My brother was kind enough to upload the snaps in his website ravoof.com .

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Monday 6th August me and my cousin Ajmal khan went to Brunei high commission in Kuala lumpur to get a visa. Unfortunately they told me it will take more than 8 working days to process the visa. So we decided to skip the trip to Brunei. The next door was Singapore high commission. So we went there and applied a visit visa for Singapore. Next day 7th August we got the visa stamped in my passport. We planned goto Singapore by car. We went to Johor Bahru and parked our car in bus stop parking. We took Singapore - Johor Express which stops at both Malaysia and Singapore emigration and drops us in Queen street bus stop in Singapore. Everything went smooth so far. Now comes the interesting part entering Singapore.

At the Singapore emigration took my passport and looked at every page and asked so many question. May be Singapore people think all Indian passport holders are terrorist of some kind. Some of the question : Is this your first time? Why are you visiting Singapore? Where are you staying in Singapore? How many days are you staying in Singapore? etc … All question are very normal but they she asked the question was so fckng disgusting. The reason behind this was so many people who come on visit to Singapore stay there without returning back to their country. I was happy that I was not strip searched in the emigration. I learned one thing from this experience that If I have to travel outside India be ready for anything in emigration.

Finally I was inside Singapore and with a help of my cousin’s friend we got a very cheap hotel ($100/night around 300 AED) near Mustafa shopping centre. The room was excellent and it was exactly to the size of a bed and 2 people can stand inside . After checking in the hotel we went to look around the Mustafa shopping center. The only 24hrs shopping center in whole of Singapore. Almost all the shops in that particular street was 24hrs so the street looked very lively. This location is a main center where all asian people unit most of the time. We grabbed dinner and it was not cheap.

The next day we went to sim lim square which holds all the computer related shops. It was really nice and full of computer shops. Just like we have in Bur Dubai. There is another tower right opposite named sim lim tower which hold all electronic gadgets. After this we took a taxi to Singapore zoo and had nice fun. I was really amazed the way they have maintained it. After roaming fully here I went to visit my grandpa who stays in Singapore. Then we went back to hotel packed up and left back to Malaysia from Queen street bus stop. Singapore is very expensive and nothing much for a tourist. It is a land of fine for everything. Normal fine starts at 300$ and goes till 2000$. It was cool fun and some snaps below…..

I had been planning for a very long time to visit my cousins Ajmal and Nasser who stays in Malaysia.

And today I am really happy to fly there and visit of them. It is totally a new experience for me. I visited Malaysian embassy in Dubai and got a multiple entry visa which is valid for 3 months. Since I am from India I don’t get a visa on arrival .

My Uncle from Brunei wanted me to visit him. And he is arranging a visa for that. And I am planning on a small trip to singapore and stay there for a day or two max.

This is gonna be a great experience for me and feels great to get away from busy life in Dubai for 10 days.

I didn’t get a straight flight to Kuala lumpur so I had to take a connection flight which fly through Pakistan. When I said this to my dad he was bit worried and asked me to change the flight if possible .

I will blog the whole experience with good collection of pictures. To be honest I am flying around for the first time as tourist and about which I am really excited …

Today I was searching for the keyword “emirates driving” to locate Dubai Emirates Driving Institute website and I came across this on the search result

I was shocked to see the description in the search result ;-). Then I inspected the code of the website which gave me lot of information ..

<title>Emirates Driving Institute - Home</title>
<meta name=”description” content=”Joomla - the dynamic portal engine and content management system” />
<meta name=”keywords” content=”Joomla, joomla” />
<meta name=”Generator” content=”Joomla! - Copyright (C) 2005 - 2006 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.” />

Now it is very clear to me that meta tags are really important to search engine optimization. And emirates driving school website is driven by a famous open source application named Joomla

For past few days I was playing around with this javascript library jquery which is really light and powerful.
This was told by Nishanth from our company. He is a great fan of this tool and even I am one now.

http://jquery.com/

Some of examples to use this library

$(”p.surprise”).addClass(”ohmy”).show(”slow”);

The selectors are really powerful and makes life very easier. Samples

Hide all Paragraph elements that contain a link:

$(”p[a]“).hide();

Show the first paragraph on the page:

$(”p:eq(0)”).show();

Hide all divs that are currently showing:

$(”div:visible”).hide();

Get all list items that are children of an unordered list:

$(”ul/li”)
/* valid too: $(”ul > li”) */

Get all Paragraphs, with a class of ‘foo’, that have a link in them:

$(”p.foo[a]“);

Get list item that contains link with “Register” text inside:

$(”li[a:contains('Register')]“);

Get the input field’s value with the name of ‘bar’:

$(”input[@name=bar]“).val();

All checked radio buttons:

$(”input[@type=radio][@checked]“)

It has been really long time since I posted something. It was totally a busy month at flip working on a new project. It was really exciting and the project is running on beta phase right now. Lot of bug fixes and feature requests are happening. Lot of my friends have started to blog. Their blog is much interesting and good to read.

I have become really lazy and not doing much work at home. No reading and not experimenting anything. Having some issues related which will be sorted out soon.

Finally I reinstalled my mac and installed all software fresh again with new version. This time I installed boot camp and installed Windows XP and it works great. I was happy with parallels and performance wise it was bit dragging. Will update something new in upcoming post.

Its good to see around 10 plugins being actively developed for the plugin competition. There are some great ones cannot wait till end of this month. Don’t know who is gonna win the ipod I sponsored for the competition.