So thats the end of books?

So basically yesterday some fellow course-mates presented with us with an ipad app called PDF reader. Its a very handy app that allows ipad user to read e-books and annotate them while supporting some itune features. Listening to music while reading e-book, who doesn't like that :D Though some friends mentioned that there are free versions of pdf reading applications hence that people might not want to pay 10 dollars just for some minimal extra features. I personally think its a very good app.

First of all I would say the name is very good, "PDF expert" straight away tells you what the app does. I personally had some experience about that. I used to use bitcommet for ptop downloading. After I switch to mac, I started using Vuze. Even though these 2 apps works exactly the same, I find using Vuze more painful that bitcommet. In the end , I think the reason is that, well Vuze with its blue frog icon, does not make me so certain that its function is to download stuff :D

K, that was just personal preference :D

Secondly, i think being able to connect to dropbox adds an immense amount of advantage to this app. It become a really great tool to catch up with project-related readings. Those readings usually do not require very indepth understanding, so can just happily read on bus and annotate those things you are not sure or stuff. Really really useful.

Another thing that caught my attention is that prof and Joshua was talking about things like books are going to get obsolete. I totally agree that part of the reason we buy this idea or not is related to our reading habit. Honestly I hate reading on my computer so , ya, i dun think books are going to disappear.

But there is a second part to the story. Digress a bit here, this reason is totally unrelated to how good the tools are that we use to read ebooks. But rather, books carries some value that other electronic devices do not.

Imagine you walk in some guys room, he has like 3 whole shelves of books. Ignore the factor of look :D what will you think about that guy? And imagine you walk in some guys room he has like 10 computers connected to each other, what would you think? Even if people do not read books anymore, it will not be the death of books :D Coz there will always be ppl buying Shakespeare act cute ma :D So I think books will be with us for a long time lah.

Thats about all I have to say abt PDF expert :D ty all :D

Catch no ball

Was having fever during Monday's lecture, ya... but because its Microsoft, I still went. Windows phone... hmm i dunno. Actually I dun quite like this kind of stuff, animated tile and things, make me feel uncomfortable. I would rather stick with old class phone :D I just need it to text and call. And yes i know smartphones are really convenient.... just dun like them.... I mean iphone is fine, but the flashy tile thing is just too much :D Windows phone will not be the big thing, they overdo things too much, trying too hard to be more cool than apple and android.

Anyway I still catch no ball about mobile cloud app thing.... The way i see it now is basically like a game but you can pull the high-score board from your server :D Anyway, dear groupmates will inspire me :D

Nowadays internet becomes so damn fast and brought us so many changes :D some are good, some are fking bad, like starcraft2 no longer supports local area network mode. haiz.

Anyway even though im sick, still cannot get any rest for the 3 days , coz need to code like crazy for the facebook app .... after that is seminar after that is assignment 2 , mid term, final project.... I mean com'on , assignment 1 due 1st September, assignment 2 start at 29th August... can i catch a fucking break?

Im definitely going to hang at some island nearby during the Sept holidays, no one can stop me. Done with the complains, get back to work.

Price tag

Here I am sitting in com lab doing random stuff waiting for project meeting. The past 6 days are like HELL, I have at least coded like 60 hours in total trying to figure out php js stuff. Its only yesterday I suddenly had an epiphany and YAY! start to figure things out :D

Anyway I have been thinking about Monday's lecture. I realize a lot of people are talking about stuff like making money these days. OK, maybe I misunderstood. But things like NOC, people only talk about working in start-ups, high-techs overseas, not much were said about having fun. Say for exp, if I were to go to Israel, I would certainly care less about who I will be working with. I will definitely be more interested in their attitude towards their religion , what normal people think of Palestinian things like that.

There are so many interesting things around. There is kinda like a dilemma. My friend and I were talking about it last night. College is like the last period of our life that we can have a "free" life. Should we spend more of our time building up an impressive resume so as to have a higher-start-up point upon graduation? or should we spend our time exploring our interests? It is really hard to choose. I mean, com'on, I always knew I will be doing computer science, and im really interested in it. However, I figured , I might be doing it for the rest of my life. But things like theater, drama ,philosophy, sociology, those are very hard to explore alone. My time in NUS is the best time for me to find some mentor in these areas. BTW I took a philosophy module in my first sem, it is really a lot of fun :D and pretty girls :D

Then I kinda thought of a song by Jessy , called price tag
seems everyone's got a price
i wonder how they sleep at night
When the sale comes first and the truth comes second
Just stop for a minute and smile

Are we focusing on too much about what we can get out of the things we do instead of the things we do themselves?

