Sharpening my mandarin skill

Started a new blog yesterday on wordpress.com called “Xin Vocab” (http://XinVocab.wordpress.com/). ‘Xin’ (pronounced as in “to lie is to sin“) means “new”, and ‘Vocab’, from ‘vocabularies’.

I decided to start the blog to sharpen my rusty Mandarin. I notice that my current difficulties are mostly in vocabularies. In a sense that I have a solid grasp of the grammar, but stumbled upon unfamiliar terms.

It was like this when I was watching news broadcast on a Chinese TV station: “Our president (just quoting the news, my actual president is SBY, lol), Hu Jintao held a meeting with the prime minister to discuss about blah3.. due to emerging economic crisis that has affected the People’s Republic of China. The result of the meeting will be blah3 to be discussed further on blah blah blah.”

Basically, I get the main point, the person who does the action, the action itself, and the whole structure of the news, but lose most of the meaty details.

It’s like “XXX does XXX to XXX because XXX”,

????

lol. yeah anyhow, I have made commitment to stop procrastinating and being lazy and start to grab some exceprts from news, articles, paragraphs each day and really look it up, really understand and digest the meaning. I hope I can increase my working vocabularies in Mandarin because I don’t want to let my native tongue go to waste like that.

Hope it helps you learn Mandarin too. Let’s chat! hai yaa….

October 19, 2008 | Filed Under interesting sites, personal, self-dev, tutorial, web-dev | Leave a Comment 

what is the minimal permission needed to install wordpress? (create wp-config file)

what is the minimal permission needed to install wordpress? (create wp-config file)
775

after that, it is safe to revert back to 755
if 644, cannot even open / execute

July 1, 2008 | Filed Under tutorial, web-dev | Leave a Comment 

Cara menambahkan subdomain dengan cpanel

Tujuan

Dari domain seperti ini: hantuinternet.com

Anda ingin membuat subdomain seperti ini:

Requirement / yg di-cover:

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Cara:

Tanpa banyak basa basi, pertama-tama pilih menu subdomain:

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Nanti anda akan dibawa ke halaman seperti ini:

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Anda bisa langsung mengisi kotak dengan nama subdomain yang diinginkan. Misalnya blog, free atau bla3.

Nama folder di kotak document root isinya tidak harus sama dengan nama subdomain. Folder inilah yang akan menampung file-file website kita, dan dapat diakses seperti biasa melalui menu File Manager > public_html > namafolder.

Tutorial berikut2nya:

June 28, 2008 | Filed Under Web, tutorial, web-dev | Leave a Comment