When you find a nice restaurant with good food and warm service, you leave with fond memories and immediately make plans to return soon. Naturally, you have raised expectations and it’s always a bit sad when reality doesn’t quite match up.
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Booking and redeeming Marriott hotels (Europe Autumn 2020)
Even though we’re no longer travelling, I wanted to note down the Marriott hotels in Europe that we initially booked (but have since cancelled) for future reference.
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Checkpoint Echo: Advanced machine learning toolbox
There’s an old Chinese saying: “工欲善其事, 必先利其器”, which loosely translates to “In order to a good job, you must first sharpen your tools”. Wise words.
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Checkpoint Delta: Basic machine learning toolbox
I’ll incrementally build a toolbox of machine learning algorithms, starting with basic ones like linear regression and decision trees and then working up to more advanced techniques.
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Keep calm and carry on
We’ve been tracking Covid-19 news daily and watching too much local and international news. But when our Sentosa staycation check-in date arrived, we decided to keep calm and carry on.
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Duck soup two ways
It was lunch time and we were too lazy to head out for a quick meal, so we ordered two different duck soups from Earth Jar Treasure, delivered by Foodpanda.
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Keeping it in the family
I’ve been using luggage from Briggs & Riley for about 15 years now. This week, the newest addition to the family arrived.
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Checkpoint Charlie: Visualisation
You could say that The Matrix digital rain is the ultimate form of visualisation, as it represents in 2D everything that happens in an entire virtual world inhabited by a race of human batteries. Too bad it isn’t real, or is it?
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Earning and burning Krisflyer miles (Europe Autumn 2020)
Human beings were not designed to spend thirteen hours in a flying tin can, but if you really have to, doing it in Business class on Singapore Airlines is definitely a good choice.
And if you’re spending your own money, the most cost-efficient way would be to earn and redeem Krisflyer miles.
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They say that knees are the first to go
One inevitable outcome of aging is that the body starts to deteriorate. Everyone ages differently, but everyone ages. For me, the knees are the first casualty of time.
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