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Malacca

06:07 PM on Friday 03 October 2014

Some pictures we took in Malacca.

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).

MySQL data loader

11:48 AM on Thursday 18 September 2014

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. ...