New Look, Old Blog
I just realized that the blog is now well past the 1000 posts mark, and – going by the first post date of March 1999 – is now 11 years old. The posts in the first 6 years or so
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Farewell to C182
A class of students I’ve been counselor and mentor since April 2007 will be graduating in a few months’ time. The staff did an informal Seniors’ Farewell event yesterday morning in school, where my colleagues did several industry prep talks
Weird Exam Paper Answers
Nearly a decade ago I marked an examination paper on a subject I was lecturing and also heading in one of my prior institutions. This was an international examination, and the candidates sitting for my paper numbered in the several
Mining for Gold in Sewage
Step aside Newater, gold is the in thing now. I was reading this interesting article about many (and wild) possibilities of making sewage useful. The world’s population produces around 1.2 billion tonnes of faeces and 15 hundred billion of urine per year.
Sextet of Torment
There’s an absolutely horrid gauntlet of traffic lights I have to get through every morning at 7:00 AM, and it’s the series of traffic junctures from the infant care center I drop Hannah off at and then Ling. They’re marked
Time to Move House
Virtually, that is. The chekyang.com domain has been around for more than a decade now. The first host provider I used was Hostway: pretty good service though subscription plans for a while were relatively expensive. I did a domain shift
Car Trouble
Just when I’d blogged about the decisions that went well for 2009, one decision that I’d blogged about being a right one the year before comes right back to bite me in the arse. Basically, it’s been a terrible week
Moving House
I ‘moved’ house at work just before I vamoosed for my in-camp training, and now that I’m back in the office have finally been able to properly arrange my things at my new home. Now, one of my big regrets
Lost in Translation
As part of the preparation for my upcoming staff-exchange trip to Japan in December this year, I’ve been translating about 30 hours worth of lecture material into, well, Japanese. The students I’ll be lecturing do know English, but – or
Chemical Learning
This has got to be the best chemistry lesson I’ve seen in a while! If only Chemistry was so funny back during my time LOL. There seems to be different versions of the video floating around, with e.g. another version
Teaching Mathematics
An interesting video was circulated around today. But I didn’t quite understand what it was about initially, but since everyone else around me was laughing at the video, I gave it a second look. There’s sound only in the right
Boom De Ya Da!
There’s a lovely video that’s been making the rounds for a year now, and was part of Discovery Channel’s advertizing campaign. It’s a cheerful song which will certainly stick in your mind for a while.:) The funniest thing is that
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