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A stay at Chaweng Regent Beach Resort places you in the heart of Bophut, minutes from Central Festival Samui and close to Big Buddha Statue. This 4-star resort is within close proximity of Chaweng Thai Boxing Stadium and Phetch Buncha Thai Boxing Stadium.
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Event Management
Program Code: 1831
School: School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts
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Program Length: 1 year/ 2 semesters
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The School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts is proud to present the Event Management Program to you. Some people argue that the foundation of the hospitality industry is built on the concept of gatherings to share ideas, food and experiences. Many would identify the event management segment of this industry as the earliest formation of the true spirit of hospitality.
From a small but significant meeting, to a large and dynamic event, and even to an international festival or conference; the event industry is truly one of the most diverse in the world.
In the design of Centennial College's new 350,000 square foot facility we included a spectacular 20,000 square foot event centre perched on the top of our new building with a lake and skyline view of the city of Toronto. This event centre will be the backdrop to one of the most unique event management programs in the country.
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With 20,000 square feet dedicated event space this is the only experiential learning operation of its kind in Canada exclusively for event management education.
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Academic Requirements
- College diploma or university degree in any discipline
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Brendan Rodgers' side sit atop of the Barclays Premier League after four matches, following wins over Stoke, Aston Villa and old foes Manchester United.
Monday's 2-2 draw at Swansea ended that winning start sequence, although Daniel Sturridge managed to net in a fourth successive league match.
The in-form England international will be looking to continue that streak at Anfield on Saturday, although a shoulder injury will denied him service from former Southampton target Philippe Coutinho.
"We're very much aware that Sturridge is an awesome threat," the Saints boss said.
"He started off the season quite well, can change the game on his own, but our main concern is blocking the connections from Steven Gerrard and other midfield players.
"We know Coutinho will probably be out of this game, but we need to take care of that midfield to make sure the balls don't go through to Sturridge.
"It's clear that they are a very powerful side and Anfield is a great stadium to play in.
"It will be a great place to perform, to do well in and actually try to get the three points."
Saints will need to overcome their shyness in front of goal in order to take anything back from the north west.
They have failed to score from open play in the league this season, with new signing Dani Osvaldo yet to gel with talisman Rickie Lambert.
"It is not the main aspect that worries me because we have offensive players that can actually score goals," Pochettino said.
"I am happy because we have created many chances in the games that we've played and I know that the goals will come sooner or later.
"It's something that doesn't worry me because I'm more concerned with how the team is playing."
Pochettino has laughed off speculation that Osvaldo was struggling to settle in Southampton, while rejected the notion that Lambert, a dyed-in-the-wool Liverpool fan, has been distracted by his England heroics.
"I think he's very much 100 per cent focused," the Argentinian said.
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"After the game against West Ham he was angry, as any striker would be because he didn't score a goal to actually get the win for the team.
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"I don't think he needs rest. I think the bread and butter of any striker is to actually score goals and that hasn't been happening, so he's concerned about that but he's on the up and creating chances and the team is on a good run.
"Defensively the team has been solid at the back and offensively as well the team has been good, so overall we are keeping a good run and are looking to score the goals eventually."
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Tommy Hilfiger's wife, Dee Ocleppo, is set on making a name for herself in the accessories market.
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Ocleppo has partnered with HSN for her first handbag venture, Deesigns by Dee Ocleppo — a line of customizable, interchangeable frame bags she said began as an idea for one of her husband's collections.
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"I talked to Tommy about this bag that I used to carry — we called it the Bermuda bag and you could change the covers on them. They are very preppy and you can button on one cover and take it off and reverse it and the other side would have a different color," Ocleppo said of the inspiration for her own line.
Set to launch on HSN and hsn.com at the end of March, the collection is comprised of four silhouettes — a frame clutch, a satchel with ring handle, a tote and a shoulder bag with a tortoise chain handle strap. Prices range from just under $100 up to $250 and include 13 "coverlet" choices, including denim, leopard-print canvas, quilted nylon and coral patent leather with accents such as eyelet, perforated fabric and metallic detailing. There will be eight additional coverlets available only at hsn.com.
Ocleppo, who calls fashion "pretty fickle," wants her customer to be able to design her own handbag, giving the collection a "do-it-yourself" element where the wearer can select the handle and color fabric of her choosing.
"I'd like to offer what's trending and what people have and what's in fashion now and not break the bank," Ocleppo said. "For a bag these days, it's pretty affordable. You don't have to mortgage your home. I think it's unique, it's accessible and affordable for everyone — and it kind of makes you the designer. It gives you control."


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Broadcaster to be feted in MiddleburySeptember 23,2013
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MIDDLEBURY A longtime Vermont broadcaster is going to be recognized for his half century of work on the states airwaves.
Joel Najman will be celebrated Saturday with a 60s-themed dance party at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, where he will be playing tunes from the 1960s and sharing stories.
There will be prizes for the best 60s hairdo, a twister tournament and go-go dancers.
Admission will be by donation of nonperishable foods for an Addison County organization known as HOPE, which stands for Helping Overcome Povertys Effects.
Najman first began broadcasting in Vermont in 1964. He was inducted into the Vermont Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2004.
Last April, Najman was honored with a resolution by the Vermont Legislature.MORE IN Vermont NewsBURLINGTON Gov. Full StoryMONTPELIER The Vermont Democratic Party and its nominee for lieutenant governor have reached an... Full StoryRenee Clark said the first she heard her husband was in the hospital was a call saying he was dying. Full Story
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UNDP provides policy advisory services and capacity development to the Government of Bangladesh in risk mitigation and effective humanitarian response. From a government perspective, disaster management is a fundamental component of the national agenda with the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management playing a central role. UNDP has established itself as the primary partner of the government in disaster management, and works closely with the vibrant and active humanitarian community and civil society to ensure national ownership. In the post-conflict Chittagong Hill Tracts – in the south east of Bangladesh – UNDP is leading an area-based peace building initiative in partnership with local government institutions as laid out in the 1997 Peace Accord.
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President Moratti and everyone at Inter bid an affectionate farewell to Eto'o, with whom they shared two fantastic seasons with passion and professionalism: 102 games, 53 goals and 6 unforgettable trophies.
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Festival : Rock Music
- Opening periods
- Event planned for the month of April 2017 - May 2017
Dates and programme may be subject to change
- Event planned for the month of April 2017 - May 2017
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Site de la Carrière d'Opprebais
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2 stages, 12 concerts, 1500 m² of heated tents and a great atmosphere await you on the Inc'Rock Festival and the Youth Festival.
