Here’s the guitar chords for “Every beat of my heart” a song by Corrinne May. My favourite song. And a rather short one too. Those playing it, note my usual disclaimers in my earlier chords entries. Here’s the text file for those who wants it: every-beat-of-my-heart.txt D A So here we stand, anchored in hope [...]

Another self created piece for ‘Everything in its time’ which is Corrinne May song. It’s not perfect, but it is good enough for me. Hope you guys out there like it! As usual, the spacing on the browser is not the same as the one on my text editor. You can download the text file [...]

I had always wanted a dual monitor setup. It helps you get more things done. Especially in cases when you have to read the manual and configure something at the same time. If you don’t believe me, Slashdot has some research to prove it. So how do you get it to work? At the moment, [...]

This is the guitar chords accompaniment for Corrinne May‘s beautiful song. This song is from her ‘Beautiful Seed’ album. Please buy it! I love every single song she sang. Well as for this set of chords, it was created by me cos I happened to be in the mood. But please forgive me for the [...]

“Are you making this now?” he holds up four fingers. “Close to that. Haha… The result of job hopping. If I didn’t jump, how could I have reached that amount?” She replies. This was a conversation between two of my friends. To me it is ironical. Ironical that job hoppers get rewarded monetarily, while job [...]

This is my maiden try at writing chords for a song. I thought it sounded not too bad. Writing chords is not as easy as I thought. If only I knew some music theory. I wanted to play this song badly after hearing it on TV. I liked this song a lot. Tried googling for [...]

This is the collection of table topics which I used for my Toastmasters club. Some has been adapted to the local context. Feel free to use them! You are a chef’s assistant at Ritz Carlton. While making champagne moon cakes, you used Newater instead of champagne by mistake. Explain to your chef why he should [...]

Today I had lunch with a friend. She was recounting how difficult it was to handle people. They would not do what you ask of them. Despite dangling carrots at them, or chasing them with a stick, they simply won’t listen. I do agree with her on that. People aren’t like computers, where they will [...]

This is the best book I’ve read on software best practices: Steve McConnell’s Code Complete. It is full of gems. It is so good that I decided to summarise it and placed it on my desktop so I could look over it whenever I have the time. So here’s the summary. It’s far better to [...]

How do you memorise a speech? A speech delivered without referring to notes is a hallmark of good preparation. Often in my toastmasters meetings, speakers would prepare for their Big Moment by reading their notes. Sometimes I caught glimpses of their notes involuntarily. Lines after lines of tiny words. It was the speech pruned to [...]