tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63101372011-07-31T07:58:06.430+08:00if humanity destroyed itself, wouldn't it be cool to watch?Zhiming Darren TANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766035778029008865noreply@blogger.comBlogger3491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310137.post-50502348545895094862009-10-31T22:46:00.002+08:002009-10-31T23:07:41.754+08:00

It's been a good two-and-a-half years at Pioneer JC.I hope I have touched a few lives in a positive way.I take away with me several meaningful relationships, I have learnt a few lessons, and I've gained many experiences.Time now to pack my things, consolidate, and continue on the next stage of the journey.

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Subtract to account for double counting.

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Science begins with the refusal to ignore ignorance.

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The holidays are finally here. Time to take a quick break and recharge. Time to start exercising again and cleaning up the house. To get ready for baby.Time also to step back and re-evaluate priorities. I want to read more. Realised that I've quite stopped reading for some time now... Very refreshing to read The Undercover Economist about economics and traffic congestion and coffee and

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my hand against hersthe agony of not understanding andnot being understoodpiercing gazefrom her wrinkled faceempty and going right through my hearti see thepainshe cannot seelaughing at nothing to laugh aboutdelays sadness

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This is the bridge you must cross if you are going to ORD (acronym that represents the completion of full-time National Service in Singapore).Note that you will still be called up for reservist after you ORD.

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Gmail has breached the 5 GB mark for mailbox size.There is so much I want to do before the end of the year to prepare for next year...

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I have another video up on YouTube.

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An article written by an NUS student about "emo".

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My first YouTube video!

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Check out the super-cool "behind the scenes" video of Gmail.

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It's been a long time since I last posted.September Holidays have come and gone. My first Teachers' Day has also come and gone.Teaching at PJC has been very fun.Let me now introduce the main star of this post... Thin-Ideal Media and Women’s Body Dissatisfaction: Prevention using Downward Social Comparisons on Non-Appearance Dimensions (Ann-Marie Lew, Traci Mann, Hector Myers, Shelley Taylor

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Tomorrow is PJC Open House!Life has been good, and busy.

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If it doesn't rain tomorrow morning, I should be cycling to PJC. Soap, shampoo, shoes, towel and a change of clothes are waiting for me at my desk. I think I have socks there, but will bring a pair just in case. Oh, and will bring along a cheap little raincoat. I hope there isn't something I've overlooked! A belt!They are still having their mid year examinations, and I've just completed my share

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That's the time it took me to travel the distance from my place to Pioneer JC by bike on Thursday. Moderately brisk pace with minimal load. It's roughly 10.5 km according to the street directory.This is comparable to the time it takes for me to walk to the Boon Lay bus interchange, wait for and take bus 180, then walk to PJC. The one time I took that bus (which goes along the same route as the

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Aleoca Crossbreed X.5 700C 21 Speed Hybrid Bike, from Carrefour (Plaza Singapura).Raison d'être: occasional commute from home to work and back so I have one more way to incorporate exercise into my daily routine.

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For the first time in my life, the supermarket cashier lady (at NTUC) thanked me when I said I didn't want a plastic bag! Thanks to the good efforts of BYOB day.I was pleasantly surprised that the guy from Subway at Jurong Point remembered that I liked my footlong sub packed in two halves. And I just found out that the Garden Patty has cheese in it... Is cheese grown in a garden?!If a hair loss

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I've been posted to Pioneer Junior College (PJC).They're building Pioneer MRT station outside my block, but unfortunately, it's not near to PJC, which is in the Choa Chu Kang area, near MINDEF.This is my last week at Juying Secondary...Looks like I won't be able to play tennis again this week... on Thursday they want to go to SOFRA for dinner, as a get-together before we go our separate ways

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Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0r0, codenamed "etch", was released on April 8th, 2007. I am now switching over to the "testing" distribution codenamed "lenny".It's been a rather long time since I last posted. In short, my Teaching Practicum in Juying Secondary is drawing to a close. I have one more week in the school, and they are having their mid year examinations, so no classes to teach, only

