3 Idiots

终于毕业了。。。

十九年的读书生涯，我们究竟得到了什么，又放弃了什么呢？

 

第一个傻瓜：

小时候，总是嚷着妈妈“几时才能上学啊？”

天真的孩子，多么盼望可以上学，可以买新书，新书包。

当时无知的小孩，又怎会想到，“上学”，将会用尽他一生精华的年华？

成为学生后才发现，其实“上学”并不是天天玩耍， 而是学书法，文法，加法，减法。

是不是学不会就是傻瓜呢？

其实，不管傻不傻瓜，时间还是一样追杀。

日子还是一样照过，傻瓜只能向前走啊。



第二个傻瓜：

努力认真的傻瓜，放弃了恋爱，暑假，漫画，篮球，吉他，坚信大人们所说的那“在未来等着他的爱情”。

一直到凤凰花开，大家纷纷毕业的那时，他缺席了一段再也回不去了的时光。。。

世界如果平的，为何人们都要往上爬？

活着不是赢家，就是输家，你敢输掉吗？



第三个傻瓜：

学了这么多，到头来有什么足以形容这样的残缺，这样的悲伤？

十九年后换来五张证书（幼稚园，小学，中学，高中，大学）和半片天涯，终于发现我是第一第二第三个傻瓜。

这故事，熟悉吗，走过吗，无奈吗，心痛吗？

不管你是傻瓜也好，天才也罢，到最后还不是都变成白发，变成老花，剩下三个悲伤傻瓜？

还是把一切寄托给音乐吧！

The Best Of 4 Years

4 Years，over 200 posts.

@_@

Ahh... "Officially" graduating soon.

时光飞逝啊。。。
 

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1. The Discrete Love Poem


2. The Discrete Love Prove


I can't believe I'm saying this, but this is probably the most interesting core module in my course. #_#


3. Memorable Quotes of the Semester


Don't even remember some of them now... :(


4. Mahjong Sunset 


A game I picked up during university.


5. Song Status I


6. Song Status II


Every single song status I've posted, on FB, on MSN, about University life.


7. Exams Are Here!


A post I make every semester, and one that I hate to make. Honestly, I don't remember anything from that list now. #_#


8. Dragon's Successor


I hate his brutality.

I really do.



 


(1:08)

古老的南大有一个人，他的名字就叫报仁


古老的南大有一群人，他们全都是被打的人


报仁拳头下我成长，长成以后是南大学生


黑眼睛黑头发黄皮肤，永永远远是被打的人

Dedicated To My FYP Supervisor

This post is dedicated to my FYP Supervisor.

Being able to work on this project is the best thing that happened to me in my university academic life.

It is, to the best of my knowledge, one of the most "fulfilling yet and un-troubling" project.

I am truly undeserving of what you've given me.

Thank you so much.

I will definitely direct all future juniors choosing their FYP here.

Projects here have my *official seal of approval*.

First Paper, Last Paper

30 months ago... I sat for my first paper in NTU... and it was a nightmare...

30 months later... I sat for my final paper in NTU... and probably the last of my academic life...

And I got pwned again...

=.=

The Final Battle

Finally, in a few weeks time, everything will be over.

Conquered 18 years of the Singapore Education System.

The final battle.

"Sons of Singapore! Of NTU! My Brothers!!!"

I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! 

A day may come when the courage of man fails, when we forsake our studies and break all bonds of fellowship. 

But it is not this day. 

An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the exams comes crashing down! 

But it is not this day!

This day we fight!!!

 

By all that you hold dear on your audit, I bid you stand - Men, of the West!!!

The Final Game - Red Rider

This is it guys.

My last, and final game project...

My 告别作...

...At least, for anytime in the foreseeable future...

Finally!!!

On 28th March 2011, 2:30am...

I have finally completed my FYP report!!!

As I clicked the print button...

I'm overwhelmed with emotions.

I really want to cry now.


REALLY. 

This must be one of the greatest moment of my University life!!!

