Lifting of ABET- Humanity Requirement for CS students matriculating on AY2008-9 and after.
Currently, these CS students are required to take Breadth Modules and Unrestricted Electives from outside the Faculty of Science, Faculty of Engineering and School of Computing for their degree requirements. With this relaxation, students can now use Science, Engineering and Computing to meet their Unrestricted electives.
Alright now I'm the one who is going to become fickle minded.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
the little delights of life + (almost) a deja vu + beetle refuge
December,
My favorite month,
Breeze and rain.
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My father bought home a random laptop cooler today, and it looks damn cool on my laptop with its three blue-LED-fans :D
While its only a cheap $8 cooler with the fans each spinning at a miserable 2800RPM, it is doing a decent job I should say. Well the elevation of my laptop off the table has as much, if not more, impact as compared to the fans.
I don't think anyone read them anyway ha.
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With my camera now I have no need for the scanner!
Hmm.
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I suspect the rainy season is turning my house into a refuge for the poor beetles. Right now one is dead in the dustbin, a second is dead on the floor, a third mysteriously found its way into the 油灯 on the altar and is probably dead from all the oil, and a fourth is banging his/her head against the walls and ceilings all over my house.
It baffles me, however, as to why the beetles, in their seemingly random head-on attacks at my walls and ceilings, can't seem to hit the bull's eye of my house windows when they are open so wide that entire humans can jump out of them.
My favorite month,
Breeze and rain.
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My father bought home a random laptop cooler today, and it looks damn cool on my laptop with its three blue-LED-fans :D
While its only a cheap $8 cooler with the fans each spinning at a miserable 2800RPM, it is doing a decent job I should say. Well the elevation of my laptop off the table has as much, if not more, impact as compared to the fans.
I don't think anyone read them anyway ha.
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With my camera now I have no need for the scanner!
Hmm.
********************
I suspect the rainy season is turning my house into a refuge for the poor beetles. Right now one is dead in the dustbin, a second is dead on the floor, a third mysteriously found its way into the 油灯 on the altar and is probably dead from all the oil, and a fourth is banging his/her head against the walls and ceilings all over my house.
It baffles me, however, as to why the beetles, in their seemingly random head-on attacks at my walls and ceilings, can't seem to hit the bull's eye of my house windows when they are open so wide that entire humans can jump out of them.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
home (not so) sweet home
Something I don't quite like about travelling is the 'after', not just because the trip is over and I'm back to normal life, but also because I have to:
1) hop into a taxi at the airport to tell the driver to go to Tampines. Haha.
2) read one week's worth of newspapers to be back in sync with the rest of the world.
3) sort out all the photos.
Blog entries will come in after (3) is done, kind of lazy now ha.
I want to buy a bicycle, but I have no idea how to go about choosing one. Hmm.
1) hop into a taxi at the airport to tell the driver to go to Tampines. Haha.
2) read one week's worth of newspapers to be back in sync with the rest of the world.
3) sort out all the photos.
Blog entries will come in after (3) is done, kind of lazy now ha.
I want to buy a bicycle, but I have no idea how to go about choosing one. Hmm.
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
of cameras, batteries, shopping and being a singaporean male
After posting quite a few photos I realised I have not introduced my camera at all haha.
I bought the Panasonic LZ-10. It is actually quite an old camera, so old that Panasonic has already taken this down from its website and production has stopped. Whatever's left on the market are been cleared at less than $200.
It does not produce the best image qualities, but the main reason why I chose this, besides being cheap haha, is because of its higher levels of manual freedom compared to other compact cameras in this price range. While most cheap compact cameras have shutter priority and aperture priority modes where one can change either the shutter or the aperture, separately, this camera comes with an additional manual mode where I can set both shutter and aperture at the same time, together with ISO and other settings.
Its a chore actually; sometimes I feel like giving up and falling back to the preset modes haha.
Since the camera runs on AA batteries instead of proprietary lithium batteries from Panasonic, there comes a second thing which I need to look into: rechargeable batteries.
