Esther's food art
04:45 PM on Saturday 11 October 2014
Esther spelled dad using the old childhood favorite wheel snack. She is really good at seeing things which we do not.
Reset HeidiSQL data view filters and sorting
10:39 AM on Thursday 09 October 2014
I use HeidiSQL for working with MySQL on Windows and it has been great. Recently I ran into an issue where I have this insanely large table (2.4 billion rows) which I had a much smaller version previous for testing. And during that testing phase, I sorted the data view on a column. However when all ...
Esther is a big girl now
04:10 PM on Monday 06 October 2014
Out of the blue while passing by a jewelry shop, Esther mentioned that she wanted to have her ears pierced. That certainly took me by surprise. So we found a good place to do it at B*dazzle at West Point. The lady did a really good job but Esther still cried a lot. But after she calmed down, she w ...
Kids on a Vespa
02:55 PM on Monday 06 October 2014
There was a Vespa at JCube and the kids took a chance to take a photo which turned out very well.
Zoo
08:29 AM on Monday 06 October 2014
The zoo is probably one of those places that you visit when you were a kid and when you are a parent of kids. Even till today, the kids like the place very much. Wonder how long more would they be fascinated with the place.
Esther's School Sports Carnival
04:00 PM on Thursday 02 October 2014
Esther's school was having a Sports Carnival and Esther wanted us to go so off I went. Here are some pictures of her. She truly enjoyed herself. When you see the joyous side of things, everything becomes enjoyable. That is how she is, always happy at the smallest things. So happy for her.
Visit to Qian Hu
04:43 PM on Sunday 28 September 2014
We visited Qian Hu every once in a while since Esther likes to do the kiddie fishing there. Here are some of the photos taken.
Photo frame
10:20 AM on Tuesday 23 September 2014
Converted Pauline's first generation iPad into a photo frame. In the older versions of iOS, there is a built-in photo frame application which does not exist now. This mode is even more convenient. It is amazing that this was state of the art just a number of years back. It feels so so slow right now ...
Using awk to remove genotypes from a VCF file
08:28 AM on Friday 19 September 2014
Use the following awk command to strip the genotypes from a VCF files (when you just need the SNP information).