Posted in hahas, life on September 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
You hear a deeeep low singing voice.
0.001% chance of it being a girl. I don’t want to consider the alternative.
You don’t see the top of a short-haired head over the cubicle wall
20%. It may just be a short guy.
You smell a strong, sweet scent of shampoo
40%. Some guys want to smell nice, too.
You DO see [...]
Posted in life on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
More accurately, unintentional incidents often lead to one meeting new people. It takes two data points to establish a trend, and a third to confirm it (sorta), and it so happens that the events of today offer me three such data points.
1) So I was supposed to meet Johanna at the Performing Arts Center in [...]
Posted in life, pensees on August 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So this is my last night in Singapore. After all the rushing about, I’ve finally forced myself to sit down, reflect, and write.
It’s been really busy, the past few months. The earlier reunions start off safe; birthdays, or just a casual meal, and everyone congratulating each other on having survived secondary school, JC, army, or [...]
Posted in life, poetry on August 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Though you are in your shining days,
Voices among the crowd
And new friends busy with your praise,
Be not unkind or proud,
But think about old friends the most:
Time’s bitter flood will rise,
Your beauty perish and be lost
For all eyes but these eyes.
-W。B。 Yeats
Posted in hahas, life, music, pensees, poetry on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What the men on the moon might have sung, post Apollo 11:
(a.k.a. the dark side of the moon landing)
courtesy of Elton John, Harry Nilsson and (yes) Ernie! I think Ernie says it the best, and says much more, too
Posted in life on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple months back, I had a series of posts with quotes from T.S. Eliot and G.K. Chesterton, the essence of which can be expressed in the following lines:
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-Little Gidding, Four [...]
Posted in Logos, books, computering, education, life, mathematics on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The bird has taken to the air!!!
So many things I wanna do! Better list them out (O.O Did i just say “list them out”?? Ah! I mean, “list them down”… better start revising my phrasal verbs):
Learn
C++
LaTex
Cryptography
Number Theory
Economics
Mathematics of Finance
Tai Chi
Program
Cryptogram solver
Sudoku solver, implementing my method
Sudoku solver, implementing Knuth’s Algorithm X
Generalised sudoku solver (any M x [...]
Posted in computering, life, mathematics on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The lesson here is that it is insufficient to protect ourselves with law; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.
-Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography
:D:D:D:D
Posted in computering, life, mathematics on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THIS IS AWESOME!!!!
I’m at “work” now!
At my PRIVATE DESK in my PRIVATE CUBICLE, I have an open book on Cryptography from the library downstairs.
My cubicle happens to be just next to the PANTRY WITH FREE HOT DRINKS, the printer/ photocopier room and the toilet!
Oh, and I’ve got INTERNET RADIO, FACEBOOK, MSN MESSENGER and THIS BLOG [...]
Posted in life, pensees, poetry on December 5, 2008 | 8 Comments »
When we cry
It’s a sign, that it’s not all okay,
And though I may smile,
Deep down inside,
It’s not bright and gay.
.
As each petal is weighed down
By morning dew,
These tears,
They weigh down my heart
And bend it towards you.
.
We say goodbye
To the morning,
Farewell to our youth,
Time passes, things change,
There’s no use mourning.
.
But what I know
I do not do,
And [...]
