"Mr. Speaker sir…"
I wrote this entry several weeks ago to post up when I’m too busy to write current entries. So here it goes.:) A student blogger on the other blog I write for was noting how quickly time has passed in
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Unknown callers
An email with an attachment just landed in Outlook at work titled Phone Scams: Crime Prevention Outreach to Schools. Reading off the forward list, the email has gone quite quite a long way before it finally reached staff. I suspect
Oh crap
Yahoo just doesn’t agree with WordPress. This is my second attempt at upgrading WordPress, and bleh – things just didn’t want to work properly anymore. The database comprising nearly 380 posts, hundreds of comments etc. didn’t successfully migrate along, and
CGAT '08
I was caught up at an international gaming conference held at Suntec Convention Centre over the last three days. The conference is quite a mouthful, but here it goes: “International Conference & Industry Symposium on Computer Games; Animation, Multimedia, IPTV
The human touch
Something warmed my heart recently. I was halfway tearing a parking coupon at the car park of ICA (Immigration and Checkpoint Authority) when I heard some knocking on the glass window of the passenger’s seat. I looked up and saw
Typing
I remember a funny occasions during one of very first few days teaching 13 years ago. I was typing something on the keyboard when a colleague leaned over and said, “Wow – are you the new secretary?” She didn’t know
e-Bay scamming
I did most of my thesis writing at my home in Farnham Street rather than the office at Curtin University during my years in Perth. During those long days of writing, the television was usually on. I think I watched
Rolling dice
If you’re a fan of Dungeons & Dragons, here’s an interesting link that’s worth a visit. Based on your responses to a very long list of questions, you’ll get a detailed report on the level, character class and alignment that
'O Sole Mio
Well, Ling came back from her Venice trip chaperoning her choir… and promptly fell sick for the next couple of days from fever, sore throat, and coughing. From what I gather, it was not an easy trip with her girls
"By Your Command"
The line in the title of this post comes from a TV science-fiction series the boys from the Foo clan loved when young. Not all the three boys at home, but just my elder brother and myself. The series was
A pox on ye!
One reason why Ling often asks if it’d be better if she drives lies in her belief that driving is a tremendously stressful experience for me. How’s that? Well, I curse when I drive. Not just a bit, but a
It wasn't in vain
I caught a whole ton of movies both on the big screen and on disc in 2007, but the bulk of it were those mass-appeal shows. Many were great fun of course, e.g. Borat, Ratatouille, Transformers. But the show that
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