You can buy your 1-day ticket or your 2-day pass online on the webiste of the FNAC by clicking HERE
- website : http://www.incrock.be/tickets/
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- WoW - "Wonders of Wildlife" exhibition in Brussels
- Creative Workshop at the Museum of Cocoa and Chocolate
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Sorry for the delay, but here are my thoughts, take what you will from them as they are only my own feelings mean to correlate to my investment style.The company seems to be trading at about a 25% or so discount to IV based on a 5 yr average of owner earnings of about 323.6MM with perpetual growth of about 4% - 5%. I consider that conservative as CF has compounded at about 6.36% for the last 10 yrs and about 7.8% for the last 5 yrs and net income compounding at 7.4% and 7.86% respectively. Returns on retained earnings over the past 10 yrs appear at first glance to be a little sub par at about 8.25%. However, the company is extremely conservative in its investments and has a very healthy payout ratio. BV CAGR for the past 10 yrs is also low compared to what I look for in companies @ 8.87%, however include in that the pay out of dividends and you have a very healthy performer. ROE is nice. Debt obviously terrific.I find management to be very competent in their line of work although extremely conservative with their holdings. A Buffet in management could really enhance returns.Overall, returns (divs included) are very satisfactory and I have taken a starting position. I will sell lower strike puts in conjunction with my current position to lower my basis and or accumulate more at lower prices.Anyway, thanks again for mentioning. I feel I'll be very happy over the next few decades. In my preliminary research I came across another company that caught my eye. ABK. Take a look, I haven't yet decided myself if it is worth anything, they have much higher return ratios than ORI but their payout ratio varies from 7 to 12% so they are required to have better return ratios. Some quick ones...15.89% 10 yr cagr retained earnings, 16.4% 10 yr cagr cf, 15.76% 10 cagr net inc., 13.2% cagr 10 yr BV.....Management style differs considerably from ORI and they are in different lines of insurance. They do use derivatives, etc. anyway maybe worth a look.I'll see you around I'm sure.
good for you, will look at ABK. Good luck
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Heey! I'm Lexie(: I write your basic teen love stories. They're cheesy but adorable.
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Monday, August 08, 2016
first impressions
My last post about jeans got me thinking about the denim styles that made an impression on me while I was growing up, and a standout memory for me would be the various ad campaigns run by Calvin Klein in the mid-90s, especially the ones for the ckOne perfume.
I know these are styled images, photographed by Steven Meisel, but there was something very loose and effortless about the whole thing - the models they used were cool (Kate! Stella! Trish! Jenny! Kirsten!); the clothes were very basic, and the make-up was barely there. I still find these images timeless, and I would wear everything in those ads, even now.
Admittedly, there are caveats. It's not easy to pull off perfectly straight-leg jeans - they can be hard to pull off for anyone who doesn't have narrow hips, or are short. I like them cropped at the ankle best - I have curvy hips and I that find a cropped leg seems to balance everything off nicely, especially if you wear flat shoes. When I travel somewhere a bit nippier, I just put on some socks - thin wool ones.
(Also, I think I'm past the age where I feel ok walking around in a denim mini, but that's not saying I don't love it on others.)
Below are some more great images - from US Vogue, in 2000 - which made an impression on me, jeans-wise. I hate to be one of those people who talk about how great things were "back in the day", but imagine, 16 years ago, Annie Leibowitz was capable of photographing models for Vogue in all their natural beauty, without photoshopping the images to death:
My favourites? Shalom's and Carolyn's jeans.
Images from here and here
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Labels: calvin klein, dressing, inspired moments, jeans
Monday, August 01, 2016
of a certain vintage
A few months ago, I bought a pair of vintage Levi's online on impulse. Okay they're not that old, certainly not pre-1970s, but I'm pretty sure Levi's doesn't make them quite like this any more - they're in the kind of thick, sturdy denim now extinct in the mass market, plus they have the kind of high rise and button-fly I rarely see on women's jeans. They remind me of a pair of old Levi's my sister had in the 90s', which is perfect since I had an early 90s' childhood and a late 90s' adolescence, and am a long-time fan of Thelma and Louise and their high-waisted badassery.
I know classic 501s look terrible on me, so I bought these with the aim of bringing them to my tailor - I wanted the relatively high waist (just around my belly button), the button-fly (I love ripping the buttons, hah) and tight fit around the butt and thighs, and so long as these bits fit well, the rest is easy.
It's not unusual for me to buy secondhand jeans or jeans on a deep discount with the aim of getting them drastically tailored - most of my old Diesel jeans are altered because when I worked there, it was the era of bootcut jeans and I don't like bootcuts. My "boyfriend" jeans are all jeans bought a size bigger and then taken in at the hip to fit. I read this quote on Jean Stories - "When you purchase jeans, you want them to fit comfortably over your largest body part (be that your thigh, waist, or hip) and everything else can be shaped to your liking" - and I understood perfectly.
I lucked out because these ones did fit perfectly at the waist, hips, and thighs, never mind that it was frumpy as hell from knees down. My tailor easily took care of that and gave me the tapered fit I wanted. He also cropped it a little more so that it hung above my ankles, which I find to me the most flattering length for me, and also quite practical - no wet hems in the rain.
For alterations inspiration, I found some good ideas on RE/DONE, which offers a fairly decent, albeit expensive preposition for those who don't want to hunt for old Levi's and get them tailored themselves: they source and alter vintage pairs in several cuts. They've become quite a thing, and even if one doesn't need to go to such expense to achieve the same thing, I can get behind something that at least makes good use of unwanted clothing.
I was actually motivated to write this post after I saw comments on a post on A Cup of Jo on the non-stretchy jean trend, and I was fascinated by how some people hate them - many swore they would never go back to the discomfort of non-stretchy jeans. I'm not averse to stretch, but I am definitely on the other side of the fence - the stiffness of old-fashioned denim looks better on me and because most of my jeans are non-stretch anyway, I'm used to them and I don't feel uncomfortable at all.
But what does everyone else think? A ridiculous trend or the revival of a good idea?
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Labels: jeans, musings, my wardrobe, shopping adventures
Sunday, July 24, 2016
a league of their own
I caught the Ghostbusters reboot last night, and like everyone I know, loved it. It's not a perfect movie (it's not terribly original, to be honest) but it made me laugh and it warmed my heart to see women being women and doing things and just being awesome friends and having adventures. The women in my circle of friends agreed it was great to see a movie with female friendship at its centre, and just a little sad that it's actually refreshing, rather than something we can count on.
It also reminded me of one of my favourite movies of all time - A League of Their Own.