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It's been a crazy time. Woke up at 4 am today to prepare for today's lessons. Slept at 4 am yesterday preparing for lessons.Was admitted to NUH for 3 days last week during the March holidays, from Tuesday to Thursday. My CK levels were highly elevated, and I was at risk of acute kidney failure. Felt fine otherwise. Was unable to use my laptop in the ward because there were other patients on heart

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We won today's game against Team Taz 8-3. The results aren't out on the website yet, but should be there soon. So we're no longer at rock bottom of the table after today. Might I just take the opportunity to draw your attention to the goal I scored in our first game against Skools Floorball.I haven't been "courted" (fielded) much recently, which is disappointing. I guess I'll just have to impress

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I hope you never fear those mountains in the distanceNever settle for the path of least resistance Hope You Dance, Lee Ann WomackIf God had a name, what would it beAnd would you call it to his faceIf you were faced with him in all his gloryWhat would you ask if you had just one questionOne Of Us, Joan OsborneIf I had just one question, I would probably ask, "how do I stop suffering in this world"

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Sprained my finger yesterday when I carelessly hit away a basketball that was not quite in my reach. It's pretty swollen now, but can still play floorball. Had a few games of Captain's Ball with my maths classmates in NIE before we head out for our practicum.I was trying to provide a link to a site about Captain's Ball butbut couldn't really find one. The game is basically like netball, except

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My NIE Supervisor for my practicum is Associate Professor Kwek Leong Chuan. Seems like quite an interesting guy, has research interests in quantum information science.Will be contacting him on Monday (tomorrow). Will also be contacting the Principal of Juying Secondary.Have a floorball game against Skools Innebandy in a few hours. The results of the games played so far are less than spectacular

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Translated into the Singaporean context very deftly by Hossan Leong.The video file is pretty big, but worth it. Unless you don't have broadband, in which case I don't even think it worth your while coming to my blog.

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Woody dreamt that he was dribbling a floorball across the court. It was a pretty muddled, distorted dream.Here's a photo of my floorball stick, with free background elements thrown in for the composition.I planned to finish 3 pieces of work today. At this point I'll be happy if I finish one. In which case I had better get cracking.

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I'm quite tickled by the quote at the end of this article: "Everyone thinks that Singapore is a very clean place," one local says. "But that's not true. We just employ a lot of cleaners."

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The school postings for the practicum are out. As noted by yjblog, there's some incompatible JavaScript on the practicum website. Can either disable JavaScript when viewing the site, or use a script with GreaseMonkey on Firefox/IceWeasel to show all the "hidden blocks".Anyway, I guess the more pertinent matter is my school posting. I've been posted to Juying Secondary School, which is about as

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This is last year's news, but I'll get it off my chest anyhow.The rain has been really bad in December and early January, with several flooding episodes in Singapore.Our flight back from Penang on 17 Dec 2006 was unable to land due to bad weather and turned back to Kuala Lumpur International Airport, where we awaited word from Changi Airport and watched the aircraft refuel.I've never had such an

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morbidity fascinates younothing is scary anymoreas you pull apart the bodyto fix ityou know you can put it backstitch it upclose the wound

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a poetbuys timewith rhymebuys spacewith his facebuys lovewith a dove

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I have a pretty twisted relationship with dental floss.It's quite a painful affair. I have scars on my fingers from where the floss cut my skin.Like an addict, I'm forced to shift the position of the floss on my finger towards fresh, virgin skin. Forced to endure the protestations of tender flesh as the floss tightens its grip to squeeze in between a wall of teeth.

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I now use (Debian) IceWeasel.

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NTU didn't have a very successful IVP season this year. We won our first game against SMU 3-0, then had a terrible game against ITE. We lost 12-3 in that game.SMU managed to hold ITE to a goalless draw, and NUS had beaten ITE 3-1, so we just needed to get a win over NUS to qualify for the semifinals.We scored the first goal to lead 1-0 in the NUS game, but the final score was 3-1 in favour of

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In our first league game of Skools Floorball vs NTU Hurricane, we drew 2-2 at the final whistle. SF was up 2-0 when I scored the first goal for Hurricane.