Chasing A Dying Dream

There was a time when my greatest dream was to enter the game industry.

When I graduated from SP, I really thought I could do that.

That I could do something that I really love in my life.

Something that I enjoy since I was 4 years old.

I dream that one day, I can make games as inspiring and addictive as the greatest game designers of our time - Will Wright, Shigeru Miyamoto, Peter Molyneux and Sid Meiers...

I dream that one day, I'll be able to create an RPG franchise that would surpass Final Fantasy.

A city builder that will be greater than Sim City,

An adventure game even more epic than Zelda!

 

...

Then again, dreams are dreams. 

The 2 years of NS have eroded that dream.

And 3 years of university have killed it.

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I remember a time when I LOVE programming. 

I remember a time when I was given an assignment, I would do way beyond what was required, just because I enjoyed it.

I remember a time when projects were fun.

Now, everything, I just want to "get it over" and done with.

I don't know why I'm here anymore

I don't know what happened.

Where did the passion go?

Maybe it's because I've come to the realization that I don't really have sufficient ability.

I don't have to ability to do all these.

Seeing the logs and cos make my head spin.

The word "trigonometry" makes me cringe in fear.

Weird greek symbols makes me shiver and tremble.

Interest and passion can only take you so far.

And now, the time has come for me to make a decision.

One that will decide what I will be doing for my last 6 months as a student.

And, perhaps what I'll be doing for the next 5 years, or 10 years of my life.

Do I really want to continue doing this?

Maybe it's time I try something different.

Maybe I should try experiencing a new environment.

And maybe I'll have a better idea what I want in the end.

Time to wake up?

你说你选了不该选的Course, 你的心中满是伤痕
你说你犯了不该犯的错, 心中满是悔恨
你说你尝尽了读书的苦, 找不到可以Pass的可能
你说你感到万分沮丧, 甚至开始怀疑人生

早知道伤心总是难免的, 你又何苦一往情深
因为一切总是难舍难分, 何必在意那一点点温存
要知道伤心总是难免的, 在每一个梦醒时分
有些事情你现在不必问, 有些人你永远不必等

Write But Don't Send

Write But Don't Publish

Shanghai!

My 2 weeks!!!


I GOT IT!!!


WOOHOOO~~~!

Finally, Some Coding...

We have Imperative Programming, Functional Programming, Logic Programming...

...

And of course my favourite Object Oriented Programming (OOP).

...

But have you heard of Agent Oriented Programming?


Objects are essentially passive in nature. They have no choice as to whether or not they interact, and are simply invoked by other objects to perform particular tasks or functionality.

By contrast, agents have the ability to decide for themselves whether to participate in computational activity, and whether to perform the desired operation.

[http://java.sys-con.com/node/36191]

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Suddenly, we are intentionally designing programs that might disobey our orders.

What is this world coming to? =.=



Yes, "objects" are supposed to have feelings. They can choose to lie or be truthful, to promise or decline. They start to have beliefs, values, commitments and choices.

Yep.

Using my Degree in Psychology, I'm gonna try to inject a little bit of "humanity" into these guys.

...

I Wanna Get Out Of Here!

Even for just a while.






Even for just 2 weeks.

Am I Taking A Course In Psychology?

Sometimes I feel that I'm doing a psychology major.

Yeah.

I've switched course.

I've quit Computing.

...

...

Constantly reading papers after papers about all those dumb psychology models and theories...

How it affecting human behavior, the process of human thoughts, cognitive reasoning, how people accept/reject ideas, how to do effective persuasion... the list goes on.


...


"Companies use persuasion in the form of advertising to convince consumers to buy their products or services. Students use persuasion to convince their parents to increase their allowance, or let them go to see a particular movie, or to let them use the car. Parents can use persuasion to get their children to study or to clean up their rooms. People use persuasion to get their friends to go to see a certain movie, or a band, or to hang out at the mall. Persuasion can convince another person to go out on a date. It can convince a teacher to accept a paper after the due date."



