Skip to main content

A Short Memo

(Wrote on Sunday)I bought the air tickets for my parents to visit SG during the Chinese new year. It is the greatest thing for this week. My mum is very difficult to persuade when money gets involved. Thankfully, I saved enough money to buy them the whole trip without her feeling any pain:-) My father won't leave his work for travel unless that's a big holiday like the Chinese New Year. For both of them, it is really a good time to visit. One of my high school teacher and her college friend are also going to come. It is pretty challenging for me to manage these two teams in parallel. A good approach is probably assign enough freedom to them and let them spend more time playing by themselves.

Personally, I'm fairly anxious about the last semester. Quite a number of things to do and some of them are pretty challenging. I don't know how hard CS3217 is going to be for me. The fundamental thing is that I shall prepare enough time for it. The bad thing is that I still got some other pretty time consuming stuffs to do. e.g., the mobile checkin system for a hospitality startup company(hopefully will finish within 1 month), FYP(thankfully some other people recently joined the project and will help take some job),parents' visit(<=10days,shouldn't affect me too much),job interviews. The good thing is that I will have no choice but to spend a lot of time on it and I know I am going to be technically stronger after surviving the course.

Giant buildings are constructed from small bricks. It really depends on how much time and effort I will be spending on each task. As from this week's performance, I would say it's fairly unproductive. After deactivated Renren, my daily time spent on social networks has decreased dramatically. However, after moving to the new hostel, I reactivated it agin and the time I spent on social networks has increased. Maybe I shall build an app some other time to help users better manage the time in social networks(e.g., help store and organize the news feeds so that users can check every few days/weeks without missing any important feeds).

One friend invited me to cycle around SG, I'm very interested.


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

InnovFest 2015

I attended the innovFest 2015 event. It was quite eye opening. Besides the booth, some topics in the forums also interested me. The first topic I joined was the Kopi Chat with Yossi Vardi, a famous Israeli entrepreneur and investor. He is straightforward and humorous. When talking about the most important reason why people wake up with a great idea but ended up sleeping without executing anything, he collected answers from the audiences. One answer pretty much fitted his appetite-- "People fear about losing faces". He shared his opinion with the quotes from Theodore Roosevelt, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually st

Consistency Matters

I didn't post anything last week, which means consistency has been broken. There's a need to reflect the task management skills, otherwise I'm very likely to driving the wrong road Priority changes. A good exercise would be to list the priorities down everyday and assign reasonable time to the tasks. Then never second-doubt. 100% focusing on the task when doing it. Priority changes from time to time.  Human minds are single-threaded, thus, we'll need to keep focused when doing one particular task. Be Grateful. I received the confirmation from NOC Israel that I got admitted by the programme and I'm heading to Israel next Jan:-) Thanks a lot for Prof.Ben and Karl's help. Ultimately, it might be a plan from God. Thanks every one. The additional interview from Google went well, however, I didn't get the winter intern opportunity this time. Though it's a bit too greedy to ask for too much, I still feel a bit sad after informed that I didn't get th

Thoughts

I've been working as a project manager on an interesting project named " Dadafish " for quite some time. The intention is to create a sharing economy platform for lifestyle teaching/learning. Put in a more straightforward way, an Airbnb for classes. There is one assumption:  People are willing to pay to learn skills from amateur or semi-pros at a lower price. Quite some ongoing arts classes in meetups are taught in cafe shops at 15-50SGD/session. It's an indirect validation of our assumption. There are also many free language classes in meetups and facebook groups. We did an experiment to validate the assumption by introducing a Japanese friend who's organizing a free meetup to teach Japanese. She doesn't have a certificate and she's currently teaching Japanese in meetups for free. The experiment class was charged at 15 SGD/h per person for a 3-4 pax group class. We posted the class and teacher info in a NUS student/alumni SNS group and three peopl