I caught this on HBO one random night last year, and spent a happy couple of hours enjoying every scene of a movie I loved as a kid. I'm a sucker for any kind of sports movie, so throw in a group of awesome tomboys trying to make a women's baseball league happen in an era where women belonged in the kitchen and a highly watchable cast (Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Rosie O'Donnell, Tom Hanks, Madonna) and you have a captive audience in me.
Watching a movie I haven't watched in a while always brings some surprising revelations - in this case it was the fact that the movie also starred David Strathairn, looking Don Draper-handsome.
The other revelation was how great the costumes are - a look I can only describe as "lady-like scrappy". On one hand you had your women in standard 1940s garb, but on the other hand there was the odd baseball cap thrown into the mix, the dirt on their faces right next to their siren red lipstick, the flat-lace-ups shoes with the full skirts. It was still a traditional time for women but these were rule-breakers trying their best to get by. You have Geena Davis in a neat little suit, blouse and hat - and then she's off, sprinting alongside a train that's pulling out of the station, carrying two suitcases and tossing them onto the train, looking grimly determined. She's a heroine, but she didn't need a pair of trousers to prove it. The women wear floral tea dresses, satin slips and curl their hair, but there's a worn, dusty, undone look to everything, because they have other things to worry about.
The movie doesn't overdo the "girl power" message as well, even though it was set in must have been a tremendous time for women, who had to move into the workplace with the men at war. One player has to bring her son on the road with her because there's no one to babysit, but the point isn't overplayed.
I don't dislike movies about women dealing with relationships and romance (which is usually the case when a movie has a cast full of women) but it's just nice to see us defined in other ways, and in the case of Ghostbusters, having this "normalised" in a straightforward blockbuster. Here's to not having to wait decades to see another film about a group of women doing things.
Which are your favourite movies about women doing stuff?
Pix from here and here
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Saturday, July 02, 2016
Paris, April 2015
"I found myself walking like someone half asleep up the quai du Lourve, toward Chatelet and the big white Renaissance Revival Hotel de Ville. I walked until my feet hurt and I was soaked to the skin: past the Pont Neuf and the smooth round turrets of the Conciergerie and past the Michelin-starred restaurant that once had been a cheap brasserie. The urine-soaked odour of the metro wafted up through a sidewalk grate. The facades of the 18th century ile Saint-Louis looked luminous against the gray Parisian sky." -- "My Paris Dream", by Kate Betts
I recently finished reading "My Paris Dream", and when I got to this passage I felt such a strong sense of being understood. Whenever I make it to Paris, I find myself making at least one long walk across the arrondissements, letting myself fall into a Parisian reverie. This the the romance of Paris I never tire of - winding my way through the Left Bank and letting the sense of history and now collide and wash over me.
My love of Paris is not always understood, and in fact it amuses my friends that I am such a cliche - the Asian girl who loves Paris! I can only say that the city got me at the right age (when you are 21, is there anywhere else better to learn the ways of the sophisticated?), and having the chance to make multiple visits over the years and slowly getting to know the city has only made me love it more.
The Seine is my North Star. I like starting somewhere near the Grand Palais, crossing over to the Left and making my way down towards the ile Saint-Louis, making long, looping detours as I go, depending on my mood. If I'm rambling without purpose, I love the numerous art galleries and book stores of the area, or the stalls selling books and drawings along the river - I like buying old French magazines as keepsakes and once I found a French guidebook to Paris published in 1955, complete with a pullout map.
For the fashion-minded, you will find the amazing Dries Van Noten boutique, the Golden Goose store, and L/Uniform on the Quai Voltaire stretch alone. The Left Bank is also home to my favourite Parisian department store - Le Bon Marche - and of course once you reach the delightfully posh St Germain-de-Pres area, you'll find a good mix of the major names at a variety of price points, from Hermes to Muji.
For the food-minded, there is of course Poilane and Pierre Herme, and a never-ending parade of bakeries like L'eclair de Genie and others whose names I can't remember. Not far from Le Bon Marche you will find the beloved Mamie Gateaux, and if you are willing to make it far down enough to the Cimetiere du Montparnasse or Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, then I recommend grabbing dinner at La Cantine du Troquet, where the food, atmosphere and service are all excellent - you have to love restaurants where the staff don't mind explaining their all-French menu to you with patience.
The Left is also home to my favourite museum in Paris - the Musee Rodin. Apart from his unbelievable sculpture, the beautiful mansion that houses the museum is also dreamy to wander through, to say nothing of its gardens, which are perfect for picnics on good days. You can also see his drawings, as well as the works of the underrated Camille Claudel, which I love. The Eglise Saint Sulpice is of course also a draw for tourists, as is the wonderful Luxembourg Gardens, the perfect place to unwind after a day of tramping around the Left.
Any any point, it is possible to wind your way back to the Seine, and bear straight down to the ile de la Cite, and any of the bridges that traverse the river is a gorgeous place to watch the sunset, not to mention the people. You may also wish to make for Sainte Chapelle on ile de la Cite, the prettiest church I have ever seen.
A vast swathe of the Left Bank is dominated by the Sorbonne, which seems to add to the area's tradition and history, and slowed the tide of commercialism somewhat. Yes, there are chain stores and pricey boutiques, but you only need to cross the river to the Marais area to see what "commercialised" can really mean. The Left Bank isn't the haven it was for artists, writers and philosophers in an earlier era, but the romance remains, which isn't easy for such a storied district.
Yes we travel to open our eyes, but sometimes we also travel to dream. Paris, for all its changes, remains very much a dreamscape for me. I leave to a fellow Francophile (or shall I say, Parisophile) to say it best:
"Behind me, a breeze suckled the blinds from a large open window. The view spanned Paris, one of those views that came with sunshine and clarinets, from the Eiffel Tower to the Grand Palais, to the fondant of the Sacré Coeur.
I wanted to levitate right out of the room." -- "Paris I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down", by Rosencrans Baldwin
Saturday, June 25, 2016
back to bkk
As a child, visiting my father who was posted there several years for work, Bangkok was an assault on my sheltered senses - it was hotter, wetter, noisier, dustier and sprawled in a million directions. The language was wilder - complicated, and melodic and piercing at the same time. The food was spicier, sweeter and saltier. The temples were grand and mysterious. Even the cars, with their dark tinted windows - something we didn't have in Singapore - seemed exciting. Bangkok was intense. I loved it all.
Long after my father no longer worked there, Bangkok remained a mainstay as a holiday spot. For Singaporeans, Bangkok is a land of inexpensive thrills - shopping, food, and massages mainly - even with the strengthening baht over the years. The city, just two-odd hours away, is a popular option for a budget getaway, and you'd be hard pressed not to run into a Singaporean at any of the usual tourist hotspots.
