birthday greetings

8 October 2014

• Hopes, Journal

9 October 2014

It was my 19th birthday.

The day itself was just a normal Wednesday, until I was surprised by my friends for a birthday celebration. Well, technically the Facebook event for this surprise shows up in my News Feed, which was surprising. After that, expecting they will celebrate at night, I just kept myself busy with many things, waiting for them to come :P although I tried my best for not knowing the event, to make them happy.

I woke up at 7, having prepared for the day, I went to CZ2002 lab. The lab itself was not so complicated and I managed to finished it in an hour. Going back, I took a short nap first before “fixing” the problem with my Surface, in which after I “refresh” it, it wouldn’t run Windows Update. In the meantime, I played Bejeweled 3, free full game from Origin. Besides that, I received many birthday greetings already and I start to thank them one by one.

After lunch at Canteen 1, I continued doing these stuffs until I went to HW0210 tutorial which talked about writing conclusion and recommendation, and abstract. After the tutorial, our group went to a TR (chopped one of course) for a meeting, discussing about the current state of the report. In the end of the meeting, they greeted me a happy birthday. Going back after dinner at Canteen A, I did my laundry, cleaned up my room, fixed my Surface problem, revised my part of HW0210 report, and then continued playing game. I also received an email from the past me, that is written on May 2014, wishing myself a happy birthday and reminding me about the status of my goals I’ve set earlier this year. In the end, I watched Magic Kaito first before going to bed (although I knew that they are coming).

Just right after I went to bed, they actually came and “surprised” me. I was greeted by a cake in front of the door by Alwyn and Chun Wah. :) Then, they took me to the bus stop where everyone else were waiting. Woah, a lot of people were there. They sung happy birthday, I cut the cake, we all ate the cake, did chit-chat, and finally took photos. I received a lot (read: A LOT) of birthday greetings here from my friends and received a birthday card (and gift) from NTUBS Fellowship team :) Yay, it was a little minion.

http://instagram.com/p/t6k5Z3BXsw

Usually people do resolutions on New Year, but I do it on birthday. So, this year’s resolution is:

  • Actively writing this blog. At least covers the story of every week of my life, preferably to publish every weekends.
  • Do more side projects and have more ideas. I should do a big side projects (the one like “Raun” is big enough for me) during holidays, and in the non-holiday period, think of project ideas. Besides that, I would also like to learn new tech stuffs, like learning Rust, Node.js, or mobile app development; and to make full use of my devices (laptop, tablet, and phone) in doing the projects.
  • Be more strict on schedule, especially sleeping time and waking-up time, and don’t waste time in procrastinating, always have something productive to do if I’m not resting.

On the side note, I would also like to enhance my public speaking skill, interview skill, and English skill. This is because I realize that I’m sucks at those things and would like to further improve them.

I hope that those all can be achieved by next year’s birthday.

May all be well and happy,

Kenrick.

8 October 2013

• Journal

8 October 2013

This day is my 18th birthday but I got my birthday celebrated the day before at NTUBS-led birthday celebration for Xin Wen and Josephine. Their birthday was 6 and 9 October respectively. I went there to prepare the celebration, and then I got surprised that I was also celebrated. Before blowing the candle, we were told to make a wish. My wish is as simple as “May all the beings be happy”. What’s more simple and universal than that?

I got a lot of birthday greetings from my families and my friends from my university, my high school, those with same interest in competitive programming and Wikipedia. At 12am, Jefferson and Aldi, my neighbours, went to my room to greet me although I’ve gone to sleep. In the morning, many of my friends greeted me at my Facebook timeline, WhatsApp groups, and Twitter. When I attended the lectures, ate at canteen, and went to CEC AGM & Investiture, more and more friends greeted me. By the way, Computer Engineering Club (CEC) AGM & Investiture was boring. The main points in the event are: (1) the past committee gave speech, (2) free dinner, (3) the new president told the future planning. This year was the first time my birthday was not celebrated by my family and it’s fine, birthday was just like another day, except I was greeted by many peoples.

By being 18, I would like to continue updating this blog at least once a week. Besides that, I would like also to learn many skills like designing and managing stuffs. I would also wish that I would be more active in speaking, and not feeling shy to speak. Lastly, I would like to start building my personal website to make it as a central place for me to actively test and publicize my experiments. I hope that those plans be fully achieved by next birthday.