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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.


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