"Of course, people can also use threats to get what they want, but that is not persuasion. In persuasion, we try to convince the audience that they should want to do what we want them to do--not that they should do it “or else.”"



"The next wave in Web site design is persuasive design, designing for persuasion, emotion, and trust. While usability is still a fundamental requirement for effective Web site design, it is no longer enough.” "



"We are fundamentally lazy. As a result, products that require people to learn new things routinely fail. Instead, to increase a user’s ability, designers of persuasive experiences must make the behavior easier to do. In other words, persuasive design relies heavily on the power of simplicity."



"Consider, for example, how Facebook motivates new users to upload profile pictures. This feature of Facebook, like many other features, has persuaded millions of people to take action. That means millions of people have all had sufficient motivation and ability, and then Facebook has triggered these people to perform this behavior. This type of analysis could be the basis for a longer paper..."

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As you can see, everything is a load of BS.




And now I have to write some stupid paper on this.





The last thing I saw before my sleep is the Word Document file.
The first thing I saw after my sleep is still the Word Document file.

How can I see life?!?!

Memorable Quotes Of The Semester II

You can view the one for the last semester here (see if you still can remember who say them)

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Disclaimer: To protect the interests of all parties involved, all quotes will remain anonymous.

"Engineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeers..."

"Jumping into the code is like jumping into the sea."

"Can I trust you all to go through this one your own?"

"Say Yes."


"Is this important?"

"Is the next lecture important?"

"I repeat, is the next lecture very important?"


"Mei Gui Hua Xiang!"

4th Time: Exams Are Here!!!

