Archive for January, 2008

Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

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.

Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

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 car salesman checked her income documents to ensure she qualified for a loan. She certainly did: […]

Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  1 Comment »

Happy Birthday…

For someone there, happy birthday, wish a nice age for you, God bless you… Glad to hear your voice last night…

Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

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 of USACO. Say if we can separate 6 problems in IOI as 2 easy - 2 […]

Posted on January 1st, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

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 have known about those 2 books long before I bought the original ones. I think […]

Posted on January 1st, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

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 white-gray uniform in my senior high school, but in 2008 no more senior high, just university. Yup, […]