When Silence Is No Longer Golden

Hi readers! I finally have some free-ish time, and I've been planning to write a mid-year reflection (and probably birthday reflection too). However, I'm not really in the mood to write right now, and from past experiences, forcing myself to write when I'm not in the mood either resulted in sub-par posts, or just ended up as draft permanently. So, I decided to look through my old drafts and try to publish them even though they are not really in the best shape to be seen by public. This might be annoying to some readers who wish for continuity in my posts but unfortunately, I can't find a way to edit the date of a post, so you really just have to live with it. (Actually I didn't even try and too lazy to do that so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) ====================== Sometime in September/October 2013, based on the link embedded in the story. ====================== Hi readers!! Finally I am able to make time to write another post here. Just for the sake of records, you know. Y...

Hi readers! (...tumbleweed...) It's almost the end of the year (not really, still 2 months away, but pretty close) and I realized that I have only posted for like 6 times this year!! Damn.. That's like less than once a month.. What happened to the promise to my friend that I am going to post at least once a month/week? (I can't even remember the promise anymore, nor can I find the post where I mentioned this... Can anyone of you readers help me find it lol) Anyway...

Hi readers! Another very long hiatus, uh? Sorry about that, I am trying to make myself more active in the various activities I participated in. I would have thought I have not blogged for the whole semester if I did not actually check my last post (well, at least it was not THAT bad!). That article must have hit home so hard that I was compelled to post it right then. Anyway, just to keep you all readers (if any) updated, I got an internal offer from NUS for an exchange to Tsinghua University, China , is currently interning (though it feels more like 'working') at Optimai for the summer. Do I miss anything? Those are the important ones anyway. So why do I decide to update this blog now? Well... I have wanted to update my blog since forever, but I just haven't got the time to do so yet. I guess my effort to make myself more active is quite successful, then? Haha. Actually, it was partly because I am currently hosting (more like squatting) a friend in my room for the summe...

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...

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!! 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...

Hi readers! I do not even remember when was the last time I wrote here... Has it been more than one week? University life is indeed very hectic, extremely so such that I lose track of time. Suddenly this coming week is recess week (or in Singapore, is actually "mid-term preparation week") and mid-term exam will follow thereafter. If I am really that busy, why do I even bother to write now, anyway? Well... Because I love you my readers!! <3<3 .......... Nah.... Are there even readers? Is there any reader at all actually? Lol..... Anyway the real reason I write now is because I am waiting for the big data migration, just as what the title says. Well, remember I bought a new laptop last week? (Or was it 2 weeks ago? I seriously lost the track of time!) Yeah, so finally I am able to spend some time looking through my old files and decide which will stay, which will go over to the next laptop, and which will be deleted. It is pretty similar to tidying up your room; you will ...

Hey readers!! Finally, a more high-spirited post from me! Before I start proper, let me apologize to you readers (if there are any) that my last few posts have been really.... depressing. There were not much to be hyped about in my life thus far, really. Even now, actually my life has not gotten much better. This week (or should I say last week since today is already weekend) is e-learning week. For readers who have not entered university yet would say, "Yay! E-learning! Extra holiday, you mean?" While those who are currently in or have graduated from university (especially Singapore university) would say "I know how it feels, broooo." Yeah, e-learning is not so much fun anymore now that I am in university. E-learning week for me now has turned into "catching-up-with-studies week".  The pace of the lectures is crazy. It is not possible to get a good command on a certain concept before piles of new concepts are bombarded onto you the very next lecture. Thus...

Hi everyone! This time, it is really quite a long hiatus since the last time I posted here. Indeed university life is very different from the relaxed life of the 6-month holiday I just went through (you don't say!), even JC! Some of you may have heard the saying that if you can go through JC, you can go through anything in life. WRONG. I would say that the more correct saying is that JC is the preview of what real life (or rather, university life, since I haven't gone to work yet) would be like. Things come and go really quickly and without you realizing it, you missed out on a lot of things even when it is only week 3 of your university life! Anyway, I am posting now not to compare JC and university. Okay so the reason I am posting now is just to create a checkpoint in my university life so far, so that the future me can have a reference of his past, for whatever reason he may have. So far, things have been pretty okay. I took a hardcore "introduction to programming"...

Hey readers!! Firstly, I would like to apologize for, once again, not keeping my promise of writing about my third interview, which was with Ecquaria. I initially wanted to, really. However, there is a really good news that I just do not want to miss a single day to tell the world. Three guesses.. never mind. I am offered the NUS ASEAN Scholarship!!!! =) Don't ask me how I got it. You saw for yourself how I screwed up that interview , really badly. Nevertheless, an offer is an offer, so let us (anyone?) rejoice for my success!!! Actually, now I feel obliged to go back to the temple I mentioned on that post as well, just to show my thanks, if my success is really due to some kind of divine intervention. I need to remind myself to go there if I go back to Singapore. By the way, I would like to apologize for my last post because as it gets increasingly difficult to read as you read more of it. That is because I did it at night (well, all of my post was written at night) and I was rea...

Hi, readers. It is quite a joy to see that my blog has reached more than 200 pageviews while I was away doing... many stuff. Perhaps, even from the first sentence, you would have noticed my... less enthusiastic tone  compared to my previous posts. Well, you guessed it, it's because of my second of the series of interview I am going to have this year did not go well.  Perhaps you are wondering, what is the big deal? You said you screwed up your SUTD interview and yet you were still offered a place there, why this time would be any different? Well, I do not know if I have told you guys this (too lazy to check on the post itself, sorry), but SUTD interview was for both admission and scholarship. While I was offered a place in SUTD, I was not offered any scholarship with the admission offer. You could say that I am satisfactory for admission, but not for scholarship. Even worse, it is possible that I am actually not satisfactory, but it is just that SUTD needs students really, rea...

Hi readers!! It's been quite a while since the last time I post, which was last week! First and foremost, before I start writing about the above-mentioned admission letter, I would like to tell you that, yeah, I am aware that there is actually no "real reader" or "follower" in my blog (so far) after all. It turns out that most of the traffic comes from some advertising company (I do not know why they would want to visit my humble blog) and those people googling the keyword "sutd interview" and accidentally stumbled upon my post about my, well, SUTD interview  (duh). Just for your information, that post is on the bottom of the second result page for that query!! Ha!! Beat that!! (Proud of myself) Anyway, that is the reason why people may stumble upon my blog, read my sub-standard description of the interview, and leave immediately (at least that is what I imagined actually happened). Strangely enough, that post was visited even when (I thought) the roun...