Old users of Microsoft Office (and I don’t mean that the users are of old age) might remember the statistics window that pops up after they perform a grammar check. For some reason recent versions of Microsoft Office disable the readability statistics by default.One of the things presented in the statistics are the Flesch-Kincaid Readibility ...

It’s only less than five hours after setting up my blog at WordPress.com, and I’m already sick of it…When I first started blogging back in 2002, I started off with Blogger, hosted by Blogspot. In fact, you can still find my blog there–although later on I removed all the entries when I moved to a ...

I find it funny that these days when I want to blog, I start thinking of the topic that I am going to write. By the time I’ve decided on how to write it, it will be quite late and I decide to write it another time.But by the time that another time comes, I ...

Apologies for the lack of updates for the past few days. I just didn’t really have the mood to blog.Anyway, I missed my bus by half a minute this morning, so I had to take a cab to work and bid goodbye to 1.5 hours of pay. It isn’t the first time I almost miss ...

I think that things come full circle.I used to listen to this song at one period of time a long time ago, in a similar situation. It’s a very uplifting piece of song. In fact, I described it much better in that post of mine:Let me share with you this beautiful hymn, which I fell ...

Finally, it’s over.***Thank you for the memories.Thank you for giving me such a wonderful experience as my first love.Thank you for bearing with me when we were still together.Thank you for making me learn what love is all about.Thank you for putting colours in my life.Thank you for loving me.Thank you for everything.I’m sorry I ...

I was at Jurong Point on Tuesday, and braved myself and went into Cards n Such where I got the first present. I didn’t know what pushed me to go there. Part of me wanted to see that silly little bear again, part me of me didn’t.The bear wasn’t there, as it’s probably out of ...

One thing I’ve often wondered though, is how the name Bukit Batok came about. In Indonesian, the word “bukit” means hill, while “batok” can mean many things, from coconut shell to the (top of the) skull. Basically almost anything hard and half-roundish can be called “batok”.So I asked my good old pal Wikipedia, and he ...

Photo by EthanThis was what I was out for (almost) the whole day today… after getting my residential address updated with the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority and buying a new pair of shoes, that is. Too bad I wasn’t wearing the mortar and pestle mortarboard (cap) in the photo. The rest of the set should ...

Those who know me well will know that I’m very sensitive when I’m sleeping. Which means to say that I get stimulated very easily. Any slight noise can wake me up. It was the very same reason that I had to switch rooms when I stayed in hall as a freshman.In addition, due to the ...