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The tennis courts at NIE have all been resurfaced, according to schedule. NUS has still to get its act together regarding the tennis courts.The school term has begun again, and there's less tennis for me this time around. I'm on the NTU floorball team, and our first IVP game is this Wednesday night against SMU.At least, with floorball, the rain can't stop us!Also playing for NTU Hurricane in the

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To be less procrastinative.

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That's my Cumulative Grade Point Average for my first semester at NIE, out of a maximum of 5.Received A- (4.5) for Maths, and got C+ (2.5) for Physics I and Educational Psychology I. Got B (3.5) for all the other courses, except for Communication Skills, which I got B+ (4) for.

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A simple piece on why Homosexuality is Not Immoral by Peter Singer. I love the clarity of his writing in bringing out the absurdity of the "it's unnatural" argument for the immorality of homosexuality.But we might just as well say that using artificial sweeteners is a "perversion of our sense of taste," which exists so that we can detect nourishing food. We should beware of equating "natural"

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Received an email from the Princeton University Store on their holiday book specials, pretty interesting-sounding books.Not to discredit the other authors, especially Paul, who I took a poetry seminar with, I highly recommend The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer, co-authored with Jim Mason.Actually, you could pop over here to read some of Singer's writings, there are

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Now that the holidays are here, the 3 other NIE tennis courts are undergoing renovation. Just happened that I had just blogged about how Tennis Court 1 had been renovated when I first started NIE.Had quite a good tennis session today, played through a drizzle that thankfully passed, though it got a little too heavy for comfort at one point. Lots of people clamouring to use that one court today,

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Did you all know I have a nephew? He likes to eat bananas.And he might be slightly tipsy in this photograph.Yet in this next photograph is someone far cuter!

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Our group did our GESL project last week, which had dragon boat racing as the first activity. The weather held up throughout the 2 day 1 night camp, which was great. Very light drizzle as we were paddling.The air that Kallang morning was slightly soggy, laden with a salty uncertainty. The smell of the sea, cold and churning with possibility. I know the sea and its horrible taste in the mouth, I

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It says library, but this is also the canteen. When you're hungry and have an assignment due in two hours, grab a bite at the canteen then rush up to find a computer in the library. See those trees in the centre? They shake with unholy fury at canteengoers during the vicious thunderstorms we've had this year.Tennis Court 1 in its renovated glory. It was made ready for play just as we were

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AM's friend's daughter celebrated her first birthday over the weekend. Here's a photo of her with some of her gifts.And my mum got me this from Hong Kong.I think it will look perfect on my desk in the staff room, if I get a desk.

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I am not sure if we are witnessing a trilogy of epic proportions here, but Bryan is third in a line of OPC PS Br NSFs to get married in recent history.Photos tell the story... First, a little KTV with his understudy before the wedding dinner...In case it's not obvious, the groom is the only person looking at my camera. I suppose that would make him the only person looking to the side in the other

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A few days ago I was in the toilet at Boon Lay MRT. There was something about the particular dinginess of the lighting inside, the particular stench of urine, the way the sinks were off-color, and probably the guy changing in the corner... when I stood at the urinal, music coming through my headphones, for a fleeting moment I thought I was in New York City...

