I grew up in Hwa Chong Institution – since I very luckily scrapped the bottom for a candidature slot for the Singapore Mathematics Olympiad and found myself in Chinese High School in 2001, I decided that I will spend many years of my future in Singapore. I ended up, again, very luckily snagging a slot [...]
Pronounced as \ˈsa-k(ə-)rən. It is used to describe something that resembles the taste of sweetness or something that is overly, sickeningly sweet. Of course, I steer clear from the latter definition and would very much prefer the former one.
To celebrate the end of the first week of the semester and one of the few four-day [...]
You’re shooting in colour, and now you want to convert it into black and white. Here’s a tutorial / informative article on how you should convert your photos using photoshop (or any other editors such as Gimp). I got the inspiration to write this article when I stumbled upon a similar writeup on black and [...]
Here’s a big Merry Christmas to everyone! In fact, Mele Kalikimaka is a Hawaiian greeting, a transliteration from the very familiar phrase because the Hawaiian language simply lacks the matching phonemes equivalent to that of the “R” and “S” of English. I only learned about it after listening to a song from KT Tunstall’s 2007 [...]
It had been brewing for ages too – after the Turf City outing with friends Chankeet and Darrick, I was already itching for another photo outing. However, sadly after that I’m cudgeled into an endless circuit of assessments and late-night cramming, I barely had enough time to sleep let alone to escape my room for [...]
The idea of meeting up again for lunch and tea was brewing since a group of mutual web designer friends met up for Japanese dinner a few months ago. For some reason I feel very comfortable around them because not only that we have a lot of things to talk about (one very good example [...]
I’m finally back in Singapore again! I traveled home with Legend (yea, his self-crowned nickname) on Friday morning so that I could make it in time for my dental appointment on Saturday morning and more importantly, my dearest cousin, Daniel’s wedding on Sunday. It was a really sweet event – nothing big, full of flair [...]