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Need to bath with pomelo leaves?
Posted by HuiHui
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8:51 PM
Have been suffering from a patch of bad luck lately. First, my cell-phone broke down after being drenched with water that leaked from my water bottle during the routine Penang Hill 84 hike last weekend. Luckily it only cost me RM45, a few days out of coverage, trip to Bukit Jambul and trip to post laju office to pick up MH’s old hp that his mum sent all the way from KL.
Then, my laptop went ga-ga from weird signals to blue screen and then completely failed to start. I suspected that the culprit is the user interface, namely the keyboard. Being true engineers, we started to debug with help from Dell’s diagnostic test and service manual.
And true enough, it’s the problem with the keyboard. So we proceed to fix it, taking out the innards one after another and then blah, blah, blah and then blah, blah, blah and bravo, my baby is back alive! Smart engineers! :p
Well, I’ve to confess that I shouldn’t take any credit in the success of this operation. I was preoccupied with a tougher task. I was figuring out stuff like:
- When using first inversion of the tonic triad (Ib), subdominant triad (IVb) and dominant triad (Vb) you should avoid doubling the bass note, but you can double either the root or the 5th.
- It’s better that the space between A to S and T to A is not over an octave although B to T may exceed an octave.
- Use a falling seventh progression in two different keys and a cadential six-four chord.
- et cetera, et cetera, et cetera …
Catch any ball? Me either.
Then, my laptop went ga-ga from weird signals to blue screen and then completely failed to start. I suspected that the culprit is the user interface, namely the keyboard. Being true engineers, we started to debug with help from Dell’s diagnostic test and service manual.
And true enough, it’s the problem with the keyboard. So we proceed to fix it, taking out the innards one after another and then blah, blah, blah and then blah, blah, blah and bravo, my baby is back alive! Smart engineers! :p
Well, I’ve to confess that I shouldn’t take any credit in the success of this operation. I was preoccupied with a tougher task. I was figuring out stuff like:
- When using first inversion of the tonic triad (Ib), subdominant triad (IVb) and dominant triad (Vb) you should avoid doubling the bass note, but you can double either the root or the 5th.
- It’s better that the space between A to S and T to A is not over an octave although B to T may exceed an octave.
- Use a falling seventh progression in two different keys and a cadential six-four chord.
- et cetera, et cetera, et cetera …
Catch any ball? Me either.
