Click here to view the embedded video.

After the relay 100 meters are over, we proceeded to Temasek Polytechnic to enjoy free Coke & some nice celebration there.

Click here to view the embedded video.

I feel the event organizer really put in plenty of effort in getting more people involved in the performance!

The clever part is the parents of the performers will definitely be excited to watch their kids perform, very very viral marketing indeed! :3

“The Internet’s completely over,” he said. “I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it, and then they get angry when they can’t get it.”

Prince’s new album, 20TEN, will be released as a CD to Mirror readers and the readers of various other print publications in Europe. It might be distributed via Warner Bros. in the U.S. This will be the artist’s 27th release.

Seriously, Prince is either a futurist or a singer who given up the future of the internet. In the past, record labels had signed up singers & rappers everywhere hoping for just one singer or a band to have a super hit album that can hit the charts & earn millions of dollars of CD sales more.

These days of the internet world it’s totally different, new singers makes their own music videos that place it in youtube that turns viral with google advertisements attached giving some subsistence to their talents & get gigs easily after that.

Prince either a very smart marketer or a very sore loser when he realized that people are using his songs on youtube, he freaked out and asked youtube to take it down….but the when people uses music on their videos in fact PROMOTES the music instead!

The past viral music video from the “JK Wedding Entrance Dance” spike the sales of the music used in that video!

My advice to Prince is to give up the traditional medium of advertising, break your record company contracts & release FREE music for budding musicians to mix your music covers & publish on youtube but negotiate with youtube to have a cut in the advertising returns from each videos if that is possible & NOTIFY the content creators that PART of the advertising revenues goes to the original music creator.

GIVE IT FREE! But of course states the rights of use as Creative commons with proper revenue streams via advertising.

The above revenue streams to content creators will also apply to Movies, Podcast, Music and others like television series.

People will get your music FREE legally spread them like WILD FIRE and EARN!

CUSTOMERS affected by the DBS online service disruption on Monday vented their frustration and anger on social media, with some saying that the local banking giant should be penalised for the breakdown, which has upset their routines and caused much inconvenience.

Read more at TheStraitsTimes

After knowing that the DBS/POSB disruption involves all ATMs & even iBanking (Internet Banking), I had tweeted that “OMG that’s bad….DBS should be fined lol” and apparently Straits Times got that tweets & inserted into the above article.

I think it’s fine to quote people in twitter as long as they don’t attract negative effects lol and by quoting me they can get some nice click through.

In about estimate of 15 minutes, Singapore and the rest of South East Asia are going to experience high heat from the solar flare or Coronal Mass Ejection that caused high Total Electron Content.

I got the screenshot from an iPhone application call “Space WX”

Hundreds of schoolchildren and miners were evacuated when the biggest earthquake in 50 years hit Australia’s Goldfields earlier today, causing damage to buildings in two towns. So far, only two people have been reported as being treated for minor injuries.

The shallow, 5.0 magnitude quake struck about 8.20am local time (23.20GMT), 10km (six miles) north-east of the gold mining city of Kalgoorlie and the neighbouring town of Boulder in Western Australia.

The prediction is more earthquakes will come to pass at more locations, try to prepare in advance if possible in terms of food & water supply.

Somewhere else in the world are also having earthquakes.

First clue is the bounced emails with emails mass sent by my gmail account shown below.

It looks like someone or some virus hacked into my gmail account and mass send emails to all my contacts.

If you know me and gotten a email from me which is very rare, DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK!

I checked my email this morning and found several sent emails bounced to my inbox, It seems that someone hacked into my account and sent spam links to my contacts.

1. password not changed by hacker, I promptly changed it
2. I do use POP/IMAP forwarding to my iPhone, promptly disabled it
3. My contact are clever enough not to click on those links only to tell me about it.
4. No, did not notice any emails deleted
5. Currently using Mac Snow Leopard at home when it happened, firefox
6. Using Mac with no idea about any antivirus software!
7.Any extensions, toolbars or plug-ins: firefox themes, DownThemAll, Coollris, firebug, FireFTP, GoogleGears, Web Developer 1.1.
The mail in my send mail folder along with the header
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MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 10.229.211.193 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:17:06 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:17:06 +0800
Delivered-To: simontay78@gmail.com
Message-ID:
Subject: Hello
From: Simon Tay
To: blog-wave@appspot.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

http://www.template12.mydevnet.ca/AZ5tGC9il2.htm

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SPAM LINKS sent by this hacker/virus
- http://gate.jobsatcanada.com/Z7yDVqij3T.htm
- http://template01.mydevnet.ca/ugCWAL3ESz.htm
- http://www.template12.mydevnet.ca/AZ5tGC9il2.htm
- http://www.ndennen.hosehead.org/Esz6IJ1egc.htm
- http://biwaha.com/0IJntdX6ih.htm
- http://www.jciphoto.com/QpkNTDc9oJ.htm
- http://www.zyprexa.cc/x7YDBwoJ2r.htm
- http://www.samandgostar.com/AX7ujBQoz3.htm
- http://www.darosco.com/YgnwsZ4tgC.htm
- http://www.risperdal-help.org/1rAZ0ihCEa.htm
- http://bridgetonline.com/jWOk3RAz7y.htm
- http://ladgiftshop.com/Eal2Tdx6IH.htm

Note: DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINKS ABOVE!

