Category: 06. The chRoNIcles

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retro video/DOS games

saw this post on smashingmagazine, it’s a stroll down memory lane indeed. those of us who’s still playing games today, you’ll really noticed how far computer games had progressed over the past 20-30years. of the many games that appeared in the post, these are the games that i:

played before on my PC-AT 80286:

  • Prince of Persia
  • Lemmings
  • CD-Man
  • Prehistorik 2
  • SimCity
  • The Secret of Monkey Island
  • Pac-Man
  • Digger
  • Lemmings
  • Loom (special use of sound effects)
  • Soko-Ban
  • Duke Nukem II
  • Golden Axe (still remembered we used to play these 2-players on a keyboard!)
  • Commander Keen
  • Wolfenstein 3D (the first game to FPS, following this is Doom, Quake)
  • Civilization
  • Doom
  • F1
  • Mortal Kombat (dual fighting on a single keyboard)
  • Warcarft (the Dune II-styled game after Dune II)
  • Dune II (games that followed this style included Warcraft, C&C, Red Alert, Total annihilation)
  • Worms
  • Wing Commander (most favourite game, there’s WC, WC2, WC3, WC4 in the whole series)
  • Supaplex
  • Brix

knew its existence:

  • Leisure Suits Larry
  • Karateka
  • Mario Brothers

more than 90% huh? (:

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western medicine and chinese medicine

正巧今天在家吃western medicine养病，在ST上看到一则由kishore mahbubani教授所写的一则名为”take holistic approach to public policy”的专栏，内容主要借western medicine来比喻我国在50年内取得骄人的成就，其实就是因为我们有各种措施能对症下药，同西药般的有效，能头痛医头，脚痛医脚（去除贬义）。但是国家若要更进步，或许是时候带入中医的方法，将整个行政体制视作一个共通holistic的系统进行，吃中药使各部分互相协调运作。

我觉得这段话是最一针见血的：

“when we do a holistic analysis (of our public policies), we have to factor in non-material considerations of ethics and values, as well as social considerations. simply relying on economic principles or on the forces of the market would be incomplete, if not downright wrong. hence, in our public policies, we must give increasing weight to the intangible.”

教育如同上述，西药的治法是头痛医头脚痛医脚药到病除；中药虽非能立竿见影，却或许是十年树木，百年树人之方也。

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a meaningful saying

learnt this 2 days ago while i caught on juniors’ virus and turned seriously ill

“an empty mind makes a loose mouth; a weak mind makes a jealous heart”

reflected the emptiness and weakness of many pple around us. must always remind oneself not to become one such empty/weak vessel. oh btw, pm me if u’ll like to know the 智者 who said this (:

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happy teachers’ day!

first of september marks teachers’ day in singapore. teachers’ day may not fall on the 1st any more from 2012 onwards cos it was recently announced (ref. ST’s Eisen Teo’s “Teachers’ and Children’s days to fall on Fridays from 2011”) that teachers’ day and children’s day will be celebrated on first fridays of september and october respectively from 2011 onwards.

so this is my 6th teachers’ day without students around me. but thanks to the internet, i still have students around me all the time, via msn msgr and fb. here’s some of the well wishes incoming:

玉莲 scored first: (10:31 AM) (“v”) nOi (“v”): Happi teachers’ day!!!!
燕婷 [ cheryl ] says (5:06 PM): your students are still ard!! lolx.. happy teachers’ day in advance!!! =)
淑敏JASMINE ✿ says (7:45 PM): HAPPY TEACHER’S DAY!
斯惠Sihui says (11:57 PM): HAPPPY TEACHERS DAY!
诗林esthe_R – 我就不相信我會笨到忘不了 says (12:05 AM): is 1st Sept ! Happy teachers’ day !
惠诗Huishi Phua (00:32hr via fb) LAOSHI!! HAHAHA HAPPY TEACHERS’ DAYYYY :D:D:D
淑惠Wang Shuhui Sharon (01:37hr via fb) 教师节快乐！
Next tues i will be flying off to edinburgh for 1 yr so cnt go to ur place if u invite us during cny…kip in touch on fb 🙂
爱玲 (0704hr via sms): Happy Teachers’ Day to you! 🙂
千谦Qian Qian Lee (12:11 via fb) Mr Tan! Happie Teachers’ daYY!!!
倩吟 (1215hr via sms): Happy Teachers’ Day 老师!!!!
淑敏Shumin Luar (13:00 via fb) 教师节快乐！
凯琳ShelleN says (5:07 PM): happy teacher day
雪婷XueTing Teh (17:46 via fb) chen lao shi! happy teacher’s day! ((:
雪云Yvonne Ong (17:54 via fb) Happy teachers day!!!
俐莹Natalie Chan (19:32 via fb) Happy Teachers’ Day Chen Lao Shi !! i suddenly miss chinese lessons and writing chinese

compositions and chinese oral !! o_O ..well at least i’m still playing chinese music haha =p

艳凤alex…wanna burn my stupid shoes says (09:09 AM): happy belated teachers day laoshi!

谢谢大家的祝福！And may i wish all teachers past, present & future “HAPPY TEACHERS’ DAY!” too (:

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