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Stress and assessment II

Posted on 6 Mar 2009   by CY

Continued from my previous post! What had changed from my bachelor to the master degree? Well, the domain of study was very different. The stuff I studied in Computer Engineering largely pertained to knowledge acquisition and practical application, whereas the

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Stress and assessment I

Posted on 5 Mar 2009   by CY

Just a couple of weeks ago, my Software Engineering students were right thick in their last week of final assessments for my subject. When I ran into them while walking to the faculty cafeteria for lunch, they all went into

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Oratorios & Masses III

Posted on 4 Mar 200914 Mar 2018   by CY

Continuing on my series of posts on large vocal classical works. I’ve blogged about two of Handel’s oratorios: this entry is about both of Haydn’s oratorios. Haydn is also one of those lucky composers to have lived a long life.

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Eagles and Birdies

Posted on 3 Mar 2009   by CY

A couple nights every week this couple of weeks is spent discharging my, well, yearly IPPT obligation. But the remaining free evenings I’ve been spending quite a bit of time in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. Funnily, I have no

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Visiting Obamaland

Posted on 2 Mar 2009   by CY

Singapore in itself isn’t very exciting outside eating and shopping, so many of us simply make use of our convenient location to travel. Singaporeans are a pretty lucky lot when it comes to traveling around the world. We’re situated right

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Echoing: The Witcher

Posted on 2 Mar 2009   by CY

Echoing a game review for the other blog I manage and write for. I wrote this one last year though. The Witcher No, this isn’t an educational game review. For a change, this one’s just a game review for an

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Windows Utilities III

Posted on 1 Mar 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

I figured what the heck – I might as well just finish the series of posts with the last bunch of freeware.:) While there are a lot of file compression standards used online, the two most common ones by far

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Windows Utilities II

Posted on 1 Mar 200925 Jan 2024   by CY

Continuation of my earlier post.:) The earlier incarnations of Windows kept their application settings in easily configurable .INI files, but have now packed them into a registry file. Most users don’t ever peak into the registry since it’s a cryptic

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Windows Utilities I

Posted on 28 Feb 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

Follow-up on my post on operating systems a while ago. I actually wrote this post and the next several days ago, but it got queued up behind the recent oratorio posts. One of the nicest things about running on the

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Superhero Powers

Posted on 28 Feb 2009   by CY

As far as comicdom is concerned, there’s a long list of superhero powers. After all, if you’re going to keep things fresh in that creative industry, you need to get equally as creative when it comes to cooking up the

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Showing at a local home cinema III

Posted on 27 Feb 2009   by CY

I’m gonna do more frequent posts of Home Cinema with fewer movies but longer notes.:) Eagle Eye (2008). Techno thriller starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, and a whole bunch of military hardware, especially of the spy, surveillance and explosive sort.

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Lessons: Rationalizing

Posted on 27 Feb 200913 Mar 2018   by CY

Taking a break from music posts and returning to an thread where I was writing about lessons in life.:) A groupie in our small group Salmon Run once remarked that the greatest threat to the Holy Spirit is our (human)

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