When Silence Is No Longer Golden

In merely a couple of days or so, another year is going to end soon. This would be the second time I am spending my new year overseas; the first one being the first year I was in Singapore - 2008. Damn I still remember how it was... We were playing some group game in the hostel and the game ended with a countdown to 2009. That was friggin 7 years ago. Damn, how time flies! And now I am most probably going to spend it playing another group game or singing at a KTV with a bunch of people from that Buddhist society. In case you guys are wondering why I don't go to some other place to watch fireworks, because I heard there is no fireworks during new year in China. (Say whaat?) I just realized (before writing this post) that this blog, despite already spending 2 new years, only contains one "obligatory new year post". I am not sure what happened to me during that year (or rather, this year!), but from reading the last post before the new year , apparently I was occupied w...

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...