Category: Miscellaneous

Any other thing under the sun.

All Systems Go For Singapore Grand Prix

September 9, 2008September 9, 2008  |  Miscellaneous  |  The inaugural Singapore Grand Prix and the first Formula One night race is set to take place in less than 3 weeks. Here’s a preview of the night-time lighting of the race track. It’s awfully brightly lit, possibly ...

NUS Students Are Getting Stupid

September 3, 2008June 9, 2014  |  Miscellaneous  |  I’ve been wanting to say this for the longest time. Since receiving this mass email this morning, I thought it might as well be now. SOME NUS STUDENTS ARE REALLY VERY STUPID! Does it make sense to leave a notebook out there ...

My Cheque from Google Adsense

September 3, 2008September 3, 2008  |  Miscellaneous  |  Yeah, it’s my turn to show off my Google Adsense cheque. It’s a small little sum of money. It will be cool if it can grow to a tidy monthly income, but for now, it will suffice as some occasional pocket money to make ...

Comex 2008 Excursion Report

August 29, 2008August 30, 2008  |  Miscellaneous  |  This is the second day of Comex, and the first time in a long while since I’ve visited a computer fair of this sort. They are just too crowded for my liking. So today’s excursion to Comex was like discovery of a new ...

IT Security Carnival

August 20, 2008June 4, 2016  |  Miscellaneous  |  This week is IT Security Week at NUS, and so they have an IT Security Carnival held at the Forum. They have been running this for some years now, and I must commend the organizers for their excellent work all around. In my ...

Table Tennis vs National Day Rally

August 17, 2008June 4, 2016  |  Miscellaneous  |  Table tennis wins over the National Day Rally. The live telecast of Singapore’s National Day Rally is postponed to the next day, because the timing clashes with the live telecast of the finals of the Olympics women’s ...

Recruiting Student Network Engineers

August 14, 2008August 18, 2016  |  Miscellaneous  |  We’re starting to recruit student helpers again. They will help us with our network and data centre operations. This is like an internship, a program that we’ve run for one semester already. It is a really exciting ...

On The Second Week Of School

August 11, 2008August 14, 2008  |  Miscellaneous  |  This is the start of “Week 1”. It is the second week of school at NUS because the semester started with “Week 0”. Yes, how very much like computer people to start counting from zero. Week 1 is where ...

On The First Day Of School

August 4, 2008August 5, 2008  |  Miscellaneous  |  Today is the start of Week 0 of the new academic year at NUS. Week 0 means that it is still orientation, school has not yet started. Surprisingly, campus was not overflowing with people. In fact, I didn’t even find the ...

NUS Loses Olympics Village To NTU

August 2, 2008June 9, 2014  |  Miscellaneous  |  The inaugural Youth Olympics which will be held in Singapore in 2010 was supposed to site its main accommodations, the Youth Olympics Village, at the upcoming NUS University Town (also known as U-Town). However, the Singapore ...