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The new stadium and sports centre next to our place is open! Went to take a look around the other day.A highlight of the place is the aquatic centre, which has a huge water slide. Great for the family.Up on the roof there are two tennis courts. Good to know, though expensive to play.Meanwhile, around the neighborhood... The MRT extension is taking shape...And maybe one of these days I'll go try

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The rain has been horrible these days. It's made me miss at least 2 tennis sessions this past week, and in addition I also rescheduled my dental appointment because it was raining so hard.It's made me feel pretty sluggish these few days. Probably combined with the fact that my classes are more or less done, and I don't really need to go to NIE anymore. Last class tomorrow.But I got my fix of

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My Kogi L4AX-NA 14-inch LCD monitor (which is actually my wife's, bought from Best Buy in USA) pretty much gave up on me. No dead pixels, but the entire screen is white and washed out, can hardly see a thing. It actually started off by flickering quite badly, and in its final stage it was washed out and flickering. What I don't understand is that when i shut down my computer, the screen says NO

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It's been about three weeks since I last posted. Happy Thanksgiving!The busy period was supposed to be over in the end of October, but i guess it actually spilled over quite a bit. Can finally take quite a good breather now, last assignment was due on Monday.My ambitious goal for the holidays is to do some programming, be it learning to develop code in C++, Java, Perl, etc., or perhaps even

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Class 95 is pretty big on Halloween.Played tennis today, after a rather long hiatus. Going to play again tomorrow, and probably on Thursday too, which is the day after tomorrow.Sadly, I still have some assignments to do...

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It's a national holiday, and I was supposed to do work, but felt really tired for some reason. But no matter, it means I'm refreshed to do work now, after I'm done with this post.Just wanted to let the good folk out there know that while my bicycle was parked at Boon Lay MRT, the gel seat-cover I got was stolen, along with the seat-cushion for the rear seat I installed. The problem is that both

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Smashed up an EZ-Link card reader when squeezing out of Bus 179 going home. It's quite sparse inside the hard plastic shell, not a whole lot of wires and circuitry.Got 2.5 out of 5 in the recent quiz for maths class. In defense, I was first to finish because I wanted to go early to finish up an essay for another class that was due that day.Bryan's wedding is coming up. Our GESL project is

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It's been a pretty draining week. Rushing homework, though of course no huge major deadlines this week, just 6 of them circa 2 weeks from now.Decided to start reading again, going to read Bruno Schulz's The Street of Crocodiles. This creates continuity, though I was not really conscious of it when I choose to pick this book out of my collection. The last book I read was Cynthia Ozick's The

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It now costs me $0.65 to get to NIE and $0.87 to get back, a total of $0.03 more per round trip than it did last month.Doesn't change the fact that I have an essay due today.

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I've put up a virtual tour of our flat. Only lasts as long as I'm at NIE.It costs me $0.64 to get to NIE and $0.85 to get back because Bus 179 performs a loop.I have 2 short writeups due next week. More importantly, from the 25th of October to 2nd November, I have:Physics assignmentMaths lesson plan, with background conceptualizationResearch essay for Educational PsychologyEssay for the other

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Just when I need to do some research... the online journals don't seem to work! And there is scheduled server downtime until just before my paper is due! Looks like I either need to physically go to the library, or find a creative way to access e-Journals...The final floorball trials are in 6 hours' time. Watched Miami Vice (the movie) with Say Yang and Aaron just now. Oh, and my sunglasses frame

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I am such a slacker.Exhausted quite a bit of midnight oil last night, burning some now again. Good thing I know where to get more of that stuff, because I'll be needing it quite a bit for the upcoming weeks.I guess I'm practising just-in-time teaching. Or is it just-in-time learning.A classmate thinks NIE isn't very useful because it's just theory, and the lecturers here don't teach us the way

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October is the mega-month of assignment due dates. September is a small taste of things to come. Already I am getting behind.Seems like we should be getting worried about plastic in our food. Styrene mimics estrogen?Actually read that article on a board outside a canteen in NTU. All the NTU canteens I know use disposable plates, bowls, utensils... The NIE canteen uses proper plates and bowls.

