More Valentine Poems
Feb 14th
EDIT: A link to my poem posted pre-valentine: Gain and Loss
These poems should be songs, but due to much works I don’t have time to compose the melodies for them. Well, here are poems:
Some times I have noticed you
For once, I have never felt before,
Not before I notice you.
I feel calm, I can control my anger
Because of you, and only you.Form the past, I don’t even know you.
From the time of bad, I noticed you.
In the time that worse, I found love in you.
Best of all, you guide me through. (secretly)
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Valentine Poem: Gain and Loss
Feb 13th
Gain and Loss
It was a time that I missed her
That I know I love her.
Who I have never noticed before,
These times passed like a blur.But on the other day,
Her beauty stunned my mind.
She helps me control myself
Better than the days I used to cried.Yes, I do love her,
Very much indeed.
The thought makes me warm;
The feels of love and need.
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SCORE Computer : analysis on failure of the contest environment
Dec 15th
Well, firstly to whom doesn’t know yet, on the 4th of December my school hosted a programming contest called ‘SCORE Compute Contest’. It is just a basic programming contest that the competitor have to write a C program to solve given problems. To make this more fun and not IOI-like, the Head make an extra system for it, but that’s out of scope for this post.
I’ve been assigned to write a contest environment (i.e. grader). It is a system, mostly web-based, for the competitor to submit their solution to be compile and grade using the restricted environment (i.e., sandbox-ed). My code was MVC-based PHP code that I use very clear variable name, for I have little time and it must have as less bugs as possible.
The Flow of thought — then get interrupted!
Dec 10th
Have you ever face this before? When you were in the middle of your wonderful and flowing thought and was writing it down quickly. You know that this opportunity of getting this flowing thought is very low. But then your parents interrupted you, claiming that is is time to blah blah blah… So your flow of thought was interrupted, and it never come back again!
Well, my thought really flowing this afternoon. I was writing a rather hard essay, then I was interrupted and now I don’t know what to write any more — it’s all gone! How annoying!
A Contest Environment Writing – Part I
Nov 21st
OK, I know I’m lack of update. But that is because I have been busy writing the ‘Contest Environment‘.
This part I’ll explain what the contest environment is.
The Contest Environment is a system that allow you to upload a source code that solve tasks, compile your submission, run it with the test cases and grade the result. The one of the well-known contest environment around today is the Moe Contest Environment (formally known as mo-eval). This Moe system’s most famous is its sandbox, which is used in many competition around today, including many of the IOI (International Olympiad on Informatics) contests such as the recent POI (Plovdiv International Olympiad on Informatics: IOI2009) and also on Thai contest environment — the cafe grader.
Restaurant City on Facebook
Oct 27th
Not sure if this is normal, but I’m quite proud of my level 13 and popularity of 40.5 (average 39.5, though). And I start playing this last Monday (Oct 26, ‘09)!!!
EDIT: I have 50 now, but it is normal for 18th level player to achieve maximum popularity.
Next term in a day!
Oct 26th
Oh! So surprise. Next term is starting on this Wednesday, yet I don’t feel I have any rest yet. Perhaps I’m to much on the internet? I don’t know.
OK, the point is, there is a lot I need to do in this school holiday, but none finished. Yet most of them have ~80% progress. I think I spent too much time on nonsenses thing (like late sleep for a whole week =))
Writing Fan-Fiction
Oct 26th
Well, been writing fanfiction again. I have one published story — see the fanfiction page for more detail — which is the one I’m currently writing (it is multi-chaptered story). Some reviews I have got tells me that it is good beginning. I have read stories before, and I know how annoy it is to wait. But with that first chapter, I have at least a hundred dafts and took around four months to complete. Now with chapter 2, I’m already at draft five. Should finish is a week. I have been writing this (second) chapter for one and a half already. Sorry all readers.
OK, back to the topic. These are a few writing tips I want to share. Some are from other resources, some are mine. If you think any tips has been posted anywhere before, let me know and I’ll credit it.
- Always have a beta-reader. No matter how god are you in English grammar/spelling. I’m a beta reader myself for other stories, but I still need a beta reader.
- If you are using Microsoft Word, try turning on full grammar/style checker. It is useful. The style checker can check for wordiness and several other useful errors. Although you should not turn on the ‘Passive Voice’ and ‘Use of first person pronoun’ checker, or your document will be marked with a lot of error.
- Try writing a shorter piece of text, and lengthen it. My chapter usually around 650 words, and I lengthen it to ~2,000 words. But beware not to lengthen it too much. As said on SIYE, ‘not too much nor too little details’.
OK, ‘a few’ can be referred to three, right? That’s all.
Finally…
Oct 24th
Finally I have successfully installed new blog engine. Some history for what it worth:
- Around March – June this year: Wordpress. Use Gear theme.
- June – October: Drupal. Use my own theme.
- October 2009 and later (now): Wordpress (again) Drupal is to much for my need, and Wordpress’s themes is prettier.
Here! Will update more soon. See you!
