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My days have been consumed by writing. Obviously it’s not material that pertains to this blog or there would be much more up-to-date prose on my life. No, instead it’s a scien …
It’s rare that my field of genetics gets a shout-out in the mainstream media since most discoveries are consigned to the esoteric science journals. It does however, take an eye-pop …
Everyone has a childhood friend that frames the memories of those pre-pubescent days of innocence . You know how young kids are - there’s this period of time where girls and boys ar …
I was exhausted after pulling 4-hours of sleep each night for about 5 days in a row, all in a bid to mold my bioinformatics project into perfection (it was worth it - I got a whopping 98 …
Over these couple of days, we hosted what would be the last round of visitors at our apartment, or as Steve would like to call it, Chez Choi. To all the folks who are not linguistically i …
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A few days ago, I bought a small Toshiba netbook to cater to my mobile computing needs since in the span of just two weeks, both my laptops, a MacBook and a Sony VAIO, decided to self-term …
It’s peak foliage here in New England and the parks are riddled with the fallen detritus of yellow and gold leaves. It’s strange but I love hearing the sounds of dried leaves getting crushed under my boots as we walked through the Boston Common, adding just another sensory dimension to Autumn. It won’t be for ...
So a week ago, my old behemoth of a laptop, a seven-pounder Sony VAIO flashed its last set of blue pixels before it frazzled out for good. I was barely mourning its demise when my other laptop, a MacBook that I use primarily for work, suffered a hard drive crash and wouldn’t boot up its ...
I read with interest that a 4th publicly-funded university is in the works in Singapore, and as of now, it has been named the Singapore University of Technology & Design. For a country …
Another weekend comes and goes, by Monday I was wondering what on earth had happened to it! The eventful weekend was kicked off with a date with one of our favorite comedians, Bill Maher, who did a show at the Wilbur Theater. Friday nights usually mean one thing for us, and that is dinner at ... 
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