Finally my exams are over! I would say that I’m a very happy man this semester – although my revisions started really late compared to my previous semester, I kind of loved every single moment of this semester. Be it hanging out with my usual heptameric gang (of 7 members) from my school, or with [...]
This is a really old post – in fact it was drafted almost one year ago and remained in limbo until I decided to post it today. I have to admit, I’m not particularly good with photo post processing – and looking at how others do it (namely Ember, Latrina and IngSiang) I got motivated [...]
Your letter isn’t very comforting. Dear Terry Thank you for your email. We are sorry to hear that you are unable to secure accommodation. Due to the big band of waiting list applicants with 14 points, not all will be offered a place. Only successful applicants will be notified. Much as we would like to [...]
My summer vacation has official started. All will end on the 30th of August, so I have around three and a half month’s time to do whatever I want. Of course, I will be picking up design jobs (and perhaps some writing as well, given that I write on a whim) along the way and [...]
I’m finally back. After spending many nights toiling away on my desk with a mountainous, endless, bottomless pile of lecture notes and clearing all my papers, I have finally earned the right to get my normal life back. I realize that there’s some degree of time dilation during the examination period – my exams started [...]
I grew up in Hwa Chong Institution – since I very luckily scrapped the bottom for a candidature slot for the Singapore Mathematics Olympiad and found myself in Chinese High School in 2001, I decided that I will spend many years of my future in Singapore. I ended up, again, very luckily snagging a slot [...]
Pronounced as \ˈsa-k(ə-)rən. It is used to describe something that resembles the taste of sweetness or something that is overly, sickeningly sweet. Of course, I steer clear from the latter definition and would very much prefer the former one. To celebrate the end of the first week of the semester and one of the few [...]