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Recipe: Stir-fried Pork with Leek

For 3 people.
Preparation time: 20-30 minutes (depending on how fast you cut meat and leek).
Cooking time: 10 minutes. Continue reading Recipe: Stir-fried Pork with Leek

French visa application status check infoVISA messages explained

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Solution: Super + E, Ctrl + Alt + T not working

Encountered a weird problem, on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, suddenly I was not able to launch home folder with nautilus using Super + E , nor to launch terminal using Ctrl + Alt + T. Continue reading Solution: Super + E, Ctrl + Alt + T not working

Quick fix to phonegap error due to default nodejs location in Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 has nodejs installed instead of node, but the error message from phonegap is dubious. Took me a bit of time to realize what went wrong.
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Sublime Text 3 Chinese input with fcitx

Have you recently (re)installed your Ubuntu desktop? Your fcitx Chinese input somehow doesn’t work, does it? Here’s the solution: patch to the Sublime Text 3 for Chinese fcitx input. Tested on Ubunt 14.04 and 16.04.1 LTS.

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Multidisciplinary Design Project 2014-15 Semester 2 videos

Compiled all 20 teams’ videos from AY2014-15 semester 2’s CZ3004 Multidisciplinary Design Project (MDP) as a youtube playlist. MDP is a third year module in School of Computer Engineering (SCE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

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Operating hours for NTU Canteens and Stores during Good Friday and the Revision and Exam period

2016 Update: For updates please find on NTU website, as of 2016: Operating hours of F&B, Retail and Service outlets during Good Friday on 25 March 2016 and on the right of that page you should find links to normal hours.

The following original post was published in 2015.

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Why are you not doing Quiet Time?

What’s the whoo-ha about this question?
Aren’t the answer as simple as laziness?
A wiser answer says, due to lack of understanding of the Bible.
But the real reason for not having quiet time is that
it is not necessary. Continue reading Why are you not doing Quiet Time?

Operating Hours of NTU canteens and stores during CNY 2015

Chinese New Year is around the corner. For the hungry souls in NTU, the following is the opening hours of various canteens and stores in NTU. To all, have a happy Chinese New Year ahead! Continue reading Operating Hours of NTU canteens and stores during CNY 2015

Find out my most used Linux commands in bash

Have you ever been curious what commands you use most in Linux shell?
The following command helps you do just that.

history | awk '{if ($2=="sudo") {CMD[$3]++;} else {CMD[$2]++;}  count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a;}' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl |  head -n20

1	history \| awk '{if ($2=="sudo") {CMD[$3]++;} else {CMD[$2]++;} count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a;}' \| grep -v "./" \| column -c3 -s " " -t \| sort -nr \| nl \| head -n20

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