When Silence Is No Longer Golden

Hi readers! It is the end of the year, and I believe most people would be preparing their new year's resolution right around this time. I, on the other hand, have another thing occupying my mind. I have just returned from a 6-days meditation camp at Puncak, and that trip, despite its shortcomings, was nothing less than insightful for me. I understand that I (again) have abandoned this blog for almost 3 months now (last post was on October, I was surprised myself) and I would not do justice if I do not attempt to bring you readers up to speed as of what I have been doing and stuff, but I was doing exactly just that in another blogpost draft and I can't seem to finish what I intended to write in the first place. So now I shall start straight away with what I needed to write down first, and perhaps, close it with some personal updates. The camp was organized by the Vihara I often go to whenever I am in my home country. The camp itself was held between 22-27 December, targeted

Hi readers. Another random post after a very long hiatus (1 month plus!). I don't think I would bother to apologize this time, since it has already become the norm that I am only posting once in a while. I am writing this because I cannot sleep. Inability to sleep is bad because some random thoughts may surface, which can make you unable to sleep even more. This is just happen to be that night. I wonder when was the last time I am thinking about girls. I mean, not that I am turning gay or something, but I am getting used to my lack of interaction with the opposite gender. I would not think too much about it most of the time, but at times like this, when your mind just wanders around aimlessly, sometimes you just realize that it has been a while since the last time I looked at a girl and felt like asking for her number. It kind of hurts because you know that such lack of interest may lead to some other random thoughts where you are older now but you are still single, when most,

Hi readers. Seems like once again, it's been almost a month since my last post. Doesn't matter, since the readership has been falling quite significantly anyway (which may be caused by my low frequency in updating the blog). Anyway, I am currently in need of someone (or in this case, something) that can just listen, not react, just listen, to what I have to say. It is nothing personal, really. It is just the semester ahead looks like going to be eventful, but at the cost of my sleeping time. I shall elaborate why in the subsequent paragraphs. Firstly, it is the modules I am taking this semester. I am taking a Software Engineering (SE) module, which is coupled with another module called Effective Communication for Computing Professionals. Other than that, I am taking a module which is supposedly taken by Year 3 students: Algorithm Design and Analysis. Moreover, I am taking a language module too, Chinese! And not those basic bpmf Chinese, but I jumped to Chinese 3! I guess t

Holy mother of cow!! I am so sorry for abandoning this blog (again) for like the entire summer! I did not know that maintaining a blog is not as easy as it seems. Anyway, just to ensure that we are on the same page, I re-read the last couple of posts I posted in the blog (which made me realize that I have not posted anything for the whole duration of the summer!). So, just to give a closure to the questions on the previous posts, I ended up working in Indonesia, but not in Surya University, but Universitas Siswa Bangsa Internasional (USBI here onwards) instead. It is actually the same professor, but he told me that the vacancies in Surya has already been filled in so he will accommodate us there, where he is the dean of one of the faculties there! The pay was really low, though... So I was there more for the experience than the money. Unfortunately, there was a turn of event that made the professor the acting RECTOR! Obviously, being an acting rector, dean, and supervisor for us at t

Hi readers (if any)! To make up for the big gaps in between my last few posts, I am currently trying to post more often! (No, actually I am writing this now because I cannot sleep because the weather is freaking HOT!) Reason for this post aside, I do have some things in mind that I would like to share to the readers (again, if any) and of course, myself. (Sharing thoughts to yourself? Just what the hell does that even mean?) So yeah, it is Saturday night. Just watched Spiderman 2, it was pretty cool and all. But that is not the point of my post tonight (then why bother writing it?) I have been missing Sunday service (I am a Buddhist by the way) for the last couple of.... months, I guess? Anyway, it feels really odd not to attend Sunday service for this long. I guess that is what an old habit does to you when you grow up. (I have always been going to Sunday service every Sunday when I was little). Again, it is not the point of the post. I suddenly remembered, for no reason, a t

