2014 in review
30 December 2014
Finally, the final post in 2014. This post is to review what’s going on during the whole year. …
NUS
Holiday (1)
16 December 2014
My first week of holiday has been spent on attending Web Science and Data Analytic Summer School 2014 at NUS School of Computing. Hence, I need to wake up very early in the morning, just to make it on time. And this week ended with me going back to my hometown. …
ACM ICPC Asia Bangkok Regional Contest 2014
16 November 2014.
Despite the heavy study load and the proximity of exam, we had some getaway by joining this competition. It was a very memorable experience and was way better that ICPC KL 2014. …
2013 in Review
31 December 2013
Many things happened in 2013, just like in 2012. The following lists what have happened to me in 2013:
- January: The New Year holiday was spent with family and friends. After that I focused on the university entrance examinations. In end of January, NUS UEE was held.
- February: After NTU UEE in early February, here comes the Chinese New Year (packed with The Wonder of Science).
- March: I GOT ACCEPTED TO NTU! Besides, the school held the final school exam. I also held a mini programming contest at the programming club.
- April: I went to Jakarta to attend NTU Scholarship Interview, but I failed to get the scholarship. This month is the last month of studying in high school (my story of last day of school). After we got a national examinations, the school held a prom nite and our class held a farewell trip.
- May: the starting point of the transition from a high school student to a university student. I’ve done my CS188.1x: Artificial Intelligence, taught programming at the programming club, joined TWoS, restarted my LM project, started Introduction to Pyschology, and resurrecting the desktop computer. Like last year, I posted my thoughts for Vesak Day. By the way, I got the news that I’ve passed the National Examination.
- June started with me getting my report card and National Examination results; going for the first photo session with Mr. Johnson; continuing Introduction to Psychology; starting First Year Composition 2.0; stopping LM2 and starting LM2C. Next weeks, I continued the MOOCs; SSEC meeting (which resulted in drafting a “constitution”); and met seniors of NTU in an informal meeting.
- On July, I started many things while some old ones are finished or discontinued. On the 3rd week, my form-teacher, Mr. Manaek Nababan, passed away. On the last week of July, I tidied my stuffs; and started to supervise PJJ OSN.
- On August, I arrived at NTU, joined PINTU’s FOC, started many first things. Many events we held on the first weeks, e.g. NTUSU Welcome Week, NTUBS Welcome Tea, NTUBS subcomm recruitment, NTU OSS Welcome Tea, Hall XI Welcome Tea, NTUBS AGM, PINTU’s T-SPRAY.
- On September, OSN 2013 was held, this time I was watching the scoreboard movements hoping that my juniors can score well. Then, I bought new laptop! Also ordered a Microsoft Surface RT. I was getting more and more busier this month, hopefully the end of September is e-learning week and then recess week.
- My birthday is on October, and got celebrated. I finished many assignments, collected my Surface RT, then attended NTUBS Committee Day. End of October is the pre-climax of my semester.
- November started with the climax of my semester: quizzes, speech assignment, and presentation which I survived all of them. After that, the weeks are quite relaxing. The last classes were held, and there comes the revision week which ended with a first examination. November ended with more examinations.
- December started with the passing of my grandfather and the end of examinations, also the very first Indonesian SCE freshies outing. Before going back to my hometown, I joined a 4-day bootcamp held by NTU Ventures with speaker from Mozilla. In my hometown, the weeks are spent variously on playing games, developing game, and joining MOOC.
Here comes the end of 2013, happy new year 2014. This blog is never been this crowded before. Thank you for being an audience of my stories. May the blog be filled with more posts in terms of quantity and quality.
P.S. see my year in review from Facebook.
NUS UEE
Last Saturday and Sunday I had my NUS UEE at Grand Aston Hotel.
On Saturday, I had Physics at 9-11 am and then Chemistry at 12-2 pm. I think that Chemistry paper is easier than Physics, but I find out that the number my mistakes are almost same. Physics in my opinion are harder as I forgot to wear my jacket, I brought along, but I didn’t wear it. I was freezing like crazy in the end of the Physics paper. Also, I wrongly answered many of the questions (50 MCQs).
