Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Many thanks to Chew Hong Liang, who helped me to test the new 'Copy cardset' feature and provided the captions and audio clips for the flashcards. Quite a lot more people were involved in choosing the name for the cardset! 五官 - 'wǔguān' in Pinyin was suggested as the best ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
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I might never have watched District 9, but Jess came back from her sister's house with a sack full of DVDs recently. Among the DVDs was District 9. I recognised the "No Humans" warning sign from the limited marketing I'd seen.
I watched the movie on ...
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
The Nut Graph asks this morning "Stay or leave Malaysia?". I think they published an article on the theme of Unrequited Love not so long ago, but I imagine it's a recurring theme for many Malaysians, or anybody who has ever lived here for long enough to develop an 'attachment' ...
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
The complaints from the kids were finally overwhelming. Their VCDs and DVDs kept 'sticking' and restarting, but seemed to play OK in our PCs. I couldn't bear the thought of replacing the DVD player, I can't help thinking it's next week's antique. We have an old LG TV for the ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
I saw a request for help with English grammar from a member of a forum I often visit, so had a quick peep at his website. It looked great, nice copyright message and all. He seemed to be suggesting that it was all his own work, so I had a ...
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