As a university student I visited Bangkok regularly for the same reasons, and never tried too hard to explore any off-the-beaten-path spots - I ate street food on Yaowarat and near my budget hotel in Sukhumvit; I shopped and ate my way through Chatuchak (it never gets old), I became addicted to Thai massages at Healthland (also still good), I people-watched in Siam Square. Every now and I then I looked for a Wat or a food market I hadn't visited, or did a short trips to places like Ayutthaya, Bang Pa In, Kanchanaburi, and Hua Hin. It was predictable.
My last visit to Bangkok was some 5 to 6 years ago. A couple weeks ago, some friends and I got it into our heads that we needed to go - I believe it started over a lament on how hard it is to find good Thai food in Singapore. We didn't have too much time to think about it. We found cheap flights. We picked a neighbourhood on Airbnb (Thong Lo). And figured things out from there.
My trip centered around one thing: food. And so this post is mostly a quick and dirty guide how to to fill your stomachs if you have 72 hours in Bangkok.
I wanted to eat at at least one amazing "zi char"-style place, and found this by Googling. In Singapore, zi char refers to Chinese family-style dining, comprising dishes eaten with rice, and often seafood-heavy. Apart from not being Chinese, this place was essentially it. Because it was featured on a popular food blog about eating in Bangkok, Soei gets its fair share of tourists and it has an English-language menu with the dishes usually featured in write-ups about the place. It would have been fun to go with a Thai friend since the Thai-speaking staff aren't especially helpful if you want to order outside of this menu, but we ordered almost everything on it and I can't say we suffered for it.
The standouts for me were the tom yum mackerel soup (deceptively clear-looking, searingly spicy), the fried mackerel heads (so popular every table only gets one order), and the mackerel curry (yes there is a pattern here).
I love mackerel because it's such a feature of the home-cooking I grew up eating. It is "fishy" and flaky and not for everyone, but it does lend itself to a wide variety of cooking styles. Soei is clearly an expert at preparing mackerel because whether cooked in fiery tom yum soup, deep fried, or stewed in coconut curry, the fish was always tender yet firm, and the fishy oils a nice, sweet foil to the spices. I loved that they used fish with the mackerel roe still intact for the soup and the curry - that extra kick tasting of the sea did it for me.
I also liked a grilled prawn dish that was dressed with chilli, garlic, sweet onions, shallots, basil and probably other things I couldn't identify -
From left, clams cooked in a spicy sweet sauce and basil, and grilled river prawns
I wasn't so impressed by their raw prawn salad (goong chae nam pla, below) - usually its dressed in chilli, garlic and lime juice bit at Soei they add wasabi to the mix. It's still yummy, but it overpowers the natural sweetness of the raw prawns more than I would like -
This was a nice counterpoint to the strong flavours, like a very eggy and garlicky pad thai but cooked with glass noodles -
Eat it all with rice and wash it down with beer. Finish your meal with some shaved ice in drizzled with palm sugar and something that looked like frog spawn but were some kind of seeds. Sit back, and enjoy the trains rumbling by.
Kamphaeng Phet 5, Samsen Nai, Phaya Thai (right next to Sam Sen railway station)
Dress casual - it gets pretty hot, both because of the location and the food
On the other end of the spectrum, we wanted to give the "modern Thai" movement a try, and so we landed on Paste. I was a little nervous because modern takes on Asian cuisines have always been more miss than hit for me. But Paste, thank goodness, was outstanding. Thai food is a complex mix of flavours and it's pretty for one thing to overpower everything else. But the dishes were beautifully "layered" - every bite was a delight because you're experiencing a riot of flavours but they go together wonderfully. For example, the mud crab curry (curry with black pepper, pennywort, samphire and hummingbird flowers) was piquant, sweet, smoky and delicate at the same time.
And this isn't one of those places where you're expected to be wowed by flavour and presentation alone. Fine dining places usually leave me hungry (I'm a comfort food girl at heart) but the food at Paste is substantial and satisfying. Even the rice was a delight - jasmine rice isn't exactly a rarity, but the rice they served was wonderfully aromatic and cooked to a perfect texture.
The menu is a little overwhelming because of the sheer number of choices, and I think this place would be more fun if there were at least 3 to 4 people, so that you could try more things. For 4 people, you could skip the starters (which were good but not the highlight for me) and just order a bunch of "mains" to share and eat with rice. Something like 5 mains would be enough, I reckon, as the food is rich and it fills you up quite a bit even though the portions look manageable.
3rd Floor, Gaysorn Plaza, 999 Ploenchit Rd., Lumpini, Bangkok (if you are taking the BTS, stop at Chit Lom)
Dressy, but not formal
Som Tam Nua
Considering that it's smack in the middle of Siam Square and provides menus in English, you might be a little wary that the food here might be too tourist-friendly and lacking the powerful kick of Thai cuisine. But fear not, the food is consistently good (I don't find it toned down at all and I've had some very spicy things in Thailand), well-priced and an excellent option for the location.
Som Tam refers to the ubiquitous papaya salad, but don't limit to yourself to that. They do a nice version of larb pla tod, which is basically a fried whole fish topped with red onions, chillies, herbs and dressed with lime juice and fish sauce and dried chilli flakes and things I can't quite identify.
Staff are brusque and don't entertain questions much but I live in Singapore where this is considered normal, so I'm not too bothered, especially since the menu is easy to figure out.
Som Tam Nua:
392/14 Siam Square Soi 5
Casual, good for a quick bite
Tep Bar
Tep Bar is a beautiful space in the Charoenkrung with a range of cocktails made with local liquors, which were nice, but I prefer my drinks stronger. The food was actually pretty good and reasonably priced, and the place has a nice buzzy atmosphere that isn't too loud, with great service. It's located on beautifully crumbling street - the tall, shophouses are elegant and beg to be restored to its glory days.
We found time to check out another bar called Teens of Thailand - just steps away from Tep - which claims to be the first real gin bar in Bangkok. The drinks have a good flavour, but again, I just like mine with more kick. It's a noiser, more casual spot - fun if you find a place to sit (it's tiny), less so if you have to stand because it's just awkwardly configured. Again, great, friendly service.
Tep Bar:
Room 69-71, Soi Nana, Charoen Krung Road (if taking a cab, tell the driver it's in Charoenkrung or near Yaowarat)
Casual, but style-conscious
Teens of Thailand:
76, Soi Nana, Charoen Krung Road
Street food
I'm fairly casual where street food is concerned - I don't try to find the most famous places or the "best" because I think that rather defeats the point of something that's meant to be eaten on the go and delicious in an "everyday" way.
