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Countdown Timer

Suppose you are the meeting organizer. The schedule is tight. You want everyone sticks to the session duration assigned, and remind him/her at the end of session. You also set the break time between the session. This Countdown Timer is right for you. The binary jar can be download from here . The source code can be download from here . Right click to save it. To run the Countdown Timer, use java -jar CountdownTimer.jar [session in minutes] [break in minutes]

南洋理工大学里吃饭的地方

南洋理工大学就是NTU了, 是个正经的大学. 不要和南洋理工学院(Nanyang Poly)搞混了. 上回那个手机作爱录像的女生是南洋理工学院的. 言归正传. 因为天气热, 新加坡人一般都在外面吃. NTU地处新岛的西边, 出去不是很方便. 所以在学校里面吃是最适合的了. 好处是学校里人简单干净, 而且饭还有补贴, 比外边相对就便宜一些. 如果想吃餐馆, NTU里就一家, 叫五月花, 味道不错, 干净宽敞. 自己人去吃, 没有小费, 还有打折, 在NEC边(不是日本的那个, 是Nanyang Executive Center, 新加坡把Executive真的叫烂了. 里头主要是从中国来学习培训的官员). 稍微便宜点儿的, 有几个Cafes, 其中一个叫QUAD. 位于南洋大礼堂附近. 吃喝的东西和食堂差不多. 里头的小姑娘大概是雇来的. 因为不是自己的生意, 也都不热情的样子. 其他都是食堂性质的了. 叫做Canteen. 这个词很有意思. 按拼音, 也发成了餐厅. Canteen 1和Canteen 2离的比较近. 中间还有一个去Jurong Point免费的车站. Canteen 1里面的中餐很不错. 据说有人还专门周末从外面来吃. Canteen 2则里一些商店很近. 吃完可以买些东西. 价格也很公道. 有的比外面的还便宜. Canteen 3在NIE(南洋教育学院)附近. 里面有个小炒的摊位. 这三个都有空调. 吃饭比较舒服一些. Canteen A, B位于工程学院, Canteen A里有家麦当劳. Canteen 4, 5里Canteen 1比较近, 其他还有Canteen 9 , 11, 13, 14, 都没有空调, 去的比较少. 去过Canteen 4一次, 蚊子很猖狂, 被咬的不行. 再也不敢去了.

Google Desktop is good

Google Desktop is very handy when you want to dig some files on your desktop. I really like it. The first time indexing maybe time consuming, but afterwards, type something in the search box, all the info pops up in a snap. It searches Outlook, browser cache, and all kinds of documents. Some Google Gadgets come along with Google Desktop. I usually remove them all to make my desktop tidy. http://desktop.google.com/

Childcare centers to extend hours

I heard on the radio, the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports suggests childcare centers to extend their office hours to help both-working young parents. In the news, it mentioned some already extended the close hour to 8:30PM. 8:30PM, gosh! Life sucks if someone really needs pick up the kids that late. Another related is about some Malaysia children. In order to study in Singapore school here, they get up at 4AM in the morning because it takes a while to pass the Malaysia-Singapore border. Even the Singapore local kids, they get up very early in the morning.

Church Wedding

We attended a friend's church wedding during the weekend. We saw church wedding dozens of times in movies, but it is our first time to be really there. The new couple both are Christians. The ceremony is well attended. I don't expect so many guests, colleagues, friends, and Christian brothers/sisters. The program is ordered as - Arrival of Guests - Processional - Songs of Praise - Exhortation - Solemnization - Special Item 1 (Song) - Special Item 2 (Dance) - Song of Commitment - Recessional - Re-entry of couple - Appreciation Speech - Prayer of Blessings - Photo Taking - Buffet Lunch Reception It lasts 2.5 hours. Everything is good. Just during the lunch, it is reeeally hot. Bravo! Blessing them.

Check memory and swap on Solaris

On Linux, use free to check them. One Solaris, no 'free' free. To check memory, run /usr/sbin/prtconf | grep size To check swap, run swap -l If some applications need more swap to install, add swap as below mkfile 1000m /var/newswap swap -a /var/newswap To make this swap permanent, add a line to /etc/vfstab /var/newswap - - swap - no -

店小二@Marina Square

进了Marina Square, 一定不会错过这家店.整个餐馆布置的好象宋朝酒肆的感觉. 门口还挂着三个酒幡, 分别写着茶, 鸭, 酒.里面的服务员也穿着古代店小二的对襟. 桌凳都是古朴的风格.菜单上来.我们点了药材烤鸭, 东坡肉, 古法蒸鱼, 长生不老汤, 都很有特色.两到三人份的盘子, 一般是12新元左右. 给我们点菜的小姐也不知道是故意的还是本来就那样, 说的都是儿化音, 很有意思.