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I’m happy that I work at Fusionopolis. I stay in the west of Singapore and there is little commute time to work. I never thought too much about traveling but with this new work arrangement, I felt I have more time for myself. I like the idea of sitting in a park reading a book; ...
Maybe I should speak and write more, I’m having troubles using appropriate words. I know a word exist in my mind but I can’t seem to reach it however hard I try. It irks.
People change — that’s what I keep telling myself when something unexpected occurs. Then a voice would retort, “What? You expect people to stay the same? How absurd!” And I end up forgiving and accepting things as a way of life. As I continue to relax my expectations, it comes to a point where I ...
I assume you already have PEAR/PECL available. I am using the CentOS’s stock PHP. First you need to update your channels: kahwee:~ kahwee$ sudo pear update-channels Updating channel "doc.php.net" ; Channel "doc.php.net" ; is up to date Updating channel "pear.php.net 4; Channel "pear.php.net 4; is up to date Updating channel …
From the movie Handover 2: Phil: Your password is baloney1? Chow: Well used to be just baloney, but now they make you add number. Forcing alphabets and numbers into password is just annoying for me. I have a, what I will deem to be, a sufficiently secure password and I had to uglify it with ...
This summarizes what I observe when I watch people open doors. This is science I tell you. Shaun Micallef – Polite Distances In general, people here get stressed when doors are opened for them. There are a couple of times when I feel I do not get a thanks not because people aren’t appreciative, they ...
New year’s coming and I am excited that I am going older a year. This year has been particularly fruitful. I completed most of what I set to achieve. Here’s a rough status: On religion, I ascertain my religious stance. I am neither theist nor atheist. I found out about the word “ignostic̶ 1; and felt ...
It’s going to year end and I thought I should confess this. I really like this song and couldn’t get bored listening to it. Nicki Minaj – Super Bass
In a small company, it’s easy to manage 5 employees, their leaves, benefits and training programmes. In a larger organization however, it is becomes impossible to maintain a good overview of how employees are doing as a whole. Larger organizations manages training programmes for different disciplines and recruiting processes. So they implement this information system ...
I am too attached to my old Delicious account. I spent more than an hour attempting to migrate links that I have collected from my old Delicious account to my new one (just because I want a change of usernames). I lost about 300 links and it pains me. Upon realization the hour’s passed and ...
MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language — so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son’s life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch “gaaaa” slowly turn into “water.” Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we ...
I can only frown. Strong by Rick Perry I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. ...
There are items I want to have completed yet I did not get around completing them. It is a bad habit and I am trying to fix that. It all stems from procrastination. As I transit out of my previous company ONG&ONG I had more time to assess the situation in greater detail. It’s not ...
Just encountered an issue where WordPress cannot resize my uploaded photograph to thumbnail, small or medium. All the radio buttons are grayed out but the full size option. This is due to a certain module not installed. If you are using Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install php5-gd If you don’t have access, you might have to ...
I haven’t been blogging for quite some time. There has been much transitions in this couple of years and it distracted me greatly. Blogging is something I miss doing but the missing occurs when I’m in public transport where it’s least convenient. Previously this blog is hosted at Rackspace Cloud. They’ve provided decent services but ...




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