SAS junior Clement was stick with VCC in a losing game and proceeded to reinvent the English Language with words such as 'CMOCLUKEVSIX' (left) and 'VCQAT' below. Nice try, Clement.
(Was inspired to create a new spot prize on the spot, 'Most Outrageous Phoney Unchallenged On A Board'. Problem: Encouraging Students to play real words is hard enough, not going to motivate them to play non-words)






Ong Suanne's team in table 1 action against SPEC. It was over very very quick and needless to say, painless for one of the gentleman.










My best photo of Ong Suanne (I really do suck with a digital camera, that's why I always have to clean up my photos. Must master Picasa before Penang Open) 

2006 Interschool Scrabble Championship Photos

The venue at the Berjaya Times Square. We were located at the Lower Ground Concourse. (within speaker range of the Sudoku championship and fashion shows) What a tight spot.









Tan Boon Aik (SAS) working on his game

















SAS in some Table 1 action on Day 1. Sue Wye Luun on the left with Tan Boon Aik on the right.











What did this SAS junior (Clement) did to get on to this blog? find out in the next post 

Interschool Exhaustion

What you get for doing 11 rounds of team pairings manually.

I really have to get that excel pairing system up by next year......

Anyway, got some really nice photos to share.
Will post them once i have cleaned them up

Lexperting....

10k 7s: 2389 unsolved/3158 in the list (not making much headway at all)

I feel like giving up sometimes.

Secular country?

Interesting statement...this country is secular insofar as mosque are sprouting up like mushrooms around the country even in places with low Muslim demographic density.

Other religious institutions (churches, temples) are being forced to move into commercial buildings, warehouses and are not built to allow them to be identify from their facade. Existing ones are being threatened with demolition if they cannot maintain them. Newer temples and churches are forced to circumvent the bureacracy surrounding such places of worship by building a house or warehouse and consecrating/converting it into a temple later (minus the decoration)

So much for religious freedom, you are only allowed to practice as long as you don't keep build a church or a temple.

Lexperting...

10k 7s: 2nd run, 924 unsolved, 3742 anagrams remaining (as you can see, not making much headway even on the 2nd run)

10k 8s: 1st run, 1222 unsolved, 6659 remaining (boy do i suck at this)

Longest SOC game I have played online

3 players
default island
13 victory points
45 minutes of gameplay,

someone else won
(I came in 2nd with 12 points, at least I wasn't last. hehehe)

My Favourite Team wins

CBS.com

Yes, This hippies win the Amazing Race.
Congratulations to BJ and Tyler
Am going to watch it later tonight.
The only other team that I like were Ken & Gerrard from AR3.

Just wish I could have found someone to partner me for the Amazing Race Asia (probably being filmed as I write this)

Lexperting...

Last check....

3s: finished in 2 runs, next revision date next week

4s: 2nd run, 232 unsolved/ 0 remaining (initially 3260 anagrams to solve)

10k 7s: 2nd run, 344 unsolved/ 3980 remaining (initially 6685 anagrams to solve)

10k 8s: 1st run, 1037 unsolved/ 6800 remaining (initially 7597 anagrams to solve)

Doubt i will finish them in time for Penang Open.
Maybe I should just start on Collins and wait for the switchover......

Back to some semblance of normalcy

Or it is normality now that I am back to work since Monday.
Not much time to write about anything else since I have to be back at post in about five minutes.

Happy Wesak Day

from an ex-buddhist (departed from it around 19 years ago)

Still believe reincarnation, dharma and karma all this while.
See you in the next life (unless you escaped the cycle)

Benny Goodman - Sing Sing Sing

Just rediscovering this wonderful piece of music,

Apparently Jazz.fm from Toronto claims that there are as many as 7 versions that have been performed.
I am still shopping for the 1938 Carnegie Hall version since that is my favorite.

Trivia: this year will be the 20th anniversary of his passing. Another 60 more years before his music becomes public property

Reduce to chauffering nurse to my house

Because we live in the middle of freaking nowhere!

And the town council hasn't bothered upgrading the public transport infrastructure.
Life like's that....Wonder what will happen when we get another two nurses for the other shifts.

Drawing tiles

my first Scrabble procedure rants (inspired by a thread on UK-Scrabble mailing list)

Basically, players are quibbling over the proper sequence of tile-drawing.
Whether you do it 1-by-1 or do a fist-grab, I think it is your own preference because we already have rules to fall back on when you do overdraw your tiles.

I used to be pretty erratic when it comes to this procedure.
In my novice days, I just drew by the fist.
About three years ago, I started adopting one-tile draw to instill some form of discipline in my game (and also cut down on overdraw, most of the time).

Nowadays, I just fist-grab the tiles and lay them out 1-by-1 before putting them on my rack.
As far as I am concern, the most important aspect of tile drawing right now is to maintain a distinct separation between new and old tiles before you mix them up so as to prevent and problems occuring when you have an overdraw situation.

my $0.02 worth

Attend a High School chum's wedding

and caught up with about 40+ ex-chums.
Whee, what fun!

Still remember a few names, everyone looks the same except for a bald spot and some lovely partner. Must remember to bring one the next time.


Still going to source for their photos