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Yay, conference emcee achievement unlocked!

I’ve been approached several times by many people looking for tech-cofounders or engineers to help build a product based on an idea they had.

The first time I stepped on an airplane, I was 10 and was going to Australia with my family for a holiday.

If you have not read the previous post (Part 1) on this subject, I encourage you but it is not mandatory to do so before reading this post.

“life sciences graduates are only fit to wash test tubes” this statement I heard more than a decade ago was the first time I knew of this guy called Philip Yeo.

I recently chanced upon the concept of CV of Failures from Princeton Professor Johannes Haushofer.

The Covox Speech Thing (CST) was a sound card released in 1986 by Covox, Inc to enable computers with parallel ports to have sound capability.

(This is a long 5600+ words post, I recommend reading this from a tablet or computer) Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (WFW3.11) was an operating system (OS) released by Microsoft in August 1993 and ended support in December 2001.

(Checkout the 2019 version here!)

I’m part of this voluntary social initiative called Repair Kopitiam (RK) started by the social enterprise Sustainable Living Lab.

(This is a long ~2900 words post, I recommend reading this from a tablet or computer) Windows XP is the second-longest supported operating system (OS) in Microsoft’s history.

I design Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) as my part of my job.

It is not everyday that one is like a tourist in our own country.

2015 has ended and 2016 has just begun, so a new first post of 2016 to mark this moment. 2015 recap In short, I felt 2015 was the greatest transitory year I have been.

I can’t count how many times I have received business cards only for me to forget about them shortly afterwards.

(Long post warning: 2.5k words) This post is 2 weeks late as I was rather busy during this period.

In case the title confuses you, I’m not buying an electric car or any car for that matter anytime soon given the crazy car prices in Singapore.

I was not the first person that came up with the title above, but I thought it resonated perfectly with my undergraduate life especially my last few semesters.

Since I started dabbling with hardware like the Arduino, I have always wondered what it would seem like to integrate it with clothing (materials) but did not find the urge to learn.

We all know our first Prime Minster Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) passed away yesterday morning.

I have heard of the acronym NUTS some years back coined by the famous Singaporean technopreneur Sim Wong Hoo (SWH).

This is the third Hack&Roll hackathon I have joined and my very last one for this hackathon and as an NUS student.

The apps in question are active and can be downloaded from their respective app stores.

Computer Science graduate from NUS School of Computing but now working on Embedded hardware and software.

(an evergreen page, last updated 25 June 2017) From speeches\authors: Don’t do shit, unless it’s epic shit!

Thanks to all the birthday well-wishes both online and offline!

This post is more than one semester late but better late than never.

I recently got a new Casio Protrek triple-sensor watch.

This is the third hackathon I have joined and the first that involves hardware.

NUS Hackers tried to encourage participants to write a blog post or on social media about their experiences in the HacknRoll 2014, so here it is.

So yesterday was the Steps exhibition that marks the end of the module and the return to the reality of the final exams, other than the final report of course.

At the beginning of this semester, I wrote about how this semester shall be the most pivotal for me.

It is an obvious fact that the workload each semester is always greater than the one preceding it.

I initially started with the idea of doing a review on this book “Fringe: September’s Notebook”.

I confess I signed up for this weekend event at the last minute.

I have been using the Dvorak keyboard layout since out of army.

Having switched to the Programmer Dvorak, its major shortcoming was the lower priority of the number keys.

Choose any country of the world that practices military conscription and discuss whether the policy is necessary and/or desirable.

This is not my first post.