For the 4th Time! ... Exams! EXAMS!!! EXAMS!!!!!!! EXAMS!!!!!!! EXAMS AHHHHH!!!!!!!! Get The Table!!!!!!!!
Software Crisis & Engineering, Monolithic Programming, Modular Programming, Object Oriented Programming, Agent Programming, Fix Defect Impact, Software Development Components, Software Development 36 Classic Mistakes (People, Process, Product, Technology), Project Management Lifecycle, Development Life Cycle, Waterfall Model, Rapid Prototyping, Incremental Model, Iterative Model, Spiral Model, Software Estimation, Function Point Analysis (FP), Software Project Management / Scheduling, Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Critical Path Method (CPM), Gantt Chart, Program Evaluation & Review Technique (PERT), Personal Software Process (PSP), JUnit, Decomposibility, Reusability, Understandability, Continuity, Protection, Direct Mapping, Few Interfaces, Small Interfaces, Explicit Interfaces, Information Hiding, Object Constrain Language (OCL), Unit Test, Integration Test, System Test, White Box / Black Box Test, Finite State Machine Testing, Big Bang, Top Down, Bottom Up, Sandwich, Use Case Driven, Quality Management, Reviews & Audits, Config Management, Change Management, Release Management, Software Maintainence, System Re-engineering, Reverse-Engineering, Oaktree Odyssey
Computer Networks, Applications of Networks, Broadcast Networks, Point-to-Point Networks, Local Area Networks, Packet Switching (Store & Forward), Connection-Oriented & Connectionless Service, Quality of Service (Reliability), TCP/IP Model, OSI Reference Model, Session Layer, Application Layer, Physical Layer, Data Link Layer, Propogation Delay, Error Control, Framing, Simplex, Full Duplex, Sliding Window Protocol, Piggybacking, Go Back N Recovery, Selective Repeat Recovery, Medium Access Control Layer, ALOHA, Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA), Collision Free Protocols, Ethernet, Hierarchical Routing, Mobile Host Routing, Ad Hoc Routing, Conjestion Control, Flow Control, Open Loop Solution,  Network Layer, Routing, Conjestion Control, Inter- Networking, Datagrams, Virtual Circuits, Packet Routing, Round Trip Time	Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Agents, Percepts, Actions, Goals, Environment, Reflex Agent, Goal Based Agent, Utility Based Agent, Accessible, Deterministic, Static, Discrete, Episodic, Uniform Cost Search, Depth-Limited Search, Iterative Deepening Search, Greedy Search, A Star Search, Monotonic Heuristics, Admissible Heuristics, Constraint Satisfcation Problem, Minimax Tree, Alpha Beta Pruning, Knowledge-Based Agents, Propositional Logic, Entailment, First Order Logic, Universal Quantifier, Existantial Unifier, Inference, Generalized Modus Ponens, Unification,	Shortest Path Routing, Distance Vector Routing, Link State Routing, Closed Loop Solution, Admission Control, Reservation, Warning Bit, Choke Packets, Load Shedding, Jitter Control, Traffic Shaping, Leaky Bucket/Leaky Token Algorithm, Transport Layer, Connection Release, Connection Establishment, 3 Way Handhsake Protocol, Two Army Problem, Dynamic Buffer Management, User Data Protocol, Transmission Control Protocol, Silly Window Syndrome, Sender Nagle's Algorithm, Receiver Clark's Solution, Slow Start Algorithm, HTML, XHTML, Javascript, Perl, CGI, CSS, Engineering Ethics Professionals, Code of Conduct, Engineering Ethics, Multiracialism, Education & Elitisim, National Identitty, Social Cohesiveness, Public Housing, Principles of Governence, Pragmatism, Meritocracy, Water, Competitiveness, Key Focus Areas
	Unit Resolution, Disjunctive Resolution, Implicative Resolution, Universal Elimination, Existential Elimination, Existential Introduction, Forward & Backward Chaining, Variable Substitution, Production Systems, Conjunctive Normal Form, Refutation, Logical Reasoning Systems, Semantic Networks, Truth Maintenance System, Conceptual Graph, Fuzzy Knowledge Representation, Bayes Theorem, Apriori Probability, Conditional Probability, Joint Probability, Posterior Probability, Model Evaluation, Confusion Matrices, ROC Curve
在水一方，水调歌头，年轻人的心声，我们这一班，我家在那里，橄榄树，龙的传人，新加坡派，现象七十二变， 梯田，两岸， 北京一夜，遇见，叶子， 各站停靠，说谎，洋葱，牵手，分手快乐，他不爱我，雪人，月亮代表我的心，当时的月亮，月亮代表谁的心，琼瑶，苏轼，叶佳修，吴庆康，刘家昌，三毛，侯德健，梁文福，罗大佑，周杰伦，黄舒骏，陈升，易家杨，陈晓娟，胡海泉，吴青峰，施人诚，阿信，李子恒，姚若龙，杨立德，许常德，孙仪，林夕，陶吉吉，诗词关系，青春话语，自然意象，族群认同，社会批判，历史观照，孤寂情境，人生哲理，失恋心事，离合态度，叙述艺术，互文策略，叠字，类字，押韵，顶针，谐音，近似词，矛盾词，设问，回文，倒装，挪用，拟人，转品，通感，明喻，暗喻，赋比兴，主体，喻体，喻词，叙述者

FYP or IA?

I'm at yet another crossroad in my life...

ZZZ

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FYP First

1) Please take note that each FYP spans 2 semesters and the vacation break in between. You are expected to work full time on the FYP during the vacation, especially when the progress of your FYP is deemed to be slow or unsatisfactory. For students starting FYPs in August, you are advised (though not mandatory) to start working on your FYP right from July since the December break between the 2 semesters is very short.  This could be an important factor of your FYP grade, or even a pass or fail situation for some.


2) I seriously have no idea what to pick out of the hundreds of FYPs available. I couldn't even pick 3, let alone 15.


3) No idea in mind what to take for Year 4 Modules... -.- 

* To be fair, it's not like Point 2 or 3 will be solved if I take IA first.



IA First

1) If I pick IA first, I'll be "all alone" during the last semester... :(


2) Registration starts AFTER FYP registration ends. So it's a very big unknown also. Can't even see the list of companies.


3) Cultivate interest by doing IA first?

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ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

FED UP!

