Archive for the 'Hobbies' Category

Cooking Fried Rice (with taiwan sausages)

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Zz85-nds
on May 20, 2008
in Food
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One of my goals this holidays is actually to cook all my favorite dishes from Zi Char 煮炒 (zhu2 chao3) literally meaning ‘cook & fry’ or restaurant style.

So I started with fried rice 炒饭. How’s how I did it.

Cooking Ingredients

(left to right)Pepper, soya sauce, 2 eggs, corn cooking oil, sausages (used because I didn’t get char siew)

Standby Ingredients

Cooled cooked rice. Sliced sausages and chopped cabbages.

Crack eggs into a bowl

Stir, add soya sauce, stir, add pepper, stir.

Add oil to wok

Fry rice in the oil.

Add the eggs mixture.

Throw in sausages.

Stir-fry.

Throw in cabbages.

Done.

The mess I made of my home’s kitchen.

Time to clean up!

Completed dish, yum yum.

Other variations of fried rice can be created with different ingredients - using small onions(my dad’s method), spring onions, char siew, slice carrots, samba, peas etc etc…

Links
Yang Zhou Fried Rice on Baidu’s “Wiki” (in chinese)

Reading Week Updates

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Zz85-nds
on April 21, 2008
in School and Technology
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Its now the reading week, and since my polytechnic days, the reading/study week is usually most relaxing to me.

So before the exams start, its time to catch up with some updates.

+ NOC Application got approved
NOC Scholarship Offered
NOC is the opportunity that NUS gives for me to study entrepreneurship modules at Stanford while working me to work at Silicon Valley a startup for a year full time.

The company who offer me the internship position is Copacast, a company with a revolutionary online advertising model. I accepted the job because Copacast’s president Clement was enthusiastic it would be much beneficial to both myself and the company to be an my intern there.

+ CS2250 Video Project
Video Project
The fictional documentry we created.
Cast

+ CS2261 Project
Enterprise Java projects with use of RMI, IIOP, EJB 3.0, Servlets, JSPs, and Message Driven Beans.
First Cruise Enterprise Web App

Uninstall Java EE SDK
And uninstalling Java EE SDK as soon as my assignment presentation was over :p

+ 2 Piano Performances
Piano Teacher and I
Winnie, My Piano Teacher and Me.

+ Piano Exams passed!
Piano Exams Passed

+ Completion of CS3216 Assignments
My Music and Poster
My Music Facebook Project teammates.

My Music
It was a great experience, although at times it drive us all cranky.

As usual, some plans for my “holidays” start even before school term ends. I try again not to over pack myself with activities, and I hope there would be a balance for my schedule.

But right now, I just know I really blessed.

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;

Embed “My Music 2″ Flash Player

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Zz85-nds
on April 14, 2008
in Music and Technology
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My Music 2

My Music 2 is released after some sleepless nights.

Improvements from “My Music 1″ its not internal with rewrites for engine codes, but go beyond implementing some new ideas planned. The new application is also open for the public which means you do not need to be a facebook user, nor required installations, to use it.

Among one of its features is song embed function which I’m testing below.

Other improvements include keyboard input, improved timings accuracy, instruments selection, learning/game function, and one of the most powerful function, a search for finding and learning music. The search engine is powered by musipedia which now uses My Music interface to provide them a rich searching experience.

There’s also a blog for My Music, which shares more information from developments to motivations of the application.

Remember to check out the app and have fun!

Twitter Timeline Updated

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Zz85-nds
on March 13, 2008
in Ideas, Updates and WP-Plugins
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In my previous post Timeless Belt Of Time: How I Integrated Twitter in Timeline, I posted the code for laying out twitter posts on the timeline.

Previously that was done by calling the json Twitter API. It work well for the current 20 status but the archive call (80 posts) didn’t work. I filed a bug report at Twitter, but when I last check again 3 days ago, it was still not working.

To implement a workaround for archives, I modified my server side php code to get the XML format. SimpleXML was used for parsing the xml, then since my server didn’t support json, I use the json library from pear php.

Here’s the updated code for download.

Recently, I have a regain interest in adobe products, namely flash lite and flex. My first flash lite app is a Metronome, and maybe I might post it if I polish it up.

Facebook Musical Wall Application

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Zz85
on February 9, 2008
in Ideas, Interesting Stuff, School and Technology
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In less than a week, together with my teammates released a wall-like facebook application for our 2nd assignment.

My Facebook Music Application

The difference? Instead of the usual messages and links, videos & photo attachments, users get to record or create their music by clicking on a virtual 3d piano before sending to their friends.

Application Description Link: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=9575698857
Application Link: http://apps.facebook.com/musicalwall/

Main Page

Previous Next Close
Main Page
Piano Studio
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Piano Studio
My Music
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My Music
My Wall
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My Wall
Gallery
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Gallery

Current features include:
+Playing on a virtual piano
+Playback and save the music played
+Send it to a friend’s wall
+Share the music with other users
+Download music as a midi file
+Convert to RTTTL ringtone format
+View and playback music on your own wall

Not forgetting my capable teammates. “)
Teammates

And for those interested: Here’s a link to the javascript version of the flash piano I experimented with.

Piano

Happy Lunar New Year!