All about humor
I’ve blogged here before that there’s a couple of humor sites I frequently visit to get my dosage of satire. One is The Onion, blogged about here. There’s another site that I go to as well. It’s different in style,
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Itchy Hands
On a related note, there’s a side effect of my getting my interest in photography revitalized after I bought the KM5D in Jan 2007 and then D300 in April last year – and it’s that I hardly ever get myself
Alice-in-Action 2009
The Alice-in-Action (AIA) 2009 competition is organized by my department, and runs every year in August. The competition sees Secondary Schools sending teams who’ll work on 3D animation projects using the Alice 3D programming environment and the teams who make
Facebook Fail
The following picture is making its rounds online right now. It’s a little foul, but hilariously funny.:) I initially thought it was made up. Apparently – it’s not. Someone did commit this epic Facebook Fail, and subsequently got fired from
Academic Writing 101
I write a lot, on different places and different platforms: there’s discussion posts on several forums I visit or keep track of, blog posts here and on the school blog, product reviews, papers, and emails & letters. Both the output’s
Bowl of Fun
Every half a year, my department goes out to do something fun. OK, that doesn’t mean what we do on a daily basis isn’t enjoyable – we’re in the game development department already – but the fun here is to
Thinking Back X – In Retrospect
The Ph.D program finally came to a close when I received the scroll in Oct 2007. Yeah, my graduation got delayed by a year even though I’d submitted my thesis in Jan 2006. By the time I’d finished the usual
Thinking Back IX – Writing the Thesis
Well, all that pain-staking data gathering work, subsequent data analysis and theory generation would be pretty much pointless if you can’t put it all into words. Not unsurprisingly, a lot of doctoral candidates ultimately get stuck at the thesis writing
Thinking Back VIII – Living in Perth
Many students from Singapore who go elsewhere to study go wild. After all, when you’re coming out from an arguably boring Red Dot to places with no parents, less censorship, more freedoms of expression – never understood why this is
Thinking Back VII – Working in Perth
Many international students work. They have to, because beyond the exception of a few rich kids, most are perpetually cash strapped. Studying abroad is a capital investment: tuition fees will set you back at least $25,000 per year. You’ll spend
Thinking Back VI – Speaking at Conferences
While it’s not necessary for doctoral candidates to publish research during their course of study, many do. I determined early on too that I would seek to publish as a doctoral candidate. My project into grief play was structured into
Thinking Back V – Achieving Candidacy
Before I could actually start doing research in MMORPGs (the fun part!), I had to first prove to the faculty that my research was viable, accomplishable, and important. This was the Candidacy period, the culmination of which is a formal
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