Archives for January 2008
TopCoding Now!
Finally, I start my career on TopCoder.Com with a not-yet-good JAVA language. My first rating is 1416 (blue), not bad for the first time competitor. Wish a good progress forward for me.
A Young Successful Alumni from NTU
(taken from AsiaOne Business http://office.asiaone.com.sg/mymoney/startout/20070128_005.html) When Ms Merry Riana stepped into a car showroom in Ubi three years ago, she was just 24 but had her eyes set on her first car – a black Mercedes-Benz E200 costing $180,000. The… continue reading »
Happy Birthday…
For someone there, happy birthday, wish a nice age for you, God bless you… Glad to hear your voice last night…
USACO Special Chinese Contest
“This was a (so far) unique endeavor for USACO. Richard Peng and I invited several of China’s best competitors and veterans to devise some very ‘evil’ tasks for a very challenging contest.” (http://ace.delos.com/CHN07results). Wow, extremely challenging and hard problem set… continue reading »
New Books to Read
In last of 2007, 3 books are successfully shipped to me from paddyfield.com (first time I buy from that site), 2 of them are: “Number : Language of Science (Tobias Dantzig)” and “A Briefer History of Time (Stephen Hawking)”. I… continue reading »
Welcome 2008
Welcome 2008! Hopefully this will be another good year or even better than before… I don’t say it’s resolution or plan or something like that, just things in my head now about this year: Last year I still wore a… continue reading »