Hi there, welcome to my blog! I am Nguyen Duc Ban (aka. Ban Nguyen or Duc Ban). I am a fatty who loves my wife and my hamsters very much. But don’t worry, this blog is not only about my wife or my hamsters, but also about my professional Web Interactive Design. If you are interesting with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, feel free to give me a hola, and we will discuss about it. I will appreciate any information you can give me.

Last day in Singapore

September 26th, 2008 | 0 Comment | About Me, Travel

We are too busy in the last two days. Yesterday, we go to Singapore Zoo and Under Water World. Singapore Zoo is so amazing, the animal is very beautiful, and the Zoo’s environment is wonderful. Overall the Zoo is great, we enjoys many interesting shows, and learn about the animal in their private zone. But sometime we don’t see what we want to see, such as the butterfly, even through we have a deeply explore the butterfly kingdom.

Unlike Singapore Zoo, Under Water World is not the wonderful place to see like what they introduce in the flyer. Just the Pink Dolphin’s show is good to see, the Under Water World’s dome is not what I imagine they has to be. A little disappointed for my lady, she really love to see that place, but the truth is too different.

Time to talk about the food. In Singapore, their most favorite foods are steamboat and frog rice-soup. I really agree with them. The steamboat, made by Singaporean, we chose many kinds of food such as beef, chicken, fish, scab, vegetable, tofu… to fry or to put into the red hot chili sauce soup. It’s very delicious!

The frog rice soup is the rice soup with the frog. Man, you can eat many rice soup in Vietnam, but with the frog, you must come here to enjoy it. A different taste, a special sensation. It is really touch, believe me.

I meet some of my friends here, they are Thuy, Huyen and Hung. Thanks for spent your time for me, hope we can hang out in the future, love you all.

Well, today is our last day at Singapore, we also miss Vietnam a little. I think I love Singapore, the people is very friendly, the air is so fresh and the traffic is very safety. Now I know the reason why my friends like to go to Singapore to buy books. I have found so many useful books what I can’t find in Vietnam. (I don’t want to talk about buying something from Amazon.)

The only thing I don’t like of Singapore is all about the whore. I can see them everywhere in the Lorong where we are staying. A experience for you, in Singapore, the even Lorong is specially for “whore”, and the odd Lorong is for “food”, I have no idea about this. Another fun fact, most of the whore I met in the street is very old and un-pretty, who will need them?

Tomorrow, we will leave Singapore. The last thing I want to share with you is me and my lady really love Singapore. It’s so easy to live here, even if you don’t have any instruction from the expert. We found out how to use MRT easily, and you can ask any one you meet to ask for help. I think all of Singaporean can speak English, from the child to the elder. When will people in Ho Chi Minh City can use English like that(?) Bye, Singapore! We will be back soon (hope so). Thanks my lady for sharing this very interested trip with me. Love you babe!

Goodnight Vietnam, see you tomorrow.

Happy birthday to me

September 24th, 2008 | 4 Comments | About Me, Travel

The second day, shopping at Funan Shopping Mall. Brough a lot of books, but skip buying the Wacom. My legs is not mine any more after a whole day walking.

Today the weather is better than yesterday, but the morning rain made us change our plan. We go to the City Hall instead of the Zoo. After bringing all the heavy books back to the hotel, we go to the City Hall again and go through the City Link Mall to Esplanade Theatre. Esplanade Theatre is so amazing. I really love it.

Now, we are watching the Ghost Ship at the hotel, to save energy for tomorrow. Another walking day is waiting for us, especially my legs. Hu hu.

P.S: Today is my birthday, this is the first time I celebration my new age oversea. I hope me and my lady will have another happy trip like this trip. And thanks my lady for sharing this special moment with me. Love you! :)

Halo Singapore!

September 23rd, 2008 | 0 Comment | About Me, Travel

She looks so throughful

If you ask me about Jet Star service, I will say their service is suck. When my wife signup the booking form in Jet Star website, they don’t have any tip that tell her don’t input our name with Vietnamese. When we do our check-in at the airport, we got our very first trouble of the trip. What’s a service!

Singapore is very beautiful, but the cost is very high. I paid 4 S$ for 1 hour wifi, and our dinner is about 20 S$. My God, what will my mama say if she know we spend 240.000 VND for a dinner. ^^’

My wife is very happy today, she have a new bag, and a new dress. She will be very beautiful tomorrow with these lovely things. I also brought a new shoes for myself, my Converse is too tight and it’s hurting my toes.

I think it’s enough for the first day, will be back with our update tomorrow. I hope nobody ask me “Are you Korean” any more. Today, I heard this question twice. I don’t know why but I am not happy with this. ><’

Goodnight Vietnam.

For my lady

September 7th, 2008 | 6 Comments | About Me

Me and my lady

She is unpretty but she is lovely.
She doesn’t have any special skill but she always learn how to do everything.
She can’t stay calm when I complain things but she remember and never let there things happen again.
To me, she is an angel who will become my wife in the next two days. Lucky me.

Sweetie, I love you very much and I really proud to be your man.

New layout for ducban.com

September 4th, 2008 | 0 Comment | About Me

Gee, I am kinda late of my redesign work. Build a WordPress theme isn’t easy like I though before. I spent a lot of days to think about something innovation, but the result is very simple. I want to implement my design elements to the redesign, but I don’t have time to make a perfect typeface for both of Windows and Mac OS. I want to creat some fancy effects, but all I do for this theme is just the focus and blur event for search form… There are the reasons why my new theme is only display good in Mac OS, especially Leopard. Sorry Windows users!

It’s time for me to do my blogging again.