The great thing about Airbnb is that if you pick a residential area to stay in, you'll have no lack of street stalls to pick from. I had stewed pork noodles, mini crepes topped with coconut cream and palm sugar, green mangoes (eaten when it's relatively unripe and shockingly tart), all at unassumingly stalls scattered throughout my street (Sukhimvit Soi 55). I had some very nice fried squid eggs from a stall near the Thong Lo BTS station. I had a whole fish baked in salt from a stall in Ekkamai.
They might not be the best of the best, but they were very good, and 100 per cent satisfying. Street food just isn't fun when you overthink it.
Getting around:
Take the BTS or MRT whenever possible, to spare yourself the pain of being stuck in 40-minute jams (for 10-min distances), even though taxis are plentiful and cheap. Around the train stations there are always, taxis, or guys in orange vests riding scooters, who will bring you to nearby destinations in a jiffy. Very reliable and quite fun! Doing this lets you stay in Airbnbs in residential neighbourhoods without worrying about getting around (it's easy to flag one down or get the guards at the condo to call one for you).
But do take a metered taxi from and to the airport - it doesn't cost much at all
I use Airbnb a lot when I travel and so far it's been more of a hit than a miss - find the right place and you feel like a local, living in a neighbourhood full of things you might not seek out as a tourist.
Thong Lo (sometimes spelt Thonglor) is a gentrifying neighbourhood, full of old nondescript buildings transformed into stunningly refurnished clusters of cool cafes and shops, like The Commons - go to the "market" in the basement and grab a bite from the Soul Food Mahanakorn stall, which does a comfort food take on Thai food (they have a full fledge restaurant in Thong Lo itself). I was also impressed with the craft beers on tap from The Beer Cap (and I am extremely sceptical of any place that touts craft beer generally because it's usually a letdown), and the bar staff were extremely friendly and helpful (they let you try all the beers in shot glasses to help you decide).
The Commons
We also liked having a relaxed, fun bar like the Iron Fairies within walking distance, and we had a rather good, affordable meal at a restaurant called Suppaniga Eating Room (I found out later it has pretty mixed reviews on TA, but I liked it). Again, it does a "modern take on Thai food (from the Isaan) region and I like that you get to try dishes that aren't so easy to find if you're new to Thailand.
But the area is still homely with plenty of street food options for quick bites (as I described above). It's also relatively close to the city centre but far away enough to feel relaxed.
The Commons:
335 Soi Thonglor 17
Klongton Nue, Wattana
160/11 Soi Sukhumvit 55 (Thonglor)
Klongton Nuea, Watthana
Iron Fairies:
394 Thonglor Road, Sukhumvit 55
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
forwards and backwards
Ever since I bought a simple midi-length dress with a skirt that billows two years ago, I've been quite in love with the ease and elegance that comes with a long-ish, full-ish skirt, especially when pockets are involved. A full skirt is more comfortable than a pencil skirt, and the midi-length is practical as you're unlikely to flash anyone. It's retro in silhouette but modern in spirit.
Watching Tilda Swinton in A Bigger Splash gave me the same vibes. The 1950s roots of the costumes are obvious but there's nothing dated about them; they have a rumpled, laidback ease. There are subtle, sculptural details in the tailoring - literally classics with a twist - but it doesn't feel forced. It's Grace Kelly loosened up with edge.
It's been super warm, making it very tempting to spend my days lounging around in shorts and loose tank tops. But A Bigger Splash is inspiring me to seek a little elegance in the everyday.
Photos: Paris Vogue
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Labels: dressing, film, inspired moments, musings
Monday, May 02, 2016
it's personal
Late last year or early this year (I can't remember), I began reminding myself to take a picture of my outfit every day, with a vague idea that they would somehow coalesce into a coherent post.
Blogging has come a long way since I created my Blogspot account a decade ago. I blogged because I loved suddenly discovering a community of people who loved the power of clothing and fashion the way I did - people who took grainy pictures in front of their dusty mirrors and messy rooms and shared them just because. I grew up reading fashion magazines but had no one to share my awe for my fashion idols Calvin Klein and Helmut Lang - and certainly no one understood why I was so enamoured of the style of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Discovering certain Livejournal pages and threads on TFS brought a previously silent world to life. I blogged because I was excited to be part of this space.
From this era of bloggers, stars emerged (of them, Susie Bubble remains the most prominent and happily, true to herself), though it was nothing like what followed. Until 2010, 2011, I could look forward original and thoughtful posts on Dreamecho, Style...A Work in Progress, Nonsense in Stilettos, Childhood Flames, Le Portillon, No Signposts in the Sea, Discotheque Confusion (she's still blogging!), Capture the Castle, Bakerby, just to name a few. Their blogs had less to do with a covetable or trendy aesthetic, and more to do with the fact that style was truly a part of their personal narrative, a means of expression. I got the feeling from their outfit posts that they didn't dress well to be admired, they dressed well because they admire a well-dressed self, whatever that might be.
The professional-looking style blogs we see today come from a very different place - less fangirl, more businesswoman. They don't interest me that much though. I prefer straightforward expressions of personal style - real clothes worn by real people who understand the power of fashion (like The Chic Pragmatist, or Pret a Porter P).
Many of the bloggers I mentioned above have stopped blogging - it is hard to blog if you are holding down a full-time job or full-time studies, so it doesn't surprise me that people have moved on. It was always personal after all.
I look at these photos of myself and I think about how sometimes people think there's nothing "blog-worthy" about what they wear. This is nonsense. Life is not a magazine shoot. Style doesn't only belong in magazines. I've chosen clothing as one way of communicating to the world who I am, and why wouldn't I post a picture of what I'm already wearing out in the real world, for all to see?
I think style blogs have a bit of a bad rep now - stimulating the appetite to shop is one key criticism. I think it's sad that the desire to dress well is often conflated with the need to acquire more, more more. I'm not sure how to undo that association, or whether it is even possible. But I do know that I continue to admire great style, and I continue to care about how I dress, and that is always going to be part of the narrative on this blog. You put it out there, because it's your point of view, and it doesn't matter what anyone else makes of it.
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Featherburr Main will open May 24, 2014
Prax Maryjasz and Alexina Proctor will be opening the Featherburr Main store at a new location in InWorldz. It will be on the new sky plaza, called Featherburr Plaza, on the region of Tolmire in Elf Clan. It is directly across from the Sendalonde Art Plaza.
