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September 2016

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4 October 2016

September has ended. My term in NTUBS has ended, like offically.

Early in September, I, Dian, Peter, and Pentium joined Facebook hackathon for the free food and unexpectedly won the 2nd prize: Fitbit Flex. Since then, I started to wear Fitbit to anywhere. It felt like a really expensive pedometer and sleep timer; that’s it. On a normal day, given that I decided to go to school, I can easily reach 10k steps goal. But if I decided not to go to school, on average it’s just 5k steps per day. …

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Facebook Singapore Hackathon 2016

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In another day as a final-year student, stressed out by FYP, an e-mail was received, containing the invitation to yet another hackathon: Facebook Hackathon. The 24-hour hackathon did not ask for any participation fee. Intuitively, having joined several hackathons before, I knew that this is a nice deal to get free food over the weekends. So, I signed up. …

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Vesak 2560 BE

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21 May 2016

Today is Vesak Day in Singapore.

I went with NTUBS friends to Buddhist Fellowship in the morning, enjoying their Vesak Carnival, met some seniors, and listened to the Dharma talk. Today, the talk was quite “light” but still inspiring. The venerable talked about the significance of Three Refuges and Five Precepts. After that, I went back to NTU, to catch up with an online meeting with Indonesian Wikipedia admins, but the internet connection is bad so I can’t really join their meeting.

I’d like to spend this Vesak to reflect on authenticity, more specifically, on peer pressuring and conformity. …

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