This is a very old song. Its from the ‘Xinyao’ era in ’80s Singapore where its a mini Renaissance of local Chinese music. I love songs from that era. Here is one of them. You can catch the original song here. The plucking patterns are improvised by me. For those new to guitar music notation: [...]

The Birthday Song – Corrinne May Here’s another set of self written chords. I wrote this cos someone wanted to play this song for her best friend. And I thought that’s a worthy cause. So here goes… G Don’t worry about that extra line        Em That’s creeping up upon your face      G It’s [...]

Comparing the various payment gateway options in Singapore

What are persistent cookies? What are persistent cookies used for? A persistent cookie is no different from other cookies. What is different is that it is used to identify users. With identification, it enables a website to remember you on subsequent visits, speeding up or enhancing your experience of services or functions offered. For example, [...]

This is a Rails gem that I wrote, or rather extracted from the codebase from hushyhushy.com. OK, what is PersistentCookie Authentication Generator? This gem is a code generator.  This generator creates an authentication system with persistent cookie management. Feature include a model which uses SHA1 encryption and salted hashes for passwords a controller with signup, [...]

This is something that I’ve discovered as I was building hushyhushy. After I upgraded to Rails 2, I began using authenticity tokens. So far so good. But in the course of testing the app, I would encounter the infamous ‘InvalidAuthenticityToken Error’. That’s weird! It usually happened in the middle of testing the app, and after [...]

This plugin is calculates the shipping rate for a given location and weight. It is useful for cases where the postal service in your country doesn’t provide APIs for calculating shipping rates. This is actually extracted code from my website hushyhushy.com. I needed some sort of a calculator for shipping rates. But there isn’t any. [...]

Shelter by Corrinne May And here’s the chord file in text format: shelter.txt Well, if there’re any obscure songs that you couldn’t find chords for it on the web, do let me know. I’ll try to write for that if I like the song too… G                   D What’s wrong, whats getting you down C                           Bm [...]

Another self written piece. And here’s my original chord file(which is more accurate!) love-song-_1.txt A D in the twinkling stars that dance like fireflies Bm E7 in the blushing fruit that hangs upon the vine A F#m D in the face of a baby as he forms his first smile F#m Bm A i… see [...]

If you haven’t realised, ‘Journey’ and ‘Everything in its time’ are similar in structure. But anyway here’s the chords: journey.txt Journey – Corrinne May A                F#m It’s a long long journey A                          F#m Till I know where I’m supposed to be A         F#m It’s a long long journey A                     F#m And I don’t know if [...]