Baby Names Wrap
The other day I saw our baby daughter kick! Not through the Ultrasound, but through little bumps off Ling’s belly as though our little tot couldn’t wait to get out LOL. Ling’s been rubbing her tummy (a lot!), talking soothingly
Thinking Back X – In Retrospect
The Ph.D program finally came to a close when I received the scroll in Oct 2007. Yeah, my graduation got delayed by a year even though I’d submitted my thesis in Jan 2006. By the time I’d finished the usual
HD Toy
While I’ve had quite a few still image cameras, both of the digital and film sort, I haven’t been in video recording for quite nearly as long. Consumer-priced video recorders didn’t drop in price quite as quickly as photographic cameras
Thinking Back IX – Writing the Thesis
Well, all that pain-staking data gathering work, subsequent data analysis and theory generation would be pretty much pointless if you can’t put it all into words. Not unsurprisingly, a lot of doctoral candidates ultimately get stuck at the thesis writing
Sonic Showers
There’re just three ‘big’ movies on my “Must Watch” list this year: they’re Watchmen, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (!), and Star Trek. The first, Watchmen, has come and gone and I’ve blogged about it here the other week.
Thinking Back VIII – Living in Perth
Many students from Singapore who go elsewhere to study go wild. After all, when you’re coming out from an arguably boring Red Dot to places with no parents, less censorship, more freedoms of expression – never understood why this is
Thinking Back VII – Working in Perth
Many international students work. They have to, because beyond the exception of a few rich kids, most are perpetually cash strapped. Studying abroad is a capital investment: tuition fees will set you back at least $25,000 per year. You’ll spend
Dai Goh Dai
A post about handphones! In Cantonese, ‘Dai Goh’ means ‘Big Brother’. Dai Goh Dai means “Big Brother Carrying” I think, and the phrase was used in the 80s when mobile phones became available for consumer purchase. Those phones were like
Thinking Back VI – Speaking at Conferences
While it’s not necessary for doctoral candidates to publish research during their course of study, many do. I determined early on too that I would seek to publish as a doctoral candidate. My project into grief play was structured into
Thinking Back V – Achieving Candidacy
Before I could actually start doing research in MMORPGs (the fun part!), I had to first prove to the faculty that my research was viable, accomplishable, and important. This was the Candidacy period, the culmination of which is a formal
Baby Names – Chinese Version
Here in Singapore, Chinese names given to newborns typically follow a name structure that’s kept consistent for each generation. For instance, my generation was “Foo Chek *”. For the next generation, it’s “Foo Jie *”. Mum has been thinking of
Thinking Back IV – Understanding Research
There’s a common underlining basis for the award of a Ph.D after all those years of slogging. Firstly, your work has to constitute a substantial and important contribution to the body of knowledge. Secondly, the conduct through which you produced
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