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The China double hit-and-run case has stirred up a wave of criticism on the 18 passerbys who did not offer help to the 2 years old girl, and the state of moral value in the country. While I think no one will dispute that it was a sad case that such incident happened, but I was quite disturbed by the sudden appearances of so many moral policemen. It is very easy to make …
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While I am not trying to glorify or condemn him, but how many people can rise to become head of a nation at the age of 27 like Colonel Muammar Gaddafi did? It was also reported that when Gaddafi led a bloodless coup to overthrow the monarchy in 1969, he ended poverty in Libya and brought the living standard to be highest in Africa. There was this sort-of related incident I …
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This year marks 100th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution (aka Xinhai Revolution). My closest participation (not in the revolution itself) would be checking out the exhibition at Hong Kong Museum of History back in May. The centennial brings about many relevant discussion. Many countries talk about their historical involvement in the revolution (like how Mr Sun Yat-sen …
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Today is the opening of the full Circle Line, adding yet another mileage to Singapore's MRT network. We were kind of out of ideas for things to do on this Saturday, so we decided to hop onto the Circle Line and take the chance to visit Clementi, a Western part of Singapore which I haven't been to for a while. Yes, could have gone to Boon Lay but no thanks. Just to be clear, …
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It was as if a joke was being played when news of Steve Jobs' passing on came out right after the launch of iPhone 4S. I'm not a fanboi of Apple, I don't wear turtleneck, the only Apple product I have is probably the free QuickTime player. The closest link I have with Apple is that I got invited to join as a design engineer. In fact I kind of have negative view on people who …
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After sitting for the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination, I bumped into a real-life practical engineering problem at home. When I started up the washing machine, it was taking in water so slowly it looked more like dripping. I vaguely recalled previously the washing machine also did act weirdly, so I tried adjusting the drainage hose. No avail. If it was not the out, …
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The last time when I was in an examination hall, I was an invigilator. :P Today I just sat for 6 hours 20 minutes of Fundamental of Engineering Examination (FEE) administered by the Professional Engineering Board. Basically the FEE tests you on the fundamentals of engineering, much that has been taught at undergraduate level. Passing the FEE is one of the prerequisites for …
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有时在路上看到活动海报或者是广告， 上边写着＂XXX呈现＂。 其实， 是"呈现"还是"呈献"呢？ 以小弟低见， 这里应该是用"呈献", 因为有献给客官的意思。 "呈现", 就好象是表达一种现象似的, 天文现象， 化学现象等。 虽然两者汉语拼音相同， 但是意思不相通。 政府不提倡方言， 偏偏就是方言帮助我辨字， 因为＂献＂和＂现＂在粤语里相差甚大. 所以我觉得方言和华语 …
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A while ago when I read from the news that SBS Transit was appointed the operator for Downtown Line which is to be completed in 2017, I couldn't help chuckled to myself. For background i …
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Mid-autumn Festival is around the corner, so I thought of bringing the parents to the Marina Bay area for a lantern walk. We were greeted by the gigantic air-blown Walter the bunny (no stranger to me, had met it at 8Q SAM) at the entrance of Marina Bay City Gallery. It wasn't a big event, wasn't reported on the Chinese newspaper, wouldn't have known it if not seeing it on …
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I didn't really imagine myself going to Comex 2011. Until I received a call from my parents during office hour on Friday, asking me to go Comex with them that evening. Well I did think of getting an iPad for them, since it is not uncommon to see old aunties playing with iPhone on the train, and I guess a Windows-based PC could be harder to learn for the oldbies at home. But …
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Just a few days ago, I received a comment left on a 4 years old blog post of mine. It said something along the line of he has seen more interesting blogs. Once in a while I do get this kind of less-than-neutral comments on the blog. While we all like to receive positive comments, I think it isn't unfair to receive negative feedback as well. (nah, we don't brush it aside as …
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At the night class that I attend, there is this group of foreigners classmates. I don't have much opinion of them except for one of them who seems to like to ask the lecturer questions just to show off how much he knows, and as a result delaying the pace of the lesson. Being a night class attended by working adults, we have classmates rushing down from work and joining the …
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The other evening I was doing some reading when I received a sms from an ex-student, asking me about solving this question using de Moivre's theorem. To provide some background, I taught this student O-Level physics and he has since moved on to study engineering in polytechnic. As for de Moivre's theorem, did I only learn it in university? I clarified with him a bit on the …
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4 Tans, 3 with black hair, 2 doctors, 1 president. In a few day's time, Singapore will be choosing the next Mister President. It is hard to decide who to give the cross to because I don't like each candidate for different reasons. Initially I wanted to list down what I don't like about each of them, but that would be foolish... so I'll just say, I love the President brand …
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So someone went to the Community Mediation Centre cos the neighbour cooks curry and they don't like the smell. According to the newspaper, the complainant just moved to Singapore from China. Let me share with you this case that happened in Hong Kong in June this year. Someone was fined HK$75000 (~S$11610) for burning joss sticks outside her unit and causing the premature …
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And so a public figure was caught using her mobile phone during the singing of the National Anthem at the National Day Parade. Her attention being captured by the phone was also captured and broadcast in High Definition, live. If you have seen her so-called "apology", it was quite a cow-crap. First she said she was so caught up, then she said _IF_ she had offended anyone, …
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Today is Singapore's 46th National Day. Happy National Day! Lately I have been seeing this question: "What do you think is the Singapore spirit?" For something to qualify as a spirit pegged to nationality, it must be something common to all (if not most) citizens. The first things that came to my mind were stuffs like "queuing for bubble tea", "rushing and squeezing onto …
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analyst: you engineers are obsessed with flow charts. engineer: you analysts are obsessed with line charts.
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It was quite ironic when I saw someone literally trying to reserve a seat on the MRT. So there was this lady sitting on THE reserved seat. Halfway between stations she stood up, leaned against the grab pole that is right beside the reserved seat, and stared hard at the MRT route map pasted above the train door opposite. Another lady moved towards that seat and wanted to sit …
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