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Featherburr Main is the four story building to the left of the landing point. To the right of the plaza are two buildings of ART from the masters all beautifully framed and in exact proportions to the original. All are resizeable. Rugs and pottery are located in their own store next to the art gallery on Featherburr Plaza. Featherburr Main has modern, art deco, traditional, classic as well as castle and fantasy furniture and accessories.
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The High Cost of Muni Bond Peace of Mind
By TIMOTHY MIDDLETON
Published: November 10, 1996
SMALL investors and their big fear of losses are fueling the insured muni bond fund business.
Comfortable with the tax-exempt status and the diversification provided by the national municipal bond funds, but jittery that the next Orange County will pop up in their portfolios, customers increasingly want the guarantee of good credit that insurance confers. As a result, the volume of insured municipal issues coming to market has nearly doubled, from 25 percent in 1990 to 46 percent this year, said David Litvack, a senior director of Fitch Investors Service.
Never mind that even in the 1994 bankruptcy of Orange County, Calif., insurers didn't pay out a dime.
In fact, ''the actual losses by all bond insurance companies over the last five years have been $130 million, and that's on bonds with a par value of $507.2 billion,'' Mr. Litvack said. ''So we're talking about a percentage default rate on the order of 0.026 percent.''
That makes insurance on a municipal bond look very much like suspenders on a well-belted investment. Even in Orange County, reserves were adequate to cover interest payments until the county itself resumed paying them. Susan Keenan, manager of the municipal bond department of Alliance Capital Management L.P., is blunt in her opinion that insurance isn't really needed.
''Frankly, insurance is a marketing gimmick,'' she said, adding that insurers ''write policies to a zero-loss standard, meaning any security they're willing to insure is one they're convinced is not going to default.''
Still, the demand is there.
MUNICIPALITIES like insurance because it can cut their borrowing costs. Insurance replaces New York City's A- credit rating, for example, with the insurer's triple-A.
But equally if not more important, small investors are transforming the marketplace through their purchases of mutual fund shares.
''Mutual fund investors are different than the traditional customers for municipals,'' said Neil Budnick, director of public finance for the MBIA Insurance Company of Armonk, N.Y., the muni industry's largest underwriter. ''They tend to be people who have less money. They care about credit quality more because they can afford to lose less.''
The surge in insurance parallels the growth in municipal bond mutual funds. In 1980, muni funds accounted for only 1.1 percent of municipal bond ownership, according to the Federal Reserve Board. By 1990, that was up to 9.5 percent, and in 1991, funds shouldered aside insurance companies as the municipal market's No. 2 player, behind individuals. Currently, funds account for 16.2 percent of the $1.3 trillion municipal bond market, trailing only households, which own 35.5 percent of tax-exempt bonds.
The appetite for insurance on these bonds can be expected to grow, said Joe Mysak, the editor of Grant's Municipal Bond Observer. He said the insured-bond business would get a lift in coming years as defaults rise among issues that came out in the late 1980's and earlier in this decade to finance economic-development projects like stadiums, convention hotels and even civic aquariums.
''There are just rafts of this kind of thing out there, and a lot of them are going to blow up,'' he said. ''These are not insured bonds, and that's why insurance will probably become even more popular, as these things default.''
Owners of insured municipal bond funds do, however, pay two -- and possibly three -- prices for the elimination of credit risk. Their first cost is lower yields, currently about 10 basis points, or hundredths of a percentage point, less than the yields on funds that own uninsured bonds of comparable quality.
They also pay through increased volatility. ''An insured municipal bond is definitely more volatile than a comparable bond that isn't insured,'' said Mark Wright, an analyst for Morningstar Inc.
This is so because, with the credit risk removed, the bonds tend to respond more rapidly to interest rate swings, in the same way as the safest government investments, United States Treasuries. Investors thus face a drop in the value of their insured holdings when interest rates rise. Uninsured bonds react more to concerns about the ability of the issuer to pay on the bonds.
Indeed, many investors could get higher after-tax returns with even greater safety in the Treasury market. The spreads between taxable and tax-free bonds are so narrow at the moment that in many cases, small investors would be better off owning Treasuries.
''Right now, in the one- to five-year maturity range, U.S. Government bonds are more attractive on an after-tax basis for people in the 28 percent and 31 percent tax brackets,'' said James F. Lynch, editor of the Lynch Municipal Bond Advisory, a monthly newsletter.
The triple-A muni bond yield last Monday, for instance, was 4.2 percent for a three-year bond, which is equal to 5.83 percent for investors in the 28 percent tax bracket and 6.09 percent for those taxed at 31 percent. The comparable Treasury note is yielding 5.91 percent. Even for the taxpayer paying 31 percent, Mr. Lynch said, ''you'd probably go with the Government bond if you were conservative.''
To Mr. Wright of Morningstar, there is little gain from having the insurance.


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"Dark of the Moon" is one of the most critically acclaimed 3-D films of the past two years (at least the 3-D portions of the film, that is) and currently the second biggest domestic grosser of the year with $348.5 million to date. Globally, the film is Paramount's first $1 billion grosser ever with $1.09 billion so far. A good chunk of the film's mammoth tallies are from 3-D and IMAX ticket sales.
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Cauliflower-Leek Bake (1 Point)
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 25 mins
From a Weight Watchers book. Haven't made it yet, but hope to try soon.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 cups cauliflower florets
- 1 cup sliced leek
- 1⁄4 cup water
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground pepper
- Preheat oven to 450. Pour the oil in a shallow 2- quart baking dish; heat oil for 2 minutes. Add cauliflower to the dish, toss to coat with oil. Cover dish with foil and bake 15 minutes.
- Remove the dish from the oven; stir in other ingredients.
- Bake, covered, until the cauliflower is tender (5 - 7 minutes).
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This was really yummy, our leeks were very flavourful. Added rosemary, oregano, sage and fennel seeds and a little dijon mustard to season it and I think that really complimented the veggies. We also added some pre cooked parsnips and used the chicken stock we cooked the parsnips in instead of the water. A lovely dish.
I liked it. Used chicken broth rather than water to add flavor. Cooked somewhat longer, some covered and some uncovered. Prefer regular roasted cauliflower, but this would be a nice presentation for company.
We liked this dish but I would add a few spices next time as suggested by Slick18. I used a bit of bouillon powder in the water to add some flavour too. I baked it at 400F since I already had a pork roast in the oven. Turned out very good and I will make this again.


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In last month's article, I introduced the Java Reflection API and ran through some of its basic capabilities. I also looked into reflection performance, and ended with some guidelines for when reflection should or should not be used in an application. This month I'm going even further by looking at an application that seems to be a good match for reflection's strengths and weaknesses: a library for command line argument processing.
