Summer Vacation

It’s interesting how they call it the summer vacation, when it’s summer all year round in Singapore… But I digress…
Exams have finished and the vacation has begun. (for me, at least =P)
Was a pretty tough semester, with me totally not knowing what’s going on in ST2131 Probability and CS1231 Discrete Structure. At least I’ve already [...]

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Long time no see

Wow!
It has been almost 2 months since I last blogged here. The reason for this long hiatus (well… ‘long’ by internet standards) is that this semester has been quite assignment heavy, so I either don’t have the time or I don’t have to mood to write anything here.
It’s the end of reading week and I [...]

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Two down… Many more to go

Sort of finished two assignments for term break (gosh… amazing how time goes by so quickly), the XML-RPC one for my CS3103 and report 2 for my CS2103.
The XML-RPC assignment was the first serious coding for this semester… I coded a web service, a server and a client for that assignment. Sounds ‘chim’ right? Actually [...]

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On Holiday

re·cess
-noun
1.temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.
2.a period of such withdrawal.
from dictionary.com
Or so they say…
It’s now the Term Break, or Recess Week. By definition, it should be a period when one gets to relax a little and do some stuff that you are too busy to do during teaching weeks. But in [...]

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No pets and no students allowed

Saw this sign outside the level 1 pantry at COM1 today

This sign kinda reminds me of a scene in Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury.

And to think that we paid school fees for this…

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Timetable

Now with the balloting of tutorials over and tutorials starting this week, school is kicking into high gear. And for this semester, I have a total of 3 assignments out of 4 modules… I think my acne is gonna come back with a vengeance…
The image below is my timetable for this semester… A little screwed [...]

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Don’t Panic

Just bought my CS3235 “Introduction to Computer Security” textbook yesterday and slapped right across the area where the author’s name is usually located are the words “Don’t Panic!”

Hmm… So am I gonna see lots of “42″s in the text or do I have to bring my towel along for the lectures and tutorials?
And I think [...]

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News

Good news and bad news…
First the good news.
Whew… After worrying for a quite a while and craming like crazy for my exams, I managed to clear my current semester.
Bad news?
My CAP has dropped to quite low, thanks to Maths and Electrical Engineering… Not rock bottom yet, but at 3.06, I can’t even fit into a [...]

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Exam’s Over!

Finally, the exams are over. My first year in NUS has come to an end. Quite a busy semester, as compared to the last sem… With all the lab and assignment I had in this semester and also I’ve taken mainly core modules this sem… Well… I forsee that I’ll be getting busier as I [...]

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Going once, going twice…

Round one of the bidding exercise ended without much hiccup. It seems like once you get the hang of it and you have an idea on what modules you want to take, its simpler.
Anyway, these are the modules I’m taking this semester:

CS1102
Data Structures and Algorithms
CS1105
Computing and Society
CS2106
Operating Systems
EG1108
Electrical Engineering
MA1505
Mathematics I

One semester down, many more to [...]

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