Flowers, and a wound.

I’m at the NUS High hostel, where Merryn lives, killing time in the music room.

Do you see what the flowers are made of? Balloon holders, hair clips, and funnels! Some Singapore Art Festival exhibition we passed by on the way to collect Merr’s new printer.

And this, is my lovely abrasion from Monday’s PE. Haven’t had such a cool one in 6 years. ^_^ It has been smarting away, but I derive a certain pleasure out of watching it heal. (Earlier this year my whole toe nail came out and I was so intrigued to watch the new nail grow.)
Later we’re going to Ashley’s house to watch The Dance Floor finals on TV, since the enforcement of study time makes that impossible in my hostel.

I’ve been good to myself. =)

One more month to Malaysia. Although I could’ve really gone to the Sold Out launch yesterday had they not confiscated all our passports.

Don’t Underestimate

Do you see the point of learning about vectors ( and vector spaces and subspaces and spans and dimensions and basis and transformation and diagonalization) and matrices?

Why did mathematicians have to think of all this vague nonsense, right? We have 2D and 3D spaces, yes, but why think of the 4^th, 5^th, 6^th dimension? There isn’t even any geometrical interpretation.

Sure, they have their “important practical applications”, but who cares, I’m not going to be a mathematician. Whatever I learn in my H3 class will be out of my brain as soon as I finish my exam on May 16^th.

But we learnt about PageRank yesterday. Have you ever wondered how Google works? How it manages to find the most relevant web pages and rank your search results in order? (You can Google PageRank to find out, if you bother.)

It has never occurred to me that Google’s search algorithm comes from a basic mathematical idea. Imagine Larry Page and Sergey Brin as college students in their math classes…if, like me, all they cared about was how to pass their exams with minimum effort, never thinking how they could use their knowledge learnt for the better, hmm…would we have Google today?

So, I guess…

Don’t underestimate the value of what you learn, even if you think you probably won’t use it. And the next time you want to label people as “insane” or “disgustingly smart”, keep in mind that one day you might have to thank them.

3000 smses

I wake up on Sundays with great expectancy, thinking that they are the best days of the week.
I end Sundays feeling like everything is out of control.

And yet week after week I still love Sundays.^_^

I send 300 smses a month. My brother, apparently, sent 3000 last month and sent my parents into hypovolaemic shock.
If not for a girl, what else, you tell me. What else can make a guy send 100 smses a day.