Category: 06. The chRoNIcles

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goodbye yh2.com

as life/existence itself is (full of) impermanence, saying goodbye to yh2 dot com, a domain which we’ve owned since 1997, is just part of life (：

just like to make a note of this day that 99.872% of the amount that we received from the sale of the domain is donated to the Fu Hui Link（福慧林） Building Fund. the reason for the 0.128% of “leftover” is because that amount doesnt fit nicely into the formula that i have worked out to derive the values to be drawn on four cheques in the name of yh1 – yh4.

farewell yh2 dot com, for we have “graduated” as edublog.net for >12 yrs now. 阿弥陀佛 （:

20150206-fuhui angbao

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a new meaning to 天時地利人和

always thought that 天時、地利、人和 is used when it refers to success not easily achievable, but many factors have to be aligned, many at times by chance. and the lack of one will result in non-success.

based on an incident that took place these two days, it seems that 天時、地利、人和 can cause a total failure, breakdown, or downfall. the lack of one, the failure/breakdown/downfall just wouldnt be complete or happen at all :O

must also credit 安琪 as the indirect source of inspiration (:

double rainbows (one barely visible) & lightning bolt after a thunder storm/shower
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US road trip 2014

just completed a California-Navada-Arizona 17 days road trip (actual driving: 13 days), our 3rd driving holidays.
total 2253 miles (3625.85203 km) covered with this trustworthy Dodge Avenger (:

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[updated 3rd July] Itinerary of the trip
Day – Point(s) of interest [Lodging]
Day 1 SIN to LAX
Day 2 – Day 4 Disneyland and California Adventure Park [Americas Best Value Inn Anaheim]
Day 5 – Begin car rental days; SeaWorld @San Diego [Dolphin Motel]
Day 6 – Day 7 Legoland [Legoland Hotel; Hollywood La Brea Inn]
Day 8 – Universal Studio [Hollywood La Brea Inn]
Day 9 – Las Vegas [Circus circus]
Day 10 – Hoover Dam; Meteor Crater near Winslow; Sedona via historic route 66 [Sky Ranch Lodge]
Day 11 – Sedona; Grand Canyon [Maswik Lodge]
Day 12 – Grand Canyon; Barstow [Holiday Inn Express Bakersfield]
Day 13 – Sequoia National Forest [John Muir Lodge]
Day 14 – Kings Canyon National Park; Moonstone beach & elephant seals [Silver Surf Motel]
Day 15 – Beach@ Monterey Bay [Sanctuary Beach Resort]
Day 16 – San Francisco Pier 39 [Coventry Motor Inn]
Day 17 – Return car; SFO to SIN

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n61 battery flat rescue operation

my asus n61jq refused to power up for good yesterday. a symptom prior to this was the laptop was unable to remember the date/time and CMOS settings. based on my experience, i know the cmos battery is getting weak, but it continued to work for a while, and an ntp sync was able to fix the time/date out-of-sync problem. and yesterday, it refused to power up totally. this confirms some notes in the forums that an asus laptop will not power up if the cmos battery is flat.

thanks to youtube, i was able to preview the taking apart of the inner parts, especially locations of the screws and cables. this is the most useful video (though it’s in Russian):

the cmos battery is located next to the touchpad at the lower left corner. so one has to remove almost every screw you can find (counted a total of 4 different types), remove the heat sink, the hard disk, the optical drive, the keyboard, 4 ribbon cables before you can access it.

about 30 mins or so, the dismantling, replacement, and reassembling were completed. the CR2032 cmos battery lithium cell was replaced. and the laptop is now working again! *BIG SMILE*

131012-ASUS N61 rescue

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a little life lesson a little reminder

after the conversations with all eight student teachers i supervised for the recent practicum, this is my little takeaway from the morning, and it’s definitely good reminder for me as a teacher, as a learner, as a parent, as a friend, and as a human person (:

many at times we make assumptions and use busy as an excuse to not find out more about things that we observed. open communication and the effort to do so helps one to clarify observations and the misunderstandings within. and it reminds one of empathy, for the same thing may very well happen to you and be misunderstood by an observer too.

或许这就是命； 天时、地利、人和，三者的聚集才能成就一件好事，不易啊！

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