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Morning Routine – Changes

Posted on 13 Jan 201023 Jan 2010   by CY

It’s been nearly a year since I last wrote about morning routines. A year ago – when Ling was still pregnant with Hannah – I’d be up at 0430 every morning, and we’d both be out of the house at

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Time to Move House

Posted on 11 Jan 201014 Jul 2018   by CY

Virtually, that is. The chekyang.com domain has been around for more than a decade now. The first host provider I used was Hostway: pretty good service though subscription plans for a while were relatively expensive. I did a domain shift

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Avocado – An Excellent Baby Food!

Posted on 8 Jan 20101 Feb 2010   by Ling

I mentioned earlier that I was not a fan of avocados. Well, I’m a convert now! :D I had this $1.75 organic avocado bought from NTUC just before it was time to start Hannah on solid food. It was green

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Blawk Hawk Down

Posted on 6 Jan 201014 Mar 2018   by CY

Black Hawk Down (2001) – on HD. Until the film itself, the only recollection I had of what eventually became known as the Battle of Mogadishu were the televised images and news of two American soldiers who were killed in

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Flexi-Babe

Posted on 5 Jan 20101 Feb 2010   by Ling

There are always little fun moments with Hannah. It could be her expression, reaction to her surroundings or things she does with her body. One day, I found Hannah doing the split. Wah, can pass audition for a dance class

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My Lil Pumpkin

Posted on 4 Jan 20101 Feb 2010   by Ling

Hannah has started on some solid foods for about a month now. So far, she has accepted all the foods without putting up a fuss or fight. For the record, Hannah has tried Japanese short grain white rice porridge, carrot,

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Computer Assembly – Part 2

Posted on 4 Jan 201023 Jan 2010   by CY

Interestingly, the parts that go into a computer system haven’t changed too much over the last 15 years since I first tried assembling my first computer in 1995. The parts back then were… Computer casing CPU Motherboard RAM Power supply

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Computer Assembly – Part 1

Posted on 3 Jan 201014 Jan 2010   by CY

One of the ideas that I lecture about in Software Engineering is the concept of how one views testing objects. You can either look at an object either in ‘black’ or ‘white’ box fashion. In the former, internal processing details

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New Year Dinners

Posted on 3 Jan 2010   by CY

Apart from spending most of the New Year on assembling the new PC and also cleaning up and refreshing the old one for Ling, we were at two events with family on the New Year day and the day after

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I should had been an Accountant

Posted on 30 Dec 200923 Jan 2010   by CY

My last posts of 2009.:) Exactly a year ago I did a post on a resolution I had – and that was to do a refinancing arrangement of our DBS Loan for our apartment. Unfortunately, while the collective funds we’ve

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2010 Key Events

Posted on 30 Dec 2009   by CY

And here’s the run down of major events coming up in the new year: Feb – Mar: Matt’s coming to visit and stay with us again! And this time, he intends to climb Mt. Kinabalu, visit Penang, and has vowed

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Self Service

Posted on 28 Dec 20095 Apr 2010   by CY

One thing we’ve been trying to teach Hannah is to, well, feed herself. Not the complex stuff like eating solids of course yet, but we bought a Pigeon brand sippy cup, which basically is a two-handed water bottle for her

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