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Playing floorball at NTU, the almost-final cut for the team will be made in the coming weeks.Playing my first match in the NTU Tennis Open tonight.My bicycle is quite massively damaged now, the rear wheel is off its axle. So no wheels for the next few days until I get a new bike.Homework is coming in fast and furious, need to really start working on my assignments. Using Google Calendar to remind

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Took part in the Intermediate tennis tournament, lost in the first round to a kid...Anyway, there's another Intermediate tournament coming up, I think I'll give that another shot. Quite different being in a match situation, and hopefully I can get more practice in before that next tournament in end September.NIE starts tomorrow, will attempt to cycle there. My official ORD is today! I am finally

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I just remembered that I took part in a haiku contest some time back, and went to google for it just now, and found out that I was the winner! I thought they were supposed to notify me by email, somehow I never got it.Anyway,The winning haiku will be printed on a postcard promoting Project Joy. The winner will also get the chance to present his/her haiku at a Project Joy concert.In addition, the

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Anyway, I have moved to our new flat already, and it's coming to about 4 weeks since. It's nice, need to do laundry and vacuum the floor now and then, but it's all good. If you're in the Boon Lay area and want to come see, let me know! The new bus interchange at Boon Lay is now in use.The GIGABYTE motherboard I got seems to have a non-functional ethernet port. Linux cannot detect it, and I think

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Dear All, I have bought a new desktop computer. In the process of setting it up now. Typing this from my laptop.Hope everyone has been doing fine.I got a new cell phone too, for "free", after renewing the contract with M1 (and getting a discount off the monthly subscription for a year!). It's a Samsung X650.Need to rush for wedding dinner now!

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Teach a man to fish and he will sit in his boat all day.Anyway, I got married last month, 18 Feb 2006, to be precise. It's been a long time since I last blogged. The word "blogged" already seems weird. There are some photos of the wedding.I've been good, people ask how married life has been, it's been more or less the same. As great as usual. We went for our honeymoon in Thailand, that was fun.

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I'm now legally married! And I've turned 24.A few days ago, I saw that a huge branch of a tree had fallen on a parked car. It was a newish white car, and the green leaves covered much of it.Updated blogger settings so that there's "word verification" for comments, meaning you have to type in the word in a graphic before you can post the comment, thwarting automated scripts. Haven't logged on to

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Granny is doing much better these days. She's able to speak rather clearly, and able to comprehend her surroundings as well as what we say. In fact, she cracked a joke. She burped, and I burped, then she burped again, and then asked if I had any more.Went to celebrate my birthday/marriage with Aaron, Jasper, and Say Yang. Ate at Greenland, a vegetarian Chinese restaurant in Serangoon. That's

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By the way, I failed my IPPT. Managed to do only 4 chin-ups (need 6 to pass), and then after that my running also not within passing timing. My thighs ache rather badly.

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I don't believe in the death penalty because I think it's horribly cruel to kill someone when you have a choice not to. It's horribly cruel especially when the death brings no benefits. Life imprisonment is a much better solution if you don't want that person to re-enter society.People believe that the death penalty is a huge deterrence, but statistics (in the US, for example) do not suggest this

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Hello, here I am again, fiddling with my gnome desktop. Customized the "panel" by deleting the one on top and fattening up the one below. Used the big foot icon, which is equivalent to the Windows "Start" button.My lovey is in the US now, should be touching down in a couple of hours. It's been many an agonizing hour since she left for the airport this morning... It's easy to forget how much you

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Alright, it's very disconcerting that even the tag-board is now filling up with spam. Comments filling up with spam is quite expected, though why did it happen when I stopped blogging? Broken window theory that when there are signs of cobwebs and dilapidation, graffiti and vandalism follow, with scams and spam close on its heels?Some updates. MINDEF didn't get top 3 in the PS21 ExCEL Convention,

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Wow, a lot of comments on my blog recently. A very few posts on my blog recently. Incidentally, the comments are spam, and not worth reading. That sucks.Are my posts spam and not worth reading? The way this is going, I think so.

