An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says “You’re all idiots”, and pours two beers.

— Randgruppenhumor cont’d

No! Ritchie caught me in this meme! Read more »

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Awww, so emo.

Why is everything so packed? Let me list all the items that needs to be done at the same time this Friday:

• Kent Ridge Hall Dinner and Dance (5.45pm)
• Intro to Nanoworld lecture (6pm)
• NUSSU AGM (everybody in NUSSU CBLC, which I am in, is “highly encouraged” to come) (6.30pm)
• Harmonica practice (7pm)
• Friday mass with ICy (which I’m also in) which will do all the work supporting the mass (about 5pm)
• (updated) Inter-faculty bash, which I am not really inclined to join – I gave away the ticket to someone already
• My mom is coming to Singapore! (at about 2pm though, can’t I just spend the whole day with my family? Duh…)

For Dinner and Dance (DnD) I have already paid a certain amount of money, so I’ll skip the others… It is also the first appointment that I made (excluding lecture)... That’s how life is…

It has been about a month living in NUS for me...

Life here is so much different from the past. There are so much CCAs (Co-Curricular Activities) and hall life needing attention that I barely have leisure time during weekdays. Add to the fact that we, fellow undergraduate students of NUS, are entitled a magnanimous task of STUDYING!

It is fun however. Really - I get to know a lot of people from extremely different backgrounds, I get to try a lot of new things, I get to know organic chemistry (hey that's not the plan >.<) ... I won't go through the details of FWOC, Flag, Rag, IBG etc because I am too lazy for that haha... I'm not really the type of person who writes everything concerning in his/her life (can see that in my previous posts).

But what made me so sad is the lack of free time. Part of this is my fault of not being able to manage time better, I know, but still... no matter how many CCAs there are in NUS, few things like making games (I want!) cannot be done in CCA scope.

I really do hope that my 4 years in Singapore will be enjoyable and most fascinating.

The real world has been pretty hectic lately so I was forced to postpone blogging, but hey, now I’m back! It feels good to have a leisure time again. Anyway, I got a new Toshiba laptop (the first one actually) – not really powerful but very much usable for work and fun. The purchase includes a Windows Vista Home Professional (or Premium? I don’t really bother reading it >.<) – an OS I’ve never tinkered with. Read more »

I have just watched this lecture from the local TV. The speakers were the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, and the Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (henceforth SBY).

SBY did not particularly said lots of things, he was mainly concerned about how technology can help Indonesia to face the current trend of globalization. There was really nothing much to know.

Mr. Gates then talked about the massive growth of IT technology with reference to the Moore's Law (which says that processor capabilities doubles every set amount of years). Then he advertised the current Microsoft research focus such as Microsoft Surface (if I am not mistaken, it enables mobile devices to talk to tables that they are over them and synchronize everything without intervention). Gates also previewed another Microsoft plaything on astronomy which looks very much like Google Earth but it is for the outer space, not for the Earth. Furthermore, he mentioned how IT boosts a lot of other sectors important to humans such as medicine. MIT OpenCourseWare were also given as an example of the profound effects of the internet (although the name was not mentioned explicitly). Read more »