I'll start by first defining the problem to be solved, then designing an interface for the library before actually getting into the implementation code. My actual experience developing the library was not so structured -- I started out trying to simplify existing code in a family of applications that use a common code base, then generalized from there. The linear "define-design-build" sequence in this article is much more concise than a full description of the development process, though, and in the process of organizing it this way I've revised some of my initial assumptions and cleaned up several aspects of the library code. Hopefully, you'll find it useful as a model for developing your own reflection-based applications.
Defining the problem
I've written many Java applications using arguments from the command line. Most started out really small, but several ended up growing way beyond my initial plans. There's a standard pattern I've observed in how this process works for me:
- Start with one or two required arguments in a particular order.
- Think of more things the application should do, then add more arguments.
- Get tired of typing in all the arguments every time, so make some of the arguments optional, with default values.
- Forget the order of the arguments, so change the code to allow them in any order.
- Give the application to other people who are interested. They don't know what the arguments are supposed to be, so add better error checking and "help" descriptions for the arguments.
By the time I get to step 5 I usually regret that I began the whole process in the first place. Fortunately, I tend to forget the latter stages pretty quickly, and within a week or two I'll think of yet another simple little command line application I'd like to have. After that it's just a matter of time before the whole ugly cycle repeats.
There are several libraries available to help with command line argument processing. I'm going to ignore them, however, and go my own way in this article. This isn't (just) because I have a "not invented here" attitude, but rather to use argument processing as an example. As it happens, the strengths and weakness of reflection are a good match with the requirements for an argument processing library. In particular, an argument processing library:
- Needs a flexible interface to support a variety of applications
- Must be easy to configure for each application
- Doesn't require top performance, because the arguments are only processed once
- Has no access security issues, because command line applications generally run without a security manager
The actual reflection code within this library represents only a small portion of the full implementation, so I'll focus primarily on the aspects that are most relevant to reflection. If you want to find out more about the library (and perhaps use it for your own simple command line applications), you'll find the link to the Web site in the Resources section.
Sketching out a design
Probably the most convenient way for an application to access argument data is
through fields of the application's main object. For example, suppose you're writing
an application that generates business plans. You might want to use a
boolean flag to control whether the business plan is concise or
wordy, an
int for first year revenue, a
float for the
expected compound revenue growth rate, and a
String for the product
description. I'll call these variables that influence the operation of the
application parameters to distinguish them from the actual
arguments (the values for the parameter variables) supplied on the
command line. Using fields for these parameters will make them easily available at
any point in the application code where they're needed. It's also easy to set
defaults for any of the parameters right at the point of definition when using
fields, as shown in Listing 1:
Listing 1. Business plan generator (partial listing)
public class PlanGen { private boolean m_isConcise; // rarely used, default false private int m_initialRevenue = 1000; // thousands, default is 1M private float m_growthRate = 1.5; // default is 50% growth rate private String m_productDescription = // McD look out, here I come "eFood - (Really) Fast Food Online"; ... private int revenueForYear(int year) { return (int)(m_initialRevenue * Math.pow(m_growthRate, year-1)); } ...
Reflection will give direct access to these private fields, allowing the argument processing library to set values without any special hooks in the application code. I do need some way for the library to relate these fields to particular command line arguments, though. Before I can define how this linkage between an argument and a field is communicated to the library, I first need to decide how I want to format the command line arguments.
For this article, I'll define a command line format that's a simplified version of UNIX conventions. Argument values for parameters can be supplied in any order, with a leading hyphen to indicate that an argument gives one or more single-character parameter flags (as opposed to actual parameter values). For the business plan generator, I'll pick these parameter flag characters:
- c -- concise plan
- f -- first year revenue ($ thousands)
- g -- growth rate (yearly multiplier)
- n -- product name
boolean parameters only need the flag character itself to set a
value, but the other types of parameters require some sort of additional argument
information. I'll just append the value of a numeric argument immediately following
the parameter flag character (which means digits can't be used as flag characters),
while for
String-valued parameters I'll use the argument following the
flag character on the command line as the actual value. Finally, if there are
required parameters (such as an output file name for the business plan generator),
I'll assume the argument values for these follow the optional parameter values on
the command line. Given these conventions, a command line for the business plan
generator might look like this:
java PlanGen -c -f2500 -g2.5 -n "iSue4U - Litigation at Internet Speed"
When it's all put together, the meaning of each argument is:
-c-- generates concise plan
-f2500-- first year revenue of $2,500,000
-g2.5-- growth rate of 250 percent per year
-n "iSue4U . . ."-- product name is "iSue4U . . ."
plan.txt-- required name of the output file
At this point I've got a basic functional specification for the argument processing library. The next step is to define a specific interface for the application code to use the library.
Choosing the interface
You can handle the actual processing of command line arguments with a single call,
but the application first needs a way to define its particular parameters to the
library. These parameters can be of several different types (in the case of the
business plan generator example, they can be
float, and
java.lang.String). Each type may also have
some special requirements. For instance, it would be nice to let the
boolean parameters be defined as
false if the flag
character is present, rather than always
true if present. It would also
be useful to define a valid range for an
int value.
I'll handle these differing requirements by using a base class for all parameter definitions, subclassing it for each specific type of parameter. This approach lets the application supply the parameter definitions to the library as an array of instances of the base parameter definition class, while the actual definitions can use the specific subclass matching each parameter type. For the business plan generator example, this could take the form shown in Listing 2:
Listing 2. Parameter definitions for business plan generator
private static final ParameterDef[] PARM_DEFS = { new BoolDef('c', "m_isConcise"), new IntDef('f', "m_initialRevenue", 10, 10000), new FloatDef('g', "m_growthRate", 1.0, 100.0), new StringDef('n', "m_productDescription") }
With the allowed parameters defined in an array, the call from the application program to the argument processing code can be kept as simple as a single call to a static method. To allow for added arguments beyond those defined in the parameter array (either required values or variable length sets of values), I'll have the call return the actual number of arguments processed. This lets the application check for additional arguments and use them appropriately. The end result looks like Listing 3:
Listing 3. Using the library
public class PlanGen { private static final ParameterDef[] PARM_DEFS = { ... }; public static void main(String[] args) { // if no arguments are supplied, assume help is needed if (args.length > 0) { // process arguments directly to instance PlanGen inst = new PlanGen(); int next = ArgumentProcessor.processArgs (args, PARM_DEFS, inst); // next unused argument is output file name if (next >= args.length) { System.err.println("Missing required output file name"); System.exit(1); } File outf = new File(args[next++]); ... } else { System.out.println("\nUsage: java PlanGen " + "[-options] file\nOptions are:\n c concise plan\n" + "f first year revenue (K$)\n g growth rate\n" + "n product description"); } } }
The only part remaining is the handling of error reporting (such as an unknown
parameter flag character or a numeric value out of range). For this purpose I'll
ArgumentErrorException as an unchecked exception to be thrown if
one of these errors occurs. If this exception isn't caught, it will immediately kill
the application with an error message and stack trace dumped to the console. As an
alternative, you can catch this exception directly in your code and handle it some
other way (perhaps printing out the actual error message along with usage
information, for instance).