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Five JC students were suspended for three days for writing not so nice things about their students on their blogs. You shouldn't say not so nice things about your teachers because I'm going to be a teacher. No lah, some teachers not so good, but you shouldn't say not so nice things about them lor.My PSC interview is today, I guess I'd better get ready to leave soon. Office environment nowadays is

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It's been a long time... oh well... it's always like that. Anyway, feeling a little under the weather, but recovering. Found out a little about SAP and PeopleSoft today.Getting busy at work. Lovey is busy at her work too. Been meeting her after work because we both work in the West and so we have dinner then go home together.I'm tired. Fixed the date for ROM three months from now. Have yet to

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The psychologist interview was pretty interesting. Jasper found his really interesting. Just went for the NIQCC presentation, wonder how we did in the end. Will know tomorrow, I believe. Been looking around for hotels for the wedding dinner. It won't be anything grand, just for family mostly. But that's still quite a bunch.The right pedal of my bike broke several days ago while I was cycling up

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I apologize for my long absence. I've been away from my computer for quite some time now. Check email quite infrequently. There are tons of updates to be made, from the mundane to the earth-shaking.Jasper's birthday is tomorrow. I think Andy's one is the day after, I'll have to check with him. Work-wise, been quite busy, but not too busy, making it a point to go home on time. Working on the

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My phone now seems to have the same problem as gz's phone. The vibration doesn't seem to work at all, so I miss calls and messages like anything when I put it to silent mode. Maybe it's just that the phone's now old.My bicycle got stolen yesterday. Came back at night and it was just not there. Not even a trace of the lock. I think this one CSI also can't help me. The thing to do is probably

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Boston Public is such an awesome show. A dramatization of the roller-coaster of public school life in America, you get these amazing situations. One moment it looks desperate, like what are the teachers going to do with this student, then it's so heart-warming and touching to see that the student is actually gentle and sweet, then something gets stolen, and it's "obvious" who stole it, then the

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I was complaining on Friday about a funeral procession that took up the entire left lane of a 3-lane road. This was in Yishun, on the main road that runs beside the MRT track. So there were probably 100 people walking slowly, with a few vehicles somewhere in the mix. People carrying a coffin, banging on drums and cymbals and the like. I was felt to be insensitive to complain about this. But must

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Yo yo, been quite busy since returning. I could write about the flight, about how we watched several movies. I watched Fever Pitch, Hitch, and Guess Who. All not bad, some quite good.Meeting Aaron and Jasper (and possibly Say Yang) for dinner tomorrow. My lovey just got a cell phone. Very nice, of course. Had dinner with her parents at Newton Circus, then the car parked next to her dad's car had

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Hello all! It's me again. It's been a nice two weeks so far in sunny Los Angeles, hope everyone is doing well! The packing is ok, you know the drill, selling stuff, giving away stuff, cleaning the apartment. The kind of stuff you do all the time, like when you've completed a doctoral degree after four years.Anyway, I arrived safe and sound, and hope to go back in one piece. But there will be two

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Just to inform everyone again to make a mental/electronic/physical note in their calendars or whatever your biological/logical clock is sync'd to, that I am flying in a few hours' time, and will only be back around midnight of Sunday, 24th July (Singapore Time).I'm taking my mum's tri-band phone, and listening to the radio built into her phone now as I type this. I miss having a radio that I can

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London has won the bid for the 2012 Olympics. London has just been racked with terrorist bomb blasts. Bombs went off in the underground and buses, during morning rush hour.Went to see the specialist for cholesterol yesterday, and there's pretty bad news. Creatine kinase (CK) level is about 1.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN). The link says CK leaks into the blood when muscle is damaged.