Unlike previous year’s paper, Chemistry now consists of 20 MCQs, and 3 essays which they require us to attempt all questions; previous ones were 20 MCQs and 5 essays which they require us to attempt 3 of them. Well, good news is the hydrocarbon-related question was not complicated. But, I think I messed up in MCQs.
The next day, I had English at 9-11.30 am and then Maths at 1-3pm. I’m most worried on English paper section A, which is MCQs, I’m afraid that I make very many mistakes here. For the section B, writing essay, I’m not that worried because I’m used to write blogs :) The task was to write convincing essay that support or reject the idea of government suggesting people to stay in rural areas and small towns rather than in major cities. It was a 500-word task, I wrote in about 540 words, hmmm about 8% more than required.
For mathematics paper, I’m the most confident, when the exam starts, I quickly do “brute-force” on the 1st question: inserting a number to check if the equation in the question is the same as the equation in the choices. My MCQs (Section A) went quickly done, in around 25 minutes. I’m relieved for a while before continuing in Section B. I read all the questions, and then identify their solutions: I’m just confident on the 1st question of Pure Maths section (integration; 21). I skipped Particle Mechanics when I found a difficult term. Also, in the Statistics and Probability section, we were not given a data table (normal distribution table), so I eliminated the questions which require us to use that data. Hopefully, the last 2 questions didn’t make use any of the data. No. 31 was just a simple statistics, and probability density function; no. 32 was binomial distributions (which could be calculated without data table); and simple inclusion-exclusion of probability. I’m now stuck, luckily I identified an easy question on Particle Mechanics: parabolic motion, yes, the whole question was just parabolic motion. (28) Hopefully, I finished doing all of them around 35 minutes before the end-time. I rechecked, and rechecked, and still found mistakes after the exam. Never mind, at least, I have rechecked. :)
This week, I will have NTU UEE at SMA St. Thomas. Saturday will be Maths and English; Sunday will be Physics and Chemistry. Wish me luck :)
UEE
The University Entrance Examination will be held soon! NUS UEE will be held on 26-27 January 2013 at Grand Aston Hotel, while NTU UEE will be held on 2-3 February 2013 at SMA St. Thomas. I’ve selected to join Physics and Chemistry paper besides the compulsory ones, Mathematics and English. I’ve been worrying about those all, what if I messed up, what if my time ran out, what if I didn’t finish them, what if I didn’t have any slightest idea to solve them. In the end, I’ll share the quote which is common to each TOKI members:
Good luck have fun!
Singapore (day 5)
10 July 2012
This was our last night on Singapore, also this day was our long-waited day: my brother’s commencement at NUS University Cultural Centre.
This day started late, we slowly cleaned ourselves and had breakfast in the hotel room: BreadTalk’s bread.
Around 10 am, we’ve arrived at ArtScience Museum, I and my sister entered the Harry Potter Exhibition and Andy Warhol Exhibition. First we got in to the Harry Potter’s one at B2 floor. A guide led us until the exhibition room; after that it was just a normal museum, they just exhibit the costumes, the properties, and the feelings in the film. We got out around 11 am; and directly went to 3rd floor to enter Andy Warhol’s. He was just an illustrator and artist. It exhibited his creations, such as paintings, products, belongings (some examples were boxes; called Time Capsule), art-making (e.g. “clouds” from helium ballon covered with silver), film, etc. Around 12 we went to the 4th floor to see some of the origin of the ArtScience Museum, which they explain why the museum combines art and science. We went straight to B2 floor to continue the Andy Warhol’s exhibition. There we were instructed to photograph our belongings; and made a glasses from paper.
We then went back to our parents, had lunch at Rasapura Masters, at The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands. I had char siew wanton noodle; and honeydew melon. Around 1 pm we went back to our hotel room. Around 2 pm, we rode taxi to NUS University Cultural Centre to attend the commencement of my brother. Around 3pm the commencement started until around 5; we took a lot of photos until around 6 pm. There we met his friends. We went to Clementi Mall’s Crystal Jade Kitchen to had dinner. Our dinner was baby kailan, fish, pork (pai kut), char siew, and sio bak. For dessert, they gave me and my sister mango pudding, while the other got red bean soup. The mango pudding was very nice, it was combination of real mango, pudding, and some milk.
Finally my brother left us and we went back to our hotel by taxi after bought some “souvenirs” from Bee Cheng Hiang (Mei Cen Siang)