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Gaming, Women and Society

Posted on 29 Mar 20115 Mar 2017   by CY

A year ago I received a fairly large group of JC students who were at my institution as part of their immersion program to better understand video games in society. One of the topics I spoke to them about was

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Departure Morning

Posted on 21 Dec 201021 Dec 2010   by CY

Our last day of the year with Hannah before the two of us head to Changi airport for our flight to Osaka! We were going with a timeplan for the day; which involved a family brunch in the morning, lunch

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The Joneses

Posted on 10 Dec 20109 Dec 2010   by CY

The Joneses (2009) – on rental. Several years ago I watched a film titled The Stepford Wives, starring Nicole Kidman and Matthew Broderick, which itself was a remake of a 1975 film of the same name. The film was a

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A Growing Disquiet – II

Posted on 2 Sep 201014 Mar 2018   by CY

This post isn’t about what one of my friends calls ‘Toronto Bashing’, or quibbling with fellow Christians, but a very personal reflection on something that continues to unsettle me. A month ago I wrote a friend from Salmon Run many

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Joke overheard

Posted on 30 Aug 20102 Sep 2010   by CY

This one’s probably an old one! During the counseling class last week, there were jokes aplenty with the very lively and animated instructor we were having. One of those jokes that came up was as follows. Apologies to those of

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The Professional Counselor

Posted on 17 Aug 2010   by CY

Apologies for the relative dearth of posts! Not much to write about this couple of days (though Ling has an interesting post she’s working on about Hannah), except that I’ve been attending a five day training program on practical counseling.

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Game sensitivities

Posted on 5 Aug 20105 Aug 2010   by CY

I gave a talk to students from Jurong Junior College yesterday afternoon on game studies, the second of such talks I’ve done this year for JC students. The 40 minute talk had a lot of content crammed into it as

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My first home-made video for teaching Biology

Posted on 9 Jul 2010   by Ling

Well, it’s official! I have made a biology video clip to demonstrate the action of semi-lunar valves in veins. And it is uploaded on YouTube! The 1.5 minute video clip took less than 30 minutes to prepare and produce. Owing

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Character Doodles

Posted on 2 Jun 20103 Jun 2010   by CY

I was rummaging through the tons of trash from my old room at the Lentor family home when I came across a piece of paper containing a doodle! That was done by one of my adult students when I was

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Entertaining Kids

Posted on 10 May 2010   by CY

Over on Saturday evening, we drove back to our family home at Lentor for a get together dinner. I think that this was also to had been a mother’s day sort of celebration but that might have got lost somewhere

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C261 Cosplay

Posted on 7 May 201017 May 2010   by CY

Anime is a big thing here for many people in Singapore, and of them, there is a subset of young people who get dressed up in the costumes of well-known Japanese anime and film characters in events. It’s a sort

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New Look, Old Blog

Posted on 6 May 201014 Jul 2018   by CY

I just realized that the blog is now well past the 1000 posts mark, and – going by the first post date of March 1999 – is now 11 years old. The posts in the first 6 years or so

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