Things like CCA in Singapore.... really have to say SG is very fake in some ways (yea, generally its a cool place lah) . Why do students have to be really good in that thing already in order to join a CCA? Naturally people might not be good in things that they are interested in. Things like choir audition, guitar audition blah blah audition. Why cant a CCA have a lot of people who are actually passionate about what they are doing, instead of a bunch of people who just join in order to get enough CCA points for them to stay in campus accommodation? That is the reason I refuse to join CCA in NUS :D I kinda hate it when people do things like that.

I would fully attribute this kind of mentality of mine to the fact that... I have been living a life without having to worry about money :D lucky bitch I am .... scholarship a lot of money haha....

But anyway, after listening and reading stuff about how people make money, or build resume. I'm really fed up. This is not what I want :D I just want to work hard and make things that makes myself LOL. Filter keyword money / commercialize from now on :D

Wont lose my cool :D

I met Cedric in a maths calculus module last sem, he kinda told me all about how tiring CS3216 is. Like their team were doing project in Shears Hall and stayed through the whole night.

I dunno.... For me, that is hardly the stress of this module :D My group consists of 2 ESP guys, 1 chemistry guy and me.... I'm only a year 2 student, not only that, i made a terrible mistake! I really thought CS3216 is about IOS! Then i went self-studying IOS during the holidays ZZZzzz.... Now I have to pick up things from scratch. It is really really hard. I really think that, if this is an individual project, I would not care that much. But my teammates are really brilliant people, I certainly do not want to be the one that drag others down :D

That being said, I will be doing my best. No matter what the outcome might be, must have no regrets. Also must pay attention to my health stuff :D wake up early , eat a fruit then go to gym. Take a bath and go to class, followed by codecodecodecode.

That kindda reminds me of a song by Eminem " lose yourself "(who doesnt love the slim shady)

I certainly would not think awesome chance to work with great people "comes only once in my lifetime" :D still, lets lose ourselves in it.....

Get back to work !

CS3216 means this to me

So.... what do i expect to learn in CS3216 hmmm....

Ok well, it might be a little awkward to say that throughout my learning journey, I have never pictured myself to be the best in something. And I don't really wanna be the best. When i was little I thought I was just lazy. Later on I realized that :D I am the kind of person who does not believe in things like "sacrificing a little pleasure now in exchange for greater pleasure in the future". Ya.... nice excuse :D Anyway, it takes tremendous amount of effort to be the best in something. I always though, well, as a student, I do not have to push myself that hard, i deserve to enjoy life. So what I always do is that, i take the opportunity to know about those real awesome people, and figure out where I am lacking, then work towards them a little. Just to make sure I'm hanging fine.

I would say that is what I hope to achieve taking CS3216.

Of course if you ask every single student who has taken this module so far, they would say it is a great chance to learn about building a project, to learn about coding stuff. And it definitely is. Still, I kinda feel that :D there is really no rush to learn about teamworks and things, part of the reason is that, I always felt this kind of things come in natural. I'm an outgoing person, I don't really worry about that. Another part of the reason is that, anyway we will be taking internship and things soon, that would be a even better opportunity to learn about this kind of things.

The more important thing is, as a year 2 student, after one year of staying in SOC, I have some idea about where i am, or how good/bad i am. CS3216 is a really attractive module, there will be a lot of real awesome people joining it, it is a great opportunity to help me to place myself more accurately. And to figure out my strength and weakness.

That being said, I have a plan for myself in NUS :D First year to get all the fundamentals solid, second year to challenge myself and know where I am in NUS or to say in Singapore, third year is the year of internship and hopefully going to North America to see what people are doing over there besides drinking beer :D haha. 4th year hmm... Lets see how the first 3 years go.

Guess that is all I have to say about what i hope to achieve in CS3216