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20 days to WAGC Selection Tournament

Posted in Events, Go, Weiqi on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The notice is out on Malaysia Weiqi Forum. The selection tournament for 30th World Amateur Go Championship will be held at date and place specified below:
Date : 17 Jan 2009 (Sat.)
Time : 3.00 pm
Venue : Japan Club (Fuji Room)
I must say  time flies really fast. It’s already another selection tournament for World Amateur Go Championship (WAGC) in [...]

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Family Trip to Port Dickson

Posted in Personal, Travel on December 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »

Went to Port Dickson with family today morning. Now that we are all located in Kuala Lumpur, organizing a family trip gets so much easier. Hopefully we will have more trips like this.

Was I on steroid? Maybe I jumped here and there a lot, swam a lot, and went for jet-ski and banana [...]

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The Darkmoon by Julia Gray

Posted in Book Review on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Darkmoon by Julia Gray is the first book of five of The Guardian Cycle. It’s a fantasy. After a year of reading manuals, standards, legal documents and textbooks, I was hoping for an escape from reality by reading a fantasy. I was hoping for the effect that I had when I was reading Magician, [...]

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Preparing for 2009

Posted in Personal, Work on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Our department is going to have restructuring. The Assistant Manager posts will be abolished. Coincidently, many Assistant Managers had resigned in the last few months for many personal reasons. I am one of the very few left.
What will happen to me?
A senior told me to quickly equip myself with a lot of knowledge to fit [...]

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Playing the waiting game

Posted in Go, Ideas, Word Games, tagged , , , , , on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

What do you do whenever you are waiting for something in the public? Perhaps for departure in the airport, or for train or someone to arrive? Reading a story book is one of the options,but here I want to focus specifically on playing games.
The following is the ranked list of playable games/puzzles while waiting. I [...]

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Sick of Mandarin, for a while

Posted in Chinese, tagged , , on December 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I will probably vomit if I see another Chinese character. Why is it one of the most spoken languages in the world is also one of the most difficult? It does not make sense. I am starting to think that languages should be redesigned by software developers, who often put user friendliness as top priority.
Contrary [...]

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5 full days of what?

Posted in Chinese, Go, Personal on December 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

My boss had just approved 3 day leave request from 15th-17th.  Together with the weekends, that means I have 5 days straight to do anything that I want! Ho ho ho… I am so happy, although I am not yet sure what to do with it.
Should I study non-stop and gain mastery of a [...]

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Will I improve?

Posted in Go, Personal, Weiqi, tagged , , on December 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I am scared. Is this the furthest I could go with my Go? My results in international tournaments have been extremely bad. Within Malaysia, it’s still OK, but new young players are rising rapidly and I am beginning to lose every few games to Alex, Suzanne and Ming Sui.
Boon Ping is still as far ahead as [...]

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The tournament concluded

Posted in Events, Go, tagged , , , , , , on December 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »

My sister commented that all Go pictures look the same; two people facing each other with a board in the middle. I guess she thinks Go is very boring. Haha, what to do, this is all action there is to Go. Except for those who understands the board, of course !
Malaysia-Singapore-Thailand Friendship Tournament concluded yesterday, [...]

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Friendship Tournament Day 1 Pics

Posted in Go, Weiqi on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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