I Google searched about this and found out that I am not the only victim of hacking of my gmail!!

I found this link http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=77127463d8f40cb6&hl=en&start=40 and google gmail users have been recently reported to been hacked and spam their contacts with spam links as well!

This seems to be a major hacking going on.

Floods had been reported and much of as ashes had disrupted air travel worldwide as the fear of the effects of ashes in the aircraft engines.

The ash cloud is drifting south and eastward over Europe. Although barely visible in the air, the ash — made up of tiny particles of rock, glass, and sand — poses a serious threat to aircraft, stalling engines and causing electrical failure, experts have said this week.

Well, as the previous prediction goes…the Iceland volcano might be a prelude to a much bigger eruption that may affect Greenland ice mass.

If Greenland ice slides into the sea, the world sea level might rise possibly 10 meters immediately, possibly causing huge tsunami worldwide.

According to Spaceweather.com High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras on April 17th when a coronal mass ejection (CME) is expected to deliver a glancing blow to Earth’s magnetic field. NOAA forecasters estimate a 35% chance of geomagnetic activity

(This is base on the assumption that CME & solar flares causes Earth core to boil & cause pressure to the earth crust making sudden earthquakes & volcano eruption)

The sunspot solar cycle peaked at January 2010 but dropped down to minimum on April but predicted to ramp up again.

There are not much scientific correlation between CME and earthquakes but the frequent CME happened between January to April coincides with multiple higher magnitude earthquakes from Haiti, Chile, Indonesia to China.

So with a CME hitting Earth today (17th April 2010), get ready for any possible major Earthquakes or Volcano eruption within these few weeks but don’t be alarm just be cautious with your food supply and emergency planning.

20:02 IAF fighter planes scrambled after foreign warplanes approach Israel (Ch. 2)
19:52 Oil prices edge higher above $82 a barrel (Reuters)
19:33 Two men killed, three injured, in the city of Rahat in southern Israel (Ch. 10)
19:05 Israel Defense Forces deny killing Palestinian teen at Gaza border (Israel Radio)
18:56 Report: Iran diplomat kidnapped 15 months ago released in Pakistan (Israel Radio)
18:49 Israeli hurt in Russia metro blasts recovering in Moscow hospital (Ch. 10)
18:13 Russia PM Putin orders Moscow bombers `scraped from sewers` (Reuters)
18:07 UAE president`s brother confirmed dead in plane crash in Morocco (DPA)
…

The news tickers seems to be centered around Israel & Oil prices, the implication of Israel being attacked will be serious.

Let’s pray now that it’s not serious.

A volcano erupted beneath a glacier in south Iceland, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people the heat from the volcano could melt the glacier and cause floods in the surrounding area.

If the Greenland ice melts together with Iceland, the whole ice may slide off the land prematurely & cause a major rise in sea level in the most unprecedented scale!

The possibility of a catastrophic even similar to the movie “The Day After Tomorrow” will happen or not but it’s a horrible thought!

If that happens, flood comes first then major FREEZE! Get ready for the big one!

According to miamiherald
The eruption occurred around 11:30 p.m. Saturday (1930 EDT) beside the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, the fifth largest in Iceland. No damage or injuries were immediately reported.

Authorities initially said the eruption was below the glacier. However, scientists conducting an aerial survey in daylight located the eruption and it did not occur below ice, lessening the chances of flooding from a glacier melt.

The last time the volcano erupted was in the 1820s.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/21/1539796/volcano-erupts-in-southern-iceland.html#ixzz0inry3VhH

7/03/2010 14:37 Power failure blights Ziggo television evening
It seems that almost all TVs in Ontario on Tuesday evening were a half hour to black. By a power failure in a distribution center of Ziggo had viewers from nine to half Elf have no image.

Only the regional stations L1 and ATVs were in the air, like the local broadcaster. . In total, 1.5 of the 3.4 million customers Ziggo no signal, even large parts of northern and eastern Netherlands were affected.

7:00 AM PDT, Wed, Mar 17, 2010 Bay Bridge in the Dark
It was a dark drive across the Bay Bridge this morning as the span was hit with a power outage.
PG&E said there are some areas of San Francisco that are also without power but they have not yet determined what caused the outage.