Duc Ban’s blog | Standardizing your mind

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!

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.

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.

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.

This time, I am addicted to 3 Web 2.0 services, they are Evernote (don’t mistake with my wedding’s restaurant ^^), Twitter and Tumblr. Evernote is a noting services that help you to remember everything. Twitter and Tumblr are kinds of new blogging tool. The trend is: you can do your blogging anywhere. For an example, when you are travel in a bus and have no wifi, or even no space to use your lappy, you still can use your mobile to update your note to Twitter. When you update your Twitter, you can also add your update to Tumblr by using your synchronize application, what you can easy make one for yourself base on Twitter and Tumblr API systems. I think Evernote is on its way to build an API system, or plan to release it soon.

Last week, I was read an article in Bnok about Web 2.0 named “Lại nói về thị trường web 2.0“. With all of my respect, I can say that the article author doesn’t know anything about Web 2.0 and what can they do to perfect our life?. All of Vietnamese Web 2.0 startup is just focus into the teenage. Teenage certainly have their own value, but they are using all of Vietnamese Web 2.0 startup as the playground for them. It’s hardly for you to find some startup focus into another target audience, except Vietnamworks.com, or Baomoi.com. The reason is them startup don’t have any choice. The average age of Vietnamese who uses internet is between 14 to 40. The 14 to 24 years old group is the most using one, spending a lot of time on computer. Almost users using Web 2.0 for their needs to show off themselves. The rest are geeks, always do geeky way, that means they choose World Wide startup, not Vietnamese. In this situation, Vietnamese Web 2.0 must think about trying to make people attracted by some useful services instead of try to server the teenage only.

Tumblr, Twitter, Evernote aren’t the playground for people, although someone use them as the place to express themselves. Everyone uses there services because its separate utilities. Before teenage grow up, we must have another services to server them, for them needs to work, to stock their data, and collaboration. The trend of Web was changed, not only making user-centric but also making data-centric service. I can’t still find any Vietnamese Web 2.0 which I can use as a service, so, don’t talk too much until I find one. Don’t ever talk about something just start and never up.