Superman

Listen to the theme.

I dreamt of flying around the old neighbourhood and kissing Lois Lane. Christopher Reeves was super.

A quarter century love affair

0 1983.

8 The Macintosh has yet to hit the markets.

3 A little boy trying to escape from a dysfunctional family.

5 A book about creating games with BASIC & Apple II+.

9 An era when 64k was king.

3

6 Before LAN gaming, we competed with ourselves. The light from the green
6 monochrome reflected off our eager eyes. Our minds working at a frantic
9 pace. How do we solve the last puzzle? How would the victory screen look?

4 For brief moments, virtual became reality.

Mamma Mia!

Anni, Benny, Bjorn & Agnetha...

Chiquitita
you and I cry
but the sun is still in the sky
and shining above you
let me hear you sing once more
like you did before
sing a new song
Chiquitita



With the exception of Celine Dion, no other Eurovision winners have made it quite as big as the quarter from Sweden.

Mop-like hair, big collars, bell-bottoms...*sigh*...I miss those days...

Teaching journal 2

What did I learn in class today?



1. 4-6pm, 34 degrees and 99% humidity is about the worst moment to get teenagers to sit still.

2. Jokes help, even awful ones.
A Singaporean, a Malaysian and a Thai walked into a pub one day...

3. Teach with lots of specimens and hands-on to keep them (and self) from dozing.
Eeek! Watch that Isoptera disintegrate...

4. It's no harm letting them make some noise or dismissing them early.
Mostly for my own benefit *snigger*

Teaching journal

What did I learn in class today?



1. Test questions should be as specific as possible.
Blood pressure? Atrial stretch?

2. Go slow & don't be afraid to give breaks
Don't worry about completing the curriculum. Very MOE, tsk tsk...

3. Going though the answers immediately after a class quiz is good.
Gives me an idea of the level of learning

4. Plan practical to minimise waiting time & around available resources.
3 hours of 7 replicates is 21 man-hours wasted. Consider resources that allow for parallel use

Configuring wintel wireless adapters

Remind me again why I hate Wintel hardware.

Spent the pass 3 hours trying to get my X31 to latch on to the wireless network at home. It was a hair-pulling experience.

Remember, those of you who are using the old Intel 2100 wireless cards. You have to un-hide your network's SSID, otherwise it wouldn't be able to detect it. Even if you type in the ID manually.

I hate Wintel!

Small desktop PC project

So, in an effort to reduce freight charges, my next project is this...


Source: mini-itx.com

Ultimately housed in a 6cmx25cmx25cm casing...



Watch this space for updates...

Beginning of the crash?

or maybe not, depending which analyst you talk to.

However the situation turns out by the end of this trading week, there's no doubt that we're in the midst of an oil shock not felt since the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War.



At $2.20 a litre, I'd take a can of cola anytime...

On hives, allergies and all things uncomfy

It's a weird but liberating experience realising that you have food allergy after 3 decades of conscious existence.



I think that excludes 99% of crappy, lukewarm, human perspiration soaked street-vendor food.

So glad there's a well-equiped pantry next to the workstation.

Lessons in the afternoon

4-6pm is a bad time for anything intelligent. Including trying to sit down in a stuffy room under tropical weather.

Serious stuff should be done strictly between the hours of 9 to noon. Any other time is for play.

Japanese sea bass

I like eating fish but not scaling and gutting it. Very messy and hives break out all over my hands afterwards. But that's not detracting me from this delectable fish...



Locally, it's known as Japanese Sea Bass. But it's actually not a bass. Might be known as Yellow Croaker. In Mandarin, it's 黄花鱼 and better enjoyed steamed than fried, even if it's not entirely fresh. In fact, mine was in the freezer for 2 weeks before I took it out today.

All you need to do is to gut it (yucks!), apply some cooking oil, ginger strips and spring onions before tossing it into the steamer for 10 minutes under high heat. Yum yum. The other good thing is that its bones are relatively large so it's a safer alternative to other fish.

Enjoy...