烦啊！！！

最近比较烦, 比较烦, 比较烦
总觉得读的东西是越来越难
我想我还是不习惯
从每天放假再回到课堂

最近比较烦, 比较烦, 比较烦
总觉得A+一个比一个难赚
老师常常有意无意刁难
我想我很快就会上，头版

最近比较烦, 比较烦, 比较烦
我看那前方怎么也看不到岸
那个后面还有一班天才追赶, 哎呦
选ＦＹＰ还是做ＩＡ，是左右为难

(Wah this is a very good & easy song to "Kuso"...)

Alpha Game

Rules

Let's play a game. In this game, there are several wallets in front of you. Each wallet contains bills of differing values. You have to pick one wallet to hand to your enemy. Your enemy, in turn, has to pick one of that wallet's bills to hand back to you.

Strategy

Your enemy will always hand you the smallest bill that she can, so you should hand her the wallet with the largest smallest bill. In fact, to you, each wallet is worth only as much as its smallest bill. The question is: to find the wallet with the largest smallest bill, do you have to look through every wallet, at every single bill?

The answer is: no. Look at each of the first wallet's bills. Remember the value of the smallest bill - call this value alpha. Alpha represents the value of the largest smallest bill that you've seen so far. Put the first wallet in your pocket.

Start looking through the second wallet. If you see a bill valued less than alpha: immediately throw that second wallet in the trash. Otherwise: throw the first wallet in the trash, set alpha to the value of the second wallet's smallest bill, and put the second wallet in your pocket. Repeat this paragraph for each remaining wallet.

At the end of this process, the best wallet is in your pocket and the rest of the wallets are in the trash. Take the wallet out of your pocket and hand it to your enemy. Be sure that she'll hand the bill valued alpha back to you.








Author Note

After wrecking my brains for HOURS and HOURS, I was finally ENLIGHTENED by these few simple paragraphs! Hold My Dog!

All Over Again

等下一个天亮，乖乖的回到学校里去上课好吗
短暂的假期已经融化, NTU是我不想去的地方



















And so it starts all over again...

Module I'm Looking Forward To

This is one module that I'm actually looking forward to in the brand new sem!

So happy that I manage to get in!

Hope it'll be fun.

^_^

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HC805 DIRECTED READINGS IN MODERN CHINESE SONG LYRICS (IN CHINESE) (3.0 AU)

Prerequisite: AO level Chinese Language (B4) or equivalent

The aim of this course is an appreciation of selected works of modern Chinese song lyrics since the 1970s. Readings will include literary songs, folk tunes and ballads, popular music, and schoolyard or student-written songs among others. The course will guide students in understanding the different thematic genres, narrative forms, expressive styles and creative methods of lyric writing, as well as the social and cultural contexts of the song lyrics. After completing this course, students are expected to appreciate modern Chinese song lyrics from cultural and literary perspectives, and gain a deeper understanding of modern Chinese song lyric culture. Note: Students who have taken LC111 should not take HC805.

Course co-ordinator: Asst Prof Liang Wern Fook

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Edit: OMG OMG~ They finally added the module into Edventure...

They got 说谎!!!

I couldn't believe my eyes!!!

I still thought it's probably some old song with the same name, but it REALLY IS THE ONE!!!

Ahhhhhhhh~!!!

And I'm not lying!!!

我没有说谎, 我何必说谎~

Memorable Quotes Of The Semester

Disclaimer: To protect the interests of all parties involved, all quotes will remain anonymous.

"Top schools this... top schools that... then why don't u go to a top school then? why come here?"

"Something may going wrong."

"Ajjuming the Conjumer Rejume..."

"Money is not everything. It's the only thing."

"If you don't like Maths, drop this course. If you don't like Matrix, drop this course. If you're not good at trigonometry, drop this course."

"I already warned you to drop this course."

"I see that you guys have not taken up my advice to drop this course."

"I make sure it's the last time I see him/her."

"DeterMINE"

"Alright? ... Alright?"

"You, you stay back after class!"

"Now that all the smoke has settled..."

"Sly old fox."

"If you can't convince him, confuse him." (Strategy for exams)