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 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.
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.
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 ...
Use the following awk command to strip the genotypes from a VCF files (when you just need the SNP information).
I do a lot of data loading into MySQL and wanting to save myself time doing this, I wrote a Java command line application to read a input tab delimited text file and load it into MySQL. The program will scan the columns and determine the data type automatically which saves quite a fair bit of time. ...
We went to the SEA Aquarium with Anabelle on Teacher's day since I redeemed a couple of tickets using my Starhub points. Here are the photos.
Esther drew this as part of her homework. I thought that it was very creative.
A rather solemn looking picture of Ernest reading.