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2 weeks ago the TDM team and I organized a discussion panel hosting the world finalists of The Star Challenge, an international search engine competition focused on multimedia search. Each team had one representative on the panel, most of which consist of researchers in the field of media search. They are:Prof Wu Xihong (Team SHRC)Prof ...
If you ask anyone living in any of the NUS halls, there's a high probability they'll tell you about the "fantastic" food served which is compulsory for every resident to pay for regardless of whether the food is enough or not, regardless of whether the food is decent or not and regardless of what you think of it. So, when the opportunity comes to have ANY form of edible …
Just did a Harry Potter quiz out of fun and guess what. I discovered that I'm an outcast! Ack o_O! oh noooo.... Which Harry Potter Character Are You? You are Hagrid. You're an outcast with a heart of gold. Despite your own problems, you always find time to help those in need.Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com
Bleah... I just got up from sleep. Yes, I woke up at 12pm+ because I slept at 3am last night. You gotta be thinking "WHAT?! That's like almost 10 hours of sleep!!". Reason I needed so much sleep was because the past 2 days have been extremely exhausting for me.The day before was spent interviewing about 30+ candidates for the ASEAN Entrepreneurs Conference which I'm involved …
Haha I was having dinner at the Bangsar Seafood Centre the other day and saw this WEIRD looking animal in one of their tanks! Its soo weird that it can retract and grow shorter when threatened, and when you lift it out of the water, it shoots water like its peeing. Ewww... anyway! I'll leave it to you guys to guess what this eerie animal is!Hints are in BOLD above, and oh …
Hey guys! I've finished designing the posters for a project I'm organizing, Discover U.S. Education - KL'07! Here are 2 versions, one with the program for the event and the other without.Do leave your comments on what you think, and how to improve. Apart from that, to those of you who are kind, please help me spread it around to your friends. Thanks! ^__^Poster without …
Looks like I haven't done these posts for a while, mainly because I'm running out of time to blog on both blogs. Here's a quick update of some stuff I wrote on Bitbot as Bitbot!Second Life …
Today was an extremely exhausting day for me because it was Frisbee Carnival for the InterBlock Games. I belong to B block where we call ourselves the B-Bananas!! Check out this "icon" they made for me.Every senior in the block got one made for them by the Block Committee. Anyway, back to the main subject at hand, Frisbee Carnival is a term for the day where all the …
Post type: RandomLooking at the projects I'm leading in TDM, the way my interest is wavering, the slow dynamics of the videogame developers' industry in Singapore, all the obstacles faced by local game developers, the cool technopreneurs I'm meeting from the tech community, etc etc... My dream of creating an RPG that will beat Final Fantasy 7 seems to be drifting further and …
At 9:22pm on Oct 10th, the very first Malaysian astronaut, Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, blasted off to the International Space Station(ISS) along with 2 companions: American astronaut Peggy Whitson and a Russian astronaut Yuri Malenchenko. Although I missed the live cast, thanks to the ever resourceful YouTube I managed to grab hold of a newscast ...
Here I am still clearing my writing assignments.... 2 response papers and 1 essay. Ugh... I'm already facing a brain drain and I haven't even gotten started on my other non-writing tutorials like Maths, Computer Design & Organization, Marketing, etc. Oh yea lets not forget the amount of revision I have to do on this week's lectures so that I don't have this face "o_O???" …
While I prepare a prank for my friend, here's a quick update on what's been happening on my second blog for the past week.Star Wars + Phantom of The Oprea mashup!- The Darth Vader musical! …
While I was browsing Wun Min's blog today, I SUDDENLY remembered the one thing I wanted to blog about Discover which I didn't. The MIT Hack that happened!For those of you who are not very familiar with MIT's culture, "Hack"s are sort of like mischievious pranks played by MIT students on their professors, campus, friends, dorms and etc. The more experienced "Hackers" would do …
Hey guys! Sorry for not blogging for some time... I've been busy with TDM stuff for the iX Conference. I'm back in Singapore for it, just arrived 2 days ago and its been work work work ever since I arrived.I am now at the conference at Suntec, attempting to do some "live blogging". This is my first attempt and I'm not a journalist so please be kind and forgive any lack of …
More updates from my second blog, Bitbot!Mini Car Production facility built with Lego Mindstorm!Boy builds Windmill at 14 to give his house electricityDr Josef Mengele - Madman and Angel of Death
Yay! Insane teachers who love giving outrageous, abusive punishments made headlines again today, this time for asking girls to squat in a fish pond (Umm what? SQUAT in a fish pond? What’s the point in doing that???).Apparently, Wee Yim Pien, the warden of SMK Bawang Assan, punished the 200 female students for clogging up the ...
Hey guys! I finally found the time to blog about Tony Blair's speech from yesterday. I wrote about the things I found from his speech and posted it on my second blog, Bitbot:Here's the linkEnjoy! :)
Chen Chow gave us aka his Malaysian friends a pleasant surprise on Monday when he suddenly msged me on Gtalk saying "Su Yuen, I'm in Singapore". Instantly my attention was drawn away from my JCRC work to arranging a meetup with Chen Chow. We ended up meeting last night for dinner with..... (try to guess who came along!) The ever fun and joyous expat Munir who was sooo …
For those of you who are tech-inclined, you’ve probably heard lots of talk about the need to consolidate and organize web content (videos, photos, articles, blog posts) so that its navigatable and “less messy” than it currently is. When you search for data on a certain topic, you have to separately search for articles in ...
Last week as I was having dinner my floormates popped me a question, “Su Yuen, what’s new and interesting in the technology space?”. Knowing they don’t play games and are not technological …
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