I will disappear from the online world for the whole of this week. Because we are moving! We needed a bigger place at a cheaper rent. So we are moving out of our cosy little office at The Sail and into the neighbourhood. We love our $3 bowl of noodle and the $14 set lunch was hurting our own wallet a little too much. So we decided to move.

This whole week, expect to see very little of me on Twitter, MSN and don’t expect any blog post. More updates coming after we settle down in our new home office.

If you’re wondering why we need an entire week to move, visit 24seven’s blog next week to find out!

OMG!! I tell you!! I want to scream and than quickly dig a huge hole in the ground and hide inside!! I feel guilty, silly, stupid and a total bimbo right now!

First I would like to thank Kahwee for his rescue and Uzyn for creating the backup host for me which than lead Kahwee to discover that it was the wordpress theme that causes all the problem! Quoting from Kahwee, “didn’t know a theme can be so powerful..” Yes! It was the typography theme that I adored so much that causes it!

Than I have to apologize to my web host – Top Hosting Centre. When my blog went down after the WordPress 2.8 upgrade, the immediate reaction was “WTH is happening to my host!!!??!!” Yap, that I’m sure is the first reaction of most people. This was hyped up even more since the host server was down two weeks ago when I was hosting the Search for N contest. Naturally I submitted a new ticket and demanded for them to get it fixed asap. But after 48hours, they couldn’t tell me what went wrong! Because the direction I thought the error was from was wrong! Its not because of the database crashing but its because of a critical conflict with the wordpress theme! Sooo sorry Sandra from THC for the big boo boo!

Now my blog is back, I feel alive again!! Woohooo!!!

Back to setting up my MBP! Yap! I got it!! More updates in my tweets! And also checked out the setting up qik I live-streamed just now.

It’s PC SHOW weekend! And I know how it feels to be squeezing in the crowd and itching to buy something home even when you’re not planning to. So today, I’m going to have a compiled release for Claud talks Gadgets aka Claud’s PC Show guide! I am going to tell you what I’d been using and itching to get and why you should look out for these gadgets too at PC Show 2009!

So what have I got in store for this issue of Claud talks Gadgets?

• A cool MP3 player
• Latest TVs
• Get a second screen for your lappy!
• A bad ass but very portable DSLR
• Many phones!
• And new macbook pro + iPhone 3GS

Let’s find out… keep scrolling after the fold.

I’ve been nominated for this year’s Singapore Blog Awards by OMY.sg. Thanks for finally taking notice of my humble blog Alvin!

This year, the prizes for each winner of the ten categories get to bring home the following:

• A trophy designed by famous artist, Mr. Tan Swie Hian
• S$500 shopping vouchers from Play Smart Pte Ltd
• A Phuket hotel accommodation from one of the following hotels, courtesy of Asia Web Direct
• A Koka’s Value-Added Pack (worth $55.00). Contains: All Koka’s Flavours
• A $200 movie premium hamper from United International Pictures
• The top 5 most voted bloggers across the ten main categories will also walk away with a HTC Diamond (worth S$1,098) each (This I don’t think I’ll win. But if I do, I will give it out too!)

So this is what I’m going to do. IF I win, I’m going to give away all the above to my blog readers! YES! Including that trip to Phuket! How to be part of this sweepstake is simple. All you need to do is to Rally for my blog under the category “Best Lifestyle Blog Award“. (Rally means to vote for me lah!) After you’ve done that, leave me a message in this post with your real email address please so that I can get in touch with you IF I win.

I’ve been spending too much of my time lately staring at my twitter page. And I’d wanted to create my own twitter background since long ago, but just didn’t get down to it. *lazy me!*

Yesterday, while setting up and designing the new skin for 24seven.sg, I decided to do a quick and simple background for my own twitter too. And this is what I got!

i is a happy girl now! i can stare at my twitter page 24/7 and will never get sad cos i has got a nice background.

Go check out my new twitter page today! Follow me if you’re on twitter too!

Claudia thought the previous theme was clean and simple. But the fluid width is getting onto her nerve. She cannot controls how her posts look like with images aligned to the sides. And she tried fixing the width but she failed. So she went ahead and changed the theme again.

Still simple and nice and now with a fixed width for her post.

She’s 30% happy with it now. She needs more time to make the remaining 70% of her happy. So this blog is going to be staying the 30% happiness for now till she finds time in the middle of a couple more night to fix it.

Time to sleep now.

And the forgetful-claudia in me had to do the theme change on the possibly highest-traffic-for-the-year day! I’m such a fool!

Anyway, since I’m on the topic of analytic, thought I should share my top content hits for the year so far, from Jan 1, 2009 to today.

1. National Geographic Store in Singapore
2. Almost an iPhone – Samsung F480
3. Let’s Talk About Sex! (For females only!)
4. CtG reviews the Lenovo S10 IdeaPad
5. My 1st Speed Dating… On Singapore Flyer!
6. A VERY familiar Tiger Beer Model Spotted!
7. Great Year of the Ox for me!
8. CtG Review – Samsung Innov8

Have you read any of the above posts before?

By the way, the above traffic are mostly from search engines. Is your blog optimised for search engines? One of the things you should do is to change/ check that your permalink is not some random numbers. Update that if you can. On wordpress, you can find this under settings > permalinks.