Just in case you’re unclear of what everyone is screaming on Twitter, Plurkm blogs, comments and etc, TGIF simply means Thank God It’s Friday. The phrase represents the optimism one will have as he looks forward to a weekend spent doing the things he likes (for most people, that is). Before I start the post, [...]
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First of all, a big happy winter solstice to everyone! Today marks the shortest day of the year, and according to Chinese traditions, we’ll be making glutinous rice balls today. We were busy rolling bits of the mix when mom realised that my aunt passed us the wrong type of flour, so we’ll have to [...]
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First of all, I’m terribly sorry for being away from my blog for two weeks. It’s a personal record for being away for so long. The previous hiatus was 10 days – I beat it by 4 days! Heh. Okay, basically during that period I was trapped in the midst of my exams, ensnared by [...]
Designing is indeed fun! I’ve read several Photoshop tutorials and downloaded several fonts from Smashingmagazine.com – and I subsequently realised that there’s more that just photo manipulation work that Photoshop can do! It can be an awesome substitute for Adobe Illustrator, although it lacks quite a number of illustration-specific tools, a bit of adaptation can [...]
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Hendra asked me something about generating your own favicons, so I’m thinking of sharing things I know about it :razz: So what is a favicon? According to the all-mighty Wikipedia, favicons is actually a short form of favourite icons, and… [Favicon,] also known as a website icon, page icon or urlicon, is an icon associated [...]
I can’t believe it that it too my less than 3 days to get this theme done :razz: but if you’re a regular visitor you would have realised that the general template and colour scheme did not vary a lot, besides the header and the footer, that is. The reason why this theme is named [...]
I’m finally back from Penang after a two-week stay. It’s quite an enriching journey for me, especially the last day of the week when my aunt passed me a 50 dollar note for helping her at her grocery store :razz: I was so elated – it was my first paycheck! The monetary gain doesn’t really [...]
