break my Java apps???)
Visit to Mothercare
Some colleagues wanted to get some stuff, so we dropped by Mothercare for a while.
