Esther spells dad and mom using Jenga
07:51 AM on Thursday 20 November 2014
I am constantly amazed by Esther's out of the box thinking. She saw some Jenga pieces lying around and decided to make the words dad and mom with it. So cool.
Script to extract FASTA sequences
01:04 PM on Monday 17 November 2014
Wanted a very quick way to query a FASTA sequence and extract sub-sequences. Since samtools already does this, I could integrate with it via system calls but for large number of queries, this would be computational expensive. Checking the documentation for the index that samtools create for FASTA fi ...
Our flower has blossomed
01:31 PM on Saturday 15 November 2014
A couple of weeks away we got a number of shoots and seeds from a really nice auntie. She was tending to a community garden in Bedok and boy did she do a good job. There were lots of plants and flowers and she took great effort to tell us about them. Before we left, she gave us some shoots and seeds ...
Dinner at Westgate
10:35 AM on Saturday 15 November 2014
We had an early dinner at Eggs and Berries at Westgate. The kids shared a dish and they really liked the food. Prior to dinner we shopped for some stationaries and the kids were so excited about their new stationaries that they started doodling prior to the food. One of the rare occasion that Ernest ...
Kids at Westgate playground
10:26 AM on Saturday 15 November 2014
This was the first time the kids are at the Westgate playground. Which is rather interesting since we live rather close to the place. They had fun there and got stuck on the rock wall. They had no problems getting up and getting down was a different matter.
Esther got 2 first prizes for art
06:52 PM on Tuesday 11 November 2014
Esther was so happy to have gotten two first prizes for art.
Esther's little guy
07:39 PM on Sunday 09 November 2014
After the parachute making, Esther took the rest of the material and made a little guy out of aluminium foil, newspaper and scotch tape.
The kids' parachutes
07:35 PM on Sunday 09 November 2014
We got the kids to make parachutes out of newspaper. Ernest was rather good at it and his worked on the first try. http://youtu.be/CsT58phMP4Y http://youtu.be/y3eb6CeoTDk
Ernest's new glasses
08:18 AM on Sunday 09 November 2014