Hi readers!! I am so sorry for abandoning this blog for almost the whole semester! I usually try to make time to update this blog on the weekends, but quite a number of my weekends was spent doing "voluntary" work for my country's embassy. Well, I said "voluntary" (as in with apostrophes) because I am getting paid for it, but anyway, it spanned for about 3-4 weeks if I am not mistaken, though they can actually really just use 1 or two weeks at most to train us the volunteers. I should have expected this inefficiency, since it is my country's government we are talking about. Actually I don't really know what to say now that I have the time to post something on this blog. I guess I will just fill you in with what I am up to for the summer, while thinking about more stuff to write, which would be more appropriate for a post after a really, really long hiatus like this one. *sigh* so, plan for the summer. To be completely honest with everybody here,

Hi readers. This is going to be just a quick post, since I am posting this in the morning before my class started. Firstly, I am sorry that the migration took much longer than expected (have not even completely finished yet, but I guess it is already pretty usable, so let's just call it... soft-opening? Open beta?) As you can see, the template of this blog is still not the same as the previous one on the previous URL. I planned to change it so that it is the same as the one before, but I am getting very busy these last few weeks I do not even have the chance to work on my personal projects ='( On a side note, I would like to share with you (or maybe just to my future self, in case there is no reader to read this post) my plans regarding my other blog (which supposedly filled with my portfolio). I planned to upload the things I learned from NUS to that blog (as in the (not-so) short summary of the things I have learned) that is related to the field of computing. It is m

Hi readers! Has it been a while since the last time I posted (as usual)? I can't even remember when the last time I posted something here, and what it was about. Regardless, and maybe to your disappointment, this post is not about my life or anything related to that. This post is just to inform regular readers out there (if any) that I am going to change the URL to this blog sometime soon. I can't quite disclose the reason without sacrificing much of my identity, but I guess it will not make much difference in the long run so here goes: the current URL is too similar to my nickname in other internet communities, making other people can easily bump into this page either accidentally or purposefully to stalk me (or maybe some HR guy doing some background research on the prospective employee). As I may have mentioned earlier, I meant for this blog to be read by people who don't actually know me, or by people who I have given my permission to read (though if you happen to know

Hi readers!! It is such a fine evening and yet here I am in my room writing a blog post to readers that I do not even know exist!! How noble I am for prioritizing you guys over my girlfriend on this Valentine's evening! Okay enough of the bullshit... Yes, I am still single that's why I am here instead of out there having dinner with my significant other. To be honest, after a few years not having any feeling for girls feels okay to me. At least I am not depressed on this Single Depression Day. In fact, I could not be happier. I can have all the time for myself to do whatever I like. And now, although I feel like playing DOTA 2 (yes, I am playing DOTA 2! If you guys up to for a game or two, contact me using the Contact Form on the right!), I feel that I should write to you readers to show my love (awww) on this lovely day. Actually, it is more because I have indirectly promised my friend to update this blog at least once every two weeks and I have already broken my promise on th

Just feel like sharing this with you readers. It is really a good read. It really is. I wish I could write some reflection about myself based on the article, but I do not have the time as of now. Maybe tonight or some other days (which most likely translates to never =/ ) This article is about how we judge others and ourselves. There are so much truth in this it may hurt some of you, but you are in no position to retaliate because he was right. How we judge others is how we judge ourselves (that's the title of the article). Have a good read and have a good week ahead! (Maybe not, since it is the first week of school for some of us haha)

Hi readers!! First and foremost, I would like to say... Happy new year 2014!!! Best wishes to all of you, readers and passer-bys alike!! Let us go straight to the main point why I am writing this post. Like everyone else in the world, there is some sort of obligation to make something once every year, especially in this time of the year. That's right, the new year's resolution!! Some people think that new year resolutions are merely bullshit said during new year which would be forgotten sooner or later. That is their problem for not committing to their own resolutions. For me, I wrote my new year resolution in my phone so that I can refer to it anytime I need. Of course, those pessimists are partially true; I did not fulfil many of my last year's resolution. But at least I did fulfil a few, and it might not be possible if I did not keep track of them every now and then. Pessimists all over the world, around this time of year Before I reveal to you all my resolution for this