I’m quite sleepy now but I thought I should get this down or I doubt I will do it later. How do you make people understand: being a software developer doesn’t mean you can fix anything related to a computer? Like being a taxi driver doesn’t mean he always know how to fix the engine when the vehicle stops working.

And it doesn’t mean a software developer can create any software you see. There are two aspects: Like studying aerospace engineering doesn’t mean you can start building and selling airplanes (products have scale) and like being a chef doesn’t mean you can cook from Japanese to Italian cuisine, or a surgeon can operate on any part of your body (there is specialization within the profession).

I’m looking for a good analogy, that hopefully can be consistent for use across the different scenarios.

Musical people just break into song in musicals. And this one did real in a train station.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k

Reminds me of ImprovEverywhere, the group that did the train station freeze and other feats. And they had a musical too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYZ6rbPU2M

I don’t like to embed so you’ll have to click in for the vid.

Song of the Moment: Can I have a napkin (please)

i ought to sleep earlier. I still get through the day with less sleep, so i\’m not sure why i\’m thinking like this. Must be getting old.

When multiple people say i blog too chim, i guess that means its true. I\’d like to read some not-so-chim blog and see what\’s the diff.

But, like i keep saying, i\’ll not change my style to entertain readers, cos its my blog, for myself. You shall just read whatever appeals to u.

Finally, i\’m glad i can blog in bed. Good night.

why our National Day not like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFgpmvYGU6M

Just got home, going out for dinner again. Still feeling kinda drowsy.

I want to chat, blog and surf on the go.

OK I promised windy I’d write this today. It’s been a while since I last determined the amount of GST to increase to get free public transport. This time we figured out that the MRT tunnel between City Hall and Raffles Place goes below the river bed of the Singapore River.

From the SLA map, we can see this is the part of the MRT tunnel, which is quite close to Raffles Place station.

A critical clue can be found in this book “Tunnels and underground structures“:

The construction of a twin 70 m long North East Line tunnels, under the Singapore River, was the second such crossing of the MRT system under the Singapore River.

Now if we look at the Singapore River and the MRT crossing points, we can see that before the North East Line crossing of the Singapore River at Clarke Quay, the only earlier point was the area we identified earlier. There seems to be a third crossing point to be constructed under ECP, between the (future) Bayfront and Promenade stations.

That’s it! Of course this is just one piece of indirect evidence; it would be more convincing to produce a variety of evidence, especially direct evidence. However, the map, together with the statement in the book does tell us that the MRT tunnel between City Hall and Raffles Place crosses below the Singapore River.

It’s good to be a programmer. When software don’t behave the way you want it to, you can always write it yourself.

Song of the Moment: 齊秦 – 紫雨

This retro song has been stuck in my head for 2 days. Time to change song.

Song of the Moment: 黄建为 – Over The Way