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We are post-promotion ceremony but still busy. At least I got to go home on time today, and could take Friday and Wednesday off last week. Happy 4th of July! I've got a huge pimple right below my left eye, which makes it look like I got in a fight and got whacked below the eye. But, as everyone knows, if I got in a fight I won't get whacked lor.So, to go back in time... went back to work today,

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Did a little OT tonight. I guess now I've been conditioned to consider it "little". But I'm taking off this Wednesday and Friday. Probably play badminton on Wednesday with James. Sam ORD-ed today. Eugene already started NIE, says instructor is experienced and inspiring. That's wonderful to hear.I should sleep soon. Tomorrow will be a long day. Probably will only be home close to midnight. Quite

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My lovey has her PhD! She's awesome. And I'll see her soon, and she'll be back soon too!Used my bicycle pump just now. Could only inflate the rear tire because the valve for the front tire is blocked by a spoke... but otherwise the pump works wonderfully.Went to the driving range this morning with my parents. Whacked a few balls. Got a couple of blisters, even on the gloved left hand.Played

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Wah, today was bad man. Stayed past 11pm. Felt so irritated and dyspeptic. One piece of good news is that this Saturday I'll have another tennis session in the evening, at 8pm. I hope gz is able to make it at that time.Watched "Worst-case Scenario" on TV, it's pretty cool. They made this guy with a fear of flying land a small propeller plane after 6 hours of training!

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Stayed back in office until past eight today. Now that Eugene is gone, I am now the PA to my branch head. If I didn't already mention that. Quite tired. Need to return library books already, read roughly half of each of the two books. One tennis session confirmed for this Saturday morning, 10am at Yio Chu Kang.Trying to get MS Outlook to automate the process of sending different emails to

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Jasper and James managed to come down to the 18th MINDEF PRIDE Day yesterday, though James arrived at about 9pm and we had closed shop already. Then we went to Jalan Kayu for roti prata. Then James bought prata for some person (having called and asked if and what he/she wanted), who he was going to meet, but refused to tell me who he/she is!!! Then I asked to see his handphone, if it was new or

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Stayed back at work till about 11pm last night. Will have so much to do on Monday, because I'll be the only NSF around. Will have to get used to this, because afterall when Yinglan comes back, it'll only be him and me in our branch. So yesterday Sam was giving me a crash course on how to do their work.Going to Tampines Mall soon. Might play tennis with gz tomorrow. Seems like there was absolutely

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Quite a lot of people came to our exhibit and because the place is generally loud, my throat was dry after talking to each person. Most of them were interested in when they could get their hands on the program. In due time, I say. Tiring standing up the whole day, but not a bad experience.Tomorrow I'll be there in the morning all by myself because we're in a seriously busy period and this thing

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When writing the title for my last post, which I just posted, I was reminded of the WITs project that is just next to ours. It advocates the use of OpenOffice.org and open source in general. MINDEF has thousands of Office97 licenses, but 1997 is like so long ago. Using OpenOffice.org instead of upgrading to Office 2003 will save about $15 million, in their projection.OpenOffice.org is great: it's

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Left the house at 0600 hrs this morning. So sleepy, throughout the bus journey to MRT then the MRT journey to the western tip of Singapore, then a bus to SAFTI. Ended up spending the whole day there, they did 2 runs of the rehearsal. There was a squashed frog on the pavement. It rained really heavily, but thankfully only after I arrived and was safe in the exhibition hall.Looks like there won't

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Been so sleepy and tired, especially last night. Finished up some preparation for the MINDEF PRIDE Day today, basically prepared a script to present our project (within 2 minutes) to the Minister of Defence, who happened to be Minister of Education when he presented my teaching scholarship to me. Need to rehearse tonight, in preparation for the rehearsal tomorrow. I think I need to wake up super

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Muscles aching quite pervasively, very tired today. I bought wristbands and a vibration dampener for my tennis racquet, which is supposed to reduce the risk of tennis elbow. I fear that the peak of tennis playing for me has passed, because each week now there seems to less and less. But that could be ascribing a "trend" to a random fluctuation. This is but a taste of the terror...This Saturday is

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My parents bought durians again, and they're again really good. Had some with Aaron, who came over for a while. Wimbledon is on TV now, the men's serves are so freaking fast. Ace after ace. I think this game between Hewitt and Karlovic they've played 16 games already and no one has broken serve. And this Karlovic guy is so tall, I think they say he's 6 foot 10. The top of Hewitt's head reaches

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