From Sanyo, Eneloop batteries can apparently hold their charge much much longer then conventional rechargeable batteries, ideal for people who keep batteries more than use them. Since so many people recommend these batteries I reckon I give them a try, buying four batteries and a charger that fills them up in two hours.
The problem here is that because they are not as common as normal rechargeable batteries, finding them proved to be a difficult task. Best Denki at Century Square doesn't carry them at all, Courts at Tampines Mall doesn't sell standalone Eneloop AA batteries, while Challenger at Tampines 1 doesn't sell the two-hour quick charger [the six-hour standard charger is too long for me]. After running around many different places I finally found the full range of Eneloop products at Self-Fix, tucked in a corner at the basement of Century Square.
Thinking back, that should had been the first place to visit. Haha.
Last but not least, what does being a Singaporean male means?
It means..
Be back in a week, hopefully with some decent photos!
I bought the Panasonic LZ-10. It is actually quite an old camera, so old that Panasonic has already taken this down from its website and production has stopped. Whatever's left on the market are been cleared at less than $200.
It does not produce the best image qualities, but the main reason why I chose this, besides being cheap haha, is because of its higher levels of manual freedom compared to other compact cameras in this price range. While most cheap compact cameras have shutter priority and aperture priority modes where one can change either the shutter or the aperture, separately, this camera comes with an additional manual mode where I can set both shutter and aperture at the same time, together with ISO and other settings.
Its a chore actually; sometimes I feel like giving up and falling back to the preset modes haha.
Since the camera runs on AA batteries instead of proprietary lithium batteries from Panasonic, there comes a second thing which I need to look into: rechargeable batteries.
From Sanyo, Eneloop batteries can apparently hold their charge much much longer then conventional rechargeable batteries, ideal for people who keep batteries more than use them. Since so many people recommend these batteries I reckon I give them a try, buying four batteries and a charger that fills them up in two hours.
The problem here is that because they are not as common as normal rechargeable batteries, finding them proved to be a difficult task. Best Denki at Century Square doesn't carry them at all, Courts at Tampines Mall doesn't sell standalone Eneloop AA batteries, while Challenger at Tampines 1 doesn't sell the two-hour quick charger [the six-hour standard charger is too long for me]. After running around many different places I finally found the full range of Eneloop products at Self-Fix, tucked in a corner at the basement of Century Square.
Thinking back, that should had been the first place to visit. Haha.
Last but not least, what does being a Singaporean male means?
It means..
Be back in a week, hopefully with some decent photos!
Friday, December 04, 2009
higher order abstraction
I gave up; not too sure if it is on exams, or on Scheme, or on programming, or on computing, or on studying, or on thinking, or on learning, or on life. Haha.
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
technological marvels + [new!] fake lomo fun
Because I don't want to waste blog posts haha.
Doesn't seem very special hmm..maybe because there is no subject. So..
Flowers~~ taken at Central Queensland University while I was at Ex Wallaby 2008:
Before..
After!
Nice hor? I like this very much hehe.
I need a faster computer! All these rendering take awfully long times on my desktop >:(
Its back!
Its up!
From here
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| From photos |
Doesn't seem very special hmm..maybe because there is no subject. So..
Flowers~~ taken at Central Queensland University while I was at Ex Wallaby 2008:
Before..
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| From photos |
After!
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| From photos |
Nice hor? I like this very much hehe.
I need a faster computer! All these rendering take awfully long times on my desktop >:(
Its back!
Its up!
From here
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
panorama II and gimp II
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| From photos |
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| From photos |
Not that bad la hor? Haha.
[I realise that photos uploaded to Picasa via Blogger will get resized, which is not really what I want. So I uploaded to Picasa straight, then pasted the links here. But clicking on the photos does not return the full size of the photos, but brings one to the Picasa album where one has to use their in-house magnifying tool, which is not what I really want too. Hmm I will just stick to that for now.]
Had a little fun with GIMP too.
Didn't really get what I wanted, but I like this too hehe.
On a sidenote..
what $179 + $45.90 got me...
Ok la if admire from far, doesn't look too bad right? Just don't zoom in....
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