What are your thosai and prata suggestions?

I'm personally more of a thosai person than prata person. Ofc for thosai little india has some nice options like murugan, komala vilas, MTR, etc. But a lot of the mamak stalls in tekka, Rochor or the west side (i live there) also cannot complain leh.

If you ask me prata suggestions though, I'm a little more blank. Often I would just say springleaf or tekka. Maybe Mr and Mrs Moghan also but been a while.

What are your go to spots to makan good sg Indian food? Mamak suggestions work also!

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u/Imaginary-Cellist918 — 5 days ago
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Using LaTeX for homework/in-lecture submissions?

Paging students especially in math (or adjacent) majors, but others are also welcome! For the past AY, I've been trying to hone my abilities in LaTeX cuz I find it fascinating, and I've developed fair speed in it, enough to try doing post-lecture quizzes (which are very common in the maths department) and other assignments in LaTeX.

For people who have used or considered using LaTeX for this purpose before, do the lecturers generally allow it? I'm a little sceptical about how this is perceived, especially now considering a LaTeX-made homework submission could be fully made with like LLMs and shit, and while I use LLMs rarely and strictly only to beautify or format better in LaTeX or look up elusive symbols, I don't know what impressions lecturers have about it.

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u/Imaginary-Cellist918 — 18 days ago

Does my passport count as damaged?

Not US. My passport got very, very, VERY slightly wet (and has completely dried up thereafter) at only a thin sliver (about 0.3 cm from base of the page) of the bottom of a few pages. Nothing is damaged, no ink has smudged, and the text is not blurred at all. But the pages are slightly warped at the bottom. I've not really had an issue with this passport in the one recent travel I did, but should I be worried?

https://preview.redd.it/4znsyr1o50dh1.png?width=2048&format=png&auto=webp&s=47faa27d4f29668cb10646641cc73f6dc8a3f656

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u/Imaginary-Cellist918 — 1 month ago

About Tyagaraja's pancharatna kriti (Varali)

I've been learning kanakana ruchirA in varALi for the past couple of weeks (it's the 2nd pancharatna kriti I'm learning), and while practising I figured I'd hear some recordings as well. Then I stumbled upon Dr. Balamurali Krishna's recording here and noticed that for the 7 charaNam in the whole kriti, his swaras and the general 'tune' itself are very vastly different from the typical tyAgarAja ArAdhanA festival rendition of the kriti (which is roughly what I'm being taught). Now, of course different performers will have different renditions of a song, but I'm hearing a fully changed version of a big chunk of the song for the first time in BMK's recording. Considering that of course the great BMK is part of the tyAgarAja paramparA as well and has perfect bhAva and pada-vichchEdana writ large, can I just chalk this up to creative independence, or is any rendition fine for it [or am I looking at this in a fully wrong angle]? I'm not going to perform this at a concert or anything, it's just what my teacher continued to after jagadAnanda kArakA.

u/Imaginary-Cellist918 — 2 months ago
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Restricted minor - results?

Hi, what's the expected timeframe for results of the restricted minor/2nd major apps (done in sem 2)? Do they vary across dept e.g. biz, SoC, CDE, etc.?

Gamsia

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u/Imaginary-Cellist918 — 2 months ago
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After the resounding MA1521 comments about the prof last sem...

...CCW is slated to continue to be the course coordinator in both sems next AY!

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As a non-CS spectator, best wishes haha

I don't really have anything against CCW, but I genuinely hope people have a MUCH better experience than what people in AY25/26 S2 had to say

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u/Imaginary-Cellist918 — 2 months ago
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CLC modules for C&E

Hey, if any of y'all took the CTPCLC mods for the Community and Engagement pillar, be it SUable (1101/2204) or non-SUable (3303/3304A/3307/3308), would like to hear about your experiences and enjoyability of the courses, and the brunt in general, especially for the 3k bunch because they seem rather interesting to me. NUSMods reviews for some of these courses seem a bit older, so wanted to hear some more recent takers out too!

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u/Imaginary-Cellist918 — 3 months ago
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Best way to format a 'general matrix'? (See image)

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This figure is from a Lin Alg textbook used in my uni and I'm trying to see how to format this in LaTeX. In the typical array environment, specifying the cols argument to get the vertical lines seems doable, but I'm not able to find out how to perfectly align the text, and also get the lines in the matrix right while also get the large 0 as an element.

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u/Imaginary-Cellist918 — 3 months ago

Comforting my grandma

This is technically not therapy for me but my grandma. She recently had a small fall which, due to her age, led to a fracture and a small dislocation which needs a small surgery. I'm a teen, my parents are travelling and will be back tomorrow, when she'll be admitted for the surgery.

The problem is, she's an extremely anxious person. Even with no health fears, she finds the minutest of problems (like her hand feeling a little numb for two seconds in one afternoon) and clings on to it like no tomorrow. Usually though, she alternates between composure and sudden bawling. And now this happened only aggravating the anxieties.

As a confidence measure she asked me to sleep beside her today, because she's on painkillers and wearing a sling for the fracture temporarily. However, neither of us is getting any sleep, because the whole night, she's not letting herself sleep and randomly getting into bouts of extreme grief and shouting. The composure periods have shortened and now she's just fearing even though I've comforted her as best I can and told her there's nothing to worry about and she has people to support her.

It's almost midnight now and nothing's getting better. What do I do?

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u/Imaginary-Cellist918 — 3 months ago

How is 'vice versa' used? If we have a subject, an action and an object in a sentence like this: "[s] [a] [o], and vice versa", does that always imply "[o] [a] [s]"? Are there weird exceptions to this application?

For example, what happens if the sentence is like "[s = noun1] [a] [o = <something else> noun2]", e.g., "She visits my laboratory, and vice versa"? Is this a correct application to imply "...and I visit her lab", because the usual logic of flipping (to mean "my laboratory visits her" is completely nonsense) doesn't work?

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u/Imaginary-Cellist918 — 4 months ago

For some context, I only recently began using a dryer, because I've been accustomed to using a drying rack. I use a commercial dryer that is used by many, since I stay in a common accommodation facility. I notice that after I wash my clothes with an ordinary laundry detergent (for 30 mins to 1 hour), the clothes have a fresh odour.

However, when I put them in the dryer, after cleaning the lint filters properly, for the same period of time, 30-60m, they come out stinking like must or mildew. They're hot but damp after the dryer, never dried. I've tried both the 'Hot' and the 'Medium' drying modes, same outcome.

I asked around as to why this may be the case, and whether it would be because it's a public dryer. But my friends always have no issues with their laundry load in the same dryers with similar settings. They always tell me, "Oh did you clean the lint filter?" I did it as best I could. Still, there's been no results.

I've tried reducing the load and also homogenising the class of clothes to put in the load, but yeah it's always hot, wet and stinky as hell. Am I getting my dryer etiquette wrong?

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u/Imaginary-Cellist918 — 4 months ago

Wanted to ask for curiosity, what krithis (or any song type will do) do you know that need as much of a vocal range as possible? I'm mostly talking Mandra P to Thaara P, or close, but many go lower than Mandra P (to Mandra M, or in Tyagayya's Dudukugala, to Mandra R also) or rarely above Thaara P.

There might be many songs that fit this description, of course, but let's just say the more the instances of the vocal cords stretching, the more suited it is to mention here!

Off the top of my head, I think of Akhilandeshwari in Dwijavanthi, Adi by Muthuswami Dikshitar*. Typical renditions of this song, you notice many instances of Mandra P, hits Thaara G many times and Thaara P in the charanam.

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u/Imaginary-Cellist918 — 4 months ago