Archive for February, 2008

Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  1 Comment »

The Leap Years (2008)

 
“Based on a novella by acclaimed writer Catherine Lim, the story is about Li-Ann, a young Singaporean girl who meets her ’special someone’ on 29 February. She decides to base her intuition on an Irish leap year tradition that no man will refuse any request of a lady and invites him out for a date. […]

Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  3 Comments »

NTUsiasm!

My new team in Nanyang Technological University…
Brian Marshal, TOKI 2006-2007
Raymond Christopher, TOMI 2006-2007
Wendy, TOKI 2005-2006
The First Goal : ACM ICPC World Final 2009!
The name “NTUsiasm” is given by Wendy, it’s better than the first one he proposed, hehe…

Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

Visit Indonesia 2008!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xygykEtFov4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=topuGZEEg78&feature=related

Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  1 Comment »

Happy Valentine Day…


Posted on February 13th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

Eleganza 2008

When a Red Rated TopCoder Member meets piano… 

Posted on February 13th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

USACO February 2008

USACO February Contest 2008, just held. As usual there were 3 problems for each division.
Actually February problem-set is not so hard.
Bronze Division:
-diningb -> straightforward DP problem, which you should precompute the cost to change to card 1 for all length and cost to change to card 2 as well, once you’ve done that you can […]

Posted on February 10th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  4 Comments »

TopCoder Makes Me Crazy!

Arrgghhhh… JAVA + TOPCODER = CRAZY!
I did it twice! Yeah, I did a little-Javanase-bug for twice!
Firstly, in my SRM 390 competition, I did a typecasting of (int) which should be (long).
Secondly, in my Second Qual of TCO08, I just knew that we can’t assign an operation of character to a string variable in JAVA, we […]

Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

The Beauty of “A Beautiful Mind (2001)”

“Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes and built the A-bomb. Mathematicians… like you. The stated goal of the Soviets is global communism. In medicine or economics, in technology or space, battle lines are being drawn. To triumph, we need results. Publishable, applicable results. Now, who among you will be the next Morse? […]

Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

Happy(?) Chinese New Year

Gong XI Fa Cai! Happy Chinese New Year to all of you who celebrate it. May the joy of the new year lightening up your whole year.

Posted on February 4th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  1 Comment »

2007 Valentine Night SMAK 1 BPK PENABUR Bandung

Come and Join
The 8th Valentine Event
SMAK 1 BPK PENABUR Bandung
9 February 2008
Guess Star : ECOUTEZ
H.O.S Tjokroaminoto 157 Bandung