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Crossroads- shortlisted for DSTA interview, Stanford university is impressive!

Submitted the remainder of my NUS application yesterday together with my global scholarship application, but I have not accepted their offer yet as I needed sometime to fully consider my other options till the 2nd June deadline. Furthermore I've been shortlisted for a preliminary interview at DSTA the coming next Monday, so that is where I can set my...
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Got my DSTA scholarship interview date!

Looks like important letters are all coming into my mailbox back-to-back! Received an official letter yesterday (Saturday) from DSTA informing me of my scholarship preliminary interview the morning of 24th of march, this will be the first of the many interviews to come and I believe the most critical one to proceed onto the next. That one is due...
Interesting Stuffs

Britney Spears – Break the ice Video

Well, I am not exactly a great fan of Britney, and not exactly my idea of controversy as opposed to Michael Jackson himself (not to mention his come back "Thriller" album), but sometimes I have to commend on some her songs. She is definitely one of the few artists I've grew up listening during my teen years. I've been...
University

Umm I’ve received my 2008 NUS admission results already, and I am in!

With the 'A' level results just out last week, it's busy busy busy now, with applications to scholarships, sending of letters and verifications. Not to mention having to pop by school to get my NYAA booklet all done and collect written testimonials by my lecturer. Got an unexpected mail today - a big brown NUS envelope from the admissions...
Polytechnic

I’ve got the SP 2008 Model Student Award!

The SP model student and prize presentation ceremony was one today, and I was one of the 17 lucky few in the whole Polytechnic who were selected to receive the prize. This is so together with various sports and community club presidents also being awarded prizes for their achievements and contribution to the polytechnic itself. Registration was a breeze...
Site Updates

Database upgrade and some site fixes

The site is currently undergoing some upgrades on the backend. You won't exactly see any improvements out here as it namely optimizing queries, code and cutting down on functions queries on the pages in line of the of my upgrade to the latest version of MySQL and Wordpress as well, which comes with a whole new set of available...
Interesting Stuffs

Cathing up on ‘ol 80s Cartoon series – Starcom

Shown during 1987 to 1988, those who grew up in the 80s definitely is no stranger to this cartoon. I was a great fan of this show and I remembered always taping down my favorite shows on the VCR and not missing every episode when I was a kid, this one is no exception. It's a story of 3...
Polytechnic

Semester 6 Results Out

I always remembered the date 27th Feb being the release of the semester results, but I was too busy with work, projects, running and university application(s) to even remember it now- As naive as it sounded, I simply just went "huh?" each time anybody reached me about my results when I am out today, having to apologize to everyone...
Laughs

Internet Helpdesk Comedy Video

Well this is not totally new, but rather original in it's sense, especially if you've worked in help lines before just love the split personalities of call center people. Now please hold. Beep!
University

Crossroads, my chosen undergraduate education – Overseas scholarship with DSTA

Was around NUS last week to submit my application, my 3rd time in fact. Only this time I wasn't as anxious about it as what I did many years back, having been rejected 2 times in a row. Seeing all the first timers there all lost in the admissions makes me wonder how naive I was back then. Looking back It...
Polytechnic

SP MM 50th Anniversary Dinner and Dance

The MM annual dinner and dance cum 50th anniversary celebrations was held last week at Raffles town club on the 15th (Feb) of this month. It's not a poly-wide event but rather one for the school itself in mark of the long way the SP's school of MM had came around. The event started with a reception where we...
Blog

Advertlets and Nuffnang Showdown, Advertlets payments processing painfully slow

The lowdown of the 2 biggest blog advertisers in SEA - Advertlets and Nuffnang Well ads do contribute alot to the running cost of my websites. I know not everyone like ads to be shown on the sites they visit- they slow the loading of pages, give errors and sometime intrude and even block/distort content you are reading. But fret...
Polytechnic

DME Class of 25 End Semster Chalet and Old Changi Hospital Visit

Whats more a way to end the Poly semester but with a reunion chalet with my old class of 25. However, just like many others during the vacation, it's the time to work prior to enlistment to the army or university. Despite all these, many Cheers going tout to many who took the time off to drop by the...
Occasions

Happy Chinese new Year of the Rat!

Wishing everybody there celebrating Chinese New Year today a very happy CNY 2008 and the Lunar new year of the Rat! It's the time of the year where you not only get to stuff yourself silly with bak kua, pineapple tarts or turning orange from all those excessive mandarin oranges, it's also a period to meet up and catch...
Site Updates

WordPress function integration with Gallery1 pages and wrappers

Prior to upgrading my site and making it more code efficient, I always had a problem of integrating Wordpress and Gallery together seamlessly and call functions from each program without any conflicts. By nature, unlike gallery 2 (G2), gallery 1 do not have a naive system in support for templates - sticking to html "wrappers" which you can add...
Site Updates

Some site features down for upgrading

Please mind the sawdust, the site is currently under a 3 day upgrade where few areas of the site will be upgraded and code re-written. These are few of the various addons planned for the site for a more Web 2.0 layout. Integrated photo gallery is now database driven Lightboxes for photo previews More user friendly shoutbox with reply and possibility AJAX...
Polytechnic

Track and Field Seniors Farewell

Been all round Singapore and visiting grans in the afternoon. The rain kinda dampened the need to drop by Chinatown to check out the festive happenings and goodies there. Then there was the Track and field outing in the evening. It was a short dinner gathering at Hongkong Street cafe at East coast with most of the track team there....
Polytechnic

2008 CIE Class Chalet at Pasir Ris

Was around school today (for one of the few last times) with the team to collect my Spinnovex gold certificate. There was alot to catch up not to mention bidding farewell to many of our anticipative lecturers (not to mention many photos as well) who took us during our course of studies. I apologize for my absence over the...
Blog

The week in short, and school’s ended…

Well, it's one week after Spinnovex with all the post exhibition and administrations things to be done. Finally got all the project grading, interviews and reports done. Man especially the report- never had my team was able to type and compile like 20 thousand words of report spanning 4 days! I guess that feat in comparison, is as remarkable...
Final Year Project

On the Media!

Lol, was just told by my intelligence network that I appeared on Tonight TV news, Channel News Asia a few moments ago, that one was the interview about my FYP motion simulator project I got the exhibition gold award for. They said I was professional on TV haha, with the exception of some acne... (haha maybe which popped...
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