Implementing the library
For the library to use reflection as planned, it needs to look up the fields specified by the array of parameter definitions and then store the appropriate values to these fields from corresponding command line arguments. This task could be handled by just looking up the field information as needed for the actual command line arguments, but I've instead made a choice to separate the lookup from the usage. I'll find all the fields in advance, then just use the information that's already been found during processing of the arguments.
Finding all the fields in advance is a defensive programming step to eliminate one of
the potential problems with using reflection. If I only looked up the fields as
needed, it would be easy to break a parameter definition (for instance, by mistyping
the corresponding field name) without realizing that anything was wrong. There would
be no compile-time errors because the field names are passed as
Strings, and the program would even execute fine as long as no argument
matching the broken parameter definition was specified on the command line. This
type of masked error can easily result in shipping broken code.
Given that I want to look up the field information before actually processing the
arguments, Listing 4 shows a base class implementation for the parameter definitions
with a
bindToClass() method that handles the field lookup.
Listing 4. Base class for parameter definitions
public abstract class ParameterDef { protected char m_char; // argument flag character protected String m_name; // parameter field name protected Field m_field; // actual parameter field protected ParameterDef(char chr, String name) { m_char = chr; m_name = name; } public char getFlag() { return m_char; } protected void bindToClass(Class clas) { try { // handle the field look up and accessibility m_field = clas.getDeclaredField(m_name); m_field.setAccessible(true); } catch (NoSuchFieldException ex) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Field '" + m_name + "' not found in " + clas.getName()); } } public abstract void handle(ArgumentProcessor proc); }
The actual library implementation involves a few classes beyond what I've mentioned
in this article. I'm not going to go through the whole list here, since most are
irrelevant to the reflection aspect of the library. What I will mention is that I
chose to store the target object as a field of the
class and implement the actual setting of a parameter field within this class. This
approach gives a simple pattern for argument processing: the
ArgumentProcessor class scans the arguments to find parameter
flags, looks up the corresponding parameter definition for each flag (which will
always be a subclass of
ParameterDef), and calls the
handle() method of the definition. The
handle() method
in turn calls a
setValue() method of the
after interpreting the argument value. Listing 5 shows a partial version of the
ArgumentProcessor class, including the parameter binding calls in
the constructor and the
setValue() method:
Listing 5. Partial listing of main library class
public class ArgumentProcessor { private Object m_targetObject; // parameter value object private int m_currentIndex; // current argument position ... public ArgumentProcessor(ParameterDef[] parms, Object target) { // bind all parameters to target class for (int i = 0; i < parms.length; i++) { parms[i].bindToClass(target.getClass()); } // save target object for later use m_targetObject = target; } public void setValue(Object value, Field field) { try { // set parameter field value using reflection field.set(m_targetObject, value); } catch (IllegalAccessException ex) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Field " + field.getName() + " is not accessible in object of class " + m_targetObject.getClass().getName()); } } public void reportArgumentError(char flag, String text) { throw new ArgumentErrorException(text + " for argument '" + flag + "' in argument " + m_currentIndex); } public static int processArgs(String[] args, ParameterDef[] parms, Object target) { ArgumentProcessor inst = new ArgumentProcessor(parms, target); ... } }
Finally, Listing 6 shows a partial implementation of the parameter definition
subclass for
int parameter values. This includes an override of the
base class
bindToClass() method (from Listing 4)
that first calls the base class implementation and then checks that the field found
matches the expected type. The subclasses for other specific parameter types
String, and so on) are
very similar.
Listing 6. int parameter definition class
public class IntDef extends ParameterDef { private int m_min; // minimum allowed value private int m_max; // maximum allowed value public IntDef(char chr, String name, int min, int max) { super(chr, name); m_min = min; m_max = max; } protected void bindToClass(Class clas) { super.bindToClass(clas); Class type = m_field.getType(); if (type != Integer.class && type != Integer.TYPE) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Field '" + m_name + "'in " + clas.getName() + " is not of type int"); } } public void handle(ArgumentProcessor proc) { // set up for validating boolean minus = false; boolean digits = false; int value = 0; // convert number supplied in argument list to 'value' ... // make sure we have a valid value value = minus ? -value : value; if (!digits) { proc.reportArgumentError(m_char, "Missing value"); } else if (value < m_min || value > m_max) { proc.reportArgumentError(m_char, "Value out of range"); } else { proc.setValue(new Integer(value), m_field); } } }
Closing the library
In this article, I've run through the design of a library for processing command line arguments as an example of reflection in action. This library makes a good illustration of how to use reflection effectively -- it simplifies application code without sacrificing significant performance. How much performance is sacrificed? In some quick tests on my development system, a simple test program averaged about 40 milliseconds longer to run with argument processing using the full library, as compared to no argument processing at all. Most of that time represents the loading of the library classes and other classes used by the library code, so even for applications with many command line parameters defined and many argument values, it's unlikely to be much worse than this. For my command line applications, the additional 40 milliseconds isn't something I'm going to notice.
The full library code is available from the link in Resources. It includes several features I've left out of this article, including such niceties as hooks to easily generate a formatted list of parameter flags and descriptions to help supply usage instructions for an application. You're welcome to use the library in your own programs and extend it in any way you find useful.
Now that I've covered the basics of Java classes in Part 1, and the principles of the Java Reflection API in Part 2 and Part 3, the rest of this series is going to head off along the less-traveled path of bytecode manipulation. I'll start off easy in Part 4 with a look at the user-friendly Javassist library for working with binary classes. Do you want to try transforming methods, but are reluctant to start programming in bytecode? Javassist may be just the tool to suit your needs. Find out how next month.
- Download the full argument processing library (known as JArgp) from the Sourceforge project site.
- Extensive use of reflection can have harmful effects on framework performance. For a graphic example and some related discussions, see Dennis Sosnoski's XML data binding articles: "Data binding, Part 2: Performance" (developerWorks, January 2003) and "Data binding, Part 3: JiBX architecture" (developerWorks, April 2003).
- For an in-depth tutorial on using reflection, try Dale Green's The Reflection API trail in the Java Tutorial from Sun.
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